Ryokuren Tatsuya

Ryokuren Tatsuya is the Flame Senshuken.

## History

Ryokuren was born to a weapon smith, Hadono, and a dragon tamer, Kiraiya in 4 BD, in the now-famous city of Dragon Isle. His parents were considered local legends. His father, Hadono, was regarded as a master smith, known for his rare aptitude for working with dragon-derived materials. Meanwhile, his mother was a famed dragon tamer, whom had garnered an almost mystical reputation as a whisperer, having prevented countless dragon incidents through the years through her advanced connection and understanding of dragon behaviour. It was through his parents' professions that Ryokuren himself developed a fascination with dragons, and he would often accompany them to work as a child to satisfy his burning curiosity about these powerful creatures.

Through his prolonged exposure to dragons in his youth, he would eventually contract Dragon Plague, an obscure condition with a near-perfect mortality rate. Under the care of the best physicians in the city, Ryokuren survived, but emerged with a drastically altered personality and physiology. Throughout the duration of his illness, his features had morphed to become much harsher and beast-like. Despite previously being a kind-hearted and clingy child, he became anger-prone, anti-social and serious, and developed a large ego. His physique became abnormally muscular, granting him strength surpassing even that of soldiers at the age of three. Most interestingly, he had begun to grow hard, dark red scales over certain parts of his body, including his jaw, shins and forearms. As a result of his dragon-like qualities, he would occasionally leave his home for days at a time to seek out the dragons. He befriended numerous dragons including Ragni and Krita, who further corrupted his humanity, teaching him to be wary of humans and to prioritise strength, power and oneself over others.

Ryokuren witnessed the Descent at the age of four while out on one of his journeys.

## Fighting Style

As the most powerful Elemental Sorcerer of all time, Ryokuren is orders of magnitude stronger than the average modern Sorcerer. As such, in battle, he massively limits his firepower by using intricate techniques for the sake of extending fights and appreciating the more artistic side of flame magic. In the exceptionally rare case that the opponent withstands these attacks, Ryokuren gradually increases his intensity and shifts away from his 'artisanal' attacks towards his more lethal arsenal.

When fighting casually, Ryokuren prefers to use indirect elemental attacks. This involves sculpting or summoning animals and structures, then using these to emit flame attacks rather than doing so directly from his body. Such a combat style is incredibly inefficient, with the majority of energy invested being consumed to simply create the intermediaries. In this way, he can make battles significantly less easy for himself, and manipulate fire in much more intricate ways. One of his most common openings is producing a lifelike flame tiger or phoenix and sending it to attack his opponent. Even though the animal is relatively weak compared to the amount of energy used, the overwhelming majority of sorcerers are overcome by this technique regardless.

In the times Ryokuren has fought seriously, as he did in his youth, his style has been described as being akin to a chaotic, terrifying and relentless hurricane. The Annals describe Ryokuren's legendary blood battle against the former Flame Senshuken as "...overwhelming his opponent with a never-ending onslaught of lethal, destructive attacks, seeming to only ramp up as time goes on." His more powerful attacks cover an enormous area, preventing enemies from getting close to him or even counterattacking as he tirelessly unleashes massive spells, forcing enemies to dodge and parry until they tire out.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

Due to his massive accumulation of Type-IV Prana, enhanced with his infusion of Type-III, Ryokuren has tremendous raw physical capabilities.

#### Super Speed

Ryokuren can effortlessly move at high-supersonic speeds. In a casual exhibition match, he was able to evade a relentless spray of supercharged bullets from dozens of decommissioned Iron Legion turrets, perceiving these in slow motion. Against the leader of the Dark Legion, widely regarded as the strongest mortal alive, Ryokuren casually exceed his opponent's speed and defeated him barehanded. Furthermore, by concentrating his energy, he can perform hypersonic to high hypersonic dashes. Despite the small 'charge' time, he is able to use this to disorient his enemies and easily dodge lightning attacks, as shown when he fought Hikari, a Kotatsujin-ranked Lightning user.

In flight, he is able to reach massively hypersonic speed by continuously increasing his propulsion force. Ryokuren frequently travels between the continents in a matter of minutes during his searches and patrols.

#### Super Strength

Ryokuren possesses absurd amounts of physical strength, as shown when he lifted and threw an entire cruise ship several hundred metres in mild annoyance. He is capable of shattering massive chunks of hills and mountains with mere punches and kicks. If he wills it, he is able to generate so much force with each step that he can excavate the ground by tens of metres each stride and casually break apart the ground by swinging his arms, walking through solid rock like air.

#### Super Durability

As a recipient of Type-III Prana, Ryokuren's entire body is massively fortified, rendering him effectively invulnerable to all attacks not inflicted by other Senshuken or more powerful beings. In his battle with the Stone Senshuken, he taunted his opponent by allowing himself to be hit by gigantic attacks such as being crushed by the equivalent of a small mountain, and being slammed by the same quantity dozens of times. He emerged from these attacks sporting only minor bruises. It was only when the Stone Senshuken resorted to using his Aether Crystal, which was enhanced by Type-II Prana, that Ryokuren started to sustain serious damage.

#### Super Regeneration

After being bruised by the Stone Senshuken's attacks, he healed completely in a matter of seconds.

### Total Reserve

Being over 20,000 years old, Ryokuren possesses the richest Total Reserve in human history. When pushed to his absolute limit during his battle with Yamasu, Ryokuren accessed his Total Reserve to bolster his strength five-fold, allowing him to overwhelm the latter's Aether Crystal and Elder-enhanced attacks. In this form, Ryokuren's body continuously emitted ultraviolet radiation in all directions, vaporising everything in a ten metre radius around him. His attacks also took the form of UV radiation, decimating everything that his opponent sent his way.

### Spirit Realm Access

- Grants him precognition

- Increases his accuracy and efficiency

- Allows him to see through objects

### Unique Katas

#### 'Artisanal' Technique Pool

This move set involves a great degree of summons, sculptures and other artistic spells that, while powerful, require a significantly higher investment in energy than a typical, equally destructive attack would.

##### Phoenix Set

* **Phoenix Type: Fire Spray**: The user commands one or multiple phoenixes to blast fire at their target.
* **Phoenix Type: Kamikaze**: The user empowers a phoenix with additional flames, and commands it to fly at the target and explode.
* **Phoenix Type: Avian Storm**: The user commands an army of phoenixes to charge at the target.
* Phoenix riding
* General phoenix command

##### Dragon Set

* **Dragon Type: Great Unfurling Dragon**: The user commands a dragon to rapidly twist outwards in a spiral motion, tearing up the ground, as well as producing a powerful air vortex and blocking all attacks in its path.
* **Dragon Type: Surge/Descent:** The user empowers a dragon and commands it to fly straight/downwards at the target at great speed.
* **Dragon Type: Chaotic Burn/Cremation:** The user commands a dragon to launch a relentless stream/concentrated blast of fire at the target.
* Dragon riding
* General dragon command

##### General 'Artisanal' Moves

* Decomposition: Ryokuren decomposes the summoned fire avatar into a singular flame or multiple small orbs that can be controlled by the hands and fingers.
* Orb Manipulation: Ryokuren uses the orbs to strike, lift, push or blast the opponent. These orbs are heavy despite their small size, and are often used to toy with opponents, for example by beating them lightly around the head.

#### 'True' Technique Pool

These moves are lethal and intense, designed to translate energy into damage in the most efficient way.

* **Sunfire Plume**: A 'soft', vertical explosion of flames that resembles a phoenix feather. Usually summoned beneath an opponent to incinerate them, or launch them into the air, rendering them defenceless.
* **Sunfire Pillar:** A powerful pillar of fire that incinerates anything caught in it. This technique is significantly more powerful than the Sunfire Plume, but requires much more energy to cast.
* **Sunfire Beam**: The most concentrated fire attack. This technique launches a nigh-unstoppable beam of fire in a straight line that can continue for kilometres, puncturing or slicing through everything in its wake.
* **Wild Demon Claws**: Numerous lethal flame slashes created simultaneously by clawing in the target's direction with the fingers. The slashes appear as multiple parallel curved lines.
* **Omni Cutting Matrix:** Similar to the Wild Demon Claws, the user claws with both hands simultaneously, instead producing razor-thin slashes of fire in a grid pattern that carve through everything in their path. This form requires more energy and covers a wider area compared to the Wild Demon Claws.
* **Omni Cutting Rotation:** An extension of the Omni Cutting Matrix, the user performs dozens of full-body twists and wide slashes to launch a massive spherical grid of flames that expands outwards in all directions, slicing apart everything in their wake.
* **Valiant Aegis:** An impenetrable shield of fire, used defensively to incinerate oncoming projectiles.
* **Hinokami Temple:** An extension of the Valiant Aegis, the user encases themselves in a large structure resembling a temple made of fire, shielding them from harm in all directions.
	+ The shape of the Temple is achieved using a template, which allows a user to project their Prana into it and rapidly conjure flames in the same configuration, but on a larger scale.
	+ The Temple was chosen as a tribute to the Hinokami Temple, where Ryokuren regularly communicates with the Flame Goddess.
* **Roaring Sun Halo:** A rapidly spinning ring of flames, used to slice through terrain or oncoming projectiles.
* **Dark Bisecting Moon:** A slightly weaker version of the Roaring Sun Halo, taking the form of a crescent-shaped slash rather than a ring. This technique has the advantage of being casted instantaneously, as the user does not need to shape it into a ring. This technique may also cover a wider area due to its simplicity. However, its crescent shape makes it less durable.
* **Great Dividing Cannon:** Named as a taunting reference to the Stone Senshuken's signature ability, Great Dividing Range. The user charges for a moment, then summons a heavy, powerful beam of fire that can punch cleanly through a mountain.
* **Solar Cannon:** The original form of the Great Dividing Cannon. This form is weaker, but can be casted instantaneously to scorch, punch and slice through a battlefield.
* **Meteor Shower:** The user summons countless fireballs that rain down across the battlefield. The direction, speed and size of these fireballs can be altered even after summoning.
* **Crazed Cry of the Flame Goddess:** The user charges momentarily, then unleashes a devastating explosion that extends in all directions, incinerating everything in its radius. The attack can extend to a one-kilometre radius without losing intensity, and can cover an entire small island when stretched to its maximum. However, the attack becomes significantly less weaker when spread out.
* **Mini-Suns:** A compact ball of fire that rests in the palm, or grows to cover the entire hand, granting the user massively enhanced destructive power in hand-to-hand combat.
* **Infernal Rotation:** A rapid full-body spin that projects a momentary fire shield around the user and sweeps up all attacks and projectiles, burning them down.
* **Celestial Arm/Grasp:** The user conjures a massive arm that grabs and holds the opponent. Can be used to pacify them or move them around.
* **Flame Tendrils:** The user summons large tendrils of fire all over the battlefield that strike, chase and slash at the opponent.
* **Surge:** The user expels powerful explosions from their feet to instantaneously fly across a great distance.

### Generic Katas

* **Flame Lance**
* Fire Stream
* Fire Whip
* Fire Wall
* Flame Sash: The user spins and creates a flowing stream of persistent fire around them, similar in form to the Fire Whip. They can use this fire defensively or detach it for offence. The advantage of this is that it increases the casting speed of other spells, as the fire is readily available to use and reuse. However, it significantly drains the user's energy and is reserved for more advanced practitioners.
* Whirlpool: The user creates a large vortex of fire that tears across the battlefield.
* Flight