Ajani - Hacks apart Grixis fiends

One of the creatures ran toward Ajani in pursuit, the fingerbones of the creature’s claws splayed out like the branches of a dead tree, an unholy light radiating from the empty pits of its eyes. Ajani stepped before it, lodging himself between the fiend and his pridemates, and swung his axe, chopping down through its body. The axe’s bindings held as he hacked solidly into the creature once, twice, rending the thing in two with a clatter of ribs.

Ajani sprang down into the fray, landing full on the back of another of the creatures. Its flesh broke, sloughing off like wet cloth under Ajani’s claws. One after the other Ajani felled them, his axe and claws driven by protective instincts, his senses sharpened by the cries of his pride-mates. After what felt like only a dozen heartbeats, few of the fiends remained, their shredded remains littering the grounds around the bonfire.

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Alara Unbroken, Chapter 21