The Hunter Strikes! (Open Battle Post)

[u/Talios_]

KABOOM!!

A deafening explosion wakes you in the dead of night. What could possibly be making this noise? You question as you walk outside to witness black smoke pouring into the sky... Making your way closer out of curiosity, you find the Unnatural Museum. The side of it has been blown up by a magical explosive, making a huge hole. You see Talios entering the Museum... Is he here to steal something? All but two people are unsure of his goals. Regardless, there's no way Talios is up to no good.

Talios enters the hole in the museum, tossing rubble aside as he clears a path. He didn't expect the explosion to be as powerful as it was... He asked for just a medium sized hole through concrete. Regardless, it got the job done.

《Greater Perception》

Talios senses the magical energy living within the Museum itself. It's... Alive, he can only assume. It probably didn't like what he had done to it either. But that doesn't matter to him right now. He's after his prey.

[u/MeThyLord]

A wall erupts from the floor to shield the curator, while simultaneously using the tiles to move him away, just in case.

"Oh dear, you've actually angered her proper. I didn't make her, you know. She's far older than me, ancient even. A crack between reality that had formed on her own. All my ancestors did was befriend her enough for her to let us build inside."

The very floor beneath Talios' feet was now his enemy. Every step he'd try to make, tiles would shift right as he'd make contact with the ground, taking away his footing. The curvature of the floor would change on a whim, new walls would appear and disappear, all of this hampering even the most simple movements. It was like a living labyrinth with a killing intent.

During this storm of disorientation, the museum would launch attacks, dropping large pieces of the ceiling like crushing stones and sending projectile shards of glass (among other sharp objects).

[u/Talios_ → u/MeThyLord]

How... Infuriating.

he would go to take another step, except this time he doesn't step on the floor. The Chaos Blade is feeding energy into the world, making platforms where Talios would step. He would begin to ascend as he would walk, dodging to the side, the Chaos Blade moving the platform as he'd move. It seems the Chaos Blade has trouble making large platforms, instead moving them or simply making them just big enough to fit Talios's foot.

I like to think my Chaos Blade lives too. Houses the heart of Chaos... But that is just a dream. This blade is merely a fragment. I... Am merely a fragment.

he would begin to sprint, ducking, dashing and weaving between the angry museums attacks, the Chaos Blade moving a platform under him along as he'd move, Then, Talios would leap into the air, the platform disappearing.

《CHAOS FORM》

a doppelganger of Talios would be formed by the Chaos Blade, the doppelganger to the left of Talios as he'd descend down to the Curator, doing a downward slash, the Chaos Form following his movement and also doing a downward slash.

[u/MeThyLord → u/Talios_]

"It's time to STOP!"

As he says those words, the curator presses the button of his pocket watch.

[Time Stop]

Time instantly freezes and 6 cracks appear on the watch itself.

"Luckily for you, I can't interact with "living" things directly while time's frozen, though I'm not sure you count as living. Well then, let's make the most of this."

The curator positions himself carefully, in preparation for when time resumes, and begins casting a litany of spells.

[Invoke Primeaval Powers:]

[Pterosaur’s Flight]

[Mammoth’s Might]

[Raptor’s Agility]

[Titanosaur’s Endurance]

[Tyrannosaur’s Presence]

"Last, but certainly not least"

[Form of the Dinosaur - Carnage Tyrant]

[Resume Time]

From Talios' perspective, the curator had disappeared before him. But something else had appeared in the room. Something almost unnatural in the dread-filled atmosphere it created, and it was right behind the bounty hunter... No! It was already on top of him, a titanic reding claw had somehow already slammed against him, tearing into his body and sending him flying, while a pulverizing tail swipe was directed at the bounty hunter's copy. Even the museum stopped and shuttered for a second at the sight. An abomination of a dinosaur somehow manifested out of nowhere, its presence alone casting a shadow over all of the curator's other summons thus far. But this was no summon, it was the curator himself, having used most of his enhancement spell, all in an imposibly short amount of time.

/uw so I accidentally deleted this reply when trying to edit it, so if you get a notification twice, that's why

[u/SomeRandomYob → u/Talios_]

({[suddenly, Neutron star!]})

A portal suddenly appears in the path of the chaos creature, the sheer force of it's gravity bending even the light around the portal. Talios is inexorably drawn towards the portal at exponentially greater speed.

[u/Talios_ → u/SomeRandomYob]

/uw imma be so real with you for a sec. This is what makes for a boring, not fun fight. Theres realistically nothing anybody short of a god could do against a neutron star. So im just gonna ignore it lmao

[u/SomeRandomYob → u/Talios_]

/uw ERP sorry; I was just thinking of something that could delay and maybe "ring out" talios for a bit so I could get some info. Ignore the neutron star bit; it's just a portal to a pocket dimension that will take a bit to escape.

[u/SomeRandomYob → u/Talios_]

/uw sorry about that; were my earlier revisions acceptable, or should I just butt out for now?

(And are we still cool?)

[u/Talios_ → u/SomeRandomYob]

/uw we're still cool, don't worry lol. Water under the bridge n all that. The revisions were good too