Drawing from thousands of years of aggregated combat experience (both direct and assimilated), and possessing the ability to accurately foresee her adversaries' next several moves, most enemies simply have no chance of defeating Negura in physical combat. She fights with meticulous efficiency, utilizing every surface of her body to deadly effect. Her moves are of such incredible speed that she often appears to be executing several attacks at once, felling multiple opponents with each gesture. Her ability to rapidly shift the shape of her limbs from one attack to the next render most defenses useless - the parry that would deflect a stabbing blade may not divert a slashing claw, and could be next to useless against the lash of a razor-edged whip. At other times she merely phases her blades through her enemy's armor, completely ignoring her opponent's futile efforts. Just as suddenly, she can remove herself several meters in any direction, ripping through another unready warrior even as a recent enemy's weapons slice uselessly through empty air where she previously stood.

So predetermined is the outcome of each action that to the objective observer, she appears to be enacting an exquisitely choreographed and lethal dance: every thrust a coupé, every feint a pirouette, every evasion an échappé. Surviving witnesses describe this "shadow dance" as truly wondrous to behold: terrible in its inexorable and fatal intent, but simultaneously evoking heart-wrenching sadness and regret - an elegy of deadly motion.

Those adversaries who are the intentional recipients of non-lethal strikes nonetheless find themselves both neutralized and severely diminished - her shadowy blades rend the soul as readily as iron, flesh and bone. Still Negura naturally elicits such primordial dread that most potential opponents simply flee rather than engage her directly. This is often to her imperceptible relief: the agony of their deaths at the edges of her blades is a shared experience she does not savor...

An awesome action-shot of Negura illustrated by Aivomata (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/aivomata/ ). I love their linework so much, I can't wait to commission them again!