Chapter 52: Nature's Respite and Connor Thrum

Lucas fell from the sky and landed on the ground in a not so polite manner. He found himself sprawled across the forest floor and his head buried in the dirt.

'Ugh...'

'That fight took a lot more stamina than I would have liked it to have,'

Lucas noticed that his body was rather beat up for the first time in a few weeks. His clothes were in tatters as the high-speed conflict between himself and the reaper had torn them to shreds.

'But where is that damn bear?'

He turned his gaze around the forest before noticing a small pitch-black bear cub approaching him slowly.

It wasn't made out of flesh like the previous one but had scratches in the same positions of where he had struck the zombie bear from before.

Lucas readied his guard only to find that the bear collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.

"What the-"

"You traded spirits, remember?"

A familiar voice echoed out from directly behind Lucas. He glanced behind him and found Randal staring at him intently.