Prime Condition

At the very moment the Outer God returned and descended into the deep pit.

A mass of mist swiftly slipped away from the quarry. It first arrived outside the pit where Mr. Question Mark was being held, condensing into the form of a potbellied man whose head remained shrouded in fog.

It was Jock.

Only, his entire right arm, along with part of the fat on his body, was gone.

This sort of soul-level destruction was different from merely losing an arm. Not only could it not be healed by any means, even replacing it with a prosthetic was impossible.

A conceptual defect meant that any structure related to his right arm could not be used. Forcibly attaching an artificial limb would instead harm his body.

However,

Jock had barely adapted to this absence and maintained his physical balance.

He stood on tiptoe, leaned forward as far as he could, and looked down into the bottom of the pit, using some method to confirm the situation below.

He soon confirmed that Luo Di was down there, along with a damp, sticky aura, as though tongues were licking across his body.

With a shudder,

He decisively gave up on acting against Luo Di and turned back into mist, arriving at the edge of the island.

He blew out a balloon steamship and left alone.

"The situation now is beyond my ability to interfere with. I was working for free in the first place; there's no need to drag myself into it.

"Once that frog kills all these monsters, I can sneak back in.

"As for Luo Di... once the Corner falls completely, he can only flee back to the humans. Then, just like when I slaughtered his entire family, I'll quietly kill him.

"How exciting! This severe injury has instead deepened