“Fall back, hide, go find somewhere safe. It is going to get real serious now.” - Altan ordered Elio with great persistence.

  Elio ran backwards and started looking for a place to hide, he saw an office table which was fully covered from one end. Elio quickly got there and hid under the table. With gaps in the corners and edges of the table, he was able to see Altan clearly.

  Altan burning with red and hot flame, his presence was so mesmerizing that he grabbed all the attention towards himself from the awful environment with foul smell and death all around it. Suddenly, the flame around Altan grew stronger and larger. Now, the flame around him was not giving the warmth but a burning sensation, as things close to Altan started burning, even the dead bodies.

  “Come out you coward! I, a protector of Ravi, have come to bless you and give you redemption. Tonight is the night, when your reign will be over, even this dark night cannot save you from me.” - Altan screamed looking towards a door.

  The door, Elio remembered, belongs to the Mayor’s chamber. Why is Altan looking for the mayor of White town? Elio started thinking, “Altan always wanted to find a person, that’s why they are here. The person Altan was looking for was none other than Mr. Dyre the mayor of White town. Now, he is calling the mayor out for a duel, what’s happening?”

  Many things started blurring Elio’s mind. “Is the Mayor a bad person? No, he can’t be, or, he is. What if he is also a soldier of Indu? No, wait, Altan said that everything around here in the office, all of these dead bodies are done by some orb of night. Is the mayor the orb of night? No, he is too old and weak to kill all of these people, also the mayor loves this town.”

  “Wait! If all of these people are dead, how on earth is the mayor still alive?” This cleared Elio’s mind, as he ended up on a decision that, somehow the things happening around him are related to the mayor of White town.

  Tock..tock…tock…tock, sound of someone walking through the door could be heard. Altan looked at the door with great determination, with his left prosthetic arm on the sword handle, hooked on his thick belt. The environment all around the hall started getting quieter and quieter. Tock…tock…tock…tock, the sound was getting more and more clear.

  A dark shadow can now be seen coming their way through the door. The rats munching on the dead, stopped squeaking. Not even that, they started fleeing and hiding, as if a storm was coming towards them. Tock…tock, the shadow stopped walking, the figure still not visible due to the thick fog covering the vision of Elio.

  “You call me a coward? Am I a coward? Hahahaha! Well to kill this coward your stupid devotees sent you. One of the seven generals of Ravi, a high ranking officer, has to come all the way from the east to kill a coward. This doesn’t fit well, and you call me a coward.”- Person standing in dense fog exclaimed.

  With the voice of the person, Elio confirmed that it was none other than the mayor of the White town. But, what was he talking about,his voice sounded like he couldn’t care less. The fog started to clear out, the appearance of the mayor was clearly visible now.

  The mayor was wearing a white coat, with white formal pants. A beige shirt with a red bow tie. He was wearing a white hat, he had a grey beard, with a long moustache and large bushy grey eyebrows. He had a monocle on his left eye, which gave him a very sophisticated look.

  He started positioning his bow and said “calling me a coward, while you weakling came to give me a redemption on the night of no moon. All of you know that any soldier of Indu is weaker during no moon. Well now that you’re here, let me bless your whiny ass with my moonlight.”

  The confidence in his voice was so strong that it gave shivers to Elio hiding under an office table. “Hahaha! Moon or no moon, you’re going to turn to ashes today. Prepare yourself, Dyre, a orb of night.”-Altan said by taking a stance and his hands on his sword.

  Fire surrounding Altan grows larger, as if it will consume everything in its path. The raging fire around him brightened up all the halls, as if it was daylight. “Well you left me no choice general”- Dyre said smiling with his eyes closed. With this a magical aura surrounded Dyre as strong as Altan’s fire. A magical aura so strong that it literally started to make cracks in the roof, walls and floor of the building.

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  The clash of both of their auras was so strong that it was pushing everything near them. Elio’s table also started to move backwards, while Elio used all of his strength to not let it move.

  In a moment Dyre opened his eyes and threw his hat towards Altan. The hat rotates with a magical field all around it cutting air as it moves forward. Altan unsheathed his sword, which was now of a deep yellow colour with fumes burning from the edges and the tip. He blocks the hat, creating a huge cracking sound like a thunderstorm. The collision of two energies made the whole building tremble, walls and roof of the building started falling down piece by piece.

  Altan somehow blocked and deflected the hat coming out his way. The deflected hat went outside, cutting through the walls of the building. This made Altan tensed a little which can be seen, as he gritted his teeth and launched an attack towards Dyre. He held his sword from both hands and ran towards Dyre. “Dawn…Strike”

  Dyre clenched his fists and pushed his elbows towards his chest and boosted his energy and magical power. Dyre jumped with clenching his fist in mid air. A huge violet energy ball can be seen forming around his fist. Violet coloured sparks coming out from his fists.

  “Eat this you fire farting delinquent” - Dyre shouted as his fist clashed with Altan’s sword surrounded by deep yellow fumes. The clash was so strong that it pushed everything backwards, Elio along with the table flew off, Elio hit his back against the wall.

  While Elio was not even over the shock, a huge rumble came flowing towards him, a rumble double his size. Elio ducked at the last moment as the rumble crashed against the wall and broke into multiple pieces.

  Elio got up on his feet, and was amazed by what he saw in front of him. Altan and Dyre fought against each other with great strength and determination. Each of the Altan’s slashes cuts the air, creating a ring of fire. Dyre dodged most of the attacks, and blocked with his forearms which seemed to be as hard as steel whenever Altan’s sword strikes them.

  Dyre used his strong fists as weapons to attack Altan, both of them were so smooth while fighting. They both were very balanced with their offense and defence. Their strength seemed to be equally matched, but every clash between them creates a huge explosion of energy. Both energies were equally matched but opposite of each other.

  The clash between them was so strong that the building started to fall apart. Huge rumbles started flying from everywhere. The dead bodies flying in mid air. The roof started falling, Elio got scared and tried to avoid them. He chose to get out of the building as there is no way he will withstand a whole roof squishing his body.

  As he went out of the building, but still at a distance where he can clearly see what’s going on inside the building. As two of the strongest individuals fight with determination to take the life of others. The building reached its limit and fell off. The rumbles created a storm of dust which mixed with the dense fog around the town.

  After some time the dust cleared, both Altan and Dyre seemed unresponsive about the whole building incident. As they both know, the only thing which is able to kill them is standing just a few metres from them.

  Elio couldn't believe his eyes, a whole building, a two floor building fell on them but both of them don’t have a single scratch on them. The thought of the level of power both of them had made him really anxious as this was beyond his imagination.

  “Enough now, I am getting bored.”- Dyre said calmly, picking his nose. “Then show me your real self, real strength, the strength of the orb of night.”- Altan replied, dropping down his robe. “Oh my, my, are you trying to make me like you, mr. general. If you are then it’s working. I always like a strong muscular body with a proud personality. They…are…tasty!”- Dyre said, flicking his tongue, as a dark aura surrounded him.

  Dyre took off his monocle and crushed it into pieces. Dyre’s muscles started growing in size, the strength of those muscles could be felt from a distance. Altan's facial expression changed, he started frowning and gritting his teeth. Dyre’s eyes turned red and blood started flowing from his eyes. Blood dripped down from his cheeks, as if he was crying in pain.

  Dyre started screaming, fell down on his knees while he held his head. “Aaaaaaaa…this hurts like shit…damn it.” Dyre screamed as he kept on growing. His head started bulging a bit, as Dyre kept on screaming in pain. The dark aura surrounding it kept on increasing and after a few seconds “boooom”.

  A huge release of energy scattered everywhere, creating a huge gust of wind with cracking sound. The dust and fog cleared, finally Elio was able to see something. “What in the world”- Elio said with great astonishment.

  Dyre grew twice his size before, his muscles were bulging out of his teared beige shirt. His body got completely covered with hair. Along with that, the bulging on his head, turned out to be two red horns that grew on him. His eyes became completely red and black. Violet sparkings can be seen coming out from his entire body.

  Altan pointed his sword towards Dyre, holding it with both of his hands. “Lord have mercy on this creature, as he has sinned. Lend me your power to provide him salvation and let his soul rest now.”- Altan said with remorse, a hint of fear and tension can be seen in his eyes. Elio understood that the form that Dyre took is so dangerous that even someone as strong as Altan is getting tense.

  “Sorry general, I kept you waiting. You see, I don’t like this look, I want to be beautiful, but all this hair on my body, plus these ugly ass horns. I don’t like it, so let’s be quick, please don't irritate me. Let me taste your blood, die general dieeee…along with your sun!” - Dyre said with a great resolve, as he leaped towards Altan.