Rudra ran towards the library. Approaching the library, he immediately entered inside. The library wasn't so huge, it was just a small warehouse that was converted into a library, the bookshelves were placed at every corner, and even the center filled those shelves, and books kept in those shelves were rotting in dust.
He ran to the first bookshelves and began searching desperately. He kept searching during which he got some stories. He took out many books and shook off the dust from them to check their names. After searching for more than half an hour, on a shelf he found a book covered in dust as if no one had touched it for a long time.
That was a thin book, he cleaned off the dust to read its name, and the book was titled, 'Gods, blessings, and curses.'
As soon as he opened the book, lots of hope began to shine in his eyes as he thought he would find a way. Going through it, Rudra finds something interesting related to that Talisman. After reading that book Rudra learnt that in ancient times many people just like him didn't have any energy talent.
Let alone energy talent, they didn't even have much strong kundalini. Their kundalini, that is their body energy and spiritual energy was too weak to be cultivated, just as Rudra. Until an accident occurred, one day one of these people, a guy spotted a shining thing in the sky falling with tremendous power.
He got the same urge as Rudra, and out of curiosity, he dared to approach it. Only to know it was a gold coin with the symbol of a tornado carved upon it. It was like a wind talisman. When that guy tried to pick the coin, the coin instead shot towards him with an unimaginable speed.
The coin hit his chest, making him faint. Myths say that the guy then disappeared and turned into a legend called MahaVaayu, forgetting his real identity, he continued to strive for ultimate power.
The coin was a blessing, yet a curse, it gave him the opportunity to be powerful, by sacrificing his past, and his identity.
"Later if someone gets such a talisman, what if it's a blessing, it will come with a curse!", these were the last lines of that book. After reading all this, Rudra started to refuse to accept these things, his logical mind always defied these reasons saying this could be a rumor.
Back to the Present day…
But since that day when the lightning Talisman hit his chest, his health was getting worse with time. Most of the time he used to stay sick, he always felt and stayed much weaker since that incident, and his energy channels had also slowly shrunk. He always used to rest in his bed, even if he was able to walk now, it was because of the ayurvedic pill suggested by the physicians, that he had to consume regularly.
But still, the physicians claimed that these ayurvedic pills would keep him fine for a temporary time, but could not turn away his death, his final fate. This situation was again and again making him believe that something was wrong, because here what was happening with him was entirely different from what was described in the story.
"simply, that story is fake!", Rudra muttered to himself.
"did you say something?", asked Mayra with a warm smile.
"Nothing.", Rudra replied. Looking at Rudra's behaviour Mayra frowned a bit.
After a while, they finally approached the clan mansion, but instead of taking him to the crystal field, she entered the clan mansion and when they came out within a few minutes, Rudra had bandages on his arms and right leg.
She then quickly guided him to the crystal field, Rudra felt a sharp pain in his leg but was still trying to walk somehow. Both of them enter the field to feel the buzzing cheers of the young generation people.
"Hey, look she is here!", Someone shouted at the highest of their lung capacity.
Hearing someone shout like this many people turned their heads to find Mayra who was crossing through the crowd with her brother, who was half covered in bandages. With this the whole field was filled with cheers and everyone seemed to celebrate Mayra's arrival.
The old man at the center seemed to know about the situation and called out to Mayra, "Mayra, come to the center."
Hearing this Mayra walked towards the center pulling Rudra with her, supporting him as he was not even able to walk properly due to the injury on his leg. Everyone began giving them the way, but they had a weird look for Rudra.
"heh, seems he was once more beaten by someone!", a voice fell in Mayra's ears.
But she ignored it and finally arrived at the center. She left Rudra's hands, "Just stay here, I'll be back in a moment."
She goes to the crystal and as per the instructions that were given to her, she extends her hand and keeps it gently on the stone. Everyone was busy watching her delicate face, and her calm expression while the old guardian was busy reading the results.
"Beginner spiritual energy, high level, state of energy channels: excellent, first level practitioner unlocked, first level: third stage peak, shall be able to break through to Fourth stage in a month.", these were the results of Mayra read-aloud by that old man.
According to the results, Mayra had already activated her first level and was on the third stage.
As the normal way and the saint way is different, the power in these ways is also measured differently.
In the normal way there are different levels to measure the power, whereas in the saint way, the power is measured according to the number of chakras you have unlocked along your spine. In the normal way, these different levels are also divided into different stages. After crossing each level we need to nourish our body energy through practice and stabilize them, and according to the amount they are nourished and stabilized, the stage of their level is decided. Every single level is divided into nine stages based on nourishment and stabilization.
Whereas in the saint way, at first when we focus the cosmic energy to make our kundalini rise, it directly reaches the breaking point of the first chakra point, and breaking through the first chakra barrier one unlocks their first chakra. Kundalini resides at the base of the spine, and so does the first chakra of the human body.
So, as one focuses the cosmic energy on their kundalini to awaken it and make it rise above along the spine, due to the kundalini rest spot and first chakra being so close, therefore with just a little push one can awake the first chakra. But to even cross this stage some people take multiple years. Due to this when one awakens their kundalini together, their first chakra is also unlocked, and this is also the reason why there are not any stages before the first chakra to classify peoples' power and cultivation.
But still to move kundalini even a bit upwards is very hard, it takes years of cultivation. The main cultivating and power awakening process starts after unlocking the first chakra. In Saint Way, the main power measures begin after awakening the first chakra.
After awakening the first chakra, there are different levels of power to compare and measure the power accordingly with other people based on the cultivation they have done. Here also the same formula applies for nourishment and stabilization.
But here one is needed to nourish and stabilize their kundalini and their chakra, and to the extent their kundalini is stabilized and their chakra is nourished will determine the stage they will be able to attain in different chakras.
The Chakras also have nine stages, and if their kundalini is stable and their chakra is nourished enough, then one would be able to pass through the stage layer in their chakra, hence going to different stages. Only after unlocking all the stages, one would be able to reach the next chakra.
That is except of unlocking the first chakra, one will also need to nourish it and unlock all its nine stages to reach the barrier of the second chakra. After breaking through the second chakra the same cycle goes on.
The old man standing beside the spiritual stone looked back at the list in his hand, and a glimpse of disappointment appeared on his face as his hopes had nothing to do with the next name and its owner. That old man sweeps his gaze and looks at a particular boy standing among the group of first people in the crowd, he was still at the same place covered in bandages, where Mayra had left him.
Rudra was feeling a lot of pain in his arms, right leg, and especially his back, somehow holding onto his current position he was standing till now but the worst thing for him was when
"Rudra, Please come forward.", as soon as the guardian called this name aloud, the whole field which was previously bustling in cheers fell silent.
Rudra walked to that crystal stone, avoiding everyone's teasing stare, the old man began giving him the instructions, but he lost in the fear of the same thing happening again didn't pay any attention.
At last, trying to calm himself and his thoughts, He inhales a deep breath and places his hand on that spiritual stone. A beam of light was then shot towards his head, and then a light flashed above his head. Taking the form of a few words.
"Energy talent doesn't show any traces, whereas the spiritual energy and body energy are weakening day by day, the energy channels have begun to shrink even more, chances of death are quite high, and chances to recover everything seems very low.", the old man shook his head in disappointment, he was also sad for Rudra.
But the young generation people present there didn't feel the same, as many people began to laugh at him. Everyone thought of him as a pathetic boy who could not live even after his desperate tries.
"heh, once a loser, always a loser!", this time it was a girl who screamed out loudly.
"Don't know why this gives me satisfaction", Sourav laughed out in Sarcasm as he slowly tried to get out of there. He turned back and walked away from the midst of the crowd.
Here even after hearing the teases, Rudra had no reaction, after being bullied and teased for one year regularly, now these things didn't affect him. But instead, His mind was completely lost somewhere else, he again and again thought about that talisman and only one sentence came to his mind.
'Curse of gods?'