Stronger [pvt]

She repeated the process several more times, each time stepping out of her skin and leaving behind a creepy statue, which she then destroyed as it made her a little existential. Next would be to charge the skin with reiryoku. Gwen did this, charging her skin with reiryoku, and stepping away. However; the reiryoku did not stay behind with the layer of skin she deposited. Her eyes went wide, and she hardened her Hierro as much as she could before her entire body exploded.

Luckily her Hierro was mighty indeed, and so she was relatively unscathed. She looked at the skin-remnant with immense displeasure, before firing a Cero at it once more. Ok. She's get it this time. She ripped herself out of her skin, performing a sonido to get some twenty metres ahead of herself, before exploding the remnant with reiryoku. Yes! Success. Gwen exhaled sharply through her nose, pleased at her handiwork. It had almost been perfect however; she knew she could get more power out of the explosion.

She attempted it once more, this time pumping a great deal of reiatsu into the shell. However, she made a fatal error. An error that caused her a great deal of pain indeed.

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Protector de la Tierra
Next, Gwen would work on a defensive technique. This technique was much simpler than the last, and indeed as a result, simpler to learn. It involved erupting spiritually compressed structures as a form of last-ditch defense. Gwen had considered the theory of such a technique long and hard. First, one would have to pull up from the ground a structure, using reiatsu to force it into shape. Then it could be hardened by reinforcing it with reiryoku, much like how one's condensed reiryoku hardened their skin in battle.

With this in mind, worked out Gwen began. Her reiatsu was normally entirely destructive. Fire based, it would simply devour and reduce all things to ash. At first it was difficult for her to see how she might instead create something using her spiritual pressure instead. She applied her reiatsu to a patch of the sand before her but on her first attempt, it superheated it, instantly blasting a line of sand into glass before her. She scowled, her brow furrowed. She had masterful control of her reiatsu- she could do this. She breathed deeply, before applying her spiritual pressure once more, attempting to lift a slab of sand, and hold it together.

Gwen tried it multiple times; changing the shape of the wall, its height, its width, so she would be versatile enough to block all sorts of attacks and techniques coming her way. Once she was satisfied that she could make even a turret with slits to shoot cero out of, she focused on hardening it with condensed reiryoku. Initially this had similar results to before; too much spiritual energy, and the structures would simply crack and collapse. She had to ensure that the balance was absolutely perfect. Sweat rolled off of her brow by this point, she had begun somewhat to deplete her energy reserves. No matter. Keep going.

She created a large wall that towered some eight feet tall, hardened with reiryoku. Performing a sonido to get some distance she shot a cero at it, to test its strength. The wall at first seemed to hold up but soon cracked in twain. With a grunt, she tried again, this time forming layers of energy to ensure that it was fully solidified all the way though. The wall she created this time seemed incredibly imposing, and fully structurally sound. This time when she hit it with her cero, it kicked up a huge storm of dust, but when it settled, the wall remained firmly in place.