Dying Is So Easy

Magna was sure that if he relaxed his weapons even slightly, the owl would take the chance to attack him with its talons or beak.

But the deadly chill coming from behind him was forcing him to move and dodge.

At that moment, his heightened thinking kicked in, helping him quickly come up with an escape plan. He decided to use a trait he had never used before.

His golden eyes locked onto the owl's huge yellow eyes, and in an instant they changed.

It wasn't a massive change, but the way he looked now grew more intense, almost like an illusion, shifting from a child's eyes to the eyes of a hungry lone wolf staring down an owl it had decided to eat for lunch.

At that moment the owl's body trembled slightly. Its talons, which had been pressing so hard into the ground to steady itself, loosened, and its beak, which had been pressing hard against Magna's weapons, hesitated and stopped applying force.