Chakras and Mantras

*Outskirts of the Scholar's City"

"I finally gained enough strength to walk, Fortunately the injuries were just external. It seems that I was lucky that the Prince wanted to frame the Dark Guilds for the murder of Ray, That's why he used some devious method to steal the soul of Ray Mathews. The Prince wanted to show Ray as a sacrificial lamb of the Dark Guild." Prad said, while looking at the faint outline of the city walls at the horizon.

The technology of Planet Roca was in no way inferior to that of Earth, infact many of the gadgets here exceed the capacity of those available on Earth." Upon walking several miles, Prad spotted a Road which led to the Scholar's City.

Prad easily took a cab to the city and went straight towards his home district. The technology present inside the city made his eyes sparkle, even paying the Bills here was quite easy and convenient, he just had to scan his Figerprint and Retina and enter the personalised security code.

After paying the bill for the cab, Prad sneakily walked around and after making a few rounds near the perimeter, he walked straight into his house and closed the doors.

"I'll just seal my house for now and report possible threat of death to the enforcers, then even 100s of those prince will not be able to threaten my life for some time." Prad exclaimed, "Fortunately Scholar's City is a particularly special existence due to some special circumstances, Otherwise things would have been much more difficult to deal with."

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After settling the important matters, Prad went straight to his room and gazed at the dazzling poster of a hansome man with a pair of short swords in both his hand and eyes filled with a strange emotion, Watching at the poster Prad was filled with admiration and respect. It was the poster of one of the 5 Legendary Heroes of Planet Roca, named Saber.

Ray, the previous owner of this body admired Saber deeply from his heart. Saber was born in the Scholar's City, Although most of his history was classified, but what was publicly known was that Saber was one of the strongest heroes of this planet, who's swords were said to be capable of tearing through the fabric of space-time itself. The current whereabouts of Saber were unknown, but rumors said that he had went to a higher world, Athough no one knew what or where was this higher world.

"Heroes huh?..." Prad murmured, Attaining this status of 'Hero' was theoretically pretty simple. A person who successfully increases his Level from 0 to 1 and enlighten his first skill, would be entitled as 'Hero'.

Apparently in this world the people were generally divided into two broad categories, namely 'Hero' and 'Minion', They were simply divided by the line between Level 0 and Level 1. But this was a hurdle which more than 90% population fails to cross throughout their life.

"To reach the rank of heroes, I would have to condense my mana core and gain insight of my own personalised skill." Prad said, "It seems that I'll have to read some books."

Prad had a doubt that, Can this Mana condensing be similar to his method of absorbing the environmental energy, that he discovered back on Earth. Upon reading tens of books Prad was filled with mad glee in his heart.

Although his method was diffrent from the traditional method of absorbing and condensing mana, which people use on this planet, but their was a strange connection between the two methods at the same time. Prad had a faint feeling that both of these can be used concurrently and they'll even compliment each other.

The method to absord environmental energy utilises the circulation of the Seven Chakras present in the human body to connect with the nature and harness the unbound power from it.

Whereas, The method of mana condensing utilises chants of complex Mantras, to stimulate the soul and use it as a medium to absord and eventually condense mana.

"If only I can combine these two, my power would soar to new heights." The mad scientist within Prad was ignited once again.

To reach Level 1 from Level 0 was not a single jump, One would have to pass through 9 minor-realms which divided Level 0 and Level 1.

These minor-realms were more commonly known as Grade. Prad was currently at Level 0-Grade 0, Apparently Ray had cultivated upto Level 0-Grade 3 in the past, but since the soul of Ray was extracted, thus the cultivation of the body was dropped back down too Grade 0.

"I owe this body to you Ray, Thus, I'll fulfill your dream of joining the Hero Academy, and also take revenge for you on this Royal Family." Prad said sadly, from Ray's memory he knew how much effort Ray had put to reach Grade 3 of Level 0.

Prad cleaned up the room and seated down at the center, breathing calmly and said while closing his eyes, "This body was once at Grade 3 of Level 0, so reabsorbing the mana would be easier and much faster. I'll just have to combine the chants of Mantras and circulation of Chakras to begin. There's one month left for the physical strength assesment of the Hero Academy, I'll need to work hard."

Hours passed and finally Prad was able to grasp a bit about how to combine the two methods, upon using this combination for a single complete circulation, Prad felt a magestic amount of energy entering his body, but at the same time he felt hungry like a pig. The hunger was so intense that he couldn't bear to wait and rushed down straight towards the kitchen and ate even the raw vegetables.

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Cold sweats dripped down from his back, "What was this?.....This was no simple hunger, Something must be wrong with my newfound combination method. I can feel that if there wasn't enough food present than I may have collapsed due to hunger. " Prad said while worried expression appeared in his eyes, "I'll have to find a way to overcome it ! Otherwise how laughable would it be, if I were to die of hunger. The Prince would certainly commit suicide, if he were to know that I died of hunger in my own apartment."

Despite his self comforting bad jokes, Prad seated back down at his room and concentrated his mind to find a way to overcome this problem.

After 10 hrs Prad smiled and opened up his eyes, while exclaiming, "That's it ! .....This will work!"