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When the Weak Go Marching In Part 9

I lunged without thinking, the large one has a bit of a corrosive membrane on me meaning these monsters are physical and can be touched without spirit claws or abilities. Since I only have regeneration, I need to throw my hands until the big guy dies. The corrosive membrane was a different issue, every time I touched him I lost a bit of skin on my knuckles or a bit of clothing. But the pain wasn't too noticable if I kept swinging. Whenever I stopped however, the pain surged and I had to pause. What a curse I was given.

That's when it hit me, the irony of the situation.

I mumbled to myself,

“Spending the entire midday with teammates all working together just to be set aside and made to work on solo combat.”

I chuckled to myself,

“Well I guess I don't want to be a hindrance to them, I really was essentially protected.”

All components of the whole need to be able to work by themselves if needed to, yet quite ironically I stood and mentally marched into battle with teammates equally weak to me in some regards. Whether it be in mentality or whatever. My regeneration is powerful but it shouldn't make me mentally unstable or nervous to fight. I need a pain tolerance.

I stared back at the large one in front of me but then turned my gaze away from it to the other 20 surrounding me. I'm not good at fist combat but each of these looked like fragile soft clay amateur sculptures but they were around my size. They were corrosive as well, but my fear for pain was outweighed by my desire for strength. I began to fight all 20 of them at once while the large one strangely enough just watched.

By the time I reached 10 the pain was reaching an unbearable point but I kept pushing, my shirt was gone and the bones of my knuckles, cheek bones, and rib cage were showing. This felt like nothing when my eye was pierced, it felt like a sunburn in comparison to that.

I let out a scream like no one will hear me and began fighting the other ten, without fear of death, knowing full well, the regeneration, will, save, me.