It Is Said That for Every Patient Sent to the Chief Architect,

It Is Said That for Every Patient Sent to the Chief Architect, Dick the Medical Referral Agent Received a Handsome Reward!

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The Argus Lord was finally found at the edge of this stellar battlefield, on a celestial body ravaged beyond recognition by the tides of cosmic force. Argus, his body shattered, lay there like a heap of discarded rubble.

His perfect star-forged body had been utterly cleaved apart, and even his immortal cosmic soul had suffered grave damage.

But at the final moment, Elune, who loved to "meddle in other people's business," had bestowed a sufficiently powerful ray of moon goddess light upon him, ensuring that Argus, who had taken a full Annihilation head-on, did not end up on the brink of death.

It had to be said that among all the opponents who had fought Sargeras, Argus's outcome of "high-level paralysis" was already quite good.

At the very least, he was still alive.

The Queen's trio quickly used the Chorus of All Things from the Cipher of the First Ones to barely "glue" the Lord's broken star-forged body back together. But while Medivh squeezed out his own power to cast a spacetime spell directly leading to the world of Argus, the Nether-Stalker found the real "good stuff."

"Come over here! Look what I found!"

The Ethereal waved her hands excitedly. When the Queen approached, even she, with all her vast experience, was startled.

It was a crimson broken blade.

It appeared to be only the blade portion of a sword. It was embedded deep within the celestial body, its Divine Might completely withdrawn, looking no different from an ordinary shattered blade.

If not for the Cipher of the First Ones granting sufficiently sharp senses, the Nether-Stalker could never have discovered it.