after entering the details on the magical board, The scientist walked toward the box that contained the samples one of which is injected into Karmal previously.
*BLING*
After he went to bring the next sample to be injected, there came a new display on the board which seemed like the dialogue box we can see on computers of modern-day. Vishnu saw that and was impressed to see that even though they are not that much proficient in technology they are able to use some basic functions that are present in the computers. Because of the sound it made, the scientist bent over to see what is it from the small room on the side of the cages. seeing it, He ran to the screen as if his life depended on it and stood at attention. He touched the board where the pop-up is present with his finger covered in magic essence. immediately after he touched it, there came a small package out of nowhere that had a small stone on it which is full of magic essence. He slowly with a trembling hand moved toward the package and placed the package on the table while he took the stone into his hand and was trembling. It was clear that he was afraid but all the animals in the room started laughing. Karmal didn't understand why they were laughing.
"Hey! Senior, why are you all laughing?"
Karmalasked with a confused tone.
"kid, you don't know because you came recently but whenever a package and a stone like that appear, This maniac will get scared of his wits. And the real fun begins when he uses the stone that is present in his hand now"
Vishnu wondered what it might be and was eagerly waiting for him to use it.
" Uoy elttil slacsar!!.i nac reah uoy lla gnihgual ta em. Tsuj uoy tiaw, I lliw pots uoy syug morf gnitteg yna doof yadot!!." The scientist shouted in anger at the beasts in the lab.
Without knowing, in anger he accidentally used the stone by breaking it. Then a female human voice echoed in the entire lab which is very loud and seemed like it is scolding the scientist. Even though Vishnu didn't understand what the words mean he did understand one thing that is the voice is from the wife of the scientist and he was scared previously because of hearing the scolding. After the voice transmission was completed, The scientist immediately left without any further late and forgot the box present on the table.
After the scientist left Karmal had guidance from Marjal to stabilize his powers. Unexpectedly, because of the power injected by the scientist to check his stage, the amount of essence present in his body increased by a tiny margin. Karmal thought it was common and didn't care about it much.
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*CREAKKK*
The door of the lab opened and a small kid walked in limping. The kid had a small container in hand with beast food present in it. Karmal who is concentrating on the flow of essence in his body suddenly felt the depressing aura from the door but he felt happy instead. He didn't understand what is it that causes him to feel happy when the aura is depressing. He opened his eyes and saw the kid with a bowl in his hand. He felt huge joy and wanted to be petted again as he got last time. The kid slowly walked toward the cages and that's when Karmal saw that the kid was limping and was worried about what happened. The kid started taking out the small beasts one by one and feeding them. The larger beasts will be given food from outside which drops into their cage. Karmal was anxious to see what is it that caused the kid to walk like that. Finally, it was Karmal's turn, and immediately when the cage is opened he jumped onto the kid's hand but the hand was cold as ice and the coldness was to the point it felt as if the kid is not alive. He looked up at the face of the kid and was shocked to the point of startling and falling into the food bowl. He trembled with anger and sadness after looking into the kid's eyes. Karmal saw a little boy with too many scars on his face and eyes feeling like that of a dead person and the coldness was due to the magic essence present in his body. The essence was flowing irregularly and is coagulated at some points and it is seeping out of his body as if water flowing out from a tap that's turned on.
"Yeh elttil yug!.yhw era uoy deltrats?, saw ym ecaf taht yracs?, tub I saw eht eno taht sevig doof ot uoy lla eth emit. yllaer!! tond eb diarfa!"
The boy spoke with his voice shaking from weakness. Tears rolled down his eyes and he closed his eyes tightly while crying. Karmal felt sad to the point of his almost stabilized essence started to get stirred up again.
Because of the extreme anger and still loving the kid, the poisonous aura that he usually exhibits was neutralized and diluted and acted as a medicine on the kid and uncoagulated his essence paths making the flow freer and causing the body to heat up a little and eased the boy's pain.
"WHAT!!? JUST HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!"
Shank shouted with amazement. Karmal's anger cooled down noticing the kid being at ease. He was shocked to see it but remembered that on Earth, snake poison was also used as medicine in some cases, and was happy that he had this power. The happiness he felt made the previously surging energy stabilize and made him able to properly sense his powers.
"Wow! Really, this power it feels like I knew it from birth instead of acquiring," Karmal exclaimed.
The boy was also happy to see that the rat is back to normal but was still confused as to how his pain eased. But he just ignored it and started caressing Karmal's hair. While Karmal is enjoying the petting he started to think exactly what the boy said previously. He decided that he needs to learn the human language as soon as possible. After Karmal had his full with the food that the boy brought and was kept back in his cage, he started meditating to relax his mind and let him think clearly. He started writing simple words in his brain in English and tried to form mirror images of those words and tried to spell them. this made it possible for him to learn the language of humans from MIRABILE. While he was trying to learn the language the boy who came to feed was done with his job but he saw a box packed on the table and wondered what it might be and took it with him secretly. He kept the box inside of his rags and slowly limped out of the lab and continued toward his cage where he is locked as a slave. He kept the bowl he was given to feed the beasts near the gate of the cage and entered the cage which contained many other slave children. he sat in his usual place and watched the giant human taking the bowl away while closing the doors. After a few minutes, the human returned with a big piece of molded bread and threw it toward the slave children who are extremely hungry. The children started to fight for that bread while the kid stayed back watching them quarrel. He then looked to his side and saw a small girl who is a good friend of his and started walking toward her and sat beside her.
After a few minutes of fighting, all the kids settled down with bruises all over their bodies. The ones who got at least a piece ate that and fell asleep from exhaustion, the ones who didn't get anything slept with hunger. While the only ones awake are the boy and the little girl beside him. He slowly opened the box in his rags and was shocked to see many dishes of fresh food. He immediately closed it because the other children may wake up to the smell. he slowly took out a sweet from it and gave it to the little girl who is watching at the box with hungry eyes. The girl took the sweet and ate it in seconds. He then took one more and ate himself. Then they both decided to hide them somewhere and eat them slowly for a long time. But life is not what we expect it to be and they don't know what is awaiting them in the future because of what they did.