"CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"

The walls of the cave, already damaged from the earlier beast tide, began to shatter even more, creating new spiderweb patterns of fractures that spread like roots seeking water.

Small stalactites broke free from the ceiling and crashed to the floor, shattering into thousands of pieces.

With a loud boom, Seraphina was blasted backward by the force of the collision, her wings flapping desperately as she tried to regain control of her flight as she tumbled through the air.

Her arms were incredibly numb from the impact, and she could see scorch marks on her scales where the crimson lightning had lacerated her flesh.

Levi didn't even give her any moment to recover, he stomped his feet heavily and leapt upwards.

His body shot out like a missile, jumping more than ten meters in just a few milisecond. His right claws slashed upwards at extreme speed at the floating Seraphina.

Seeing this, Seraphina's face changed immediately and she desperately beat her wings, trying to gain more altitude but the cave's ceiling was barely thirty meters high, limiting her flight!

In that split second, she did something unexpected and suddenly folded her wings completely as she dove downwards with astonishing speed, letting gravity increase her speed even further as she dove down.

Executing her moment art, her body suddenly snaked around Levi like a massive python moving through the air, letting Levi's claw slash through the air with a loud 'whoosh'.

As she fell past him, her tail suddenly whipped out in a horizontal slash that carried all of her momentum behind it. The attack was beautifully executed, timed perfectly to catch him while he was still ascending and unable to easily dodge in midair.

"Whoosh!"

Levi managed to twist his body in midair. Her tail swept past his chest, missing him by less than an inch.

As her tail passed beneath him, Levi's clawed hand shot sideways and grabbed at her tail.

"Got you!" Levi smirked as he growled.

He suddenly spun around in mid air, swinging her in a fast wide arc and then slammed relaxed his grip as he slammed her heavily on the ground like a hammer.

"Boom!"

The ground exploded, creating a massive five meters wide crater in the cave.

Dust and debris exploded outward from the point of impact.

For a moment, Seraphina lay there stunned, her vision swimming with stars and her entire body screaming in agony. Multiple bones broken, her left wing was bent at an unnatural angle, blood, darker and thicker than human blood, seeped from multiple wounds across her body.

S-she was actually on the losing end?

Seraphina almost couldn't believe it. She was talent trained by the House Of Dark Matter and had even been given the grace to kill and consume the geniuses of this academy after killing then but she had actually failed halfway and by a youth who barely had any talent.

Anger suddenly clouded her sight.

With a sharp hiss filled with anger and frustration Seraphina forced herself back to her feet. Her body swayed unsteadily for a moment, then she stabilized herself with visible effort.

Her remaining functional wing spread out slightly to help her maintain balance.

Levi landed softly on the ground about twenty meters away from her, his tail lightly tapping against the ground.

He stood there watching her struggle to her feet expressionlessly. There was not a single bit of mercy, not was there pity.

"Is this all half step Super Soldier can do?" he said in a mocking tone.

Seraphina was so angry she actually burst into a pained laughter. Though the sound came out as more of a wet, gurgling cough. Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, staining her chin and dripping onto her scaled chest. "Do you think you're strong?" she hissed,

"From the prey to the predator? How amusing. But I think you misunderstand the situation, little runt."

Her remaining hand reached into a hidden fold in her transformed body and withdrew a small serum.

The liquid was a sickly purple color that pulsed rhythmically, like a heartbeat captured in liquid form.

Levi's face changed slightly as he could feel the energy pulsing within the serum.

"This," Seraphina continued, holding up the vial with a trembling hand, "is a Berserk Dark Serum. It will push my transformation to its absolute limit, burning through my life force to grant me power that exceeds even the Genetic Soldier stage, if only for a brief time. I was saving it for one of the other geniuses. I didn't expect to use it on a nobody like you." She smiled, showing all of her sharp teeth in a rictus grin that was filled with madness.

"Congratulations, Levi Borne. You should be honored to have died in my hands. Don't worry, I will put your corpse into good use."

Levi's face changed and the ground exploded as lighting crackled beneath his pawed feet.

"Bang!"

He instantly transformed into a ray of crimson lightning, appearing before Seraphina in a split second.

However, he was still a few milisecond too slow.

Before Levi could stop her, she stabbed her self with the serum, injecting in into her bloodstream.

For a moment, nothing seem to happen.

However, as Levi's Cleaver stabbed towards her chest, a powerful force suddenly erupted from her.

"Screeee!"

The sound was so powerful it blasted Levi backwards like a ragdoll.

At that moment, Seraphina began to transform once more.

Her body grew larger, her muscles swelling to grotesque proportions. Her broken wing regenerated in seconds, growing back even larger and more menacing than before. Her tail lengthened and thickened, and wicked barbs sprouted along its length like the thorns. Her claws extended until they were as long as daggers, and her fangs grew until they protruded from her mouth even when it was closed.

But the most dramatic change was in her aura. The energy radiating from her body grew exponentially, multiplying again and again until it filled the entire grotto with an oppressive presence that made it hard to breathe. The very air seemed to vibrate with the intensity of her power.

Her eyes, now completely black with glowing purple irises, locked onto Levi with mindless hunger.

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