The saint grabbed that pill and said, "The medicine is ready and to make this medicine you also need a specific kind of bowl especially used for medicine formation."
The saint flicked his hand and the pill disintegrated, Rudra was shocked to see this as disappointment appeared across his face.
"oh don't worry, it was all an illusion, and that pill was a very lower-level one", looking at Rudra's expression the saint explained.
"Now, medicine formation becomes easier if you already have control over a specific element, due to which you don't need any kind of special bowl to convert the ingredients into a medicine."
"but it isn't necessary that pills are more effective, according to different recipes medicines are made into different compositions or states, in which they are effective. So now that you have learned how to make medicines, You only need a recipe.", saying this the saint flicks his hands and a scroll appears in his hands, handing it over to Rudra.
"This is the rank one pill recipe, a spiritual pill recipe, this could be considered a better version of the rank one spiritual pill, it has fifteen to twenty percent chances of increasing the consumer's spiritual energy", the saint explained.
Rudra took that scroll and looked towards the saint with a question in his mind, "Is this the only rank one recipe I am getting from you?"
"yes, and if you master this recipe, I will give you a higher rank recipe.", with this being said the saint disappears with a flash of light.
As soon as the saint disappeared a strong light flashed in front of causing Rudra to close his eyes, and after a few moments when he opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the ground. He stood up and felt something in his hands. He looked at his hand only to find a scroll held within his hand.
'it wasn't a dream.', Rudra thought all of that to be a dream until he found the scroll in his hands. Rudra opened the scroll and read its title, 'Rank one spiritual pill.'
Rudra closed the scroll, it wasn't that he was not interested in that recipe but where would he bring the necessary ingredients from at midnight? Therefore to utilize his time, Rudra then decided to practice the techniques and hand mudras used by that saint, till the morning.
While Rudra was practicing those mantras and mudras said by the saint, he felt a specific movement in his body. Which was his kundalini, that began to come out of his body and into his hands. But again, the tearing chest pain emerged and all his kundalini went back into his body.
He immediately stopped focusing his energy and chanting those mantras. But he had realized that till now he was not able to practice the medicine formation easily. Therefore he again somehow began to chant those mantras and practice those hand signs. He kept repeating this process until a few hours passed way and the morning arrived.
Now Rudra was completely exhausted from the practice, and the pain in his chest increased even more, at the end he finally opened his eyes to feel the warmth of the sun's rays. Rudra instantly picked up the scroll near him and opened it. Rudra kept reading through the ingredients needed for the spiritual pill in the recipe.
Because some ingredients were common and affordable, Rudra could easily get them. But some of the ingredients caused Rudra's eyes to stretch open to such an extent that his eyeballs would drop out.
"Green line flower and spiritual somna fruit!", Rudra exclaimed.
Green line flower and spiritual Somna fruit were very expensive in the whole city. Rudra was now in a problem, where would he find these ingredients?
Rudra took a pill in his mouth and after changing his clothes he was ready to go to the marketplace again. Rudra walked out of his room and moved towards the exit, thinking about the ingredients. He had already come onto the road and was walking towards the Marketplace when again, he bumped into someone.
He raised his eyes to find the figure to be completely stunned. In front of him was a young girl who wore a purple dress, she was standing there quietly staring intently into Rudra's eyes, the calm expression on her face didn't change even under the by-passers gazes, but as she saw Rudra a beautiful smile appeared on her face.
The girl seemed to have an indifferent demeanor towards Rudra, and at such an age, she had milk-white skin, had a long and beautiful neck and her delicate fingers held onto each other tightly, it was hard to imagine how beautiful she would be in the future.
At first, Rudra wasn't able to recognize but after a few moments he found the face quite familiar, "Jahnvi!", Rudra exclaimed.
Jahnvi was Rudra's childhood friend, who came from the Storm Forge clan since both of their clans were allies and exchanged trades, therefore most of their childhood years were spent together, until six years ago after their talent awakening, Jahnvi's father sent her to the royal academy in the capital of the empire.
Royal Academy was considered the greatest academy in all of the empire, therefore everyone wished for their child to get there, even the children themselves wished it, but for some reason Rudra denied it.
That fairy girl said playfully, "Yes, aren't you happy to meet your old friend?"
At first, Rudra got confused about what to say but then, "Yes, I am happy but, I need to go somewhere."
Jahnvi stood there as Rudra walked away towards the marketplace, but she didn't seem to have any problems as she followed his trail, "Where are you going?"
"Marketplace, but it is a wonder for a girl to still follow me!", Said Rudra.
But he didn't know that Jahnvi behind him began to blush, but somehow she composed herself, "I just want to talk to you as a friend, you are the one asking away!"
"Those who were my friends turned their back on me one year ago, you are the only one who respects me even after the fall.", Rudra said with an expressionless face.
"Because I am your true friend, and once you said that only after letting go of the past regrets can you take further responsibilities for the present, no benefit in regretting for what happened. Just like that, I don't care what happened one year ago.", her young, yet beautiful voice calmed Rudra's heart.
"Hahaha, how will I take the responsibilities in the present when I am not eligible… look at me, in fact, I believe one should drop their regrets after taking their lesson, and I saw the harsh reality of this world."
Seeing Rudra's lack of vigor, her bow-like stretched brows, furrowed a bit as she said, "Rudra, I don't know what happened to you, but I have faith that one day you will rise again like the sun rises every time after its set…..", she took a short pause as her face was flushed, "guess you pale look will also return to its attractive self."
"I didn't know I was attractive!", Rudra said as he entered into an ayurvedic shop, and Jahnvi stood there, looking around, she didn't even realize when they arrived at the marketplace while talking with Rudra.
Even after being away for six years, she always kept collecting Rudra's information through her brother who lived in the city.
"Hey, wait for me!", Jahnvi said loudly as she ran into the shop.
Rudra already had 160 white stone coins, and after searching in that Ayurvedic shop, he got half of the ingredients for the spiritual pill. He then searched in other shops too, fortunately, those ingredients were common and he got them at cheap prices so easily.
Till now he had spent nearly all his coins and had only twenty of them left. But the only two ingredients that were left wouldn't come for a cheap price. Green line flower and Spiritual Somna fruit. Till now he hadn't even found a single trace for them in any of the shops.
Rudra kept searching. He now knew that he wouldn't get those important ingredients in small stores, therefore he directly went into a huge and better Ayurvedic shop in the marketplace. After all such shops have higher chances to have expensive or rare ingredients.
But still, he found nothing. After roaming in the marketplace for an hour, he finally found one of the ingredients, but it was too costly, even the low-level herbs were sold at high prices here. As the shopkeeper told him, the green line flower would cost three iron shillings.
This means in total he would need 300 white stone coins to buy the green line flower.
'Maybe I will have to arrange those white stone coins from somewhere else, but from where', Rudra was lost in finding a way to earn white stone coins.
Rudra walked out of the store, but Jahnvi stood there and kept staring at that flower.
Rudra called her to come with him but still she stood there, "Can you wait a little, I have got to do some work here!"
Rudra walked out of the shop as he was lost in his own thoughts to think of a way to arrange these two ingredients, 'Really life is a struggle', Rudra cursed as he couldn't think of what to do.
Rudra was lost in his thoughts when a person wearing a black cloak came towards him and that person's face was covered with a black mask. Rudra had already spotted that person. That person's body was covered in a normal silver-coloured Armor with some black lines drawn across it forming some specific pattern.
Rudra could easily guess from that person's figure that the person hiding inside the Armor was a Woman. Her tight Armor and clothes made her beautiful curves emerge out and look even better.
She was the same as Rudra's height and had a slim waist, whereas her hands were covered with her black sleeves, and only her delicate fingers were visible. But Rudra was shocked to see that the Girl was now walking towards him.
The girl approached him, "You want to buy a spiritual Somna fruit?"