Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-25936766-20170718014414

SpiritedDreaming wrote: 1) No, I read it. But Blake's ninja slashes against the missiles were time-enhanced, not dust-infused......

2) Unless you're talking about Terminus's "fire only" thing 1) True.........and now that I think about it, recall what you said:

"for all we know the amount of aura in an aura slash simply amplifies the strength of the dust, but it's more costly than usual so that's why Weiss doesn't do it."

Now, let's remove Dust from the equation. Logically, the more Aura you put into an Aura Technique, the stronger it should be. It's Energy, logically, if you add more Energy of the same kind, you get more Energy, and thus increase the effects of whatever that Energy is used for.

10N > 5N and thus applies more force/weight/whatever, for example. Now, the Blade Beams Blake used against the Paladin were done in quick sucession.....but like we said, she was under the Haste Spell. Maybe that includes the Charging Time.

Meaning that in theory at least, the more you charge it the stronger and bigger those slashes will be, and they won't necesarily stick to the ground. Blake's Haste buff allowed her to cut down severely that charging time. In comparison, Weiss took some seconds to get a single slash of that size and power (Dust aside) because she didn't have such a buff.

..........Alright, by now I feel like I stated what most of us likely realized, but I think I'll simplify it now: ''The more the Blade Beam is charged, the bigger and stronger it will be. Adding Dust just makes it elemental''. So the Aura wouldn't make the Dust stronger, it makes the beam stronger.

Granted, it would still be more costly for obvious reasons, but still. For the purposes of whether those beams travel along the ground, I believe now that at most only the non-charged ones do, the charged ones at least are not limited.

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2) Well, no. I mentioned that specific instance once I remembered that Blake had done slashes that didn't travel along the ground before, like Weiss's Fire Blade Beam, meaning that Blade Beams didn't necesarily travel along the ground.