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Myriad Reality

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*to myself*
Skill abilities huh? I wonder how I can acquire those, and how much are they connected to magic.
*the barrier cracks and the creature rattles again, shooting the strings at the copies of you, wrapping around their limbs and joints*

@Path

*They evaporate into puffs of smoke and flow into the other copies, strengthening them*

Myriad Reality

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*a hexagonal magic barrier materializes in between you and the creature*

@Path

*Uses a spell to create duplicates of myself out of shadow, all of which wail on the barrier, activating my Siege skill and amplifying our collective strength*

Myriad Reality

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That won’t do.
*shortly after I speak the creature shifts to a wall with blinding speed*

@Path

*Hits the ground, but preserves my momentum in a flash of light before rocketing toward the crab, faster than before*

Myriad Reality

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*yells*
Cause it’s a Puppeteer Beetle!
*it clasps a pair of hands together and two other hands stab into the ceiling, magic string shoot out of spell circles towards you from the ceiling*

@Path

*Forms purple magic circles that increase the gravity around me several times over, and I catapult into the crab*

Myriad Reality

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*A thin, branch-like hand swipes the arena and when the beams hit the hand small flashes emit as the spells are blocked and the rattle gets louder when some hit the entity*
Hmmm…
*it slowly reveals itself to be a spider-crab hybrid like creature that has many hands with two smaller hands spinning string*
Y’know? Despite its looks, it’s most closely related to beetles!
*the larger hands move, making signs and spell circles form with pinging sounds and spike shoot out from them*

@Path

How would you even know that?
*Casts a Lesser Gate spell to warp above the creature*

Myriad Reality

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*the armor drops and you hear a metallic rattling as the rest of the walls is quickly absorbed by me and the color of the room changes from a water textured rainbow of colors to red and a massive figure is slowly revealed above us*

@Path

Alright... found the room boss.
*The array of beams retargets and aim at a single point on the figure*

Myriad Reality

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*you notice that magical strings snap from your attack with a echoing pop and get scattered when impacting the walls*

@Path

*They fracture into another five spells each*
Lily and I worked on this technique together.
*Each of those five split into another five, creating strands of concentrated magic beams that raze the arena*

Myriad Reality

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I have a feeling she’d be really in a disadvantage here, you’ll see.
*in a wave of energy the the mana of the room begin to flow into me and is passed into you*
Go crazy.

@Path

I doubt that, but—
*The circles populate with a basic beam spell*
Let's try this.
*Fires several arcs of magical energy at the walls of the arena*

Myriad Reality

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She never asked.
*places my hand on your back*

@Path

She'd also be better here.
*Preps spells by summoning generic magic circles at my fingertips*

Myriad Reality

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You seem like you’d be fine but I will remind you to keep your mind in line. What I will do tends to make those who are not used to receiving such amount of mana go crazy and they make mistakes. I will only be a conduit for you.
*touches the wall and my body’s veins and eyes glow*
You ready? Cause this creature will be a tough to kill.

@Path

I expect as much.
*Looks back*
Lily's going to hate you for not doing this for her.