"...Why am I like this?"
Bella thought to herself. However, the answer did not co.
"I love him…
She thought further. For the first ti since she had t Nier, Bella honestly questioned her love for Nier.
He was cool.
His personality was aweso in her book.
He was also extrely strong. He fit all the check boxes for the perfect mate in Bella's book.
Overall though, he was a nice person — well, at least to her and those he was close with.
And over the couple of days she had spent with him, Bella grew closer to him.
"This man has a wife?"
'Yet I cannot accept that.'
"Marrying him demands a Trial whereby if the spouse is weak, death is inevitable."
'Even then I want him to participate for glory.'
"He has multiple won in his life."
'They need to be purged.'
"I am not number one."
'But that can be fixed.'
Bella looked at Kaly, the small floating Flux as she had co to know her. Black energy coated her body from head to toe.
Her left eye glowed a nacing gold, as the sclera was purple.
She could see it — the weakness in her body. No, not just that either, but the weakness in the world around her.
From this eye, many powers related to the concept of war arose.
The weakness in the world around her showcased itself as red lines and spots in existence. If she attacked those lines, it bypassed the natural durability or frawork of an object.
Corporeal or incorporeal. It did not matter.
But that was just one aspect of Ares' eye.
The other was self-empowernt.
If she believed she could win, then she would win. As such, victory was all but assured.
"If you are gone, then darling will be mine, and mine alone! It is a selfish wish, but for him I would kill even my own mother if I have to!"
Bella shouted at the top of her lungs, and in the next instance, she was already before Kaly. Her hand held the blade tightly as she followed the lines of weakness, and with great skill she carved her way to victory.
The speed by which she attacked was ludicrous. Even Kaly struggled to keep up with her.
The first slash took her left arm, the second parted her in two from the waist down, and the last one carved her in a circular formation, separating her head from her shoulders and her stomach from her chest.
No movent was wasted.
SLASH!!
SLASH!!
SLASH!!
Slash after slash, and the result was clear. Kaly was cut down into five pieces. Her tiny form exploded into a mist of blood.
"Anything that is cut by cannot heal."
That was the established fact. To truly win was to ensure return was not possible in any shape or form.
Destruction was inevitable in this case.
And that would have been the case if it was any other person.
However...
STAB!!
As if returning a favor, Bella was suddenly stabbed through her right arm holding her sword.
"Ohhh..."
Nier, watching the fight from below, saw Kaly cut into multiple pieces, but her retaliation ca back almost imdiately.
"When did she..."
Bella said, looking at her trembling right hand that now had a large hook in it. But the hook itself was pure black, and the energy was Flux energy as she understood it.
"You know dying sucks, and it's not as beautiful as life is, you know."
Bella looked forward, her eyes focused on the very spot she had cut Kaly down at.
What was supposed to be falling body pieces with descending blood was actually halted chunks of flesh that were glitching as if her body was an error in reality. And then it glitched beyond recognition as her form was whole once more.
The injuries she had sustained from Bella's blade all but disappeared, making Bella question if what she saw before her was really true.
"How!?"
Kaly, however, just smiled nacingly as she replied, her hands now extending forward towards Bella.
"You can do better than that now, can't you? Well either way it's my turn."
In that mont, a chain made from Negativity suddenly ford around Kaly's tiny arm and connected to the large hook lodged deeply into Bella's arm. And with great force, Kaly pulled back hard, dragging Bella along with the force of her pull.
"AHHHH!"
She scread out in both pain and surprise, but Kaly didn't let up. Rather, a sadistic smile appeared on her face.
As Bella was dragged along like a rag doll, Kaly began to spin her around and around more and more. Faster and faster she spun until she was long a blur in the sky.
"And off you go."
Kaly said as she positioned herself to send Bella off and deconstructed the hook chain. The Negativity used to make it was reabsorbed instantly back into her body, while Bella was sent southward from the Villa, flying towards the city center faster than sound.
But Kaly didn't let up. With the ti she had bought, she began to transform into sothing else.
Negativity from the world around her began to flood into her form.
Her tiny body soon started to mutate and change. Bones cracked, muscles extended, and sinew began to stretch and form.
Like a beacon of so sort, Kaly was absorbing an ungodly amount of Negativity from the world — way more than even Nier had ever absorbed.
"Master."
Lisa called out to Nier, whose eyes went wide at the sight of Kaly's transformation.
"Lisa... If you had to judge how strong Kaly is at this very mont, where would she rank if she was a Hesta?"
"On the higher ends of Level 4 and increasing... She would be about as strong as so of the upper echelon of A-Rank heroes within the Hero Association."
"But I thought her vessel couldn't handle that amount of power."
"I am not sure what the current state of your lover's body entails, but I can tell you this much, Master. Based on my sensors, that form of hers is incredibly unstable. It is kind of a miracle it's even holding up at all."
"Ha, what do you an?"
Nier asked, curious as to what she ant, and Lisa responded with the honest truth.
"The Negativity in the atmosphere caused by the Great Cleave seems extrely attracted to her. It is almost as if the Cleave's own life purpose is to give Fluxes Negative energy. But for her it's like it's trying to transfer all its energy into her. As such, her body is struggling to keep up, and the energy within her own vessel is burning through its finite reserve to keep her form fixed from external power filling her being. But at the rate by which that power is being forced into her, it won't be long before she collapses under all that energy. What's even more confusing is the fact that Kaly seems to be causing this phenonon sohow, as if by her will."
Nier listened keenly to Lisa's explanation as his attention went back to Kaly, and he whispered under his breath.
"By her will, huh... What exactly are you trying to do here, Kaly?"
The question of course went unanswered for the most part, but Nier trusted in Kaly's decision.
As such, he watched her fight.
Kaly, however, mid-transformation, looked down at Nier. She inwardly smiled and said to herself.
"Good, just watch. There are many things I have yet to teach you, and many things I cannot teach you. Sotis it's better to watch and learn in order to gain your own enlightennt on things."
Kaly said to herself as her flesh began to expand outwards more and more, until she was over eight feet tall. Her body beca more inhumane but still humanoid.
What was once a beautiful chocolate-skinned beauty was now a white-coated demoness. Fur as white as snow surrounded her body. She was of course naked, her nipples visible alongside her nether regions. However, that was not the main focus.
She beca closer to that of a goat than that of a human. Her eyes glowed red, and her horns elongated and turned gold in color. And instead of two, she now had a total of four clawed hands. Behind her, a long white succubus tail with a fur-coated heart tip flowed behind her.
Her claws were golden, and her eyes were a nacing red that glowed eerily. Naturally, her womb tattoo was still present, maintaining the sa pink color it was even in her base form.
At this mont, Kaly decided to go all out. She could not prolong this battle.
It had to be a quick one.
And after she transford, she looked at her hand with a nacing smile as she said to herself.
"It's good to be again, even if it's a weaker version of my true form. Without the natural Negativity I already had and without restraint, my fur is now white. Still, I can't believe I was right!"
Kaly said as she looked up at the Great Cleave in the sky. Even now in the afternoon, the great storm around it still lit the world around them in hues of bright and nacing purple, while the slice in the sky — or rather multiple cracks in reality — pulsed brightly as it kept on releasing Flux energy into the world.
But that was not what Kaly was worried about. Rather, she wanted to experint on sothing here, and to her surprise her hunch was right.
"...I knew the energy here was familiar but this all but confirms it... This cleave, as the humans have called it, has my little sister's finger all over it. At first it eluded but now I am sure. Zushi, how is your power manifesting on this plane of existence? This shouldn't be possible... unless... No, they wouldn't, would they."
Kaly had a concerned face, like a mother seeing their child being tornted yet unable to do anything about their suffering.
"No, let's not think the worst. Of the ten of us, Zushi is the hardest to kill, despite being so cowardly. Call it a hunch, but I feel there is more to this than I am thinking. But I know now whose power is influencing the lesser world. And even now, Zushi, your loyalty to still persists."
Kaly said as she could feel the Flux energy — or rather this unique form of Negativity — flood her being as if submitting to her. The cleave itself wanted to empower her. No, it passively did so, more and more. It fed Kaly more power.
However, in Kaly's current weakened state, it was like connecting a light bulb to a black hole. Limitless energy fed it without end.
And the more it did, the stronger she beca.
"Ohhh, I guess she is finally coming back. I did send her far away when I tossed her from the neighborhood."
And so said, so done. Because up ahead, Kaly saw a glowing gold approaching her direction quickly.
...and like light it ca zapping forward towards her.
Bella slamd into Kaly like a golden cot, Ares' Eye blazing with war's fury. The red lines of weakness flared across the demoness's white-furred form, and Bella's blade followed them with rciless precision.
"You think you can just toss aside like trash?!"
Bella snarled, her voice raw with possessive rage.
"Die already you man stealing whore! And since you’ll be gone, Nier will finally be mine!"
The first slash carved straight through the weakest point in Kaly's left shoulder. And red blood sprayed, but Kaly only laughed — a low, throaty sound that vibrated with dark delight.
"Oh, darling Bella... Still barking like a jealous little bitch in heat, I do love the passionate ones though."
Kaly mocked, her four golden claws flashing as she twisted away.
"How cute. You think your borrowed toy eye makes you my equal?"
Before Bella could press the attack, Kaly was the first to act, her will alone went forward as she began to use her power of Dark Fertility — the corrupt concept that was her very existence — as her will surged through her weakened avatar.
Localized at best in this weak body, but no less vile.
A writhing mass of Negativity erupted from the ground beneath them, shaping itself into slick, pulsing tentacles tipped with wet, womb-like mouths.
They lashed upward, wrapping around Bella's legs with obscene hunger. Each tentacle throbbed with warm, fertile energy, pumping tiny parasitic seeds of corruption straight into her skin.
Bella hissed as the seeds took root, forcing a shaful heat to bloom low in her belly.
"What the— Get off , you disgusting thing."
She swung her blade in a golden arc, slicing the tentacles clean. The cuts followed Ares Eye's red lines perfectly, bypassing their unnatural durability.
The severed limbs exploded into black mist, but Kaly was already moving.
With a wicked grin, Kaly birthed two more constructs from her own Negativity — hulking, four-ard fertility golems that looked like twisted parodies of herself.
Their bodies were slick with glistening fluid, their chests swollen with heavy, leaking breasts, and their lower halves ended in thick, coiling tails that dripped with corrupting essence. They charged Bella from both sides, claws raking the air.
"Let's see how you handle motherhood, little girl, it good to learn while your still young."
Kaly taunted, floating higher as her white fur bristled with power.
Bella's eye flared brighter as they approach as she readied herself for the incoming attack.
"I can win. I will win. Victory is mine."
She hyped herself up, as the belief flooded her veins, filling her with more power. She blurred forward, faster than sound, carving through the first golem's chest along its weakest red lines.
The construct shattered into wet chunks, but the second slamd into her from behind, its tail wrapping around her waist and forcing a thick, pulsing orb of Negativity against her stomach.
The orb sank in like a womb implant. Bella scread as it began to gestate inside her — a violent, invasive fertility that tried to rewrite her body from the inside out, flooding her with unwanted pleasure and weakness.
"You— you vile bitch!"
Bella roared, ripping the orb free with raw strength and crushing it in her fist. Golden light exploded outward, erasing the corruption in a burst of war's purity.
She spun and drove her blade straight into the second golem's core, splitting it in half.
Kaly then clapped slowly, her red eyes glowing with amusent.
"Not bad. Not bad at all. That eye of yours is almost impressive... for a mortal's toy. But you're still just a desperate little slut playing at being my rival."
Bella shot upward like a missile, blade humming.
"Shut up! I'll carve that smug face off myself just you wait."
She unleashed a storm of slashes — each one perfectly exploiting the red lines of weakness that only she can see. Kaly dodged and weaved, but several cuts landed, carving deep furrows across her white-furred chest and thighs. Blood poured, yet Kaly only moaned in twisted pleasure.
In this form her true personality co to surface.
And currently speaking the more power she absorbed the more her she beca.
"Mmm~ Yes, hurt more, Bella. Your jealousy tastes so sweet."
Kaly countered by flooding the air with Negativity.
She shaped it into dozens of floating, womb-like orbs that drifted around her like satellites. Each orb pulsed with corrupt fertility, then burst open to birth smaller, writhing constructs — tiny, fanged fertility imps with needle-like phalluses and grasping hands.
They sward Bella in a chaotic wave, clawing and biting, trying to impregnate her with weakening essence.
Bella spun through them like a golden whirlwind. Her blade beca a blur, following every red line, every weak point. It wasn't long before Kaly's Imps exploded into a bloody mist left and right.
She was fast.
She was relentless.
And with the self-empowernt of Ares Eye burning in her soul, she genuinely believed she could end this.
For a mont, she was almost winning.
Kaly's smile widened.
"Enough playing."
She slamd her four clawed hands together. Dark Fertility surged to its limit within her sealed avatar.
The air around Bella thickened, turning heavy and warm like the inside of a womb. Negativity constructs rose from every direction — thick, fleshy walls that ford a tightening sphere, lined with pulsing birth canals and grasping umbilical cords.
Bella hacked and slashed, but the walls regenerated faster than she could cut, each new layer wet and alive.
"You think you can take him from ?"
Kaly whispered, her voice dripping with mocking affection.
"You think your little eye makes you worthy of my darling? Pathetic. You're nothing but an empty vessel begging to be filled... or emptied."
With a final, vicious thrust of will, Kaly activated her concept at full power, or as strong as her influence is allowed in this weakened state.
"Unbirth."
She said quietly, and in the next instance a single massive umbilical cord of pure Negativity shot forward, piercing straight through Bella's abdon.
It didn't wound her physically — it went deeper. It latched onto the very assimilation of Ares Eye inside her, onto every borrowed fragnt of war's power.
The cord began to pulse in reverse, sucking the eye's concept back out of Bella like a mother reclaiming a child that never should have been born.
Bella's eyes widened in horror.
"No...NO! Get it out of !!...”
The sensation was violation incarnate — warm, wet, and impossibly intimate. Her golden light flickered and dimd as Ares eye powers unraveled.
The red lines of weakness faded from her vision. The self-empowernt belief cracked and shattered.
Every ounce of assimilated strength from the eye was dragged back into Kaly's own form, resetting Bella to her base state. She would have to relearn it all over again from scratch.
Bella scread, thrashing wildly, but it was too late.
Kaly yanked the cord hard.
As she took away more and more of her power till eventually, Bella lost consciousness, her sword made from her own flesh dissipated, and an insane amount of Gaian energy she had dwindled to nothing.
As a result of this she began to fall from the sky, but before she touched the ground, Kaly caught her in a princess carry, and she flew back towards the Villa, Nier looked at her, as she placed Bella down.
Then, ca the drawbacks.
"Shit…
She cursed under her breath.
"I know this form was unstable, but not to this degree, it barely lasted two minutes."
Kaly said to herself, as she was breathing hard, her white-furred demoness form slowly shrinking back toward her smaller doll form till eventually she was back to normal.
Her power was completely spent.
Nier on the other hand looked at Kaly and said while stooping down to et her.
"You alright babe?"
Kaly looked up, and smiled wryly.
"Yeah, I just used all the negativity I was saving up for, and I think I might have damaged my avatar."
"Damaged?"
"More like an overload of Flux energy is the problem, a lot of my organs in this form is basically ruptured, nothing to worry about though, it's fixable, but my body is extrely sore right now, so rest would do good."
Hearing this Nier nodded as he replied.
"Want to carry you to our room."
"No need, let just rest inside your shadow a bit, I will make it into a personal space for and you, that way, if the need ever arises whereby I need to use my true form again, I can always rest inside that place to recover my power."
"Very well then."
With that said, Nier's shadow rippled beneath his feet as it spread towards Kaly, engulfing her from below as she began to sink into it.
She then gave one last look at Nier and said.
"Bella will be out for the rest of the day, but a word of advice, trials or not, spend more ti with the girl will you, that way she will feel like there is a special place in your heart for her too."
"Will do, now less talking and more resting."
"Hehehe ~ Love you too darling."
And with that, Kaly went inside Nier's shadow to recover.
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