Infinite Sword Style

A unique sword fighting style used by Hayate Hozuki, a member of the seven swordsmen of the mist. This particular fighting style involves using many blades as possible, by scattering them around the battle field; this gives the practitioner an advantage and allows them to overwhelm their opponents with a large number of swords. While using the art of infinite sword style, Hayate rather than relying on a single good quality blade, makes use of the thousand blades that are scattered across the battlefield. Hayate does not particularly care about the quality of blades, as long as they serve their purpose. While using this style, Hayate uses a variety of moves and makes use of either a single blade or multiple blades at the same time. His quick reflexes and incredible speed allows him to further use his techniques.

Because there are almost over a thousand blades scattered across the battlefield, Hayate always has a blade, or multiple blades on hand ready for use. Due to the flexibility of the sword style, Hayate can use the blades for various purposes beyond the conventional melee attacking, including use as projectiles, defences, paths to walk on, increasing speed, pins to hinder the opponent’s movements, and also to attack the enemy multiple times simultaneously.

According to Hayate, using this type of sword style is not as easy as it sounds, as one much have a natural gift for the arts of swordsmanship, including a better understanding of the various swords styles that exists. Hayate developed the sword style by carefully observing other swordsman masters and their fighting style, later incorporating some aspects of their sword styles into the infinite sword style. He has also stated that the user of this style must possess quick reflexes and incredible speed, in order to use the style. Many of his peers and clansmen find the infinite sword style rather unorthodox, but due to Hayate’s unpredictable and odd nature, this type of fighting style rather suits him perfectly.

Before a battle begins, Hayate uses the Summoning Technique: Thousand Blades, to summon the numerous swords into the battlefield. The swords are scattered across the battlefield in nearly every spot one can see. While using the infinite sword style, Hayate can use four swords, three swords, two swords, and one sword style techniques.