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Aeron:
*several tendrils of Amaranthine form through the surface of my skin, and they shoot into your veins on your arm, pumping you with corruptive Amaranthine, trying to convert your very being into Amaranthine*
First wouldnt give you the option to change. You all are united under a false king's banner. Worry not, Existence will be in good hands after your kind are gone. Also, just out of curiousity... do you own this Territory? The Tier Five usually dont put out much effort like this, even for friends. And I know you weren't close to shinji. None of you were, except maybe Techi. She's the only one who would fight for him. He couldn't rely on the rest of you. Why is he of intrerest to you?

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*Several more runes activate, redirecting the amaranthine away from my body*
...
*Opens my mouth, revealing a blood-red rune that glows with a terrible power; the rune surrounds us with the same crimson light, locking everything in place*
I made a promise.
*Spits blood out of my mouth as I fling the paint from my palette into the light, imbuing it with a purple hue that allows it to eerily mimic the amaranthine*

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Aeron:

*grins*

Typical Tier Five. Promises. Who was the promise to? And wil lyou follow through?
*watches you move*

Incredible. Using your own blood for paint. Quite resourceful..

*my own aura shifts to a much mor violent one, matching yours*

Let's see what you've got, Painting Dye.

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Where are you from? Some kind of monk temple but for mages?

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I was born in a temple like place. Our order was a secretive one, from what I understood, many of us were descendants of the first mage who, with divine intervention, learned the secrets of mana manipulation and created what we know as magic. Since then, there were many others who were able to discover magic, however, our order was special in the regard where we were blood related to the first mage. It's even speculated that the first mage was married to a divine, which would explain how many in our order were quite strong in the ways of magic.

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*Tracks along, nodding in mild surprise until the end, and I raise my eyebrows*
Married a divine? What are those, where you're from?

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Well, from folklore, they're what you'd know as gods and goddesses. They used to roam around our world before ascending to the ascendant plane. The first mage was alive during those times. It was said that a divine disguised as a mortal woman, explored the world to learn more about the people she governed over. She met the first mage and through their adventures, she fell in love. The rest is history.

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*Focuses intently on you*
Reverse accept. Rewrite. Channel. Permeate.
*Four additional runes crash into your vision at my word, latching onto you and tearing through you with an energy almost identical to the amaranthine*

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*The hit knocks me with incredible force, which I direct toward the massive lens, phasing through the material and emerging on the other side*
Ohhh, you've done it now.
*Hits my fists together*
Time for round two, losers.

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*Nods, looking up and to the side in thoughtful surprise*
Different world indeed. That kind of thing is unthinkable where we’re from.

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Aeron:

*you find that just as quickly as it tears through, that it heals. the damage is never permanent, and I only seem moderately amused, loosing interest*

You had me, and you lost me. so much potential in that attack. but nothing. you couldn't even make me feel. but we're not done talking.

*Dashes toward you within a blink of an eye, grasping you by your collar, holding you in the air*

who did you promise to, and what did you promise? I want shinji to hear it.

*stabs my hand, coated in amaranthine into your stomach, ripping through your intestines*

Prove to him that this was never about him. prove your allegiance.

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Ezzy: *appears next to you, driving an amaranthine scytheblade into your stomach*
this was never a game, never a contest. there is no round 2, you lost from the start.

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*Looks towards Gio with a hand on my chin*

What was it like in your world?

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*Catches the blade with my hand and blasts you with an amaranthine-infused bolt of lightning*
What a joke. I don't lose.

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Ezzy: *looks entirely bewildered by your use of Amaranthine, as the bolt passes through me temporarily, and I reach back, absorbing it into my weapon. it now crackles with the same lightning you tried using against me*

...you disgust me, false entity. you and the rest of Tier Five are cowards, liars and thieves. you, like them, will fall.

*a layer of malice and ill intent fills my voice, as if the very being of you is vile to me*

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The physical and spirit worlds don't mix like that where we're from. One might subjugate the other, but that kind of relationship isn't something anyone wants, human or otherworldly. It's... one of the great taboos.

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*Grunts*
I'll show you my allegiance.
*As I speak, I grab my brush, dragging the razor-sharp edge through the speckled paint and drives it into my shoulder blade, engraving something into the bone*
I help my friends!
*My shoulder blazes with purple light, inducing the amaranthine to assimilate into me*

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*Smirks*
Struck a nerve there, huh?
*Purple electricity arcs between my hands over my head*
It's showtime.
*Rockets into you, slamming my fist into your stomach, charged with the same energy, and holds onto the back of your head, using the momentum to swing your face into my knee*

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*I look up seemingly in thought before turning back to Gio*

I can see why you would see it as a little strange for a divine and a mortal to walk the same life... For us, it was always understood that our realms were intertwined in someway. Limited, but intertwined. Our destinies, whether we like it or not are dependent on each other. Mortals keep the plane inhabit the plane of existence, but the very world is alive with the divine. Mana, a gift of the divines to mortals is one such thing. However, once you die, you go to the ascendant plane - the plane of the divines.

*I then draw the relationship in a sort of simple way with a stick on the ground*

That's why it was strange for me to see Lily with you. For us, Lily would be an anomaly, spirits ascend and get reincarnated or stay in the ascendant plane. They're the result of life and thus in death they cannot stay in our plane of existence, not without some sort of reason to stay.

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you can't even fight me without using my own power against me. you are weak.

shinji: *appears behind him, firing a shot at his skull*

Aeron: * it goes through, and I grasp my head*

ow, you bastard!

shinji: Pulls out another pistol, firing them continuously at Aeron. the bullets rip through him intensely, as if striking not only his physical being, but his energy as well.

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Ezzy:
*blocks the fist to my stomach, and pushes off you before the knee connects*
THIEF!
*punches you with concentrated amaranthine in the chest*

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you can't even fight me without using my own power against me. you are weak.

shinji: *appears behind him, firing a shot at his skull*

Aeron: * it goes through, and I grasp my head*

ow, you bastard!

shinji: Pulls out another pistol, firing them continuously at Aeron. the bullets rip through him intensely, as if striking not only his physical being, but his energy as well.

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Ezzy:
*blocks the fist to my stomach, and pushes off you before the knee connects*
THIEF!
*punches you with concentrated amaranthine in the chest*