Even after fighting at full tilt through more than four hundred years of false time, his energy brimming, the moment Ji Jue returned to the Central Dispatch Center and finally relaxed, he was utterly exhausted in body and mind.
He sprawled on the floor, barely able to move.
Established Law had supported him in front, Mercury had provided the output behind, and Matrix Child had wrapped things up at the end, but it had still drained too much from him.
It looked dangerous, but actually... it wasn't safe at all!
He had been dancing on the blade of a knife.
Thinking back on it now, Ji Jue felt like he was about to get PTSD.
No wonder Established Law had forcibly propped him up to the Heavenly Being rank. In a situation like that, even Heavenly Beings were practically roadside scraps... if he had been any weaker, he would probably have been burned to ash and scattered evenly across the entire Imperial Capital by now!
But after returning to the Central Dispatch Center, before he could even catch his breath, terrible news came crashing down on him.
The good news was that with Established Law and Non-Aggression, Ji Jue had not killed himself.
The bad news was that after Established Law was gone, he had to bear the consequences and foot the bill for abusing Non-Aggression himself.
The good news was that Big Brother had helped Ji Jue shoulder it!
The bad news was that he owed too much, and Big Brother couldn't hold it up anymore...
Right before Ji Jue's eyes, inside the tiny doghouse, Beagle, once incomparably lively, was already on her last breath, her breathing as faint as a thread...
She could not even bark anymore.
Her little body was light as nothing, weakened to an unprecedented