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*it bounces off my knife, swirling around you like a moon orbits a planet. I jet a kick in the direction of your sternum, and I follow that up with a punch to your face, both covered in amaranthine*

Shinji: good god, I hate feeling out of my league.
*keeps firing on Aeron, attemting to draw his attention, whilst also keeping an eye out for Shattered*

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Imagine basing your entire life around a lie that you can fight your way out of every problem.

*they immediately connect together with you in between them, cutting you up like a laser grid would a piece of matter*

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*it bounces off my knife, swirling around you like a moon orbits a planet. I jet a kick in the direction of your sternum, and I follow that up with a punch to your face, both covered in amaranthine*

Shinji: good god, I hate feeling out of my league.
*keeps firing on Aeron, attemting to draw his attention, whilst also keeping an eye out for Shattered*

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*Uses the moment to scratch an extra two line into the crystal, which changes its meaning and function into a protective rune, meeting your punches with the same force in the opposite direction once you touch my skin*

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*Several duplicates appear around you, locking your limbs and neck in place while gouging out your eyes*

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Aeron:

*the moment you touch the crystal, it breaks with explosive force, knocking us both back*

Gah!

*regains my footing*

Fine. lets play this game. no magic for the both of us.

* a crystalline box phases into existence around all of us, with the black rune etched into it's surfaces. all magic in the box is immediately nullified, including my own*

who would've thought that I could kill 2 Tier Fives at once.

Shinji: I won't let you kill the-

Aeron: And what exactly can you do that they can't mimic?

Shinji: shut up, parasite.....

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* they succeed with one of my eyes*
FUCK!

*Expels explosive energy from my body, knocking you all away from me, as I clutch my bleeding eye*

That... is gonna take time to heal.

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There's more to magic than casting spells...
*Lifts my brush level with my face, steeling myself*
As you'll soon learn.
*Jams the point of my brush into my right eye, immediately showering my hand in blood and ocular fluid—I follow up by holding the bristle end in the empty socket*

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Aeron: *the entire cube fills with a million amaranthine spears, striking at you rapidly*

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*A deafening eruption of magic floods the cave system, pulsating with an audible, petrifying thump*

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*I stumble backwards a from the force before quickly holding up my hand and casting another spell*

AEGIS!

*A shield blue magic circle appears from my palm and in front of it a blue shield big enough to cover the party*

Damn I didn't think it'd be this strong. Now that we can see it, any ideas?

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*I stumble backwards a from the force before quickly holding up my hand and casting another spell*

AEGIS!

*A shield blue magic circle appears from my palm and in front of it a blue shield big enough to cover the party*

Damn I didn't think it'd be this strong. Now that we can see it, any ideas?

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What is this thing?

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I dunno, but it's strong. We gotta make this thing stop. Lily, are there any traps on this thing?

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What is this thing?

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Lemme see!
*Magic red circles spin in my irises that scan the heart and area around it*
Analysis complete. The target appears to supply magic to the colossal embedded in the mountain. Similar to a golem, the entity would likely collapse if this central source of magic were to be destroyed. It appears to be capable of reconfiguring the cave system on command and will likely attempt to separate our party upon engaging in combat. No further traps have yet been identified.
*The rings fade*
In other words, this thing is the mountain itself!

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So this thing is the heart of the mountain. If it's going to just try and separate us once we engage in combat, then we might need to kill it in one shot. But the next part is going to be tricky, we're going to need a way out once we do. Any ideas?

*I turn to Gio and Lily*

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Inside of you? The poor girl.

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Heh.

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I'm sorry, by the way. For everything.

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Wwwwhat do you mean?

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Just in general. Being a shitty person, leaving you behind, setting it up so that our kids would leave... Everything.