Looking at Yun You lying on the operating table, Akas' expression froze for a moment, and he instinctively turned to glance at the gaping passageway.
A suffocating stench of blood so thick it made one retch surged in along with the reek of gunpowder, mixed with a pungent corrosive tang and the foul odor of molten metal.
And the world beyond the passage had long since changed beyond recognition.
Outside, tattered black robes lay scattered over the glassy ground like filthy burial shrouds; bricks and gravel had been melted, then rapidly cooled, forming a transparent expanse underfoot.
Mangled limbs and charred bones were tangled together, carpeting every corner within sight, foul blood almost pooling into little streams that ran along the pitted, uneven floor.
The surrounding walls were gouged with enormous claw marks and scorched where energy had burned them; the entire structure of the underground cavity had been completely destroyed in the battle just now.
