Metatron · Date a Slime

Metatron (Angel of the Crown, Metatron) is the angel of the first sephirah, Keter, wielded by Origami Tobiichi. It has no body: it manifests as eight semi-autonomous light cannons that form a crown behind you. Each mode is not a strike but a formation: you give the order, and the cannons fly, charge and fire on their own. It is a Tensura Ultimate skill.

Getting the angel

In creative or by command: /give @s dateaslime:sephira_keter, then right-click with the crystal in hand to absorb it. If you already have Metatron, the crystal is refused and stays in your hand.
In survival (since 0.0.2, in early access): bosses have a 1% chance to drop a Qlipha Crystal. Origami always drops Keter's; other bosses roll one at random. Do not absorb it: it must be purified by planting it in creatures until the real Sephira Crystal of Keter drops. Everything is explained in Qlipha Crystals.

Usage

Put Metatron in a skill slot of your Tensura preset and activate it with that slot's key. To switch modes, use Tensura's mode keys or hold G to open the mode wheel.

Every mode is available as soon as you acquire the angel. Above all, every technique calls the crown if it is not there: no need to summon first and then switch modes — pressing Kadour with no cannons out raises your arm, opens the gate and launches the hunt in one go.

Cannons

95 damage, 96 blocks

Artelif beam

5 s

Artelif charge

48 blocks, 3 cannons

Lock-On

×3 creative flight

Flight (Mal'akh)

1,500 magicules

Max cost

5 s

Max cooldown

The modes

Press. You raise your arm; after 0.4 s a gate opens 13 blocks above you and the eight cannons burst out of it before settling into a crown at your back. Press again to send the cannons back: they fly up into the sky and fade away.

Cost: 300 magicules to call, nothing to dismiss.
Cooldown: none.
Duration: unlimited. The crown stays until you dismiss it, you die, or your skills are sealed.
The crown slowly rotates and leans behind you when you dash.

Kadour, Sword of Light. Press. The formation breaks: each cannon picks a prey and dives onto it. Targets are handed out in turn among the eight cannons (against two enemies, each gets four), nearest first.

Cost: 400 magicules.
Cooldown: 2 s.
Damage: 14 per cannon that hits, so up to 112 on a single target.
Range: creatures within 26 blocks, in line of sight.
Targets: every living creature except players.
Each cannon strikes only once, then returns to the crown.

Shemesh, The Sun. Press. The cannons rise into a halo 4.6 blocks above you and spin fast to gather light, then pour it down as a rain of beams all around.

Cost: 900 magicules.
Cooldown: 4 s.
Charge: 1.7 s, then about 6 s of rain (7.5 s in total).
Damage: 7 per beam, within 2 blocks of the point of impact; each cannon fires every 0.35 s, about 130 beams in total.
Area: random points in a 7-block circle around you.
You are never hit, but everything else is, allies included.

Artelif, Crown Cannon. Press or hold. The cannons close ranks in front of you, tips aligned with your gaze, into a spindle of light. The charge builds for 5 seconds, then a single beam leaves from a focus 5 blocks in front of your eyes. The shot fires on its own once the charge is full: releasing the key neither cancels it nor fires it early.

Cost: 1,500 magicules.
Cooldown: 5 s, set on release.
Damage: 95, within 4.5 blocks of the beam's line.
Range: 96 blocks, stopped by the first solid block.
Aim: what counts is where you look at the moment of the shot; you can correct your aim for the whole charge.
The cannons go back to the crown a little over a second after the shot.

Mal'akh, Heavenly Wings. Press. The cannons fold into two wings on your back and you take off with a leap. Press again to fold the wings.

Cost: 200 magicules.
Cooldown: none.
Flight: free flight, about 3 times faster than creative-mode flight.
Falling: no fall damage while the wings are open.
While sprinting, your body stretches out horizontally.
Casting another technique does not make you fall: the wings only close if you press Mal'akh again or if the crown disappears.

Lock-On. Press. Metatron locks onto the creature you are looking at: the three nearest cannons leave the crown, circle it at 4 blocks, hover above it and riddle it with bolts of light. The other five stay with you.

Cost: none.
Cooldown: 2 s, only if a target was locked. Aiming at nothing costs nothing (message "Nothing to lock on.").
Range: 48 blocks along your line of sight.
Damage: 6 per bolt, each cannon firing about every 0.45 s.
Duration: about 5.5 s. Locking the same target again extends the barrage without interrupting it.
Can target any creature, players included.

Mode summary

Mode	Cost	Cooldown	Effect
Manifestation	300 (call) / 0 (dismiss)	—	Calls or dismisses the crown of 8 cannons
Kadour	400	2 s	Each cannon dives onto a creature (14 damage), 26 blocks
Shemesh	900	4 s	Halo, then a rain of ~130 beams of 7 damage around you
Artelif	1,500	5 s	5 s charge, 95-damage beam over 96 blocks
Mal'akh	200	—	Wings: fast free flight, no fall damage
Lock-On	0	2 s	3 cannons circle the target (6 damage per bolt)

Damage values are base values; Tensura then adjusts them according to the caster and the target's resistances.

Locks and limits

Segva (the lock of Michael) seals your skills: the crown falls apart at once, and your wings with it.
The crown disappears if you die or leave the world.
Kadour ignores players: in PvP, rely on Lock-On or Artelif.
Shemesh and Artelif hurt everything in their area except you, including your allies and pets.
The Artelif beam stops at the first solid block: it does not go through walls.
The cannons can be neither struck nor destroyed.

Tips

Call the crown before the fight: a technique cast without cannons first spends the time of the summoning (the arm, the gate, the cannons' flight).
During the Artelif charge, keep the target in your sights until the very end: the direction of your gaze at the moment of the shot is what counts.
Lock-On is free: use it continuously between techniques, and lock the same target again to extend the barrage.
Mal'akh + Lock-On: fly out of reach while three cannons deal with the target.
Kadour spends its magicules even with no prey in view: make sure creatures are in line of sight before you cast it.