Chapter 390 - Chapter 45: One Day of Creation 2

Sword Intent opened first. Ash reached into the will of severance—the pure desire to divide what was whole—and followed it past the limit of Intent. For a brief, crystalline moment he felt the higher form waiting above it—the complete Law of the Sword. The Law did not simply cut. It defined the concept of division itself. Under that law, various principles developed from it: the concentration of force along an infinitely thin plane, the overcoming of molecular and atomic bonds, the precise application of shear stress that exceeded a material's tensile strength, and the fundamental permission for one object to become two. In that instant the Intent transformed. The percentage climbed to one hundred, then continued as the first fragile percentage of true Sword Law settled into his soul like a cold, perfect edge.