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Chapter 10 - RISE THROUGH RUINS

> Scene begins...

Gautam stepped forward, his boots crushing the remains of shattered swords and fallen warriors. His cloak fluttered like a demon's banner in the storm.

He looked at his fallen generals.

Raj: defeated.

Anwar: unconscious.

Kareena, Ehtesham, Musa: still reeling.

A bitter grin spread across his face.

> "Huh... pathetic," he muttered, voice dripping with venom.

"Weaklings… all of you. And Raj… even you?"

His voice twisted into a mocking taunt.

"Tch... looks like it's finally my turn. Let them learn what it means to challenge Azaldera."

And then... he unleashed it.

The sky tore open.

A pressure fell over the land — so thick, the air refused to be breathed. His BHRAMMA.

Not just any aura — this was godless, ancient, screaming with a thousand souls.

Birds fell dead mid-flight. Trees shriveled. The clouds bled.

---

Harun stared, trembling, broken.

His team was down —

Zoya: unconscious beside him, her hand cold.

Radha: bleeding, barely breathing.

Sahil: unmoving near the fire, lips whispering regrets.

Around him — 2100 soldiers, 2 remaining generals, and Gautam himself.

His fingers dug into the soil.

> "We can't win this," he whispered.

"Ahad... tell me what to do... Please..."

And deep inside him, Ahad awoke. The creature bound to his Dravillian Stone.

His voice echoed like a shadow crawling up a cave wall.

> "You are not weak, Harun."

"You've slain four demigods. Alone."

"You will not lose. Not now."

> "Start at 90%."

---

A pulse of energy erupted.

Harun stood. His breath heavy, body cracking, but his resolve burning.

He looked one last time at his fallen friends — and screamed:

> "UNLEASH — 90% DRAVILLIAN STONE!!"

And then it began.

> The BHRAMMA.

The ALAUKIK.

THE GRANDITYA.

THE BYLOK.

THE RAVANGERS.

All five powers swirled through him — forming something unholy.

His body cracked open in light.

> Harun transformed — into TRUBINAL BHRAMMA.

His first strike roared through the battlefield —

> "TRUBINAL BLOW!"

Straight at Kareena.

But she vanished, laughing.

> "Tch tch… Poison Mist," she smirked from behind the fog.

"You'll need more than brute strength to touch me, darling."

---

Harun turned to strike Musa with Abyssal Universal Core, but Ehtesham blocked it with a smile.

> "Still weak... creepy and weak," he whispered.

Then Harun charged toward Gautam, rage in his chest.

> "You're the reason for all this!"

Gautam didn't even move.

He simply raised two fingers.

> "What an annoying little brat..."

He whispered, bored.

"Guess I'll use just two fingers..."

The attack Harun launched — evaporated.

> "Hmm," Gautam said, mocking.

"My Dravillian Stone... Gambhir... how do I even kill you? With poetry? Or just—"

He punched.

Just once.

Harun's arm exploded at the elbow.

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Harun screamed.

> "AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"

He screamed so hard that the earth cracked, the wind turned, and every one of his allies… woke up.

Radha blinked.

Zoya's fingers twitched.

Sahil gasped.

Harun collapsed, sobbing — pain swallowing his mind.

Radha rushed forward, blood pouring from her mouth.

> "Harun… rest. We'll take it from here."

Even Sahil gritted his teeth.

> "Weakling? Me?"

"No. I'm a Moksha Hunter."

He stood up.

> "OXY SWORD… RELEASE EVERYTHING!"

He vanished — his body turning into wind.

> "Let me show you the true form of regret..."

He charged into the twins.

But Musa grinned.

> "No oxygen in here, wind-boy."

They locked him in a dome. No air. Just magnetic torture.

Sahil gasped — ribcage cracking.

Ehtesham leaned forward and whispered:

> "Let's see what a Moksha Hunter's heart feels like…"

Then — ripped it out.

Sahil fell.

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Scene returns to Harun.

Still crying.

Radha's patience snapped.

> "Enough crying!" she screamed.

"If you're so weak — then LEAVE. Take Zoya and RUN. Everyone else is dying with pride, and you sit here sobbing?!"

Harun froze.

Silence.

Radha turned to attack Gautam, but Kareena intercepted.

Mist exploded — a sharp slash.

Radha's ear sliced clean off.

Kareena laughed, voice dripping.

> "I hate beautiful people..."

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And then…

Harun stood.

> He looked at Kareena.

> He looked at the sky.

And then he screamed:

> "I HAVE NOT LOST!!!"

AHAD's voice thundered.

> "Use 100%."

Black light erupted.

Kareena's head — sliced off before she even blinked.

Radha froze.

> "W-What…?"

Harun walked past, cold and calm.

> "Save Zoya."

His voice was ice. "I'll handle the rest."

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He ran.

Found Sahil — chest hollow, lifeless.

Harun trembled.

> "I'm sorry…"

And then...

A storm awakened.

His aura turned black. Abyssal. Savage.

> "BLACK HOLE PUNCH!"

Musa turned — and in one instant, his head disintegrated.

Ehtesham turned to run —

> Too late.

Harun struck again.

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Gautam finally moved.

> "My turn."

One punch.

Harun's eye ruptured. His shoulder shattered.

He screamed, coughing blood.

> "At least... I won't let you hurt Zoya..."

He stabbed his bleeding hand into the ground.

> "Summon: ABGRADA — DEMON OF JUDGEMENT!"

The ritual circle glowed.

A demon rose, roaring, and charged Gautam.

But Gautam didn't flinch.

> "Violet Bend Punch."

One hit.

Abgrada: gone.

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Harun slashed wildly — barely grazing Gautam's cheek.

Gautam's smile twisted.

> "You want to make me angry?"

He raised both hands.

> "Void Collapse."

The ground exploded.

The battlefield was wiped out.

Blood soaked the land. Only Harun remained — barely standing.

> He gathered what little was left.

> "Propaganda: Black Hole Kick!!"

He jumped.

The air screamed.

But right before impact —

> His body began disintegrating.

Harun's voice tore through the collapsing battlefield, raw and desperate:

> "What... what is happening to meeeeee?!"

His body, once a vessel of unimaginable power, was now disintegrating — piece by piece. Skin turned to vapor, muscle to dust, bones shattered like glass in a collapsing star. The world spun, and then... silence.

A voice emerged from within the dying embers of his soul.

Not kind.

Not comforting.

Just truth.

Ahad.

> "Your body was too weak."

> "You had the strength of gods… but not the soul to carry it."

> "Look, Harun... look what you've failed to protect."

Time slowed.

Harun's dissolving soul drifted through shattered echoes — memories suspended in pain.

There lay Radha — her body torn in half, blood soaking the ground beneath her smileless lips.

There lay Zoya — once so fierce, so radiant — now still… cold… lifeless. Her eyes, once stars, now empty mirrors of death.

> "You couldn't save any of them."

Ahad's voice was cold as obsidian.

"Even with the power of BHRAMMAA... even with the strength of the Trubinal Core… you let them all fall."

Harun's soul shivered.

Tears — if they still existed in the void — would've fallen like rain.

> "I… I didn't lose… I'm not done… I—"

> "I'M NOT DEFEATED!"

He screamed into the nothingness.

His voice echoed, fractured across the abyss.

> "I WILL COME BACK!"

"And next time…"

"I will carve Gautam's head off with my own hands!"

Suddenly—

Light.

Harun's eye shot open.

But he wasn't in the battlefield anymore.

He was in that moment — that sacred chamber — the day his Dravillian Stone had first chosen him.

He gasped. Sweat clung to his skin. His body was whole.

But his mind… was empty.

No memory of the battle.

No recollection of Radha.

No image of Zoya.

Just… blankness.

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Scene Shift: Aftermath of Annihilation

Somewhere in the burned heart of Bhouldera…

Laughter echoed.

Gautam stood amidst a graveyard of fire and ash, chuckling. His armor was cracked, but his pride soared.

> "Fools. All of them. Weaklings."

He turned toward the center of the battlefield where only blood remained.

> "So, that's it then... Harun is no more. The rebellion dies with him."

Suddenly —

the sky dimmed.

The wind howled with unfamiliar fear. The earth recoiled.

And from the void… a new presence emerged.

Rohan.

Cloaked in darkness.

Eyes burning with ancient hunger.

> "You…" Rohan's voice was like cold iron.

"You killed my prey."

Gautam froze.

His breath hitched.

His voice faltered.

> "C-Crisislord... Rohan… you—"

> "He was mine, Gautam. Harun belonged to me."

He stepped forward — and nature itself twisted to avoid his steps. Even the wind refused to touch him.

> "But now…"

"Now I can't take his stone. It's been fused… consumed."

He smiled — cruel and beautiful.

> "But yours?"

"Yours I can take, little spark."

Gautam stumbled.

He screamed — but no sound came.

And in a flash of violet light — he collapsed.

His Dravillian Stone hovered in the air… glowing… trembling.

Rohan reached out… and claimed it.

> "Azaldera should've never touched my world."

His eyes burned through the ashes.

> "Let the gods watch… the true nightmare has only begun."

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