Valiance

Myriad Reality

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*The world stretches, and then splits abruptly like rubber, spewing the red mist everywhere, but reflecting off the gold hue of the air around us*

@Artifact

Dodge.
*Leaps up into the air while lifting a supermassive chunk if the earth with me, and twirls it around, slamming explosively back into the hole it left, blasting the world to bits from the impact*

Myriad Reality

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A dragon of all creatures could not hope to capture our full likeness. It should be an easy test.

@Artifact

Convincing enough for me. Look out.
*Pulls at the world with my hands, sending fissures off in either direction from us that crack and pull the world apart, curving around its surface and forming a large circle in the ground*

Myriad Reality

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You have the strength, right? I never hit your mirage that hard.

@Artifact

I do. I’m just being careful with every action in case I’m still being messed with.

Myriad Reality

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*The gold uncharacteristically cracks at the motion*

@Artifact

*Glances over at you and says nothing*

Myriad Reality

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All yours. Let it have it.

@Artifact

*Smacks my palm into the ground and jams my fingers in the earth*

Myriad Reality

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With the illusion frozen, we should be able to affect it directly. It’s much easier than fighting it from within the mist.

@Artifact

Can I just blow the whole place to bits this time?

Myriad Reality

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As pleasant as that sounds...
*Snaps a gilded blade of grass from the dividing line between your illusion and mine*
We should be able to crush it from within.

@Artifact

That sounds less pleasant for me, at least.

Myriad Reality

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I believe the cosmic dragon has fused it with the world itself. That mist we saw was its substance.

@Artifact

So how are you absorbing this one’s power? Breathing it all in?

Myriad Reality

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It's clever. Unwittingly fighting the real person in a world of illusion.

@Artifact

I was giving some benefit of the doubt, but we can share details for fun later if you’re that interested. Where is it?

Myriad Reality

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For me. I would guess that you encountered my past?

@Artifact

It’s inevitably what someone like this would try to do.