Barriers.
Barriers can come in all shapes and forms from a simple wall barrier to a complex energy reflection barrier. So to start with the barrier you will need to form your energy ball in whichever hand you used during the previous lesson. This time though I want you to flatten it into a disc and expand it out in front of you. This is a standard Circular Shield which will protect you from attacks from the front but anyone worth their salt knows that in battle the enemy isn’t going to hit you in the front. So this barrier is good for a start but once you’ve got it up I recommend refining it. The best way to do this is to make it turn into a sphere around you that way no attack can hit you and any incoming attacks will glance off to the side.
This is a basic shield which will do basic defense but isn’t particularly good at defending against specialized things such as elemental attacks. For these you may want something designed to absorb or negate different attacks. For example if you’ve got a fire based attack coming at you you’re going to want a water shield or a fire shield. A water shield will naturally negate the fire attack because water douses fire. A fire shield however will absorb the attack and use it to grow stronger.
There are many kinds of attacks out there but what would happen if you were to be attacked with a mental based ability? Your energy shield isn’t going to do much against that and this is why you’ll need to strengthen your mental defenses. To do this you can set up your mindscape in any way you wish to deter attackers. My personal setup is designed to be a psychotic hellscape to anyone who shouldn’t be in there. It drives the attacker insane and turns them into a gibbering lump of flesh.
Back to barriers though. In my opinion the strongest barrier in existence is an absorption and reflection barrier that absorbs attacks and either uses the energy to strengthen itself or reflects it back at the attacker. There is a third option with these though. You can store energy within it and use the stored up energy to amplify the reflection thus creating an attack that is at least double the power of the incoming attack.
Like the energy ball the barrier is only limited by your own imagination. So experiment with what’s best for you.
A word of warning though. Don’t just stick to one barrier type. BE VERSATILE. If you can do this then you’ll be damn near impossible to beat.
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