‘I don’t need your thanks, child.’ She replied with a smile. ‘I need your help. Now get back to work.’

The group of Healers consolidated five more gray stars during the third session of the procedure and ten more during the fourth.

The connection between the fragments and the main life force, coupled with its constant evolution, allowed the next fragments to transform into more gray stars faster and faster until taking a break was no longer an option.

Baba Yaga had to consume her breathing technique to replenish the strength of the other Healers, often giving more Spirit Magic to Lith than to the newborn gray star.

Once the emerald tanks in the Elemental Storage ran out, she gifted him her own life force through careful, slow infusions via his Abomination touch. The vitality she lost in the process would have reduced many Divine Beasts to empty husks, but she could afford it.

‘I’d say our work is almost finished.’ The Red Mother said after they cut another unstable fragment and the healthy life force pulled itself together, assimilating what was left of the damaged areas. ‘The problem is the almost. We are not done yet.’

Zoreth’s life force now looked like a massive gray star containing a gemstone almost as big that was wrapped in a thick bundle of threads. Smaller gray stars formed a circle around the main life force and were connected to it through the threads of the human aspects.