Fire Release: Inferno Surge

### Other

Please note that the literal translation captures the meaning and essence of the jutsu's name rather than a direct one-to-one translation of each individual character.

## Also See

### Tool

Shuriken (can be conjoined with the technique)

## Usage

Instead of releasing flames from his/her body like most other Fire Release fighters, the user generates and compresses fire inside his/her own body like a furnace, stoking it to produce thermal energy that he/she then circulates throughout his/her body, to drastically increase his/her physical abilities.

Using this power, the user can leap to extraordinary heights and land gracefully, withstand critical attacks without flinching and inflict powerful blows with minimal movement. Their body also generates incredible amounts of heat and pressure, enough to melt enemies with no resistance to heat and cause damage by generate powerful shockwaves.

As the user's flames burn more intensely as this technique remains active: Inferno Surge enters its next Stage and its effects become even stronger and more noticeable, changing his/her body into a more vicious state. Once they progress to the later Stages, it is believed the user becomes untouchable by normal means.

## Stages

### Stage 1

Upon activating Inferno Surge at Stage 1, fire begins to appear from the user's heels, palms, and eyes and they generate an almost invisible yet fiery aura. Typical attacks lack the force to reach the user's skin through the invisible heat emanating from their body. Using Stage 1, the user is able to push away fire-based attacks and dispel them with ease; ordinary flames and attacks can be deflected with the user's palms and feet. Using Stage 1 allows the user to knock people away with great force simply by flexing their fingers or stamping the ground with their foot to manipulate the heat around them.

However, an important caveat should be noted: Inferno Surge's intense heat thins the oxygen supply around the user, significantly decreasing the breathability of the user whilst using the technique. In addition, the technique, as a Fire Release jutsu, is at a major disadvantage when faced against Water Release. When confronted with genuinely formidable Water Release jutsu, the sheer power of these advanced techniques can overwhelm the user's fiery form, causing the technique to dissipate into a thick steam.

### Stage 2

Once Stage 2 has been reached, Inferno Surge creates enough sheer force to prevent opponents from getting close to the user, with some powerful attacks simply failing to pass through the aura before even coming close to the user's body. A strike would require large amounts of speed and force in order to penetrate this defensive forcefield. Even then these attacks are dramatically less harmful to the user, with attacks that would've caused them to bleed in Stage 1 leaving them unhurt, though they still feel the impact. However, while stronger than the previous Stage, Stage 2 still leaves the user vulnerable to explosions and similar kinds of attacks. Visually, orange energy trails out of the user's eyes and their pupils and irises distort. Their hair also becomes significantly spikier, and his/her entire body glows a yellowish hue with orange electricity crackling around it. In this Stage, the user is able to shatter concrete with the sheer amount of force they're capable of unleashing; and the temperature of their fiery assaults increases to the point where it can melt through solid rock in a similar manner to lava as the user comes into close proximity to it.

Similar to Stage 1, an important caveat should be noted with Stage 2: Inferno Surge's intense heat thins the oxygen supply around the user, significantly decreasing the breathability of the user whilst using the technique. In addition, the technique, as a Fire Release jutsu, is at a major disadvantage when faced against Water Release. When confronted with genuinely formidable Water Release jutsu, the sheer power of these advanced techniques can overwhelm the user's fiery form, causing the technique to dissipate into a thick steam.

### Stage 3

At Stage 3 the fiery outline around the user's body becomes more ill-defined and their hair begins to resemble burning fire. Whist in this Stage, just being close to the user's body destroys inflammable clothing and their increased strength allows them to effortlessly drive a person through solid rock with just one arm. They also becomes durable enough to withstand extreme force without being knocked off-balance or being harmed without injury. The flames become so intense they are finally manifesting outside the user's body. In addition to a powerful aura of visible fire, the flames around the head give the impression of a lion's mane.

Similar to Stage 1, an important caveat should be noted with Stage 3: Inferno Surge's intense heat thins the oxygen supply around the user, significantly decreasing the breathability of the user whilst using the technique. In addition, the technique, as a Fire Release jutsu, is at a major disadvantage when faced against Water Release. When confronted with genuinely formidable Water Release jutsu, the sheer power of these advanced techniques can overwhelm the user's fiery form, causing the technique to dissipate into a thick steam. There is also an additional drawback that Stage 3 user's are affected by that the prior Stages do not posses; that being the intense heat of this specific form being so great that even the user's own cells begin to overheat and disintegrate - their cells breaking down and dramatically decreasing the user's lifespan the more this form is maintained over an extended period of time.