Hearing my comment the wolf was outraged

"Better? Boy I am THE best teacher you will ever come across! I taught a tree to tell the time, a bear etiquette. I've even taught generations of royal families!"

His achievements seemed made up and impossible but the tone in his voice and his resolute anger made it seem like every word he spoke was an undisputable fact

"You've beaten up royalty?"

Taken aback by my words he laughed slightly

"Not everyone is taught the same way"

"So its just me who gets beaten up until I start learning things?"

"Yeah"

I was dumbfounded by the sheer bluntness of his comment

He was going to beat me up because that was the best way of teaching me?

It was an insane way to teach someone

Before I could keep complaining about his insane idea of teaching someone in my mind he walked around my body and sat down in front of me staring down at my face

Confused by what he was doing I stared at him

"What're you doing?"

"Waiting"

"You want me to get back up?"

Instead of answering he simply continued to look down at me intently

Knowing his answer I moved my head and pressed my forehead down against the cold onyx wood

We stayed in these positions for a long time before he sighed and stood up

"What's taking so long?"

"I'm not getting back up"

He stopped talking but it wasn't an intimidating silence but a calculating silence

"Get up"

"I'm not getting up"

His voice was growing increasingly more annoyed as I refused to stand up

"Stand up"

"I won't get up"

After a while he could no longer contain himself and decided to attack me without his previous mercy

I felt his sharp claws cut through the flesh of my hard shoulder without damaging the bones beneath

"Crrrck"

Jolting from the pain I instinctively went to push myself off the floor with the arm that was damaged causing a second wave of pain to rush through my body

"What the fuck!"

"I'm warning you, child. Get up and defend yourself"

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Struggling I pushed myself up with my other arm and up onto my knees before getting up to my feet

During the whole process he didn't interfere once but simply waited patiently allowing me to get up without worry

Once on my feet he lowered his body into a stance allowing him to launch forwards as fast as possible

I lowered my center of gravity and prepared to receive a full force attack

Unexpectedly he launched towards my side and continued to sprint around me, circling me at a rapid pace

I continuously turned, trying to follow him but my body couldn't keep up and he eventually outpaced me causing me to loose him

'Fuck. How am I supposed to keep up with him?'

I became scared because I couldn't keep up with him. I couldn't even try to anticipate how he'd try to attack me

I became increasingly afraid with every second that he didn't try to attack me

Before I knew it a sharp pain ran down from my shoulder blade all the way down to my waist causing a searing pain to erupt inside my brain and leaving me on my knees writing in an unmeasurable pain

"Arghhhh!"

I tried my best to stifle my scream but I failed causing the yell to echo throughout the entire forest

After inflicting the wound the wolf backed off once again refusing to make a follow up attack like every other time

"Come on boy! Fight back!"

His words which should have sounded reprimanding were instead motivating

I pushed myself to my feet and stared at him

"That's quite a gaze you have there. You look more like a wild beast than a person"

I launched at him trying to catch him before he disappeared once again and ran around me

Before I was at his mercy I needed to strike him

But it was a useless attempt

Long before I reached him he slowly and blissfully stood up and moved to sit down a few centimeters from his original position where he could watch me fly past him without being able too do anything to him

It was an infuriating thing to watch as I quickly flew past him and hit the ground before falling into a roll as I bounced on the onyx wood

'Damn. IT!'

He was making fun of me

I looked into his eyes and saw an almost mocking and degrading look

It seemed like he believed himself superior to me in every possible way there could be

It only continued to fuel the rage that was growing inside of my heart

Instead of standing up I simply got onto my working hand and foot, cradling my painful arm

Looking at me a surprised expression formed on the wolfs snout

"Now you truly resemble a wild beast"

I continued to ignore his words and dragged my body forwards with my arm as I pushed off the ground with my legs breaking into a hunched sprint keeping my body close to the ground by pushing all of my gravity forwards

I felt faster than I had ever run, it was an exhilarating feeling

The only problem was my energy which was quickly slipping away just as fast

By the time I reached the wolf which had assumed a stance on all fours I already felt extremely tired

Reaching forwards to grasp his head the wolf quickly dodged to the side and opened his maw trying to ingulf my working forearm

Before he could close his jaw on it I swiped my cradled arm out to the side slamming my elbow in his throat

Unable to see the attack coming he gaged as my hard elbow embedded itself into his Adam's apple closing his throat and causing him to start suffocating

Unable to support my unsteady balance I tumbled forwards after saving m arm leaving me sliding across the floor for a few seconds before I slowly started standing up once again

I got to my knees and turned to look over my shoulder

The wolf was rolling around still gasping for breath trying to fill his lungs with all the air that he was previously deprived of

Before he could fully recover I got to my feet and tried my best to jog over to him before getting down and pinning his body

I sat down on his ribs and put both my hands onto his throat

"Give up you shit teacher!"

The anger inside of me laced my tone as I got prepared to strangle the life out of him

Even though I was about to do it I couldn't even believe my own lack of remorse or mercy

The anger seemed to kill all lingering thoughts of hesitation I could possibly have left inside of me

Finally the wolf spoke

"C-congratulations. Cough!"

It seemed like his wind pipe was still struggling to return to normal after me viscous attack to his throat

"I won?"

"No. You passed the. test"

Just as I was having thoughts of releasing him he threw me off easily and rolled back to his feet

At that moment I grasped my true insignificance in front of him

'There was never a possibility of forcefully winning was there?'

His power seemed even more fearsome than a tier 2

He was a monster I could never hope to even try to overpower, every time I thought I was winning was simply by his very own design

As I was realizing the pointlessness of my every effort he was comfortably sitting down as he groomed his hair

He was making sure he looked as he had done before the battle

His actions made me think of an overly dedicated soldier, always worrying about his uniform, weapon and everything else he needed to look after during his off time