D- Stone Body Technique

Name: Stone Body Technique

Technique Power Ranking: D

Description: The Stone Body Technique is a brutal and unforgiving Ki method developed to make the body itself a shield. By conditioning skin, muscle, and bone through controlled trauma and natural healing, the user gradually becomes a living wall. Though relatively simple in concept, the technique is feared for the pain it demands and the price it extracts from the body’s agility and fluidity.

Pathways:

Stage One: To master this stage, the practitioner must intentionally cut, scrape, and tear their skin, allowing it to heal without magical or medicinal aid. The wounds must be shallow enough to avoid fatal injury but deep enough to trigger natural scar reinforcement over several weeks of repeated training.

• Bonus: Skin hardens by 5% in toughness, granting minor resistance to slashing and piercing attacks.

• Backlash: The scar tissue reduces sensitivity and flexibility slightly, leading to a 5% decrease in reaction speed.

Stage Two: To progress, the practitioner must undergo blunt trauma endurance, taking repeated full-force strikes to the body over time while performing basic tasks or combat drills. No defensive enhancement may be used.

• Bonus: The practitioner’s muscles gain 15% resistance to blunt force damage and reduce stagger effects from hits.

• Backlash: Repeated internal bruising and trauma result in 5% reduction to sprint speed and acrobatic flexibility.

Final Stage: To master the last stage, the user must participate in bone fracture training, breaking and mending their own bones under ritual or guided supervision while remaining active. The healing process must occur naturally with only nutritional support.

• Bonus: Bones become 3x denser than average, granting resistance to physical trauma by 35% and the ability to withstand impacts that would normally break limbs.

• Backlash: The increased bone density and tension lead to impaired joint mobility, reducing dodging effectiveness by approximately 10%.