Secret Technique

«**Secret Art Finishing Moves**» (, ***«**Secret Art Finishing Moves**»***?), more commonly known as «**Secret Techniques**» (秘奥義, *Hiōgi*?, alt. *Secret Forms*), is a name given to maneuvers with weapons in «Project Rhealization»'s virtual-reality world, «Underworld», that share a near-identical similarity to the «Sword Skills» of «Sword Art Online» and «Spell Blade Online».

## Mechanics

As stated above, within «Project Rhealization»'s «Underworld», «Sword Skills» are instead known by the name of «Secret Techniques» which are the hidden techniques of a certain country. Instead of being separated by weapon type, like in SAO and SBO, «Secret Techniques» are divided by its 'sword style'. Most «Secret Techniques» are, in fact, carbon copies of original SAO «Sword Skills». However, this doesn't hold absolutely true as there are some original Sword Skills invented by residents of «Underworld» that have little to no basis in Sword Skills from SAO.*[citation needed]*

A completely new mechanic unique to «Underworld» that is entirely unlike that of SAO is that the number of hits in any given «Secret Technique» is limited to the user's «Object Control Authority» and the level of «Priority» the weapon in which the «Secret Technique» is used with. As such, a user possessing a higher «Object Control Authority» and utilizing a weapon with a higher «Priority» allows for the use of «Secret Techniques» with higher hit counts.

Similarly to SAO, a user of a «Secret Technique» will need to enter the respective «pre-motions» to activate it while also suffering from its «post-motion delay».

## Known Sword Schools

### Avalonia-style

The school of swordsmanship originating from the eastern half of the Albatigrum culture, the **Avalonia-style** (アヴァロニア流, *Avaronia-ryū*?) is the main sword style used by many citizens of the Kingdom of Flava. It focuses on the mentality of the "*beauty of a single strike*" using the one-handed sword, as opposed to the same mentality used by the Tolbia-style. As it does not make use of multiple strikes, it is different from its descendant High Avalonia-style.

* «Azure Breeze Slash»
* «Heaven Punishment»*[citation needed]*
* «Rising Water»*[citation needed]*
* «Still Water»
* «Thuderclap Flash»
* «Waterfall Cloud»*[citation needed]*
* «Wave Current»

### Floating Castle Style (Aincrad-style)

«**Floating Castle Style**» (浮遊城流, *Fuyū-jō-ryū*?) is a style separately "invented" by Emilia Rosenberg (Ayanami Shiratsuyu) and Kieran Domhnall (Kazuto Kirigaya) (due to Ayanami diving first and Kazuto only joining later when he heard of her condition) using their combat experience from SAO and consisting of multi-hit one-handed sword techniques. Despite having comparably less strength than two-handed sword techniques, the style compensates for this by using momentum to increase the force of one's strikes. When countering an opponent's sword, Floating Castle Style users employ a multi-hit Skill or «Skill Connect» to block it and deliver a decisive blow on the last hit. Floating Castle Style also includes «Martial Arts» skills using one's free hand, although this application is unique to Kieran as Emilia finds it "crude" to use her fists.

The style possesses two names only because of the naming sense of the separate but concurrent "inventors" of the style.

*Note: All «Secret Techniques» in this style share the exact same names as the «Sword Skills» of SAO and all skills available in SAO are part of this style.*

### High Avalonia-style

The more advanced school of swordsmanship of the Avalonia-style, the **High Avalonia-style** (ハイ アヴァロニア流, *Hai Avaronia-ryū*?) is the secret swordsmanship style of the Kingdom of Flava practiced only by those of the highest nobility, especially the House of Rosenberg, that is, the royal family of the kingdom itself. Within «Underworld», it is one of only a few sword styles that make use of multi-hit skills with its philosophy being a more progressive one compared to its lesser self of "*the grace of going with the flow*".

While the style is famous for multi-hit combos, it has not yet advanced past a four-hit combo due to both «Object Control Authority» and «Priority» constraints. However, it is possible to forcibly break past this limit by way of «Incarnation».

* «Blue Ocean Wave»
* «Divine Light»
* «Purple Electricity»
* «Saint Steel Lance»
* «Supernova's Protection»
* «Swirling Current»*[citation needed]*
* «Swirling Waterfall Cloud»
* «Whirling Rapids»

### Hīragi-style

The school of swordsmanship taught primarily by the Hīragi Family, the **Hīragi-style** (柊流, *Hīragi-ryū*?) is the most prominent school of swordsmanship of the Kiyotō culture, including almost the entire population of the empire as students of the school. It follows a philosophy of smoothness "*like folding a paper crane*" and as such, is one of few sword styles that make use of multi-hit skills alongside single strikes.

*Note: All «Secret Techniques» in this style share the exact same name as «Katana»-category «Sword Skills».*

* «Gengetsu»
* «Tsujikaze»
* «Zekkuu»

### Tolbia-style

The sword style originating from the western half of the Albatigrum culture, the **Tolbia-style** (トルビア流, *Torubia-ryū*?) is the main sword style used by many citizens of the Kingdom of Maeventius. It focuses on the mentality of the "*beauty of a single strike*" used through the two-handed sword as opposed to the same mentality used by the Avalonia-style. However, differing from the Avalonia-style, the «Secret Techniques» of the Tolbia-style aren't taught to the commonfolk and instead, are kept secret with only the high-class members of the kingdom being educated in them.*[citation needed]*

* «Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star»
* «Reverse Moon»*[citation needed]*
* «Hellmoon»*[citation needed]*

## Notes

1. ↑ It was explicitly named a «Sword Skill» and thus, would fall under the jurisdiction of the Floating Castle Style; however, it was given a name in the common tongue so that residents can name the technique without using the Sacred Tongue making it a newly invented Secret Technique of the High Avalonia-style.
2. ↑ Name revealed and concept of it is explained.
3. ↑ Actual use.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 22, Chapter 1, Part 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Volume 22, Prologue, Part 3
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Volume 22, Prologue, Part 4
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Volume 22, Chapter 2, Part 2
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Volume 22, Chapter 1, Part 2
6. ↑ Volume 23, Chapter 2, Part 4
7. ↑ Volume 23, Chapter 3, Part 2
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Volume 23, Chapter 2, Part 8
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Volume 22, Prologue, Part 5
10. ↑ Volume 22, Chapter 1, Part 6