Short Blade Blood Arts

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Windslash formation / 風斬りの陣
Add slicing Oracle blade after each attacks. Rank II add one more Oracle blade, forming a X slashing.



Blood Splattering Dance / 血煙乱舞
After the 4th attack, your character start swinging the blade in a X motion and it does not consume any Stamina at all. During the BA, your character can't move but you can change the direction that your character facing. It can be cancelled to Advance Step, Jump, Rising Edge or devour.



Piercing Ray / ピアシングレイ
Add a Oracle blade that can hit further than the blade. On rank III, this BA hit twice (the blade and the oracle).



Phantom Nail / ファントムネイル
Change the 5th attack to a lunging attack (2 Steps) after a small charging.



Killer Bee Stab / キラービースタッブ
Make the 5th attack to do a small backstep and lunge foward (same distance as the backstep). On rank III, this does hit three times.



Hell Spiral / 地獄の螺旋
Changes the 5th hit of the default Triangle combo into an attack which makes your character do a slight backward step, then do a forward drilling attack (keep tapping Triangle to maintain the drill) on the spot. The special thing about this BA that it can only be activated when your HP is 40% and below, and consumes 5 HP per attack. Your HP will not drop below 1 while drilling, and if your allies heal you to above 40% HP, the attack still continue. This BA also does not recover any OP. You can change the direction of the attack slightly. Use status effect like 'Hold' on the Aragami, or skills like 'Survival Instinct' to increase damage since your life is so low anyway.

Raider Stab / レイダースタッブ
Have the same movement as Killer Bee Stab but recovers HP upon hit. It also work on Aragami corpses.





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Step Attack
Adds a shockwave to your Step Attacks, both Square and Triangle. Step Square attacks will result in a 3/4 way shockwave, while Step Triangle Attacks will create a tall shockwave in the direction of the attack. The shockwaves will travel for about one step distance. The shockwaves itself does quite a bit of damage. Although it's not stated in-game, the shockwave will nullify some Aragami oracle attacks, and can go through Aragami.
 * Gale Slash 【烈風刃】

Air Square Attack
Changes the 3rd hit of the default Air Square Attack into a horizontal slash which pushes the player back. Rank II/III/IV onwards will create 2/3/4 oracle blades to deal more damage. Can be cancelled into Aerial Step, double jump and Triangle attacks.
 * Flying Lotus 【フライングロータス】

On the 3rd hit of your Air Square attack, if the 3rd attack hits, this BA will start, which makes the player teleport around the target to do extra slashes. Not accurate to aim for specific part. This BA is good because as long as the player does not get knocked out of the air nor miss, the player will keep teleporting to the target even if the target runs. Does 3/5/10/10 slashes on Rank I/II/III/IV. At the Rank IV, The slashes comes in different colours: 1~3 Light Blue, 4~5 Yellow, 6~10 Red. The later slashes do more damage. The red slash ignore target defence. On Rank IV, if the attack is a critical there will be a special flash, but it is unknown exactly what it does. Can be cancelled into double jump or Aerial Step or guard. The timing for Aerial Step is rather strict, but allows you to repeat the BA. The attack is discriminate and only targets the first struck enemy even if it was downed during the attack.
 * Dancing Zapper 【ダンシングザッパー】

Air Triangle Attack 1
Creates oracle blades while using Air Triangle Attacks. Creates 2/3/4 blades on Rank II/III/IV.
 * Spiral Meteor 【スパイラルメテオ】

Changes Air Triangle to have a charging animation before dashing down diagonally as per normal. Does extra damage when you land a critical strike with this BA. Due to the inability to change directions when activated, it may be difficult to hit the weak point for a critical strike.
 * Astral Dive 【アストラルダイヴ】

Changes the Air Triangle Attack to make the player flip back into the air after landing a successful Air Triangle Attack. Successful Air Triangle Attack will also create a oracle explosion. Consumes 10/10/7/7 stamina upon successful hits. Essentially it is possible to spam this move on the target provided it doesn't move around, or the part you're hitting has nothing below it. The backflip from this BA will position you slightly off center if the angle of entry is a bit off, so take care when trying to chain spam this BA. Can be cancelled into Advanced Step upon landing on the floor, so chain it into a Rising Edge to repeat the combo.
 * Kirin Canter 【麒麟駆け】

Air Triangle Attack 2
Changes Air Triangle Attack to have a small charging and jumping animation (in air), then slams down for a small area damage. Position of the drop can be adjusted slightly during the animation.
 * God Embroidery 【神縫い】

Changes Air Triangle Attack to become a somersault slash. Consumes 5/5/3/3 stamina per hit, can be used repeatedly. Using this BA after the 2nd hit of the Air Square combo will allow you to maintain enough height to use this BA continuously.
 * Dragonfly 【ドラゴンフライ】

Rising Edge
Creates oracle blades when using Rising Edge. Oracle blade hit 3 times from Rank III onwards.
 * Rising Fang 【ライジングファング】

Rising Edge action now charges for a short moment before becoming a powered-up version of the normal Rising Edge. Oracle blades hit 3 times from Rank III onwards.
 * Fatal Riser 【フェイタルライザー】

Allows a second use of Rising Edge. Combo can be done in this way : Rising Edge -> Aerial Step / Air Square attack -> Second Rise. Great way to damage and break parts out of reach. However when Second Rise is done, it cannot be cancelled into anything else so there is a huge window of vulnerability, so be careful when using.
 * Second Sunrise 【セカンドサンライズ】

Blood Arts demonstration


Thank you Kaizeth for uploading the video!