A person awakens the ability as a child when the aura of the world enters the body. The aura contains the world's energy i.e all the elements present in the world. The body retains the aura with the highest affinity merging with their blood. The trait present in the aura becomes person's ability. So once this happens, the aura of different traits can't enter the blood for them to use.
So once awakened that ability could not be changed.
Due to this many tried to forcefully awaken their desired ability in their children by injecting the aura blood of the desired ability. When they did this process, the body forcefully tries to reject the blood by exploding into pieces. Even if the healers are present, they cannot save the child.
What Maurya wanted to do was exactly this. He wanted to inject his aura blood into the baby since it was not exposed to any aura of the world as it was still in the womb. But still the baby would explode.
But when the life crystal comes into the picture the whole scenario changes. It is the crystal, only the Gods could possess . The life crystal would form only after thousands of years collecting the purest aura bit by bit and only Gods had the power to contain them.
Basically it could even revive someone at death's door which even the healers couldn't. All Gods had atleast one life crystal with them .
It was not something they would give others , Maurya couldn't guess the reason why his God had given, this to him back then.
But now if I use the life crystal , even if the body of the baby rejects my aura blood and explodes it would get healed back at the same time. If the same process continues over and over, the rejection should slow down accepting my blood.
Because the life crystal keeps healing the baby untill it revives. Then the baby had awakened his Variant ability.
This was the success part of the plan
The failure was if the rejection of my blood doesn't slow down the life crystal can revive only till it's pure aura depletes. And still if the baby is rejecting it then the plan would fail along with baby exploding into pieces.
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Inside a large room Maurya,Chanakya, generals and God of War are present either standing or sitting ,but all of them were looking at the bed.
On the bed was a pregnant women unconscious, beside her G3 had taken over the healing.
" Wills of the heaven and hell pity this soul ..." Her chanting could be heard as she muttered the words in her mouth passing the aura to the body.
" My king I can only keep her alive for another 30 minutes. I'm not capable to make her escape death. My healing can only heal injuries but she is already at the death's door knocking it."
glancing at Maurya who had closed his eyes mediating at one corner.
After 10 minutes he opened his eyes and nodded to God of War as a sign to start.
Maurya took the life crystal out causing the aura inside the room to increase rapidly. The generals present in the room reacted instantly with a expression of surprise on their faces.
G3 had a different reaction as she recognised the life crystal since she was a healer with a greater affinity to life aura.
" My king you want to use that on this woman. If that's the case she can be really saved" G3 said happily.
Hearing this Maurya had second thoughts, what G3 said was true he could save the mother and baby with this crystal but the baby would not have his ability. So he had only thought of using it on the baby. His mind was already shouting, this is your chance . He removed all these thoughts. The crystal was not something that should be used mindlessly just because it can save a life, he was never a saint like person to begin with. He only moved for his own interests.
He pointed his finger towards the baby, " I am not saving her but the baby" closing the distance between them.
" G1 keep guard for any accidents
G2 raise a barrier, I don't want anyone outside to know what will happen here.
G3 start to heal me once I cut my wrist
G5 for now stay there I'll call for you after.
Minister Chanakya remove the baby
G4 use your ability to hold the baby in the air ."
He gave orders to everyone.
The generals didn't know what the king was about to do, but they saw a glimpse of their king of the past while listening to his orders, they went into their positions.
Chanakya took a sword from his storage device infused his aura to it. He made a cut on the abdomen region of the pregnant women.
G4 used his ability to remove the baby covered in blood from the womb to float in the air.
Chanakya cut down the umbilical cord attached to the baby.
G3 immediately stopped healing the woman. The woman who was knocking the door of death was instantly let in, she died.
Maurya placed the life crystal on top of the baby. God of War infused a tiny amount of his aura to the crystal which instantly shattered like a glass, the purest aura present inside it covered the baby keeping it alive.
This all happened in seconds.
God of War went to the corner closing his eyes as sparks were seen around him. The will of heaven and hell had started to bind him for interfering in the world.
Maurya took the sword from Chanakya cutting the chest of the baby exposing the heart making a hole in it. He also made a cut on wrists of the baby and his hand making the blood flow out.
He placed his hand above the heart of the baby making the blood flow inside it's heart.
The original blood of the baby was flowing out while his blood was entering in.
G3 started healing Maurya to replenish his blood.
It happened for half an hour to remove all the original blood of the baby replacing it with Maurya's blood.
The body of the baby was constantly refusing his blood tearing itself apart. But the life crystal just kept it healing. For a period of time both were in a stalemate. After an hour the healing speed increased indicating the body had started to accept the blood. But the resistance was still present for another two hours. The body finally accepted the blood calming down fully healed. There was still some pure aura present, as it would have depleted if used for another ten minutes.
The baby survived with Maurya's blood inside him.
All of them left a sigh of relief, calming down since all them were mentally exhausted.
God of War was smiling with all his teeth as if he witnessed something even more than he desired.
"G5 come here form a blood pact between me and baby" Mayura said.
" My King but the blood pact requires the consent of both parties. "
G5 said as he was confused, his unique ability was able to make a blood pact between two individuals on the name of heaven and hell. But it required both of them to agree to it. Although his ability was not strong it was really useful in a way.
" The baby has the same blood of me now. The pact can be made even without it's consent"
Realizing this, G5 started chanting words in a foreign language , he pricked his finger to write all of it in air. The words written in air stood still. After a while he placed the hands of both the baby and Maurya on the words written on air. The words started to enter the body of both forming a mark on their back.
" My king the blood pact has formed between you two.Since you both have the same blood both of you cannot kill each other. On the name of the blood pact you have control over the baby. But as the baby gets older and stronger, than he need not listen to your orders. But still the condition of not killing each other still remains."
G5 explained all the pact terms with his face lost all his life. The pact had taken all his aura from his body. So he needed to rest for quite a while.
Maurya was pleased with the conditions.Then he looked towards the dead woman
" Bury her in our palace grounds, she still helped me with this baby"
Hearing this the generals became a little emotional but it soon turned out into a series of laughter after witnessing an epic scene.
Maurya had picked up the baby wiping all the blood and bending it down , he saw a little thing hanging down.
With this he confirmed the baby was a boy. They had not paid attention to the gender of the baby earlier since it was covered with blood.
Maurya didn't care whether the baby was a boy or girl. But he still felt a little happy since it was a boy as he already had a daughter.
Then everyone was made to form a pact to not reveal anything that had happened here. This time God of War was the one who carried out the procedure. The breaking of the contract would mean instant death for them.
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