Valiance

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Yes, that. That entity happens to be part of my lab defense system, and is currently to blame for siphoning a majority of my excess magic and slowing my recovery. I've been tracking its behavioral patterns insofar as I can under these circumstances.

@System

Name a more perfect duo than artificial intelligence and going rogue.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Certainly. As you may be aware, I was severely injured during a prior conflict with Graveny. Unfortunately, due to cascading, targeted attacks I was forced to withdraw and allow my labs to passively generate the energy I needed to recover.

@System

That all makes sense. My main concern was with your doppelganger, however.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Ah, yes. I would appreciate if you didn’t destroy this lab. I can’t afford more setbacks after the energy it took to reach you in that zone.

@System

Maybe you'll be more inclined to explain what's going on, then?

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*The doorway fizzles once you style in and leads into a small observation room overlooking a spoked disk of interspliced extreme and peaceful environments about a center point, including lava fields, meadows, tundras, canyons, slices of typhooning seas, the entire environment suspended in a pale blue, clouded sky*
Welcome, Rythian.

@System

*Manifests a shimmering dome of red as I slide across the floor as I look around and take in the new environment, still clearly in defensive mode*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*A competing network emerges from the attack's own connections and forms into a crude door that opens next to you*
Come, quickly!

@System

*With a gust of wind, I dash through the newfound opening without question*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*Both myself and the likeness extend our index fingers and pierce the base of the void—the action spawns a complex network of multicolored conduits, circles, and gates with both magical and computational components that extend as far as is visible in every direction, including vertically*

@Webmaster

*Summons an orb of red similar to those before it, shining a blinding red and stunting the flow of electricity and magical energies alike across everywhere the light touches*

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

The prime directive only becomes more clear.
*Once the other hand has clears your head, the same blue projection crashes down from above, using it as cover, and slams a fist covered in magical circuitry into your face*

@Webmaster

*Looks up into the projection as it slams down into me, my person protected by a thin layer of purple that surges on impact, yet despite the impact itself being protected, I still rocket through the void from the force until coming to a stop*
So it is.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*They blow apart, leaving us in a white void as each of the individual components tornado together, coalescing like modular bricks into a pair of floating technological hands, about as tall as I am*
All worthless.
*One swipes across the emptiness and grips onto your form, while the other fires a beam of lasers from each finger that get focused by magical lenses into a single point on your forehead*

@Webmaster

*Glances from one to the other and ducks beneath the one physically assaulting me, thrusting hands which glow radiant purple into the ulnar side of it and, using the holes I made in it, grunts as I throw it with an overhanded motion directly at the other hand, sending it through the magical lens and catapulting one into the other*
Perhaps a man like you can even lose sight of what makes sense when he is on the verge of dying.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*A series of turrets fire mechanimagical bullets precisely calibrated to ride between the gravitational sphere of the singularities and accelerate into you, losing some of their own mass in the process*
You're a risk. What else is there to explain?

@Webmaster

*Swipes my hands through the air at an arc, simultaneously yet separately, and sends a pulse of red and tell surging through the room, completely neutralizing the kinetic energy of every projectile in the room and explosively causing a surge of outward force into the edges of the damaged room to force what’s left to explode outward*
You can start with explaining how you’re going to apologize to me and everyone else when you realize you’re being the more foolish than your character would ever allow.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

*A radiant blue likeness of myself with far more magical energy than I bursts from the ceiling as you approach and grabs you by the torso, spins in several circles to build angular momentum, and then flings you into the ground*

@Webmaster

*Lands with a slam into standing just above the collapsing floor on a platform of red*
So much time to attack a friend and nary a moment to explain yourself.
*The miniature black holes begin to spin in space around us at varying speeds, merging together smoothly along their paths*