Elders Three, Part III

The scene was one of devastation. Mountains had crumbled, lakes had dried up, and large swaths of forest had been reduced to ash, the surface covered in gouges so deep they looked like ravines.

Standing several feet away was the corpse of an old man. Most of his clothing was gone, his body was covered in wounds, and there was a gaping hole in the center of his chest. His left arm was missing, but despite all those wounds, he remained standing. He had died standing.

“Dammit… that old man… he was way stronger than I gave him credit for…”

Mei Qi stood alongside her cohort amidst this devastation, and not without injury. Her left arm was dangling by the tendons, the flesh having been sheared through and the bone all but destroyed. Blood ran down her face and matted her hair. Her clothes were torn and cut and blood stained much of it. Quite a bit of that blood was hers too.

What a mess she must look like.