Artifact

Myriad Reality

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I tend to see time as branches mentally. Strands that can be manipulated.

@souleaterfan320

You may best align with the disciples of the tree, then. Or perhaps the weave.

Myriad Reality

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I see... for reverence... when I traveled through time, it would appear as a constant flow of light and shattered shards of glass. Those shards... acted like portals. Windows of time that I could look through. But there were also times where my powers displaced me without me attempting to use them. Im sorry if you've ever had to clean up after me..

@souleaterfan320

That's not a concern right now. Right now, you need to bind yourself to one of those disciplines. To me, time is a boundless desert.
*Waves my hand, swirling the sands around my arm*
The sands are aimless, directionless, and will swallow you up to be forgotten. The water freaks prefer to look at time's forward movement and seeming inevitability, with many tributaries and vortices. There are many other disciplines as well. Once you've adopted one, you can tap into many of time's deeper essences.

Myriad Reality

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Lets-

*grits my teeth in pain for a second*

Begin.

@souleaterfan320

Let's.
*Cracks my knuckles*
Time is an abstract structure, the nature of which we can only hope to grasp. Thus, we visualize time by nature of analogy. Of similitude. It's an imperfect way of looking at that which we serve.

Myriad Reality

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*winces, grititng my teeth a bit*

Ill take... this... over death. Any time.

@souleaterfan320

I hope for your sake you don't earn both. You won't die, at least not yet. But you won't make it out of this desert without learning the basics of a discipline.

Myriad Reality

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Dane: Do.. what you must.

@souleaterfan320

Very well.
*The sandy winds seem to pick up in intensity until the particulates feel as if they're cutting against our skin, while the battlefield slows down at the same rate that it becomes obscured from our vision*
This won't be pleasant.
*Your bleeding slows as well, but the pain remains*

Myriad Reality

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Displine.. of time...

*raises my hand, and you see a silver-like clock image with golden traces summon forth from my palm*

I'm....less than.. sufficient... but I can.. make it work.

@souleaterfan320

A higher-level branch. That's going to be hard to work with.
*Stares at you with a grimace, visibly contemplating for a brief moment that seems to span for quite some time*
Are you prepared to suffer great pain to live?

Myriad Reality

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Got... any.. ideas?

*coughs up a bit of blood*

@souleaterfan320

*Runs three fingers through the wet sand, muddied by blood*
How attuned are you to any discipline of time?

Myriad Reality

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Dane: *coughs up a bit of blood, looking over to you*

I'm.. alive... for now.

*I appear to be in rough shape, the hole in my stomach seems to be bleeding profusely, and I look pale*

@souleaterfan320

*Looks down at the wound and then at the clammy skin of your face*
You don't want to die here. Trust me.

Myriad Reality

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Apex: *chuckles* Excellent pun, Time Line. You shpuld probably go check on your friend, though. As they say, I'll 'buy you some time'.

Aeron: *the hit collides with me, causing all the air in my chest to exhale quickly uppn impact, as the hit sends me carrening into a nearby stone, cracking it in two*

*dusts myself off, and stretches, looking over to you*

Huh. Not bad for a tier five. You must be one of their powerhouses. If it's a game of attrition you want...

*my image flickers, as I flash toward Apex, sending a crushing blow from my amaranthine covered fist into his stomach, sending him into the air*

then it's one you'll get.

*he darts after apex*

*somewhere near you, you hear a wet, struggled cough*

@souleaterfan320

*Kneels down and brushes the dust off of Dane*
Hey! Are you still alive down there?

Myriad Reality

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Indeed it is. Please attend to your friend over there, first. I'll keep this vile monster busy.

Aeron: *a flash of energy attempts to cut off Apex's hand, which works, but it grows back, as the disembodied hand grips tightly like a vice grip*

Apex: Kaboom.

*the hand explodes violently like a payload of multiple warheads, which would normally cause catastrophic damage, but Aeron stands in one piece, unmoved*

Aeron: seriously? your name is Apex and the best you can do is explode your disembodied limbs?

Apex: a villain like you need not know how I dispense justice, just that I will do so swiftly. Should you cooperate, you will feel no pain, and your sentence will be served. If you resist... it would only be painful.

Aeron: sentence? You some kind of judge? What is the punishment?

Apex: death.

*clasps my hands together, as an orange bolt of energy appears, and as I wield it like a sword, but instead of swinging it down towards aeron, I flick it like a whip, and it extends, the end of it acting like a bladed flail*

@souleaterfan320

*Accelerates the bolt through the desert such that it strikes Aeron instantaneously from his perspective*
About time someone took out this trash.