Book II: War - Chapter Title: Return

It had been ten minutes since the noise died down and the chaos ceased. The clouds had returned to their bright, cheerier forms and the sun was back brightening up the sky. Everything seemed normal, but when one gazed upon the earth from above and saw the destruction that had been wrought on it, they would understand that nothing was normal. For the land was fractured and uneven. Canyons as deep as the pits of hell and just as wide dominated the landscape just outside Amalgamation. The land of Elementals itself had borne quite a loss. For even with the Nature Barrier shielding the people from harm, many buildings fell and the constructed roads were deconstructed. Nothing was the same. And it wasn’t just at Amalgamation. Every major city suffered great loss and even some villages had been completely destroyed. People lost their lives as easily as it took a man to weed out grass. And property was destroyed – everywhere. Apart from the human settlements, forests and other natural landsca