System

Myriad Reality

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*The moment you look away, the tiniest twinkle flashes from each half of my remains for just a moment before detonating, filling the entirety of the temple from this room upward with fire from an explosion so immeasurably hot, that each if the 4 doorways at the top of the ziggurat spurt white flame like a massive four-sided flamethrower for miles around, absolutely incinerating everything and anything it touches*

@Abominations

*Hits the ground, the insulating properties of my blood giving me just enough time to carve away a trench below me with the beam, choosing clouds of lightning over the flames above*

Myriad Reality

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*My body splits in two, and a swarm of wires from both halves splurge out and begin flailing everywhere like tentacles from a living beast*
You do know correctly. And what does that tell you?
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We’re done here.
*The flailing wires fall to the floor suddenly, unmoving, along with the rest of me*

@Abominations

*Instinctually attempts to warp the remnants to a lab, which fails without a known destination, and I turn my attention to Akora and Garsun instead*

Myriad Reality

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*The slash puts pressure on my abdomen for a brief moment, during which time seems to slow before nearly severing my body in two, but not quite managing to cleanly cut all the way through. I grab your arm as though the damage does not bother me at all and, as the pink cloud from the most recent structural damage surrounds us, unleash yet another continuous surge of pseudo-electrical blasts through your body*

@Abominations

I know you have more tricks than that, Omega!
*The beam arc reorients itself to form a basic exoskeleton around my right arm and right leg, concentrated around my fist; I use the support structure to launch myself upward through the cloud and then back down into you, colliding with your sternum and following through the strike until my fist reaches the ground*

Myriad Reality

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*Plants my hands in front of me, pressing against an invisible wall almost like a mime, putting a barrier between us that only appears and glows red on contact*

@Abominations

*Hypersteps to the barrier and cleaves it with the beam in a clean swipe of my wrist*

Myriad Reality

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*The more damage the structure sustains, the more misty pink plasma leaks into the air, which maneuvers itself to wherever you stand almost as though by sentient guidance*

@Abominations

*After completing the ritual, all of my memories stored within my soul of my labs, their purpose, and their contents are converted into pure spell energy; I withdraw my hand, within which now rests a bluish white beam half my height and curved in an arc*
We'll finish this now!
*Glides my arm across the width of my body, starting from the left, unleashing a wave of devastating slicing power*

Myriad Reality

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*The beam stops and I glance towards the open exit for a moment, as though seeing something that isn’t there*

@Abominations

*The bots drill another rune deep into the wall of the tunnel, but this time a shallow, razor-sharp obsidian stone juts from the surface*
...
*Shoves my palm directly onto the stone and utters a measure of an indecipherable ancient language; the blood immediately hardening into a dry, oily substance that binds me to the wall, now beginning to crumble away*

Myriad Reality

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*A vision of me presents itself to you, along with an overwhelming swath of information flooding in, most of it indecipherable junk*
Convenient… Careful of the consequences for digging too deep.
*Impossible quantities of malicious junk data are pumped into you, as the physical body in the room pries you off his face and blasts you in the face with an atomizing red beam*

@Nemeses

*The beam burns away at the flesh above, and slows down as it reaches the pulsing blood beneath, which absorbs more energy before itself disintegrating*
Akora, Omega!
*Slams my forehead into yours, and then kicks off against your chest, shoving you backwards while at the same time flinging another handful of microbots at the wall*

Myriad Reality

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*The disk, upon attempt at integration, is flooded with random data from an artificial consciousness that fights back against it. I reach back and grab the disc with my hand, tearing it from where it conjoined, shattering it in my hand and vaporizing it like the rubble before*

@Abominations

How convenient!
*Hypersteps through the space between us and claws into the front of your mask, projecting my own digital soul into the consciousness*

Myriad Reality

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*My mask visor gleams as I shift my gaze down to you*
You’d better hope the real you isn’t so easy.

@Abominations

...You ought to hope he is.
*The now-boomeranged disk slams into the back of your head and latches onto your helmet, activating its internal magic power source, which crumbles metals it contacts and integrates them into itself; I lurch away from your line of sight at the same time*