THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE

"What did you say?" ,Nathan was immensely terrified. You don't know what his nightmare was about to do. But judging from his visage and the atmosphere he was in, he had a rough idea what he is about to happen to him.

As he was wondering what will happen to him, the Nightmare has taken out a bucket. And within the bucket, not then had seen something which terrified him from top to bottom. What did he see within the bucket? He saw hot and reddish lava within the bucket. The Lava was burning as he could see the bubbles popping out at the surface.

"what are you intending to do?" ,Nathan asked his Nightmare.

"You will see." ,His nightmare replied. And he slowly moved forward and stopped near the wooden cross on which Nathan was hanging. Even before Nathan could pleas for mercy, his nightmare poured the bucket full of lava on his face.

"AARGH!!!"

Nathan shouted loudly in pain and agony. His entire body shivered and yet he couldn't do anything about it. His hands and legs were nailed on the wooden cross. He couldn't even move an inch. And there is no way he could resist the pain and agony which he is facing burning his face.

His entire face was disfigured. His face was burning and smoke was coming out of it. His face was now disfigured and it was still red in colour as the Lava was still in burning state.

The torture continued. 7, 8 and 10 years passed in a blink of an eye. And there was no hint of any halt from the nightmare's torture.

As for Nathan, he no longer had even the strength to raise his finger. Because of constant torture for the past 10 years, he no longer had any desire to live anymore. All wanted was nothing about to die. But at this moment even his death was not in his control. He was nothing but the puppet of his own nightmare.

And to add fuel in the fire, Maria, Oswal and their son would appear from time to time and torture him psychologically and mentally. Maria would psychological torture him by saying that, 'I said that I have forgiven you. Then why exactly did you kill my son?' And she would continue with 'I said that I bear no grudge against you. And yet you have killed my son. Why did you change like this?'

Oswal also used to torture him by saying that they were good friends. Maria didn't love Nathan. The one Maria loved was him. So on what account did he kill both of them. And most importantly, what wrong did his son do to be killed?

The kids would appear in front of him with an innocent face and he used to ask, "Why did you kill me, Uncle? I don't even know you. I didn't know that you are the one who is responsible for the death of my parents. I a desire to work hard for me and for our clan. And yet you have killed me. You have ruined my dreams. Why did you kill me Uncle? What did I do wrong in order to deserve the fate of death at such an early age?"

"GET LOST!!!" , Nathan shouted. He was already a blind man. Because of the lava on his face, it even burned his eyes. So he lost his sight. But as soon as he shouted, he felt as if he could suddenly see everything. The atmosphere has turned back to normal. His disfigured face was no longer there and he was perfectly alright. He looked around and found all his followers.

But what he found was that they were in completely weakened state. They had no strength left within them. And they were looking here and there as if they were asking each other a question. And that question is, ' where am I? What exactly happened to me?'.

Nathan immediately understood one point. It looks like all his followers had seen their Truths. And they even met their Nightmares. That means each and every one of them had met their own nightmare.

"Calm down everyone." ,Nathan shouted. He then said after seeing that everyone were silent, "We were trapped in some kind of strange illusions. The enemy might have a formation in their possession which will force their targets to experience what we have experienced. This is a trap. So calm yourself down. We are now perfectly alright."

"You are right. You were trapped in a formation where you could meet your truth and your nightmare." ,At that time, they all heard a voice not so far away from them. They all were stunned for a moment and looked back towards the owner of the voice. And they found that the one who spoke was none other than the leader of the enemy.

"What the hell kind of formation is this? And how did you have such a terrifying formation in your possession?" ,Nathan gritted his teeth and asked. He looked at all his enemies more carefully. And he found a fact which made him even more angry. All his enemies were fine. They no longer had any hint of exhaustion. It is obviously a fact that they have completely recovered from their lost energy and injuries.

It looks like the enemy has somehow learnt that they were about to strike them when they were in a weak state. In order to buy time, the enemy has set up this formation array in which they were trapped. And now they have recovered and were completely fine now.

Actually when they were in the middle of the torture, they were feeling hopeless. But all of a sudden, everything turned back to normal. They were wondering what exactly happened. But none of them had any answer. Even Nathan didn't have the answer for this sudden change in the atmosphere which turned back everything to normal.

But now he understood the reason. It seems that the enemy has recovered completely and they were fine now. They deactivated the formation which allowed them to come out of the formation. This is how they have managed to come back to the real world. This is not because of their ability. It is because the enemy has achieved what they wanted and they have finally set them free from the trap they had set up for them.

"What do you mean by how we have the formation in our possession?" ,Logan asked, "Our team leader Jimmy is the one who created this Formation. And just before the start of the preliminaries, he had given it to us. Or could it be you think that we have received this formation from Some kind of ancient tomb?"