Chapter—11 Land Abandoned BY Gods

The sun was falling and stealing the light away from the room, it was getting darker and darker by every passing second just like the thoughts of Silverous. Silverous K Dragon the strongest man who walks on this earth, was facing countless difficulties, it was just yesterday that, the truth about Johnmar Dragneel death came into his light.

Johnmar Dragneel, The Legendary Dragon Slayer, was one of the few renounced names from the era of 150 yearlong Trade war, many fearsome warriors came to light during that war and even lost in war.

Silverous himself fought for over 30 years in that war, despite his young looks as if he is just in his late 20’s or early 30’s Silverous K Dragon is over 104 year old, same goes for his wife clare, simple sweet clare who looks like a young woman is also over 100 years old, the age of mages cannot be determined according to normal human perspective they live much longer and age slower.

During that war one of the name was a nightmare for any man, dragon or any living creature was of Johnmar Dragneel, the cruelest of all, the strongest of all, but not undefeated, he lost his life about 70 years ago, during a one on one battle to the death against a human mage named ‘Norman Willguard’.

But there is a fact that only few know about Johnmar Dragneel, that he was an pyronite, not just a pyronite but the strongest of them, even after attaining a mature age after which magic power doesn’t increase any further, his power kept on increasing. His power become so great that his body was no longer able to hold that huge power within him, so his body started to evolve, evolve in a way which no one could imagine, he was turning into a dragon, firstly his body started to cover with scales, then his left arm completely turned into that of a dragon.

If that process had continued he would have already turned into a dragon, a man who has power equivalent to a dragon and healing abilities of a pyronite, how much terrifying creature could he had turned into. It wasn’t the old Johnmar Dragneel Silverous was worried about, that man was killed ones already, but it was the potential of him which worried him the most.

The room again became bright, someone had actually switched on the light of the room upon walking into a dark room like this.

Silverous turned back to have a look on the person and found his beautiful wife lighting the room, looking at her, he tried to fake a smile, so that she couldn’t realize that he was actually worried about something.

“Why are you faking a smile? Tell me what is upsetting you.”—Clare, she realized that Silverous was trying to hide something from her, but it was impossible for him to do so, it only took her a direct eye contact that something was actually wrong with him, he was actually worried over something, her careless, and tension free and reckless husband was actually worried over something.

Silverous took a breath and said “It’s about Johnmar Dragneel, if he is actually alive then, we must get ready for a big war.”

“We, can’t exactly say he is alive, he might have survived that fight and then fake his death to recover his power, but don’t you think 70 years is a rather long time?”—Clare

“Yes, it is quite odd, plus we haven’t seen him since that time either.”—Silverous

“The next possibility could be that his body was taken out some time ago and now is in hands of an expert Bio Alchemist who is performing experiments to create pyronite.”—Clare

“What, is it true?”—Silverous

“It’s just a possibility, we don’t know yet how pyronites are created.”—Clare

“Ohh, I see.”—Silverous

“Last could be, he is hiding somewhere and strike on the exact time, we can relate some events of the past, like mass murder of dragons in Sagittarius Nation, The Annihilation of Capital of nation Aquarius.”—Clare

“No, it couldn’t be him, the one responsible for destroying the capital of Aquarius was Blaze Emperor.”—Silverous

“You are correct, but still it is an undeniable possibility.”—Clare

“I have decided.”—Silverous

“On what?”—Clare

“I’m calling all the squadron leaders of Revolutionary Army, they all need to be present here exactly two months from now, that is 26 January, 2016, I want them all here, without any exception.”—Silverous

“What, are you saying, all of them at the same time, do you know how risky is call them al here at ones, and do you think they all will get along at all.”—Clare descent and mature tone turned into that of a middle school girl upon hearing Silverous spouting out trash from his mouth.

“I don’t care, I just want them here, even if they are on a trip in Naraka (means Hell in Hindi), and bring them all here.”—Silverous

“I will, but I don’t think that no one would be in Naraka, though some people would be really close to it.”—Clare

The Naraka which Silverous and Clare speak of is no imaginary place, it’s been told that both hell and heaven lies on the earth itself, the heaven which is called as Adstrum is the land where the gods reside and the Naraka the lands abandoned by the gods, are actually place in the earth on which they are present, Naraka is actually a continent comprising of three different kingdoms with indefinite boundary, the continent of Naraka had been in a state of war, since the beginning the battle between the kingdoms keeps on continuing, which causes great harm to life and property.

But it’s not all which Naraka has to offer, it is the land where most violent and merciless beings reside, whom we only consider as myths. Many monsters walk on these lands, the creatures which mankind have never witnessed before that is the Naraka.

Ishaan and Gracel were heading towards one of the end of Naraka as the protector of the world, covered in hot and warm winter clothing, as they walk on snow covered paths in the valley of ice, the temperature was already below 10 degree Celsius that too in the month of November, when winter starts too fall around the globe.

“So, we are actually going to a live at place like this.”—Ishaan who lived his entire life in a warm and tropical country without witnessing a single snowfall, was facing the freezing cold which he had never witnessed before, the cold wind here were capable to even freeze this extremely powerful fire mage.

“No, we would just be on the guard, we are living on continent of Asisa which have 12 countries which are named after each zodiac sign, and country is Gemini which lies on the border of Asisa and Naraka, so in order to protect people a guard squad was made called Hell Keepers, which is under my command”—Gracel

“So, you are really are a high ranking person.”—Gracel

“Yes, that’s why you were able to meet with dragon, otherwise it’s impossible to see him, many people within revolutionary army died for him, without seeing his face even for ones, you should consider yourself lucky that you were able to meet him.”—Gracel

“Tell me, why we are walking when we can teleport.”—Ishaan

“It’s simple cause I need to know about the topology of the place before teleporting there, I knew about topology of that place in forest, but I don’t know about topology of the area here.”—Gracel

“But you live here.”—Ishaan

“Yes, I live here but there is a snowfall throughout the year, that too at a variable way, I cannot guess the thickness of snow, so just forget about teleporting, and do you remember what I instructed you to do?”—Gracel

“Yes, no one should know about my real identity, like my name, from where I came, my age, I’m Ira Cian my age is 57 and I’m of Cian Armstrong, who was companion of Silverous K Dragon in Trade Wars, and I’m of Dragon clan as well.”—Ishaan

“Correct, don’t forget about that ever.”—Gracel

“So, how long it is actually going to take to reach there?”—Ishaan

“At this speed, we should be soon able to see the Wall of Secularism.”--Gracel

“Wall of Secularism…?”—Ishaan

“It’s an mountain range which separates Asisa and Naraka, it is said to be created by thousands or even millions of people which include both mages and normal people by their own hands, if you go near hills, you would be able to see huge rectangular rock block inside the hills.”—Gracel

“So, you mean to say it is a manmade mountain range, what could have forced people to make something as blizzard as that?”—Ishaan

“Cruelty of gods, it wasn’t exactly the gods who abandoned people, it was actually people who abandoned the god and moved across land to find happiness and saturated them from the ones who owned the believe in gods.”—Gracel

“What kind of people are these gods? Are they really that bad?”—Ishaan

“What you think of rich people full of pride and think of poor as insects and abuse them?”—Gracel

“To be honest, I just wish to punch them in their face.”—Ishaan

“And what about religious leaders whom people follow blindly to the pits?”—Gracel

“They should just die.”—Ishaan

“Then gods are combination of both, they don’t do a thing and are extremely rich, their authority is supreme, they can do whatever they want and there is no law against them, raping, child abuse, extortion they can do anything which they wish, at top of that people look them with great hope and honor all due to good deeds of their ancestors, they even die in protecting those who sees them as some sort of inferior specie, as if they don’t know that they are also humans with just an shitty title like god which they inherited as an dynastic succession.”—Gracel

“Guess, they have a pretty bad experience with them?”—Ishaan

“Yes, I had, I was born as only girl child in a noble family, and my marriage was fixed with an heir of another noble family since childhood, I fell in love with him and was very pleased to have him as my partner, but it all changed, on my day of engagement a family of gods came to attend from Adstrum, the land of gods, the son of them found me attractive, so he decided to cancel the engagement on his own and take me as his 19th mistress, and all it took for him to do so was just a single phrase ‘I want that.’ Bastard didn’t even considered me as a living being for him I was just an object which he toyed with for years, then finally one day in bed I killed him and escaped.”—Gracel

“Sorry, I shouldn’t have asked about that.”—Ishaan

“Don’t worry it was more than 50 years ago, I already had my revenge and now I live with a smile here, things from my past don’t let my moral down anymore and look we already arrived here.”—Gracel

Ishaan turned his gaze towards the sky where he found mountains reaching the sky, they split the clouds with their hard mass,

and the breathtaking scene of snow covered blue mountains decorated with clouds was mesmerizing, it was impossible to look away from this masterpiece of art, at the top of that, the fact that it was actually sculpted my human hands makes it even gorgeous, just imagine mountains so big built by humans to shape the nature in such a marvelous way, which artist could have thought of making a painting something like this. Something which even leaves behind the beauty of nature created by the all mighty himself.

“So, now since we came here, we can directly teleport to the army camp.”--Gracel