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The world around Lyger began to twist and contort, the very fabric of reality bending and being drawn downwards at a point not far from him. The ground remained intact, but it was stretching at a point as if the hand of god were poking a single point. The ground shuddered as it rebounded, a chill filling the air as the plain suddenly turned to solid ice around a point where a towering individual stood. He had broken off a piece of another plane and transplanted it to that location via the planar distortion generator located within him.

He was a monolith, to be sure, sleek and smooth, eight feet of pristine white metal. There was no sign of breathing and no sign of human activity, but the glow of the eyes betrayed a presense within all too human. Two hilts of black rose from his shoulders, but no blades could be seen. Compartments filled the armor of this great beast, covering its skin, if it was a beast at all. It seemed to have a magical aura about it, but it seemed to be completely robotic. Was it a robot with a soul? Perhaps a lesser mobile suit? Maybe even a man stuck in a machine.



Its avian head twitched as the two optics focused on Lyger, one glowing green and the other red, but azure limned them both, "Greetings humanoid." For a moment a third eye seemed to bass over its pristine white forehead as he bowed, "My designation is Venificus mk I, Ven production series Prototype. Most call me Vini." He pronounced the last word, his name, as the human name Vinny. Something about him didn't sit right. He looked to just be a simply prototype bot, not anything worth combatting aside from his strength and speed.

((Indeed >.<))

Vini nodded, "This one has heard of such an entity. This one was repaired by the one designated Turey Izmir, another of this Dominion." He gave a slight bow, sending one arm out wide as if gesturing in a regal manner, thanking Lyger for this opportunity.

-=CLACK=-

With the sound of metal on metal scraping open to a single position slots opened up across his body, each glowing with a bright blue as the flows of mana around him began to drain directly into each slot with heat flowing out from within. A humming sound began to flow out from within him as his AI systems began to kick his TN core up a notch.

Then he moved. His speed seemed to match that of the fastest humanoids, and he hadn't even yet brought his core to full efficiency. He was built to counter other robots of his kind, refined to stand against Ikibetech. Ikibetech was responsible for the bots that have nearly killed Tacitus Nusradai on several occassions and even leveled the GPD.

Vini's left hand was brought up from his thigh where a weapon had been concealed, a handgun that, in the hands of a human, would tear arm from their body when they tried to fire it. Three shots rang out, .50 calibre slugs fires at a speed that was a small step below that of guass technology, the first slave AI acting as a targeting computer, guiding his shots to between the eyes, the chest, and the groin. Once the firing was completed a secon program concentrated on bringing up a 3D representation of the area, MagRes focusing on metallic objects, lighting them up light a Christmas Tree, IR overlayed this with heat patterns, and Visuals gave a cone within of sight. Sonics were interpretted and fed into the simulations, noting the distance and location of each spectator and even the rustle of grass underfoot and any sounds coming from Lyger, even so little as a blade cutting through the air.

The second AI slave was centered on spellcating, augmenting the main to not only amplify the spells cast, but reduce the overall time it took to conform the mana in his reserves and that which was flowing into him to the spells at hand.

The True Sight enchantment saw through the decoy the moment he split, the after-images of the two forms meaning nothing to him as he tracked the metallic blade nearing him. Orange light limned his form as his passive hasting effect was augmented by a magical one, thrusting him into action as his form rocketed into the air, a trail of useless mana left in his wake, venting along with the heat. One of the blade would slide along his armored leg and merely scratch the alloy, any enchantments or energy based effects on the blade nullified for the moment. ((2 posts))

The secondary AI slave continued updating the 3D imaging he had set up every other nanosecond, giving him a full representation of the area. His main AI core was set to the task of completing the spell that had been started, the primary AI slave also working to finish up the spell. A wave pulsed outwards from him, spreading through the arena quickly and then fading to nothing. It was a scan of sorts, utilizing each of the five energy types, each of the four axes of alighment, a wide range of elements, and even psionics to gauge the opponent's reaction and adjust accordingly. Ingrained in the spell was a simple enchantment to know the effects it has on anything within the area. No real damage would be done, because after all, it was merely a means to test the waters.

Before the scan was even completed the Main AI began conforming mana into a conversion spell to alter his basic form to easier facilitate one element above the rest, and by the time the readout was finished, though it merely took approximately a second, if that, the spell was altered and the two AI cores began working together in tandem to ramp up completion of the spell.

Vini himself was making a hasty retreat, unwilling to stay too close without a proper defence prepared. Within him grenades were slowly being created from the 'factory' of sorts that built them, preparing the fuses and the like, but not as yet loading the cores. He required 'food.' In his retreat of sorts a hand swung down and tore up a bit of the ground, shoveling it into his mouth. It didn't matter what it was, atoms were there, and rearranged on a subatomic scale even dirt could be made useful...eventually.

((I appologize for the extreme delay in my reply, but I kinda lost interest in the fight.))

Several shots rang out as Vini's targeting computer came back online. A stream of Magebane ammunition was fired in a constant stream up through the beam, disrupting and dispersing it, any remnants not eaten away by the antimagic merely running over his armor harmlessly, dispelled by the nullification built into his armor to keep magic and tech from interfering with one another. Not all of the bulets would be destroyed by the beam, a problem Lyger would have to deal with.

Streams of mana began to conform to the calculations he had renewed, streams of robin's egg blue flitting around him, passing out from his optics as each displayed a rather odd formation. *_* In a few short moments his alterations would be complete.