What chapter is this for references' sake and context?
Going back to the very early bit of S1. We see flowers. Dowon might be the promised Heroine
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Chapter 1 I think
From memory, isn't it the anima girl who winds up disappearing after S1?
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That's a sick, sick find (in the best possible sense). I especially like that the flowers are "over, maybe around" the snake-like steel eel cage.
This is what makes Snake charmer seem more like a tool or an artificial life form:
I don't think White was trying to be helpful. It seemed more like a 'lol git gud u pleb' critique, with some cryptic 'advice' that isn't actually meant to teach Hatsu anything. It'll be up to him to glean something useful out of White's trolling, if he can.
Knowing Hatsu is friends with the protagonist and good guy, we know he is gonna make a breakthrough and surprise everyone by being the first non Arie to use (albeit not in same level) the Arie Swordmanship.
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I mean, Baam already did it so...
Bam countered Arie moves, not really copy It.
He created an Arie-style spirit sword and successfully fought White with it. It's enough for me to credit it.
After being attacked from Bam, White said that this is his swordcraft and that Viole should stop imitating his sword (or something like that)
So there we have It: without the Power of the souls nobody yet can wield Arie Swordmanship. Hatsu might become the first.
Based on the lore hatz could indeed learn arie swordsmanship. He just would be unable to use it as well as actual arie family direct descendants. TBH I don't expect hatz to ever match arie swordsmanship. I've never seen the story head in such a direction, it'd be contrary to the lore and ultimately it's not even important to the plot. Hatz can be a strong fighter and ally to bam, given enough time of course, without him coming up with something better than arie swordsmanship. I would maintain the most important part about this is hatz learning his shinsoo qualities. Even if its not sword related he will get an important shinsoo boost which will translate to him being stronger in general. And if it is a sword then its going to be a massive upgrade. And it could be something quite OP as well. Though I'd maintain that hatz getting something which is a match to real arie swordsmanship is contrary to the lore and should be about impossible.
Imo, Arie and Swordmanship is like Arlene and Sorcery: others can learn and become OP with It, such as Sachi and Levi could own lots of people with those skills, but nothing compared to what Arlene and Bam can do. Arie descendants should be unbeatable in their game, but others could greatly benefit by learning them like What happens with Sorcery.
There's a lot of assumptions in there... We still don't even know if spellcasting is directly related to shinsoo. Or what arlen's or v's talents were at shinsoo. But yeah, hatz would undeniably benefit from arie swordsmanship. But the fact remains that him mastering it without being a direct descendant would be against the lore. And him surpassing arie swordsmanship would be kinda against the lore as well. Of course, that doesn't mean hatz will never beat an arie in combat. It will just take hatz being a lot stronger than the arie in question to barely pull a win or have something else going for him. Like an ignition weapon or some sort of special shinsoo quality.
Doesn't the wiki say Adori and Jahad royal guards learn Arie swordmanship, it's possible for Hatz but he won't bend any space that's my take. It will improve his overall power and control over shinsoo while using a sword which it's said to be difficult to wield a sword the higher you go.
