Location: Sword Pocket Dimension
Date/Time: Outside time (Months 4-10)
Realm: Lower Realm — Secret Realm (Deep Zone)
The techniques had names.
Not all seven hundred and forty-three — Kazren had made it clear on the first day of month four that attempting the full catalogue would be, in his words, "an exercise in futility so profound it would constitute its own form of art." Instead, he curated. Studied her through the bond — her body, her affinities, the specific way her essence moved through her channels and into Vael'kir — and selected.
"Every swordmaster walks a different path," he said. "The Original Path has seven hundred and forty-three techniques because it was built by thousands of wielders across millennia. No single wielder masters them all. The art is knowing which ones are yours."
