Artifact

Myriad Reality

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That only makes sense. Doing things in a different order now because of time constraints, then.

@Valiance

Exactly. This should be the only soul we really need to crush that thing once and for all.

Myriad Reality

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We’ll see when we get there, I guess. How’d you manage to do it the first time?

@Valiance

*Straightens my posture*
I engaged one of them in combat and won. Although I was much more equipped than I am now.

Myriad Reality

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It's an afterlife?

@Valiance

*Shrugs*
You're past my expertise now. I didn't see anything dead when I was there last, but I also didn't stick around.
*Clears my throat*
Rather, I had no further business there after acquiring the dragon soul.

Myriad Reality

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I wouldn't mind dropping the hammer down on a specific individual that warranted it. But what's special about the location?

@Valiance

These are angels, so it's more of a collective consciousness or robot than it is any specific creature.

Myriad Reality

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With living hosts, I imagine.

@Valiance

I know you have some kind of opposition to killing most of these things, which is why this location is so convenient.

Myriad Reality

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Did it go back?

@Valiance

No, but there are plenty more of its kind.

Myriad Reality

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I’m not opposed, if this is a move that’s planned out enough that we’re confident we’re solving the problem instead of accelerating the timer.

@Valiance

*Points to a region filled with golden light and marble pillars encrusted with red gems*
That's why we're visiting this land first. My second strongest dragon soul came from here.

Myriad Reality

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Relating to the thing we had a look at before, I assume?

@Valiance

*Nods*
We have to kill it. It'll cause untold destruction if we don't.

Myriad Reality

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*Glances down at it*
I guess we are. What am I looking at, here?

@Valiance

During our first—
*Coughs*
—encounter, I had spent decades working my way to where I was. I'm afraid I may not have that kind of time again, so this is our shortcut.

Myriad Reality

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I like to think that I’d be in a very different place in life if anything I’ve done was a fluke.

@Valiance

Then we can put that to the test.
*Sprawls a map out on the table, decorated with landscapes and biospheres, some adjacent and others separated by voids of varying lengths*