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Chapter 1: A Deal with the Devil

What if everything we ever truly feared is true; the existence of God, the fallen angels, the devil, hell, judgment, and every myth and legend we have ever known. A few seconds after I died and was moving on to what comes after, the devil appeared to me like an angel, offering me a deal for a second chance to live for eternity. would you accept it, if it was you? I did.

In the beginning, there was only God, A Divine. He was Almighty but was all alone. He created Heaven, a realm, a paradise that nothing dies or gets ill; this paradise is filled with life. It has streets of gold that glitter like a diamond, and plants and castles made of diamonds that spark than the stars.

Then God created the Angels, the first celestial beings; these beings were created from stars, each shines with its brightness. These divine stars were huge with golden blood that ran through their veins, and huge white wings they use to fly; they also had great powers and wisdom, with divine beauty.

The undying love shown by his children made the Almighty create three other realms each with their beings to inhabit it. The first realm was named "Syrnmis" which means crystal that shines like divine light. The second realm was named " Razkann " which means a symbol of divine love, and the third realm was "Kasaban" also knows as the realm of man, which means a reflection of the divine. this is where my home is, earth.

Then a great war broke out in Heaven. Two of the seven Archangels betrayed the Creator, they convince other angels from all of the nine choirs of Angels to join their rebellion, promising them great power and freedom to do whatever they desire, with no punishment. The Archangel Michael commanded the armies of Heaven and defeated the rebellious angels. God cast them out of Heaven and into the other realms as punishment, but also for them to repent and ask for forgiveness so that they may return to home. Their wings were burnt through the fall, denying them entrance to the divine realm until they repent

After they fell from the grace of their father, they didn't repent but rather committed forbidden sins that made them vulnerable to the infinite darkness. When they completely abandoned their creators and named themselves gods, they finally give in to the darkness unknowingly. The fallen angels became demons and monsters; they became the embodiment of evil.

They started tormenting the other beings, forcing them to worship them as gods; and because of the great powers they had, they perform miracles that tempt the beings that they were the gods who created them; some refuse to worship them and fought for their belief and faith; but the majority fell into temptation and worship these false gods. They slowly tainted the realms with their darkness, which made more beings abandoned their Creator.

This made the Creator furious and He destroyed the realms of their darkness by wiping out the tainted ones and given the faithful ones a second chance to do right by Him. God created two more realms as prison realms to keep the demons and monsters lock up until their judgment. The first realm was the inferno realm which means forever punishment, and the second realm was "Gan'drrakah" which means the divine fate of the fallen stars; cast the fallen into them.

Syrnmis was destroyed by the wind of death, Razkann was destroyed by an earthquake, and Kasaban was destroyed by the great flood; the external realm was destroyed in forty days and rebuilt on forty-one days.

Two thousand years after the great flood, a great war was about to take place by six of the greatest empires of earth going against a kingdom in ancient Africa after they heard of a heavenly instrument located in Africa; to save the people that lived in ancient Africa, God created Zabanna, the realm that completed the seven eternal realms. Zabanna means Blessed by the Divine Stars. The people of ancient Africa were transported there unwillingly. This is the home of my father, my father was born in the Zabanna Drexan tribe; these were people that were once possessed by the infinite darkness but willing to give in to the light, and they were later saved by the Angels and were given a marking of a rose to keep the darkness forever chain deep within their hearts. My father is one of those drexans.

My name is Exzi Ron, I was born in Liberia in 2027, the year of advanced transformation. It was this year when Liberia was finally recognized by the world, and for its discovery of magical crystals buried deep beneath their soil. The crystal led to the mind-blowing technological development of Liberia and other countries around the world. I'm a half-drexan because my father is from a realm called zabanna, and this is my story.

"For the murder of nine people, and the trespassing and the damaging of several government properties. I found you guilty and sentenced you to life imprisonment. I prayed to God that you take that long time to repent for all your sins, so he might accept you in Heaven." a verdict was given by the judge, an elderly woman, who had advice Exzi every time he was sent to her courtroom.

"I knew all along you would do something foolish to ruin your life, but murdering nine people in a bus, I'm very disappointed in you."

In the Liberian Supreme Court, seated the defendant. Exzi Ron is a 23 yrs old street smart Liberian mixed Drexan street fighter, with black and silver curly hair and a likable personality. He was arrested a few times for participating in illegal underground street fights and trespassing private properties.

After hearing his verdict, with no feeling of remorse or guilt, Exzi sat handcuffed in the chair smirking like a psychopath behind his nose mask, squeezing his right fist with the left.

The Courtroom was vast with glass windows high up on the wall, it was so big that it could host more than three hundred persons, and it was painted white like a hospital room; it had a futuristic construction and interior design that were also white. The judge sat ten feet high on her bench, with two guards that stood lower her, they were dressed in full combat uniform with armed. In the year 2050, the world was nearly destroyed by a deadly plague that killed more than two billion of the world population, raising chaos in every nation around the world. To survive people wore masks and were asked to vaccines because the was no cure. A large painting of the Liberian seal hanged above the judge's chair; holograms were used to show evidence to the judge, jury, and people seated in the court. Exzi sat alone in the middle of the large courtroom shackles from wrist to angle; Surrounded by bulletproof glass and a mic he used to communicate.

During his trial, he never denied, neither admit to his crimes nor did he give any reason for why he killed all those people. Exzi just accepted his sentence knowing he was guilty of what they accused him of. He stood up and gaze at the judged

"And I also pray to God, that we may survive the doom, that is upon us all," Exzi stated with a strong feeling of certainty.

He took a circular look around the courtroom. seeing the judgemental faces of the people in the courtroom eyes piercing him.

" Revelation prophesied that the world would end and unmercifully, starting with the conquerer, the first horsemen of the apocalypse, who would ride on this earth, invoking pestilence. And as we all know it but still being ignorant, the white horsemen have risen and is riding as we speak; that is why we will never find a cure for this plague, that keeps killing countless people every day."

" You think things are going to get better? This is only the beginning, of the end." He warned them, knowing what was coming.

"I heard rumors, The second horseman is coming. So I hope that you're all, prepared for war!"

He was taken from the courthouse and back to his prison cell, waiting to be transferred to a prominent home the next day.

At supper time in the cafeteria of the salt beach penitentiary. Exzi stood defenseless in the center of a ring of a crowd. They were all cheering for the seven-on-one fistfight that was about to go down. The prison cafeteria looked more like a school cafeteria; It had the same color as the courtroom with holograms as TVs. The prison guards were dressed like swat officers with electric sticks, and the inmates were dressed in white prison suits. They stood watching from their post with no intention of stopping the fight; they would rather enjoy it.

Exzi was faced against seven of the prison's biggest and fearless fighters in hand combat.

From Exzi fighting pose, if you were smart enough or into action films, you could tell he was highly trained in the military field, not forgetting his advanced knowledge of swordplay and foreign martial arts skills, he learned from traveling the globe, running, and hiding from authorities and mercenaries.

Exzi was more than meets the eye, his impossible childhood he survived and conquered, made him an adoptive survival, but he doesn't look all that. So he's always underestimated.

" Gentlemen, I want no funny business, give me a clean fight."

Said the host of the fight; a sixty-eight years old cripple prison mate, who was in jail for twenty years, for murdering the man who murdered his daughter. He became a good friend of Exzi, for the one year he was there. Seated in his wheelchair, he turns to Exzi and warned him.

" Kid, I want you to play nice, don't kill them."

Exzi glance at him with a smirk" Don't worry Jerry. I'll play nice if they do,"

"He's the one who will die before he leaves this place."

Stated one of Exzi gigantic opponents."

A huge 38 years gang member who had his mindset on destroying Exzi physically since the day he entered.

" Hey Cabo, I'm right here big boy, why don't you make your move." Exzi annoyed him.

The irritated six feet giant ran to Exzi with a striking punch aiming for his face. Predicting the move of his opponent; Exzi quickly took a step back to give him space to grab his hand; he leaped back few steps, just enough to put the man in the air. Exzi grabbed him by the neck, a right knee hit to the side, breaking a few of his ribs. He used that same foot and crossed it behind the man's foot, and slam him to the ground with his drexan strength, which is like super strength.

It happened so fast everybody froze, trying to analyze what happened; after a brief silence, they continue cheering when they saw Cabo bleeding almost unconscious on the ground. Exzi kneels and whispered in his ears.

" That is for Sean."

Exzi reminded him.

Sean was an inmate and friend of Exzi who was bullied by Cabo, and got his ribs broken by him; So Exzi broke his ribs in the same spot, but in a more painful way.

The other opponents were now furious after the first displayed and were fuel to attack.

" Who's next?"

Exzi challenged them.

Three of the six opponent that was standing, attack Exzi head on; with his skills of aikido, he blocks and redirects the punches that were throwing at him.

One of his opponents tried to kick him but he counters it and broke It along with the other leg, leaving the man crying madly in anguished on the ground, unable to continue the fight or any fights for life.

" That was for you, Jerry,"

Exzi told him; after breaking the legs of the person that broke his legs.

Exzi was capture from the back with his hand stalk in a cross-armed. While Exzi was being detained, the fourth attacked came running for a clear shot and strike Exzi in the face.

A few punches were landed on Exzi, bleeding him badly. Exzi expressed a smirk as he was intentionally getting beaten up. But when he saw the last three opponents coming at him, he dodges and head butt the person punching him; the head butt was so powerful, it was a knockout for the man. And told him it was for billy.

He used his super strength and untie the arms that were holding him and broke them.

" And that was for John."

Exzi told every opponent the name of the inmate he was avenging.

Exzi knocked out the last three men so fast the entire fight didn't last ten minutes.

Exzi won the fight, he stood victorious as the crowd kept cheering for him. All of the people Exzi avenged surrounded him, cheering in appreciation.

Few hours after the fight, in the cold prison cell of the salt beach. Exzi is taking push-ups with his foot up the wall. Mr. Black a huge scary-looking 36 yrs old retire zabannian warrior, sat behind a small table concluding his favorite book, with his glasses.

"Seven against one. you were just trying to show off. That wasn't a fair fight by the way, because you had the upper hand, Mr. drexan."

" Didn't I tell you I would clean this place up before leaving? And those seven guys were the dirtiest."

"You are indeed a man of your word.....A life sentence at twenty-three, Kid, you're a legend around here."

"What can I say, I was born a legend."

He never misses an opportunity to praise himself.

Mr. Black turns his focus from his novel and gazes at Exzi.

" Are you ready?"

"yes."

" Got everything you need?"

"I think."

" You think?"

Exzi finished his push-ups section, he walked to his bed and took four crystals from under the pillow. He had a green finger size rectangular crystal with pointing ends, a blue crystal that was in the same shape as the green one, and a pair of small black earring crystals.

Exzi sat on his bed and placed the pair of black earring crystals in his ears. He took a small sharp blade from under his bed and made a small cut in his right leg and place the green crystal under his skin and did the same to his other leg; after placing the two crystals under his skin, it started to burn. Exzi felt like he was being branded with an extremely hot iron.

He screams so loud that it could wake up the entire ward if the prison cells were not soundproof. Mr. Black went back to flipping through the pages, not paying any attention to his pain.

After a few minutes of extreme pain, exzi felt his skin healing. the crystals went deep into his skin that it wasn't noticeable.

" Damn, that hurt. Badly."

" So, are you ready?"

Mr. Black asked him again.

" Now I'm ready. Gan'drrakah, here I come."

Exzi said in excitement, his mind was filled with thoughts of his goals, that awaited him in Gan'drrakah.

" Don't be too excited kid, Like I keep telling you, gan'drrakah is not a realm for summer vacations, but the worst place anyone would ever want to go, fill with some of the worst beings in the Cosmos. so you need to be wise to survive." Mr. Black advises him.

"Don't forget always u..."

"Use my head first before my sword. because the best way to win a fight is to not start a fight."

exzi completed his sentence, knowing what he was about to say.

" After hearing you say it more than a million times, I even say it in my sleep."

exzi stopped and look at Mr black, who was still flipping through his book pages.

"What if she doesn't believe me, and bond with someone else?"

" You are smart and cool, as long you play your cards right, of course, she would bond with you."

Mr black encouraged him.

"Mr. Black, I'm leaving your prodigy, but I'm going to return your son-in-law."

"Kid you dream big, I like you, don't say I didn't warn you that she would stab you for using the word love around her. She hates it."

"I'm going to make her love the word love, and me in the process."

Exzi said in a confident tone.

" And if she still won't fall for my charm, I still have options, Syphan and Grrinis."

" One more thing doesn't fall asleep easily like usually do around here, you will get killed."

"what're you talking about?" I barely sleep."

Mr. Black glance at him.

"kid. you sleep so much you don't even know when you're awake."

Exzi chuckled, and then give a warm smile to Mr. black.

" I'm going to miss you, Mr. Black."

"I'm going to miss you too kid. Take care of yourself, and protect my girls when you see them."

" Of course I will, and I promise to bring them back to you with Raven as my girl,"

Mr. Black pauses his reading and turns to exzi with a serious but caring expression on his face.

"Are you certain she's there? your mom."

Mr black asked in a calm but concerned tone of voice.

The dead became dead instantly, Exzi mood immediately changes when he heard the mention of his mom. He became quiet, with a sad feeling, he drops his head.

"I don't know. But I just feel it in my soul, she's alive, And she's waiting for me to come to save her."

" How can you be so sure she's in Gan'drrakah?"

" I just know she is."

Then he unburies his most painful memory; which was the day his mother died. Her head was lying in his arms as she bleeds on the ground, after being shot by NSA agents that were tracking Exzi and his father, he was only twelve years old. The NSA agents were all lying dead as if they were strike by lightning.

She lay bleeding as Exzi weep loudly, with his eyes full of tears and the feeling of guilt, blaming himself for his mother getting shot.

He tried to heal her but was not powerful enough to do so, he felt frustrated and useless, his father was nowhere around. Not being able to save his mother; he thought of a last and only resort, so as a last request he begs her.

" Mom, mom please go gan'drrakah, I will come to save you. mom, please."

Exzi begged with tears rolling down his cheeks.

His mother tried to relieve him of his guilt, telling him it wasn't his fault and that he shouldn't go gan'drrakah it was dangerous. But Exzi insisted.

" Whether you go there or not I will go there to save you, so please go there. Because if you don't go, I will go there for no reason."

" So pleased promised me you will go there because I'm coming for you. you know me very well when I decide to do something, I do it no matter what it cost me."

He sobbed as tears welled from deep inside and roll down his cheeks. In the end, Exzi doesn't know if she went there or not, but he only hoped that she did.

Exzi looked at Mr. black and said softly.

" I just know she's there, I can feel it deeply."

" I'm just trying to be skeptical because gan'drrakah is not a merciful place. It's a thousand times worst than any prison on earth. Speaking from my fifty-six years of experience there. Trust me, kid, it wasn't pleasant."

" But you won. So I know I can win too."

Mr. Black gazes with deep concern in his eyes.

" To win, I had to lose my humanity. But you, you are not a killer."

Mr. Black spoke in regret of the inhumane things he had to do.

Exzi stood up, he was annoyed with Mr. Black, who was trying to change his mind.

" You're wrong. I'm a killer, I've killed 536 highly trained agents, assassins, mercenaries, and I remembered every one of them. So I'm prepared to kill more if that's what it takes to bring my mother back."

Exzi said in anger, it was an oath he didn't plan on breaking.

" Will your mother want you to become a monster?"

Albeit Mr. Black thought him his warrior skills to save his daughters, while he saved his mother; he still didn't want Exzi to go there. He had grown to care about him.

" I was born a monster. That's what people called me when they find out I had powers. I hated myself for being born different. But my mom was the only person who give me so much love and told me I was an Angel, not a monster. And now she's gone because I'm a monster!"

Exzi said with a strong feeling of guilt, as tears slowly course down his cheeks.

"I'm just saying, your mom wouldn't blame you if you don't go there. No mother would want their child to go through hell for them."

Mr. Black kept trying to change his mind, but exzi mind had been made up since the day his mother died.

" But I wouldn't forgive myself, knowing she died because of me. So, if I have to die for her, I will. If that's the only way to bring her back." Exzi cried deeply.

Mr. Black pauses briefly and sighs.

" Do you think going to the entrance to hell will bring you peace?"

Exzi had been carrying the guilt of his mother's death for more than a decade, so the wasn't anything Mr. Black could say to convince Exzi otherwise.

" Yes! It will. For the past eleven years, I haven't had a good night's sleep, because I relive the moment my mother died every time I close my eyes. So I have to do this, or I wouldn't be able to continue living with this guilt. That's why I used the green crystal to put in some type of dream state, that felt like I was asleep." Exzi continues.

" You can't keep using that crystal to sleep, sooner or later it will have a serious effect on you."

Mr. Black warned him.

"I don't think I would need it in Gan'drrakah since I'm not allowed to fall asleep."

" Kid, you have a mind of steel, guess there is no stopping you from going?"

" Nope. Anyway, I have another reason for going there now, that is as important as saving my mom. which is Saving my future wife."

Exzi change that uncomfortable conversation with a joke.

Mr. Black chuckled.

"you don't give up kid? But why Zryya? I've also told you about Syphan and Grrinis, and trust me, they are beautiful as Zryya."

" I don't know, but I felt a connection after hearing about Zryya. I don't..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the alarm ranged. the time was 9:00.

" It's time."

Mr black reminded Exzi.

"You can still change your mind?"

Exzi shakes his head.

" Once this mind is made up, there's no going back."

Exzi hugged Mr. Black goodbye knowing he might not see him again.

" Guess this is goodbye for now. "

" I pray God looked after you." Mr. Black said.

Exzi got on his knees to pray, while Mr back continued reading his book. Exzi prayed for seven minutes and then he sat and meditated, waiting to be transferred according to the unintended scheduled.

After meditating for thirteen minutes, three prisons guards came to his cell and took him out and into one of the eight bulletproof government SUVs that we're packed outside; with fully armed guards.

Exzi sat mute for the two hours drive from the prison to an airfield.

"Finally. I thought we were never going to get arrive in time."

"Don't be in such a hurry to die kid, we still have to a little distance to travel. if you're lucky you could be the first person to walk out of here."

A Fully unified SWAT officer advised him.

"Actual I am in a hurry to die, cause I got places to be after death,"

A spaceship design jet came to pick up Exzi. He heard the sound of the jet landing and smile like he was about to go on a joyride.

"A jet. You guys make me feel special."

Exzi was put on the jet, accompanied by a few guards and agents, and was taken to the NSA black hole; a place where the most wanted criminals of the country go and never returns.

Blindfolded for more than two hours in restrains; Exzi felt suffocated, and hungry like a wild dog, but was very calm with not even a little bit of fear, all his focus was on his repeated thought.

" A Second Chance, A second time, at midnight the devils come, on my dying bed I lay, an unholy deal is made."

They finally landed at the NSA secluded black hole that was on a small man-made island, hidden among the huge forest trees. From the sky, it looked like a small island full of trees. But there was a huge base used by the NSA to torture and imprison blacklist criminals. The building has a metal construction, it looked small from the outside but it went three hundred feet deep in the ground. Exzi was still blindfolded, so he couldn't see where he was being taken, he was taken from the jet down to the torture room.

Exzi was taken down to the torture room, a dark, cold, single-lighted room with no windows.

They handcuffed exzi to the chair and remove the blindfold.

Exzi could finally see where he's was being held, and it was exactly where he expected to end up.

A serious-looking middle-aged government official enter the room with two huge men and sat across from exzi and started strolling through exzi profile on his tablet.

" Mr. Ron. I'm Special Agent Johnson I am..."

"Just call me Exzi." exzi interrupted.

"Okay, Exzi, why did you kill eighteen undercover NSA agents?"

" eighteen? I thought the judge said I killed nine civilians in a bus. Now you're saying I kill eighteen persons, and they were undercover agents...That Judge needs to get her facts right." Exzi said.

" We've been keeping tabs on you. And it seems you also made the blacklist of the US, China, Russia, South Korea, London, Italy, Spain, Colombia..."

" Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Iraq, and Luxembourg."

Exzi interrupted him, finishing his sentence, he knew exactly what the agent was talking about.

" You created quite an image for yourself. Let's caught to the chase, we know you're not human, or part human, but you're not human."

Agent Johnson got serious.

Agent John shows CCTV footage of Exzi fighting Agents in Japan. Then another footage of him in the US, another one in China.

Exzi saw himself killing people and it made him smile.

" They looked like scenes from an action thriller. Don't you think so?"

"Why did you killed them?"

" In my defense, they were trying to kill me, so I just defended myself," Exzi answered.

"You're a funny guy Exzi." Agent Johnson commented to him.

" Thanks, I get that a lot."

"So What are you? and before you start to make jokes, let me show you why they call this place the black hole."

Agent Johnson warned him.

The two huge men walk to the wall behind exzi and pull two electric cords out of the wall, and attached them to the exzi metal chair. They were instructed by Agent Johnson to give Exzi a welcome beating.

After a couple of punches, they left exzi face bloody and badly beating. A brief moment pass, Exzi skin begins to heal up.

"You guys hit like a couple of bitches."

" Now I see how you're still alive after taking all those bullets. I guess was right. So now I'm going to ask you this question one last time. what are you?"

Agent Johnson questions him with an authoritative voice.

Exzi hesitated for few seconds and then took a deep sigh.

"I'm a drexan, but I was born here in this realm. earth."

"What is a drexan? Do you expect me to believe that you were born on earth as a drexan?"

"My father is a drexans who married a Liberian woman."

" Where is your father from?"

" Zabanna."

"Where is that? is it a planet or another dimension or something?"

Agent Johnson sat staring at him in curiosity.

" It's a realm, one of the eternal realms to be exact."

Exzi clarified.

"One of the eternal realms, so how many are there? are they like earth?"

Agent Johnson still trying to get more vivid information from exzi.

" Seven, and they are not like earth. Each realm was created by God for specific purposes. For example, zabanna my realm, was created to hide a certain part of Africa from the destruction of 700 thousand demons that was going to destroy the entire continent. Now, zabanna is a thousand years advance than earth."

" Have you been there Exzi?"

" Nope."

"How can I know for a fact that zabanna do exist and this not just a fantasy story your dad wrote and read to you as a kid, to make you believe it?"

Exzi bends lower and faces closer to Agent Johnson; he kept silent briefly, he finally smirks and whispered.

"Then you just got to take my word for it."

He chuckled, with blood leaking from his mouth.

Agent Johnson felt provoked and turn on the electric core to torture exzi to submission but to his utmost surprise, exzi didn't flinch but just smile as his veins were turning blue from electroshock.

" Are you trying to tease me, I'm wanted in 13 countries and I killed eighteen of your highly trained undercover agents. Is that how you gonna repay them?"

Very irritated Agent Johnson turn the voltage to the max; Exzi started to feel the full volt passing through his body. The shock was becoming painful than exzi expected, he could feel the pain reaching the point that he wouldn't be able to withstand it, he thought about his father.

Agent Johnson would turn up the electric meter, just enough to put Exzi in unimaginable pain, and turn it off after a minute, he repeated it a couple of times that Exzi body started to give in to the pain. Exzi felt like he was about to go unconscious, then he remembered his father's words.

"Exzi remembered why you're doing this. Even if you can't hold on anymore and you want to give up, don't, you know that you can't die until you complete the mission."

His father yelled at him. Then an image of his mother appears before his eyes.

A raven black long hair, a beautiful woman wearing a black dress stood by the side of a dead tree and stared.

Agent Johnson turns off the electric dial on his tablet when he saw exzi bend over as if he was dead.

" Is that all it takes exzi? all that talk about being a drexan from a power advanced realm, I thought you would show a little magic."

Agent Johnson stood in the corner smirking.

Exzi lifts his head slowly and returns the smirk.

"You was saying something old man. I almost fell asleep from your shocks"

" You're strong. I give you that"

"Agent Johnson, can you please give me a glass of water? These electric shocks are very tiring." Exzi asked politely.

"Okay, Exzi. gentlemen would you please give Mr. Ron water to cool his thirst."

Agent Johnson commanded, one of the men pull one of the switches on the wall that open the shower above Exzi. From the ceiling, water pulls down on exzi soaking him completely.

"That's too much water, you guys are being too generous."

Agent turn on the electric shock that put exzi in unthinkable pain. He fought to break the cuffs, he struggled and struggle but it was high for him to generate strength while he was being drained.

When the electricity was turned off, he looked agent Johnson dead serious in the eyes.

" You think I escape from to highly secure countries to be killed by you. It was my plan all along, and you brought me to my final destination. So I thank you." After revealing the truth, he yelled with all his might.

" Calexiel."

Time stop. Everything froze except Exzi. He summons his guardian, a white beautiful Angel descended calmly shining with the light of purity brighten the entire room.

Exzi was exhausted, still fighting to catch his breath.

" Why didn't you call me sooner? you are badly wounded."

"You know me, I was trying to be cool for my girl, I was trying to show you I'm strong."

Calexiel heals his wounds with just a wave of her hand.

" Thanks. You look beautiful as always."

He flirts with Calexiel, she smiles, she was already used to his flirting and witty comments.

" Is it here?"

" It is. way beneath us."

Calexiel looked through the floors and saw a seal that was in the basement, she saw it vividly like the floors weren't there.

" How deep is this building? The NSA is scarier than I thought."

Calexiel alters few divine words and the ground under them was broken into pieces like a puzzle in perfect box shapes, giving exzi a clear view of how deep the building went. It was like a well that was over a hundred feet deep.

Calexiel free exzi with just a wave of his hand, and they flew down to the bottom, exzi with the help of calexiel since he couldn't fly.

They reach the bottom where they saw a huge seal on the ground, the seal was like a huge round with 7 smaller seals around it.

"The cyraniki."

Exzi was excited seeing a myth up close.

They were seven huge rocks with magical writing on them and they were surrounding the cyraniki in a specific order.

" What are these? They look important."

" They are ( zymik) rocks, they were the place to us angels powers from finding it, that's why I had you track it."

" It's almost time are you ready? Calexiel asked him with a tone of concern."

" I'm ready babe. I just need to die now."

He tried to read the writings in the cyraniki but couldn't translate them.

" what are you going to do about the cyraniki?"

"Angels are going to come to guard it."

" Are you going to let the NSA keep researching it?"

" Let them have their fun for now." Calexiel smile.

With just a snap of her fingers, everything returns to how it was, with Exzi handcuffed in the chain as if not even a second had passed.

Time continues and exzi began to feel that familiar torture being repeated, but more painfully; because this time, exzi is not trying to fight the pain but consumed it. He felt almost lifeless, his head drops and his eyes shut.

" Exzi."

The soft and pleasing voice of Calexiel gives Exzi the strength to lift his head."

Agent johnson Stood in the corner observing exzi, he tested how much pain he can take, unaware of the angelic presence in the room.

" I forgot to give you my farewell gift,"

Calexiel kneels and places her hands on his hands, and stare into his soul, then she slowly gives a warm kiss on his lips.

"Our bond. Our fate."

Exzi shot his eyes slowly in satisfaction of getting what he always wanted. A divine bond with Calexiel.

He was now prepared to die, he chanted with his last breath.

" A Second Chance, A second time, at midnight the devils come, on my dying bed I lay, an unholy deal is made."

Exzi appeared in a strange dimension, it was dark with a bright light shining from a distance, he stood in cold water about one foot. A dark smoke came out of the shadow and a demonic figure came out of the smoke, holding a scroll in one hand, and a sword in another.

" I offer you a second chance to live for eternity awaits you. Sign the deal and begin your journey to paradise."

The demonic figure offered exzi a deal, with a deep emotionless voice.

"You are the deal maker?"

Exzi asked but receive no answer. He hesitated for a minute before answering.

" I Accept."

The demonic figure pointed his sword towards exzi, exzi stretched forth his right hand and he was cut in the palm by the deal-maker sword. The deal-maker hand exzi the scroll and exzi signed it with his blood, but while his hand was on the stroll, he said.

" I choose Gan'drrakah and the deadly fate. I am a champion of the Divine Realm."

The deal maker pointed to the light that was shining from a distance.

"Walk towards the light and accept your fate."

Exzi walked slowly fearlessly into the light, next thing he saw himself falling from the sky in a huge ball of fire, falling into his deadly fate.

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