"What is this mode? And why is this cursed voice talking inside my head now? Whatever, I choose this mode..."
[You have chosen Feedback Ascension mode]
[All your pain and damage are temporarily converted into your speed, power, and durability]
[Pain tolerance __ 100%]
[Speed __ 70%]
[Power __ 80%]
[Durability __ 60%]
Nyxar's eyes turned completely red, and his disfigured body, imbued with many times its normal strength, stood up as if nothing had happened.
His entire body turned black, his mouth was open like that of a predatory animal searching for prey, and only his claws and teeth gleamed silver.
Nyxar's mind was filled with nothing but killing intent, ego, and a refusal to retreat.
The place was surrounded by an eerie silence; the full yellow moon floated high in the black sky.
Meanwhile...
The mutated beast with the injured right eye became even more enraged upon seeing the creature that had blinded it rise again. Its left eye showed bloodlust. With a violent shake of its head, the iron rod in its right eye came loose and fell out under the bridge.
The frenzied badger mirrored Nyxar perfectly; the same anger, the same killing intent, the same ego, and the same refusal to retreat.
"Only one of us will be alive tonight. You don't seem to be backing down, and neither am I. Let's finish this."
The honey badger moved towards Nyxar at monstrous speed, but Nyxar vanished from his spot.
There was at least ten feet between the badger and Nyxar, but in a single leap, he was near the badger's left eye.
"I'll blind this eye of yours too, then let's see how you fight," Nyxar's sharp claws neared the badger's left eye.
Nyxar had forgotten in his killing intent that the honey badger is a creature with incredible adaptability. That's it.
Badger moved its head and, with its sharp, iron-like tail, broke through the claws and went straight towards the gleaming eyes. With seventy percent of its speed, it grabbed the iron tail, jumped backward, and stood on the bridge's wall.
[Twenty minutes remaining before Feedback ascension mode ends]
As Badger approached Nyxar, Nyxar's legs darted across the bridge with lightning speed.
"Of course, I know you won't fall so easily, I need to think like a human," Nyxar's mind raced, looking around to see if there was anything he could do, and suddenly, spotting a place, he ran even faster.
It was a broken part of the bridge, supported by only one pillar. Nyxar's plan was to somehow push that large bridge down onto the badger and kill it.
"But how? I don't even have enough time to think, I've been running for five minutes!"
[Fifteen minutes remaining before Feedback ascension mode ends]
"Forget the fucking plan," Nyxar's legs suddenly turned, and he targeted and bit the badger's right leg, which was within his reach. The mutated badger, not expecting the sudden attack, let out a painful cry and shook its leg with all its might.
Normally, ninety percent of beasts are stronger based on their form. Humans have seven forms, and beasts have six. If both a human and a beast are in their first form, the beast is more likely to be stronger. However, when humans use modes, their power increases many times over temporarily.
That's why the mutated badger's powerful shake didn't affect Nyxar. Nyxar clung to the badger's leg like a leech, biting and tearing at it.
Since shaking didn't help, that intelligent beast bent the leg where Nyxar was attached and rubbed Nyxar against the ground. Even though his pain tolerance was one hundred percent, all the pain would return in a short while, so Nyxar tried to free himself. I didn't want to hurt him any further.
With the first swipe, Nyxar moved away from the leg; half of the flesh on the badger's right leg had been torn off, and the middle part of the bone was exposed, stained red with blood.
Now Nyxar ran back to the broken section, the badger chased him but not with the same speed as before, because one of its legs was injured.
Nyxar stood on the broken part of the bridge, and as the badger lunged at him, Nyxar jumped down from there.
The badger's heavy jump shook that piece of the bridge; without any hesitation, the badger jumped down too.
For the first time, the badger made a foolish mistake here; driven by its rage towards Nyxar, it jumped without thinking. The distance between the bridge and the ground below was at least forty feet. And then? The already injured leg couldn't withstand the impact of such a large jump and broke.
Below, the place was slightly dark due to the lack of moonlight. The badger's eyes searched for Nyxar, searching with bloodthirsty rage, where is Nyxar?
In that darkness, two red dots were visible on the underside of the bridge; they were Nyxar's eyes. When Nyxar jumped, he didn't jump down completely; he jumped as if he was going to jump down, but instead grabbed the underside of the bridge and clung to it like a lizard with the help of his iron-like claws.
"This is your end, die beast bastard!"
Nyxar, from where he was clinging, jumped with full force and slammed into a pillar supporting the bridge. With the help of eighty percent of his strength, and the already broken bridge and Badger's unwitting assistance, the bridge collapsed and fell on Badger. Badger tried to move away at the last second after seeing it.
But that was too late; his broken leg didn't cooperate. The bridge completely fell on Badger.
Except for its head, its entire body was crushed under the massive bridge. Only an unyielding sound of rage emanated from the surviving head.
"You poor soul, I will end your suffering," Nyxar stabbed Badger's head with the iron rod in his hand. It pierced through the brain and touched the ground.
For the last time, Badger's eyes looked at Nyxar. There was no rage in them, something else was visible. Then Badger's eyes looked towards the direction from which the bridge had come, and then closed.
[Five minutes left, your feedback ascension mode ends]
The curse appeared as a screen this time.
"I've already killed it, why hasn't the curse ended yet!? Come to think of it, the curse only mentioned the place and time. So if killing it isn't important, then what is?"
Then a sound came from the place where the mutated badger had last looked.
[Your feedback ascension mode ends].
"Another danger?, please don't Nyxar collapsed like that on the ground, his eye's intensely looked where that sound come from.