Sylas' cool green gaze looked right back at it. The moment he saw that it, too, hadn't completed its evolution into the Bronze Grade, whatever worry he had vanished into the ether.
'Let's fight.'
He didn't say the words so clearly, but the bear understood them.
Its maw opened wide and a furious roar bellowed out from its chest. Sylas could feel the difference immediately. This was a creature made to howl.
BANG!
The polar bear stomped a foot against the bottom of the icy lake and shot upward. It closed the distance in what felt like a single blink.
Polar bears were exceptionally strong swimmers and had recorded swimming speeds far faster than any known human. Clearly, this mutated version of their lineage was no different.
It swiped down, activating
