Valiance

Myriad Reality

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Worthless creatures.
*Grabs your jaws by the hinge and holds them open, twisting them directly toward Roland*

@Artifact

*Rears back and unleashes a volley of blows similar to the last, once again directed at his mouth*

Myriad Reality

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*Tracks your position with the beam, keeping it trained on your movement*

@System

*Flips around and kicks off the air, shooting to the side with a sudden burst of speed, and then does it again, zigzagging back toward you and barreling foot-first into the side of your head with an explosive kick- all while Chickpea insulates my foot from direct contact with shielding*

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*Uses the distraction to barrel over the river's edge and slam my claws into your neck*
Of course you wouldn't be one of the ones to speak.

@Artifact

Honestly, he’s smart for it.

Myriad Reality

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*Pillars erupt from the walls and curve around to squash you between them*

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*Unleashes a sustained beam of liquid gold that meets your kinetic energy blast halfway*

@System

*Leaps vertically over its trajectory, anticipating the sustained blast to overcome the the burst attack, and flies in an arch overhead*

Myriad Reality

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*Grabs one with my gilded hand and rips it out of the ground, and then swings it in a wide arc to break the rest of the pillars around me*

@Artifact

*In the same motion as my arms swipe, I take my other hand and punch the air in your direction, launching a blast of kinetic energy through the air into your mouth as the pillars rise up below me*

Myriad Reality

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*Emerges from the river with a roar and spews golden dust onto both of you*

@System

*Raises my arm and swipes it through the air sideways, causing a massive gust of wind and blowing every speck of the debris away in a whirlwind*

Myriad Reality

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They do resist each other. Good to know.
*My pupils constrict momentarily and backflips up and out of the gilded river by instinct, while the gold I was standing near liquifies and starts running again*
That may have made it angry.

@Artifact

Then I say keep doing it.

Myriad Reality

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I need to try something.
*Black scales coat my hands and arms, and I hover just above the river's bed, digging my hand into the soft metal, which creeps up the armor much more slowly than it did the mountain's rocks*

@Artifact

*Watches silently*

Myriad Reality

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*The town sounds eerily quiet without even the distant rumbles of the statues, but the murals here have captured the affects of denizens in abject terror staring at the water*
Dig?

@Artifact

Seems like a good call.

Myriad Reality

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Mm.
*The winding path eventually takes us to the midsection of one of the four primary rivers feeding into the city, itself also turned to gold, and from which all of the clocks drift forward*

@Artifact

*Looks across the horizon as we move, taking in any changes or movement in our surroundings*

Myriad Reality

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We're in his domain. If he doesn't have an escape route, I'd be shocked.

@Artifact

He'd just better hope it doesn't leave him exposed, in ways he may not anticipate. Come on.