Hill might have had a face that looked intelligent, but in reality... the fact that he so deeply identified with the Earth Bear bloodline already proved a great many things.
Bears were not actually stupid, but they did not want to think.
It was so easy to swing a paw. Why insist on using their brains?
What a bother!
Hill was indeed the one most favored by nature, the one who received warnings whenever danger approached... Sometimes, nature's feedback to him even overflowed. But the other Earth Bears merely received less of it, not none at all.
Thus, from the oldest to the youngest, they were all filled with a relaxed attitude that took nothing to heart.
Put nicely, they were carefree and insensitive, not easily hurt... Anyone who could not pass the Will of Nature's test simply would not be remembered by them.
Put less nicely, they had grown brains for nothing; all they had really developed were claws.
As a spellcasting creature, Hill naturally seemed a little better, but that depended on whom he was compared with.
If he had not long known that the Multiverse was full of dangers and that he therefore had to tread carefully, then, frankly speaking, Hill was not much different from Hai Weilsen, who was clearly quite smart but always somehow ended up with inexplicable problems.
Among Earth Bears, Hai Weilsen was actually one of the more thoughtful and cautious ones... yet he had still stumbled plenty of times over trivial matters.
It was only that, to someone accustomed to solving problems with his claws, those minor stumbles meant nothing.
Hill naturally knew his own flaws. He simply did not want to put that much thought into things... Though he often said he ought to change his bad habit of not using