"Congratulations, once again you managed to clear the trial, don't worry the time in that space was manipulated so in reality only about an hour has passed." Perman appeared once again.
"Alright now onto the next trial, the Trial of Persistance."
"In this trial you will have to survive without the use of magic."
"Now I announce the beginning of the sixth trial of the 15 Trials of Lightning! That is all, good luck."
Alex appeared in a rolling valley, and on either side of that valley was a horde of normal enemies, nothing special about them, but there were hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of them. She couldn't see past the valley, and everything was covered in monsters.
The killing began, Alex wielding her daggers, and started slashing at the monsters before quickly realising that they all died in 5 hits no matter what she used whether she used her fists, her head, or her weapons as long as it was a hit it would deal 20% of the enemy's health.
As such, Alex figured that the best way to finish this quickly would be to use all her body parts in order to fight, but she quickly realised that it was extremely clumsy when she used her various body parts to fight because she couldn't just rub over the surface, and had to apply some force, but not to the point where she would be wasting energy.
Sighing, she got to work slowly improving her technique, and slowly killing of the enemies.
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Hours passed as she continued practising, and improving her technique, eventually she got to that sweet spot where the force applied was enough to deal 20% damage, but it would waste very little energy.
Speaking of killing, the number of enemies that were on the valley hadn't thinned out at all despite Alex killing hundreds of thousands, for every one that she killed another twenty would fill its spot.
Since she had perfected the technique to deal with this trial, she decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to apply the technique to proper combat so that she could surprise people with using strange body parts to attack the enemy.
And so Alex began applying more force, and using it against single enemies to surprise them, and deal annoying blows in general, most of these blows were to support her other attacks, and were very useful.
Just like that, weeks passed into months, and months passed into years, but the monsters kept coming, and she kept refining her method. It should be mentioned that Alex had gotten exhausted long ago, but was constantly pushing her limits in order to keep slaughtering.
At this point her combat technique could be described as a meat slaughterer, and she was integrating multi-strikes into her attacks.
Multi-strike attacks meant that she might send out a kick, but in reality Alex would kick multiple times on a single spot at an incredibly fast speed in order to deal more damage.
She had been on the verge of collapse for a long time now, and finally she saw hope as the crowd of monsters was slowly thinning, with a last burst of strength, Alex managed to eke out a last burst of power in order to kill the remaining monsters.