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More violent company was expected. Far less words exchanged. I was expecting to have to share the info about the explosive much later. Mildly sorry to your friend.

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How does the explosive operate?

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It won't matter. It'll auto disable in under a minute when it's over.
*The floor turns transparent, showing the rod arcing with such overwhelming power that the space in the area you were moments ago is distorting wildly and rhythmically*
But watch.

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*Raises an eyebrow and taps at a few more buttons on the interface*
You're sure you want to adopt that approach?

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Do you? I know you have no idea what you're doing. And I wonder how fragile all that medical equipment is.

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Medical equipment?

<Snipped quote by Legend>

Under the fake visage of a man I see. That medical equipment.

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I'm nothing if not reckless. Which of us is willing to risk more?

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That, we can do.
*Pulls three metal ball bearings from my bag between my fingers, with white sparks of magic arcing between them*
Get ready!
*Flings them into the air above the bear, creating a stack of three magic circles, each smaller than the one below it and focusing beams of sunlight onto the bear*

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You're playing a game of bartering with stakes when the values are far from equivalent. Read the room again.
*Looks down*
Besides, it's not just that I see through your visage. I know what happened to you when combating one of Nemid's forces. The very same event which spurned this movement to awaken these locked away weapons. You said earlier yourself, the tower seems useful, yes?

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*As the beams of sunlight hit the bear it roared and it manipulated the liquid around it to harden into armor around its body.*

HEAVEN'S LANCE!

*A spear of light shot from my hand and impacted the bear but it seemed more angry than injured, whilst a formation of ice began to form around it. A spell channeled through Noct: Winter Prison*

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You're stalling. Convince me before I randomize this interface.

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Not stalling, just waiting, while in the same room as you. Randomize it. Like I said before, it's not reversible.
*Squats down while watching the rod*
Maybe cover your ears.

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Hm.
*Begins adjusting options on the device at random, observing the characters on the monitor for later analysis*

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*Nothing prevents you from doing so, but nothing also prevents the rod from reversing course in its current behavior*
Seriously, free your hands. And sorry to the cat in advance, odds are she won't be able to hear me apologize after.
*Lifts my hands up and puts them where my ears would be, not taking my eyes off the show*

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Hm.
*Begins adjusting options on the device at random, observing the characters on the monitor for later analysis*

<Snipped quote by Legend>

*Nothing prevents you from doing so, but nothing also prevents the rod from reversing course in its current behavior*
Seriously, free your hands. And sorry to the cat in advance, odds are she won't be able to hear me apologize after.
*Lifts my hands up and puts them where my ears would be, not taking my eyes off the show*

<Snipped quote by Abominations>

*Rushes toward Akora and casts a silencing spell on her*

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*In a way almost similar to thunderclaps roaring from right next to us, the rod discharges, unleashing swaths of teal-infused lightning and swaths of powerful waves of energy in repeating, pulsating bursts. The entirety of the discharge does not contact the structure, and instead rockets out into space, from inside the tower, into the space where the spectator view currently rests, creating a beautiful rippling blue light show across the walls as far down as the eye can see*

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*Watches the lights cascade*

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*It continues for what almost seems like too long, but as the lights dim down and the weapon stops, not a single other astral body is in sight anymore. The walls are totally black*