Not long after, Avinash opened his mouth and spoke in a deep voice, "Madame Irina's prophecy? You mean that useless giant rock in the Item Room?"
Sakshi nodded and said, "Indeed, I am talking about the 'useless giant rock'."
"What about it? Did something unexpected happen to it? Did it disappear or something?" Avinash asked.
"It didn't disappear or anything. In fact, nothing ever happened to it. The thing is, when I once again Mr. Asura if he would join the Partnership Program with IOEA, he agreed, and then I took him to the Item Room to show him what all he could redeem. While explaining the effects of some items, I found out the Mr. Asura was not behind me. After looking back, I found out that he was standing in front of that 'useless giant rock'. I called out to him but it was as if he didn't even hear my voice. So, I went ahead to look at what the problem was and found out that he was staring at the rock without moving at all. I called out twice again but Mr. Asura didn't reply again. Before I could shake him, he came back to his senses and started breathing rapidly, and sat down on the floor. It felt as if he had a big battle with someone."
"Deepak, show the recording of that time."
Suddenly, a holographic screen opened up at the center of the round table. On the screen, the event that took place in the item Room was displayed. Everyone saw a man wearing a mysterious looking suit, standing in front of a giant rock. He slowly raised his arm and touched the rock. And as soon as he touched the rock, his body visibly trembled and suddenly his arm dropped back to his sides. After that, his body stood in the same place till Sakshi reached behind him. Just as she was about to shake him, he fell down on the ground and his chest was rising up and down violently. Everything matched with what Sakshi said. As soon as the short video ended, the holographic screen also disappeared.
The whole room was silent once again. Avinash was the one to break the silence as he asked, "Did you ask why did suddenly fell down?"
Sakshi nodded and said, "I did indeed ask him about this and his reply was that it was a drawback of the practice. But the strange thing is that when we were about to leave, he asked how much Contribution Points does he need to redeem that giant rock. I didn't immediately tell him about that and told him that I had to discuss it with higher-ups about that. After that, he didn't say much and left the IOEA HQ."
Everyone listened with great attention to the end. After Sakshi finished speaking, almost everyone had a frown on their face. Everyone present in the room was not some small figure in the Awakened world and that's why they were all well aware of Madame Irina's prophecy. In fact, each and every word from her mouth was engraved deeply in their heads.
Madame Irina was an awakened from Russia. She was an Unusual who could see many potential futures. She has guided many individuals to seek their own destiny. One of them is the current head of IOEA, Avinash. She was said to be the only person who has seen the beginning of human civilization and the end of it. That's right, you read it wrong. She is said to have seen the end of human civilization as one of the potential futures. It can be said that Madame Irina was said to be the most knowledgeable person in the world. She was also one of the most respected figures in the world.
Madame Irina was 86 years old when she 'saw' the end of the world. When asked about what she saw, she refused to tell more than "Blood red eye will open in the sky, leaving humans no room. That will be the prelude of our doom". She died at the age of 88, but before she died she sent that 'useless giant rock' to India with a message that 'the one destined with it, will find it'. This sentence puzzled almost everyone back then. But only those closest to Madame Irina knew that before she died, she used her powers one last time to look for some answers. She didn't tell anyone what she saw. She just sent that giant rock to India and died in peace. Avinash is also one of the people closest to Madame Irina and that's why he knew about this too.
So, after he received the giant rock, he immediately his R&D department to do a detailed analysis of the giant rock. The result was that it was not something of this planet. It was a space rock which fell on earth who knew how long ago. Even with the carbon dating method, the true age of the rock was not found. Besides this, there was nothing unusual about the rock. But knowing Madame Irina, he knew that there had to be something special about it so he put it in Item Room. Madame Irina did say that the person destined to it will find it eventually so he waited for that moment. Many times, some Awakened people saw the rock and heard that it was supposed to be waiting for the destined person. Those Awakened immediately redeemed the rock in order to try their luck and unsurprisingly, they returned the rock back with black faces and a lot of complaints.
Everyone had the same complaint that their [Aura] was being sucked off by the rock. After Avinash heard this, he once again ordered the R&D department to do another check on that rock but they still found nothing. They gave up and left the rock in the Item Room once again. But after that, no one came to redeem it again.