Next morning after having breakfast SOMA informed me,
[RUKIA will be coming by in evening. You wanted to meet her, right?] SOMA
[RUKIA??. The person who found me unconsicious in the forest and brought me here?] ME
[Yess, that person. You said you wanted to learn magic from her, right. I told her your intention.] SOMA
Man, the way you are saying feels like you told her something you should'nt have.
[Okay, thanks a bunch man!] ME
I was happy how the situation turned out. Wverything till now has going pretty smooth.
[Tell me SOMA, where is your father?] ME
Hearing my question SOMA hesitated for a moment. Have I asked something I shouldn't have.
[Umm… my father was killed by those bandits in previous attack. The gap between the 2 attacks was 2 MOHUNJA. After that I did not had time to greive over my father's death and had to standup to take responsibilty of my village.] SOMA
[I am sorry. I had no idea you had it so rough.] ME
I apologised as soon as I realized. I have always been told that I have a pretty big mouth. Now I understand what they meant by that.
This silence is killing me. This is so uncomfortable…
[It's not that only I had rough, it's similar to everyone in this village. Some has lost their parents, some their children and for some entire family has been eliminated. This is the situation everywhere. Public oder is a mess and kings are fighting among themselves for power. This leaves us common folks nowhere.] SOMA
Hearing about it, it seems situation here is pretty dire. Looks like there is no concept of peace among the higher ups. I feel bad for these guys.
While we were were talking, there was a knock on the door and a maid came in.
[My lord, miss RUKIA has arrived.] MAID
[okay, tell her that Mr. KISHNA is coming.] SOMA
After SOMA gave his oders, maid left.
[Okay then, you may talk to her about magic.] SOMA
[Sure.] ME
After that I was led to where RUKIA was. She was sitting on the mat while sipping tea.
She had a small body and her hair was red.
[Hii…..nice to meet you.] SOMA
[Same here.] RUKIA
[First of all I would like to tank you for helping me in the forest. I truly appreciate it.] ME
[No problem, but what were you doing there lying on the ground. That's pretty dangerous you know. What if some monster had found you before I did?] RUKIA
Ooooo...man, this girl is intense!! It hasn't been 2 minutes we met and she started shooting question towards me.
[Sorry for the inconvinence I caused you. But to tell you the truth even I don't know how I lost consiciousness. Last thing I remember was getting out of the forest and after that I lost concisiousness. Next thing I remember was waking up in an old broken wodden house.
I wonder who the owner of that house is. ] ME
[Well sorry for being the owner of that old wooden broken house. But that's the second best you can get in this village.] RUKIA
After hearing my comment about her house, she snapped. Don't tell me she is the owner of that house.
[I am sorry. I had no idea you were the owner of that old.....thankyou for taking care of me. I appreciate it.] ME
[hmphh…] RUKIA
She didn't even hear my apology and turned her face with an HUMPH...
Ohhhh...…now I did it. I can't believe how much my mouth opens without my permission.
*SILENCE*
This silience is killing me….
While I was thinking how to proceed with the converstaion without hurting any more of her feeling, rukia started to speak.
[Village chief told me that you wanted to learn magic. Is that the case?] RUKIA
[Ye…yess, that's correct. But before that I want you to tell me few things] ME
RUKIA looked at me with a big question mark on her head.
[What is it that you want to know?] RUKIA
[Yaa…..can you tell me the values of these coins?] ME
I took out 3 different coins and put it infront of RUKIA. She was staring at me like considering me some kind of idiot. Well that's correct. The person who don't know the value of coins are considered to be an idiot.
[let's see…..this is 1 bronze coin. 25 bronze coin make 1 silver coin.]
She took the bronze plated coin and explained about it.
[This is 1 silver coin. 300 silver coincs make 1 glod coin. This one is 1 gold coin.] RUKIA
She took silver plated and gold plated coin and then explained it's value.
[If you have 1 gold coin, you can live in a normal inn for about 3 HAFTANJA. That's good if you ask me.] RUKIA
Hmmm...what's HAFTANJA. Come to think of it, SOMA also said something like MOHUNJA. What's that, representation of days or week?
[umm…..what's HAFTANJA? SOMA also said something about MOHUNJA. If it is not much, can you tell me what that is?] ME
[What, you don'tknow what they are? Are you sureyou haven't lost your memory in the forest?] RUKIA
There was no limit to her surprise. I also feel embarrased asking about it but I have to ask someone someday or this will cause problem in the future.
[I am sorry to ask but you see, I came from far away place. So I don't know much about this country and all.] ME
I made an excuse for my lack of knowledge. However what I said was true.
[lowest time interval is 1 SECO.
120 SECO make 1 MINO
120 MINO makes 1 HORO
30 HORO makes 1 DINANJA
10 DINANJA makes 1 HAFTANJA
6 HAFTANJA makes 1 MOHUNJA
15 MOHUNJA makes 1 SALLANJA.
Did you get it now?] rukia
[yes, I understand it. thankyou] ME
I thanked her for giving me most basic of basic information. However I am still embarrased.
It's something like this….
SECO = SECONDS
MINO = MINUTES
We have 60 secs in 1 min but here there are 120 secs in 1 min.
HORO = HOURS
We have 60 min in 1 hour but here there are 120 mins in 1 hour.
DINANJA = DAYS
We have 24 hours in 1 day but here there are 30 hours in 1 day
HAFTANJA = WEEKS
We have 7 days in a week but here there are 10 days in a week.
MAHOUNJA = MONTHS
We have 4 weeks in a month but here there are 6 weeks in a month.
SALLANJA = YEARS.
We have 12 months in a year but here there are 15 months in a year.
WOOO... everything here is long. It's good for me. Long days means I have more time to sleep, eat and practice. I have that much more time to understand this world.
[I thank you once again. Now moving on to the main topic, I want to learn magic. Can you please teach me?] ME
[You say that you want to learn magic but do you have any affinity for magic?] RUKIA
[AFFINITY?]
[ Yes….affinity. you see, Magic greatly depends on the affinity one is born with….A person who doesn't have any affinity for spirits cannot use magic no matter how hard they try, result will be zero. There are some people who doesnot have affinity for magic so they train in swordsmanship. There are academy for people who trains in swordsmanship. Similarly there are people who have affinity for magic and trains to become a mage. But there are few people who trains in both as mastering one is pretty dam hard in itself.] RUKIA
I see, so it would seem it's not an ability that everyone can use. And there are very few people who can learn both magic and swordsmanship. Hmm. If everyone can use it, then it wouldn't be strange if civilization developed further into the magic side.
[Affinity…..huh….a certain person gave his OKAY to me for use of magic.] ME
[Who is it, that person?] RUKIA
[ummmm..... really important person.] ME
I don't want to spill the beans that god made me a high human as high humans are already extinct.
[However I have no means to confirm that I have Affinity for magic. Do you have any method from which I can confirm it.] ME
To my question, RUKIA takes out some leaves from the pouch on her waist. These leaves are fresh and looks like they have been plucked recently. I can also see a strong red light emmiting from the leaves.
[This, what is it?] ME
[…This is AGNI leaves . Affinity for fire is amplified and cancelled. We can investigate your affinity using this. However, I can only use fire magic so I have no other means to check if you have affinity for any other magic. Method for checking affinity for every magic is different. Also the amount of people who are dual magic user are less. So I can only help you with fire magic.] RUKIA
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After that she took one leaf and put it between both of her palms and then concentrated. Suddenly there was a red-orange light that started surrounding her hand. After a minute she opened her palm. The leaf was on fire.
[Ooh.]
[…This is how you see if you have affinity for fire. If you have even a small amount of fire affinity then the fire spirits present in the leaves will amplify it and as a result the leaf will start burning.] RUKIA
[Magic is something that everyone possesses, but if they have no affinity for it, they can't use the skill.] RUKIA
So it all depends on affinity. Because if one doesn't have any talent, then the world is unfair if I had to say it.
[Then, if I do that too, we'll find out if I have affinity or not.] ME
[Yes. …hold the leaf between your palm as I did and concentrate your consciousness on it. ] RUKIA
I receive the leaf from rukia and did as I was told to.
The next moment, leaf started burning vigorously and in no time the leaf turned to ash.
[Uowaa!?] RUKIA
[…..What does this mean?] ME
I demand an explanation from RUKIA as this clearly abnormal situation, but she was dumbfounded with their eyes wide open. She was much more surprised than I was. What the hell, does this not suppose to happen? Does this mean fire spirits of this world has not deemed me worthy of wielding this power. But how can this be. I always loved fire magic and the guy who can use fire and always wanted to use fire.
[...I think it's because your level of magical power is far superior…. Yet, there's no way….this is the first time I have seen the leaf burnt in a matter of SECO. It happened before my eyes yet I don't believe it.] RUKIA
[You're absolutely more likely to become a magician. I've never seen something like this.]
I have aptitude as expected. Well, it's from God's approval after all. At any rate, perhaps this level of magical power is also from God's effect. However, this is still better than a little. Anyhow, this means that I can use magic.
[…well then, let's begin.] RUKIA.
[So, what do we do first?] ME
[Ah, yes. Let's start with the basics, however….. there are several affinities in magic.]
[Affinity?]
[yes, like fire and water. Altogether there's 7 attributes which are fire, water, earth, wind, light, dark and null.
In order for you to use fire magic, you must form a contract with fire spirits. In return the fire spirit will allow you to use its fire. It's not all that hard or anything however you won't be able to summon any spirit you want.] RUKIA
[What do you mean by that?] ME
That was an obvious question. I won't be able to summon any fire spirit?
[listen, every human is different and hence each individual possess different amount of spirit energy.
Similarly, every spirit also possess different amount of spirit energy.
Hence you can make contract with the spirits based on your spiritual energy.]RUKIA
Okay, so she means to say that if I have spirit energy of level 10 then I won't be able to summon spirit energy of any level higher than 10.
[did you get it now??] RUKIA
[.....yes , i understand. By the way, which fire spirit are you contracted with?]ME
I was interested in these fire spirits so I asked her.
[The fire spirit with whom I am contracted with is AMATERASU.....owner of black flames.] RUKIA
[So is there any reason why there are many fire spirits and what makes it different from another fire spirit?] ME
[once this flame starts, it will not extinguish unless it burns everything no matter what. The color of my flames are also different. It's color is black.] RUKIA
[gazab, that's one amazing spirit you have form contract with!!!!!!!] ME
[yea...isnt it?] RUKIA
From what I have heard, her spirit is certainly a powerful one. I also want to find out which spirit will deem me worthy of it's power. Hopefully a strong one. Fingers crossed.
By the time I was busy daydreaming, RUKIA was drawing something on ground. I was a bit curious about what she was drawing.
[okay, lets began. Here I have formed a magic circle. This circle is known as MANDAP. Here in this small circle, resides 1000s of fire spirit. Cut your finger a little and then drop a drop or two of your blood in this circle after I finish my incantation.
After that a spirit will be formed and then you can form a contract with them.
Is the process clear?] RUKIA.
[yes, I got it.] ME
She explained all the necessary parts quickly.
After that she started her incantations and suddenly a combination of red and orange light surrounded the circle.
When she finished the incantations, I cut my finger a little and then a drop of my blood fall in the middle of the circle.
Suddenly the blood drop was evaporated and the light which was coming out of the circle became intense. The color of the lights was continuously changing. From red to orange to black to dark red etc.
[As I suspected, you have an immense amount of spirit energy.] RUKIA
RUKIA, who was silent for a while now suddenly spoke.
[What do you mean by that?] ME
[Look properly, the color of the light emitting from the circle is continuously changing.] RUKIA
[And that means?] ME
[It means that every spirit wants to come out however only one spirit can come out from this MANDAP.] RUKIA
While we were busy talking, a strong blue light engulfed the circle and a girl with blue flames all over her body appeared.
*dhoosh*
As soon as the spirit appeared, RUKIA fell on her back and was breathing heavily.
[hey, are you alright? What happen?] ME
I was pretty confused seeing the way she fell and was breathing heavily.
[Don't thee worry. I am sure thee friend over there is affected by our magical presence. Thee call it intimidation or spiritual energy.] FIRE SPIRIT.
While I was worried about RUKIA, the fire spirit that I summoned started talking to me. I have a fair guess what she is talking about.
[if you know then please cancel your magical presence or intimidation, whatever it is.] ME
*hashhh*
When I told the fire spirit to cancel the intimidation, a sigh of relief was heard from RUKIA.
[You are thee one who summoned us. Thus us shall grant thee permission to form a contract.] FIRE SPIRIT
WHAT'S with the way of speaking. However it's good that I can understand.
[what shall I do to form a contract?] ME
[THEE need to offer us a drop of theeir blood and then we will form a blood contract. ] FIRE SPIRIT.
I cut my palm a little and offered my blood to the spirit.
[What's thee name?] FIRE SPIRIT.
[Kishna raizada] ME
I AGNEYA, DAUGHTER OF AGNI ACCEPT KISHNA RAIZADA AS A WIELDER OF MY POWER. I PLEDGE FROM HERE ON OUT, MY FLAMES WILL SERVE AND APPEAR WHENEVER KISHNA RAIZADA CALLS FOR IT.
[Now the contract has been formed. Thee just need to sense our magical energy and channel it in oder to summon our fire. Thee from hereon wield the power of purification flame and hottest flame. We herby bid thee farewell] AGNEYA
After saying all this, the fire spirit AGNEYA, left. As in disappeared in mid air.
What's with the way of speaking and sudden dense atmosphere.
Both me and RUKIA were standing there dumbfounded.
Me, standing dumbfounded was certainly acceptable because it was my first time seeing something like this but why is RUKIA standing like that. She is even more amazed than I am. I thought she is expert in fire magic and had seen many contracts at the academy.
We stood there for quiet a while.