Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*Whips my arms around, shaking the mist off, and clamps down hard on the balls, causing my fists to collapse to the center of the balls so that I now where the anomalies like gloves. I rear back and slam my fist into the aura, cracking the very space it occupies*

@Valiance

*Claps my hands together, causing the mist to completely fill the area around us, making movement slow like a viscous liquid*
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*Manifests next to you, unhindered by the mist, and strikes through your throat, piercing a semi-physical plane with the aid of the mist*

Myriad Reality

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*The effect remains continuous, and as I continue to strain my hands against the anomalies they hold, the effects only grow more intense*

@Valiance

*The mist collects around the anomalies like a thick paste, and attempts to seal in their effects*

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*Manifests behind you, along with blue glyphs that focus energy in their center and bombard you with repeated explosive laser blasts from multiple angles*

@Magnanimity

*My pupils flatten horizontally and quickly snap back to their original shape, now trained on one of the glyphs*
Nice try.
*The orbs again manifest around me and shoot their own beams at the lasers, bursting into more of the mist on contact*

Myriad Reality

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*Presses the distorted space orbs against the aura as they attempt to grab me, keeping them at bay and sending essence-tearing distortions throughout its presence*

@Valiance

*The corrosive wind blows out from damage done to the aura, and the silver light from before starts to fill in the injured sections*

Myriad Reality

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*It seems as though my hands are firmly gripping and squeezing on space itself, which is not compressing in each of my outstretched hands and pulsating intensely*

@Valiance

*Grips your body with the aura and pulls you in half*

Myriad Reality

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*The form morphs easily to the force*
Heheh. You know what I am yet?

@Magnanimity

Soon to be dead.
*Crushes it completely*

Myriad Reality

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*They disperse with no resistance, then re-coalesce into the same form*
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@Magnanimity

*Raises my hand, and the wispy image mirrors my movements, growing the size of its hand and snatching onto and squeezing you*

Myriad Reality

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*A vague humanoid shape formed by blue voxels manifests between you and Roland, getting stabbed and stopping the blow in its place*

@Magnanimity

*The attack breaks into pieces and shreds the voxels*

Myriad Reality

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*Blocks most, but not all, with swift palm motions, then returns my arms to the stuck—straight-out position*

@Valiance

*The next blow sharpens to a pinpoint, aimed at your neck*

Myriad Reality

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*Catches the blow with my forearm and a loud thud, and summons the sword back to my hand, calling it back instantly and slicing through the aura with it, also as if it were physical*

@Valiance

*The mist dismisses itself and reforms periodically as I unleash a barrage of strikes against your body*

Myriad Reality

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*Slides sideways out of its trajectory as well, and thrusts my hands straight out to either side of me*

@Valiance

*A hazy aura manifests itself around me as I kick off the blade and swipe toward you with my hand, as the aura extends outward and strikes you as if it were physical*