Valiance

Myriad Reality

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*Lifts a purple, stunning crystal, the size of my thumbnail, while at the same time the golden energy attempts to escape*
And that's the end of that.

@Nimda

For certain?

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs in relief*
Good, you made it.

@Nimda

*Lands on a blue platform on my back, facing the remains of the entity*

Myriad Reality

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*Moments later, escapes from the collapse in a flash of golden light and arcs over to where the creature previously stood while space itself shakes in the cataclysm*
Roland, Chickpea, are you both okay?

@Nimda

*From a singular spot amidst the debris, rubble jettisons from the collective in one space like a geyser, followed shortly after by me rocketing away from the calamity*

Myriad Reality

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*Cranes my neck to look across both halves*
That may... Look ou—

@Nimda

*Extends my arms out to either side before disappearing in the chaos*

Myriad Reality

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*With a terrible, wet "schlick" noise, splits into two halves, both floating independently across space and time*

@Artifact

*Steps over onto the half with Faering as it goes, panting*

Myriad Reality

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*Nods in courtesy before launching off, landing with an eruption of golden streamers and wedging the planet open by a hair*

@Nimda

*Lands forcefully beside you, raising my arms up and slamming them down into the opening you’ve made, forcefully attempting to pry it apart like an elevator door*

Myriad Reality

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*Hurls myself in front of the creature to protect it from any further oncoming strikes*
Roland!
*Lifts my hand and a serrated disk of gold light spirals outward from a central point, which I fling into the broken enemy, cleaving open wide trenches in the new lava pits*

@Nimda

*Stands up straight and lets out a monstrous battle cry before beginning ti repeatedly pound into the surface of the planet, digging through it massive chunk by massive chunk*

Myriad Reality

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*Is along the same path we took before, still locked in combat with the monster, but now protecting one of the black creatures that stands in Roland’s place and tries to hop into any attack it sees*

@Nimda

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Roland!

@Magnanimity

…
*Sighs, and after a moment, likely with Chickpea’s assistance, I lock eyes with the exact point in space where the monster is currently positioned, and I tug on the space held in my grip, defying physics itself and hurling myself instantaneously from where I stand directly into the body if the beast with one of the most catastrophically explosive physical punches ever witnessed*

Myriad Reality

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Myriad Reality

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Roland, Faering is still there with it. You can focus that attack instead of bringing everything crumbling down.

@Magnanimity

She’s strong. She’ll get away.