Whether humans, Gods, or even worlds, when they reached the end of the road, what they faced was absolutely not timely help from others.
It was layer upon layer of hardship piled onto their misery.
Only by gritting their teeth and holding on could they see light at the end of the tunnel.
Just like Telashir. The God of Space-Time and William had indeed been a great help, but the reason the entire world had a future was the Earth Bears who had kept planting trees at World's End.
Though they were a race that absolutely would not perish along with the world... the Earth Goddess's World Tree had clearly placed its last bit of power in that Ancestral Land valley, ready at any moment to pack those bears away and take them elsewhere.
But that also proved that when she had been forced into slumber, the Earth Goddess had prepared for the worst.
Hai Weilsen could not possibly have been unaware of that, and with the nature of Earth Bears, even someone as shrewd as him would not conceal such important information from his people.
Yet even so, not a single Earth Bear felt that they could rest, even a little.
Although Hai Weilsen had gone out midway through, that had only been after he discovered the deaths of the White Wolf God and Goddess of Lakewater, as well as the Magical Beasts' uprising. He had gone out to gather information, only to fall for a scam.
Whenever Hill thought of how, throughout such a long span of time, Aurelio had been the only one in the entire Ancestral Land, boredly playing with briar vines, and had even eaten far less good food than the other Earth Bears... because of what had happened to the White Wolf God, World's