Three hours later, the surgery was finally complete.
When Phillip was wheeled out, he was woken up.
"Mommy, don't be sad... The doctor said I'll get better soon."
He was still half-conscious, yet his first instinct was to comfort me. His maturity broke my heart even more.
"The surgery was a total success. And we discovered something else—Phillip doesn't actually have Wolf Spirit Atrophy Syndrome."
The chief surgeon pulled off his mask, a warm smile spreading across his face.
"The reason he couldn't shift wasn't that his wolf spirit was weak but because it was far too powerful. He possesses a Primal Wolf Spirit, a phenomenon seen only once in a century. As a pup, he simply couldn't harness that much power, which led to the failed shifts.
"We will begin treatments to help him awaken h
