The four Doctors who led the entire Heat Death Research Institute wore expressions of profound shock and gravity.
Behind them stood not only a large contingent of mysterious guards, burly and powerfully built, clad in pitch-black battle armor.
Large numbers of security combat units had even flown out of the surrounding facilities.
These troops had already transcended ordinary human logic, their outward forms exuding an inscrutable aura and bearing.
They appeared and disappeared intermittently.
One second, they were far away on the horizon; the next, they suddenly appeared nearby.
Their forms had also completely broken free of human limitations.
Their current forms even closely resembled the Time Hounds within the tides of spacetime.
Dr. Atom stared gravely at the frail, aged figure before him and asked in a low voice.
"What in the world have you been doing? Why have you grown this weak?!"
At that moment, all four Doctors were shocked by the Mist Sage's weakness and frailty.
The Mist Sage was not merely the first Lord of the Past among all the Soulless.
He was also the hope of their entire species, and the first being in this universe to have an audience with the Unity True God in a mortal body.
He had brought boundless, powerful knowledge and strength to all the Soulless.
Throughout countless millennia, the Mist Sage had been the most powerful being among the Soulless, without exception.
He could travel freely through time and retrieve anything he wanted from the River of Time's past.
He could even arrive at any location and instantly calculate everything that had happened there, discerning every danger the future held.
He was undying and indestructible, and had protected the continued existence of the entire Soulless species from the Dreamwalker's threats countless times.
He had also established many facilities, institutions,