Chapter-4 A World beyond Boundaries

{Third Person Narration}

The morning sun was glowing in the sky, the rays of which filled life to all the living beings.

“Hey Ira (Ishaan’s Nickname), time for breakfast come with us” voice of a beautiful girl whispered in his ears, he slowly opened his eyes, and moved his vision from ground to the place that beautiful morning flower in a shape of a girl was blooming, his eyes were not like before, they were more determined, his face showed how strong he really had become in past one month.

He left his meditating spot and moved towards the beautiful girl, the girl named Anushka, who was blessed with beauty of an angel, her white pearl skin, black silky hair which reaches her toes and a body crafted by gods themselves.

“What is it Anushka?”—Ishaan

“Didn’t you heard me? Just go and have your breakfast already.”—Anushka

“I don’t feel like eating anything, so just leave already.”—Ishaan

He asked Anushka to leave him alone for quite some time, but he felt sudden easiness as soon as he turned his back in opposite direction, a cold shivering feeling stuck his spine, he turned his neck slowly in the direction where Anushka was standing when everything turned black, firstly a sensation of pain hit his face and then all turned dark for him.

When his eyes finally saw color other than black he found himself in a dining hall, surrounded by thousands of people all around

him, with familiar and unfamiliar faces both, all wearing different clothing, eating differently, looking different but united by their motherland, all of the people present here were all Indians.

“So, you are finally awake.”—Anushka

A plate of food comes flying towards Ishaan and lands right in front of him on table.

“There is a limit to how much violent a girl could be.”—Ishaan

“I won’t be this violent if you could take care of yourself prince, you even missed your last night meal didn’t you?” Anushka who was carrying her own plate of breakfast spoke from a little distance away, she was heading towards the table for two which Ishaan was occupying.

She placed her plate on the table, adjusted her chair and sat alongside Ishaan.

“I can take care of myself, I’m the strongest here am I not.”—Ishaan

“You can use two elements Fire and Wind according to division of pyronites the one who can use one element are considered as B-class, who can use two elements are A-class and who can use more are S-class, no doubt you are only A-class here but that doesn’t mean you are strongest, there are over 300 A-classes and 50 S-classes, in my eyes there are many strong people around us like Lloyd who posses four elements Wind, Water, Lightening and Fire.”—Anushka

“Jeez I am surprised by the fact that, how can you shut other people, I don’t have anything against.”—Ishaan

“Does it feel bad, that you aren’t an S-class?”—Anushka

“Yes, it does it means that I need to work much harder, but I learned to control my power just in recent.”—Ishaan

“What is your Energy Measure?”—Anushka

“So, you don’t know, I thought I told you?”—Ishaan

“I forgot.”—Anushka

“What….?”—Ishaan

“What so surprising, I can also forget about these things.”—Anushka

“It’s 54,800.”—Ishaan

“It’s more than half of Lord Drazen and God Nox then.”—Anushka

“Yes, still he feels so far away, I was told that at max I can only use 60% of my total power due to lack of experience, it will take years of training to use it fully, so I’m hardly 20% of him in terms of power.”—Ishaan

“Then, what about me it’s even less.”—Anushka

“Tell me doesn’t name God Nox bug you?”--Ishaan

“NO, it doesn’t.”—Anushka

‘But it bugs me, God Nox the strongest human, no he is a god now, this world decides a god on basis of power and deeds a person does after the previous god descends from our world and the one who is holding the title of god, God Nox,, is a being who is considered to be the strongest being to be ever born, but Nox is what bugs me, Nox simply means darkness, why a god is called darkness, what kind of person is he, many people around here seems to be unaware of meaning of this word or are they trying to hide it.’

Ishaan thought in his mind when his face again turned pale, then very next moment he was grinding his sour teeth, an expression of anger came to his face.

He moved his plate aside and stood up to walk back and get out of this place, when Anushka held his hand with her little and soft palms gently

“Don’t leave me, just now, just wait for a little longer.”—Anushka

“What is it? All of sudden.”—Ishaan

“For some reason I have a really bad feeling about today, like a storm is about to hit, so just wait here a little longer Ira.”—Anushka

“Well, now that you mention about it, where is everyone else, I cannot find them, Asish, Atul, Maniraj, Natasha where are they.”—Ishaan

“Well, its six thirty of morning by my watch, so they probably sleeping.”—Anushka

“So, why did you brought me here, I could have my breakfast along with them.”—Ishaan

“Because you even skipped your dinner last night and by the time they will wake up it would be no longer time for breakfast. Huh… jeez.”—Anushka

Ishaan took back his seat and continued his conversation with Anushka “Tell me, how many more months it will take for us to meet with our families.”—Ishaan

“I don’t know, it’s been so long, I have been here for three months and you just came here last week.”—Anushka

“Yes, but I was brought here a month ago, the reason I didn’t met with anyone was that I was kept in isolation, apparently my power too great, if I were to stay with you all in beginning it would have brought harm to all of you, that’s what I was told.”—Ishaan

“Mee…”—Anushka

A loud sound echoed throughout the area, a sound which resembled to that of an explosion, which brought fear in everyone and resulted in a chaos.

Everyone was rushing towards the exit in order to exit from this place, close and small places like this creates a feeling of insecurity among people which results them to panic in such a condition.

Anushka also stood up and tried to escape from the place but Ishaan held her and prevented her from escaping the place.

“What are you doing idiot…”—Anushka

“You told me, that you have a really bad feeling about this place right”—Ishaan

“Yes, I said so and look it is happening, something real bad is happening.”—Anushka

“Yes, something bad is happening, that’s why no one can escape from here.”—Ishaan

“What do you mean by that? Why can nobody escape from here?”—Anushka

“Just look around, there is a barrier placed around here already, that’s why no one can escape, their struggles are futile.”—Ishaan

“Now, that you mention it, the crowd really is not going down.”—Anushka

“Yes, nor it can until you destroy that barrier, so just sit down and wait, soon others will join us as well.”—Ishaan

Anushka sat down quietly on her seat but some questions started to bug her that how ishaan knew that they were trapped inside a barrier when no one else was able to feel it, she wanted to ask him about it, but her introvert nature prevented her from doing so, she just stayed silent and kept on staring him.

While all of them are trapped inside a man had arrived who wants to set all of them free from the chains of Dragon King.

At the research Centre of the facility around five minutes before the explosion took back, an unidentified light submerged the entire room within itself, a bright red light was making everyone present in the room anxious.

“What is meaning of this, we are not supposed to get any new recruits this week?” One of the security guard present in the room expressed his anxiety, he was moving towards the source of the light to inspect it, when one more of his colleague crossed him.

“Yes, you are right, we weren’t expecting anyone, and they just send people whenever they wish to do so.” The other man was also not pleased with this sudden arrival of new recruits for pyronites.

“Don’t worry this would be the last delivery that you people will take.” A voice came out of the source of the light which was slowly fainting, and out of that three people came out, two of them were covering their face with a mask and wearing thick black clothes which hid their entire body, while the third person who was standing in middle of them was wearing a black coat along with a white shirt and black trousers, he had silver white hair and blue eyes, his face was wearing a cheerful smile which knew no fear.

But that smile was enough to make both the guards tremble with fear, both of them were staring at that particular man who was standing in middle of all commotion, there face was clearly showed that they were afraid of that man, they tried to scream out for help but they were choking with fear, but somehow one of the guard was able to warn other.

“It’s… Ray…Rayleigh, he is hear” with his shaky voice and sweaty face he screamed out his name, name of the man he feared Rayleigh The Dark Overlord.

Upon hearing the security guard everyone present in vicinity ran out of the place in order to protect their own life, it was generosity of Rayleigh that he even allowed both the guards who were scared to the death, to escape without giving them any sort of damage.

“So, you arrived here, The Dark Overlord Rayleigh.” A man enters in the rooms with his small troop of Fallen Angel soldiers all of them had their black silky wings spread in the air, but they were not able to remove tension from the air, in fact the troop of fallen angels were themselves afraid of this man, their hands were already covered with the sweat, their faces were no different

from that of those guards, it was like as if they were thrown in front of a beast.

The hands which never back down in front of any challenge, the beautiful golden spears which pierced through mightiest of creatures were all looking useless in front of Rayleigh.

“Don’t fear him, he just a single man, we honor warriors of Sir Azazel will show this man, what legends we hold in our hands, now move forward.” The leader of small troop tried to encourage his troops, all of the fallen angels were now in sync, and they were now not scared of this man as long as they receive blessing from god and they are following on footsteps of Sir Azazel.

They all dashed towards the group of three without any fear, without any regret, they were all just happy to support their support to the very last breath, but that honor they never received, all of a sudden, a mysterious force hit them, a silent force which made them fall on their knees and finally taking away their consciousness.

All the fallen angels were knocked down on the ground like lifeless birds, not able to move, not able to spread their wings in endless sky, just suffering and suffocating unable to do a thing.

“Damn you Rayleigh.” The man with silver hair received a smack on his head from one of the person standing behind him, the voice of that person sounded like that of a woman.

“Hey Gracel what was that for.”—Rayleigh

“It was because of your carelessness, using emperor’s regnum in our presence, don’t forget about the fact that we are also affected by that, it makes us feel the same way as they do.”—Gracel

“Just, leave the topic, now we need to search for the ones who are live beyond that boundary and take them back to safety.”—Rayleigh

“Yeah, I know that, and don’t dare to order me around.”—Gracel

Gracel and other man moved outside leaving Rayleigh behind, Rayleigh closes his eyes for a moment, then he opens them with a much more determined face before and moves out to search for the ones whom he wants to rejoice their independence which they have lost long ago.

The place where Ishaan, Anushka and many other pyronites are trapped.

It already had been over half an hour and people now have realized that they cannot escape this place, the exit which leads them outside is sealed with a powerful magic barrier which they cannot shatter with their brute force.

Tired, broken all of the people after struggling against the barrier lost their hope and decided to settle down and wait from outside to arrive, they were expecting an beautiful angel would arrive for their aid and lead them to world of outside.

One thing which life teaches everyone is that what you always expect is not what you always gain.

A voice of mirror shattering was heard, it was enough loud and clear that everyone could hear recognize it and with that sound the barrier around the place disappeared and a man walked through.

A man whom they have never seen before, no matter how hard they try they don’t have recollection of memories in which they have met a man with silver white hair, blue eyes or who wears so much black to cover his body.

Everyone stood up and encircled the man, even Ishaan left his seat and went to look what was happening their following him was Anushka who was taking baby steps towards that place.

Everyone present their was staring at that man, they have an expression of fear on their face, though they themselves didn’t knew but for some reason they were scared to the bone, there was something odd about this man’s presence which no one could have denied.

“Hello everyone, my name is Rayl… just forget it, I will do the same” Rayleigh again used that strange ability of his to knock down each and every person present in the dining hall unconscious, each and every soul was lying on the ground lifelessly except one.

Ishaan was somehow not affected from that ability, but what he was experiencing now was even worse, he was now knowing what fear really is looking everyone in that state left a mark in his memories a mark which he will never be able to forget.

In his deepest thought he wished that he was also unconscious, at least he wouldn’t need to see all this in that state, but it was his own bad luck that he wasn’t, he was actually looking at this masquerade.

He found Anushka as well to be lying on the ground, he rushes towards her and touches her face gently, and he moves his finger around her nostrils to check for her breath, subsequently check her wrist nerves for the pulse.

“Thank god, she is alright.—Ishaan

Ishaan turns his gaze towards that man, his both fists were enveloped in rage of is fire the moved towards him at unimaginable speeds and punched him on the face.

But all was a wasted effort, Rayleigh easily blocked his attack, he was holding his fist enveloped in fire as if he was holding on to a babies hand, the heat of flames had no effect on him.

Ishaan was stunned after witnessing what happened here, he could not believe his eyes that it was actually happening but at the same time he was convinced he knew that there are many people out there who are way out of his league but at the same time it was frustrating to know that he won’t be able to do anything against someone of this caliber.

“Oye boy don’t waste my time and listen.”—Rayleigh

“Speak up, I’m listening.”—Ishaan

“We are not your enemies, I came here to protect you from these people and take you all back to safety.”—Rayleigh

“And why should I believe you, after what you did?”—Ishaan

“I need to do that, I don’t have time to convince each and every one, if Drazen comes here everything is over.”-Rayleigh

“Over for you or me?”---Ishaan

“Over for you and him both?”—Rayleigh

“hmmm…” Ishaan made a small laugh and made Rayleigh grip come lose.

“Listen boy, I’m going to take all of you to safety so come with me, I will take you all back to your homes.”—Rayleigh

“Ok, I believe you, as if I have any other choice in this matter I can only die after fighting against you, but I have one condition.”—Ishaan

“What condition?”—Rayleigh

“That girl, you need to make sure that she is with me all times.”—Ishaan

“Is she one of your relatives?”—Rayleigh

“Sort of, I guess in future she is.”—Ishaan

“Ok, I will make it happen.”—Rayleigh

“Ok, then knock me out as well, I don’t want to see it through.”—Ishaan

Upon hearing ishaan request, Rayleigh makes a pad on ishaan shoulder a gentle pad which looks completely forceless knocks Ishaan down instantaneously.

“Just rest easy boy, I will definitely take all of back to your homes, to place where you belong, A World Beyond The Boundary.”