Threads of Fate

Myriad Reality

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*flips my hand around to catch your kick, bring my elbow crushing down into it, and with the same free hand, I fire several blasts of energy into your face while still holding your foot with the other hand*

@souleaterfan320

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*I bear the brunt of the blasts, though one does manage to catch me in the eye, destroying it while narrowly missing the underside of my brain resting mere millimeters above. Screaming, I twist my body at the hip to bring the heel of my free leg crashing into your jaw, giving myself enough time to disengage*

Ugh... n-not bad...

*Panting, I rest a hand on my broken leg just above the knee as it quickly begins to mend and heal, my other hand resting above the hole now standing in place of my eye*

But... whew... it'll take more than that to stop me.

*My leg now fully healed, I assume a combat ready stance*

@ZAVAZggg

Mio: Huh. Yeah he does have potential, that's for sure. But this isn't going to-

*Interrupts her*

It's fine, this's fine. It'll be juuuuuust fine.

Mio: *Puts another candy stick in my mouth and sighs*

Myriad Reality

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*Raises an eyebrow*

Mm. Well, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. You sure picked one hell of a time to arrive, however.

@ZAVAZggg

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Either way... I find you entertaining. As even though you have nothing to offer me, or the amaranthine cause... I quite enjoy battling you. Shall we continue our fight somewhere there aren't civilians nearby? Where we can go all out?

@souleaterfan320

It's really not.

Mio: That just makes you more viable, dude. But a "bad guy" caring about civilians? Really?

You make a sad excuse for a villain, has-been.

Myriad Reality

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It would seem two beings with no reason to be here keep intterupting me. Who are you?

@souleaterfan320

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And then I'd eventually return. So once again you resort to nothing but empty threats.

*Stops to glance over at the newcomers*

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Who might you two be?

@ZAVAZggg

*Points to Sok*

He's the reason, duh. That means there is one. Stop saying stupid things.

Mio: Sup? I'm Mio, this is Wrath. She doesn't like her real name, so... Yeah, just call her that.

And she's G-

*Mio puts a hand over my mouth again*

Mio: Mio.

Myriad Reality

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*it slides me back as i take on the punch's full force*

Hey, you're getting somewhere! Or are you?

*stands up, brushes myself off, then crosses my arms, seemingly unamused with you*

@souleaterfan320

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*Rubs my wrist as I shake my hand*

I'm just testing the waters, that's all.

*Tucks my hands into my pockets as I stride toward you*

Strong or not, you also have limits. I just have to find them.

@ZAVAZggg

Ooooooiiiiii! Wh- *I'm cut off by the appearance of another person who puts their hand over my mouth*

Mio: Calm down, or I'll force-feed you. You catch more animals with sugar than salt.

*I wave my hands around before taking her hand off my mouth and cross my arms*

Whatever.

Myriad Reality

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*Crosses my arms, my gaze not wavering from King*

@ZAVAZggg

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Has-Been? Interesting words from a stranger of no current importance. Mind moving out of the way? Wouldn't want you getting hurt. You're on a battlefield, you know.

@souleaterfan320

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*smirks*

Perhaps you'd be a more interesting fight than I thought.

*with a flick of my finger, a cone of energy superheats the entire area that encompasses the last seen area that you stood*

@souleaterfan320

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*Continues even as my clothes burn and flesh sears, the latter healing quickly once the superheating ends*

You'll need to do better. My body's used to that kind of pressure now.

*Darts in close to hit you once on your jaw with the flat of my fist*

@ZAVAZggg

Oi. Stop ignoring me.

Myriad Reality

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King: It's not about power.
*takes the kick, but I remain unmoving, and you feel as if you'd just kicked solid mineral*

It's what you do with it. Amaranthine isnt a 'get-out-of-jail-free' card. Is simply a means to defy death to continue your growth, the power it gives still has to be learned, and everyone has their own unique way of using it.

@souleaterfan320

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*Lowers my leg and slides my hands into my pockets as I take a step back, the hand I withdrew earlier having regained its rigidity in the interim*

Yet you have no choice but to use it once you have it. You can't even branch out to pursue other potentials, because your whole existence lies within a singular thing.

*Shrugs*

It's not a very enticing prospect. As for defying death, I doubt yours is the only way. Why I myself know that I have walked this world in different incarnations before, though I've yet to unlock the specific memories those lives entail. In that way I already defy death just fine, so again I must ask...

*Pauses, my gaze locking with yours*

Why should I join you? You offer me nothing I cannot reasonably achieve on my own, save for empty promises perhaps.

@ZAVAZggg

*Disappears, reappearing between you two imperceptibly quickly from where I was standing, a wide grin on my face*

And that, there, is the kicker!

*I turn to face King*

Get out of here, has-been. And take your flowers with you.

Myriad Reality

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You cite endless progress, yet once again I must question whether or not what you've done thus far can truly be called such. After all, a person concerned with the advancement of their own potential will not play the tyrant. And of course I refuse still, for your own words betray you!

*My expression changes to something between incredulity and disappointment*

If another will come to me in time or, in the most likely case I myself attain it as a side effect of my journey rather than as the goal you seem to be fixated on, then why would I so much as consider joining you? You spoke of life eternal as though it was hard to come by, but betray yourself in the very next breath by revealing its sheer commonality!

*Sighs and turns to Harlock*

If these are the kinds of people you deal with on a daily basis, then you have my sympathy. Truly their foolishness knows no bounds.

@ZAVAZggg

*Watches from a ways behind you*
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Myriad Reality

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I have no interest in discussing the approach of the organization. I arrived today with a mission to complete at all costs, be that my own life or yours. But I wager that we would both prefer to leave this place alive.

@Source

You're not as smart as you look, huh? Have I been speaking as if either of us wouldn't survive this? I have complete confidence that I can save even you if the conditions for me to enter battle are met.

Myriad Reality

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Your grudge against Tier Five could lead to complete annihilation.

@Source

Your abusive of power already has. As has your underestimating of your enemy, your lack of general information... In fact there's a lot of things that you've shrugged off your shoulders by now.

Myriad Reality

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A supremely hostile combat environment against an opponent with capabilities of an unknown extent.

@Source

That's a much lower priority than keeping information out of the hands of Tier Five.