Spring turns to summer, summer to rainy, rainy to winter season like it was all predetermined.
With this Mahi has gotten a year older turning four.
He is assigned a teacher to learn how to read and write.
Ruhi too is present along with him learning things although she is a bit faster since she started early as she is already eight years old.
" See I have already learnt all the letters to speak and write.You should learn from me. Call me sister and I'll teach you" Ruhi said puffing her cheeks and patting on his shoulders.
" Ruhi I'll learn faster than you. I have already learnt to write ' M ' letter. So I'll not call you sister. You are just ruhi" taking her hands from his shoulders Mahi said.
Seeing both them the teacher laughed. His name was Rohan , a elf with pointy ears in his fifties , he was very good at teaching kids to learn and write. He was appointed to teach Ruhi when Mahi was born. With time he had started to teach both of them.
" Ok now both can stop. There still some time left to lunch want to ask me something "
Ruhi and Mahi liked this idea and always asked him many things since they didn't know about many things outside the palace.
" Teacher I want to know about awakening process. Papa told me next month a tester will come. He didn't tell me more and told to ask you" Ruhi said happily knowing she would use magic.
Mahi made a round shape mouth , " ohhhhhh you didn't tell me, even I want to use magic.
" Call me big sister then I'll tell you"
Ruhi smiled , she really liked teasing Mahi.
Rohan interrupted " Princess Ruhi pay attention I'll just brief the process in simple words.
Tester is the one who can identify the aura element present in your body when it is completely retained in your body. That is the awakening sign one shows as a child.
Before everyone had a difficult time knowing their aura element. This problem continued for years that is when testers became popular. Their ability belong to unique type. They don't have much combat strength but they should learn to identify all elements. This really takes long time to grasp, so they are not found easily. Your kingdom might have three to four of them who are experienced.
So they come once in a while and do this process publically for the kids collecting fees."
He took a breath again and continued
" What they do is they take a drop of blood to put it on a crystal. This crystal contains all the aura elements stored inside it, which appear white in colour. Only they can differentiate them using their ability to see which aura element gets attracted by the blood.
They usually get all aura elements correct unless it is a unique type because they are the ones which are undiscovered by them."
Mahi became interested in this , "Teacher what did you awaken ?"
Rohan turned towards him , " Prince Mahi I awakened a defensive type , a speed ability which helps me understand and learn things fastly. So I became a teacher. "
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The daily life of Mahi and Ruhi went like, getting up in the morning doing some excersice , having a delicious breakfast, attending the classes, have tasty lunch, play in the evening , at night learn the knowledge of royalty.
Mahi's consciousness grew with each passing day. He could feel and sense what was going around him. He had learnt to speak and write the basics.
He started to notice the behaviour of those around him. Whenever he went to Amogha calling her 'mama' she would just send him away or ask Maya to care of him. She always just took care of Ruhi.
Maurya too was similar. He would just praise some words when he learnt to speak and write. Other than that he would never speak to him. He too just spoke with Ruhi laughing and praise her for every little thing that she did.
The three of them slept together but Mahi had to sleep alone with Maya.
At first these were not something he could understand but when the same thing was happening everyday he could understand them more.
Then he started to speak with both of them whenever he saw them alone , but they would just ask Maya to take him out. Seeing this happen many times he stopped talking with them.
Only Ruhi would talk and spend time with him. She too noticed things but she could not tell it since her parents had scolded for thinking that way. So she never voiced it out again.
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Following month
A tester had come to palace. Everyone were present in the room to see this process.
Ruhi came forward nervously to the front where a crystal was present. Since teacher had said everything about it she pricked her finger dropping blood on it. The tester immediately used his ability to see the crystal. After some time he turned towards Maurya and Amogha with a happy face.
" The princess has a great affinity towards the ice aura element. But I can't say whether it is a defensive or attack type. She has to improve her ability to know this."
Both of them became happy as it was still a worthy ability whichever it belonged to.
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This progress of events made Mahi see Ruhi less and less. As she was appointed a ice ability teacher to teach her as she would go to the academy next year.
Ruhi had to practice what her teacher said everyday. So she became exhausted by evening going straight to her bed.
So they spent less time together . Mahi got used to this quickly as he just focused on learning his lessons with his teacher Rohan alone.
" Teacher I learnt the ' Z ' letter to write. Now I know all the letters to write and speak." Mahi looked towards his teacher with a happy face.
" Prince Mahi is indeed very talented. You learnt all this in very short time"
Rohan said with a blank face looking suspiciously towards Mahi from the corner of his eye.
These days Rohan was facing a huge pressure because he was sent as a spy to kingdom Rashtrakuta by his elf queen when Maurya voiced out his war plan. And he couldn't come out with any useful information to satisfy her.
He still remembered the conversation of that day.
Four years back
Banyan Kingdom ( one of the elf kingdom)
" Rohan I want you to spy on the daughter of Maurya. Our fortune teller has spoken that the source of this upcoming war will be his daughter"
The elf queen Dhanya spoke with her soft voice. She was in her forties but still had the beauty of a middle aged woman. She too was a variant a mixture of healing type and psychic type. She could control the minds of others.
( Psychic type- mental power abilities)
The day before
" My queen I could sense Maurya, he is way too confident in this upcoming war than the last time he started the war. Last time when I used my ability on him I could tell he had a weakness and we found out that he was a broken variant. But this time his confidence is coming from something else. Unless I know what it is I can't use my ability on it"
The fortune teller elf Ranga spoke whose eyes were turned green in colour in a confused voice.
Dhanya had just received the report of the war declaration by Maurya. So she asked Ranga to use her ability on him. But hearing a not so good answer from her
" Why is it always him, that crazy guy he had almost involved half the world of Libra in war. Only beasts and other species aside were not involved in that war , lucky all of them as they are on the other side of our kingdoms.
Ranga your fortune telling ability saved our asses on the throne that time . I somehow controlled and read his mind for a little while that he is a broken variant when others were keeping him focused on fighting. I had to co-operate with those damn orcs , goblins, dwarves, and cousins of mine to suppress him back to his kingdom."
( Fortune teller ability - belongs to unique type can be used on anyone to know his fortune of the present not the future. Once used on others need a long time of rest. That's the weakness of unique type.
Broken variant / ability - a name for a person who has awakened a strong ability but has low potential to improve it.)
Dhanya got really confused because she didn't know where Maurya's confidence was coming from. ' Wait didn't he tell he will start war after fifteen years. Why?' . Did he get someone with the same ability as him. Oh God of peace don't tell me he has seriously found someone like that. In all the variants I have heard and seen his was the strongest in terms of combat. Only if he was not a broken variant I would bet on my life he was worthy to become the only ruler under the sky, with all of us underneath him licking his foot to spare our lives".
She relaxed for a while and thought
That's not possible he has a unique type and they were never a same awakened ability by a second person.
Then it must be his daughter she must have a high chance to have similar ability like him. If that's the case he really will take revenge for the last time . Definitely he will kill me, I was the one who found out his weakness. I must squash that confidence of his.
But it was impossible in this world to kill a royal in his own palace. Everyone entering the palace at first would make a pact not to kill anyone inside , only a fool would try it to be reduced to ashes by the will of heaven and hell.
So she had called for Rohan who was a teacher in the another elf kingdom of her cousin with clean records on his background. He could handle situations very well to gather information for her.
" Rohan I want you to spy on Maurya's daughter. Our fortune teller told me the source of this upcoming war will his daughter"
The elf queen had given him a communication device to contact her.
Use it outside the palace to contact me unless emergency.
Don't try to kill her inside the palace, because of the pact while inside.
These were the instructions he had received from the queen.
He had joined as a teacher in the palace and ...
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Continued in the next chapter