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(Veronica & Ervas)

[You gained 1.200.000 System Points]

[You gained 2.500.000 Divine Energy, +1.000.000 Aether, +800.000 Ki, and +400.000 Fate!]

[You acquired [Divinity: Rotten Corpses]

[You acquired [Divinity: Accursed Puppets]

[Divinity: Rotten Corpses] and [Divinity: Accursed Puppets] have been integrated into the [Goddess]/[God] Skills!]

[You acquired [Kelsus' Insectoid Legs]

[You acquired [Anir's Mollusk Shell]

[You acquired [Kelsus' Blood Nerves]

[You acquired [Anir's White Threads]

After everything was over, the fusion noticed their gains, which were not bad at all, this time did not go wasted at all, four Progenitors in just a few hours proved to be a nice amount of power, and they also felt like they had stockpiled a lot of EXP, so they were rather eager to go evolve and change Jobs now.

As they flew back to Seashore, they noticed that the fragments they got were interesting, especially the ones that Lucia had. Lucia was able to control other living beings like puppets using it.

She used Kelsus Blood Nerves in combination with Anir's White Threads to form the Demon God King's Puppeteer Strings, by connecting them into the brain of a living being that wasn't strong enough to resist, one could easily enslave a person and force it to do their bidding by merely moving your finger connected to it!

Like this, Lucia enjoyed her tea party while controlling all of her guest's brains! How utterly terrifying.

Well, she was more than gone now, sadly… Well, more like luckily, she had brought a lot of pain to many people.

Or was she?

Within the interior of the split soul's divine realm, within Helheim, there were a group of their phantoms using Soul Reconstruction in several soul pieces.

These soul pieces were… the Vampires they just killed.

After extracting the "juice" out of it, meaning the power of it, they left the crushed scraps away, which contained the Vampires' memories which the split souls had already copy-pasted into their own minds.

And so, using Soul Reconstruction and some divine energy, they were now repairing the souls.

After a few minutes, it was done.

Thanks to Hekaton's Divinity and his experiences, it was fairly easy to reconstruct a soul from mere pieces now, even more, if they sprinkled some little soul dust from their own souls.

The Vampires were brought back! As souls, of course.

Much like they did with all the other reincarnated coworkers too.

However, the Souls of the Gods were not brought back, as these monsters were pretty rotten and never had some redeemable quality on them at all… Meanwhile, all four of these Vampires had long lives filled with tragedies, sorrow, and more, which twisted their minds into the monsters they became.

They were already killed and had all their power stripped from them, and the pain they suffered by being eaten was also a good way for them to pay for what they did.

But due to the selfishness of the split souls, they were brought back as souls.

However, instead of anger towards them, they felt eternal gratitude.

"Thank you…" said Damon.

"I feel at ease now…" sighed Gestrodo.

"Hahh… I apologize…" sighed Gattusa.

"I'm sorry… I just wanted a family…" sighed Lucia.

"It is fine, you already paid for what you did, and we are helping the people you damaged," said Ervas phantom clones.

"For now, go rest into the soul-recovery springs for a few days. Afterward, we can talk about what you want. Although we'll most likely put you into some work, helping those you harmed should be good, right?" asked Veronica.

The four Vampire Progenitors of the Chaotic Faction nodded.

"We'll do everything we can…" said Damon.

"Indeed, we don't want to disappoint you…" said Gestrodo.

"Thank you…" said Gattusa.

"Will I not be alone anymore?" asked Lucia.

"You will not, we promise you," said the split souls, petting Lucia. She seemed to have her mind too damaged, which had made her regress into the mind of a young girl despite her old age.

"Thank you… Will you become my family?" she asked.

"We'll try, at least we can be as phantoms with you if you want," said Ervas.

"Yeah, no problem," said Veronica.

"Yaay!" Lucia smiled gently, as her phantasmal eyes seemed filled with light…

After this, the split souls' phantoms also moved to go check back the souls of the heroes, which were still recovering. Daniel was with them, mostly speaking with them and introducing them to all the things that had happened since he was reincarnated here, and more.

It was all a turmoil of events, but they somewhat understood it. Some of them lamented a bit the death of Mason, Natalia, and Lucas, who could have a second chance like them, but there was nothing that could be done now, as their souls were already consumed and too assimilated to be easily brought back.

However, in a way, they had never truly disappeared, but their souls had permanently fused with the split souls, becoming their permanent power. In a way, they kept existing as Veronica and Ervas… And so was for any being they devoured their souls.

Such beings never disappeared, they merely changed forms and became power, the power coursing through the split souls…

Within Alfheim, there was now a large number of people constantly coming inside, all the slaves rescued from the Vampires and also from the other cities and even Seashore.

Such people amounted to almost one thousand, and all needed urgent rehabilitation, food, shelter, and more, so not only the phantom clones were doing their best, but also Anna, Ismena, Pekorina, Lilith, Jason, Ragdaz, and more, all working together to make these people feel welcomed in their new home.

They would of course be given the chance to also go out of here if they want at the end, but for now, they would be kept in the safety of the divine realm until they can fully recover and also grow a bit stronger.

Although even then, they would probably be so happy here to even go back to Kritias…

Aside from this, the split souls' phantom clones had already reached the surviving Heroes within Mirror Kritias.

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