Editing Lien (section)

==== Techniques ====
Lien is very skilled at constructing techniques and makes them in very short periods of time.

'''Ultimate Blade Creation'''

Ultimate Blade Creation is a proto-technique that Lien used to create a rudimentary blade of essence. Ultimate Blade Creation uses sword essence.

'''Sword Hand'''

Sword Hand is a sword essence technique which creates a blade-like aura around Lien's hand. This technique uses an inner blade made from deflection-aspected sword essence to give it solidity and make it deflect objects and other forms of essence. This layer is wrapped by an outer edge of cutting-aspected sword essence. Then there is a third layer with piercing-aspected sword essence over the point which assists with thrusting attacks. There is also a hardness aspect inside the deflection layer which makes the essence blade more stable.

'''Primary Essence Compression'''

Lien can perform a basic sword essence compression technique which compresses his usable sword essence into sword essence that he can then compress on his Heart Point. This technique is performed by taking some sword essence, matching it with his Heart Point and shifting it back to the Point and the essence will then merge with the compressed essence of the Heart Point. This technique helps Lien advance his Heart Point when he does not have an easy source of sword essence to pull in from the environment. This can only be performed a few times per day safely. 

'''Sword Sharpening Shroud'''

Sword Sharpening Shroud is a sword essence technique for wrapping a weapon in an aura of cutting energy. It uses unaspected sword essence in the first layer, slashing-aspected essence around the edges, and piercing-aspected essence at the tip. Lien also has a version with a hardness aspect at the centre. The hardness aspect reinforces the sword. 

'''Shattering Sword'''

Shattering Sword is a sword essence technique that uses Sword Sharpening Shroud as a base and splits it with the strange sword aspect that Lien finds absurdly easy to use. Once the sword aura has been cut then Lien uses a deflection aspect to deflect the split auras away from each other. Timing for this technique is very important. This technique effectively causes the aura to split into multiple pieces which cuts through things in multiple positions. However, the range is still short. Lien can produce four blades from this technique.

'''Draw Sword'''

Draw Sword is a sword technique used to convert sword essence through Lien’s star veins into secondary essence. This technique uses an outer layer of scabbard-aspected sword essence and then Lien forms a sword on the inside with slashing essence on the edges and unaspected sword essence within. 

'''Star Sharpening'''

Star Sharpening is a sword technique which splits down essence and removes the unwanted parts. This uses the same strange essence for splitting that Shattering Sword uses.

'''Shattering Sheath'''

Shattering Sheath is a sword essence technique that uses layers of scabbard-aspected essence on the innermost layer, hardness-aspected sword essence around that, and deflection-aspected essence on the outermost layer. He converts the essence at the last moment to cutting aspected sword essence. The technique then releases it just before impact causing the essence to shred what it hits.

'''Echo Perception'''

Lien has a basic breach essence technique that uses unaspected breach essence and a little memory-aspected breach essence. The technique is focused inwards and alters his perception so he can hear and properly interact with echoes.

'''Star Shattering Sight'''

Star Shattering Sight is a breach essence technique that uses three different breach aspects: core, visibility and layer. The layer-aspected breach essence is used to deal with overlap for the layers of self. The technique lets Lien view layers of the self (spirit, shade, memory) and Dianis Points and star veins and how they connect to the different layers. The technique allows Lien to target his opponent's Dianis Points with his Star Shattering Sword technique.

'''Star Shattering Sword'''

Star Shattering Sword is a technique that uses breach essence and sword essence. The breach part of the technique uses layer-aspected, corporeality-aspected, and breaking-aspected breach essence and the sword part of the technique uses general sword essence. The technique can be focused around Lien's hand or his sword or a Sword Hand technique. If Lien manages to hit his opponent's Dianis Points the Point cracks. There is a very limited physical part of this attack, it mostly damages the essence on other layers of self.

'''Rejoinder'''

The Rejoinder technique uses deflection-aspected sword essence and riposting-aspected sword essence. The technique attemepts to cause an opponent's sword or sword essence to rebound towards them.

'''Sealed Sword Creation'''

Sealed Sword Creation is a technique that uses sword essence and the essence from Lien's sealed Dianis Point. This technique is a combination of the Sword Hand and Ultimate Blade Creation techniques and this forms a phantasmal greatsword. This technique has great cutting power because of the essence from the sealed Point.