Three copies of that monst- old man were in front of me, a few meters away, waiting for my first move. But I was tired; the move I used before was cool and all but it exhausted me a lot.

'I could use that same move again, but if there are more rounds to go through after this one then I have to save my energies as much as possible. I have to kill at least two of them with the first hit.'

Even with all the exhaustion, my body felt like it didn't move for hundreds of years and it wanted to move more, making up for the time lost, but was limited by that human body. My aura was still concentrated around the wooden katana, my arms and legs and once I stopped thinking, I charged at two of the old men, but one managed to dodge and I only cut one head. Two enemies remained and I could feel pain in every part of my body.

'Shit. I have to finish this quickly.' I looked at the man in front of me and looked around for the other one.

'Where is he?! He can't be disappeared in thin ai-'

Suddenly, the other man fell on me like a meteorite, creating a shockwave that destroyed the buildings around us and created a huge crater.

I was in the middle of it, with my backbones and ribs broken, my arms and legs were integral because they were strengthened by my aura.

Cough cough

Blood came out of my mouth while it was flowing out of my nose and eyes too.

'My regeneration is too slow…is it because I"m too exhausted?" I looked around.

'I can't see them. Did they destroy themselves? I hope so…'

I tried to get up but one of those monsters blocked me against the ground with his foot and grabbed both of my arms.

"W-wait, no-"

He tore my arms from my body and I screamed, I don’t know for how long, while tears were flowing down my face, meanwhile, they were breaking more bones and even after stopping, I continued screaming until I didn’t have any breath and I could only sob.

"It seems I overestimated your abilities." it was the voice of that girl speaking.

My neck was broken and I could only move my gaze in the direction the voice was coming from. She was on the edge of the crater, looking at me with a smile, not a malicious or happy one, it looked…sad.

"There will be many enemies even stronger than them, you'll have to be ready." she said before turning around and I was left confused, but also angry.

'Why were you looking at me like that? What do you want me to do?! This is all your fault! If I was that bad of a criminal why didn't you let me die that day?! What do you want from me?!'

I wanted to say this, but her powers within my soul stopped me and calmed my anger, it felt like someone was hugging me with the deepest love I ever felt. Was she just trying to control me? Or was she just faking her malicious nature?

Both these assumptions felt ridiculous and whatever the answer was, I was too tired to think about it and my eyes slowly closed while one of those monsters in humanoid form grabbed my head with his giant hands and put a lot of pressure on it; I didn’t even try to resist and the last thing I heard before my head being crushed was a snap of fingers.

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Suddenly, I opened my eyes and I was still on my feet, nothing in my body was broken with both my arms still attached. I touched my chest and back in disbelief then looked ahead, a few metres away the three copies of that monster were there, waiting for my move and the girl was sitting on the bench looking at me, ready to analyse my moves.

'Did she…turn back time? No, what am I saying? Would that even be possible?' while thinking I was still looking at her.

"Why are you looking at me? Your enemies are in front of you." she said to me.

"O-oh right, sorry." I looked back at the three puppets.

'I still have the same fatigue as before and I have to save as much energy as I can. If I truly came back in time, I’ll have to consider that one of them will dodge and I need to adopt a new strategy.'

After thinking I bit more I suddenly rushed at two of the 3 men with the katana in my left hand. I grabbed one for the neck before he could dodge, cut the other one's head, and then stabbed the man I grabbed in the head.

As I turned around to look at the last man, he tried to attack but I was able to cut him in half vertically. Even without his lower body, he was still alive and tried to jump on me by using his hands and I stabbed him in the head while he was in mid-air.

This second round had finished and the three corpses slowly became puddles of blood; from them more of those monsters appeared, equipped with big axes this time.

I was exhausted and could not keep up with this.

This time I didn't have time to think, they quickly jumped on me hitting me in every part of my body with their weapons. On the brink of death, I heard that snap of fingers and time turned back again.

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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. 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 was too tired, 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 on my body.

Lucky 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.