Sky Sovereign's corpse (I)

Cain understood he needed to buy time for the Night Prince's elite team, so he deliberately delayed his visible healing. At least, that was how it looked on the surface. In reality, he was carefully circulating the medicinal power of the pills and his Concept of Life throughout his internal organs. Only his skin remained untreated, retaining the appearance of being battered and wounded.

Thus, although his body was healing rapidly within, there were still open wounds visible from the outside—effectively deceiving everyone else into believing he had yet to recover.

As the hours crept by, Elrick, Auron, Mera, and the Deus Behemoth Brothers channeled their efforts into expelling the toxic energies the Demonic Hounds had left inside their bodies. Once they had purged those poisons, they worked on restoring their exhausted vitality.