"Oh, the time has finally come, "announced the master with a deep and worried voice, "Call the council of 24 we need to prepare." "What time? What are you talking about, sir? And what is that we need to prepare for?" inquired his assistant. "There was a prophecy which said the Devil Lord, after his slumber of a thousand years, will be freed from the seal put on him, and shall become the nightmare for the realm of humans which once was forgotten.
The prophecy which went as follows:
The heart of the being who is the most ominous
His seal will broke after centuries
His evil deeds, which find no length
He in himself was a confound
His existence made life a blur
In 900 years he shall regain his consciousness
The next 90 years will be used to recover his intellect and memories
Another 9 years and he will absorb energy from its surroundings, regaining his strength
In the next 9 months the effects from his energy will be seen all around
And in his final 90 days the screams of people he slaughtered will be heard all over to make people remember his tyranny and reinstalling his fear
And when after these 1000 years his seal will break, he will return with anger to even burn the universe.
All shall prepare themselves to either face him or be ready to live a life of hell. Each and every one must unlock their apex powers, if unsuccessful, the universe in itself will be bent enough to eradicate all forms of life. There shall only remain souls and the fear they experienced." Master answered.
The serious look on the face of the master confirmed, that all his words are true but the assistant still wanting to confirm asked the master,"But wasn't that just a fable, a poem passed down from one master to another, to make everyone motivated to become stronger?"
"Except for the masters, everyone else was made to think this, to hide the information of the Devil Lord coming back and regaining his supreme power, which no previous master or any sorcerer in history can counter, except for the one who sealed the Devil Lord," replied the master.
The assistant's curiosity grew and as he was about to ask the master about the identity of the person an arrow came flying into the room, interrupting the assistant mid-way, piercing his chest from back and exploding as it entered his body. Master was surprised by the attack but kept his cool and called for the medics. Medics arrived, and as they removed the arrow from his body, they found a message engraved on it, "Countdown has started. One year left. The ones who will surrender shall be spared from the one, from whom even death is scared."
Suddenly, thunder struck in front of the main entrance with the message, "Our lord is generous, surrender if you wish not to be enslaved and tortured to death, then surrender." burned on the spot.
Then, a guard, standing near the door, coughed blood, and his skin started to rot. He tore his skin from all over his body with only his hands and wrote the message, "Let's have a feast, our lord is returning, you shall give your lives for the greatness of his majesty" with his splattered blood.
He struggled for a bit and died on the spot after writing the message, with six more similar instances and depicting similar messages, there were nine casualties and ninety fatally wounded and nine hundred years old barriers were breached and destroyed.
The master, after the commotion settled down, immediately went deep inside the building, he entered a dark room with no ray light present inside and announced, "We have to prepare, we are standing on death's door and just standing waiting to be devoured by the gatekeeper of death. The being which made even the space and time fear it, is returning, the seeds are sown and in a year black roses will bloom out of those seeds."
(A/N: Black roses signifies death and tragedy in the language of flowers)
That day was a calm and peaceful one, just like any other day until the master of Avyay Vihar remembered something. The day was like a plateau, normal and plain at start but as nearing its end it just went down as if falling into the deepest of oceans but with no way up only down.
Things might have been different if the master didn't remember it or things might have gone worse than they actually went. Who knows? But one thing is confirmed that Avyay Vihar will not sit and wait for the Devil Lord's return.