Urban Knights Storage Post

The greater the force of your stride, the more you must be sure that the ground will support it. Without sufficient friction, your foot will slide out from underneath you as pivot over it, and plant you on your face. That is, if your foot didn’t slide out from under you when you first landed upon it, and thus deposit you on your back.

Only after you have mastered the art of deliberately channeling Aura through your feet and into the ground with every step can you begin to outrun a Wolfuranian on foot. You will have to practice even more than that to do it without thinking!

Don’t forget that pavement, gravel paths, dirt roads, and grass-bearing soil all offer extremely different levels of resistance. An adept can race across any possible surface. A master can adjust reflexively to surprises, such as a random patch of mud in the middle of a dry field, even while his mind is fixed upon his opponent. Long is the journey to reach that level.

The Veridian Warriors have a long history of combining this technique with the high-speed movement technique of Flash Steps Reducing Earth: A basic high-speed movement technique, developed long before magic became commonplace; effectively, through the user slamming their foot upon earth ten times in a split second, they are capable of kicking off the ground in the blink of an eye and live up to the technique's name of "reduced earth" as the technique shrinks the distance between the user and their target in a split second.

When performing the technique, the user focuses the majority of their body weight to one of their legs of the briefest of moments, before stomping the foot where most of their weight is focused upon the solid surface of where the user is standing at a rapid velocity before shifting the weight back to the rest of their frame, generating enough thrust to propel the user forward at incredible speeds, accelerating at velocities that are almost untraceable to reach short or long distances near instantaneously- it should be taken into consideration that in order to perform the technique at all, the user requires a solid surface to kick into and thus produce enough thrust. According to the untrained eyes of those watching on while the user performs this technique, more often than not it appears as if the user has effectively teleported using sheer power and speed alone, moving faster than anyone is capable of following as they seem to reduce the earth between the themselves and the opponent in the blink of an eye.

Through combining this with Aura, they can cross far distances and move around a battlefield at incredible speeds, allowing them to traverse the city and kingdom quickly.

While it is not necessarily on the same level as a true Super Speed Semblance, it can be used to mimic the effects.