"Chain Slash?" Angel looked puzzled.
The term was unfamiliar to him, but judging by its meaning, did it refer to... consecutive sword strikes?
Angel thought for a moment and gathered several illusion nodes, conjuring a scene: a man in meditation suddenly opened his eyes, drew his sword, and rose. He swung at a wooden post with blinding speed, sending a flash of sword light across it. As the man sheathed his sword, two swishing sounds came from behind him, and two deep sword marks appeared on the post.
He had clearly swung only once, yet he had left two marks on the post.
That was Angel's understanding of Chain Slash.
"Is this what you mean by Chain Slash?" Angel asked Dox.
Dox said, "Not quite, but you could think of it that way. But... why did you have to use me as your example?"
"Even if you use me, couldn't you pick something else as the target? A Shallow-Sea Strongman would do. Why a wooden post? And I didn't even cut it in half? How is that possible?"
The man who had drawn his sword in Angel's illusion was Dox, and the sword in his hand was the Red Sword at his waist.
Angel said, "Think of him as you when you were still a mortal."
Dox wanted to say more, but Angel ignored his protest and continued asking about Chain Slash. "Why isn't it quite right? What is a real Chain Slash? What does it mean that Exus can use it?"
Dox said, "The scene in your illusion is, at best, a single sword strike that rings out twice. It's also an attack confined to the material plane. With enough speed and skill, it wouldn't be hard to reproduce. You can call that a Chain Slash, but it's only