“This...”

“Kid, you feeling pretty grateful to me right now?”

“I ** you, you **ing **!”

His best buddy hadn’t changed much, and that alone let Li breathe a little easier. If even his best buddy had shrunk, though... Well, even then, Li would’ve had a way to deal with it. He’d once used himself as a test subject while making medicine, and ended up with a body just the way he wanted.

He’d turned into a teenage boy. Even if everything had been reset...

Feeling his Pal, he looked at his hand. The ring was long gone. It had probably fallen somewhere during the explosion...

“At least I can use my Pal now. You rewound my body, but my Pal is still the same as it was back then. How’d you manage that?”

“Pal belongs to your soul, not your body. Even if your body shrinks, your Pal won’t change. Your Authority is another matter, though.”

Li said nothing. He simply gestured with his hand and opened the system interface. At least his system was still there.

He glanced at his Authorities. They’d all been reset...

Every last one of them had been reset!

Every. Single. One!

Li put a hand to his forehead. Reset. They’d all been reset. It was like reaching max level without spending a single skill point! Everything had been reset!

“Kid, I’d advise you not to try using your power right now. If you mess around with it like that, you still won’t be able to control your Authority in the end. Your Authority is powerful, sure, but an Authority you can’t control is like an incurable disease—it’ll kill you sooner or later. I don’t know what kind of power is inside you. After I rebuilt your body, I tried to repair your Authority, but it repaired itself automatically—and then locked itself away. You should still be able to use it now, but...”

“Yeah. There are just a few conditions...”

His Authorities were still there, but they’d been reset. There was one he could still use, at least. It was the power he’d received when he first awakened his Authority: a simple boost to his physical abilities... the ordinary power everyone had.

Every Apostle of Authority had this power. It seemed he could assign points now, but he’d better not mess with anything. He’d wait for that damn system to wake up and ask it then.

As long as he still had the strength to survive here, Li wasn’t going to worry about anything else.

What was done was done. There was no point in giving himself a headache over it—or thinking about it too much.

“Kid, you’re a lot calmer than I expected. You were fuming just a moment ago, and now you’ve settled down.”

“Even if I’d love to kill you right now, unfortunately, I can’t kill you if I can’t touch you. And... I have to admit, you did save my life. I won’t forget what you did in rebuilding my body. But... I’d finally grown up, and now I’ve been sent right back to square one... Back to my seventeen-year-old body, huh...”

“Hahaha! It’s not like I wanted you to end up this way. But your body was in tatters. Apart from your best buddy, a lot of parts of your body had been damaged. I used the parts that were still intact to build you a new body. Still, there’s a chance you can return to how you were before. Complete my inheritance, and I’ll tell you how. What do you say? You’ve got nothing to lose, kid.”