Chapter-12 The Hard Time Begins

The wall of secularism, a mountain range which separates the continent of Asia and Naraka, an artificial mountain rage created by thousands and millions of mages and labors, so that they could separate themselves from the gods and live their life in piece, but ironically they were one who now feed the actual monsters.

Now these monster grows and cross the borders between the lands and the one responsible to prevent them from coming in are Hell Keepers.

“It’s so cold out here? I’m actually freezing.”—Ishaan/Ira, Ishaan was covered within three layer of clothing still he was feeling the chilling cold from outside.

“Don’t worry you will get used to it in a month or two during that time you can do some casual work out here?”—Gracel

“Like what?”—Ishaan

“Nothing special, you are a fire mage so, we can use you in kitchen to light up fire or to melt ice, and there are many odd works around here, so just move.”--Gracel

Upon Gracel instruction, Ishaan started following her blindly, in this unknown place she was the only one he knew and can rely on her, he saw many new and different faces today as he followed her, the faces he will forget soon, but need to remember them too as well, everyone here a pale white face but there was definitely a spark in those eyes.

“Yo, Troy, come here.”—Gracel, shouted and called a boy standing at some distance, the boy upon hearing Gracel call, came running towards her, the boys entire body was also covered in thick walls of warm clothing, though his face was clearly visible, troy is a average looking boy who looks around 20 years old.

“Welcome back chief, any order for me.”—Troy

“Troy, meet Ira Cian, he is an acquaintance of mine, and he would be joining us as of today.”—Gracel

“Cian, that’s a quite odd last name.”—Troy

“He is not from around, he is from dragon clan.”—Gracel

“Oh, dragon clan I get it now.”—Troy

“Show him, around the place and fit him somewhere, give him some odd jobs to do, I will be in my cabin.”—gracel

“As you say chief.”—Troy

“Then, I will be leaving him to you.”—Gracel

Gracel instructed Troy and then disappeared with a smiling and carefree face, her relaxed expression before leaving made ishaan think weather he made right decision or not, Gracel might be a careless and lazy type of person, but her magic of teleportation is incredible, but it is already too late to back out, now he need to move forward and take his first step into this new world.

“So, Ira, shall we proceed.”—Troy

“Yes.”—Ishaan/Ira

Ishaan and Troy both headed towards the mountain, the mountain which even reached the heavens and separated the world into two.

“SO, you are a member of dragon clan.”—Troy

“Yes, I am.”—Ira/Ishaan

“So, that means you came from Leo (Country) then, must be hard getting adjusted to the cold here, Leo is pretty warm country.”—Troy

“Yes it is, warm and lively.”—Ishaan/Ira

Ishaan who was thought about everything from Gracel, was ready to answer any question about his past and the life he lived so far, all lie no truth.

“It must feel great that you are blessed with such amazing powers and being born into clan you must be really lucky, the people born in dragon clan or any other strongest clans like tiger, tortoise or phoenix clan are in a completely different league.”—Troy

“I don’t know much about others, but I’m just average, there are many strong people in my clan like dragon princess, I guess she is pretty famous.”—Ira/Ishaan

“Yeah, the child prodigy, heard even she couldn’t inherit the name of Dragon.”—Troy

“Yes, she couldn’t, by the way where we are heading to?”—Ishaan/Ira

“Some place which each and every newbie needs to visit, it is up on those mountains, so just follow me blindly.”—Troy

The journey of Ishaan was unforgettable for him, he walked across snow covered paths, which he never saw before, climbed the tall mountains and reached the heights which he never reached before, he entered the temple of the divine god.

His heart was mesmerized when he was the magnificent view of the divine temple, there was no structure present which could be considered as a building, he bend down to his knees and bowed down is head to respect the god who had been looking after the people throughout the globe.

A huge Shivling of ice was present on the top of the of the mountain, keeping an eye on entire human race, the purest form of Lord Shiva, the greatest of all gods was present here, Ishaan just bowed down and prayed for his bright future to the most innocent and beautiful god of all.

“Raise your head son.” While Ishaan was praying to his god a third voice came to his ears, the voice which was like humans but not like one as well, it was loud even though it echoed from very far, it was not even clear as a human voice some element of a wild roar was mixed in it, harsh and terrifying.

Ishaan slowly raises his head, hiding the curiosity within him, he raised his head slowly to honor the Lord Shiva and opened his eyes to look at the being who was calling out for him.

It was a huge black dragon who called for ishaan, not any ordinary dragon but a Vritra was present their, raising his head high while standing alongside Shivling, the Vritra didn’t have any sense of evil from him, he was a pure and majestic creature, something entirely different which Ishaan thought it would be, extending several meters in length the Vritra head was still lower than the Shivling.

“I can’t believe my eyes, Lord Shesh.”—Troy

“Who is he?”—Ishaan/Ira to Troy

“Yeah, you don’t know about him Ira, he is the guardian of these realms, we all need his blessing to step to other side, but he hardly shows us, it’s nothing less than a miracle that he himself decided to come and bless us with his presence.”—Troy

“Boy, I see a great and glorious future for you, which you will craft by destroying the flow of everything.”—Lord Shesh

“What, do you mean by that?”—Ishaan/Ira

“What I mean is that you have path filled with sadness, you will be broken at a point, but you will have a glorious life one day.”—Lord Shesh

“Can I ask you a question?”—Ishaan/Ira

“Yes, you are the son of my lord, you can ask me as many things you wish to?”—Lord Shesh

“Is Drazen, my doom?”—Ishaan/Ira

“No, he isn’t you will make king of dragons to bow down to you some day, his fake life forms won’t be able to hold candle against the Son of my Lord, but your biggest despair would be Demon King and your biggest hope would be the one whom you fear the most at the time when darkness fall upon you, a flame within you will lite from within you and will drag the darkness to the corner, though this is your fate destroyed and recreated by you.”—Lord Shesh

“What does mean, I don’t get at all.”—Ishaan/Ira

“You will understand on that day boy, you will know what you have destroyed and which darkness you have turned to light.”—Lord Shesh

With a beautiful play of words Lord Shesh gave Ira an answer to his question and not at the same time, his melody wrapped Ira in a web where he found him lost and unable to think, his future was simple or complex, he didn’t knew that but all he knew happy days will come sooner or later and for that he need to illuminate his own path.

Then with his great magical abilities Lord Shesh left Ishaan and troy.

“Hey dude, I still can’t believe that lord Shesh were actually here, its miracle.”—Troy, troy who still couldn’t believe what exactly happened here was excited as hell, for him all that matter was that he saw one of the greatest being in existence with his very own eyes.

“Yeah, forget that part and tell me about Drazen now?”—Ira/Ishaan

“Oh, he is an overlord extremely strong and he called the king of dragons.”—Troy

“Thanks genius, now tell me about his dragon summoning dragons.”—Ira/Ishaan

“Oh, he doesn’t summon them, he creates them.”—Troy

“Ok dude, WTF.”—Ira/Ishaan

“Yeah, his magic is to create dragons from the elements in surrounding, he gives them power, he controls them, they are like an extension of his own body.”—Troy

“So, those dragons were fake.”—Ishaan

“Yes, they were just some mindless and weak creatures, a real dragon possess power far greater than any human can, any average dragon is having power as high as Commander Silverous and the strongest one, just forget about them, no human can ever reach their level, they are not strong in appearance but even invulnerable, some people worship dragons as immortal beings.”—Troy

“So, that’s exactly how a real dragon looks like, pretty interesting if you ask me, I was not able to stop myself from shaking, I couldn’t sense his power though but it was definitely something which made me sure that, I have never seen someone as strong as him in my entire life.”—Ira/Ishaan

“Yes, you are right about that, dragons are just like that, though they are quite rear now, they were rear to begin with, to dude really we saw the dragon who had lived for thousands of years, protecting the both realms.”—Troy

“Yeah, and I now feel myself lucky, he was the first dragon whom I saw.”—Ira/Ishaan

“Then, you are really lucky my friend, you cannot have any better start from this one.”—Troy

“Hope, it all ends well, as well.”—Ira/Ishaan

A new day was waiting for Ishaan, with questions, answers and struggle, today he finally got answers to his questions, whom he was searching for long, each time when he thought he will finally get an answer, he just received more questions without any answers to previous one, and today he just got was a answers and a question again, that when, where and what will lead him to despair, which will force him to break free and disturb the flow of this world, or he already had by coming here.

While Troy had his own questions about Ira, is this really his name? Is he really from dragon clan? How he know about Drazen and why he asked that weather he would be his Doom or not?

‘It looks like it would get interesting here from now on, all because of you Mr. Ira Cian.’—Troy in his mind.