System

Myriad Reality

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*The more damage the structure sustains, the more misty pink plasma leaks into the air, which maneuvers itself to wherever you stand almost as though by sentient guidance*

@Abominations

*After completing the ritual, all of my memories stored within my soul of my labs, their purpose, and their contents are converted into pure spell energy; I withdraw my hand, within which now rests a bluish white beam half my height and curved in an arc*
We'll finish this now!
*Glides my arm across the width of my body, starting from the left, unleashing a wave of devastating slicing power*

Myriad Reality

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*The beam stops and I glance towards the open exit for a moment, as though seeing something that isn’t there*

@Abominations

*The bots drill another rune deep into the wall of the tunnel, but this time a shallow, razor-sharp obsidian stone juts from the surface*
...
*Shoves my palm directly onto the stone and utters a measure of an indecipherable ancient language; the blood immediately hardening into a dry, oily substance that binds me to the wall, now beginning to crumble away*

Myriad Reality

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*A vision of me presents itself to you, along with an overwhelming swath of information flooding in, most of it indecipherable junk*
Convenient… Careful of the consequences for digging too deep.
*Impossible quantities of malicious junk data are pumped into you, as the physical body in the room pries you off his face and blasts you in the face with an atomizing red beam*

@Nemeses

*The beam burns away at the flesh above, and slows down as it reaches the pulsing blood beneath, which absorbs more energy before itself disintegrating*
Akora, Omega!
*Slams my forehead into yours, and then kicks off against your chest, shoving you backwards while at the same time flinging another handful of microbots at the wall*

Myriad Reality

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*The disk, upon attempt at integration, is flooded with random data from an artificial consciousness that fights back against it. I reach back and grab the disc with my hand, tearing it from where it conjoined, shattering it in my hand and vaporizing it like the rubble before*

@Abominations

How convenient!
*Hypersteps through the space between us and claws into the front of your mask, projecting my own digital soul into the consciousness*

Myriad Reality

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*My mask visor gleams as I shift my gaze down to you*
You’d better hope the real you isn’t so easy.

@Abominations

...You ought to hope he is.
*The now-boomeranged disk slams into the back of your head and latches onto your helmet, activating its internal magic power source, which crumbles metals it contacts and integrates them into itself; I lurch away from your line of sight at the same time*

Myriad Reality

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*My visage flickers erratically in place in a small area around where I stand, and the effect continues as I propel forward, flickering past the disc in its path up to the edge of the cloud*
Yes.
*My hands begin to glow a faint pink, one after the other, and I press them into the cloud and supercharge it, inducing the previous effect with multitudes more juice behind it*

@Abominations

*Grits my teeth through the attack and shakily raises an arm toward you*

Myriad Reality

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*Red beams of light flash from between the cracks, just before rubble itself atomizes in a flash, as I dust myself off*
You have no clue where you are, do you?
*The pink cloud surges and sends a massive jolt of modified lightning through your body*

@Abominations

*The drilling bots bust into the path of the lightning but fail to absorb it because of its nature*
Care to enlighten me?
*Hits the ground in the recoil of the shock, but scoops up the bots, binding them in my palm with a flash of blue light, and flings the newly-formed spinning metal disk at your face*

Myriad Reality

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*Energy spirals around chaotically from the damaged infrastructure, and after a moment, it condenses into a cloud of pink ionized gas that moves over your position*

@Abominations

*The tomb shears space within it, tearing at your body in opposite directions in short, jagged stripes*

Myriad Reality

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*Cocks my arms back, still standing in the doorway, as steam bellows out into the hall behind me from my elbows*

@Abominations

*After boring through the wall, they drill and activate an internal rune structure, causing an outward explosion of stones, sealing you in a makeshift tomb*