Ruth approached him, being the fastest of the survivors, swimming fast enough to catch him before he crashed into the lava, emitting scalding steam in contact with the water.
Simultaneously with Ruth's movement, Abby, and Gloria collected the remains of their enemies, picking up three new body parts of True Celestials from the now dead Orcel.
These three body parts belonged to the hand, skull, and heart, body parts that Minos could no longer absorb because he already had something like that in those areas. Precisely because of this, Minos disregarded the 'gifts' that Orcel had left for his group, while thinking about where the clue was for the next essence of a True Celestial that he could absorb.