Chapter 681: The truth of The Organization
Cain's eye socket glowed with a dense red light as he witnessed how his bones, harder than an Adamantium Artifact, began to crumble to dust. It started with the finger on his hand and slowly made its way up.
If having his flesh melt was painful, the process of crumbling his bones to dust gave Cain the most excruciating pain of his entire life. It was an agony so intense that his mind urged him to stop the process immediately, and it would not be difficult since Cain knew that he just needed to resist for the Bone Calamity to be over, but that would also cripple his Astral Rebirth Path of Power.
The more his bones were destroyed, the stronger they would be upon reconstruction, and if he stopped before pulverizing every single one, there would always be a flaw left in his foundation that would haunt him in the future.
So, despite the agony that made him want to scream like a madman, Cain endured the pain and counted the seconds for the process to be over. That was the only thing his mind could process right now, so he could not see what was happening outside the Crystallized Blood Cocoon.
Shura had not taken her eyes away from the cocoon and saw how, once it was complete, the world's power began to drive vitality into it. Luckily for Cain, the pool of boiling golden blood had enough life force to feed a True Titan, so he would have no problem on that front.
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While Cain was going through his Bone Calamity, the Void King slowly opened his eyes, and as he regained consciousness, he felt every muscle and bone in his body trembling with pain. That was the result of pushing his body beyond its limits before having recovered from the backlash of Stellar Dive.
However, all that was pushed to the back of his mind as the Dark King remembered the monstrous dark hand that pulled him out of that desperate situation.
A somber expression appeared on the Void King's face since, just like the Collapsing Lightning Duke and the Scarlet King, he was oblivious to the nature of that demonic hand. He used what little strength he had left to rise from the ground and analyze his surroundings.
There was a dark sky above him covered by what seemed to be perpetual storm clouds, and the ground beneath him was black, scorched beyond remedy. The Void King immediately figured out where he was as he recognized the border between the Gaia Continent, home of the Godslayer Humankind, and the Atlas Continent, inhabited by the Inferno Daemon Race.