4-30-2020 Mithril log

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My current hypothesis regarding these shard warps and the associated Time/Space Fuckery is that these warps function similarly to Spiral Perceptual Teleportation, and can be directed and guided in a similar way.

I've already made an earlier, successful attempt with this when time/space first broke, using this opportunity to pull Alternate Omicron from a fraying timeline. Indeed, the way Hero Squad is being warped from place to place via the shards, and the spiraling cracks from the shard warps... Libera seems to have come up with the same hypothesis as I did regarding this Time/Space Fuckery.

I prefer using my own metal power over Spiral power, to be honest. Reasons include better energy-efficiency, being enhanced by both my extremely high intelligence AND extremely high willpower, the fact that I'm not DNA-based dampening any Spiral power I might use, and not causing that Spiral Nemesis apocalypse/end-of-the-universe. My own metal power can make constructs, and, with Metal Gate: Accel Shift, I can teleport. As for the (Super) Spiral Shield aspect and its equivalent, I have some stuff in the pipeline I've been working on that may show up later on...

Anyhow, attempt number two at directing a shard warp: Focusing on a Hero Band to Perceptual Teleport to (I'll say rock guy's Hero Band this time), I broke into what appears to be an ongoing shard event, where rock guy, Sapphire, Broxigar, Anti, and what looked to be a fusion between Bloodriver, Xenon, and Beta fighting what was apparently hostile, crazy Libera.

Running the recent recorded fight footage to bring me up to speed, I learned that hostile, crazy Libera is called Lazenn, he's corrupted and more powerful than present day main timeline Libera, he's... probably undead or something like that, and he has some weird Lance of Longinus thing, with Anti having a Lance of Cassius.

Starting out by activating Metal Gate, I started out by generating a massive barrage of various metal projectiles. Lazenn put up his Super Spiral Shield, blocking that. Mainly to be cheeky, I also threw in several metal copies of that Lance that Lazenn was using in the tail end of said barrage. Unlike the other metal projectiles, Lazenn actively swatted most of those aside with his own copies of his Lance of Longinus, but a few metal copies pierced through the Super Spiral Shield, gouging into his body.

"Huh, that's interesting. Didn't expect the metal copies of that Lance of Longinus to have such a difference in effectiveness... " ... especially since I didn't imbue my power nullifier in those.

"A metal elemental...? So even an ordinary metal copy will borrow some of the Lance's power to pierce defenses," Anti noted.

"What are these Lances anyways? Additionally, how, if at all, does your Lance of Cassius differ from his Lance of Longinus?" I asked.

"Longinus was made more to be thrown, Cassius more to be a melee weapon. If there is any other difference, it is lost to time. I know them only as old weapons that pierce all defenses," Anti replied.

Since it has been confirmed that even metal copies of the Lances can pierce through (Super) Spiral Shields, I decided, hey, I'll spam more of those. However, Lazenn retaliated with his own barrage of Longinus copies, and as the copies clashed, it was clear that his Spiral-based copies had more of that super special piercing all defenses power, beating back my own barrage. I then imbued my power nullifier into my following Longinus copies, and with that, both of our barrages cancelled each other out.

I made a bunch of clones, and then simultaneously charged and stayed back to charge up some powerful attacks. Lazenn fired a huge barrage of cylinder drills, white fire, and Longinus copies, and used Spiral Perceptual Teleportation to home in on me and my clones.

Rock guy made stone copies of the Lances and threw them at Lazenn, Betariver likewise making some blood-water-light Lance copies of a sort, Sapphire made an ice copy of the Lance of Cassius and rushed in to try and stab Lazenn with that, Brox rushed Lazenn with an axe swing, and Anti tried to stab Lazenn with Cassius again. Lazenn made more Longinus copies and widened the scope of his barrage, but several of the aforementioned attacks got through, his body becoming more and more tattered, before he warped away again.

I, along with the few clones that survived the barrage, grew multiple lengthy arms, each one holding a Cassius copy imbued with my power nullifier, and emerged from the smoke, rushing at Lazenn, who had just emerged from a warp. He unleashed a flood of white fire from his chest and his left arm in an attempt to fend me off, but a few clones utilizing my power nullifier kamikazed into the fray, offsetting the flames. I then extended my arms and then stabbed Lazenn straight through his Super Spiral Shield with my Cassius copy, I myself evading his simultaneous Longinus stab due to my superior reach. Just before the subsequent Cassius copy stabs hit him however, he warped away... only for the rest of the Squad (and Anti) to warp right into his location and unleash their respective attacks.

Lazenn's defensive response was to raise a huge burr drill around himself, expanding it tremendously to drive everyone away from him. He then screeched very angrily and used a corrupted Spiral power version of Giga Drill Maximum, wreathed in Spiral power and white flames for the elementals in the Squad, and fired a huge amount of those strange, oversized drills at us. An initial attempt by us to evade revealed that this attack was also homing, and thus each of us would have to deal with part of that attack in their own way.

The other Hero Squad members dealt with the homing attack in a manner similar to how they did before. As for Anti's defensive response, he used his own attacks to neutralize as much of the incoming barrage as he could. I dealt with the attack by countering with my own barrage of power nullifier-infused Lances... however Lazenn, again abusing Spiral Perceptual Teleportation, had the drills open up, multiple lasers emerging from them to blast at us. Lazenn fired a Lazenn Impact at Anti, and then he warped behind me, corrupted Spiral Power gathering in his Lance of Longinus.

As before, I could maneuver around his Lance of Longinus... however this time he fired some kind of massive homing white flame laser drill attack from the hole in his chest at point-blank range. Since I couldn't dodge this one, I instead went in, closing the distance for the cross-counter.

"<b>Chromium Chainaxe!</b>" I roared, slamming a power-nullifier imbued chainaxe into Lazenn's Super Spiral Shield, the weapon cleaving through his defenses and ripping apart his left eye. Simultaneously, his own attack slammed into me, sending me skidding back from the impact.

Before the others could capitalize on that, Lazenn fired off another huge attack, this one a corrupted version of Libera's Maelstrom Cannon. At first Lazenn's version appeared to be the same, aside from the beams being white. Then the portals open back up and out comes a storm of white flame tornadoes in every direction.

I spammed many power-nullifier projectiles to offset part of that, the other Squad members (and Anti) each helping out in their own way with defense, but still, part of the attack went through, the sound of the impacts resounding through the entire HQ.

This time the other Hero Squad members (and Anti) rushed Lazenn to put pressure on him, giving me an opportunity to fire off a strong ranged attack, "<b>Rubidium Railgun!</b>" The charged railgun shot crashed into Lazenn, an angry shriek resounding throughout HQ, as the attack kicked up a massive cloud of dust.