Preface

Guard increases a user's defense ability as they parry physical attacks with their weapons, counterattack, and disrupting their target. Aside from defense techniques, Guard also grants its user heightened visual perception related to motion in and out of combat.

Guard features various parrying, counterattacking, and disrupting movesets that can seamlessly integrate into the user's combat style and technique.

Strengths: Melee combat, dueling
Weaknesses: Magic, ranged attack, projectiles

Features

Parry	Parrying allows the user to stop physical attacks from harming them by deflecting, blocking, or locking the target's weapon with their own. Parrying does not work without a weapon.
Counterattack	In tandem with parrying, the user can also to retaliate, capitalizing on the target's mistakes. Counter-attacks also allow the user to take advantage of their heightened defense skills to put themselves in better position for attacking.
Disrupt	The user disrupts or distracts the target with various attacks, preventing them from concentrating on other tasks. These techniques can also interrupt the target's actions.
Visual Perception	This grants the user heightened visual perception. In combat, it can be used to aid the user in defending themselves. Out of combat, it increases their observation of motion.

Progression

Beginner	You can sense attacks, but doesn't have the skill to parry them.
Novice	Your parrying is slow, allowing quite a bit of damage to go through. Going to have to work on that.
Trained	You can fend off attacks and trading a few blows, keeping yourself safe.
Proficient	You can reliably keep yourself safe with proper guard techniques and is slowly practicing more complex skills.
Adept	Guarding yourself is a cakewalk now. You are starting to grasp the more difficult techniques as well and take advantage of it in combat.
Expert	You can use many of the advanced defense techniques now, making you a formidable fighter.
Mastered	Your enemy should be extremely wary of you as they fight or duel you since you can defend against attacks that come your way and perform ripostes that will leave them devastated. Your visual perception is incredible at this point, you understand combat at a much deeper level because of it.