Some info about Shrike: avatar of the Machine. His blades ignore durability, have casual time-travel (he is using it in combat). His body is made from 100% love (because Machine God is the troll apparently).
Special abilities: Farcasting, can teleport into almost any place of the universe and in any time. Can also teleport his blades inside someone's body. Can cast Merlin Sickness (this causes person to age backwards, losing all memories as person becomming more and more young). Can summon copies of himself from all timelines (1 second ago or from 1 second in future or from 1000 years ago or from parallel universes and so on) and they all have his combat and special abilities. Should Shrike main body be destroyed he can regenerate himself from any of his copies.
Intelligence: playing against Human God (near omnipotent god-like being, Shrike's goal is to force Human God to come back to his battle against Machine God) and so far Shrike is winning.
Combat speed: Here one of Hyperin Cantos main characters Kassad dodges laser when he uses battle armor:
-Kassad!
Kassad ducked as the laser beam crept past his shoulder, burning its way through the air like a slow fuse of ruby light. Kassad smelled ozone as it crackled past. Impossible. I've dodged a laser!
Here Shrike messing with Kassad just for fun. Shrike using his speed to appear in several places just to remind Kassad difference between them. Kassad can't even see him moving, all he can see is afterimages:
The Shrike stood between him and the tree...
A second Shrike was emerging from the tomb called the Sphinx. Farther down the valley, a Shrike stepped from the entrance to the Jade Tomb. Harsh Light glinted from spikes and razorwire as another emerged from the Obelish, half a klick away. Kassad ignored them and turned back toward the tree and its protector. A hundred Shrikes stood between Kassad and the tree. He blinked, and a hundred more appeared to his left. He looked behind him, and a legion of Shrikes stood as impassively as sculptures on the cold dunes and melted boulders of the desert... there were thousands of Shrikes in the hills and valleys now. Talons clicked open in unison; light glinted on tens of thousands of scalpel shaped blades and thorns. Kassad ignored the others and ran toward the Shrike he thought was the first he had seen.
- Bloodlusted Shrike.
So how far can Shrike go?
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