A looser?

Remembering that incident that occurred one year ago, and he was the only one who knew about it, made him wonder about everything related to it.

One year ago…

Near the mountains behind the Skambha mansion, was where a 15-year-old boy was training for some sword skills.

It was Rudra, but before everything, he took out a book based on basic sword techniques.

He opened that book and started to go through it, although it wasn't that he didn't know anything about swords or sword styles but he was doing this to refresh his memory regarding these.

After a while, when Rudra finally finished reading, he took out his sword to practice those techniques, he suddenly heard a thundering as if the sky was torn apart.

He looked in that direction to find, a small black hole in the sky, through which a lightning bolt surges out, as if it was coming out of that hole.

Boom!

Suddenly lightning struck the ground, the impact was so powerful that caused the surrounding area to be damaged.

As a little 15-year-old boy? Curiosity got the better of him, so he kept his sword back in his sheath and walked into the deepness of that forest on the mountains, where that lightning had struck.

Without informing anyone, who knew what had happened to him at that time.

After running for a while, Rudra started to feel weird and a very powerful energy in the surroundings, even causing his energy to fluctuate a bit.

Causing Rudra to become aware of the things near him.

But he still kept running in that direction.

A few moments later, a crater became visible in Rudra's sight.

He approaches that crater to find that even some trees and the land within a radius of a few meters were destroyed.

Rudra became even more aware and carefully walked around glancing at every single thing, he was inspecting that spot.

This was when Rudra started to get weird sensations as if someone or something was calling him at the centre of that small crater.

He jumped into that small crater, approaching the centre, and all he found there was a lightning charm.

It was weird for a small lightning charm to be present there.

When Rudra spotted that lightening charm, a little lightening started to crackle around that lightening charm.

In curiosity, Rudra extended his hand to grab that charm.

But with a sudden crackle of very strong lightning, that charm shot towards Rudra's chest with an unimaginable speed.

Rudra hadn't expected something like this to happen, as that charm hit his chest, he felt an unbearable pain.

Due to this sudden pain, he fell unconscious.

After a while when a few drops of water fell on his face, Rudra finally opened up his eyelids.

He looked around himself, and that he had fainted right there in that crater.

Rudra was feeling a lot of pain in his chest, and a weird feeling in his body.

He looked at his hands, and all he saw was a small lightning crackle around his hands.

"Where did that lightning charm go? It had hit me in the chest, right? Then where did it go?" Rudra was confused.

He gets up and searches the surrounding area, to find that the lightning charm has disappeared.

He was running here and there to find that charm, but found nothing.

At last, a thought struck his mind that, it could be his hallucination.

'but if it was a hallucination, where did this crater come from? And why the hell did I faint here if that lightning charm was just my hallucination?'

Rudra was confused, as if that charm was just his hallucination then how did it strike his chest and hit him, that thing made him faint and till now he was feeling the pain in his chest due to that strike.

This was when another drop fell on his face, causing Rudra to gaze upwards to find that the sky was covered by black rainy clouds.

Even not letting the sunlight come through.

As he realized it was about to rain, he forgot everything, as he remembered that he had return quickly, to attend this year's energy talent ceremony, to know which level he had reached up until now or did he made any improvement or not.

The energy talent ceremony occurs every once a year.

He ran towards the mansion, he wanted to get home before it rains, otherwise, he would be too late.

Running down the mountain and out of the forest he ran towards the Skambha mansion.

After running for a while, he finally reached to his mansion but then he ran towards the huge field near the Skambha mansion.

He quickly entered to see that there was a huge crowd filling the whole field.

Rudra crosses through that crowd and tries to get into the centre.

"hey do you see that guy over there, he is Rudra, the only guy in our entire clan who uses the saint way to cultivate", a boy whispers to his friend, pointing his fingers towards Rudra.

"What? For real? Someone would only be a psycho if they choose the saint way!", the other boy replies, "By the way do you know about his energy talent?"

"Yes, but he doesn't have a normal energy talent, he has an elemental energy talent of fire!", the first boy says.

Every single boy has to attend the first talent awakening ceremony of their life at five years of age, after the awakening they used to attend the ceremony again the next year to see and show what level their cultivation had reached.

Even if they didn't want to go to the talent awakening ceremony next time the clan rules made them do so.

9 years before, everyone had discovered that Rudra possessed an elemental talent of fire, but still, it was at a medium level not too powerful or special.

"Which level is he on?", the second boy asked.

"you are a newbie in this clan, you don't know that he has been cultivating his kundalini for nine years according to the saint way but he is still stuck on the beginning level and hasn't even reached to the first chakra, this is how hard the saint way is, and the main reason why no one uses it.", a third boy came out of nowhere and explained.

After a lot of struggles, Rudra finally reached at the centre, to see a huge crystal placed in the centre of the field, as if it was growing out of the ground.

It was a crystal with a tint of black in it.

That crystal was a spiritual stone.

It is said that many years ago a few asteroids fell into Suryalok.

Somehow a lot of small parts and remnants of these asteroids were spread out across the whole planet.

It was believed that these asteroids were very special.

Those asteroids were a special type of crystal which was very rare.

One day a powerful saint discovered the special qualities of those asteroids.

Those asteroids had a special type of crystal growing out of them, those crystals were named spiritual stones.

With the help of his abilities, that saint was able to discover the same spiritual stone buried under the surface of the earth.

Those spiritual stones buried under the earth were formed when the constantly generated spiritual energy by the cosmic energy within the earth was condensed into solid forms.

Those crystals are classified into two types, ordinary and special.

Whenever an individual touches the ordinary spiritual stone, they will be able to discover their energy talent and their level.

Also, they can discover, the state of their energy and their energy channels.

Rudra then spotted an old man standing right beside that black crystal, holding a list of names in his hands.

And was calling out those names.

"Sourav! Come to the center!", that old man calls out another name.

With that a boy little older than Rudra came out of the crowd, even the crowd was giving him the way to the centre.

It was Sourav, who walked to the centre, where that crystal was.

"Sourav, 16 years old, come forward and touch that crystal gently to let us know the state of your spiritual energy and body energy and energy channels."

Sourav does as said and gently places his hand on the spiritual stone.

Then a beam of light was shot out of that crystal towards Sourav's head, and that beam of light hit Sourav's head.

And suddenly a light flashed out of his head above him taking the form of a few words, as if it was a game status bar.

"beginner spiritual energy, high level, can be cultivated to max level using the saint way, body energy has reached edge beginner level, state of energy channels perfect and can run the unbelievable amount of body energy through them.", the old man described those words.

Hearing this a lot of people in the crowd started to talk about Sourav.

"wow, the state of Sourav's energy channels are getting even better.", a guy whispered to his friend.

"Not only that but he also has a beginner-level spiritual energy, which means in future he can reach to peak ranks of spiritual energy, but sadly he only cultivates his body energy.", the second boy said.

Sourav had his chest high in pride and an egoistic smile was plastered across his face.

"Next, Mayra come to the centre."

Then a beautiful, elegant girl, with thin waists and, milk white colour and skin as smooth as butter, hair so long that they were reaching down to her waist, came out of the crowd.

Everyone seemed to lose their sense when they saw her.

Everyone was mad in her love, even the females were fans of her beauty.

Mayra was the role model of all the females in the whole city.

Even Sourav just kept staring at her when she crossed him and walked away.

Mayra approaches that crystal, "Mayra, 17 years old, come forward and gently touch the spiritual stone to let us know the state of your spiritual energy, body energy and energy channels.", that old man repeats the instruction.

Mayra touches that crystal and same as before a light shoots out towards her head and hits her head.

Then a light flashes out from her head right above, taking the form of a few words.

"beginner spiritual energy, high level, can be cultivated to maximum level with the saint way, condition of energy channels Excellent, body energy level, practitioner level, third stage awakened.", Mayra's result was even better than Sourav's.

Meanwhile, here a tearing chest pain starts to make Rudra go crazy, and he falls to his knees.

But then, "Rudra, come to the centre.", the old man called out.

Rudra hears the voice, and somehow keeping his pain to the side he walks to the center, he is not even able to walk properly.

Everyone looking at Rudra started to gossip about him.

"Hey, why is he walking like this? Is he sick?"

"How the hell would I know?"

People were gossiping about the way he was walking.

Rudra still somehow managed to approach the centre.

"Rudra, 15 years old, come forward and touch the spiritual stone gently to let us know the state of your kundalini and energy channels."

This time the old man did change some terms in his instruction, which was the state of kundalini, as Rudra used the saint way and cultivated both his spiritual and body energy, which means his life force or kundalini.

Rudra comes forward and touches the spiritual stone.

A beam of light shoots out and hits his head.

A light flashes out above his head taking the form of a few words.

"elemental energy talent has suddenly disappeared, the state of his kundalini has been reduced to a very low level, his energy channels have started to shrink, he is very sick and his health is getting poor.

He couldn't cultivate in such a state, if he does so, the amount of pressure exerted on his body could either damage him further or even kill him. It will be very hard for him to unlock his chakra.", the old man seemed very shocked and disappointed at Rudra's results.

So did everyone, as Mayra's brother and clan leader's grandson, everyone had very high expectations of him but this disappointed everyone.

Everyone was shocked that one year before his condition was excellent and according to the results his first chakra should have been unlocked this year.

Everyone was shocked that even after having an energy talent, the spiritual stone was not able to detect it.

And everyone believed the spiritual stone as it could only show false results until it was broken.

And every year the guardians of the spiritual stone maintain the spiritual stone and ensure everyone before the ceremony that it isn't broken.

The guardians of spiritual stones are very highly respected in the Surya Lok, people always believe them and as elders, they don't lie.

This meant that the spiritual stone was fine but if it couldn't detect Rudra's energy talent then for sure he had degraded.

"hahaha, just look at this pathetic boy, his condition has become so bad that he can't even unlock his chakra points to awaken them, so bad, hahaha.", It was Sourav who first commented a joke on Rudra.

"This should all be the result of your laziness, that's why you were not able to reach your first chakra for nine years, you didn't care about anything instead of taking benefits of your position as the clan leader's grandson, that is why now you have lost your talent, your energy has become very poor, the weakest in the whole world", one of Sourav's friend taunts Rudra, he was directly trying to stab Rudra in his Heart with the sharpness of his words.

"Looser, you are a loser, you are not worthy of being the next clan leader.", everyone started to make their comments and opinions on Rudra.

"Enough", a beautiful voice screams out in anger, "if anyone of you dares to spit out even a single taunt or bad comment on my brother, then they will be sorrowfully beheaded."

Everyone's mouth shuts down, Mayra then Grabs Rudra's hand and gently walks him out of the field to the Skambha mansion.

Rudra seemed to be in a state of shock.

Mayra brings him into the clan mansion's garden.

This was when bolts of lightning surged through the black clouds above them.

Those thundering clouds soon began raining down all the heavy water drops contained within them.

Those raindrops made both Rudra and his sister completely wet.

But Mayra only cared about her brother.

She sits down and caresses Rudra's head as if he were a kid, "Hey, Rudra, don't worry, what if your condition is bad it doesn't mean you can't get powerful, with strong will if you keep trying, nothing is impossible."

But Rudra doesn't reply, he seemed to be lost somewhere.

Mayra was getting even more worried looking at Rudra's condition.

Till now In his life he has been told that power is everything, without that people are considered nothing, he can get nothing and can't do anything for his loved ones, for his clan, till now he had been taught that power is the main objective of his life, all he had to do was to get power or people won't accept him.

Now, after 9 years of his talent awakening, Rudra learnt that suddenly the condition of his energy channels had become poor for some reason.

"Rudra look at me why don't you say something?", Mayra kept calling him.

'could it be that he has gotten into a trauma? I will have to call grandpa, only he can explain Rudra.', with this thought in her mind, she ran away towards the mansion.

But in this hurry, she forgot that Rudra was left behind in the rain.

While here, all Rudra was doing was remembering that lightning charm and that lightning bolt that had fallen tearing through the sky.

His mind kept jumping to every single scene of that incident.

As the memory of the lightning charm flashed again and again in front of his eyes, he started to feel like he had seen something similar to that charm in a familiar place.

Struggling to remember, he finally remembers a drawn figure of a charm in a book.

With the book, Rudra realizes that it was the library where that book was.

He runs towards the library near his clan's mansion which is owned by his clan.

Now he remembered that six months ago when he was taking out some of the books from the library shelves, a special book came into his sight and its title attracted him.

"Gods, blessings and curses."

He remembered that due to high curiosity when he opened that book to take a glimpse of it, at that time he saw that drawn figure similar to the lightening charm.

But then he also remembered that at that time looking at that figure made him think that he shouldn't waste his time on these types of books closed it and began to read the other important books.

But now he thought he should have learned that book, maybe that could have some information regarding the lightning charm.

That's why he ran towards the library to find that book titled, "Gods, blessings and curses."

This book could be the key that could help him to know what that charm was, and what had it done with him.