Artifact

Myriad Reality

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*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.

Myriad Reality

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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

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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

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

Myriad Reality

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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

*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*

Myriad Reality

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*Flips around and strains against the manifested webbing, before turning and instead launching myself like a bullet directly at Faering*

@Valiance

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*The fragments between the two of you also cling when you touch them, slowing you down further*

@System

Combat brilliance!
*As soon as you draw near, I take off in the path you left behind free of the fragments*

Myriad Reality

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*Guards my own self by turning my back and covering my head, letting the shrapnel hit the armor plating that covers my body*

@Valiance

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*Whenever the shards make contact with a surface, they begin to calcify that structure, including the ground itself; the bone structure inches toward both of you while the other fragments remain suspended weightlessly*

@System

*Without moving to avoid touching another fragment*
There's the heart.
*The mist rushes toward a distant, marginally pulsating orb of bone, causing it to shining a vibrant green amidst the haze*

Myriad Reality

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*With an ear-piercing crack and an eerie whistle resulting from the sound of air rushing through the rest of the decomposing skeletal structure, my body explodes resulting in razor-sharp shrapnel shredding the land around me and then hovering, suspended midair*

@System

*Guards my face with my wrists, embedding the thorny shards in the scale plating of my arms*

Myriad Reality

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*Catches the foot in both hands as I fall into the earth-turned-rubble at my back*

@Valiance

*Flies into the creature’s leg at top speed, shattering it from above you*
Go!

Myriad Reality

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*Clenches my fist tightly very quickly again, and releases a small burst of plasma into the oncoming gas, igniting it and inducing an explosion between us that chain reacts all the way back into your throat from where it came*

@Valiance

*Breaks the mist-induced invisibility and slices off both its wings in clean strokes*

Myriad Reality

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*Nods and dashes forward once again, through the cloud and toward the dragon*

@Valiance

*Uses the illusion of the mist to highlight the heart inside the corpse*

Myriad Reality

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*Leaps away at the sight of the gas to a far edge, smacking the pillar that came down on Faering in my path and freeing her from under it as well, and takes a deep breath before it expands to where I stand*

@Valiance

*Flicks my hand to my face, and fills the air with the mind dragon's mist, competing with and drowning out the toxic fumes*
We need to seize its heart, or this becomes a war of attrition.