The training continued like this for many hours and the more men I killed the more appeared, they were more than a hundred at some point. I died many times and every time the time turned back and at what seemed the end of the training, I was sitting with my back against a pile of corpses, covered in blood, breathing heavily and my heart beating way too fast, almost ready to explode.

The girl came closer to me and said sarcastically

"I didn't know you were such a monster."

I looked at her

"If I'm a monster, then what are you?"

There was some silence for some brief seconds, and then she spoke again with a little smile.

"You sure like to run your mouth huh? I wanted to stop here for today…but I guess you want to fight more."

As she said that, the pile of corpses melted and came together in one big ball of meat.

I quickly got up, surprised by what was happening.

'I have a bad feeling about this…’

I could hear strong heartbeats coming from the ball, which started moving and transforming, slowly creating a human shape until a similar creature to the previous men was created, but it was as tall as a 10 floors building, his body was deformed and the eyes, the mouths and the limbs of the corpses that were forming the beast were visible and still moving on their own.

'Am I supposed to fight that thing-'

The giant tried to stomp me but I was able to dodge, immediately got behind him and tried to cut his Achilles tendons but I only left a little scratch since I didn’t enough strenght, with every movement causing me immense pain and I could have loosened my senses at any moment.

'He is slower than the previous enemies. I have to jump and hit him in the eyes, then I'll find a nice spot to hide and recover.'

I tried to concentrate my aura on my legs but when I tried to jump…

Crack

I fell to the ground as both my legs broke because of the excessive strain I put on them until now. I stayed on the ground grinding my teeth and trying to not scream, thinking that if this is the type of pain I will have to endure in every single battle, screaming every time will be useless.

Meanwhile, the giant moved the foot on top of me, keeping a perfect balance without putting any pressure on my body. I was too tired to do anything and waited for him to crush me so I could try that fight again, but he didn't move one bit.

'Did he stop-' When I started questioning the situation I felt like something was biting me. I looked down and then saw, in that narrow space between my body and the giant's foot, many little mouths were eating my body while tiny hands were helping feed them.

I thought I saw everything until now, but this left me in a state of extreme shock, that I didn't even scream and just stared at the situation; it was like watching zombies feeding on my body.

Lucky for me, I lost my senses almost immediately while hoping to hear that snap of fingers again but it didn’t happen, instead I heard the voice of the girl saying

"This is your last chance."

When I opened my eyes, the giant was in front of me again, like nothing happened.

While looking at the giant I shouted surprised "L...Last chance?! How am I supposed to beat this thing-"

I looked at the bench where the girl was sitting, but she wasn't there anymore, meanwhile, the giant noticed I was distracted and tried to stomp me. Fortunately, he was slow and I managed to dodge.

‘I have to run away now!’

I concentrated a bit of my aura on my legs, just the right amount to not break them, and ran into the city's heart, where high buildings close to each other could hide me from his sight. He wasn’t able to keep up with me and once I was far from him, I hid in a supermarket.

As I went in, I slowed down the pace, trying to regain breath while I could vaguely hear his footsteps from a long distance.

'He probably knows where I am. I’ll try to rest a bit while thinking of a plan. I probably don’t have much time…’

I sat on one of the counters and brought my hands to my hair.

'Is all of this actually training or she wants me dead?' I shook my head at that thought

'She wouldn't need all of this just for that. Maybe she is finding all of this funny and watching it like a tv show-'

My thoughts were abruptly interrupted by a cry

'Is that…a kid? Are there people in this city?'

I went in the cry's direction and saw a scared boy sitting in a corner, he was probably around the age of 8 and there was one of those men, exactly like the ones I fought before, getting closer to him.

I ran towards the man and cut his head before he could sense my presence and I looked at his body as it fell to the ground

'If he's not the only one in this city then I'm fucked.' After thinking I looked at the child.

He had brown hair and bright yellow eyes, they were shiny like made of gold. He was still scared, so I kneeled to result less menacing and tried to reassure him with a calm voice.

"Hey, you are safe now. Have you been separated from your parents because of these old monsters?"

He slowly nodded and stopped crying but was still quivering.

"Do you remember where is your house?"

He nodded again.

"Then come with me, I'll bring you there. Your parents are probably waiting for you." I said with a smile and offered him my hand to help him get up.

After a second of doubt, he wiped the tears and took my hand. As we both got up, a vast earthquake made us almost fall.

I took the kid in one of my arms and with the other hand I kept the wooden katana

‘Is he already here?’

I ran outside and the giant was coming closer with every footstep causing a mini earthquake; as the kid saw him he started quivering even more. I looked at him and said

“Ehy kid. Look at me and everything will be fine! I’m sure your parents wouldn’t want to see you this scared!” he nodded and kept his gaze locked on me. I smiled and started running away from the giant, even with the kid in my arms, I was still faster than that monster…but something didn’t seem right. It was too easy, all I had to do was to run away and bring that kid to his parents.

“Hey kid, do you remember where is your house?” I asked but he didn’t reply and kept his gaze low. At the same time, I started feeling a sense of uneasiness.

Suddenly, all the windows of the buildings around us broke off, many of those old barbaric men from before came out and in not even a second, we were surrounded, meanwhile the giant was coming closer and closer to us.

The kid was shaking like a leaf, but wasn’t crying, he just looked shocked.

‘I have to do something.’ I kept my grip tight on the katana, but as I tried to move most of the men rushed, blocked me in every way possible and took the kid from my arm.

“NO!” I tried to free myself but I didn’t have enough energy to fight them off.

“What do you want to do to him?!”

No answer. 

Meanwhile, the kid was trying to free himself but couldn’t either and when the giant was close, he took him in his giant hand and the ones blocking me forced me to open my mouth and raise my head. As they did that, the giant closed the kid in his fist and brought it above me.

‘N-No! What do you want to do?!’ My mind started going crazy as I tried to figure out what they wanted to do and an answer arrived, the kid was releasing a powerful aura while trying to free himself

‘He has powers?! So, these monsters want to feed-’

With a quick move, the giant tightened his grip. Multitudes of sounds of broken bones could be heard, a lot of blood came out of his hand and some of it fell into my mouth. Weird enough, I didn’t have the urgency to vomit.

‘Maybe I’m already losing my humanity…?’

When I thought the giant had finished, he started moving his fingers, causing more sounds of broken bones and blood to come out.

He continued like this until there wasn’t any sound and then, he opened his hand, letting all the little pieces of flesh to fell. Most of them fell on the ground, but some of them fell into my mouth and I swallowed easily because of the position of my head.

After that, the men threw me against a palace, like they had some grudge towards me, but they didn’t use much strength this time so I simply crushed in a room.

I was laying with my back against a bunch of rubbles, traumatized, tired and dirty with the kid’s blood.

“This has never been a training…this is just a massacre…" I told to myself.

I slowly started feeling the kid’s powers flowing in my body, but when it touched my soul, I started having a vision, the kid’s memories were flashing before my eyes.