His thoughts had taken a completely different turn.
Life and death… were both parts of the natural cycle, like two sides of the same coin.
Perhaps, Nature… had been with him all along.
It wasn't some distant, unattainable ideal. It was in every step he'd taken, every event he'd experienced, every person he'd protected.
'He had been too fixated on the superficial symbolism of 'Nature' and had overlooked the journey itself.'
'What he was meant to become wasn't some lofty Natural Envoy, holy branch in hand. That wasn't him.'
'His power stemmed from the way of the Knight, from his Undead form, and from death itself.'
'To punish death with death, to counter destruction with protection, to stand on the border of life and death and guard the nature and order he believed in… This was the true path he was meant to walk.'
