Jintae Yang/Powers/Abilities

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Jintae Yang is a powerful swordsman and incredibly dangerous villain as many say that he is the strongest among the generation of Villains who never fought in the Great War. With his swordsmanship and viciousness, he boasts an impressive reputation than the average villain and has deadly infamy that the Hero Clan is weary of. Engen himself can see that Jintae is a formidable fighter with one of kind potential and talent which will make him a monumental figure in the future.

## Gift

**Healing:** Jintae's gift is capable of healing his wounds and others in exchange for EST. His gift makes wounds glow with a light green glow and close in. The speed of his healing is corresponding with how severe the wound is as light scratches were recovered almost instantaneously while multiple blades penetrated his vital organs had him healing very slowly making the Hero Killer confident that Jintae's healing output wouldn't prevail. The healing capabilities seem to be limited in what kind of injuries they heal as Jintae slit his eyes with a knife from Ijincheon which gave him black and white cracks over the wounds, that not even his healing gift could recover from. After killing Nenya and absorbing The Torch abilities, Jintae's healing output and abilities were significantly amplified, being able to the blinding wounds on his eyes and instantly heal himself after being turned into literal pieces by Hero Killer's attacks in a confrontation.

### Physical Prowess

**Master Swordsman:** Jintae is considered to be a prodigy with his swordsmanship, with so unmatched potential that his master deliberately let himself dead by Jintae's hands as he would've surpassed his master in terms of swordsmanship in just a few years . His skills is capable of overwhelming expert opponents as he instantly killed Bora, a skilled Hero and a swordswoman herself, in a single strike. His capabilities are further enhanced by the powerful shard, the One Hundred-Sided Blade, which can mold its own shape and design based off his imagination and desires allowing for versatility and creative attacks.  His swordsmanship is also shown to be an equal to that of Hero Killer's as she was trained by Yushin, the former Elder who is famous for his own powerful and brutal dual wielding swordsmanship.

### **Techniques**

* **Ancient Sword Technique of the Flowing Blade:** The swordsmanship foundation that Jintae performs with the One Hundred-Sided Blade. The technique involves shaping the blade to the wielder's desire and in order to unleash its power, it must be unsheathed. By unsheathing the blade, the wielder can then use their swordsmanship to fight their opponent.

* **Living Blade:** By unsheathing his blade, Jintae is able to wield the shape-shifting sword and influence its shape with his mind giving him new abilities to use against his opponents.

* **Crashing Wave of the Living Blade:** The most refined technique that Jintae can perform and unleash on his opponent, it involves creating multiple randomized angles of blade extensions that extend to its maximum limit and then swings downward to eradicate everything in its path by unorthodox means. Jintae used this technique against Engen to attempt to injure him but failed miserably to even scratch him.

* **Living Blade - Torrential Bind:** Jintae shapes his sword in the form of flexible ropes to wrap around his opponent, immobilizing them and having them at his mercy of his blade.

* **Living Blade - Grim Reaper:** Jintae extends and shapes his sword in a long Orcus-like scythe to slash, hook or impale his target. Jintae used it against Hero Killer to prevent her from backing away any further.

* **Living Blade - Indestructive Fall:** Extending and reinforcing his sword to its maximum limit and swinging it down with maximum effort, inflicting a deep vertical cut downward, or bisecting them vertically in half downright. Jintae used this to finish off Hero Killer but failed as she managed to endure it directly and counterattack with her own lethal move.

*Ancient Sword Technique of the Flowing Blade*.
**Superhuman Strength:** Jintae possesses a fierce amount of physical strength.

## Weaknesses

Jintae isn't able to heal his wounds after being slammed into a cliff by Engen, showing that he has a certain cool down or there is a limit to how much his gift can heal. However, after obtaining the The Torch he overcame this weakness and can heal himself.

Aside from that, Jintae is far too arrogant for his own good and overconfident in his swordsmanship. This has nearly gotten him killed and defeated numerous times against opponents he looks down, underestimated, or are obviously stronger than him. After his fight with Engen, his pride in his abilities was crushed allowing for the seeds of inferiority to planted in him. While this has caused him to become hungrier for power it's also given him a huge weakness in his mental state. He is also lacking in leadership experience as he tends to take simpler approaches while overelying on large, flashy on the fly planning and ambushes. He is also over reliant on his weapon which leaves him open to counter attacks by more experienced and deadlier opponents.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 43
2. ↑ Episode 40
3. ↑ Episode 49