Cage of Evolving

The ground trembled beneath their feet as Ron's Nent surged uncontrollably, wrapping his body in dark, jagged chains that pulsed with an eerie crimson glow. The two girls stood their ground, their faces tense with focus, their own Nents shimmering faintly like shields against the storm.

"Do not let him break the perimeter!" the pink-haired girl shouted, summoning a barrage of shimmering energy blades from her Chase-type Nent. She launched them forward, streaks of silver light arcing toward Ron.

But Ron's form blurred—a flicker of speed that shouldn't belong to a Cage-type. With a heavy slam, a wall of black iron bars erupted from the ground, catching the energy blades mid-flight and absorbing them into their rusted surfaces. The sound of metal grinding against metal echoed, haunting and heavy.

"Dammit," the dark-blue-haired girl hissed, her tired eyes narrowing. "His Nent... it's not just a Cage. It's evolving."

Ron stepped through the shadows of his own walls, his face hidden beneath tangled black hair, eyes sunken deep with exhaustion yet blazing with a dangerous light. "You came here... to kill me," he spoke, voice hoarse but calm under the hum of chaos. "But you don't even know who I am."

Chains burst from his body like whips, lashing out in every direction. One wrapped around a lamppost, crushing it to shards of metal and concrete. Another slithered toward the girls, forcing them both to leap aside.

"Don't listen to him!" the pink-haired girl shouted. "He's gone rogue—there's no saving someone when the Nent takes over!"

"I know!" the other girl gritted her teeth, pulling a gleaming sphere from her pocket. "But if we don't stop him here, he'll tear down the entire block."

Ron's laugh was low, bitter. "Tear it down?" he echoed, raising his arms. The chains converged around him, forming a cocoon of black steel. "You're underestimating what's inside this cage."

With a shuddering roar, the cocoon exploded outward, sending shards of iron flying like shrapnel. The shockwave cracked the pavement and sent the two girls sprawling.

"Barrier!" the blue-haired girl gasped, throwing up a translucent wall just in time to block a massive chain aimed at her chest. It struck with a force that made the barrier ripple like water before it shattered into light.

Ron stood amidst the wreckage, his Nent now fully enveloping him. His arms were sheathed in metal up to his shoulders, jagged blades protruding along his spine like thorns. His mouth curled into a grim smirk, lips cracked and dry. "I don't just rush to destroy," he spoke slowly. "I become the destruction."

The ground beneath him split, a massive cage erupting around the battlefield, trapping the three inside towering iron bars that shimmered with a nightmarish glow.

The pink-haired girl slammed her fists together, her Nent blazing around her like a burning wind. "We're not backing down!" She launched forward, leaving streaks of light behind her, fists glowing with compressed force.

Ron met her charge, swinging a chain-clad fist to intercept. Their clash sent a blast of air outward, windows shattering in nearby buildings. She twisted midair, landing a kick to his side, but Ron barely flinched. Instead, a new chain wrapped around her ankle, yanking her violently toward him.

Before she struck, the blue-haired girl intervened, her Chase-type Nent flaring as she dashed in, slicing the chain with a blade of condensed momentum. "Stay focused! We need to isolate his Nent source!"

Ron's laugh deepened, resonating from the cage itself. "Isolate?" He raised his arms, and the cage bars themselves twisted, bending into monstrous shapes. "You're already inside my world."

The entire cage contracted, walls inching closer, the bars now glowing red-hot. The two girls stood back to back, breathing heavily.

"His Nent... it's not just a manifestation," the pink-haired girl whispered. "It's him. His fears, his rage—they've fused."

Suddenly, Ron roared, his voice distorted as his form grew darker, the chains crawling up his face, covering one eye, morphing his features into something monstrous. "Break me," he challenged. "If you can."

A sudden quake rattled the ground as a portion of the cage ripped free, launching into the air and slamming down onto a nearby abandoned building, reducing it to rubble in an instant.

The girls froze at the sight, horror flashing in their eyes.

"We can't let this escalate!" the blue-haired girl shouted. "We end this now!"

Both girls summoned their Nents to their peak—a halo of momentum enveloping the blue-haired girl, while twin vortexes of light spun around the pink-haired girl's fists.

Ron took a step forward, his chains rising like serpents behind him, ready to strike. "Come," he growled. "Let's see if your resolve can match a nightmare."

They rushed him as one, twin streaks of light cutting through the dark, as Ron's world of chains closed in for the kill.

Their attacks collided with Ron's chains in an explosion of sound and force, the clash sending sparks across the iron walls. Ron retaliated by swinging a chain like a giant whip, smashing a crater into the ground where they had stood. The girls darted away, using their Nent-fueled speed to evade.

"You're wasting your strength!" Ron called after them. "There's no breaking this cage. You only feed it."

Chains burst from beneath their feet, forcing them into the air. The pink-haired girl launched herself higher with a blast of kinetic energy, flipping to dodge another barrage of spikes.

"His Nent's regenerating the structures we break!" she yelled. "Every time we tear something down, it rebuilds stronger!"

The blue-haired girl's tired gaze sharpened. "Then we stop playing defense." She drew a long blade of pure velocity, her body surrounded by swirling momentum. "We cut through him."

Ron's smirk widened, his chains slamming into the ground to form a massive iron maw around him, a monstrous silhouette growing from the cage itself. "Try it."

As the monster roared, the girls dove forward, their powers colliding in a blaze of motion, iron, and light.

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The battlefield became a war of nightmares and wills, neither side yielding as the nightmarish cage loomed over a city teetering on the edge.

Then Ron just said chain lock and cage imprisonment then the two girl were trap.