Chapter—5 Unexpected Places

{Third Person Narration}

He was lying on the ground like a pebble on roadside, no one cared about his existence till the point he is in this state, but this all will change when his eyes will open, he would be become center of focus for everyone present in this particular room and it wasn’t that far ahead in time.

His eyes were slowly opening into this unknown world, a world which he never heard about.

“How are you? Are you fine?” There was a boy standing near him who witnessed that Ishaan was slowly regaining his consciousness, so he rushed to him and took a look at his condition.

Ishaan observed his surrounding, he was lying on floor of a room, which was really huge, a blanket was wrapped over him to prevent him from cold. A soft nice and warm blanket, a luxurious looking place typically a hallway of an MNC headquarter.

“Hey are you alright? The boy again asked him.

“Yes, I am, so stop getting over my head will you.” Ishaan spoke in an arrogant voice, he was all alone in this place he couldn’t see anyone familiar to him, the whole place was filled with faces of foreigners.

The boy moved his hand towards Ishaan, giving him help to stand back in his feet. Ishaan accepts his help, he also moves his hand forward and grabs his hand.

“Yo, my name is Harley Zeff.” –The boy gives his intro to ishaan.

“My name is Ishaan Purohit.” –Ishaan

“Well, since you are awake we should go and pay him a visit.” –Harley

“by him, who do you refer?”—Ishaan

“Who else Rayleigh, we are going to meet Rayleigh.” –Harley

Hearing the name off Rayleigh Ishaan had flashback of all the events which happened to him before he lost his consciousness.

Then what else is need to say, Ishaan agreed to Harley and followed him.

“Hey, I heard that you didn’t got knocked down from Emperor’s Regnum.”—Harley

“Pardon.”—Ishaan

“Emperor Regnum, the ability which knocks people down without touching them.”—Harley

“Oh, that ability. Yes, I remember it.”—Ishaan

“Guess your experience was not good either, when I first witnessed it, I also lost my consciousness and feel on the floor, when I woke up everything was over already, but you didn’t passed out guess you are pretty tough.”—Harley

“If you say so, I don’t know much about magic yet, I recently got this power.”—Ishaan

“Don’t worry you will soon no longer require this power.”—Harley

“What do you mean by that?”—Ishaan

“Oh! We already arrived here times does run fast.” Harley avoided Ishaan question and entered a room present in the passage, following him Ishaan also entered the room, the room was well furnished and air-conditioned going with the theme of the building.

A desk was present in the middle of room with a pair of chairs for guests to sit, Ishaan and Harley takes their respective seats and are now ready to have a chat with Rayleigh.

The man who took Ishaan out of his chains, the man who was confident enough to say that he could even kill the king of Dragons in a one-on-one battle.

“So, how have you been, you kept sleeping for quite long.”—Rayleigh

“Fine. Pretty much.”—Ishaan

“Good, so are you ready to answer some question?”—Rayleigh

“Yes, but first tell me where is she? You told me that she will be next to me.”—Ishaan

“She. Would be pretty soon, she is still in this facility.”—Rayleigh

“Then show me where is she?”—Ishaan

“Hey, watch what are you speaking? He is not some you can talk like this.”—Harley

“I think you don’t quite get in which situation you are, if you don’t obey us we can kill you.”—Rayleigh

“But if you did that, then what well it will do to you? You can’t kill me you need me right.” –Ishaan

“We can just torture you, and make you speak every last word which we want to hear?”—Harley

Ishaan turned his head towards Harley and while rejecting his thoughts with both verbal and non-verbal means, saying “If you were supposed to do that, then you would have mentioned it before you offered to kill me.”—Ishaan

“You are a tough guy, boy no, boys are not like you.” Rayleigh spoke with a big smile on his face, he was giggling and hiding his face in his hands while thinking how to response to such type of reply.

“Ok, we will let you meet you but before, you need to hear me out.”—Rayleigh

“Ok, that is acceptable.”—Ishaan

“Don’ act so cocky you little.”—Harley

“No Harley, it doesn’t matter, now tell me your name first.”—Rayleigh

“It’s Ishaan.”—Ishaan

“Ok, Ishaan do you have slightest of idea in which country you are in currently?”—Rayleigh

“No, where I am.”—Ishaan

“You are currently in land of Virgo.”—Rayleigh

“Don’t joke there is no such nation in entire world.” Ishaan replied while giggling.

“Yes, there is, but it’s not on the globe you know.”—Rayleigh

“C’mon don’t say in such way, where I’m on mars, Jupiter.”—Ishaan

“No, you are on earth only, but on an earth in different dimension.”—Rayleigh

“Continue, I’m listening.”—Ishaan

“In total there are seven different dimensions, the one in which you were raised was a world which was depraved of magical

powers, no one possessed any sort of magical power there, but the world in which you currently are is rich with magical power, people here knows how to use magic like me, Harley and now even you know how to use it.”—Rayleigh

“And you expect me to believe on all of this.”—Ishaan

“Yes, because it’s the reality.”—Rayleigh

“Ok, just tell me where Anushka is, if ones I see her, then I will answer to each and every question of yours.”—Ishaan

“What, a pain you are, listen she was exposed to Emperor’s Regnum she is definitely unconscious, it takes about seven to eight hours for its effect to worn off.”—Harley

“So, how long has it been?”—Ishaan

“Hardly three hours, you were not affected by it, so you wake up pretty fast.”—Harley

“That means I have more reasons to see her now, then before.”—Ishaan

‘You, don’t give up do you?”—Rayleigh

“Hey, Rayleigh, how long, it’s going to take we don’t have entire day, the portal will close pretty soon.” A woman entered the room, actually she was hanging to the door while talking to Rayleigh or rather complaining to him like typical women do, they and their complains.

The woman was wearing a tight jeans of black color and matching black top with white borders, she was having a very beautiful face, overall curvy figure and fair skin complexion, but the most distinct feature about her was her blue hair, a color which is not usually seen as hair color, but still she look beautiful.

“Actually, we didn’t even start.”—Harley

“What do you mean? You both didn’t even start, why both of you are wasting time, that portal won’t remain open forever.” The woman kept on complaining about how lazy they are for not doing such a simple job, Ishaan, Harley and Rayleigh were looking backside where she was standing, when she suddenly disappeared from their eyesight.

Ishaan, was not able to believe on his eyes ‘Where did she go? How fast can she even move?’ were questions bundled in his mind when he was staring at that particular point with his eyes wide open?

He was still searching for that woman, when he felt a touch on his face, a hand, it was a touch of hand, and he realized it, the hand made his head turn in opposite site, where he found that woman.

It was actually that woman who was touching his face, with her soft and gentle hand, while she was resting on Rayleigh Desk.

“How did you, get here so fast?”—Ishaan

“It’s called teleportation dear, now speak up fast.” The woman in black asked Ishaan while looking straight into his eyes.

“What, you want me speak?”—Ishaan

“Everything, tell us everything you know about Soberian Trinity? What else.” Ishaan made an annoyed face when she asked him, he didn’t have any clue about what she was speaking. ‘Soberian Trinity, what the hell is that?’ was the first question to arise in Ishaan mind.

“Gracel, he does not know about Soberian Trinity, I haven’t told him about them yet.”—Rayleigh

Rayleigh revels the name of the beauty ‘Gracel’. Gracel was the name of woman, who arrived in the room, on her own accord and started questioning some… random questions.

“Then, what were you doing for so many hours.”—Gracel

“Waiting for him to wake up.”—Rayleigh

“But, you told me that he wasn’t affected by Emperor’s Regnum.”—Gracel

“Yes, he wasn’t but I knocked him out, so that he couldn’t struggle, he has pretty much Idea about my strength.”—Rayleigh

“Still, you couldn’t get any information from him, there is a limit to how lame can you get Mr. Dark Overlord.”—Gracel

‘What did she called him, an…an overlord, is this gave really that dangerous? Is he a demon or something? Though he looks like a human.’ Ishaan picked up a single world and kept on making his own theories about Rayleigh, he looks like a good man but,

Ishaan doesn’t know him well enough to declare that, he might actually turn out to be someone really dangerous.

“Hey, now answer my questions, have you ever met or even seen Drazen?” Gracel interrogated ishaan, ishaan who was still confused have ‘yes’ as an answer. He spoke “Yes, I have met him, but just ones, it was about a month ago.”

“What a lucky guy you are, you have already met two overlords in just a month’s period.”—gracel

Though gracel, never spoke that Drazen was an Overlord too, but there were enough hints to conclude that theory. Ishaan was now, even more confused, he didn’t knew which side is good anymore, both the sides have an name with a reputation bad enough, to scare shit out of any person.

“Ok, boy now listen tell me about each and everything in detail which happened to you? While you were kept as a hostage in Soberian trinity, then you are to go.”—Gracel

Ishaan who was having confused thoughts, now decided to finally speak up, he no longer felt safe after the fact was revealed that Rayleigh is an Overlord, he started feeling uncomfortable.

“For, the first week I was only thought, how to control my power, the amount of magic which I possessed was too great, it was so high that it was tearing my body apart, so I was kept away from other for a very long time.”—Ishaan

“Then what? Tell us everything.”—Gracel

Then Ishaan started explaining them everything in great detail about his daily life.

He was kept in a room specially made for the ones which were facing the same problem as him, it was time of morning and with the rise of the sun, Ishaan also started his day, he woke up, get out his bed and headed straight to the bathroom to get fresh.

Then it was time for his daily exercise routine, one of the major reason of his power is unstable because of his body which cannot hold his enormous power, so had a daily exercise routine which was essential for him to follow through and through, the routine was tough for someone like him who didn’t exercised for a bit in his entire life, but reward for it was too great, exactly at 7:30 in the morning a knock was heard on his door, Ishaan dashed towards the door to open it with a big smile on his face all the stress and tiredness vanished from his face in an instant and a bright smile appeared on his face.

He opened the door and found a beautiful girl just like an angel, actually she is a real angel, Risa, a beautiful girl who looks around same age as Ishaan came to his room every day to deliver his food and sometimes to even have a breakfast together, Ishaan invited Risa in his room and both of them had a breakfast together.

Early morning, a beautiful girl with silver hair serving you breakfast and while you are lost in her beautiful green eyes, just think about the moment when her beautiful white hands move towards you, this all were pleasure which were exclusive to Ishaan.

Risa was in charge of mess, it was her responsibility to cook meals and make sure that it was according to liking of others, at the same time she was an powerful angel who could easily control Ishaan enormous power, so it added one more responsibility to her that was to deliver meals to ishaan, each and every day.

“Ishaan is there any problem with you? You are again going to eat so little.”—Risa

“Yes, I don’t have that much amount of appetite.”—Ishaan

“As you wish, I can’t force you to eat, but you need to take care of your health as well.”—Risa

“I know, let’s just finish this, Grisana would be waiting for me, she said she would bring something important for me today.”—Ishaan

Ishaan leaves the room with Risa in it and heads out to the training field where Grisana teaches him to use the magic. He reached the field and started searching for Grisana, usually she reached the place before Ishaan, but today she was a little bit late.

“I apologize to you, Ishaan for delay.”—Grisana

“Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal.”—Ishaan

“Take it.” Grisana moves her hand forward and passes on a book to Ishaan, Ishaan took that book from Grisana’s hand started turning the pages of it, each and every page was plane white, and there was not even a dot of ink on the pages, complete and pure white.

“What is this for?”—Ishaan

“It’s your grimoire, it is a book which will help you greatly in magic.”—Grisana

“Ok, so how am I supposed to use it?”—Ishaan

“Yes, but before that, just listen me, magic is not something easy to use, it’s a complex array of sequential blocks, characters and symbols combining called as an spell, in order to use magic one should know them and even be able to write them, when one write them a magic circle is formed which cast the spell and you perform magic, but at the same time it is not possible to write them, so Grimoire were created, which stores the spells and could be used to create magic circles.”—Grisana

“Wow, that was pretty long, but yes, I get the hint, so how am I supposed to start.”—Ishaan

“Firstly decide a name for your grimoire and then amend it.”—Grisana

“The wing of Flame.”—Ishaan

It took a while for ishaan to come up with a name for his grimoire but be finally named it, a flash red and green light started to emit form the grimoire, and that plane looking book turned into something flashy, the color of book turned blue and with a black font its name was inscribed on it ‘Wing of Flame’.

Ishaan was surprised on this change, he was still not adjusted to all this magic stuff, so getting surprised on such things was actually normal for any person.

“Now, since you have named it, I wish you to copy some spell from this.”—Grisana

Grisana handed over another book to Ishaan along with a geometry box.

‘What a geometry box?’ ishaan thought at first but soon he realized his value, Ishaan was struggling to even do the most basic task of forming a spell, that was to draw a freaking circle, drawing a proper circle is already somehow difficult but when you have great artistic talent like Ishaan, it becomes even harder, for someone whose free hand writing looks like ancient pyramid inscriptions, it was an impossible task, until he opened the geometry box, yes a geometry box a simple but great invention by scientists, which has devices whose functions we don’t even know.

But who could have guessed that this great break through would actually help to perform the most illogical thing according to science itself the ‘magic’.

It took a while for ishaan to complete all the spells but he was finally done with all of them and was now ready to use them.

“It is quite easy to use magic, just say astral release followed by name of your grimoire and the name of spell, so at beginning I want you to use some simple spells like fire ball, give it a try.”—Grisana

“Astral Release, Wing of Flame, Fire ball.” Ishaan was trying to cast his first spell, when he observed that a red intangible circle was formed around his palm, following it a ball, hardly the size of a baseball appeared around it, the ball was made up of incredibly hot flames, still he felt on heat from it, it was cold as ice for ishaan who was watching it with startled eyes.

“It is nice to see that, you succeeded in your first try, now try to release it, target it at that wall.”—Grisana was pointing towards

a wall, present nearby, the wall was in a pretty bad shape, it was burned, damaged and full of cracks, it was easy to conclude that the only purpose of this wall is to perform practice shoots.

Ishaan’s aims on his target and launches the attack, the ball of flame was projected on the target while a flame trail followed it, then with a bang it hit the wall and an explosion occurred in the premise, the power which that ball contained was way too much for the wall to sustain it, the wall was blown to slithers, the solid wall was turned into the dust particles.

Not only ishaan but also Grisana was staring at the sight with amazement she never expected ishaan to be so much powerful and stronger than others whom she has thought so far.

The flames were scribbling, the morning today had two suns the one in the sky and the other one on the land.

Ishaan was now having an unexpected life in Unexpected Places.