Practice is necessary.

Practicing how to fight while injured is reinforcing failure rather than seeking perfection.

Additional tactical options become available when structural trades are viable.

I know, that was... either a joke, or a sincere philosophy.

Who are you telling the joke to? We are the only one here.

Did you know there are two paths to perfection?

If you know it, I know it. We are one.

One path to perfection is... numeric. To be stronger through raw power. To turn up your numbers and turn down everyone else's numbers. A scientific, mathematical sort of perfection where you become a granite mountain, invincible and eternal.

Correct. Perfection is about gaining an advantage and preserving it. 

The other path to perfection is to become the ocean, and grind down the mountain with ten trillion waves.

The timeframe renders it nonviable. The mountain just needs to outlast, wait for the ocean to make a mistake -

But the ocean never makes a mistake. The mountain has no counterattack. Though it might take ten trillion waves the mountain diminishes but the ocean never does. Numeric verses infinite.

The Kathresis fought like that. To try and use stealth and subtlety, we saturated its defenses -

I'm not talking about the Kathresis. The Kathresis was a thing of Tactics, and Tactics are no path to perfection. Tactics are about... stealing wins, finding the gaps that make the strong weak and the weak strong. Perfection is a mountain; the greatest there is. Perfection is an ocean; on the correct end of the only binary that matters.

And which are you?

Heh. You chose poorly, Aeteline. I've only ever been Tactics. And I'll never be perfect.

The perfection described is theoretical. United we have surpassed every opponent. Together or alone, all the Huntresses of Hybrasil have fallen before us - and they will again. We will accomplish that through fundamentals. We will practice.