The boiling pitch black blood in the subterranean pool surged into Su Rou's open shoulder socket, forced deep into her severed veins by the ancient entity beneath the dark liquid.
CRACK! SQUEAL! CRUNCH!
The visceral, wet crunching of bone and muscle regenerating echoed sharply through the cavern as her collarbone splintered, reformed, and expanded in violent, agonizing spasms.
"AAAGHHH! It tears my chest open!" Su Rou shrieked, her body thrashing wildly against the heavy iron chains submerged in the pool. "It burns! The fire is melting my ribs!"
High Priest Gui stood on the stone brink above the dark pool, his arms folded inside his dark crimson sleeves, a smooth, cruel smile resting upon his pale face.
"Do not fight the abyssal fluid, little maiden," Gui called down, his double tonal
