How do i reinstall or reformat the hdd on my mac?

I just bought a macbook air md 712, I activate the filevault encryption then it stucked in "encryption pause"... so I boot from the efi boot and plan to use time machine to restore. when I just began to restore, the error came, I couldn't restore it. Later I tried to use disk utililty to erase the partition, but failed coz the partition turned blue colour, and the "turn of encryption" grayed out. I dont know what to do now.... Please helllppppp meeeee.....

Select the application you wish to put in the Dock, then drag it into the left side of the Dock's sizing gadget.

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