Loss and Gain

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bang!

Rishi barged into the house as he was not left with any other option.

While eavesdropping he failed to notice the CCTV camera that set in a corner of the window sill. He felt very foolish as he did not check his surroundings before he stuck his ear on the wall to listen to the voices coming from the house.

This was a terrible mistake as he kind of underestimated the person rather the gang behind this kidnap. It was obvious that they would take some serious precautions before they even dared touch a Yogi's son. Also, he understood that he was definitely noticed as he was there with his ear glued to the wall for quite some time. This would also explain the sudden dead silence that crept into the alley.

Having lost his chance to make a sneak attack and in a desperate attempt to earn a Yogi's favour, he bashed through the locked door and entered the house.

Seeing that his intuition was correct, he was both happy as well as sad. He did expect some powerful individuals to be present in the house, he did not expect them to be armed with 'athmic' weapons as one needed to have an expert level control on their Kundalini energy to wield it. This was a definite disappointment as he was only a novice

practising kundalini energy whose only equipment was a d-bone dagger.

The d-bone was a metal ore that was found on the meita planet. This was special and powerful metal which could only be broken by a tool made of the same metal and a few others but those were far beyond the reaches of a commoner. Thus, a d-bone weapon being used by a commoner was an extremely rare sight.

However, comparing an athmic weapon and a d-bone weapon was like comparing the great Pacific Ocean with a small pond.

Even a 'hiin' (lowest of the seven) tier athmic weapon was at least several hundred times stronger than a weapon having only 10 per cent of d-bone metal.

This was an irritatingly severe mistake that Rishi did by barging in without considering every possible threat he might face. Now four men with their athmic weapons in their hands were standing in an attack stance before him.

Feeling that if he failed to make the first hit on them, he would surely not get a second chance to do so.

Very craftily he spread his Kundalini energy around the edge of the 1 foot long and 3 inches wide kukri dagger making it 1.2 foot and 3.3 inches wide. Also, he spread the energy around the body making it incredibly fast but sacrificing strength. However, strength was not what he needed now, all he needed was a firm grip on the dagger and super fast speed.

Very steadily he took out the dagger holding it reversely to make it sharper and swifter. And moving at an eye-deceiving speed he aimed for the bald man who was holding a scimitar athmic weapon. Seeing Rishi make such an obvious move, the man smirked and casually swung the weapon at him confidant that this strike would surely behead this ignorant brat, but...

To his surprise, the scimitar simply passed through the body which felt like cutting through the air . Just at that moment,

a shadow-like figure appeared behind him, making some movement and before he could make any move on that shadow, he felt a sudden sting of pain on his wrist and before he could feel anything he found the wrist holding the athmic scimitar was gone and blood was oozing out. At the sight of such a bloody scene and that sudden skin-piercing pain left his body shaking and was rendered strength less as he fell on the ground. Seeing this the other three became alert and did not dare think of Rishi as an ignorant brat anymore.

The attack he made right before their eyes, was not something any rookie could do but was a tuned attack made by a master assassin who just now stood before their eyes but now vanished into the darkness of the dimly lit room.

All three men stood there, alerted, ready to attack, rather defend the attack which was going to come from an assassin, hiding in that room.

Suddenly...

*Tiiinnnggg....*

A sharp sound echoed in the room which seemed to come from the right corner of the room . Such a sharp sound at this tense moment distracted them for a few seconds but right at the next moment one of them was already lying on the floor having his throat almost split open, blood flowing out like water from a fountain.

Now, only two of them were alive, both ready to cut down anything that appeared before them but also in the fear that even a single second's distraction can cost their lives. Suddenly the one holding an athmic greatsword noticed something at the side of the glass window and decided to make a move on it. However, what he failed to notice was a trap set up by the cunning assassin to separate the two of them.

When then man got near the window, he saw that there was no one crouching there as he expected but some small conical mirrors that reflected the dim light of the fire torch burning in the room.

By the time, he noticed that it was a trap set by the assassin, it was too late. All of a sudden, he saw a bloody appear before him, holding a dagger-like blade in hand which was ready to strike down any time. The man was quite sure that, at this moment he was going to because to have such a master assassin standing before him would only mean death. With another way to tread, the man-made one last dying attempt and swung his greatsword as hard while deliberately hoping that it saves him from the bloody death that was soundlessly approaching him.

These attempts were nothing but the last attempts made by a dying ant in an ant-lion pit who knew, his was inevitable but could only hope to survive.

As the man's sword reached a suitable angle, the assassin crashed his dagger at the edge of the great sword, without applying much pressure into it, he used the sword as support to accelerate the speed of the dagger and plunged it into the man chest right through the heart, causing immediate death.

The tables were now completely turned, the boy who seemed to be nothing but a brat was now like the silent, creeping,death that crept onto anyone who tried to confront him.

The middle-aged man, who did not make any movement since the starting of this killing spree, was now the only one of the four, who was on his feet. But, the once attack-ready stance he posed was completely gone. He knew that this person was not someone he could handle. Thus, he made a very clever move....

Among the assassins, there is a rule, that when the enemy surrenders, an assassin cannot attack anymore. This rule was made to limit the assassins, who go on killing anyone and everyone to achieve their goals. However, not all assassins abide by this rule except for the young ones. They are taught to follow this rule at schools but during an apprenticeship, they accompany senior assassins where they are taught about the difference between theoretical and practical knowledge. While attacking or being attack no matter what happens they should do anything to achieve their goal . This is one of those reasons why the assassins are known to be sinister and dangerous.

But, when alone, unguided by any senior, young assassins tend to follow this rule and as the man expected Rishi stopped his killing spree. Seeing this the man lowered his weapon and walked towards the door as if to make an exit. Rishi who believed this act retreat to be genuine, ignored the man and went to the room , from where the child's cry could be heard. When he entered the room, it full of filth. Beer bottles on the floor, red patches on the walls and among all these ,a boy, of 6 or 7 years, tied to a metal log was lying unconscious. Rishi slowly and cautiously went near the boy to untie him. When he untied the boy, he felt like some sharp object penetrate into his flesh. When he turned back to see you what was going on, he found that middle-aged man, with some sort of poisoned metal claw that was already half way into his body almost severing the spinal cord. As Rishi turned back, the man saw a sleek shadow like blade sweep through the air. Just then he saw everything turn upside down and before he could do something his head was sent flying.

Now, with the man dead, there was no one in that house except with Rishi and the young boy. So, he took this opportunity to look in the clothes of the dead man if hope to find some recovery item as he was bleeding like nothing but what he found was not some healing object.

All he found was an old-looking necklace. This arose his suspicion as to how could a person go against a Yogi without any magical equipment. So, he tried to wear the neckless and then...

He found himself in a place that seemed to be...

boundless

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Athmic weapons are special weapons made by infusing one's Kundalini energy and his soul into a specific form and materialised with the help a conductor from the mortal world.

The conductor can anything a blade of grass ,a great sword or even his own hands.

These weapons are very powerful but have only one downfall----

if the weapon shatters ,the soul of the user also ceases to exist ,thus causes the user's death.