Rescuing People

In fact, having eyes grow on the soles of his feet was not the worst possible outcome.

Randomness meant anything was possible. Even an eye growing on his backside would have been nothing strange. Gaining a useful ability without becoming too disgusting or too inhuman was already exceptionally lucky.

Owl sat in front of Sa and gave her a rough explanation of what his eyes could do. Finally, he said with a helpless, bitter smile, "I suppose this counts as a side effect. I'll just have to live with it."

"You don't actually look bad now, Owl," Sa reassured him.

She did not care what Owl became. Besides, once she had gotten used to it, she genuinely did not think he looked ugly.

However, she was very curious about his eyes' abilities, because they seemed to have quite a few. So far, there were already three: looking at Owl's eyes induced fear, he could control the red threads released from them to scout, and he could use those threads to seize control of living creatures' bodies.

Beyond that, they had yet to determine whether there were any other abilities, so she asked, "Owl, could your eyes have other abilities too? Why don't you test them some more?"

"I'll test them when we have time. We need to go," Owl declined.

Then he told Sa what he had seen through the bird. She frowned as she listened. What were those people in Waterwood Town doing? Disaster was looming, yet they were still dragging their feet. Once it struck, it would be too late to run.

Sa controlled her eyes, expanding her field of vision layer by layer. By the time she could see Waterwood Town, countless snakes were burrowing out of the ground in several places.

The ground had been forced