The puppets went on a bird subduing rampage.
The massive flock of birds reduced by half in nearly twenty minutes. The sudden surge of the ice attacks from the puppets is not only effective, but it was a visual spectacle to look at. They looked like some kind of fairies and the ice elemental energy that acted as a rope connecting the puppets to their control point appeared like star dust.
The citizens watched as Sam finishing all the birds off with his puppets.
His speed is way faster than the speed of the birds spawning from the mountains. This soon made the puppets number higher than the birds and then there are no extra birds. Only the ones coming from the burning mountains.
And of course, Sam is not going to wait and let them grow slowly once again.