>>4943>The creature seems stunned, even hurt by the attacks at first, then starts walking forward, the flames licking against its "skin" harmlessly.
>Watching the action unfold below her, Omega looks at Alpha."How long?"
"Unclear, there's something anchoring. . ."
"Longer, then."
>Not touching the ground, Omega moves over to the snake woman."You. You were with him when he did the ritual, who was he summoning?"
>The snake woman shrugs."Why should I tell you?"
"Simple, things won't be fun for you if you're dead."
>The woman thinks things over for a moment, weighing the options in her head, then comes to a conclusion."Some kind of lord of darkness he said, Tennerbret, or was it Terbulus. . ? Oh, that was it,
Tenebrae, because it always sounded like that when I said it."
>Omega's eyes widen, then she looks over at the creature, holding a hand out."Apologies for this, try to land well."
>Omega gestures downwards with her outstretched hand, causing the gravity in the area around the creature to increase massively and the floor to open up, sending both the creature and Demiurge and Victoria downwards to the surface below the chamber at high speed.
>Omega looks up at the hovering man and Lisa."Go, try to combine your bullets with her attacks in a way that you can use from a distance - if you manage to take one out with the resulting annihilation, that should be enough, it requires time to adapt."
>Leaving the pair to head down, Omega floats back up to the control section."Such an
amazing choice in champions, brother."
>Closing her eyes, Omega reaches out to all of the remaining contestants telepathically."The creature you're facing would be called. . . a Genogen in your language, capable of adapting to almost anything its hit with, should it survive, by manipulating the laws of any plane that it's attached to. Which means, simply, you have to make sure it
doesn't survive, destroy the shadows that make it up in a single attack, and it shouldn't return. I'm sending Lisa down to fire at it again. . . Victoria, if you can attack it
indirectly, you should be able to trigger a reaction that ends it
and doesn't kill you. . . besides that, you just need to survive whatever other ones have arrived."
>Omega cuts off the connection, sighing.>>4944>As Omnius receives the telepathic message, he can see the rapidly falling form of the first creature from the chamber, before a cacophany of screeching and screaming sounds indicate that more are arriving from nearby.
>Before they arrive, however, the snake woman falls down behind Omnius, slowly stopping to "stand" behind him, and holds a hand out, temporarily sending the swarm away."Hi~ I know you threw me in the air earlier, but I'll forgive you if you don't do it again and help me~."