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*My earring flashes near the end of the strike, and I appear a distance away, holding a crystalline shard, almost like glass*
You see, this artifact was forged in the great River's current, and slows time just prior to any fatal blow, long enough for me to escape. And as a grandmaster of waters, you cannot hold me. In other words, I'm completely and utterly invincible, and you're out of your league.

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"Out of my league", hmm? Interesting take.

*my eyes glow a faint silver, as something seemingly takes place around me, but nothing visually happens beyond color appearance and aura change. I flick my wrist as a pillar of stone knocks you toward me as i deliver a glancing blow from my open but solid hand to the side of your head, clipping one of the earings from your ear, tearing a bit of flesh with it*

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*A great mist surrounds me, shredding it into dust with the waters of time*
The river cannot be destroyed, and will not be severed from me.
*Shoots a current into you center of mass, which rapidly ages anything it encounters*

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*you find that time stops almost completely within a two foot radius of me, as the water moves around my body instead of touching it. That hand grabs your earring and places a matter distortion field around it, ripping it to shreds*

You rely on some puny tools to control time. Without them, you are nothing.

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*The entire world turns monochrome and begins to tick backward*
That's a confident assertion, boy. The tools make me invincible, but were awarded to a grandmaster, not a novice.
*Time resumes in shreds, causing space to rend itself in large fractures*

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I doubt that, but—
*The circles populate with a basic beam spell*
Let's try this.
*Fires several arcs of magical energy at the walls of the arena*

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*out of those shreds, another, chrome armored version of me appears from one of those distortions, firing a laser at your chest*

Chrome Dane: you are not allowed to succeed, in this timeline or any other. Your life ends at me.

Dane: couldn't have put it better myself, me.

*base form me raises a pillar into you, pushing you toward the roof of the structure*

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*you notice that magical strings snap from your attack with a echoing pop and get scattered when impacting the walls*

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*They fracture into another five spells each*
Lily and I worked on this technique together.
*Each of those five split into another five, creating strands of concentrated magic beams that raze the arena*

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*the armor drops and you hear a metallic rattling as the rest of the walls is quickly absorbed by me and the color of the room changes from a water textured rainbow of colors to red and a massive figure is slowly revealed above us*

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Alright... found the room boss.
*The array of beams retargets and aim at a single point on the figure*

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*A thin, branch-like hand swipes the arena and when the beams hit the hand small flashes emit as the spells are blocked and the rattle gets louder when some hit the entity*
Hmmm…
*it slowly reveals itself to be a spider-crab hybrid like creature that has many hands with two smaller hands spinning string*
Y’know? Despite its looks, it’s most closely related to beetles!
*the larger hands move, making signs and spell circles form with pinging sounds and spike shoot out from them*

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How would you even know that?
*Casts a Lesser Gate spell to warp above the creature*

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*yells*
Cause it’s a Puppeteer Beetle!
*it clasps a pair of hands together and two other hands stab into the ceiling, magic string shoot out of spell circles towards you from the ceiling*

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*Forms purple magic circles that increase the gravity around me several times over, and I catapult into the crab*

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That won’t do.
*shortly after I speak the creature shifts to a wall with blinding speed*

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*Rides the pillar up until it starts to crack under the pressure of water spraying from within*
If you touch the river, you will die.
*Directs the water into your face*

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Base Dane: *through my reflection in the water, I miraculously appear on the other side of your water untouched, as if coming through my reflection, and slice with a sharp rock in my hand toward your other earring*

Your water cannot touch me.

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*Hits the ground, but preserves my momentum in a flash of light before rocketing toward the crab, faster than before*