Melodious

Myriad Reality

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You can’t impose your will onto people! We protect humans so that they can live, so that they can die. So that they can make their choices freely!

@Webmaster

And what liberties are being taken? Tell me.

Myriad Reality

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If that really mattered to you, if it was really something you cared about... you’d also care that we’d rather die. In exchange for death, you’re demanding something worse!

@Webmaster

Is it worse? Do you even know what it is?

Myriad Reality

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That’s a lie. I know it is.

@Webmaster

In my escapades to absorb entire other realities, I’ve encountered many where not a single soul had to die. Yours presents unique variables and obstacles I was not aware of before coming here. Fragility. Obscene will to not submit. Great desire for power. A higher capacity for strength. If I wanted the easy way out, everything would have been over far before now... But I was willing to take the time and measures needed.

Myriad Reality

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*Frowns*
You want to break our will.

@Webmaster

Breaking will to minimize loss of life is a small price. I cannot fathom death on a personal level, but the idea that some beings face it as an inevitability destroys me inside.

Myriad Reality

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Why do you want me to get rid of the viruses?

@Webmaster

Your will to oppose only perpetuates the needless conflict and death. Each of you is an individual obstacle, and while I could just bypass your barrier with ease, that doesn’t solve the problem that is you.

Myriad Reality

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*The blade retracts*
Why?

@Webmaster

My people have no inclination towards killing, but Artahe has spent an eternity living in your reality. He is my aid in your reality, but Existence has corrupted him in my eyes. Anyone you leave with him as opposed to me, will undoubtedly be killed.

Myriad Reality

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*A cybersword extends in place of my hand, jabbing into the crystal, and I wince*
That's your fault!

@Webmaster

*It scrapes off the crystal on impact*
It’s yours. Lethal options were never on the table. Not initially...
*Appears solemn for a moment before re-tensing up and putting even more pressure on*
Drop them.

Myriad Reality

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*Dematerializes the sword and reaches with my other hand*
How?

@Webmaster

*Grabs that hand with my other hand, crushing it just like the other one*
There weren’t supposed to be so many deaths!

Myriad Reality

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Why? With all of your control, why is a handful of my viruses stopping you?
*Juts the sword upward*

@Webmaster

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It’s not about the viruses.
*Removes my camouflage and reveals to be floating very near the both of you*
Is it, Nemid? It’s not even about us.

@GalaxyRaider

*It finds itself stopped by a solid manifestation within my body*
It’s always been about you.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks toward the wall for a moment, and then back to you*
...Area steals, stepsword!
*Materializes next to you after four hops and swings a sword into your torso while also lunging my other hand toward where X aimed for the crystal and grabs onto it with all my might*

@Webmaster

*Ignores the sword, grabbing you by the wrist the moment you lunge and yanking you toward me such that we are nose-to-nose*
The level to which you in this Existence are okay with wasting souls? It almost makes me regret wanting to spare so many of you.
*Crushes your wrist in my hands with exponentially increasing strength*
Lower the barriers.

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*It makes an additional effort to analyze its ability to influence the world around it and attempts to contain it by cutting off its connection to Existence*

@System

*No information on that regard can be obtained as it is not doing anything at the moment besides residing within my head, its state continuing to be absolute and unchanging*