Rudra walked through the streets as he tried to hide himself, his whole body and face were covered with sweat, and he wasn't even able to walk properly due to the chest pain that emerged due to excessive use of his spiritual energy to control himself in front of Parika
''My chest!.'', Rudra screamed as he entered an alleyway, removed his mask, and ate a medicinal pill to relieve himself. Then he kept all the other things in the spatial bag and went straight towards the clan mansion.
But then he remembered something and ran in another direction in the marketplace. After running for a while Rudra came into the area where he could find techniques for himself. It was a part of the market where different types of things were sold. Rudra expected to find a suitable and low-price technique here.
In some shops, armor and weapons were being sold, whereas in some bracelets, necklaces, hairbands and many more were being sold, and some were pottery shops filled with amazing pieces of art. Rudra went into one of the stores where he could get a technique, he was finding a low-level technique at first for practice.
He approached many shops and found many leaf tablets, but after getting their information he lost interest in them. Some of them were intermediate-level and were not even suitable for him right now. He also got a lot of low-level techniques but those too weren't suitable for him and he kept searching for techniques calmly.
After searching in a few shops, when Rudra arrived at the other shop he spotted four special boxes kept in a corner of that shop. There were a total of four of those boxes, and Rudra knew they contained techniques or something very special.
Rudra asked the shopkeeper, "What's inside these boxes?"
The shopkeeper replied, "These boxes contain special techniques ranging from low-level type 3 to intermediate type 3."
Rudra felt a bit of hope that he could find what he was looking for. "Can you please show these techniques?"
The shopkeeper agrees and takes out a key to open the boxes. As soon as he inserted the key and twisted it the box popped open suddenly. The box was unlocked, inside that box was a leaf tablet, which the shopkeeper handed to Rudra.
Rudra carefully took that leaf tablet and carefully opened it to read its contents. He reads through it,
"Black line punch"
"low-level type 3 technique.
"it is one of the best techniques among the low-level ones, it's name black line punch consists of the main context of this technique, the punch delivered through this technique is too fast, that it is only visible as a blurry shadow, together with the movement of the hand, that blurry shadow of the fist forms a black shadowy line, therefore the black line punch.
To practice it the hand muscles need to be strengthened with high agility, with this technique one could penetrate through the opponent's defense and can be used in hand-to-hand combats as well. The mantra for this technique is given below", Rudra then reads through that mantra and all the other things about the technique. After reading through all its contents, Rudra got interested in it as it seemed suitable for him.
"I would like to buy this, what's its cost?", Rudra's eyes sparkled with a hint of excitement and cooperated with interest for that technique.
"Six iron shillings!", the shopkeeper counts on his fingers and declares the price of that technique.
Rudra hesitated and sighed as he took out six iron shillings from his spatial sack bag, and exchanged it with the shopkeeper for that technique. Now Rudra decided to go to an Ayurveda shop.
But on his way, he found a crowd that had gathered blocking the path. It seemed as if some fight was going on.
Rudra in his struggle to cross through this street fight heard the screams of some men getting beaten by a girl, this was when one of those men came flying in his direction, but luckily, he dodged the flying man who hit the wall and fell down.
Rudra looked back to find the girl who was beating the pulp out of those men was Jahnvi, "What is she doing here?"
Rudra looked around to find a muscular man standing in front of Jahnvi with a smirk, "How can you be so stone-hearted! I brought these beautiful flowers for you and you threw them and also beat my friends?"
This man was Kaman, one of the only practitioner-level young generation members of the skambha clan.
"Although the flowers were beautiful, I can't withstand even a single rag for Rudra", she said in a calm and composed tone.
But as Jahnvi's gaze fell on Rudra who stood there watching her, the calm expressions on her face were replaced with a blush as she was flushed out, "Rudra!"
"What are you doing here?"
"Nothing, just having a trip here, but why are you here"
"I am searching for some medicinal herbs mind helping me?", asked Rudra.
"Sure why not!", said Jahnvi as she dragged Rudra with him.
Jahnvi had begun to act like a child as soon as she saw Rudra whereas before that people even feared enclosing her. Seeing her always value Rudra more than him Kamlaan clenched his hands and as he looked towards Rudra in anger, "Rudra!", he gritted his teeth.
Rudra had plans to buy more ingredients and form more spiritual pills to earn enough money to buy his favorite techniques. Also, he was aware that if he got a rank 2 recipe from that saint, he needed more money to afford the ingredients.
Jahnvi followed Rudra as she asked, "What ingredients do you want to buy?"
"Ingredients to make a medicine that could heal me!" After, hearing this Jahnvi didn't disturb Rudra and just followed him, she also helped him after watching his efforts to find the ingredients.
Rudra began by buying the cheapest ingredients needed for the spiritual pill. But still, he didn't find a few more ingredients including spiritual somna fruit and green line flower. These two were Rudra's greatest concern, but for now, keeping them aside he had decided to search for other ingredients first. At last, he entered an ordinary-looking shop that had only a few customers.
"Jahnvi, it will take more time, I think you should go back home.", Rudra said as he entered the shop, and Jahnvi just stood outside waiting. She sighed as she went to another shop for techniques.
Here, Inside the shop, he found a boy nearly of his age behind the counter desk. People were looking for medicines or ingredients around that shop while, he sat behind the desk and was reading a book. Rudra went to the counter, "Hey!"
That boy raised his head and asked in a polite manner with a smile, "Yes, how can I help you?"
"Do you have the mist shade grass!", asked Rudra.
"Sorry sir, you will have to wait, let me check.", the boy said as he kept the book on the desk and ran into the room right behind the counters. This was when Rudra's glance fell on that book's pages. On one of those pages, he spotted the figure of a specific kind of fruit. Rudra out of curiosity turned the page to read it.
"Mystical fruit. A special type of fruit that can help one break through their cha….", as Rudra went to read further ahead a voice interrupted him.
"How dare you touch my book?", With that the shopkeeper snatched the book from Rudra.
"I just got a little interested, but do you have the mist shade grass?", Rudra tried to change the topic.
"No!"
When Rudra heard this, he lost hope and decided to come the next day again to search for the remaining ingredients. But as he turned back something suddenly clicked in his mind, "Mystical fruit.", he muttered.
Rudra asked the shopkeeper with intentions to inquire about that fruit, "Do you know anything about a fruit called mystical fruit?"
The shopkeeper boy's expression changed as if he hadn't expected such a question, "No, I don't know what kind of fruit you are talking about?"
It was pretty obvious that he was pretending. With this Rudra had noticed it. Of course, he had spotted the figure of that fruit in the book, if that boy was reading that book then he should know about the fruit.
Clearly, Rudra understood that the boy needed something in exchange for that information. Therefore he opened his sack bag and taking out two iron shillings showed them to the shopkeeper as he said, "Listen, if you give me even the slightest detail about it, I will give you two iron shillings"
The boy still refused as he shook his head.
"Four iron shillings!", Rudra directly doubled the prize.
"No", that boy seemed to be determined on his decision as he refused again.
"Six iron shillings!", Rudra again increased the price with the hope that this time the boy would tell him something.
This time the boy didn't reply as six iron shillings caused him to think.
"fine!", this time the boy agreed.
"so you give the information first and I will give you the iron shillings.", Rudra said with a smile.
The boy agreed as he didn't suspect Rudra, "Mystical fruit is a special fruit. It grows up gathering and absorbing cosmic energy, it has a lot of cosmic energy stored inside it after it fully matures. The fruit is considered a mystical fruit because it always keeps absorbing direct cosmic energy to keep itself alive.
The cosmic energy absorbed by it gets condensed into liquid and gets mixed inside the liquid of that fruit. After anyone consumes that fruit, no matter what way they use to cultivate, the fruit can help them improve or even break through to the next stage.
It's even beneficial for the Saint Way users, as it could help their kundalini to improve or break through the chakra barrier. Therefore the mystical fruit is considered one of the rarest, valuable, and most demanding items in the world", That boy takes a deep breath as he explains.
"Mystical fruit is classified into different levels, and different levels of mystical fruits contain a certain amount of cosmic energy according to their level, and people on certain level need mystical fruit of a particular level, or a higher level one could exert so much energy that the body couldn't resist and will explode into pieces."
"Right now I only know about two levels of mystical fruit, which are Rank 1 and Rank 2.", saying all this the boy took a deep breath and sat down on his chair.
This was like a piece of good news for Rudra, if he could get a mystical fruit then he would be able to break his first chakra barrier. But the main problem was where could he find it?
"where could I find this Mystical fruit?", Rudra murmured to himself.
But the boy in front of him heard it and a smile appeared on his face.
The boy raised one of his fingers, "He heh, Sir, looks like I have the information that you need, but I need one more iron shilling for that and there is also a condition."