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The heart of the abyss crackled and heaved under the weight of constant pressure by the small army of Nephunas around it. Akiko would intervene by using the data to create a shield around the heart to protect it from attack, stalling the apparitions for the moment. 

Kanbaru as well was manipulating the code of the Tower with the aid of the JSTR. Using it to dismantle the thousands of spears sent her way. Nephuna's main avatar was mixed on this. Nephy showing annoyance and Runa more bemused.

[color=0072bc]"You are not the only one that can play this game."[/color] Stabbing her sword into the deteriorating levelscape, Runa's glitchy nature would interact and corrupt with the larger system. Her code was not so much rewriting but distorting and disfiguring the system to make it unresponsive and volatile just as Runa was herself.  Every Runa is Runa and a copy, but always stuck in a dissonant existence, a flickering paradox stretched across space and time and which held no clear consistency, yet she persisted. The objects bound to her in code, even though were rewritten for Kanbaru to have control over, did not lose the main attributes of theirs - their inconsistency, and without its holding will similarly spread over time and space with no weight to hold down, the spears in Kanbaru's hands started to resist and attempting to slip away from the grasp of her fingers. A float of time would leak out of its vessel of direction of space; a flickering shape of each spear distorting in Kanbaru's hold and going awry and attacking in random directions or simply exploding out corrupted data. The spears become glitchy and distorted, flickering just as Runa did.

Nephuna herself standing amidst all the chaos, motionless and calm still, only executed another data manipulation: controlling the data banks of the Abyss - and herself for that matter - sliding through the bits of data with an erosion of entrhopy and throwing bits of the Abyss data itself into the void of mismatched numbers. She started to look for the connection nodes and sever them one after another, feeding on the final bits of the data taken and stolen from the Tower's main data array - using them as empty cells to fill with duped duplicates of the copies to further manifest herself around the space. After feeding enough on this re-written data, she started to separate the connection nodes one after another, slipping into each one of their protocols and simply overloading them with the assault of dummy data, until they were overfilled and open for the attack.  Runa seized this chance to separate the Abyss from the Tower, isolating it in the emptiness. 

Thomas too, did not hesitate to attack - his shape and form driven by the possessive spirit rushed and dashed through the guarding assemble of Nephunas, aiming to reach the one standing in the center, coming in shadow shapes and forms, twisting away from being seen and directing his glaive at Nephuna's neck once getting close enough. The sharp edge of the weapon moved in perfect trajectory and would've reached its target if not for the sudden - and previously unseen obstacle forming in its way, successfully deflecting Thomas's strike. He'd discover what blocked his attack very soon. 

As Nephy tore into herself, the memories that held her hollow being together were released from her vessel. They would take form and shape as Nephy remembered them, memories turning into pale imitations of flesh. The large armored warrior wore many layers of iron armor in the samurai design, brandishing a large naginata that was as thick and large as a tree trunk. The mammoth being towered over Thomas and swatted him down like he was a fly.  It is Nephy's father, restorted to life through the digital realm merging with Nephy's mind and who had stopped Thomas's original attack. His faceless specter is able to tank Thomas's golden eye powered attacks and able to dish punishment and swiftly too with fast strikes that leave deep impacts into the remaining earth below.

A throng of black arrows would impact Marianne before she could perform her attack. She is forced back as another faceless wolf avatar emerged, clad in a priestess's garment. The wolf would fire an endless volley of arrows, multiples at once and from many directions at her target. Each tip of every arrow was shaped out of the sharpened reflection or the real - even with the reality falling apart and glitching out, its image in a reflection still served a deadly material for a deadly weapon, capable of piercing through anything and anyone. It was capable to pierce through the appearance of the real itself, and the barrage of the arrows would come as a terror rain. Jumping high into the air with great strength in her legs she is able to attack from above as much as below and move rapidly to find new angles to fire from. Her black bolts siphon the life from its victim, corrupting and drawing from the same necromantic energies that Nephy often used herself. 

[color=0072bc]"My mother and father, back here to be with me again. It fills me with such passion...I could almost cry."[/color]

Nephuna took a moment to compose herself, wiping her eyes. [color=0072bc]"I will honor them with your deaths. A more worthy fate than any of you deserve."[/color], she said before turning away from the display of power Nephy's ancestors brought to be looked at and faced Katie now. A floating pieces of broken electonics, speakers and player both ruined by the impact of Katie's attack flew around the flickering shape of the Abyss - and yet it did not stop the music from playing: the data file of the song itself was taken away from the storages of the Tower and fused into one of the stable nodes of the Abyss under the control of Nephuna. The song kept on playing as if nothing happened per se, and will play on until the floor is still here. 

[color=0072bc]"You do really tend to speak from the position of your insignificance and incompetence."[/color], Nephuna replied to Katie seeing one of the copies sent flying away into the digital mess, which completely consumed the space past the edge of the single left block of the ground on which the fight was taking place, [color=0072bc]"Implying that your words are in the position across to influence anything or anyone to bend to your whims."[/color] The fusion was not amused at Katie's words either only holding the all familiar traited smirk of Runa's on the lips before her hand rose up and she summoned another spear - but that one held no resemblance to the spear Runa had before and which Kanbaru tried to override. This one was something new, a flickering shape of the handle was crowned with the blade of pure seeping darkness, a shape of which was all too familiar with the blade of Nekuromata. A weapon, which was merged from the data of both, fused and stored and now summoned - summoned to be thrown directly at Katie. 

Evaded or not - upon landing the spear was to inject itself into the ground itself and push the twitching darkness to run through it and the shape of dark to emerge was to take a form of a emerging and further collapsing sphere, sphere which would open a gravity well to pull in everything which was to come in the area of its effect - to pull in and grind in the massive gravity well of a black hole which was taking into itself not only projectiles. objects or living beings, but also the data and information it held itself. 

With that done, Nephuna'd clutch tightly to her precious Nekuromata and begin to channel her power. A large rim of energy began to emit from her and cover up an increasing portion of the battlefield. This shield would expand as she charged her blade to a bright glowing azure light that crackled and sparked with explosive energy just waiting to be unleashed. Nephuna crouched low and turned her body sideways, humming to herself as she felt incredible force flowing through her veins and pumping her with fiery passion.

[b][color=0072bc]"You will all. Die. Here."[/color][/b]

Once this attack was unleashed onto the Heart, the floor would be destroyed.