"Wait... What!?... Honey badger? Hell nah.....
Nyxar's poker face turned pale the moment he saw that honey badger. And why wouldn't it? This was one of the beasts to be avoided on Nyxar's list.
Because the honey badger is one of those animals that never backs down from a fight, and it's an intelligent creature that adapts itself to the fighting location and the opponent. Furthermore, its skin is incredibly tough. If armadillos have armor like an iron shield, the honey badger has skin like a bulletproof vest. In short, it's a fearless, intelligent hunting animal.
That mutated beast came near Nyxar in a single jump from the opposite end of the bridge, the leap shaking the old bridge.
It was five feet tall and twelve or thirteen feet long. Both its eyes were very yellow, with black pupils. Its body looked as if it had been smeared with black darkness, and a white stripe ran from its head down its back to its tail. The end of its tail was sharply pointed, like the tip of an arrow. Each of its claws was about fifteen centimeters long.
Without even a moment's delay, the hunting beast, with an ear-splitting roar, began to attack the instincts-cursed warrior standing before it.
The beast's right leg tore through the air and came towards Nyxar. He correctly positioned his armadillo armor in front of him, crouching down. The armor covered his face and body.
Kretchhh...
With that sound, five terrifying claws struck the reddish armor.
Because the armor was a product of mutated evolution, only the claw marks were imprinted on it, but the force of the attack pushed Nyxar several feet along the ground.
"Fuck... what the hell is this power!? If it weren't for this armor, my body would have been cut in two by now." He pushed himself up from the ground using the iron rod in his right hand.
"I definitely can't engage in hand-to-hand combat with this." "I can't win by fighting, I need to think."
"Think...think....think.... gotcha!"
The aggressive badger snarled and lunged for the next attack, and without thinking, Nyxar ran towards it.
His idea was to go under the badger as it lunged and rip its underbelly with the iron rod.
The badger was a few feet above the ground. Nyxar, running forward at full speed, slipped on the grass growing on the bridge. Now Nyxar was under the black beast in mid-air. The rod-spear was close to the badger's belly, and everything seemed to be going perfectly, but...
At the last second, the arrow-tipped tail blocked the spear. The badger landed and turned around furiously to look at the small man, but he wasn't there.
In the short time it took for the beast to turn, Nyxar had hidden behind a car on the left side of the bridge.
"No...no...no... the one chance I had is wasted. It won't take long for it to find me. What do I do now?" His sleepy eyes watched the mutated badger through the gap in the car.
The badger started sniffing using its nose, slowly approaching the car that was trapped by vines and leaves where Nyxar was hiding.
Nyxar's face began to sweat with fear, his breath came and went rapidly, and his body refused to move from there.
Then___
[Instincts evolution triggered]
[Instincts level abilities]
[Extremely pain tolerance__ 10%]
[Adaptability__ 30%]
[Refuse to retreat__ 50%]
[Speed __ 20%]
[Strength __20%]
[Durability __20%]
[Claws and sharp teeth__ 20%]
"What is this!... Hann.... The power of the curse has finally awakened. My father told me about this, but he said it ten years ago." "That's why I don't remember everything clearly," Nyxar tried to recall as much as he could, but nothing came to mind.
Nyxar didn't have time to think about all this; the badger was approaching the car. The car didn't last long against those yellow eyes; with an angry roar, it attacked the car.
The mutated beast struck the car with its large foot, splitting it into two pieces. In the blink of an eye, Nyxar leaped away.
But the beast followed Nyxar's movements and struck with all its might. The blow was so fast that Nyxar couldn't block it in time. He managed to put up his armor at the last second, but the reddish armor shattered into several pieces.
Nyxar, who had fallen a few feet away, was angered by the damage to his armor, but instead of being afraid, he noticed two changes in his hand.
Firstly, his fingernails and toenails had each grown to seven centimeters, but they didn't look like human nails; they looked like strong claws.
Slightly pleased by this, Nyxar tried to lift his hand to examine it more closely, but it wouldn't move; it was broken.
"What the fuck!" Nyxar's face flushed with anger. "I thought I had blocked that attack, but how did this happen?"
Nyxar's eyes turned red. "How dare you break my arm, you beast! I'm going to kill you!" he screamed hysterically.
"Why can't I feel the pain of my broken arm, and why am I feeling this much rage?"
[Only five minutes left, ten percentage pain tolerance to disappear]
[Your refusal to retreat level increased from fifty percent to seventy percent]
"Is this why I can't feel the pain? But there are only five minutes left. This Instincts form increases my animalistic strength and reduces my ability to think like a human," Nyxar muttered, slowly getting up, holding his broken left arm and an iron rod in his right hand, ready to face the mutated beast charging towards him. He looked like a warrior who had lost everything, standing alone against an entire army.
"I've always had this much anger inside me, but I kept it under control. But now, all the anger I've suppressed since childhood is coming out. All I feel now is the urge to attack."
The mutated honey badger came charging, its mouth wide open, large enough to swallow Nyxar's head whole.
Nyxar, in a frenzy, ran towards the badger without a care in the world. Only a few feet separated them. The large, blood-reeking mouth came closer to bite the head with black and white hair, but Nyxar's body, along with his head, immediately shifted slightly to the left. Then the iron rod spear in his right hand tore through the badger's right yellow eye and went inside.
It went in up to the handle of the rod, and the next second, dark red blood gushed out.
With a scream of "Kaarrrr....."
The next moment, five powerful claws attacked Nyxar ferociously, and Nyxar's body was thrown several feet away, hitting the bridge wall.
Upon hitting the bridge wall, it cracked slightly.
Nyxar's entire body was disfigured, his left leg was broken, his spine was broken, and five claw marks had deeply torn his chest and abdomen.
[Your pain tolerance decreased, ten percentage to zero]
Blood started to flow from Nyxar's mouth. "I can't do it, I feel like I want to die to escape this pain, I'm feeling faint, I should have thought of something else instead of attacking like an animal, but now everything is going to end, I think I'm going to die."
Nyxar's eyes slowly closed.
[You're going to die, so your mode is going to awaken. Choose one of the modes; it may save your life]
[But remember, if you are not in control, you may lose your human side]
[Berserk mode]
[Carnage mode]
[Feedback ascension mode]
"What is this mode? And why is this curse talking inside my head now? Whatever, I wante to survive today so i choose this mode.