The Law of Slaughter had a center and it had edges.
He had found the center before midnight. The principle itself was not complicated to state: remove whatever stands in the path of forward movement, completely and without leaving it capable of reconstituting the obstacle. That was the core. Every offensive skill in his framework was an expression of it through a different medium. Every defensive skill was maintenance of the capacity to continue expressing it. Every movement technique was positioning in service of the optimal expression angle.
The center was clear.
The edges were where comprehension actually lived.
He found the first edge around the second hour.
