Michael's time was running out, but he wasn't too worried about it. More than a dozen Major Gods had been killed and devoured, and the Rebels' advantage increased steadily. The tides of the battle were in their favor, especially after every member of the Primal Pantheon had been cut more than a dozen times with Pure Aether.
Michael didn't use his Pure Aether alone. He could have done so, but that would have been foolish. Instead, he shared his Pure Aether with the Rebels. He supplied them with more Pure Aether whenever he created Slipstream portals to heal them with River of Vigor's supreme healing serum. Both substances were vibrant silver and thus hard to distinguish.
Some Major Gods noticed that his supreme healing serum was odd, but nobody thought about Pure Aether when they saw how easily the silver serum healed the Rebels. That being said, the Major Gods realized way too late how dangerous the Rebels had grown now that they were with Michael.
