Thousands of huge purple energy snakes shadowed the sky. All the Chandra kingdom warriors and the twelve shadows gazed at the incoming doom with their heads lifted up.

Aizen’s eyes contracted, while he quickly raised his sword vertically to his shoulder;

[WOOSH!]

Dark-red energy originated from the silver hilt of his sword and swirled rapidly while covering the entire sword in seconds;

[WOOSH!]

With a rapid movement, a red energy slash was sent raging forward;

[BOOM!]

The energy kept forwarding while blowing the upcoming Nagas in a rapid succession. Within moments, hundreds of the energy serpents were destroyed, clearing the sky in front of Aizen.

Aizen quickly turned back, as the danger wasn’t completely averted yet. Hundreds of purple energy snakes were rapidly heading towards the kingdom from both left and right.

Azien’s restless eyes stared at the soldier’s who had grit their teeth while summoning every iota of courage they possessed, their weapons pointed at the serpents with a faint silver energy slowly radiating off them.

The world appeared to be slowed down, as the dust from the previous battle’s explosions still kept falling down.

“I…don’t have a choice..”

Aizen whispered, with his eyes radiating an ominous red glow the very next instance. His energy began rapidly changing, causing the red shade of his aura to darken rapidly.

“HEHEHE…Do it…do it human..” A voice that was unheard by everyone, present only in Azien’s head, spoke with anticipation.

Red veins began bulging out of Aizen’s eyes, reaching his cheeks as they crawled rapidly. His pupils expanded, as a sinister darkness consumed the sclera.

But as something was about to burst out, the darkness in his eyes vanished. Aizen quickly turned his gaze towards the sky, while feeling a familiar disturbance;

As the world appeared to function at his normal speed, Aizen felt a sudden rise in energy;

[SWWOP!]

Within moments, thousands of arrows made of yellow energy showered the entire battlefield. The energy radiating from each of them caused goosebumps to cover the Chandra soldier’s entire body;

[BOOM!]

The arrows swiftly revealed their target, as before anyone could manage to react, the purple energy snakes blew up simultaneously. Before anyone could comprehend the situation, the constantly trembling ground caught their attention.

Within what appeared to be minutes, the entire battlefield and the Chandra kingdom was surrounded with a wall of dust in all four directions.

[SSS!!]

The Naga warriors hissed with rage, while a new wave of hope warmed the Chandra kingdom’s warriors hearts. As hundreds of thousands of soldiers, some riding horses while some flying with different shades of energy, surrounded them. The lotus carved in their silver chest plates ensured their identities, with Aizen’s eyes noticing a middle aged man, dawning a red cape leading the army.

“HRAAAARHH!!!!”

The Padma warriors wasted no time, they began rapidly forwarding towards the Naga army with bloodthirsty eyes. The Nagas began defending themselves with the all directional assault, but the constantly sprayed purple blood made their situation obvious.

The previously overwhelmed Chandra kingdom’s soldiers had Padma warriors standing with them soldier to soldier.

[HUM!]

A brilliant yellow glow appeared in the sky, with his energy alone overshadowing the combined energy of the warriors furiously battling. The golden haired mad gazed down at Aizen with a smirk;

Aizen slightly nodded with Drona nodding back. Not a single word needed to get exchanged between them, as they both were aware Drona was the reason the tables were turned.

[WOOSH!]

Suddenly, green energy surrounded the entire kingdom, with huge tree branches covered in thorns appearing out of it the next instant;

“Huh?” Aizen was astonished, as he failed to sense the source of this energy.

But unknown to everyone, Vanraj stood along with Marichi a distance away from the battlefield.

“I have fulfilled your request…esteemed guest.” Vanraj whispered while lowering his hand;

[WOOSH!]

He and Marichi both disappeared with a dark energy.

[HUM!]

Drona swiftly turned his gaze towards the Naga army, with his smile disappearing at a similar speed.

Both of Drona’s arms were raised, with his curious eyes scanning the area in search of something;

[HUM!]

His open palms gathered yellow energy;

[SWWOP!]

Both of his hands moved vertically, releasing two slashes of energy that got bigger the farther it traveled.

The Nagas looked at the impending doom with horror, as the heat from the energy slashed already seemed to be burning their skin. But suddenly,

[WOOSH!]

A dark energy portal appeared in the middle of the Naga army ;

[BOOM!]

Three sharp energy beams were shot out of the portal that blew up Drona’s attack in an instant;

Both Aizen and Drona gazed at the mysterious phenomenon. But their curiosity wasn’t long lasting, as a huge Naga, with a tail that could crush down an average Naga, stepped out of the portal. Both Drona and Aizen quickly noticed the silver trident in his right hand.

Aizen’s eyes contracted with his energy beginning to rise. But the very next moment, Drona’s energy suddenly shot up several folds. Aizen realized Drona’s intentions and dispersed his energy.

[BHUM!]

The Naga slammed his trident on the ground, creating a circle of purple energy that rapidly began expanding. Each Naga that came in contact with the circle had his energy raised at a rapid rate.

[WOO!]

The Naga’s tail curled and he began flying up towards Drona. He stopped directly in front of him and found a hostile Drona’s gaze greeting him;

“You…have impressive strength for a human..” The Naga said while his finger pointed at Drona;

“Who…are you? What do you expect to accomplish from all this?” Drona asked while his eyes slowly began glowing yellow;

“For a human with your strength, I shall answer your question. I am Nagaraj, the king of all the Nagas.A human is what I am after, he is hiding in this kingdom, so what better way to accomplish my goal than to wipe this kingdom off this world?!” The Naga said with a wicked smile accompanying every single word;

Drona’s eyes suddenly widened;

“Does…this human perhaps have silver hair?” Drona asked, with a sudden emotion appearing on his face in the form of a smile;

“Hmph!..You seem to be familiar with him.” Nagaraj’s expression darkened as he spoke;

“Familiar?...I suppose It can be said, as he is my Nephew…and my student..”

“....I will rip his heart out..with these very hands..” Nagaraj said with a heavy voice, while opening his palm pointed at Drona;

“Unfortunately for you Nagaraj…that is impossible..”

“Why? Is it because you are protecting him?”

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“Me?...Protecting him?...No no no…It’s not me who is the one responsible, but your own strength..” Drona said while pointing at Nagaraj;

“YOU DARE!!!!...YOU DARE DOUBT MY STRENGTH!!” Intense purple energy suddenly began radiating out of Nagaraj, who spoke in rage;

“You are again misinterpreting my words..” Drona said while shaking his head;

Nagaraj appeared to calm down for a bit, as he curiously gazed at Drona;

“I’m not doubtful…but certain..You…will…fail..”

[HUM!]

As soon as Drona spoke, he released his walk-stick from his hand, with yellow energy forming half of his severed limb.

“I SHALL SHOW YOU HUMAN!...WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE KING OF THE NAGAS!!!”

[WOOSH!]

As the enraged Nagaraj exclaimed, a powerful purple aura surrounded his entire body.

[HUM!]

Drona’s opened his palm and pointed it at Nagaraj, hundreds of arrows of yellow energy were formed and rushed towards Nagaraj;

[TING…TING!!]

Nagraj stretched his hand holding the trident, it began twirling at a rapid rate and destroyed every arrow Drona had shot at him.

[WOOSH!]

The twirling trident created a beam of purple energy that rushed towards Drona at a blinding speed;

[BOOM!]

Drona quickly stretched his hand, forming a yellow energy shield, the purple beam collided with the shield with a powerful explosion;

[SMACK!]

Drona’s eyes widened, as the next thing he felt was Nagaraj’s large fist punching him the gut through his energy shield.

Drona was sent flying towards the sky;

[HUM!]

Drona’s hands moved and created dozens of energy slashed, that were launched at Nagaraj, who was rapidly flying towards Drona;

[BOOM…BOOM…BOOM!]

The slashes failed to do any damage, as Nagaraj tore through each of them and kept heading towards Drona;

[BANG!]

A powerful yellow energy blast suddenly appeared out of the previous explosions, hitting Nagaraj directly in his gut.

“HRAAAARGH!!” Nagaraj roared and gazed towards the sky with intense anger, but to his surprise, Drona wasn’t there;

[HUM!]

Suddenly Nagaraj sensed a rapidly rising energy incredibly close to him. He swiftly turned and found another barrage of energy slashes heading his way, but this time they were far stronger than the previous one;

[BOOM!]

Nagaraj was forced to use his Trident to defend himself, resulting in his hands getting busy and vision blocked from the front.

[HUM!]

Another sudden rise of energy made his eyes wide, but before he could turn again this time;

[HUM!]

Drona’s hands condensed an immense amount of yellow energy, forming an energy blade originating from his wrist.

[SLASH!]

The next thing Nagaraj felt was an intense pain in his tail.

“AHHH!!” His agonizing scream trembled the battlefield, he looked at Drona, who was getting further and further and further away from him.

Drona gazed looked down at him, while the condensed energy at his hands began dispersing;

Nagaraj saw his tail slowly falling down, his eyes suddenly burst with rage and an intense purple aura abruptly erupted out of him;

“NO!!”

[BHUM!]

Nagaraj was shot up at Drona with an incredible speed,

[SMACK!]

“URK!’’ A powerful punch in the gut made Drona’s eyes flash, as Nagaraj reached him in mere seconds;

“Haah…Good job realizing my weakness…BUT THIS ISN’T THE END!!!”

[SMACK!...SMACK!...TING!]

Two rapid punches surrounded in purple energy almost tore through Drona’s gut, followed by the blunt side of the trident hitting him with such strength that he lost his balance and almost got unconscious;

[WOOSH!]

Nagaraj placed his hands on Drona’s chest, who's body was already curved due to losing all of his strength;

[BOOM!]

A wide beam of purple energy was shot out of Nagaraj’s hands, that went past Drona meters high in the sky;

[THUD!]

With a loud shockwave, Nagaraj landed on the ground. He looked up, but found no signs of Drona;

“Hmph!..Is tha-...” Before he could complete his words, he found two arrows made of yellow energy directly in front of his eyes;

[SPLURT!]

“AHHH!!” Purple blood gushed out of Nagaraj’s eyes, with a intense pain along with darkness filling his head;

[HUM!] [BOOM!...BOOM!]

A barrage of arrows kept hitting him, creating countless wounds on his body;

“YOU INSOLENT!!!” Nagaraj angrily exclaimed, as a familiar energy was floating in the sky;

Drona kept moving his hands, creating hundreds of arrows and sending them at Nagaraj while he himself was covered in blood with clothes on his chest entirely burnt off;

[WOOSH!]

Intense purple energy surrounded the trident;

“HRAAARGH!!!” Nagaraj threw the trident raging with terrifying energy directly at Drona,

[HUM!...HUM!...HUM!]

Drona began flying up, while his left hand kept creating energy shields between him and the trident. The yellow energy shields were denser than the previous one, but the trident appeared unstoppable as it tore through each of them.

Drona attempted to change direction, but so did the trident.

While his left hand kept creating energy shields, his right hand was raised towards the sky with his open palms gathering immense yellow energy;

[HUM!]

A wide yellow energy was shot from Drona’s right arm as soon as he lowered it and pointed down;

[BOOM!]

The yellow energy beam tore through the shields created by Drona and exploded the moment it collided with the trident;

The explosion sent the trident flying away, Drona quickly pointed his hands at it;

[HUM!]

The trident got trapped in a yellow energy sphere, and with a single movement of Drona’s hand, the sphere went flying rapidly away from the battlefield.

“URGH!!” Nagaraj groaned, while staring at Drona as his eyes had managed to somewhat heal;

“This…is the end..”

Drona brought both of his hands closer in front of his chest, he formed a circle with his fingers and thumb;

[BHUM!!!]

Suddenly, an incredibly terrifying energy erupted out of Drona. The entire battlefield went silent, Aizen gazed up at the sky with wide eyes.

[WOOSH!]

The dense energy appearing out of Drona began moving above and expanding;

“Hmph!..” Nagaraj opened his palms and pointed it in the direction Drona had thrown his trident;

[HUM!!!]

The yellow energy in the center of Drona's fingers began forming a lotus. With an exponentially bigger one getting created by the immense yellow energy above Drona.

The entire sky was lit up with a brilliant yet terrifying yellow glow,

“The prohibition…has been removed..” Aizen whispered while he stared at Drona, with his sword cutting a Nagas head off;

[WOOSH!]

The trident returned in Nagaraj’s hands, he quickly brought it in close to his face in front;

Intense purple energy began raging through the trident, the force of which made Nagaraj’s feet sink in the ground while forming cracks several meters long;

[HUM!]

“O Padmastra... I beseech thee to vanquish my adversaries with thy divine might”

Drona swiftly moved his palms in the direction of Nagaraj, the small lotus between his fingers was launched at him.

[BHUM!!!]

The small lotus suddenly disappeared, the Padmastra yellow energy was shot towards the ground with a lightning speed;

“HRAAARGH!!!!” Nagaraj exclaimed while throwing his trident raging with most powerful energy he had used;

The trident got engulfed in the humongous energy of the Padmastra;

[CRASH!....BOOM!!]

Within what felt like mere seconds, the divine weapon crashed directly above Nagaraj and his Naga army.

An intense energy was shot in all directions with a powerful explosion that forced every being present there to close their eyes. As even their eyelids burned just by looking in the direction of the impact.

Aizen turned towards the explosion, he saw a thick smoke rising from the ground with a huge lotus carved on it.

Not a single cell of the Nagas remained, as Aizen himself faced trouble recognising anything present on the dark soil.

His eyes caught a sudden movement, but he stayed still as he saw Drona descend near it.

“Urgh…haah…..haaaah…”

Drona found Nagaraj groaning in a near death situation on the ground. His skin was completely burnt off, with major portion of his body comprising only of near burnt flesh and bones;

“Su-..[COUGH!]...such terrifying strength..” Nagaraj spoke while struggling for each word;

“.....”

“You surviving it is the more astonishing fact..” Drona said in a calm tone, while his pitiful eyes gazed at Nagaraj;

“...Heh..[COUGH!]....Tell me….is the man I am-...was after,...equal to your strength?” Nagaraj asked while lifting his gravely damaged eyes and gazing at Drona;

Drona lifted his head and looked at the sky;

“He….is being I’m afraid you can’t comprehend..”

“Hehehe!...”

Nagaraj’s sudden laugh caught Drona off guard, he turned towards him with amazed expression;

“Don’t be surprised…I’m not laughing at my death…It’s something yet to occur that I find hilarious..”

“Why…were you after that man?” Drona followed by a question;

“...It’s for revenge..”

“......”

“I regret almost every decision she took in her life….except one..”

Drona’s eyes widened as he saw Nagaraj’s shaking hands pointing at him;

“Hahaha!...[COUGH!]..Did you really think I wouldn’t know?”

Drona stayed silent while he heard Nagaraj’s laugh getting softer, he sensed the once terrifying presence of Nagaraj slowly getting faint…Until it disappeared…along with any sign of life from him.

[Chapter 32: END]