CHAPTER - 17 - THE DESTINED PATHS MEET

After Razel finished gathering information about the holy land of Milo Azaloth and had a small talk with his father, they headed towards the dimensional portal which Razel pointed when he searched for the power source which slayed the demon lord Afrozwein. They went in one side of the dimensional portal and came out on the next side of the portal, which connected towards the holy land of Milo Azaloth.

All the holy and hellish lands defy the concept of physics. They are just a piece of land fixed on their positions, somewhere in the universe, in another dimension. But, the timeline of other dimension is as same as that of Earth. The gods and demons follow the same calendar which is known as the heavenly calendar. The most population of the holy lands are common people. These are the pure souls who have achieved divinity while they were alive or they are worthy of living on the holy lands as a result of their karma.

When Jonas and Razel entered the holy land of Milo Azaloth, their portal was opened in a deep forest behind the kingdom, where were no signs of life. They continued moving forward and found themselves in a complete different world than theirs. This world was filled with joy, happiness and most importantly, peoples. Their world was almost empty since no one lived there instead of the Schneider family. They were aware that this was a happy and peaceful life which they would never be able to live now.

They proceeded walking towards the castle where the Azaloth family lived. The castle's gate was guarded by two heavenly warriors. Jonas, instead of attacking them, started having a peaceful conversation with them. He started talking with the first guard. He said,

"Can you answer a small question of mine, please?"

The guard said,

"Hmm... yes you can ask. What is it?"

"I wanted to enter the castle. Is it possible?" Jonas said.

"Wait. First of all you need to make an entry permit to enter the castle. You also don't seem somebody who lives on this land. Go and talk with him."

The first guard said while pointing his finger towards the second guard who was sitting on a stone chair near a desk. Jonas forwarded towards the second guard. The second guard said,

"I need to ask some questions from you so that I can make an entry permit. Please answer them carefully."

"Yes." Jonas said.

The second guard started asking some questions which were unanswerable for Jonas. But, Jonas answered them and said,

"My name is Jonas Zel Schneider and my son's name is Razel Schneider. I am 43 years old and my son is 24 years old. We are a person with divinity's blessing who were fighting with the demons on a battlefield while a sudden portal opened and dragged us into the holy land of the great Milo Azaloth. Milo is an old acquaintance of mine. I hope that I can meet him as soon as possible. As you can see that I am stuck here, I was hoping that I could get some help from him."

When Jonas answered, Razel thought to himself,

"What in the world is my father thinking?! Is he really expecting that the guard would believe him?!"

The guard wrote the details which were provided to him by Jonas. Later he stamped the piece of paper with a pass sign. Jonas and Razel were permitted to enter the castle. As they were walking towards the gate of the castle, Jonas asked his father,

" Father! Why did that guard believed you?!"

with a shocked expression on his face as if he had seen a ghost. Jonas replied,

"You have demonic energy and that's why you don't have any dark arts skills. I used dark hypnotism, which is one of my many skills."

"That was really amazing. As expected of my father."

After having their small conversation, they proceeded towards the castle, completely sealing their presence so that no one could discover them. Jonas used his Earth elemental magic to hide himself and his son inside the wall of the castle. As the practitioner of the dark arts, they dont get tired or require any food, so they remained hidden inside the walls of the castle. Razel used his demonic eye ability to observe the power and relations of Milo Azaloth. Jonas also used his dark arts and Air elemental magic to increase his sense of hearing. They discovered that Milo has one grandson from his son and one from his daughter. They also discovered that he is the father in law of a very powerful person named Wang Lei, who is also called the Azure Emperor.

Time passed and night came. In the holy lands, there is no sun but night comes when the people of there is the sleeping time for the people of that particular holy land. It is considered that sleeping when the light is visible or the sun is rised, causes harm to the body. When there was no light, Jonas and Razel proceeded with their move.

"Keep a watch at the gate. It would be even better if you kill those night duty guards too. If anyone tries to come in, make sure to use your full power so that you can stop him. I will go and slay the people who are sleeping inside. And remember, show no mercy to your opponent, unless it is that Azure Emperor because he is the one who defeated the demon lord Afrozwein after all. And also be careful. Never underestimate your opponent. I am as strong as Milo and you are as strong as me. You can also give a hard time to Milo but you lack experience. The Azure emperor is also almost as powerful as Milo. Always be on your guard. " Jonas said to Razel.

"Yes Father. I will keep your words to my heart." Razel said.

After warning his son, Jonas moved forward to the rooms of Wang and Azaloth family. First of all he slayed all the guards of the castle. Jonas wasn't the cowardly type so he didn't slayed them while they were sleeping. He had a nice fight with them and killed them in the process. After killing each and every guard one by one, he proceeded towards the room of Milo Azaloth. He thought to himself,

"If I slay him while he is sleeping then it would be good move but it would also stain my life with the title of coward. I don't want to be stain and neither I want to have a hard time fighting him. I will do whatever is necessary to fulfill my dream. If it requires my life to be stain by the title of coward, then I'll be sure to do it!"

After relaxing his mind, Jonas charged towards the bed on which the king of the holy land of Milo Azaloth, the low level god and high level heavenly swordsman, who was once a guard of the king of heaven, was sleeping.

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