The Anointing of Ashes

The debris of the police headquarters was still smoldering, and concrete dust was floating in the air.

Iqbal climbed onto that high mound of debris, the remnants of the law being crushed beneath his boots.

He bent down, filled a handful of hot ash, and smeared it across his forehead like a tilak.

"This is the end of the old existence of this city," Iqbal said, looking toward the burning building.

Noora and Sadik stood with him, no smile of victory on their faces, but an icy cruelty.

Sadik picked up a broken police flag from the debris, trampled it under his feet, and cleaned his chain.

Noora narrowed his red eyes and looked at the new detachments of the army deployed on the distant horizon.

They gathered the iron and gunpowder left from the destruction of the headquarters for their new weapons.

The public of the city was watching that smoke-emitting mountain from afar, which was now the symbol of the brothers' invincible authority.

This anointing of ashes became witness to the beginning of a new and far more ferocious chapter than before.

Noora's New Trap

On the main suspension bridge connecting the city, Noora had displayed his finest and most lethal craftsmanship.

He had woven his fine 'saw-wires' between the steel cables of the bridge in such a way that they were invisible to the naked eye.

As soon as an army convoy reached the dead center of the bridge, Noora pulled a secret lever with force.

The wires in the middle of the bridge tightened like a noose, slicing through the roofs of the vehicles like paper.

The soldiers were trying to get out of their vehicles, but the wires stretched in the air wouldn't let them even move.

Noora drew his slingshot from the high tower and began raining sharp glass spheres one after another.

Every sphere was hitting right on target, causing screams and a sea of blood to flow on the bridge.

He blew up both ends of the bridge with explosions, trapping the soldiers mid-air inside a cage of death.

Noora's whistle was echoing amidst that fog, which was now the final farewell song for those helpless soldiers.

Instead of a pathway, the bridge had now become a hanging slaughterhouse where Noora's rule prevailed.

Sadik's New Chain

From the debris of the headquarters, Sadik had extracted a seven-foot-long high-tension steel beam that had become bent.

He welded the hook of his old chain with this heavy beam to create a new and monstrous weapon.

Now, a single strike from Sadik was enough to rip any armored vehicle into two pieces.

He carried this heavy beam on his shoulder as if it were an ordinary wooden stick.

When a squad of mercenaries came to stop him, Sadik swung his new chain with all his might.

The blow of the beam was so horrific that the walls and vehicles standing in front scattered like dry leaves.

Sadik's strength had now surpassed his human limits; he had become a living destroyer.

Every time that beam collided with the ground, it felt as if a minor earthquake had hit that area.

He twisted and ruined the weapons of the soldiers with his bare hands and bound them with his chain.

Seeing this new form of Sadik, even death must have shuddered for a moment, but Sadik's hands never stopped.

The Hero's Secret Strategy

The hero, who was left half-dead in the battle of the morgue, was now inside the basement of an old, anonymous retired soldier of the city.

His body was covered with bandages, but the madness to obliterate the brothers was deeper in his eyes than ever before.

"They are not humans, they are devils born from the rot of this Corridor," the soldier said, spreading the map.

The hero reassembled his electric axe, but this time, he mixed some of Iqbal's own chemicals into it.

He had come to know that these 'super villains' could never be defeated with law books.

He meticulously studied the brothers' provisions, their secret hiding routes, and the flaws of Iqbal's lab.

He decided that he would no longer launch direct attacks, but would weave a web to create a rift among the brothers.

"To extinguish the fire, sometimes one has to burn oneself too," the hero said, looking at his burnt skin.

He resumed his training in the darkness; this time, his movements were even more silent and deadly.

Even though he was alone, his revenge had now become a strategy that could terrify the brothers.

Black Monday

Iqbal took over the supply depot of the city and announced that from today, not a single grain would go out.

He soaked the city's sacks of grain in diesel, making them unfit for eating, leaving them fit only for burning.

The pangs of hunger drove the people of the city mad, and a massacre for food began on the streets.

"When the stomach is empty, loyalty is the very first thing to choke to death," Iqbal said, looking at the hungry crowd.

Noora had taken over the roofs of the ration shops, so that no one could take grain even by stealth.

Sadik stopped the trucks of milk and medicines and hurled them into the fire of the industrial belt.

The government was helpless because the brothers had blocked every single route from which help could arrive.

The entire city was burning simultaneously in the fire of hunger and thirst, and Iqbal was relishing this sight.

In history, this day was called 'Black Monday', which proved that there is no limit to the brothers' cruelty.

Iqbal extinguished his last bidi and smiled, because now the entire city was begging at their feet.

The Rebellion of Hunger

The fire of hunger had now started flowing as blood on the streets of the city; people were yearning for every single grain.

Outside the grain warehouses, Iqbal had dug a deep trench of diesel so that no one could come near.

When the helpless crowd tried to break the security perimeter, Iqbal waved his hand from the height.

Using his slingshot, Noora threw small gunpowder spheres into the midst of the crowd, causing a stampede.

Sadik took a heavy iron girder extracted from the debris in his hand and pushed the crowd back.

"When bread is not found, man starts clawing at his own skin," Iqbal said in a cold voice.

Violent clashes broke out between the army and the public, and the discipline of the city shattered completely.

Iqbal was using this chaos to prepare for his next big move.

In the hands of the dead people, there were still empty utensils, which were telling the story of the brothers' heartlessness.

The smoke of the industrial belt had now blackened the hopes of the entire city.

Noora's Sniper War

Noora had transformed every high building and water tank of the city into his death-zone.

His new 'red eye' was showing him the heartbeats of the soldiers even across the darkness and fog.

The moment any sniper of the army took his position, Noora's stone would pierce his skull.

In his slingshot, he had now started using sharp copper wires that would rip through flesh.

The entire city had now become an open graveyard where Noora ruled over the rooftops.

Helicopters tried to monitor from above, but Noora took precise aim at their rotors.

The terror among the soldiers was so great that they began to hesitate even to go near an open window.

A single whistle from Noora had now become the sign of the final moment of anyone's life.

He had bound the four corners of the city within his infallible range, making escape impossible.

Gleaming in the darkness, that single red eye of his had become another name for death.

Sadik's New Army

Sadik ripped open and threw away the main gates of the city's Central Jail with his heavy chain.

Thousands of prisoners, who were the most ferocious criminals of society, now stood before Sadik with folded hands.

"Do you want freedom or life?" Sadik's voice echoed, as if a mountain were breaking.

He equipped those criminals with diesel and iron tools and created his 'slave army'.

Now the brothers possessed not only their own strength, but an army that had no fear of dying.

Sadik left these prisoners free to cause destruction in the posh areas of the city.

In the hand of every prisoner was a heavy iron and poison, which was a part of Sadik's training.

The city's police were now completely beaten before this new criminal army.

Sadik made a large print of his blood-stained hand on the walls of the jail.

This 'super villain' was now the chieftain of a gang whose reach extended to the threshold of every house.

Iqbal's Chemical Bomb

In the morgue of his lab, Iqbal had created a gas bomb that he named 'Black Fog'.

This chemical, upon mixing with the oxygen present in the air, transformed it into a flammable acid.

He planned to fit this bomb into the main ventilation system and metro tunnels of the city.

"I will make the very air of this city their shroud," Iqbal said, shaking the glass bottle.

When the first test of this gas took place in a small basement, everything present there turned to coal.

Within Iqbal's burnt fingers was now that key which could suffocate the breath of the entire city all at once.

For this chemical attack, he chose the exact time when the direction of the wind was toward the city.

Noora and Sadik had already made all the foolproof security arrangements for this mission.

Now the air that the citizens were breathing was perhaps the last clean air of their lives.

This madness of Iqbal took him far away from the human world into the category of a mega-devil.

The Hero's First Strike

Under his new strategy, the hero launched an attack on Iqbal's secret lab, that old morgue.

He did not come through the front door, but entered inside through the old drainage pipes.

His electric axe was now gleaming not blue, but black because of Iqbal's chemicals.

The moment he reached inside the lab, he struck at Sadik's provisions and Iqbal's glass vials.

Iqbal turned back to look, and for the first time, a flame of wrath erupted in his eyes.

The hero ripped Iqbal's main chemical tank into two pieces with his axe.

Toxic smoke began to spread inside the lab, due to which the brothers' secure hideout was now in danger.

Noora rained stones from above, but the hero saved himself by making a shield out of the debris.

This was a warning for the brothers that their authority was no longer completely safe.

Even though the hero was injured, his strike had halted Iqbal's plan for the 'Black Fog'.

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