Restrictive Training (2)

*Grrrr!

The demon hounds were growling while trying to dig and pull chunks of flesh as well as limbs off like when dogs would if you were playing tug of war with them.

They bit with their strong jaws as they attacked with their claws, but no matter what they did, Ayla felt nothing. There was no pain, but she was feeling annoyed.

'I could stand here all day and they wouldn't be able to injure me, but I would rather not.' Ayla thought, glancing at the formation the demon hounds had used.

Twelve demon hounds kept her from moving as they bit onto her limbs and torso in an attempt to pierce her skin while using their claws to attack. As for the remaining five, they surrounded her in the shape of a pentagon.

'With the formation they took, it'd be difficult to get out with my restricted strength, so I'll have to come up with a way to use their higher strength against them.' Ayla looked at the wolf biting onto her wrist and grinned. Her entire hand was inside its mouth. 'That'll work.'

Clenching her fist, she pushed it further into its mouth and down its throat, preventing air from reaching its lungs and vice versa. She had realized these demon hounds were the weakest of their kind. The stronger ones were formed of spiritual energy, while the weaker ones were flesh and bone with immense strength.

With its airways blocked, it couldn't breathe and gradually began to lose its formidable strength. Its eyes kept blinking, each blink getting slower and slower, until everything stopped. It's eyes stayed open, its heartbeat stopped, as all motion from it seized. It had died.

'Finally,'

She had more leeway with her arm after one of the demon hounds died, but she still wasn't able to pull her arm away from the other demon hound's grasp. She swung her left arm—this lifted the shocked demon hound holding onto her arm with its jaw along with her arm.

She knocked off all the demon hounds that had been clinging to her body, besides one, the one who had clung onto her arm. With her other hand free, she put her fingers into the eyes of the demon hound. Her fingers pierced the brain, where her nails formed into dragon claws that shredded the brain into tiny pieces.

'Fifteen left.'

When she faced the fifteen remaining demon hounds, she found them all on their feet, barring their teeth at her, but they didn't lunge at her like the last time they had underestimated her.

Ayla didn't waste anymore time and dashed towards the wary demon hounds. When she reached the leading hounds, she lowered her body to strike aggression into the hounds. With her being at a lower height than them, they would assume she's inferior to them and attack her.

Her plan was successful, and the demon hounds attacked, but this time she used their strength and agility against them, grabbing the leading hound's arm and flipping its body behind her as she moved forward. The ones who had lunged at her were in mid-air, heading towards the lead hound and had no time to change trajectory when...

*Pfff!

Their razor sharp claws and teeth had dug into one another, some being lethal, while most weren't, but the one fact was that they were injured and had difficulty moving. The five that had suffered lethal injuries died within seconds. This left only ten left.

'I'm not much of a fist fighter, so I'll finish them off with my weapons.' Ayla thought, conjuring two daggers in her hands.

She dashed forward, and once she reached the demon hounds, she slashed her dagger in quick succession, turning all of their bodies into chunks of meat due to the sharpness of the dagger's blade.

Now that all the demon hounds had been killed, she left the area, unconcerned about the corpses because they were worthless to her. She traversed through the forest, looking for the next opponent to fight against.

…

3 days passed.

Her three-day training quickly came to an end, and it was now the day of the 16th finals, which would bring the 32 top warriors down to 16 top warriors.

Ayla had taken a bath before she headed to the Genji Dojo, wearing her black kimono with her katana hung on her obi.