Everybody Wants to Die 3: Fun Guy Edition (Game Thread)

[Overlord775]

"Mmmmh, goat-"

They comments to themselves, having heard what Matricardo said, deciding to go check what this "Goat" thing is. Using the spores they left on the fleshy boi from the hugging, they figure out his new location, then using their planewalker spark to travel there.

Arriving by the side of the boyo, they look towards the Capra demon, giving it a good observation before then saying:

"What the heck are you ?"


@pile

The reimaining spores ttempt to force themselve to remain on the thing by covering themselves in demon energy to form a shield around themselves, and attempt to make their mycelium spread into the thing's skin, efffectivelly grafthing themselves to it. All the while the demonshroom and ther demons continue creating more spores, also shielded with demon energy, to replace the ones that were deleted, and furthermore acting as defense from the wind/plasma/lightning by virtue of sheer blotting and blocking via sheer numbers.

 

[DMUA]

"So we're splitting u-"

As Matricardo promptly zooms into space, Dieman takes that as a yes, and travels over to the area with negative political stability.

 

[Edwellken]

X also approaches the space goat thing, remaining on guard while trying to discern its intentions.

 

[Lou_change]

I teleport to one of the fields.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@Pile

The very environment would reject the changes forced upon it by the formation of the storm, naturally acting to disperse and scatter it, as well as alter the heat in the immediate vicinity of Aya herself to more normal levels.

Her world had returned to fighting back once more.

The mindscape would only see one response, a massive demonic maw projected throughout the mental realm, indicating her intentions rather clearly.

While the world worked to reform her, along with the demonic energy surrounding her perpetuating her power, she focused on attacking in this bloody fight still, taking the being's fall and their proximity as a chance to ram her arm into it and begin spreading demonic thorns through it, attempting to destroy any semblance of limbs this thing has, to prevent it from using that weapon. This would also have the convenient benefit of holding it in place for Giju's attack.

While with her other arm, she manifested something else, something she had gotten before. The club this very being once wielded, contracted to her by demonic forces and corrupted by her so that it clearly belongs to her, and trying to use its power to stabilize the surroundings somewhat as well.

@Palace

The blood seems to trail back into her as recovery happens, she holds the spot of her head where damage occurred.

"Just what is that girl doing? I can't even properly maintain control over her anymore, there's something... more."

Aleia noted to Serafall.

"I could use some... help."

She stated.

@Russia

The demon's mental presence seems to return, as it senses around the world and tries to pick up mental signals of anything that might be at the source of these.

 

[Paul_Frank]

@palace

"Hmm? Help with what, your injuries seem fine? Or did you mean with whatever caused this, or something else entirely?"


The serpent angel that had been observing in Russia is replaced with someone who looks like Serafall, and flies towards the presence in the west

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

@Pile

While the various efforts to reduce the fury and scale of the thing's emitted storm take effect, weakening it significantly, it remains over a relatively large area and is potent enough to burn many spores clear out of the air, especially around the ash-thing itself. Despite this, the demonshroom manages to create a foothold within the thing's flesh, damaging it significantly and seeming to momentarily distract it: enough for Aya's attack to land unimpeded...

Or at least, for the most part. Around where the thing's heart would be, assuming a human biology, Aya encounters a metallic sphere, cold and blackened. Focusing on it directly is very difficult, not due to any deleterious effects caused by such but more due to Aya's mind seeming to wander independent of her intentions, and upon contact Aya's fingers shatter, bending at uncomfortable angles, with the carried demonic energy seeming to disappear entirely. Despite the lack of force transferred to the sphere, it bursts out the thing's back, the storm seeming to cease to be less than a foot all around it, before glowing intensely and dissipating. During this time, the energy-thorns ravage through the thing's body, tearing at what little organic material was left and completely severing the arm that holds the cleaver, the hand of which has apparently merged together into a single piece similar to the hand of a toy, which is somehow caught on the air after a short moment of falling.

As the sphere dissipates, the storm emitted by the thing grows even more intense, even surpassing it's prior state despite all of the weakening applied. From something that is very clearly not the thing's "mouth", an airy, high-pitched shriek bellows out, blowing away the remnants of the trap space that Aya had previous created. The thing's remaining arm, far from in a good state itself despite not being directly targeted, bends and warps, as thought growing internally faster than whatever the thing's current skin-equivalent can match, rapidly ending up with what looks to be four separate joints, each facing a different direction.

This warped hand, now bringing seven distinct digits, delicately grasps Aya's head, helped by her distraction with calming the storm and how she has essentially stuck herself to the thing, and throws her down. Impacting the ground, her torso shrinks by almost a full foot and a half, rebounding like a slinky as her internal organs fly out. Then in a motion primarily orchestrated by the upper arm, such that the rest is visibly damaged, the thing raises it's arm, and slams down again, laying the two front-most sections of its arm across a majority of Aya's body, up from her left side to the right top of her head. Everything in-between is, simply put, mulched, crushed beyond recognition into a reddish smear. However, this hit area includes a significant amount of the malice that she has used to heal herself before, and those areas are somehow even worse off. Every instant that the thing touches the malice, it feels as though her soul is being disemboweled and eviscerated, torn to shreds, before being forced back together all at once. However, to say that this motion destroyed the thing's arm is an understatement: pieces and entire sections fly off, only to be caught mid-flight by the explosive growth of muscles and intenstine-like structures, with almost the entire underlying skeletal structure easily visible from multiple angles. While this harm is very much not being mirrored onto Aleia, it is highly likely that it that resulting pain is finding it's way back to her in some form.

@orbit

Accounting for the strange being's rapid movement, it shifts slightly to face the three. Each of them can tell that this thing exudes an aura of potent undeath or simply general unnaturalness, almost like an anti-soul for lack of a better term.

@DMUA

After a while of movement, Dieman notices that the area around him becomes more arid and desert-like, eventually graduating into full-on sand dunes. However, in what seems like the middle of an otherwise desolute area, there runs a river, with a great deal of vegetation surrounding it. Distantly, another, similar river can be seen, but even further south there is something stranger, as much as the prior was truly strange: a shimmering wall of light, almost like a mirage, extending what seems to be almost indefinitely into the sky.

@Paul_Frank

The serpent, while on-route, notices that the sensation it felt before appears to fade as it gets closer, before going out entirely, only to be replaced by another entirely. Eventually, what is presumably causing this new sensation is revealed: kilometers tall and long, a strange, branch-horned mix of mangy wolf and humanoid shape, it's entrails trailing and violently boiling behind it. The tips of it's horns and the claws of it's dozen set of limbs, many vestigial and emerging from inside of it's open gut, emanate a deep red aura, seeming to cause a strange, aimless feeling of intense rage and hunger in the angel

@The_Divine_Phoenix

The demon that scanned for minds to connect to gets... a variety of signals, of sorts. At least one seems to make it completely lose consciousness for a moment, as though time was skipped; another is nothing but an utterly deafening cacophony of pained shrieks; and another seems completely blank and inactive despite existing. A few do seem normal, however, although one of these is magically warded.

@those with planetary-level senses and/or in orbit.

From an area many would recognize as the middle of ******* nowhere, also known as the Sahara Desert, a massive eruption bursts through the crust of the earth, blowing open a fissue hundreds of kilometers wide and throwing debris so high it leaves earth's gravitational pull entirely. Those with more expansive sight could see that this debris isn't simple rock either: it's iron, nickel, and hundreds of other metals, the stuff of planetary cores.

@Lou_change

[wdym "fields"]

 

[Lou_change]

[an area of land marked by the presence of particular objects]

valley is almost entirely carpeted in blackness, the fur of innumerably many beasts, presumably some form of wolf

[I am assuming they are also covered entirely by one type of animal most likely some form of wolves]

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

[an area of land marked by the presence of particular objects]
[I am assuming they are also covered entirely by one type of animal most likely some form of wolves]

[... that was referring to the wolf-like creatures that got just got absolutely murdered and the place Sam was already in]

 

[DMUA]

"This time it could be my, moment..."

Old world jazz travels through Dieman's mind as he travels to the location. For now, he takes a brief look at the water, but ultimately decides the light is more unnatural and thus worth examining.

 

[Lou_change]

[I assumed that their nature was similar enough especially since I am pretty sure earth is still mostly lava and cold unfeeling rock I guess I go south south east]

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

Matricardo looks back at a whole chunk of the planet exploding.

"Wat."

He looks back at the goat, nearly losing his breath as he does.

"Did you do this? Or, do you know what did?"

He also tries reading his mind, if he even has one.

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Giju trying to take advantage on the fact that the thing is distracted, decides to activate her camouflage, trying to stealthily sneak behind the thing, and then... Utilizing her nanomachines to modify her arsenal, fusing her Sonic Crackers with the Zero-Point Energy from her forcefields. Loading herself up with some of them

She would then create an intangible Soul Body which grabs the Zero-Point Crackers, then it would turn into a ball, and...

The main Giju would rise high onto the air, trying to make as least of a noise possible, as she floats, releasing a shockwave as she turns into a ball too! However, remaining on the air as rocks start to fall down from the air.

The soul body would attempt to tackle the thing! With the Zero-Point Crackers still on it.

Then, the main Giju would return to her normal form, starting to descend with a fist on the ground. If it succeeded... she was going to do a very devastating attack: Shin Messenkou

 

[Overlord775]

@CrimsonStarFallen

The grandshroom notices the planet spilling out it's insides.

"... i have the feeling the people in the demon realm are causing this mess."

The mushroom replies to Matricardo, as it lightly waves at the goat thing.

@pile

The ones of the detached hand unto the cleaver completly cover it to form a new, overlapped fungi handle.

The demonshroom teleports right next to it, grabbing it. With spore demons acting as meat shields from the intense waves coming the remains of the nature spirit, the demonic fungi completly bends it's upper torso backwards in a swift motion as it charges a blow, bending down almost 90 degrees. As the cleaver's top pokes at the ground, it then jets back fowards like a hypercompresed spring in a downwards cleave aimed to cut off the thing's mutated arm right at the shoulder !

Most of the spores on the thing's surface have been blown up, but ... at this point they have rooted into it, diggen deeper than the surface level as the mycelium is it's body, which continues spreading, attempting to immobilize the thing and forcefully fuse with it, not assimilate, more incorporate.

"Give up already ! You've been reduced to a litteral pile of flesh and ashes while we remain at near the peak of our power, there's no possible scenario where you can win, but you may live if you surrender to my spores."

The demonic shrooms telephatically connects to the thing.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@Pile

"When will you stop this meaningless resistance!"

These words echoed through the mindscape at the being as it continued its attack.

The sensations were redirected towards the interface, though even it had trouble handling all of those to some degree, almost "shutting down" briefly.

Aya remained close to it as she continued her reforming, almost feeling like this would never end. And so, she took a chance to do something new. To cast a curse upon the being, while not to directly destroy it, the goal of the curse would be to alter its form somewhat, so that the "core" she saw would be easier to access, and easier to consume, were it still present, otherwise any other weaker points would be.

Large, crimson protrusions of flesh and malice formed from Aya's body and extended out from her, these protrusions would aim to take the core away if it were still present and exposed, and devour it, hoping to use the attacks of the others as an opportunity.

@Demon

He tries to get an idea of the location of the comprehensible ones, and makes a simple inquiry to them.

"Hello? Can you hear this communication?"

Is sent out to the ones that seem cognizant enough to comprehend.

@Paul_Frank

"Ugh... don't endanger yourself with that."

Aleia noted, as she had put herself back together, she also noted the sensations "jamming" the interface a little.

"Just, if there's any support you can provide that girl, that'd be good."

 

[Paul_Frank]

@The_Divine_Phoenix

"Support her hmm? Well it seems like this might be the final stretch, so I'm not sure if going there would be useful, but I can do this from here again."

Waving a hand again, Serafall casts tetrakarn and makarakarn for Aya and her compatriots, to defend from whatever last minute attacks could come out.

"It seems like she has a specific plan in mind for how to deal with it, and her method will probably work, so any more than this for now, might interfere."

@Hl3_or_bust

As the angel starts to feel these things, a light shines around its neck from the heavens, and one of Serafall's artifacts, Alcohol Nemesis, appears on it, to stabilize its thoughts and feelings again.

In response, the angel opens its mouth wide, and with an unnatural, guttural screech, sends a large ball of fire toward the creature to test it.

 

[deonment]

The hooded person begins to start to walk around the palace to see if he could try and find the area in which his brother might be

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

@orbit

"The demon realm? What are you...?"

Right, okay, focus. Let my senses go there and-

"Oh sweet Jesus what even is the plan Aya!?"

@pile

Suddely, from other universes, the souls of 2 of my other-selves appear close to the Pile. They hold onto it with claws cloaked in purple energy that stab into the pile's organic mass, slowing and debuffing the entire creature down considerably, before a time dialation field is formed by a 3rd soul, a ways from the Pile itself, bringing it to a near stop.

"We can't stay here for long, so this better work and you guys better have a plan for dealing with the after effects this will have ok the planet."

The 3rd soul would then accelerate to almost sub-luminal speeds towards the Pile and the other 2 souls, it's entire body coated in a sort of hot plasma. Upon coliding with them, it would explode with tremendous force, enough to vaporize it and the other 2 souls in a sort of suicide attack.

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

@pile
youwillnotwinlikethisyouknow
As the various attacks slam into the thing, with the exception of the demonshroom's attempted usage of the cleaver once held by the thing. Even as the disjointed arm flails wildly, the cleaver is unmoved from it's place, even with all the force the spores can possibly muster. If anything, it's as though it merely grows heavier as forced is exerted upon it. Ultimately, it sits exactly where it did before, unmoving yet lightly, harmlessly tugging on nearby space.
you...
While Aya finds that, predictably, that strange sphere is now gone, and the thing doesn't have any real weak points, in the sense that it doesn't seem especially inhibited by damage to any specific area, her curse seems to have... some effect, apparently causing the thing's body to violently writhe and shift internally.
iamnotlying youcannotwinlikethisnomatterhowhardyoustrugglenomatterhowhardyoutry youshouldunderstandthisbynow youhavediedtwicefailedtwiceandthethirdtimeforbothisonitsway
First, there is the assimilation of a not insignificant portion of the thing's body by the demonshroom's mycelium. This process even seems to cause it to recoil momentarily, as though suffering a new level of pain. Before it can even really raise it's arm to strike anything again, as though it could do much beyond blindly flail in this state, Giju's Zero-Point Energy-based attacks land, tearing into it and destroying what little energy still animated the thing. And then, the spirit manifested by Matricardo slams into it, eviscerating much of it's body. What most closely resembles the backmost half of a torso, open-necked and completely hollow even of bones, and around a third of a startling clean skull flies back, skidding over the ground before coming to rest in a heap.
areyousuggestingwhatithinkyouare
The thing writhes on the ground, seemingly unable to move beyond a few futile twitches with the remains of it's distorted arm.
youmustacceptit youcannotwinthiswayandthereisnoguaranteyouwillwithmyhelpbutitsabettershotthanwhateverelseyoumightbethinkingof
...
Then, slowly, a black pillar-like object, a shadow, rises out of the fore-distance, extending high into the sky. Eventually, a human-like head, or as best as can be assumed to be one given the silhouette nature it showcases, comes out from the object, horned with things like massive many-armed branches and it's eyes like suns. The area all around is tinted with a vibrant, pulsating red, along with a unique pressure. It feels... different to anything until now, not simply the presence of something much stronger or intimidating, but the presence of something utterly incapable with the perceivers existence, something that exists for little more than to destroy. The world seems to slow as primal survival instincts take hold for a moment, all senses flare and drop to near-unusability at random...
yes youwillthankmeforthisevenifwelosesomehow youarethemythscarvedinlimestonedeepbelowtheground youareallgodsallbeastsallspirits ifyouloseeverythingislostforeverandthatoldbastardwillhavewonhandily failureisnotanoptionthatyoucanallowtooccur
And the thing slowly stands. It is still damaged massively, to put it lightly, only appearing to have regrown a paltry, stick-like limb from the remains of it's arm, and the bright glare of it's eyes simple lights that appear over where the sockets used to be, as they are completely gone. Yet, it is cloaked in a reddish taint, something much more alive and feral than even the presence cast down over the area. Blood seems to materialize from nothing in the air or be pulled with great force clean from the bodies of those nearby and swirl around the thing in a massive tornado. Then, seeming to come from all directions at once, a voice is heard:
youarecorrect maybeicanfixthingsafterallthis stopanyofthisfromeverhappeningagainanybodylikethisfromeverexistingagain...
"You think my struggle is meaningless? It could not be anything further from the sort. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain from this, from destroying you and your filth, removing it from this world. I would be stupid to not choose this course of events."

Despite this, the thing doesn't move beyond taking a short, quick step forwards with the leg that still remains, somehow propping itself up on empty air with the other's stump.

@orbit

While the creature doesn't appear to react itself, a feminine voice is heard by the three near it:

"Merely the natural impulse to escape one's bondage. Escaping the constraints forced on oneself by others."

@DMUA

Approaching and eventually moving into the light, Dieman finds an almost idyllic arboreal setting. The trees and plants grow massive and strangely, but feel somehow comforting. Beyond all of this, is a view out over a lake, much larger than should be contained within this seemingly enclosed space, and a beach not far before it, and on that beach is... something. Brass-skinned, a humanoid figure with six distinct faces, all equally spaced around it's head despite the fact that one always faces it with three on each side, with the final seventh entirely unable to be placed and somehow also directly opposite of the face being viewed. The faces are those of an androgynous human, a bull, an eagle, a lion, a snake, and a ram. On the figure's back are seven equally spaced wings, placed in encirclement of a point in the center of it's back, each about as long as the figure is tall even when mostly retracted, such that a few are facing further away from the thing parallel to the ground rather than resting close to it.

Despite this... exceedingly unusual appearance, and the fact that it seems keenly aware of Dieman's presence, the figure seems almost at peace, docile even.

@Lou_change

After a while, Sam comes across a massive wall of shimmering light, positioned between two rather large rivers.

@Paul_Frank

With it's opening roar, the serpent angel can feel many eyes suddenly turn upon it. As the fireball it created trundles towards the massive beast, it unleashes a bellow of it's own, flatting and uprooting the land around it for kilometers, As the force of that vocalization alone hits the serpent, on top of appearing to directly sap the heat and energy of the fireball to nothing, dozens of wolf-like creatures, visually similar to the larger beast and even bearing similar horns, erupt from inside of the serpent.

@The_Divine_Phoenix

After a moment, what seems to be one of the presences does respond.

"Um, hello? I didn't think I was crazy, not yet anyways, or at the very least not enough to actively hear voices in my head."

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

"Wha-"

I look and turn around, sharpening and sharpening my senses. Where the hell did that...?

"Who, or what are you? And, what the hell do you even mean?"

 

[DMUA]

"Are you the one causing this?"

Dieman approaches the figure. The obvious conclusion would be to immediately engage in combat, but perhaps it is not so simple... And if it's not that, this opponent doesn't seem to be exactly fragile and easy to kill.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

Noah observes this new change in the reality of the battle, a new person entered here, interested he continued to see the outcome of things

 

[Overlord775]

@Pile

"Alright, you had your chance ..."

The demonshroom says as a sadistic smile forms across it's face.

"NOW DIE."

It says as it releases a gpoint blank gianoumous cluster of spores against the thing, which latch and anchor themselves unto it's body from all over and begin feasting, while the ones inside continue doing the same as swell as systematically screwing every internal fuction it has, as swell as currupting any supernatural stuff.

At the same time, a massive barrage of lasers is shot from the demon spawns against the dark pillar to take it down.

@Orbit

"Gonna have to be more specific than that girl, that could mean a great many things including very lewd ones-"

The blue grandshroom replies to the goat demon, who it assumes to be the source of the voice.

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

I look at the mushroom as if I'd seen an alien. Complete and utter bewilderment settles on his eyes and mouth.

"What are you- shut up dude!"

I put tape over his mouth.

 

[Overlord775]

Pouting

 

[Lou_change]

[I assumed that their nature was similar enough especially since I am pretty sure earth is still mostly lava and cold unfeeling rock I guess I go to hhe south-south-east one]

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

[slight edit then]

 

[Lou_change]

[Thank you very much]

"Interesting." I say to myself placing a bait bomb down to walk into the wall before activating instinct and seeing it slow with that I place one to go into each river and deactivating instinct throw two smoke balls at the ground to avoid possible retaliation.

 

[WHYNAUT]

Elfen's eyes widen as they snap out of it. Curiously their passive reality distorting effects shrink to being only around the surface of their armor.

"I see... I was caught up in the flow of the dream. How silly of me. But now I'm completely lucid."

@Orbit

Elfen was roughly aware of everything that was going on and decided the first place they would go to was orbit.

They simply appear a few meters to Matricardo's right. There was no distortion of reality, no glowing light; Elfen was simply there as if it always had been.

They then just floated in place without making a peep.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@Pile

The pulling of blood does little to Aya's body, as flesh means little to her in her current state.

"It is a struggle that will ultimately amount to nothing."

The corrupted demon answered, pulling herself to a standing position now, and gazing at the thing.

"Accept that this world will move on from you. There is nothing more to do."

She looked up at the new structure that had formed as well, though did not seem to act upon it yet.

She looks back at the spirit.

"I have had enough of this."

She says, pointing at it. And suddenly, through the power of this world, every atom in its body experiences a powerful pull in a different direction, as a tiny cocoon of malice forms to encompass each and every one.

@Demon

"Oh, right, not everyone would be used to such a thing. This is a telepathic communication. It's good to hear someone cohesive, and not featureless gargling or endless screaming."

The demon replied.

"My name is Ewald. I am investigating the new presences on this world. Who might you be?"

@Paul_Frank

"You keep underestimating yourself. I'm sure you could be of great use, though I suppose they are dealing with it."

She noted.

"What do you make of all of this? The nature spirit seems to have outlasted all expectations there."

@deonment

The location in question would be near a mural that was shown around before, displaying the origins of demon gods and Aleia herself.

 

[Paul_Frank]

@Hl3_or_bust

As the creatures erupt from within the serpent, it gives a last ditch attack, bursting into a destructive light to catch the smaller creatures as it died.

During the serpent's explosion, light shines from the heavens again, as more angels descend from Paradiso to join the fray, two new angels, that resemble Serafall rather than normal ones, attack. One of them raises a hand, generating a strong, shredding wind around itself, and the location of the larger beast, conjuring tornados on them, and the other generates a large wave of water to crash into the creature at the same time.

@The_Divine_Phoenix

"It's more that I feel it would be best to let them finish up if they already have a plan. Too many unpredicted variables could cause more difficulty in executing whatever actions they chose to do." She explains

"As for the spirit, it's certainly something alright, it's quite determined to get rid of us, and hurting it to this extent has already caused issues, so I imagine things will get worse before they get better. I also don't imagine the current events outside of here are entirely unrelated to what we did in here."

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Giju would keep on descending, now charging energy on her other hand. As she was preparing herself for her biggest attack, a combination of Rekkoha and Shin Messenkou. However... she still had to do something before she landed.

On the very brief moments her body was falling down, she did a series of actions, and although not a lot, they were still going to help her perhaps. As her back extends some cannons, launching Smart Missiles combined with Zero Energy to try and see if it would do something, along with... intiating the Iron Legion protocol to call some suits.

And down, she went, landing on the ground near the being, concentrating the Zero-Point energy in her hands... just to combine her with her energy, to try and harm the being's own energy, as she descended, slamming both hands on the ground with full power. Then, out of the ground erupted the combination of energy, on various pillars that rose up from the ground, rising high into the sky.

 

[deonment]

Looking at the mural he would be a bit curious at the nature of it and the story behind it but he would have to leave that for later, as he entered into the reality he would just having one thing to say "Why am I not surprised, you always did have a knack for finding something that could kill you."

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

@pile

In a brief moment, while Aya is still speaking, some sort of deeper aura manifests around the thing, taking solid form in the place of the removed portions of its body as blood-red equivalents.

As the demonshroom unleashes its spore burst, the aforementioned aura appears to flare, filling the area with flames. These flames are most intense around the spores, which are being burned away significantly faster than they could possibly grow, in a manner visually similar to friction eating away at high-speed materials. By the time of Aya's more severe attack and Giju's less focused one, the thing is entirely obscured behind a massive plume of smoke and flames, on top of the strange tornado previously manifested. In fact, while it does still land to some extent, visibly damaging the thing to a significant margin, Aya's attack mostly misses, thanks to the thing's quick movements, and what does "land" against it seems far less effective than normal.

However, in the process of charging Aya, Giju's various upward-aimed beams tag the thing multiple times, slowing it and, at least momentarily, destabilizing the aura that replaces most of its body. It brings a single strike forwards into roughly the center of Aya's chest, which goes flying in the direction of the thing's movements in many separate pieces. But, more than the simple physical harm, is something else, a sort of spiritual wound. It is as though a not-insignificant partition of what truly makes Aya herself was damaged, a sort of spiritual viscera flying out from the wound as well. Even with the near-maddening hatred that she brought upon herself, this is a suffocating level of agony for Aya, like a would that would place any normal being into terminal shock, clouding her mind and dulling her senses.

At that moment, the churning air and blood that surrounds the thing grows more intense, exactly doubly so, tearing at all those present. And after its attack against Aya, the thing stalls for a moment, stopping in its tracks, before turning and making a run for the cleaver, still suspended mid-air and coated in spores.

But, careful observation would prove there to be a flaw in this second wind. When taking damage to the head, or at least what remains of it, the aura around it will become wildly unstable for a moment, with this effect growing as damage is accrued. Exactly why this is the case is unclear, as the thing has not exactly shown to be particularly attached to its head before this point, but that doesn't truly matter.

@orbit

"Some things, some people, lost, left in the dark and the forests, drifted up into the skies."

The creature responds. Those paying special attention could notice it looking directly at the massive ball of molten material now hovering a dozen or two kilometers off the surface of the Sahara desert. Matricrado, as well, turning to focus on the creature, almost feels as though a veil was removed from before his eyes, showing what this thing truly is: an inchoate mass of souls, the faceless, forgotten dead, numbering in the billions. And that's just the human ones, beyond that there are a supreme variety of animals, large and small. None of these souls seem dejected about their predicament, though, and are silent.

Those in orbit with proper senses can feel... something, in that massive ejected core. Something not unlikely the presences of "unreality" felt elsewhere, but much more intense. And those with proper sight, could see rather large, centipede-like segments going into and out of the structure and down into the earth below, as though chaining it in place, each as thick as a man is tall and thrice as wide.

@DMUA @Lou_change

The brass figure "turns" to Dieman, orienting its human face towards him, before responding.

"By 'this', you would be speaking of the light surrounding this place, yes?"

Its voice isn't discernably male or female, more the words themselves appearing within whatever Dieman's equivalent of ears are than what normal sound is, as one may expect from the lack of facial movement on the figure's part.

Entering the wall of light, Lou finds the same scenic locale as Dieman, and can even see him conversing with a highly unorthodox brass figure.

@The_Divine_Phoenix

There is a short pause from the feminine voice, before it responds.

"... I see. I am a Collector, of sorts. It's the best word to use that you would understand, I think. Not like that really matters a lot, given how downhill this entire place has gone. There won't even be anything left to bother with at this rate."

The voice responds, sounding rather jaded.

@Paul_Frank

The serpent's dying attack eviscerates most of the smaller creatures, leaving the most intact ones little more than a head, two front legs, and part of a torso, limp and lifeless.

Meanwhile, the two descending angels' attacks bear down on the creature, tearing at its flesh and throwing it around, but are seemingly unable to affect its bones, exposed as they are. The creature, for this efforts, spends a short moment appearing to force something back up its throat, before a series of greyish-green lamprey-like things extrude from the inside of its mouth, explosively flying towards the two angels.

@Earth

Due to the rather extreme movement of the center of the earth's magnetic field, the whole of the field shifts with it. On top of being drastically weakened overall, exacerbating the issues that follow, the area first five or so latitude lines, starting from the exact point on earth opposite the current position of the core, are almost instantly rendered barren wastelands, cooked to practically nothing by the now-unfiltered infrared radiation of the sun and killing whatever life remained sans specific extremophile bacteria.

 

[DMUA]

"The... unreality, as I am told it is..."

 

[CrimsonStarFallen]

I stay silent for a moment, looking upon the mass of souls from before my eyes. Somehow, i feel a connection to it. Peharps it is an idea brought forth by my guilt, but i feel responsible for it. I reach out for it. Not the vessel, but the souls of the billions... no, uncountable dead, and "touch" the mass. It's cold to the touch.

"I promise to carry your will."

As i pull back, i look at the molten core and teleport a few hundred kilometers away from it. Speeding up, i turn an arm into a massive blade made to cut away the centipede-like apendages, severing it from the Earth, before diving into it.

 

[Lou_change]

Sam watches quietly and confused, it seems the wall and rivers didn't react to her bombs so she just waits the conversation to finish.

 

[WHYNAUT]

Elfen could see the colour of each and every soul that was part of the mass. Together they created a beautiful image that resembled a rainbow to an extent.

"Heh, it seems it was worth coming here."

They then travel back to their home in the North Pole. There Elfen warps reality in order to keep it safe from the various calamities that are currently tearing away at Earth. Though Elfen will stay there and keep their home and the lives they created safe, their Shadow has another mission.

Elfen's Shadow shows up near Matricardo and gives him a nod.

"Since my master promised to help you, I was sent here."

While analyzing the centipede-like segments, the Shadow tries using Insect Control on them. Though if this fails they have portals ready near the segments for an attack. They would create a tag with the word 'decay' on it and pull countless copies of the tag from time and send them through the portals.

 

[Overlord775]

@Pile

At this point, the mushroom growth on the weapon has grown enough to completly cover it in a thick and giant fungal mass. From said bulk of living matter, a grat many spied tentacles shoot out and aim at the ashed nature spirit, trying to impale the thing's head and torso.

At the same time, the demonshroom teleports itself behind the fungi blob to protect itself from the aura, as it start produing more spores for more spore demons to bombard the spirt with demonic spheres of energy.

@Space

The shroom emperor teleports alongside Matricardo, utilizing Daedolous Pierce to massivelly debuff the power and defence of the centipide thingies, as at the same time it summons Apocalypse into it's hand and follow after it's ally.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEYA !"

The grand shoorm unleashes a flurry WAAARGH-infused slashes agains the cetipede parts to cut them to pieces, then agan following inside of the planet.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@pile

Aya's very soul was torn into, as the world had to cope with this happening, and to try and repair these things.

The surroundings themselves seemed to contort to some extent in concert with this, as if the world itself was in anger.

Yet, somehow, Aya continued to take in the sensations, and almost enjoyed them. The sensations of a true battle to the death. This was what had shifted her alignment from Aleia as well, the fact that she had experienced these things and they allowed her to gain individuality.

Aya appeared in front of it as it ran for the cleaver, and the very surroundings seemed to stop in front of her, and as a result, on him, as they were "set" to absolute zero conditions. Above, a huge mass of demonic energy could be seen forming, as if gathering from every corner of this world.

@demon

"A collector? Hm, not unlike our lady then."

The demon remained quiet for some time.

"This world will not remain the way it is. There is a plan to restore it to more acceptable conditions."

He explained.

@Paul_Frank

"It seems likely those events are related, however, I believe we can undo that damage. And that girl... is something else. I'm not even piloting her or managing her actions anymore. She is doing all of this of her own free will."

Aleia recounted, she sounded a little surprised too.

"I believe it will end soon."