24 Fighting Tigers is Terrifying! (1/2)

Three days. Three fucking days.

Three days of what? Fighting. That's what I've been doing for three days. Exhausted? Too bad, I was forced to get up and keep fighting.

That way of increasing my stamina apparently capped out at being up for a day straight, add that into the fact that I wasn't allowed to use any of the skills I've learned up till now and was only allowed to train with the tiger powers and I wanted to fucking die.

Actually I almost did a couple times, especially in that first day. One if the tigers that was my opponent tried to claw off my head since these fights are no holds barred, if they kill me then I just wasn't strong enough.

These tigers definitely taught me that there is always someone stronger than me, that's for sure. I mean I didn't think I was unbeatable before, but I did think I was strong. I haven't suffered a defeat like this since I tried to fight my friend in a fighting game that he had mastered without me knowing.

Can I repent for my sins? Which of the seven deadly sins was it, pride? Yeah pride. I got my ass beat for having too much pride, and I feel no shame in admitting by the second day I was in tears. I never want to go through that shit again if I can help it.

Oh yeah, I never explained what exactly it was that happened in those three days. Well give me a second to collect myself and I'll tell you.

So here's what happened at the beginning, well granted it can be summed up with the sentence 'I got my ass handed to me' a lot more than that happened.

So my first fight after being bewildered was against a small cub, and I was tasked with just keeping my sage mode aura up while in battle. Hard? Shouldn't be as I can keep it up fairly easily. Oh but was this ever different, that little tiger cub was a demon.

As soon as the fight began it jumped at me right towards my crotch and I desperately leaped up like I was a cheerleader and split my legs (this hurt a lot as I'm not flexible). After that the cub quickly spun around and pounced onto my back and used me as a springboard. The sudden surge of power from that tiny cub actually made me fall flat on my face and then my aura went off.

From out of the ring I heard a loud voice, the sage tiger, talking to me, ”Again! You are not to stop fighting” This is the only thing that he repeated whenever he wasn't giving me a brief explanation of the next task. It actually got pretty annoying since I heard it every time I fell, by the end of my fights every damn time he said it I'd just go and say it along with him like one of those edgy teenagers that was upset with their parents.

Wait, getting ahead of myself again. Well I kept getting knocked down by that hyperactive cub for around 2 hours until I was barely able to keep my aura up after being knocked down, running, jumping, and really every rigorous task. Though it was a just barely thing the tiger had called out, ”NEXT!” and the small tiger cub walked out revealing a larger tiger, I will assume around the same age as Ezekiel.

That little bastard started doing the same exact thing but worse. The little tiger didn't hurt me much, but this guy? Oh every time he ran by me and would go and leave scratches all over me, it ended up tearing my shirt and pants to shreds. My shoes and underwear almost went with them, but thankfully I have something important behind my legs that I feel would be deathly painful if I got it cut.

Once I was able to barely keep my aura up against him he sent in another tiger. Then once I could barely keep my aura up with that one the next one was thrown in.

The next one was a fully grown (I think) tiger, one that had just barely grown up, and it basically beat me down with no mercy. This made me cry because out of all of them this was the hardest. At least at that point it was. It was so hard that it actually took me 7 hours just to keep my aura up on this step.

When the next tiger was sent out, it thankfully wasn't too much more difficult to the strength not increasing much, same with the next few tigers I fought. They each took me about an hour to get past them, but then all of a sudden it got much more difficult.

The tigers that fought me after those were the old ones, but they didn't get weaker as they got old. They got stronger. Much like with the sage tiger they all were absolutely fucking ripped. Should I call these roidgers? Stergers? Tigerods? Stiger?! These things are just too beefy to be normal tigers, like if someone shot it with a gun, I think it would be able to just make the bullet get deflected off of it. So how in the hell does someone fight against this? Well not even really fight, but just be able to survive! I'm setting the bar pretty low here so please?