Chapter 17: Navrita
Yang Hao stood frozen, his breath ragged. The room was a slaughterhouse. Chunks of raw meat and splintered bone littered the floor. A mangled hand lay near his foot, fingers curled inward. Blood soaked the wooden planks, pooling in sticky puddles that reflected the dim light. Pieces of intestine draped over a chair like a wet rope. A jagged rib fragment jutted from the wall beside him, embedded in the plaster. The air stank of iron and bile.
He lifted a trembling hand to his face. His fingers came away slick with blood. It coated his cheeks, matted his hair, and soaked into his robes. His chest heaved as the metallic tang flooded his nostrils. A scream built in his throat—
Suddenly cold clarity flooded his veins. His racing heartbeat slowed. The tremors in his hands stopped. His thoughts sharpened as if someone had poured ice water into his skull. The panic dissolved, leaving an eerie calm.
Before he could question it, a burst of azure light erupted from his chest. The beam sliced upward, piercing through the ceiling tiles. Wood splintered as the light tore through roof beams and tiles, shooting into the cloudless sky outside.
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West Province became a field of meat. Ten million bodies had burst apart. Streets ran red with blood. Chunks of flesh clung to walls. Splintered bones jutted from mud. Hair matted the roads like wet straw. Not a single mortal remained whole—exploded into fragments. A child's hand lay palm-up in a ditch, still clutching a wooden toy. An old woman's jawbone sat on a windowsill, teeth intact. Young men's spines coiled in gutters like bloody snakes. Every house, tree, and well was spattered with gore. Flies swarmed over heaps of glistening organs.
Mortal Elementals lay unconscious in the filth. Their faces pressed into puddles of blood. Some drowned quietly where they fell. True Elementals knelt paralyzed. Their knees sank into ground meat. They stared blankly at the carnage, muscles locked. One gripped her sword hilt, unable to lift it. Another clawed at his throat, choking on the stench. Their robes soaked up viscera from the mud.
Out of ten million people, only Mortal Elemental and True Elemental are left in the West Province.
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Navrita's hair was straight and black, falling to her hips without a single curl. Blunt bangs covered her forehead, ending sharply above her eyebrows.
Her face had sharp angles—a narrow jaw, high cheekbones, and a thin, straight nose. Eyes were pale gray, the irises nearly blending with the whites. Pupils stayed small and unmoving. Lips were bloodless, pressed into a neutral line.
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The robe covered her from throat to ankles, made of heavy black fabric. A leather corset wrapped her torso, tight at the waist before flaring over rounded hips. Beneath the robe's loose folds, her thigh thickness was visible.
A sword hung vertically at her right hip. The scabbard was dull black metal, strapped to a belt over the corset. The hilt lacked a guard, its grip wrapped in cracked black cloth.
She floated above an endless white cloud layer. In front of her stood a man.
The man was seven feet tall, with a strong, muscular body, but at the moment, his hands, legs, and head were floating separately in the sky.
"You... Why are you... alive?" the man's head spoke with difficulty.
"Who are you? Why are you here? Why did you kill everyone here?" Navrita asked.
The man's eyes turned lifeless, and he spoke in a dull voice, "I'm Soros of the top ten thousand. I came here to hunt down Yu Ruyi after hearing the news of your death and seriously injured Yu Ruyi. I didn't intend to kill them, but my presence was too overwhelming for them to bear, so they exploded."
Navrita frowned. "How did you get here?"
"After learning of your death and seriously injured Yu Ruyi, many tried to enter this world. At that time, I saw four devils entering, so I followed them and arrived here."
Navrita nodded, and the man's body disappeared entirely.
She looked down and saw that the West Province was no longer suitable for living. All of this had happened because of her, yet she didn't feel a single trace of guilt or any other emotion.
She returned back to Yang Hao, as her appearance returned back to that of skinny woman.