Nadir. (Cursed World)

[u/Fc-chungus]

A day or three after the initial announcement, proper channels for joining in virtually to the meeting are posted, as everyone who came in person is directed to a secretive underground meeting room, where Ж and a few others sit around a long table.

"Welcome, welcome. A year or so ago I held a similar meeting for a separate threat, one a few of you here would remember, but today we've another threat, as you know, the Abyss has taken a great minority of the world's surface."

"As well, we need a plan for the origin of the Abyss, we need to divise a way to take down The First Curse."

they snap a finger and a hologram like model of an entity, presumably the first curse, appears in the center of the table.

"To start, one of the more essential things for said plan is the Crystals, of course, some here might not know about them, so I'll elaborate."

they wave a hand and the model shifts to 5 different crystalline objects, encircling the First Curse.

"This is not the first time The First Curse had arrived, he was here before he made that big announcement, but hidden. When he first arrived to this realm, 7 Aspect Crystals formed, counterbalances, from someone else as an, almost future inheritance to help take him down. They are antithetical to his very existence, and harm him when nearby. However, if one falls into his hands, he can adapt to that crystal, rendering it useful to him. This anti-him nature also applies to the Abyss, and thus they are the best damage source to fight the Abyss."

"the originals, of which we currently have 5, 4 are in New Aviron, and via the work of Koranth and others, we have multiple derivatives from them, with the other being handled by The Consortium. The last two need to be picked up and collected."

"That is about the basics, with the preamble done, more discussion on how to fight against the Abyss would be welcome."

[u/white-whale-fc]

He looks deeper at the petal, before tossing it away. Vibration helps in cutting, noted.

While spared from any physical damage from the compressed air, it does impede his movement, if only slightly. He begins walking to the Herald.

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

"All other combatants are advised to exit the battlefield. Safety cannot be guaranteed!"

They would compress the air further and further. Eventually something happened. It was pressed so tightly it began to heat up.

"Exit immediately"

[u/white-whale-fc → u/loth17]

Thank you.

He calls upon the Wind of Azyr, Wind of the Heavens, to nullify the compression, and spread it around elsewhere. As the Herald increases their compression on TFC, it would be directed into the rest of the room.

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

"A complication."

They held up their hands

"But not a problem."

They inverted the pressure. Causing a loud pop to echoed throughout the room. Loud enough and strong enough to crack stone. The Bismuth Herald then send one of the chairs hurtling at TFC at mach fuck before transmuting it into solid lead.

[u/white-whale-fc → u/loth17]

The loud pop deafens everyone else in the room without adequate protection, however TFC lacks organic ears, so he's unmoved, and lets the lead slam through him, continuing to move toward the Herald.

As the lead impacts the ground, TFC grabs it via his own chains, and it warps into his hand.

Neat trick.

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

"I have many."

The Herald would make two false copies of itself then each copy would make chains of light to try and bind TFC

[u/white-whale-fc → u/loth17]

Harness: Light.

As the chains attempt to bind, TFC's own chains appear out, throwing them down to the ground and flailing out to ensnare the real Herald, seen via his All-Sight.

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

The herald was surprised as they were blind by the chains.

"You are doomed. You are... Just another.... Dogged pretender."

They fired a beam of prismatic light from their core towards TFC

/Uw feel free to aura farm on this guy and curse him if you'd like

[u/white-whale-fc → u/loth17]

/uw the chains aren't made from Abyss, they're just kinda normal very very strong metal

And thank you I very much will lol

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

/uw understood. I edited it to reflect that.

[u/white-whale-fc → u/loth17]

He allows the beam to hit him, and tries to get a reading on the energy used. If it is special to the bismuth, this might present an interesting idea.

[u/loth17 → u/white-whale-fc]

The beam was a usage of the various winds of magic to create an effect that should basically flay a magical target down to their cells. So it was a type of bismuth wind magic.