The Seven Demon's Tamer

**Thud!**

Ryder walked away from Akira with a smirk plastered across his face, the kind that was filled with satisfaction. He had just performed the seventh technique—yet again—on his first try.

"Show off," Mara muttered under her breath, folding her arms and turning away. Though, she wasn't intimidated, given that she wasn't lagging behind anymore. In fact, they had all concluded the mastering of the techniques.

Ryder was exceptional, but not just him; slowly others also got used to the feeling of each technique upon performing them one after the other. Ever since they performed the first technique, the others seemed to get easier and easier.

The seven relevant techniques out of the seventy-seven had all been taught to everyone in a single afternoon—techniques that would take others months or even years.

The first technique they had practiced was the explosive rush, which was clearly a speed-based technique that had given everyone, including Ryder at the start, some difficulty.

The explosive rush was all about channeling gamma energy through specific pathways in the body and concentrating it in the legs to achieve bursts of incredible speed. It was the kind of technique that looked simple in theory but required precise control and timing to execute properly.

The second technique they had learned was called the first fall, and it was a technique that significantly increased the physical strength of the practitioner. Just like the explosive rush, it involved moving energy throughout the body, but instead of gathering it in the legs for speed, the first fall concentrated gamma energy in the arms and fists to deliver devastating strikes.

"The first fall is about turning your fist into a weapon of destruction," Akira had explained. "When performed correctly, a single punch can shatter stone, bend steel, and cause damage your ordinary punch wouldn't have been able to."

The third technique was one that Brok was already familiar with—the charge rush. This was the technique that he had attempted to perform earlier during his attempt to ascend to the cloud, though his understanding of it at the time had been crude and incomplete.

The charge rush was different from and similar to both the explosive rush and the first fall at the same time. Instead of concentrating energy in specific body parts, it involved spreading gamma energy throughout the entire body and enhancing it enough to cause visible external ripples.

It was what martial artists called an "all-around" technique—one that granted increases in speed, strength, and endurance simultaneously.

"The charge rush is like turning your entire body into a weapon," Akira had explained. "It's not as specialized as the explosive rush or the first fall, which also means it will grant you speed but not on the same level as explosive rush; it will grant you strength as well, but not at the same level as first fall."

The technique required practitioners to visualize their gamma energy as a flowing river that needed to be distributed throughout their body and intensified.

The fourth technique was known as the iron coat, and it was similar to the charge rush in that it involved spreading energy throughout the body. However, their purposes were completely different.

The iron coat was a defensive technique focused on increasing the body's hardness and endurance.

It strengthened the practitioner's physical form intensively after it had been spread throughout the body of the practitioner, but unlike the charge rush, it did not grant increases in speed or offensive strength even though it involved spreading energy throughout the body.

"Think of the iron coat as turning your skin into armor," Akira had explained. "It is a perfect defensive technique whenever the practitioner cannot dodge an incoming strike."

With the iron coat active, even a strike with a sword would bounce off harmlessly; bullets would fail to penetrate—or if they did manage to penetrate, they wouldn't go deep enough to cause serious damage.

The fifth technique was called the recovery flow, and it was in fact a completely different category of technique. Unlike the previous techniques, which were all focused on combat attack and defense, the recovery flow was a technique designed to accelerate healing and recovery during and after battle.

"Using the recovery flow isn't a smart move to make in the middle of a heated battle," Akira had explained. "It won't prevent you from getting injured, but it will make sure that injuries don't keep you down for long."

The technique involved moving gamma energy throughout the body after receiving damage, directing it to injured areas to accelerate the natural healing process.

When energy was properly channeled to wounds—including bleeding cuts, bruises, or even more serious injuries—it could seal and heal the injuries in an instant.

"Let's take a brown-marked summoner as an example," Akira also mentioned. "Brown-marked summoners have regenerative capabilities that are faster than ordinary humans, but even they would need a full day to heal a deep gash.

"With the recovery flow technique, the marking level doesn't matter anymore. Whether you're brown-marked, orange-marked, or any other level—wounds close at the same accelerated pace, and that pace is instantaneous."

The technique did have its limitations; just like most energy-based techniques, it required intense concentration. The only downside to performing recovery flow—and indeed, most of the seventy-seven techniques—was the restriction it placed on movement during activation.

When practitioners were moving energy around their body internally, external motion like walking could disrupt their control and break their concentration. For those who had achieved great mastery over the recovery flow, simple movements wouldn't cause disruption, but rapid or complex motions would still pose a disturbance to the technique's effectiveness.

The sixth technique was called gamma sense, and while it might not have been immediately useful in all situations, the fact that it was still valuable remained.

Gamma sense was a perception technique that allowed practitioners to detect the presence of gamma energy within a much wider range than their eyes could see. The practitioner of gamma sense could identify the location, mark color, and even overall strength of other summoners from distances.

It was a technique that allowed the practitioner to sense and detect the presence of gamma energy in a range farther than their eyes could see.

Performing the technique did not require channeling gamma energy throughout the body like other techniques; it involved focusing with natural visualization and perception towards the sensing of gamma energy.

And finally, the last technique Akira taught them: Gamma pressure.

The gamma pressure was a technique that was essentially the same as the offensive pressure in the air they were all feeling in this district the moment they all arrived at first.

It was performed by bringing out the pressure of your gamma energy from inside your body, outside. Doing that, the air around a five-meter radius around you would become heavy, slowing and pressing down everything.

They all had greater understanding of this, so Akira didn't press further.

These were all the seven relevant techniques of the Luo. Before moving to the Tian exceptional technique, they had to all do something... They had to fight Akira.