"Yes," Kain muttered. Bai Lian looked at him puzzledly, but he wasn't talking to her.
Thankfully, the target he was speaking to, the System, understood it right away.
[Confirming permanent resident transfer to Pangea's World Tree Stewardship Protocol… confirmed.]
The confirmation tone felt softer than usual. No cheerful jingle. No satisfying click. Just a quiet blink in his mental space, followed by a ripple of pressure through the air that made his skin prickle.
Bai Lian's expression was unreadable.
She stood a few paces away, hands loose at her sides. She didn't speak, but he could see the tension in her shoulders, the subtle shift in her stance, like someone trying to brace for impact without knowing from which direction the attack would come from.
Kain understood. He was nervous too. More than a little, actually.
Not because he doubted choosing her. But because, this would be the first time someone else would be entering Pangea in full.
