Melodious

Myriad Reality

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*A yellow weather balloon with eyes materializes in front of me and absorbs the lightning and redirects it downward*

@Webmaster

*With nowhere to nullify due to the effect the barriers keeping the arena airtight has, the lightning then spreads all across the floor and to everyone in it as well*

Myriad Reality

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*Shakes my head and gives a halfhearted thumbs-up*

@Webmaster

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*Looks at you and Kat for just a brief moment, furrowing my brow when I realize why you, specifically, are here*

@Galaxy Raider

*Rolls to my feet and lands squatting sideways on the wall instead of hitting it*
You would be inclined to think that outnumbering me puts me at a disadvantage, but all it really means is that I get to attack more.
*Thrusts both hands upwards toward everyone in the room, black lightning crackling loudly as it spreads everywhere*

Myriad Reality

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*Moves so quickly in tandem with Nemid that we seem to teleport to the other end of the room*

@Galaxy Raider

*Goes to hit you in the face while you're on the wall*

Myriad Reality

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*Grits my teeth*
If you’re tainted by your own ideals, how can you force them onto us? I might be artificial, but even my viruses understand what it means to be alive more than you!

@Webmaster

*Lets you go*
There are a couple more things that must be done. Artahe... I know it’s worthless to ask, but do be gentle.
*Jets off into the void of space faster than detectable, the usual traces of my presence being masked as my whereabouts quickly become lost*

Myriad Reality

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*Stares at you with the swirling mix of emotions before it settles into anger behind my eyes*
I won’t. Release. The viruses. And if you delete me, there will be ten thousand more to take my place. And ten thousand more behind them.

@Webmaster

*My shoulders slump slightly*
Your opposition saddens me the most. I cannot save artificial beings the same way I can natural ones... I understand your emotional motivators, and I still will not fall to desire to kill.
*Looks over to Isaac*
Not again.

Myriad Reality

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If there wasn’t a catch, you wouldn’t have to force it on us!

@Webmaster

The catch isn’t for you. The catch is for me. I need Existence specifically, but the opposition comes from the same place as yours. False assumptions.

Myriad Reality

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*My face cringes in an unplaceable mix of emotions*
Death is so much better than a fake life!

@Webmaster

It isn’t even fake. These are all false pretenses you've invented because you believe whatever I would want for the world has some sort of catch.

Myriad Reality

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But that’s not the point! Death is better than... than this!

@Webmaster

Better than living a life entirely unchanged from the one you know?

Myriad Reality

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Delegating their death to someone else is still murder, whether you wanted to or not! But all of us are willing to die here for this, and that’s what proves that you’re a liar!

@Webmaster

And here you still greatly misunderstand... Despite Artahe’s tendency to prefer killing as a tool to solve problems, there are reasons we still work together. Not one absorbed world is gone. Not one honorable fighter is dead. This is the power I truly wield.

Myriad Reality

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You’ve already destroyed the freedom to live for too many of us! If they would give up everything to save others from your control, why doesn’t that matter to you? You don’t value what we value or love what we love!

@Webmaster

Not a soul I have touched has died. No matter what you see or believe.
*Tilts my head sideways just a tad*
Here we are, at what amounts to be what you would probably call your final push against me, but how much do you really know?