Nier y in the crater's depths, his eagle form a mangled mess of feathers and blood, the asphalt cracked like spiderwebs around him.

  But more than anything else, pain nced through his body, but, Unlimited was already at work, shapeshifting via Body Modification to heal, and applying the Gaian energy from his brand to surge through his veins and body to increase the speed of healing.

  Faster than ever, flesh began to knitting rapidly, while fractured bones move back in pce, flesh wounds, and critical wounds both was transformed into healed wounds.

  'Damn, that hurt like a motherfucker ahhh, why is she so fucking strong, it like I got drop kick by a bridge from above that was toss at me faster than the speed of sound.'

  He thought, his mind racing.

  'The aside, she is fast...too fast, I didn't even register her movement from all the way down on the street to way up here on my back until it was too te.'

  'Still, I am no idiot, she mistook me as a flux, ahhh fuck me, sigh I need to hurry up and find a way to escape this pce.'

  But before Nier even had time to think and pn, Lady Blue leaped down into the crater, her cws gleaming under the streetlights as she advanced forward.

  "So you are one of those rare talking flux egh? The doctor did told me if I found one, bring it to him immediately, I never seen one that can fly and talk, you animal base fluxes are no different from earthly animals, so it is a little surprising to see one that can talk."

  Meanwhile Nier looked at the woman, his wounds still healing.

  "Ohhh and you can heal too, hmm strange is that Gaian energy, that weird I can sense Flux energy from you as well, some kind of energy manipution I presume?"

  "Well it doesn't matter, you are coming with me ugly."

  She said as she lunged, her hand clenched into a tight fist as she aim to break his wings.

  Nier didn't wait up though.

  In a blur he change his shape, as he expended 200 units of Negativity, his form rippling and expanding.

  Feathers melted away as his body morphed into a colossal armored goril, thick, hippo-hide pting covering his massive frame, muscles bulging with reinforced iron from his blood.

  The transformation was seamless, as it was instinctive, his size ballooning to match her blow. He caught her incoming hand mid-strike, his enormous paw cmping down like a vice, halting her momentum dead.

  Lady Blue's eyes widened fractionally, her sneer faltering for a split second.

  "Oh? Not total trash after all. So you are not bird, I see are you one of those shapeshifter I hears Nyx talking about as of tely... Hahaha this might actually fun."

  "However you are going to need to try harder than that to hold me down."

  She twisted her wrist, nullifying the weight of his grip and reversing it, yanking her hand free while sending a shockwave back through his arm, stronger than his own force.

  The force cracked his reinforced bones, but Nier held firm, his regeneration kicking in to mend the damage almost as fast as it happened.

  'What the hell is this, it's like all the force I had in my grip got multiplied and reverse back into my own body....agh."

  Nier thought, gritting his new fangs.

  'Fine, let see how she handles this.'

  "grrrggaghAAAAA!!...

  He roared,a beast growl that echoed outwards, as he began swinging his free fist in a haymaker powered by Gaian energy, the punch accelerating with explosive force. The air whistled as it cut toward her midsection, strong enough to crumple steel.

  Lady Blue dodged with effortless precision, her body blurring as she inverted her own momentum to sidestep, coasting weirdly to the side.

  Only for Lady Blue casually kicking him in the chest, he flew off the ground the attack was heavy, more heavy than anything he has taken till now.

  However at the center of his chest, was multiyered natural biological armor made from steel, and iron, reinforce with a rge chunk of his Gaian energy.

  However shock absorber muscles distribute the great strike evenly throughout, allowing him to take the blow head on.

  As dy Blue kick him with both hands in her pockets.

  "Hmmm...

  'The freak tank it head on eh!? Wow... Hahaha It has been a while since I have fought something that doesn't go down in one hit.'

  Nier's massive goril form staggered in the crater, his iron-reinforced muscles straining against the lingering pain of Lady Blue's kick.

  His regeneration was working overtime, knitting his fractured bones, but his mind raced faster than his body could heal.

  "Now this is fun."

  She said nothing as she run towards him, her speed as unnatural a sher weird movement, it as if she herself cannot keep her body straight when move so fast.

  'Shit, she isn't letting up. I can't afford to take another attack like the st one, my cells, they feel funny, too, whatever she did to me did way more damage than it should have for a mere kick.'

  Nier said as his heart thundered as he twisted mid-air, his body morphing in a fsh disregarding his goril form to insta dodge the kick, and transform into a bck cat, dodging the relentless fury of her axe kick.

  But she did not let up, and Nier new this too, a such using nimble body he jump forward into the air.

  At the same time her leg snapped downward in a seamless drop kick, boots crashing into the earth with a bone-rattling BOOMMMM!!

  That would crush him under her boots, however inches away from her hell touch him, he became small this time, taking the form of a mini eagle with hippo armor a she flew forward away from her.

  However the shockwave erupted from her feet multiplied drastically making the attack a lot more stronger than it should have been, causing a concussive bst that sent Nier flying off bance in the sky, as he began spiraling through the air like a leaf caught in a storm.

  'Too fast. Too strong.'

  His mind raced as he shifted again, this time into his mole form, cws tearing into the dirt. The ground swallowed him whole, offering a fleeting sense of safety as he burrowed deep, desperate to escape.

  "Her attacks… they're not just physical. It is like they're unraveling me, cell by cell. My body is screaming to hold itself together!"

  "What is it, one touch alone from her can do alot of damage, does she has poison too, why do I feel so weka all of a sudden... Either way, I need to get out of here."

  Nier said to himself as he continue to dig and dig, clearing several miles in under two minutes.

  Yet as does that.

  The earth suddenly began to trembled.

  "What the... What was that!?"

  He asked, but didn't stop in what he was doing he continued to dig more and more throughout the city.

  TREMBLEE!!...

  Yet it happen again a loud shattering sound, and widespread shaking, he could feel it even here.

  The vibrations just grew more and more violent by the second, a primal roar from the depths, until it suddenly stop.

  Yet deep down he felt something was right.

  "What is this feeling, my mark it's burning my chest as if the say the danger is far from over ahhhh, no, non, no.... I will escape if it is the st thing I do."

  With that Nier dug faster, cws a blur, but light, blinding, impossible light, pierced the soil below. Then all of sudden he broke through, expecting solid ground of the sewers at least, only to find… nothing.

  "...W-What!?"

  He shouted in shocked.

  His tiny mole heart seized as he plummeted, the world flipping upside down. Below him, impossibly, sprawled a cityscape, skyscrapers, streets, neon-lit alleys, hundreds of meters beneath him.

  "Why am I falling?! I was underground!"

  Or rather he was underground a several minutes ago

  As twisted mid-air, mole eyes squinting upward into seeable one, and his blood froze.

  There, floating like a goddess of wrath, was Lady Blue. Her crimson aura pulsed, a malevolent halo that cradled an entire chunk of the city itself...buildings, roads, even people, suspended in the sky as if gravity itself had bent to her will. The civilians, cocooned in her eerie red glow, floated unharmed, their faces a mix of awe and terror.

  As she protected them all.

  Removing them from the flying chunk of the city, as the shit downwards into safety, her power save even the animals of the city, things small as a roach to even the many zoo animals in the zoo that was stationed upon the chunk, even ants where speared.

  A she floated underneath it.

  Her gaze locked onto him, a predator's smile curling her lips.

  "And where do you think you're going, little shapeshifter?"

  Nier had a dumbfounded expression on his face as he said to himself still free falling from the sky.

  "What the hell is this monster?!"

  But he didn't wait for an answer.

  Because his survival instincts screamed to escape her pursuit of him.

  His body erupted in a fre of bck and white energy, Gaian and Negative working as one, intertwining as he shifted back into his eagle form.

  His wings gleamed, infused with 1,000 units of Negativity, muscles compressing into dense, supernatural sinew. Power surged through him, raw and electric. With a single, earth-shattering fp...

  BOOOOOOOM!

  The air screamed as he shattered the sound barrier, then again, and again. Mach 5. Mach 10. The world blurred into streaks of color, a comet's tail of bck and white trailing behind him.

  Nellywood's skyline vanished in seconds as he tore through the sky, heart pounding, mind singur...Escape! Survive!!!

  "I can't fight her."

  He muttered, wings straining.

  "Kaly warned me about Ancient Witches, and Level 5 Hestas. They're not opponents, they're camities I see why now. My soul might be beyond this world, but this avatar… it is not ready for monsters like her! I must cultivate it more."

  But then, his instincts fred, a primal warning.

  Something was chasing him from behind.

  "Damittttttt why is she following me!?"

  He thought.

  As he sprouted an eye on the back of his eagle form, and what he saw nearly stopped his heart.

  It wasn't Lady Blue that was following him.

  Rather it was the same massive chunk of city the city she uprooted earlier, multiple skyscrapers, and streets, with Subberian areas and a peace of the slums, all station on the rock, unmoving, and all of it, was chasing him.

  It barreled through the sky, a surreal juggernaut defying physics, its speed climbing impossibly. No friction. No heat. It was as if Lady Blue had erased the ws of nature itself.

  "How is she doing this?!"

  Nier screamed, voice lost in the sonic booms.

  Forests and mountains loomed ahead, a rugged expanse of green and stone. He banked hard, weaving through the air, but the city chunk mirrored his every move, relentless, unstoppable.

  His body couldn't take it.

  The strain of Negative energy was too much, pushing his avatar to its limits. Simir to how pnts pre cleave would mutate when in contact with Gaian energy, the same could be said for humans who take in too much of it, and Negativity operated the same way.

  As such one of two things would happen here, the beat case scenario a force evolution or mutation, or the tter the body is overwhelmed and death is it's only option.

  Thankfully his meat costume, fall more to the former than the tter.

  Mostly because he was using Negativity at constant to to increase his speed.

  As such mutation was inevitable.

  His eagle form began to warp. Feathers burned away, repced by jagged, obsidian scales that pulsed with veins of white Gaian light.

  His wings stretched, elongated, sprouting serrated edges like living bdes. His eyes glowed a feral crimson, and his beak twisted into a maw of needle-like teeth.

  At Mach 20 his rage form was born, a monstrous being, and with every fp it was basically a thundercp that shredded the clouds.

  Yet the city chunk closed in, untouched by friction, its surface eerily pristine. Lady Blue's power was beyond comprehension, a force that mocked reality itself. The mountain range loomed ahead, a jagged wall of stone. A dead end.

  Nier's mind raced.

  "No waAyYy iein H3l11ll I+m LeTt1n9 hEr ￠@tcH mMm3333!....

  He said, his voice heavily distorted due to the mutation.

  He had a pn a desperate, insane pn.

  And as thing are now, Lady Blue all but help him fulfill those conditions.

  The city chunk was inches away, its shadow swallowing him. With a final, defiant screech, Nier dove headfirst into the mountainside. And a massive shockwave erupted outwards, the mountain crumbling in a cascade of stone and dust.

  BOOOOOM!!!

  And Nier… was gone, crushed beneath the weight of the city chunk.