October 15th, Sunday 2026, 2:16 A.M.

Anthen City, Sector 38, Downtown 

The night air stank of rot, piss, and smoke.

Sector 38, Lower Quarter of the 4 Spherical, more commonly known as the Gutter, stretched like a festering wound across the city of Anthen, each Sector was a different City after all, and of the 56 Sector that form the country of the Federal Assembly of Aeloria or the F.A.A.

Sector 38 was known to be one of the worst Sectors of the F.A.A.

Rusted tin roofs sagged under the weight of mildew, cracked concrete bled with moss, and alleys overflowed with trash that had been rotting there for years. 

The neon lights of the Down town strip clubs, bars, restaurant all blink, but died down. As most facilities was closing down down for the night, leaving nothing but flickering lamps that buzzed like dying insects.

But despite the presentation of this dump, Anthem was commonly know for the having largest amount of homeless people across all the Sectors.

Children with hollow eyes huddled under staircases, clutching stolen bread wrapped in filthy rags. Men and women traded their last scraps of dignity for drugs, for warmth, or simply for the illusion of forgetting. 

Homeless lined the sidewalks like broken mannequins, their bodies covered in makeshift blankets made of tarp and newspaper.

Everywhere, crime thrived. Knives flashed in the shadows. Broken bottles became weapons. A life could be snuffed out for a handful of coins or a half-empty bottle of gin. 

Nobody cared...not the passersby, not the gangs that ruled these streets, and certainly not the authorities who pretended the Gutter didn't exist.

But on this very night, something that will forever change the dates of many people here landed on highest building in the city.

However it's arrival here, would not promised the prosperity of  the weak, and useless.

"This place reeks."

Nier said out aloud, still cloaked in the form of a mighty eagle, as he cast his gaze across the night. When he opened his Third Eye, the world shifted, and he saw them, thousands of crimson beacons burning upward into the sky.

They were not flames of hope but torches of despair. Each one shimmered with depression, suffering, trauma, and grief, until the entire city seemed like a monument to misery itself.

If Nier had been a hero, perhaps he would have seen them as cries for help, each light a soul reaching out for salvation.

But the mantle of a hero was never his to wear. He was something else now, an eldritch aberration, a freak of nature reborn from the hands of fear itself. The world rejected him, hated him, as it did all Flux. Inevitably, he was its enemy.

Yet deep within, fragments of his humanity still lingered to degree but not much was there anymore, to clash with Kaly's ideology he now shared that bent his morals and distorted his priorities. What he saw wasn't a city to protect, it was a city of gullible prey, simple amoeba blind to what lurked among them.

His wings folded inward, body shrinking and reshaping until a sleek black cat remained.

A new form he made using Body Modification Magic, he was starting to get the use of Unlimited without needing Silence to Actively cast the spell for him now.

But either way he began to stretched, arching his back upward in his cat form, then leapt from the rooftop. Eight stories down, yet he landed gracefully on all fours, without so much as a wince.

The streets opened before him, dark and alive with distant sounds. Slipping into the shadows, he prowled silently, just another stray among millions. To the people of Anthen City, he was invisible. Ordinary... And Forgettable in this form.

And that was exactly what made him dangerous.

"So many red lights of despair to choose from… still, I should start with the closest one."

Nier muttered to himself as he slipped beneath a parked car, his feline body moving soundlessly. 

He padded into a narrow alley that stretched deep into darkness before splitting in two...one path a dead end, the other leading elsewhere. 

He darted past broken pallets, overturned trash cans, and heaps of rotting waste until he emerged onto a back road. 

Taking a left, he found himself in a place that looked more like a forgotten pocket of the city than part of Anthen at all.

It resembled a rundown village crammed inside an alley opening, a ramshackle community clinging to survival. Old zinc sheets leaned against walls as crude shelters. Most homes if you can even call it that were nothing more than tattered tents, cardboard boxes patched together, or plastic containers carved into crude dwellings. It was less a neighborhood and more a refugee camp of the unwanted.

Nier's ears twitched as he crept forward. A shiver traced down his spine.

"Hmmm… this place gives me a bad feeling. How strange, I don't sense anything here that is or could even be considered a threat too me."

But as he said this, confusion eating away at his sanity.

Kaly's voice suddenly unfurled inside his head, smooth and knowing.

'Cats have a sixth sense, darling. But you're not only a cat...you're an Apostle. That means your apostolic perception is bleeding into the animal's instincts. Right now, you're hypersensitive to even the faintest trace of danger as insignificant as it may seem.'

"Oh, really?"

Nier mused, tail flicking as his eyes narrowed. 

"That is a rather weird side effect of my cat form, if I do say so myself. Still… I am close. The first red beacon is just ahead."

He padded deeper into the maze of zinc and canvas, slipping between the sleeping bodies of the homeless. Their quiet breathing filled the night as he stalked past, the crimson glow of despair pulling him onward. After three minutes of weaving through the labyrinth, he finally reached the source.

And what he saw stopped him.

"Ahhh… yeah… you stupid slut. Take it like a good girl."

Before him four figures where present, three homeless man where raping what Nier assume to be an unlucky prostitute, or maybe they paid for that kind of roleplay.

"Ahaaahhhhhaa... GET OFFF MEE...YOU SICK FUCKS!!...

Currently they group where behind an old red pick up truck, the hood was up, and all the part had long been stolen, or not functional, it had no glass windows of any kind, and no tires, it played on top of four constructed pillars of cement blocks. 

The truck has a lot of scratches and dent's on it. Meanwhile a trash can near the truck burn hit with fire, black smoke coming out of it as it burned alongside the moans and fucked up sex talk, as the man was balls deep in the cunt of the prostitute, their shadows dance across the graffitied walls.

Nier watched from his vantage point, his small cat body pressed against the rough brick wall of the alleyway. The three homeless men surrounded the young prostitute, their faces contorted with lust and hunger as they tore at her clothes.

The woman struggled at first, her cries echoing off the concrete walls as the men's rough hands groped and grabbed at her body. But as more and more of her flesh was exposed, her protests weakened, until she hung limply in their grasp, her eyes glazed over with a resigned expression.

"Fuck, look at these tits."

One of the men grunted, roughly palming the woman's breasts. 

"I bet she charges extra for these babies."

"Nah, she is just a cheap whore."

Another replied, spitting on the ground.

"Probably gets fucked for close to free every night anyway."

"STOPPPP IT YOUR HURTING MEE!!"

The woman let out a weak whimper as the third man, a burly figure with a thick beard, grabbed a fistful of her hair and yanked her head back. 

"Shut up, bitch."

He growled. 

"You're here to service us, so quit your fucking crying."

Nier's red eyes widened as the man forced the woman to her knee, now flesh touching steel.

The other guy already cum in her, it was now his turn for some fun, as they guy that came lit a cigarette and smoke with a satisfied face his head leaning back, as he recharges for a next run.

Meanwhile the other man began shoving his dirty, tattered pants down to reveal his swollen cock. It bobbed obscenely in front of her face, the head already glistening with pre-cum.

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The bearded man grunted, fisting his hand in her hair and guiding her mouth towards his throbbing shaft. 

"Gross, nooo get that away from me it stinks."

She began to cry.

Meanwhile Kaly began to speak in Nier head saying.

'Hmm not going to help?'

Nier using Occultist eyes to see her usefulness and potential was met with disappointment as he said.

"They all duds sadly, there is nothing special about any of them, still... This is a free Negativity farm happening right before me, would be a waste, I will just let them finish, and I will collect the Negativity from the three dudes. Of course I am going to leave out the chick, their is no way I am going to relive her experience of being raped by three homeless stranger's."

'My, my, how cold, I was afraid this might have angered you.'

"Why would it... I have no care for these people to begin with, I don't really know any of them to actually care for them either way... I am not the type to play hero, beside this is an opportunity to gain more Negativity, and beside I have standards, she looks mid at best, and I refuse to take prostitute as my woman, especially one from these parts ahhhh."

Nier said with utter disgust.

And Kaly chuckled saying.

'You know, maybe turning you into my Apostle's was indeed your calling, you utterly lack any sense of humanity or care for your own species to begin with, it like the saying, you where born as the wrong species, being a Flux suits you way more darling.'

'Still you do have a point, I want my cult to have only the best of the best, these low born humans simply won't do sadly... I kind of want that Selene chick to be in our Cult, she would have been a perfect first candidate to baptized.'

"Hahaha... True she was also hot as hell, still that Snake dude was there, I am not going to reveal myself to the World just yet, we haven't even properly started either."

"And beside, I wasn't expecting to find a worthy candidate on my first night anyways, still I will check around the city, more, and more, coming back to this place every night till we find what we are looking for, by doing that we will without a doubt find a priceless diamond in this sea of mud."

'And I will be with you every step of the way darling, for now should we enjoy the show... This is kind of hot not gonna lie... The share depravity of it that is.'

"All I care about is the Negativity to be honest."

'Hmmm booohooo, don't be a party pooper now.'

Kaly said, but Nier didn't reply, rather he waited for the hobo to done with the girl.

The more acts of evil they commit, the more Negativity they are generating.

"Show us what that whore mouth can do."

The woman let out a muffled moan as the man forced his cock past her lips, plunging deep into her throat. She gagged and sputtered, tears streaming down her cheeks as he held her head in place, fucking her face with brutal force.

"Goddamn, her throat feels good."

The bearded man groaned, his hips pistoning back and forth. 

"Tight little cunt must be even better."

The last guy said, who holding her hand from behind.

And as if on cue, the other one join him, recharge as the two men moved behind the woman, each taking a turn to slap and grope her ass. 

They laughed cruelly as she whimpered around the cock stretching her mouth.

"Spread that ass, bitch."

One of them demanded, pushing her down onto her hands and knees.

 "We're gonna take turns pounding this cunt now."

The woman's cries grew louder as the men flipped up her skirt, revealing her dripping pussy. They took turns slapping and spanking her, their hands leaving angry red marks on her soft flesh.

"Snow bunny are the best man."

One of them said.

"Look at this slut's cunt."

The third man said, roughly probing her folds with his fingers. 

"Already so fucking wet. You like this, don't you? Being used like the dirty whore you are?"

The woman could only moan in response, her body trembling as the men continued to have their way.

They each took a turn thrusting their cocks deep inside her, grunting and groaning as they fucked her hard and fast.

"Fuck, I'm gonna cum." 

One of them announced, his hips slamming into her with renewed urgency. 

"Gonna fill this pussy up."

"Me too."

The other one grunted, pulling out of her ass.

"I am gonna paint this whore's face with my load."

With a final thrust, the first man buried himself deep inside her cunt, his cock pulsing as he shot stream after stream of hot cum into her willing hole. 

The second followed suit, pulling out to aim his cock at her face, hosing her down with thick ropes of jizz that coated her cheeks and hair.

The woman let out a weak moan as the third man finished, pumping the last of his seed deep into her used pussy, he was jerking off to sight of her buddies fucking her, as he entered into her cum pot. 

"Ohhh yeah... S-Sooo GWOOD...

He said before dropping on his ass.

Right after, she collapsed forward, her body twitching as she was filled with the men's foul-smelling spunk.

"Thanks for the ride, whore."

The bearded man said, giving her ass a final slap as he pulled out. 

"Same time tomorrow?"

The other two laughed cruelly as they tucked their spent cocks away, leaving the woman lying in a heap on the filthy alleyway floor. 

She sobbed quietly, her body shaking with pain and humiliation.

"Sob...Sob... You bastard I will never for....

STABBB...

"GHAAA...

But before the woman could speak, she felt a searing pain in her chest.

And when she looked, a large fury tail, periced her from behind the tail had bone spear at the tip.

Pain, fear, and confusion hit her all at once, as Negativity began to build up.

"Silence, absorbed the Negativity from her in this moment just leave the rest out by filtering it, you know what I mean."

[Notice... Now absorbing Negativity from the victim... Absorption complete, you have absorbed +231 units of Negativity]

"What the hell?!"

One of the homeless man screamed.

But before, he could talk, Nier cat form grew threw tails, that began to monasterfy.

As they quickly aim for the scared man.

"Fuck the cat is damn Flux run."

The bearded man said, but it was already too late, because in the next instant Nier cat tail whip at him causing him to be slashed in half.

While the other one try to hide under the truck for cover, but Nier quickly grabbed him by the leg.

"Nooooo... I don't want to di...

SMASHHH!!

And smash his body into the graffitied wall, and toss it into the flaming barrel.

At the same time, he began to absorbed the gathered Negativity from the two deceased.

[Notice... Now absorbing Negativity from the two deceased victim... Absorption complete, you have absorbed +1991 units of Negativity]

With two dead one was left, it was the fat one, with a stained white undershirt.

"Please don't kill me."

He said, peeing his pants in the process.

However Nier merley walked up to him, as he crawled towards a wall, nowhere to run.

He then looked at the man and said.

"You people disgust me, not so tough when you are the one's in a hopeless situation now are you? Still I don't blame you, you brokies grow up like uneducated Vikings, their is not much morality or common sense to be teach to your kind either way. Still I think you have ripen enough, now die."

In that moment, Nier's cat tail grabbed him by the neck, and the legs, as he slowly began to tear him in half, to increase the pain, henceforth the Negativity.

"AGHAHAAHHAAAAAA.... IT HURTS STOPPPZZS IET... IT HURTZZZ...

But Nier did not stop it, rather he only prolonged it to point the man passed out, and when he did, would slap him to wake him up.

This continuous torture went on for eight minutes till Nier was satisfied. And then he teared.

His innards splashing on the ground, and like before he absorbed the well cultivated Negativity feeling the same exact pain he bestowed upon him.

[Notice... Now absorbing Negativity from the deceased victim... Absorption complete, you have absorbed +1003 units of Negativity]

Right after he looked around him, he could hear that the other homeless people where awake.

While other stay in bed.

Still, better safe than sorry and leave no witness behind.

As such, he went on a local genocide.

Kill, kill, kill, torture, torture, torture, kill, kill, kill, kill, mutilated, deform, tear, stab, cut, smash, and kill once more.

The screams of the homeless echoed like a horrific orchestra.

And it continued for well into the hour of the night.

Till eventually Nier stood in the blood soak ally, his entire body covered in blood.

He left no one alive.

However the rewards he got where plentiful.

[Notice... you have absorbed +14,380 units of Negativity, after adding all your current and gain, you have a grand total of 44,504 units of Negativity]

"...It is not enough, if I am going to even stand a chance against a captain level threat, I need more, way more than this. So it going to be looking for proper recruits, and also cultivating Negativity in places I can.... Still for now this should do."

"However I am going to look around this place a bit, before I head back home."

Nier said, as he left the Ally, leaving the multiple bodies of all his victims in plain sight, without caring if they are discovered.

However unbeknownst to him, a girl watch in utter disbelief at the sight.

"...H-He... Killed them all, man, woman , children, and elderly alike."

Bella said from her room, her eyes was close but she saw everything Nier had done first hand.

"...He is so cooool... He reminds me alot of my daddy... Still what is he even trying to accomplish by going out an killing people like this, I wonder could I help him in some way."

"Ahhh, I am kind of turn on now, didn't the big boss say, he recently just awaken, how is he this strong already unless... I wonder, could Nier be a Warlock?"

"Hmmm... But he isn't apart of the ten great families, as far as I know they are the only pre cleave supernatural family in the entire country that should have Ancient's among their ranks. I wonder maybe he is from another country, still mom or one of the family heads should have at the very last already taken notice of another magic user within our country... It is clear to me he isn't with Public Service either. But there is no way, a newly awaken Hesta should be that strong... Nier, who are you really?"

Bella asked, while playing with herself, the mere thought of Nier driving her to edge.

FIN