Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse! Chapter 1324 Slapping Intent? - Usage Variety

Vague and totally nonhelpful answer aside, there was one other thing to take into account besides feints and misdirections and it was speed.

Don't quote on this but as speed trumped everything else in the martial world, people who were not as fast as their opponents had to resort to so tricks to just land a simple hit—and it could be the first actions ntioned above or sothing along the lines of entrapnt, entanglent, and maybe even debilitations through ans of poisons or toxins of varying effects.

But before we could go into this deep rabbit hole, the action I did first was more of a misdirection compared to a feint because I made Ilana look at my right hand and focus on it before sneaking in my left hand to slap her right cheek.

I thoroughly explained the chanics from what happened in that few seconds and let's just say that she asked to see it a few more tis—and also—get hit for real in the process.

"Again!"

"You sure—"

"Yes!"

"Your face—"

"It's part of it! Again!"

And as we skipped over a few scenes to get to the next demonstration that would focus more on feints, I was once again standing in front of her and had just raised my right hand, motioning for another slap:

"You know what's coming, right?"

"Yes—"

At that point, Ilana was completely looking at my whole body instead of what I wanted her to look at—which was a form of misdirection—but as soon as my right hand twitched and her body motioned to block her left cheek, I easily tapped her left cheek with my right palm.

"Gotcha, again."

"Wait—"

I chuckled, "Why I didn't use my left hand?"

"Well— Yeah!"

"It's starting to get really hard to explain because it has different layers to it, but the mont you know it's coming for your right cheek, the trick was already overused. So~ I just made use of that knowledge to aim for sothing you wouldn't be guarding against. Rember, the goal of using feints and misdirection was to score a hit, not deal the most damaging attack possible."

"It really is complex—"

"Yep. Because yeah, just looking at your fra compared to mine, I could easily break through your defenses with a solid punch—even without a bit of wind-up—though I could easily block it if it ca from you. That's why you'd have to resort to such tricks—as do I if I'm faced with a tougher opponent."

"You saying I'm weak?"

I rolled my eyes, "You want the honest truth, or are you too dumb to figure out simple biology? You pretty much know the answer to that, right? I an, if you just compare yourself to … you'd need more than ten of you, no offense…"

She then broke the small facade, "Pfft— I'm just trying to get a rise out of you by doing so woke bullshittery. But yeah, what should I work on first?"

"If we're talking about in the general sense, an overall improvent on your body either by cardiovascular endurance or straight-up strength would do you wonders but in regards to our current subject, one of the reasons I easily saw through your first attempt—to land a hit on —was that you show too much."

"What do you an?"

"We're back to talking, huh?"

"Just tell the reason, I ate more slaps tonight than I expected…"

"Alright, alright… Again, it involves a lot of factors but you really gotta pay attention to what your opponent can see AND cannot see as well as what you're showing him AND what you aren't showing him."

"Aren't those the sa things?"

"Kind of, but it really is complicated."

"We have ti, you can talk my ear off all you want—"

"There's also a thing that's called Analysis Paralysis. It ans that if we go too much into detail about one exchange—it could be good on a review, but it's very ti-consuming because again, there are a lot of different exchanges happening in a one-minute match, we can't just go into detail about every little—"

"I do understand that but—what else are we supposed to do now?"

"I an… Sure, rember when I discussed sothing about overloading an opponent?"

"You an the thing with their brains when you perform too many feints?"

"Not too many, just a lot of it. It's kind of the sa but not at all if you think about it."

"Okay, okay, go on…"

"Adding that other layer on top of all the things we had already discussed is that there are a ton of different ways to do such things and the take all should be is that you gotta keep it fresh.

If we wanna sound vulgar about it your patterns should just be this unravellable ball of pubes that doesn't only contain feints and so other type of tricks but actual strong, fast, or compact attacks as well. However… we should also have a handful of attacks that could end the fight as fast as possible and we should also have a workaround to land that particular blow when it counts."

"You an a finisher?"

"Sothing like that. If you really~ think about it the best way to go is to really end the fight before it happens, or if it was currently ongoing, finish it as fast as it could—but if it was still dragging on, that's where you might think of doing tricks like feints and whatnot or so other moves to tire them out or render them incapable of fighting back.

I'm telling you, this shit is a fucking rabbit hole and we need more ti to discuss each and every way we could get in soone's head and in their actual defenses and weak areas."

"Hmm…"

"Or if you get too tired of thinking of this shit, just use a fucking gun because that's just the equalizer. Unless we evolve to the point we could take gunshots as if they were mosquito bites, firearms are just the way to go if you want to end things on a snap of a finger."

"Eh~ I think we got too broad when you start talking about guns."

"Heh. I an— you can be the master of five fucking disciplines but against a barrel of a loaded gun, it'd be really~ hard—fuck it, close to impossible to co out on top. The way we're talking right now is really to have a gun and win but if not, we pull out anything we have on our person before resorting to hand-to-hand combat."

In any case, we spent a good hour or so just talking about the basic stuff, and we obviously hadn't even touched upon killing intent. The term could be interpreted in any number of ways but in regards to our current subject, it was the culmination of one's extre desire to end soone's life where sothing intangible could be felt by more than just the five senses.

The majority of the population could only do it subconsciously—but if put into a high-stress situation or sothing similar, one might learn to manifest or control it in a way that could make or break the individual.

"Ah, fuck— You have that thing you do, right?!"

"This thing—"

"Okay! Stop! Stop! I can only take so much!" then Ilana looked at everyone else, "Can't you guys feel it?!"

I waved her off, "I learned how to direct it to a single person or a smaller area pretty recently."

"Jesus… So, how do I do that?"

"I'd want to say you'd wish you wouldn't have easy access to this but it helped a lot of tis so I couldn't really complain… But yeah, there's a small chance to be able to do this if you've undergone Hell Week or have sothing really traumatic or near-death happen to ya.

At least that's how I got mine but it's not always a 100% drop—in addition, there's also dealing with it on a regular basis like managing your triggers and anger levels."

"Haah~ That's too much… And how does that help exactly? I need specifics."

"If I were to put it into simpler terms, it's sothing you feel."

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"Sothing I feel?"

"Yes. It's the prickling of the hairs on the back of your neck, the sudden drop in temperature, your knees shaking and buckling, or the most obvious one, the straight-up mind-numbing feeling of death staring you right in the eyes rendering you immobile—or just the feeling of ti crawling to a staggering halt."

"I… I haven't felt that when you did it to ."

"It's because I can regulate it, rember? Kaley had grown so tolerance to it with our private sessions but it still hits her like a sack of bricks when I just let it all out."

"You can train it while having sex?"

I chortled, "No, silly. I ant 'private' sessions when we train one-on-one— though we DID use it a few tis while having sex."

Kaley chuckled, "We did do that, really, 10/10 but you gotta put a towel down because it IS still damn scary…"

I turned to Kaley with a knowing smile, "But scary-good, right?"

"Doofus… Of course, it was. Chloe and Cynthia definitely liked it."

Then I turned back to Ilana, "See?"

Ilana just looked at in disbelief, "I swear half the shit you're saying sounds like science fiction or one of those wuxia novels but yeah… feeling it— experiencing it firsthand makes a whole lot of difference so I just try to understand it word by word."