Chapter 495: Give or Take
Tala foiled a series of strikes from various training weapons as four Talons tried to work together to earn even a single hit on her.
The Talons weren’t those on Terry’s feet; she and Terry weren’t sparring at the moment. Instead, the Irondale Defenders had proposed the name ‘Talons’ after Terry’s first venture with them—in honor of and inspired by him—and it had immediately caught on.
At that moment, Tala was sparring against four Talons, flowing between their strikes yet never needing to actually deflect the blows this session.
These four were far better than they had been in their first clash, nearly a week earlier.
Now, they almost never hit each other or the others’ weapons when she wasn’t where they expected. They worked together to pincer her with each strike rather than just with how they positioned their bodies.
Her relaxed movements belied exactly how dangerous the situation could have been.
The movements of each of the Talons were so enhanced that they almost cracked the air with every swing of their various weapons. It was only Tala’s increasing mastery of the Way of Flowing Blood that allowed her to stay out of the way, and they were picking up on even that faster than any mundane could have.
-Mental enhancements for the win!-
Indeed. Without those, they’d have trouble controlling their bodies, though.