58: "Mushroom Net" Battle-Saving the Unlucky, Lovesick Old Widower

"Mushroom Net" Battle: Saving the Unlucky, Lovesick Old Widower

The Winter Queen agreed to restart the long-abandoned Anima Garden as soon as possible.

It was a passage reserved specifically for eternal spirits returning to the material world. The spirit seeds they became after death would receive the Winter Queen's personal care in that garden. After undergoing a rebirth of "taking root, sprouting, growing, and blooming," they would be sent back into the Life Force through the "Great Cycle."

In the Winter Queen's words, that meant returning beneath her sister's moonlight to fight for the lives of the material cosmos.

There was no need to examine the process closely to know that it would inevitably consume a vast amount of anima as a resource. After all, something like "coming back from the dead" could never happen without paying a price.

The advantage of immortal spirits was that they did not have to pay that price themselves.

At the death end of the Great Cycle of life and death, the Winter Queen would cover the "cost" of their resurrection.

Of course, enjoying the benefits meant bearing responsibilities. After returning to the material cosmos, these Wild Gods had to continue fulfilling their duties and missions of protecting the various worlds.

That was a "fate" they could not abandon.

They had to fight for their worlds and all living beings. They had to keep moving through the cycle of life and death, dying and reviving again and again, until one death finally reduced them to nothing—or until the world they protected was ground to dust by disaster.

The former was often because they had endured too many wars and tragedies, become too exhausted, and chosen self-release.

The latter was like Overlord Alyssia.

After losing the world they were meant to protect, these Wild Gods