Achyut smiled, as if he was meeting someone new at a party.
"I need your opinion Manav, what do you prefer? You want a quick death? Or you want to get tortured first?"
Rayan screamed and ran, he tried to jump out the window, but he hit something and fell back inside. When he looked up, there a translucent silver barrier there. He turned around and saw Achyut's eyes were still on Manav, but his palm was pointing towards Rayan.
"You.... you do not have my blood on your hands, you cannot torture me like that."
Rayan shouted these words in an attempt to save himself. They say that intellect is the first thing a man loses when he is near death.
Achyut looked up with raised eyebrows. His lips curled into a smile, not an arrogant smirk, a genuine smile of amusement. He took a few steps back and twisted his hands again. Manav screamed as his body moved on his own, he got up to his feet, his feet which were already twisted and bent. Every movement hurt but it wasn't him making it.
His screams got louder as his body started walking, stumbling forward towards Rayan. Rayan felt chills run down his spine as he saw Manav walk like a zombie, while he was still alive.
"I have plans for you Manav!" Achyut chuckled "Agastya will find your body, only he will do it slowly, piece by piece. I plan to keep sending him your organs over the course of 6 months. Don't worry, you'll be alive for at least the first 4."
Rayan's eyes widened as he heard that. Manav was standing there, or rather, being forced to stand there with broken bones and torn ligaments.
Finally, he collapsed. Achyut frowned "Come on! Is that all? Your brother would have ripped me apart by now. Is this all that you can do?"
He chuckled again and clenched his fist. Manav started crawling, towards Rayan. Rayan stumbled back and fell. He dragged himself back away from Manav.
On the other hand, Agastya grabbed Rishi by the arm and flipped him over and slammed him onto the ground. Rishi felt Agastya's hand on his hair and slamming his head on the hard ground. Agasta pinned Rishi there and punched his face again and again and again.
"AAARRGHHH!!!!"
Agastya's eyes widened, he turned, he looked at the building far away.
"That scream.... why did that sound like Manav?"
Rishi saw the chance, he lifted his legs, held Agastya's head and slammed it onto the floor and twisted his arm. Agastya screamed, he tried to regain control but Rishi pushed further.
"I AM NOT LETTING YOU WIN!!"
Rishi screamed as he pinned Agastya on the ground and punched his face again and again and again.
Agastya's face started bleeding but his eyes started glowing. He frowned, his expression filled with rage. He screamed as he released a tsunami of energy.
Rishi was thrown back. He opened his eyes and saw in front of him. Agastya was releasing lightnings of golden energy that were huge, his domain covered meters around him. His eyes were glowing gold.
"Fine! I will kill you first!"
Agastya slowly raised his hands. Rishi's eyes widened as the trees around him started moving, on their own. The branches, the stems, the roots, all started moving as if they came alive. And if that wasn't enough, they started rising, up in the air. More than a 100 trees levitating up in the air and moving as per Agastya wished for them to move.
"Let's see how your rip off power up performs against strength that has been sharpened over centuries."
Rishi stepped back, for the first time, he felt his resolve shake with doubts. What the hell was this? Magic? Some Godly Power? Dark Forces? Pure Bad Luck for Rishi?
Whatever it was, it was real, the entire forest was in the air. The wood was moving without any visible force.
The ground under Agastya's feet opened up and more wood appeared, it formed a platform that raised Agastya up. He now stood on that high platform, controlling the wood around him with his hand gestures.
Achyut looks up with curiosity. He opens his fist, releasing Manav. Manav drops flat on the floor, panting, from all the lost blood, broken bones, torn muscles. Achyut walks past Rayan, without even acknowledging him. He looks out the window and sees more than a hundred trees up in the air with Agastya standing upon a tall wooden platform.
"So he's finally going all out. This power of his is quite inconvenient to my plans. I cannot afford to let Rishi die, but he won't stand a chance here."
Achyut smirks, he raises his hand, points his palm towards the fight, his left eye starts glowing.
"Alright Rishi! There are times when a parent also has to pull a fallen child back to his feet, so he can learn to walk on his own."
Rishi's right eye starts glowing, his brows tighten, his mind filled with confusion.
"My eye... it's being filled with some kind of energy. But this is not red or blue energy. What the hell is this?"
Achyut smirks, finally lowers his hand and steps back, facing Rayan this time.
"I just gave Rishi a small droplet of Silver Energy. We all know what happens when Silver Energy merges with Red energy, right?"