Chapter 16: Water...
Vritra closed his eyes for a moment, searching with his senses. It wasn't long before he too found a small stream, its water flowing clear and cold, glimmering under the weak rays of the sun filtering through the trees.
Without wasting any time, he ran towards the stream and instantly his body became a blur, with his current agility points his speed was already very fast. It took him less than a minute to cover a large distance, and soon he found the clear stream of water.
He crouched by the water's edge, drinking greedily, feeling the liquid slide down his throat in a sweet rush.
More than five months had passed since he had the luxury of drinking water, even the tasteless liquid seemed incredibly tasty.
He hadn't realized how desperately he had longed for it. The water seemed to rejuvenate him, washing away some of the grime and the fatigue.
As he stood, he unwrapped the ragged cloth that had clung to his body, peeling it off, revealing a delicate and chiselled body that was free of any marks and scars despite his bloody time in the labyrinth.
His body was lean, toned, every muscle sculpted by the brutal trials. He washed himself quickly, scrubbing away the blood and dirt, his reflection briefly catching his eye in the water.
His hair had grown quite a bit in the last five months and now looked like tangled strands. His eyes—pitch black and hollow eyes— also seemed to have changed but it was hard to point the change.
"You've have changed greatly from the time I first noticed you enter the canopy," Yasmine remarked, she still couldn't understand how a weak human like him had managed to survive all this time, his resilience was truly deadly and as a human he even devoured the demons, the dragon lady had no words.
He smiled faintly, though the gesture was empty. "More than five months had passed huh... it feels like I have been there for dozens of years."
Yasmine was silent for a moment. Then she spoke again: "The time inside the Death canopy is different from the outside world, by a little over five times. So only around a month had passed outside even if you had been inside for more than five months."