Polychrome Burst

Polychrome Burst is a Multi-Type Artifact created by the Great Kings from the corpse of S.S. It is currently in the possession of Serina Morriyane.

Appearance
An orb of Compressed Ethr Crystal about the size of a size 3 football, give or take. The surface of the orb is "decorated" with intricate mechanical pieces which form a cute little map of Arcerra. The whole Artifact has an ethereal glow that changes colour between white, cyan, lavender, and cerulean. Like an Aurora. The Two hemispheres of the orb can be pulled apart slightly, better revealing the solid Compressed Ethr Crystal cylinder that hosts the bulk of the Artifact's Programming. The Cylindrical core magically extends and retracts when the Artifact it in use.

Time Manipulation
When activated, Polychrome Burst will proceed to slow down or speed up Time within a spherical area of the user's choice to about 17150 times slower of faster than normal, greatly Inhibiting movement and slowing down the speed of magic attacks of anyone and anything within the area. The area under Polychrome Burst's influence is seen as having inverted colours from the outside. Everything looks completely normal if you're inside of it.

This has many, many uses, ranging from being able to freeze attacks for long enough to dodge them with ease, to encasing yourself in an area of sped up time to complete long tasks that would otherwise take months in a matter of seconds. Only a small radius that surrounds the user isn't affected.

The size of this radius can be changed according to the user's will, from about the size of a thin membrane around their body, to just enough space to fit ten people. When Polychrome Burst is speeding up time, the user is always affected. The larger the size of the radius, the more Flow the artifact takes from the User to fuel itself.

Frozen Time
When the effects of Polychrome Burst are dispersed the inverted colours of all the areas affected will produce ultra-cold spikes of "frozen time": blindingly bright, sparkling manifestations of time-space that emanate icy mist and vibrate with a strange, otherworldly pitch. If the user was inside of the slowed area at the moment of dispersion, the frozen time will fly out and home in on enemies. Keep in mind it'll only attack people the user considers enemies; If there are no enemies nearby the spikes quickly shatter after being formed. If there was an enemy inside of the slowed area at the moment of dispersion, the frozen time will fly at them.

If (when) a spike of frozen time hits an enemy, one of three things will happen:


 * 1) They shatter into a pile of frozen chunks of flesh.
 * 2) They begin to age so rapidly that they die of old age within seconds, after which their rotting body decomposes into a pile of dust, then "reverse ages" into them as a baby, before aging back to the moment they got hit, glitching into different points in their life. This continues for about a minutes or so before the affected is encased in a veil of frozen time that shatters into a million pieces. They are dead. Forever.
 * 3) They begin to randomly blink around. then they disappear. Random parts of them begin to blink back into existence momentarily: A headless face, a floating heart, an empty husk of skin, until pieces of them start dropping out of nowhere, until only a pile of blood, organs, bones, and skin, remain.

Ways to Kill People
Literally just land a single attack. Polychrome Burst is the reason why Artifacts are called "One-hit-kill weapons".



Limitations
Trying to actually stop time is something beyond Polychrome burst's capacity. Nothing will happen if this is attempted.

Leaving a part of an object or person within an area of slowed down/sped up time rather than the entirety of it causes some issues with physics that the Great Kings couldn't find a way around, and thus attempting to do so was made impossible during Polychrome Burst's creation. Anything inside or touching PC Burst's slowed-down area is affected.

Trivia
For the longest time Frozen Time was called "weird-ice-timey-wimey-space-shit".

I also forgot that the Delta Artifacts all have to have Raw Elemental Power. Polychrome Burst only had Time/Space powers once.

Much, much later, I also remembered that Delta Artifacts are meant to only have raw Elemental power. Polychrome Burst is no longer a Delta Artifact, and has had it's "Snow Globe" ability removed and moved to Ice Delta Artifact