"Am going to rip her APART!"
The roar of the tiger echoed in the forest and birds scattered away from their nest, blindly flying into the sky. The tiger calmed its anger down and looked depressed remembering something. The tiger shook his head, sorting its thoughts out. Everyone looked at the odd behaviour of the tiger, not knowing what was happening to him. The ones that seemed to understand what was tiger going through were Aurora, Brav and Alia.
Seeing them understandingly nodding, Raiz asked out of curiosity. Raiz received an odd look that was saying " You should know this as well". Seeing Raiz was genuinely confused, Aurora started to explain.
" You have seen how the white tiger can't live anywhere else because of his need for higher mana in the air"
Raiz closed his eyes finally getting where she was heading with. Aurora continued." If he decided to go outside of this forest, he wouldn't be able to handle the thin mana. Forget about fighting, it would be hard for him to stay alive"
The more Aurora was speaking, the more the tiger was looking down. Raiz scratches his head at this new problematic matter. He looked at Moon
" I don't have any solution to this. Moon, do you have any ideas here"
" I would love to have the answer but am as clueless as everybody else." The cloud innocently shook his head. He had never heard of these restrictions but he was curious about something.
" Why the mana goes denser and stronger the more we head into the core of the forest? Someday when we go there we might be able to find out the reason" While Moon was mumbling to himself, everyone was shocked at what he said. Someday they would head into the core of the forest. In the middle, there were giant beasts strolling around, what kinda bravery was needed to walk around there?
The white tiger looked at the cloud and since they saved his life, he thought, it was better to give them some advice.
" I don't think you guys understand how terrifying and dangerous is the core of the forest. Even if I was in my peak condition, I could die the second I stepped in there. I don't mean to belittle you but I could kill all of you with just a pawn of mine. Even if you had 100 lives, you wouldn't be able to survive there"
When he said he could easily wipe everyone, nobody dared to doubt the giant tiger. The difference in their strength was clear as day. Even Moon didn't know if he was able to survive in the core. Moon was never arrogant Cloud to be believing in himself excessively. To the point, he didn't recognize what was a danger. He truly believed there were a lot of people and creatures stronger than him. His current strongest power was the ability to contain a mount full of energies within himself. If you take that away, he truly would be a normal cloud. That's why he worked hard in the infinity.
To do that, he needed more power. No matter how painful it would be, he would do it. For the cloud that was born alone, what he desires the most was a family and a power he needed to protect that.
" You can't take revenge against the woman unless she gets back here to get herself eaten. What do you intend to do?" Raiz asked the white tiger.
" Nothing, I won't do nothing. I will forget it, becoming obsessed about something currently impossible, will only lead me to my death. I still haven't introduced myself, I am the white tiger Bolt. Thank you for saving my life. I will repay this favour"
Moon and Raiz couldn't help but laugh. The tiger that looked fierce and powerful was now as cute as a cat. Bolt blushed a little bit under their laughing, thankfully he was looking down and nobody realised that.
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Alia who was silent the whole time decided to speak" You are part of our family, you don't have to thank us. We just did it cause we wanted to"
" Ahaha, you heard what the lady said. You don't need to feel the burden. A giant tiger feeling burdened and saying thank you. I have truly seen it all now hahaha" Brav heartily laughed while making Bolt blush even more.
The white tiger stopped on a word " Huh, a family? who? me?" He was confused by what was just said. How did he end up being part of their family? Raiz summarized what happened to the white tiger. The white tiger understood what happened, he looked at Alia and said.
" I don't mind being part of the family but I won't be able to visit you guys considering my situation. It's a different thought if you guys decided to visit me. I still wouldn't suggest coming here alone with your strength. I don't know how you even survive a whole night in here" The white tiger knew the hidden danger the night brought. It was truly surprising that they were able to protect him the whole night.
" I am thinking of staying a few nights in here. I don't know whether it is because of the danger or the higher mana in the middle but I can get stronger while fighting" Raiz showed his intention of wanting to stay more days.
The tiger looked at Raiz and thought there was an odd one no matter where you go. Since he was still his lifesaver, Bolt wanted to dissuade the suicide contender but another one talked before him.
" That's a good idea. I can tell my body is definitely getting stronger through the experience of battles. I need to be able to take them head-on without getting one injury" I need to be that cool to make an impression, Brav thought while looking at Alia
" If you guys want to stay and grow stronger without us, dream on. I will be staying too." Amilios crossed his arms, finishing his line.
The tiger looked at the maniacs ready to risk their lives. Stronger? Beasts were born with talent, which would decide their strength from birth. No matter how many times you practised even with life and death battles. At most your skills would be exquisite but the power would be the same.
He was truly thinking now, maybe he was better off staying away from these odd maniacs but they were still his lifesaver. He currently didn't have the power to protect others and barely recovered enough to protect himself.
Moon suddenly looked up towards where the outer forest was, everybody saw the odd movements and looked where the cloud looked.
" Is that what I think it is? "
" Yes, that is definitely what it is. Just to make sure it's not a dream, am going to pinch you" Alia pinched Brav to prove she was right indeed.
Even though the pinch didn't hurt that much, he still said " Why are you pinching me, why you don't pinch yourself"
Alia came back to herself from the daze and she apologized to Brav. Brav instead laughed and said it was fine since it didn't hurt. Alia understood he was teasing her and looked to the side blushing a little.
" That's definitely our Claustar, why is it suddenly flying towards us? Did it suddenly miss us and come to get us? it would be truly ridiculous if that happened " Brav said jokingly. It slowly came closer and before long the Claustar was hovering above them. The cloud went towards the flying Claustar and everyone followed him, including the white tiger.
Everyone saw how the black walls were still the same and entered as they would normally. The white tiger was able to go in since he was a member too. After the white tiger entered the city, he downsized himself to normal human size. He didn't want to accidentally step on the tiny ones. He could sense some really weak humans and just a little brush from his big body would be life-threatening for them.
Something black flew excitedly as it came over to them. To be precise it was the black orb that always stayed at the centre of the city.
" You guys are here. I have been waiting for you. Oh is this our new friend? Nice to meet you, they call me Orb" Everyone was shocked to the point they didn't know their jaw dropped. Even Moon who didn't have a jaw was as shocked. This development was something he didn't see coming.
" Are you guys ready, we are going to city Tartiib to teach them a lesson for messing with us!"
As the orb said that, the city teleported right into the middle of Tartiib. Claustar hovering in the sky gathering people's attention below them.
Moon:... "..."
Raiz: ..."..."