[IC] Myriad Reality

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*The bones explode in order to reform my body piece-by-piece around the heart, using you as a springboard and unloading the requisite energy required to reach that speed into you directly*

@System

*Slides under your form and punches upward in a burst of speed toward the now-indistinguishable heart and kicks upside down into your form, knocking it like a ball away from you and toward Roland*

[Legend Begins]

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*Glances with a cautious side-eye toward Misty*
And how about your confidence in landing?

@Stratocracy

Not worried about that part at all. What've you got in mind?

[Valiance]

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*The bones explode in order to reform my body piece-by-piece around the heart, using you as a springboard and unloading the requisite energy required to reach that speed into you directly*

@System

*The energy shatters through the fully-calcified armor plates, yet still crumble themselves with little effect against my bare skin and the sheer density of my muscles*

<Snipped quote by System>

*Slides under your form and punches upward in a burst of speed toward the now-indistinguishable heart and kicks upside down into your form, knocking it like a ball away from you and toward Roland*

@Artifact

*Breaks away from my current position and toward the orb with a boom, blasting the bone to pieces as I snatch the hard with a swipe straight through its container*

[Stratocracy]

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Not worried about that part at all. What've you got in mind?

@Legend Begins

I throw you. Up.

[Legend Begins]

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I throw you. Up.

@Stratocracy

...Sure, let's go with that!

[System]

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*The energy shatters through the fully-calcified armor plates, yet still crumble themselves with little effect against my bare skin and the sheer density of my muscles*

<Snipped quote by Artifact>

*Breaks away from my current position and toward the orb with a boom, blasting the bone to pieces as I snatch the hard with a swipe straight through its container*

@Valiance

*Faster than any other piece of my body, the bone regenerates around the heart almost as fast as you remove it, and I, now fully-formed, charge at you, the entire land quaking with each step*

[Valiance]

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*Faster than any other piece of my body, the bone regenerates around the heart almost as fast as you remove it, and I, now fully-formed, charge at you, the entire land quaking with each step*

@System

*Raises my arm while standing my ground with my hand still grasped around the heart, fully encased as is, and brings it down on the top of your head with a loud, explosive wack when you are in range of me with enough of a shockwave that it dislodges the very foundation of the walls around us*

[Stratocracy]

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I—probably! I think so!

@Legend Begins

*Laces my fingers together and lowers my hands to my knees while squatting just slightly*

[System]

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*Raises my arm while standing my ground with my hand still grasped around the heart, fully encased as is, and brings it down on the top of your head with a loud, explosive wack when you are in range of me with enough of a shockwave that it dislodges the very foundation of the walls around us*

@Valiance

*Completely shatters in the same explosive manner as before, this time the shards flowing into the heart's shielding, hardening it*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Completely shatters in the same explosive manner as before, this time the shards flowing into the heart's shielding, hardening it*

@System

<Snipped quote by System>

*Raises my arm while standing my ground with my hand still grasped around the heart, fully encased as is, and brings it down on the top of your head with a loud, explosive wack when you are in range of me with enough of a shockwave that it dislodges the very foundation of the walls around us*

@Valiance

*Makes my way over, pulling shards of bone from my flesh like daggers, dripping blood but clearly more annoyed than critically injured*

[Legend Begins]

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*Laces my fingers together and lowers my hands to my knees while squatting just slightly*

@Stratocracy

*Takes a deep breath*
Alright... one, two...
*Runs and steps onto your hands*

[Valiance]

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*Completely shatters in the same explosive manner as before, this time the shards flowing into the heart's shielding, hardening it*

@System

*Takes my free fist and slams it together with my other fist, with increased strength to before, busting it free again*

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<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Makes my way over, pulling shards of bone from my flesh like daggers, dripping blood but clearly more annoyed than critically injured*

@Artifact

You need to do this fast.

[Stratocracy]

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*Takes a deep breath*
Alright... one, two...
*Runs and steps onto your hands*

@Legend Begins

*Hurls you upward, sending you nearly-perfectly vertically and well over the height of the high-rises around us*

[Artifact]

<Snipped quote by System>

*Takes my free fist and slams it together with my other fist, with increased strength to before, busting it free again*

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You need to do this fast.

@Valiance

*Takes one look at the exposed, rotting heart and dry heaves once*
I really don't want to.

[Legend Begins]

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*Hurls you upward, sending you nearly-perfectly vertically and well over the height of the high-rises around us*

@Stratocracy

*A purple signal extends in a circle around me, shining brightly when it moves across a path we walked*

[Etcetera]

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*Hurls you upward, sending you nearly-perfectly vertically and well over the height of the high-rises around us*

@Stratocracy

Are you done yet?
*Points two fingers at you*

[Valiance]

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*Takes one look at the exposed, rotting heart and dry heaves once*
I really don't want to.

@Artifact

We didn't come here for nothing.

[Stratocracy]

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*A purple signal extends in a circle around me, shining brightly when it moves across a path we walked*

@Legend Begins

...

<Snipped quote by Stratocracy>

Are you done yet?
*Points two fingers at you*

@Etcetera

Is that a trick question?

[Artifact]

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We didn't come here for nothing.

@Valiance

*Swaps back to my other form*
I cannot express how glad I am that we took out the mind dragon first.
*Thrusts my hand into the exposed heart, steeling myself*

[Etcetera]

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...

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Is that a trick question?

@Stratocracy

*Clenches the two fingers into a fist*
Yes.
*Gravity increases several times over, cratering the ground at your feet and pulling Midnight down like an asteroid in a blazing fireball*