Time to Train....

The area was cleared fairly quicksharp, and he began. The first kido was Okasen- Senta took an approach to learning kido that involved, first, the rote memorization of the incantations. Secondly, that out of the way he explored how the kido were constructed. What way did you have to put your reiatsu together in order to create that effect? Kido were general techniques that all shinigami could use and as a result, they required a more general approach to reiatsu. Other techniques seemed to "roll off the tongue" in comparison. Lastly of course, he would practice forming the technique, constructing it without even launching it. Senta had actually not appeared as a total idiot at all during his time as a trainee shinigami, only because he had this mentality of preparation. It was borne of intense, advanced laziness. Senta was fully aware that if he didn't spend time preparing the amount of extra work dumped on him would far more than compensate. He considered himself a connoisseur of laziness, a kind of expert and so he was more than prepared to put the work in to save effort in the long run. It was like walking 20m to get a key as opposed to kicking a door down.

He drew Agjram and and held him horizontally before himself. He gathered his reiryoku and applied it, creating a bright pink spot in front of the sword, spreading it out. Wait, pink!? He had no idea how or why reiatsu took on the colour it did but he was sure that wasn't right at all. He let the pent up energy release gently before considering. Okasen- a flash of yellow fire. Then he realized- he had been considering the kind of damage it would do to concussive, or something similar but it was actually closer to a raw torrent of burning energy. Almost like lightning, or something. With that in mind, Senta tried again and this time, the little point of gathered energy was yellow and crackling. Aha! Ye Lord! Mask of flesh and iron, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! The nimbus swirls, Ash reeks, Soar on to the west! he repeated in his head, weary of forgetting. He spread the energy out across Agjram's blade, spitting and hissing all the while. Satisfied that it was what he wanted, he withdrew the energy, letting it fizzle out completely. Time to try again, he supposed.

Senta suckered in another deep breath. Okay take two. He kept his shield up just in case, and gathered the reiryoku upon his zanpakuto, and spread it out as he spoke the incantation. "Ye Lord! Mask of flesh and iron, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! The nimbus swirls, Ash reeks, Soar on to the west." He then gave the wedge a push forwards, such that the reiryoku strained against the envelope it was contained within, before releasing it, saying: "Hado thirty two, Okasen!", and as he did the wide arc that he was familiar with shot forward from him, grazing the landscape and smashing into and bending around the target dummy he was shooting at. Damn! A pretty good shot. It had been slow though- he had cast the kido but he needed to attain fluency in it. And so he started again.

This time he formed the wedge in mere moments. He incanted as he did so: "Ye Lord! Mask of flesh and iron, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! The nimbus swirls, Ash reeks, Soar on to the west." and before he had even finished, he launched the kido forward. "Hado thirty two, Okasen!" he said and it exploded outwards.

Confusingly the incantation for this one started exactly the same as the last one, so Senta knew he would probably get way confused. Oh well, he went over it in his head; Ye Lord! Mask of flesh and bone, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, Upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws! Confusing. Either way, he stowed his zanpakuto, double checked the scroll to make certain, and then raised his palm. He focused his reiatsu into it, abright blue flame of energy that burned incandescent. He then realized that he had no idea how to make it spin- he just sort of assembled it. He let it disappear before thinking about it for a second. He supposed that if he focused the reiryoku in one spot but kind of input it some radius out of that spot, it would orbit around, kind of how the moon went around the earth. He had enough control of his reiatsu to create a spherical envelope so he tried it, and by some miracle it worked! He had a glowing blue sphere of reiryoku sat just before his hand.