Path

Myriad Reality

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Haven't cast this one in a while—
*Clasps my hands together and black lightning erupts from between them, forming a jagged magic circle that, instead of glowing, seems to draw light into itself*
Unworthy Offering To The Eternal Sovereign.
*Obelisks of bone erupt from the ground and intercept the magic, while an enormous skeletal hand grips around the creature's body and tugs it toward the underworld*

@Source

*the creature lets out a blood curdling screech as it fights the hands*

Myriad Reality

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*One of them dips into the shadows and reemerges at the base of the creature, punching with a fist amplified by a Greater Augment Strength spell, rumbling the entire cavern*

@Source

*it flies off the wall with a screech, scrambling to steady it self while the hands constantly sign spells that shoot pure magical beams at you*

Myriad Reality

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*They evaporate into puffs of smoke and flow into the other copies, strengthening them*

@Source

Hm…
*the creature rattles in frustration and fires more string at your clones*

Myriad Reality

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*Uses a spell to create duplicates of myself out of shadow, all of which wail on the barrier, activating my Siege skill and amplifying our collective strength*

@Source

*to myself*
Skill abilities huh? I wonder how I can acquire those, and how much are they connected to magic.
*the barrier cracks and the creature rattles again, shooting the strings at the copies of you, wrapping around their limbs and joints*

Myriad Reality

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

@Source

*a hexagonal magic barrier materializes in between you and the creature*

Myriad Reality

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

@Source

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Source

*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*

Myriad Reality

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

@Source

*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*

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Source

*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*

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Source

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