Since the single bird didn't work, Alex stood next to the damaged spot that was slowly healing and waited for other birds to come. Soon, he could hear a loud caw in the sky as two birds moved down from the smog.
Immediately, they made their way down toward him. As they did, Alex looked at their trajectory and narrowed his eyes as a frown formed on his face. "They're targeting my head and my leg," he told himself, realizing the points of impact would be two different locations.
He had to change that. With a thought, space distorted around him, and the space that was around his head and his leg became twisted until they were close to each other.
He twisted the space around even more, pushing it closer toward the damaged spot. At the very last moment, when the birds nearly struck him, Alex used the Dao of Spatial Contraction to move out of the way once again. In the absence of teleportation, this was the fastest method he had of getting out of the attack line.
