Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 3280

Capítulo 3280: Illogical

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.

As soon as he arrived elsewhere, he heard two distinct but nearly simultaneous booms that resounded throughout the forest. The two birds struck close enough to the same spot as the first bird, the energy from them glowing brightly against the yellow barrier on the inside.

“Tsk!”

Alex couldn’t help but show an expression of annoyance when he realized that he had failed this time as well. He had hoped two would do the task, but it seemed he had been optimistic.

“Fine, let more come.”

He went right back to the damaged spot and waited for more birds to come. While he waited, he examined the spot and realized that the energy from the birds was dissipating away. If the birds had struck the ground, the location would’ve been a pool of lava at the moment, but the barrier had some weird property to it that made the damage from the previous birds slowly heal.

Alex couldn’t help but frown, understanding that he might have to deliver an intense amount of energy in a very short time. Thankfully, more birds would come soon, so he would have that opportunity.

He had hope.

Three birds came, which annoyed Alex a little. He had hoped there would be four birds this time, doubling from the previous times as they had back in the lava when he had tried to sneak into the Talon instead of taking the trials.

“This might take much longer,” he told Shumi and Whisker, before sighing as he got back into the task at hand.

Another three explosions covered the land, each one with a fraction of a second in between them. The three spots where the birds hit the barrier lay visible for everyone to see. While Alex had tried his very best to twist the space so that all the beasts would hit the same location, because he moved away, the space was halfway into healing itself, and thus the actual location that the birds landed on wasn’t the exact spot at all.

Alex took that information into account for the next time the birds would come. Five birds came out this time around, causing Alex to be taken aback.

“Not four?” he thought. Was it not following any logic?

Now that he thought about it, something similar had happened with Whisker as well. The birds that had come when it was underground didn’t have a logical progression to them either. It had gone from one to two to two to four and more. He had considered that to be the case because Whisker had gone underground, but he now wondered if that was not the case.

“The numbers are illogical,” Alex thought, wondering if it meant what he thought it meant. “Someone is controlling them, right?”

It could only be one being as far as he knew. It was the Master of the Trial.

In the absence of logic, he had to find intelligence, and that was the only thing he knew of on the island that was intelligent.

“Is it watching us?” Alex thought. He had previously considered the birds to be some sort of spirit created by some formations to come out occasionally to explain things, like something set up with pre-planned actions. But that might not have been the case now that he thought about it.

“It saw I could easily handle three, so it sent five,” Alex thought. “Is that it?”

He couldn’t help but smirk. If the Master of the Trial thought he would lose just because it sent two more birds, then it was sorely mistaken about his capabilities.

Alex used his spatial daos again and dodged at the last second. This time, he forced himself to stay there for as long as he could so that the space would revert to how it was and thus allow the birds to strike the same location.

Alex heard a resounding boom, one where he had a hard time distinguishing the gap between the birds’ attacks. He couldn’t help but smile as he realized that he was quite good at it.

He went back to the mountainside and looked at the result of his actions. He was slightly disappointed to see that the barrier still stood just as well as it had, but at least he had now gotten the hang of things. If there were more birds, he could surely do something with it.

He patiently waited for a long time before the next set of birds appeared in the sky once again. Alex smiled, but it lasted for just a second when he realized that there were way more this time.

“Eight? Really?”

That was a bigger jump than last time. An additional three birds would have a lot more energy than just five. In a way, he was happy about it.

He smiled widely as he prepared for the birds to come strike him down. But at the last moment, he noticed something different from the previous four times that made his smile disappear.