chapter 3174: terrible liar

the rest of the cocoon seemed to disintegrate once the twins and kentucky killed what was inside. the stream of chaos energy that connected to the cocoon also began to disappear.
[congratulations, hosts. the abyssal soul shard has been successfully destroyed.]
[reward: 50 celestial points]
rean and roan looked at each other, puzzled. 'sister orb, what is an abyssal soul?'
[i wish i knew.] sister orb was just as confused. [all i can tell is that that cocoon... or whatever it was gave me a very creepy feeling. it is strange since i'm in the celestial soul dimensional realm. yet, its presence could still affect me somehow.]
rean pondered a bit. '50 celestial souls to destroy a soul shard... that makes you wonder just what that soul-shard's real soul could look like. in any case, those 50 celestial points are definitely welcome.'
rean then turned his attention to rifindio, who had calmed down and was suppressing his divine energy again. the last thing rifindio needed was to make another spatial rift appear where he was. rean avoided the other spatial rifts that his group created with his attack, reaching the camazotz bat. "seems like that thing was after your bloodline."
rifindio glanced at rean, still with his guard high. however, he wasn't as averse to rean's proximity anymore. "so you can see it..."
rean pointed at kentucky, who also arrived a second later. "well, to be more specific, kentucky did."
kentucky continued from there. "it is pretty obvious to me how much your bloodline power diminished. the cocoon monster took most of it away from you through that chaos energy stream. to be honest, with your bloodline concentration, which was already pretty low before everything happened, i don't know if you can even be considered a camazotz bat anymore." rifindio wanted to deny kentucky's words, but he knew the regal minokawa was right. it wasn't just the cocoon monster that took away his bloodline. rifindio also used a big part of it to not try to stay away from that thing. "i guess i'm pretty much done for. you were right before. i hold no status in the supreme palace. i was considered shit since birth, and now i'm even more so. sigh... go ahead. i'm not in a position where i can defend myself. just do what you must."
*gulp!*
before he could finish his words, kentucky appeared and forced a pill down rifindio's throat. was it some kind of poison? could it be they intended to force him to work in exchange for the antidote?
too bad he was wrong. he felt the pill dissolve, followed by a huge burst of nutrients that went to the area where his wing was regrowing.
"is that enough, rean?" kentucky asked.
"yeap," rean confirmed. "dracula's body didn't have enough nutrients to support the regrowth of his wing, so the pill was necessary to make up for it. hold still. you are in the transition realm, so it will take a minute or so for me to finish fixing your wing."
finally, rifindio's wing grew back, and the injury on his other wing was also gone. he was in perfect condition, except for the fact he was empty of divine energy, and his bloodline was pretty much gone now.
finishing his job, rean returned to roan's side, who was checking the crack from where chaos energy came from. "how is it? did you understand anything?"
kentucky also arrived there. "the little aperture from where that cocoon monster came from is now gone. i think it is better for us to leave in case another one comes out."
roan pondered a bit, accepting kentucky's suggestion in the end. "indeed. let's get out of here."
ignoring the bewildered rifindio, rean, roan, and kentucky began to fly away again.
of course, rifindio saw that. "w-wait! what the hell are you trying to do?!"