Nemeses

Myriad Reality

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*The blast send me spinning backward directly into a newly-spawned platform, where I land cleanly with my knees bent*
At least our grandstanding had purpose.
*With a thunderous boom and enough renewed velocity to shatter the platform behind me, launches forward to close the distance between us, jutting my knife directly into your neck and firing my pistol into your abdomen*

@Nimda

*Stuffs the palm of my hand over the barrel of your gun, stopping the bullet in its tracks as smoke flows from the barrel under my hand, while the knife itself is caught short of landing by a ring of energy solid enough to catch it where the blade meets the handle, stopping it in its tracks*
What purpose? A nice quote for your epitaph?
*My palm glows and then releases a burst of light outward, launching a shard through your gun itself and blasting through it and your abdomen like a shard of shrapnel*

Myriad Reality

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*Holds both of my hands out toward the chunks of rock barreling toward me and as they draw near, one crack forms, and then another, before finally the remains of the asteroid crash into celestial rubble, filling up the area*
Enough of the grandstanding, both of you. We have a job to do, and we're going to finish that job.
*Magic circles form in sequence above me, and I rocket into the air, ping-ponging between unpredictable points in space as I spiral toward where you stand*

@Nimda

*Stands still amidst the chaos, unharmed and seemingly unperturbed*
It's a job to you, and a point to me. I'll do the grandstanding, and you two can do the failing.
*Flashes a smirk and a glance directly at your current position as I finish my statement, and an invisible pulse creates a shockwave through your position and blasts you out of your current trajectory*

Myriad Reality

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*With my middle finger and thumb pressed together, arcs my arm over my head and lands the gesture with my index finger pointed at you*
There's a soul behind every job we take. Someone who feeds us in their cry for help. You're behind all of this suffering, and you have the gall to lecture us?
*Snaps with the same hand pointed at you, opening up a magic circle that fills the width of the entire space, from which an asteroid hurdles into all of us and extends beyond the bounds of the arena*

@Session

So eager to repeat how someone else is to blame for all the problems you’ve caused.
*Brings one leg back before jetting forward directly into the asteroid, emerging in a beam of light and an explosion on the other side with a scowl*
If you’re worried about how well you’ll sleep tonight in the face if your guilt, I can assure you that you won’t have to worry about that ever again.

Myriad Reality

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*With a hearty laugh, places my hand against the sheer luminosity of the gate spell's boundaries, piercing its border by a hair*
I love that! I have to warn you though: the longer you push us, the more dangerous we get.
*Millions of points twinkle across the space, and I flash briefly with several different flavors of auras*

@Session

You're already dead. This is simply an exercise in how much you want others to suffer for your paycheck.

Myriad Reality

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*Holds my hands forward, palms up and utters something in a guttural, ancient language, clearly putting more care into this act than the earlier spell*
You seem like the type to want to fight opponents at their best, huh?

@Session

No. But annihilating you while you're useless won't send the proper message.

Myriad Reality

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*Summersaults backwards with the momentum of the punch and lands on a freshly-spawned platform with my arms outstretched and begin chanting*
Magic of ground, hear my plea: refine this body and forge it anew. Your child born of dust and born once more from deep below, reinforce this weak, pathetic, disgusting, broken, ugly—good enough, you get the point!
*Brown bands of magic zip across my body and sink deeply into my flesh*

@Session

*Folds my arms behind my back and watches*

Myriad Reality

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*Swings my leg around to kick you in the neck with new, enhanced weight behind it*
I’m ready to burn all the magic of that’s what it takes.

@Session

*Ducks down under your leg and moves into you in the same motion, planting my fist into your gut so hard that the sound of its connection echoes across the landscape*
Do it now. It might actually hurt a little bit.

Myriad Reality

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You know, we really need the money.
*Through the same space warping effect, the metal stage slams flat onto your front and back, its width now separating us*

@Session

*The metal begins to peel outward as I explode from the other side of it immediately, moving with such swiftness that I stop mere millimeters from your face in the same instant, staring you down entirely expressionless*

Myriad Reality

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I don’t take it there’s some chance you’ll let us talk to her?

@Session

*Maintains my glare*
You know the answer.

Myriad Reality

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Sounds like we’re gonna have a problem either way, huh?
*Takes the moment of conversation to look at you closely through spirit eyes, evaluating your capabilities and attributes as much as is visible*

@Session

*Beyond an enhanced physical prowess to incredible superhuman levels, it’s clear I also just possess a natural disposition toward energy manipulation, but beyond that there exists a means by which I know absolutely everything about certain people’s thoughts and actions with an uncertain cause. I stand entirely still as you do, staring back with an icy gaze*
Up to you.