Journey Towards Truth

On to the battlefield.

Dark fog covered the entire arena. Due to it, the audience was unable to see how Raj or Ronnie were doing.

"Bhanu, are you able to see what is going on in there?" Narad asked.

"Sir, with my physical senses, even I cannot see due to this fog but because I'm the owner of this dimension all the information is directly transmitted to my mind."

"Right now, Raj is continuously taunting Ronnie with his weak attack."

While unable to locate Raja, Ronnie started to become nervous. As a last resort, he finally decided to use his ace.

"Now, it's all in or nothing."

He closed his eyes and tensed his body. Electric current started to flow out from him, which made him immune to Raj's attack.

Inability to attack Ronnie, Raj thought, "He is trying to pull something big."

"Let's wait and see."

Ronnie's lightning wrapped the field. It cleared the fog. But Raj was nowhere to be seen.

Kashyapa asked Bhanu curiously, "Bhanu, where is Raj?"

"He is there, hiding in Ronnie's shadow."

"Still, it makes me curious, why he is not attacking Ronnie."

Ronnie opened his eyes, white light erupted from them.

A white glowing throne appeared behind him with many large white pillars behind and both sides.

Surrounding the throne and pillars, vegetation began to spread.

"This is my territory- SWARG-LOK." Ronnie declared.

*(Swarg-lok is the abode of the king of gods-Indra.)

Due to Throne's appearance, Raj felt that he was getting weaker.

He materialized on the ground.

In response to Ronnie's territory, Raj declared, "I have my own."

His body began to float in the air. His eyes glowed red. He shouted like a mad man,

"YAM-LOK".

*(Meaning - Hell. Abode of death God Yamraj).

The land below started to crack. A fissure appeared. Lava erupted from it. A black throne of stone emergency from lava.

It kept rising until it and Raj were on the same level. The throne was sculpted on giant rock surrounded by massive spikes.

From the feet of the throne to the feet of the giant rock Stairs started to form.

Raj ascended towards the throne and sat on it.

After his ascend, His gazes were focused on his own feet.

At the same time, Bhanu felt some kind of pressure on him. He notified Narad that, "Boss! Their territory is affecting mine."

"with current preparations, I cannot handle it much longer"

But Narad and Kashyapa were both fascinated by the form the battle is taking. Excited, Narad replied.

"Bhanu it's almost over, hold on a little longer. We are at the climax."

Both the territories began to collide with each other. Waves of collision formed cracks on the barriers. Now, it became the battle of who conquers whom.

Ronnie, still near his throne, raised his hands and Thunders and winds Roared. Many storming tornadoes formed around Ronnie's territory.

Those tornadoes began to march toward Raj.

For some reason, after sitting on his throne, Raj's expression became neutral; he was continuously looking at his feet. No attention to the battle. Yet, dominating Ronnie.

But suddenly multiple large spikes elongated towards Ronnie's territory from Raj. The collision between storms and spikes neutralised each other. But spikes kept forming on top of each other.

Ronnie panicked.

"Too fast, I have to dodge."

He again released lightning from him and vanished.

Raj's spike completely decimated Ronnie's territory.

Raj asked in a cold and terrifying way, "kid, Surrender?"

For which Ronnie replied, "The battle just began."

In his mind Ronnie tried to figure out some strategy but no idea came to his mind.

"I told him that I can continue but what can I do now? At my current level, I tried everything I have."

In response to Ronnie's answer, Raj's right hand started to raise. However it looked like someone else was controlling him. He pointed his index finger towards him.

"My subjects, bring me victory."

Skeletons began to emerge from the lava. All the bones of skeletons were on fire.

A wave of bloodlust flowed into the arena. The temperature rose to the point that it became hard to breathe.

Ronnie's body trembled in fear. Drops of sweat appeared on his face.

Still, somehow, gathering his courage, he retaliated. But even though he destroyed many skeletons. Others took their place.

"I have destroyed them many times, but they keep coming at me. What should I do?"

As he was in his thoughts, his body turned numb, unable to use his ability, he panicked.

Against continuous barrage of attack his courage felt short. Skeletons buried him under a mountain of bones.

Raj's territory began to collapse. He slowly descended to the ground.

The mountain of bones also disappeared leaving Ronnie unconsciously on the floor.

Behind Raj, Narad and the group appeared.

Bhanu declared, "the winner of this battle is Raj."

Kashyapa with encouraging words, "marvelous, what a marvelous battle."

"You both are the future of our Nation."

Sara and Bhanu lifted Ronnie up.

Sara asked, "how are you feeling, Master Ronnie."

To which Ronnie replied, "I'm fine just feeling exhausted."

Raj in his funny way asked Sara, "Miss Sara, how was my battle?"

She didn't reply but smiled at his question.

It made Raj a little shy. He blushed and looked happy.

"May I have your attention? Raj! Ronnie!" Narad asked.

Both looked in Narad's direction.

"Are you both satisfied with the battle?"

Both at the same time replied.

"Satisfied."

Raj's answer made Ronnie flustered.

He curiously asked Raj.

"Mr Raj, you are lying. You didn't give it your all."

"Why would I lie? I did my best." Raj replied.

Unsatisfied with Raj's answer, Ronnie explained, "throughout the battle, I was keeping up with you until we both summoned our territories. After that it was a one-sided battle."

"A complete loss for me."

Raj with a small smile on his face and eyes closed tried to cheer Ronnie.

"Don't think too much about it. These powers are new to us. We have many things to figure out. With enough time and effort, we both will become strong."

"The only thing that matters to me is that my strength is my nation's strength."

After listening to Raj's answer Kashyapa started clapping.

"This is the mindset we want from the citizens of our country. Ronnie, Learn from him."

Ronnie agreed with Kashyapa and nodded his head.

"I hope both of you have learnt a lot from this battle. If you want, we will conduct this type of mock battle again in the future" ,said Narad.

To which Bhanu interrupted Narad, "Boss at least ask me first. Whether I'm ready or not."

At Bhanu's response, everyone laughed.

At the reception area, "Raj went to Ronnie and asked why you didn't use your weapon in our battle?"