Alex noticed the birds coming down at a slower speed than before. They were more slowly gliding down toward him rather than at the meteoric speed they had beforehand. Seeing that, he had a rather bad feeling about it all.
The eight different birds came down toward him, and Alex dodged once again. But because the birds were slower than before, it did not matter that he had dodged. They managed to turn around at the last moment, making their way toward him at the same constant speed.
'Shit!'
Realizing that he couldn't get out of it the way he wanted to now, Alex pulled out his sword and swung. In a single attack, he struck each of the eight birds at once, carving through them all together. The Spiritual Providence technique of his allowed his sword slash to carry with it a spiritual aspect to the attack, thus destroying the birds easily.
Once they were dead, Alex let his yang energy cover him again, retreating away from the mountain.
