"Little one, it's time to go." As the cub gazed at him reluctantly, he picked it up and prepared to leave. Even after a whole night, the mother bear was still in the same condition: her body was whole, and her heart beat strongly, but she hadn't woken up.
He couldn't reverse the passing of a soul, not even now. He had done all he could.
The cub let out a soft, mournful whimper, reluctant to leave.
"Life and death are fate. From now on, you can come with me!" He stirred the Rune energy within him, intending to leave with Flying Thunder God.
"What is this...?"
Suddenly, a faint consciousness linked itself to him. It was incredibly weak and somewhat agitated.
A mysterious, brilliant light shone from the Nature Spirit Rune within him. A polar bear's consciousness was held in place by a beam of light, imprisoned at one side of a quadrilateral Rune formation.
She roared in distress and slammed herself against the beam with all her might. But with her feeble strength, how could she possibly shake it?
What was going on?
He knew this consciousness must belong to the mother bear, but why had it appeared in his mental world, at the Nature Spirit Rune? With his mental defenses, how could a creature like this have broken through and entered?
He reached out mentally to the Nature Spirit Rune, and a mysterious rule within it appeared directly in his consciousness, letting him understand what had happened.
He controlled the Rune energy, released the mother bear from the beam's restraint, and returned her consciousness to her body.
When he opened his eyes, he saw that the mother bear had stood up, with the cub frolicking at her feet. She looked at Kaede in confusion. This human felt