The fallen bodies of Fatui elites lay haphazardly on the ground.
Some bodies were cut in half by a single blow, dismembered limbs scattered around, and crimson blood slowly flowed along the cracks in the flagstones, like a dark red Veins under the night, making the entire scene even more eerie.
Kaeya narrowed his eyes, carefully observing these bodies.
Their deaths were extremely gruesome, with no signs of resistance.
It was as if the enemy they faced was so powerful that they were instantly crushed without a fight.
"Fatui elites... and more than one?"
Kaeya murmured softly, his brows tightly furrowed, a storm raging in his heart.
He quickly knelt down, carefully examining one of the bodies.
The Fatui elite's arm was still clutching his weapon, his face contorted, clearly having experienced extreme fear and pain before death.
Kaeya reached out and felt the residual warmth of the bodies, discovering that their time of death was not long, at most half an hour.
"Fatui elites... who exactly did they encounter?"
Kaeya whispered, his expression extremely solemn.
But what shocked him even more was the lingering aura in the air.
When he closed his eyes and focused on sensing the surrounding elemental fluctuations, an unusual energy immediately emerged in his perception.
This energy was not just an ordinary Pyro fluctuation.
It was a far more violent power.
Extremely hot and aggressive, even more intense than Pyro, it was a wild power that seemed capable of burning everything to ash.
"This energy..."
Kaeya's eyes snapped open, and he sharply scanned his surroundings.
His gaze quickly landed on a scorched patch of ground.
It was the trace of something burned at an extremely high temperature, distorted and deformed by the intense heat, with even solidified molten edges, and the surrounding walls were also mottled from scorching.
These were definitely not scars left by an ordinary Pyro attack.
Only extreme heat and violent energy could cause such destruction in a short time.
Soon, what Kaeya noticed most distinctly was the faint trace of Black Flame.
Kaeya's expression instantly darkened.
It was the aura of an Evil Eye!
Kaeya quickly approached, reaching out to feel the residual energy of the Black Flame, rubbing his fingertips slightly, feeling a scorching, stimulating sensation.
Kaeya's brow furrowed even deeper.
He, of course, recognized this power.
Evil Eye, an elemental weapon manufactured by Snezhnaya, capable of granting ordinary people temporary elemental control at the cost of a backlash on the user's body.
This Black Flame had appeared in several places within Mondstadt.
And now, it had reappeared within Mondstadt City.
"Fatui elites fighting here late at night..."
"Even using an Evil Eye..."
Kaeya's voice was low, his eyes deep.
The Fatui would not casually engage in battle within Mondstadt City.
Unless they encountered an extremely formidable enemy, pushed to the point of having to use an Evil Eye.
But even so, they were still completely wiped out.
Kaeya slowly straightened up, his gaze sharp as a falcon as he scanned the ravaged battlefield.
Just as he continued to observe, his senses once again detected an aura even more violent than the Evil Eye's Black Flame.
This aura was not a product of the Evil Eye, but another kind of energy even more terrifying than Pyro.
Kaeya's expression suddenly changed, and he instantly looked around alertly.
He then noticed a very faint but exceptionally violent energy fluctuation still lingering in the air.
The essence of that power was not simply elemental force, but closer to a form of ultimate destruction.
More violent than Pyro, more aggressive than the Evil Eye's Black Flame—an unknown, destructive energy.
"What kind of power is this?" Kaeya's voice was low, a hint of confusion and vigilance flashing in his eyes.
Such energy fluctuations had never appeared within Mondstadt City.
As the Cavalry Captain of the Knights of Favonius, he had personally experienced countless battles and witnessed the clash of various elements.
He had even fought against Evil Eye wielders from the Fatui.
But at this moment, he felt a strange and dangerous aura.
"A power stronger than the Evil Eye's Black Flame..."
Kaeya murmured, his brows tightly knit.
Had the Fatui developed something new again?
All of this was beyond his scope of knowledge.
This power was neither like a natural element nor like any known elemental energy.
It was a more extreme power, a terrifying energy carrying an aura of complete annihilation.
"Who did this?"
Kaeya slowly uttered these words, his eyes holding an indescribable complex emotion.
This battle took place within Mondstadt City.
And the complete annihilation of the Fatui elites was definitely not a small matter.
The unknown destructive energy, furthermore, gave him a faint sense of unease.
If this power were to erupt again, could the Knights of Favonius within Mondstadt City truly withstand it?
As he pondered, Kaeya suddenly noticed a faint sword mark on the ground.
The sword mark was extremely sharp, cutting through the stone slab with a depth that was astonishing.
What most concerned Kaeya was that the terrifying aura of destruction still lingered at the edges of the sword mark.
"Abyss Order?"
"Or internal strife within the Fatui?"
"Could it be that the Fatui conducted another experiment, but the results went awry?"
Kaeya's mind raced with countless thoughts, and he narrowed his eyes.
Regarding the scene before him, Kaeya leaned more towards the Fatui secretly conducting some research within Mondstadt City.
And the research went wrong.
Similar incidents had occurred before.
But as far as he knew, the Fatui's Harbinger Dottore should have already left Mondstadt.
Or was it another Fatui Harbinger?
The Fair Lady?
It didn't seem like her style either.
Kaeya took a deep breath, finally withdrawing his gaze.
This ravaged battlefield before him.
Elite Fatui lay dead in the streets, and violent elemental aftershocks lingered in the air... No matter who did it, this was definitely not a small matter.
"First, I'll inform the Knights of Favonius on duty, then I'll go find Acting Grand Master Jean."
Kaeya murmured lowly, acting swiftly.
With a whistle, he summoned a Falcon of the West.
Following the usual training method, he quickly instructed it to notify a team of Knights of Favonius.
Soon, as the Falcon of the West soared high and left, hurried footsteps echoed from the distant street.
Before long, a team of Knights of Favonius quickly arrived at the scene.
They were fully armed, their steps steady, and upon seeing Kaeya standing in the center of the battlefield, they all stopped, cautiously scanning their surroundings.
However, when their gaze fell upon the bodies of the Fatui on the ground, everyone gasped, their expressions shocked.
"This is..."
One Knight of Favonius's eyes widened suddenly, his breathing quickening: "Fatui elites?"
"They... are all dead?"
Another Knight's voice trembled with a hint of disbelief.
"My goodness, who could have taken out the Fatui elites in such a short time..."
Their words abruptly stopped in the air.
Because their gazes all fell upon Kaeya, who stood amidst the bodies.
Being notified so late.
Captain Kaeya was right here.
The answer.
Was self-evident!
Kaeya looked at the sudden gazes directed at him, silent for a moment.
Then his mouth twitched slightly, and the solemnity on his face slowly receded.
Replaced by an expression of speechlessness.
"...Wait, don't tell me you guys think I did this?"
Kaeya looked at the subtle change in the Knights' gazes, unable to help but speak, a hint of helplessness in his tone.