Toriya flew swiftly over the sea. The farther she got from the coastline, the more horrifying the scenes became.
Along with them came the corpses of several ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts, torn to pieces in an extraordinarily brutal manner and left floating on the sea.
Toriya immediately stopped.
She took out her phone and called the Giant Mountain Golden Ape, the general stationed at Dragon Valley Forest.
"Hello... Yes, lots of Sea Soul Beast remains. Their Soul Rings are gone... Yes, yes, send me the satellite view. All right, thank you."
Then Toriya took a tablet from her storage Soul Tool. A low-orbit satellite soon provided her with a remote visual feed.
"So that's where you are?"
Toriya raised the hand holding the tablet to her side. Her hand, scales emerging across it, blocked a massive blade.
As she parried, Toriya put away the tablet and immediately reached for the attacker with her other hand, intending to capture it.
Suddenly, the hand she had used to block the attack was swept up in a dizzying whirl, and inexplicable pain struck her.
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"Spatial power? Is it innate to their Martial Soul, or is it divine power?"
Looking at the wound on her arm, where space had forcibly torn away her flesh to expose the bone before new flesh rapidly grew back, Toriya grinned.
"Now that's interesting."
Toriya's red eyes changed from round pupils to slits.
Still, Toriya wasn't in a hurry. First, she needed to tell Grandpa what had happened, so he would know about it too.
"That was close. I almost died."
The figure that had attacked Toriya and slaughtered its way through that stretch of sea reappeared elsewhere.
"But this is good, too. At least I've obtained the flesh of a powerful being. If I offer