Rudra felt a relieving sensation spread through his body, as if he was reborn, and evolved. His main energy channel felt to be strengthened as if a lock was opened. It gave him a sense that the special connection to his physical body and the earth itself had been amplified. The fear of his weakness faded away.
The opening of his first chakra made him feel a strong and stable energy in his energy channels. His physique seemed to have much better and his strength had improved. He opened his eyes, and stood up, to find that everything around him was engulfed by darkness as if he was in a vacuum.
When he looked below, he was shocked that he stood on nothing but in an empty space. That whole area was an empty space. Out of nowhere, Rudra heard the sounds of crackling as he felt lightning run through his body.
A certain power began to circulate through his energy channels along with his kundalini. A pure jolting energy. Following this that miraculous power broke into that empty space world. That energy streaked a blue-colored arc across the empty space, it was gorgeous, magnificent, crackling with lightning.
The blue arc was the only thing to emit a little bit of light in that empty world, as Rudra focused on that arc, more lightning crackled out of it. Rudra was confused about what was happening yet he was also excited.
Rudra noticed that all the lightning charges from that blue arc began to come along and materialize into a specific form. While it came into a form it let out a lot of light that would blind anyone. After a few moments, a blue lightning symbol came out to be revealed, which illuminated the whole area.
The whole symbol seemed to be constituted out of lightning and was the only light source in that dark world. But what was weird was that Rudra felt another energy, which was quite furious and generated heat in his body as it traveled through his channels.
This was when that miraculous energy too invaded that empty space and illuminated it. That energy streaked a blazing arc in that empty space as if asteroids were being bombarded. The blazing arc went through the same process as the lightning arc, and the fire energy generated from it came together, materializing into a blazing fire symbol.
Rudra was completely filled with happiness and excitement. According to what Rudra knew, the symbols that appeared like this within anyone, composed of a specific element or power, represented one's talent.
Rudra had learned that those symbols represent one's energy talents. These symbols are the cores of energy talent, they keep getting developed as one further progresses ahead in their energy talent cultivation. If the symbols get developed, one's talent will also get more powerful.
There were also specific paths to cultivate the energy talents according to the attribute they provided, also any further progress in the path would develop the talent symbols and grant more powers to the individual accordingly.
When Rudra saw the two elemental energy symbols, he realized that these two were resembling his energy talent. One resembled the lightning and the other resembled the fire. Among the people in the whole world, each can awake only a single energy talent, whether elemental or ability-based. But the fact that here Rudra had dual elemental talent, could cause anyone to go enough mad to attempt to jump off from the roof.
'Heavens!!', Rudra felt as if he was suddenly knocked out of sense from happiness.
The appearance of the Lightning Element had made him go wild with joy. With the Fire Element emerging, and becoming a natural Dual Elemental talent user, he felt like he was about to cry from such intense joy!
As he already had knowledge about saint cultivators, Rudra knew that having an additional elemental talent would always give him the advantage to stay ahead of others, ahead of even the saint cultivators at the same chakra as him on the terms of power and elemental combat prowess.
It was like a hunting competition. The people could only participate with one name registered and bitterly battled against the monsters to gather resources. Whereas, he himself could register with two names. The most important factor was that he could combine the benefit earned from hunting with both names and take all the resources for him only, that is his elemental combat prowess would be 1+1 = 2.
This was too good, although energy talent was considered a side pawn by every warrior, he had dual talent, and he would obviously have much more benefit than others. The fear and complex emotions of him being weak and not being able to resist the bullies were cleansed at that very moment.
Rudra realized that if with all these factors in his favor, he worked hard and gave his all to the cultivation no one on the same level as him would be able to beat him, he would be at the peak of that level.
Although Rudra was very happy right now, the show of the mystical fruit wasn't over. Rudra started to feel that his body was still absorbing cosmic energy at insane speed. If he doesn't utilize it the only result will be his energy channels would burst out, leading to his death.
With this fear, Rudra had only one way. To nourish his chakra through the absorbed cosmic energy and jump to the next stage of his first chakra, if he had the chance, he decided to use it to his advantage. As soon as Rudra focused all the cosmic energy towards his first chakra, his chakra began to spin and absorb all that energy. With this, his kundalini again began to circulate through his whole body.
As his chakra absorbed more cosmic energy the spinning speed of his chakra increased and his kundalini was being increased together as well. Repeating this cycle for a while, Rudra felt as if his kundalini broke a minor lock in the rest of his energy channels, hence he unlocked the next stage of his first chakra.
Which meant, he had reached the second stage of his first chakra! After a few moments, the effect of the mystical fruit had finally begun to calm down. Rudra took a deep breath as he opened his eyes, unbeknownst to him, there was a spark of lightning as well as fire in his eyes.
Rudra stood up, and with a shine that cooperated with excitement in his eyes. He charged his fist, his increased kundalini flowing to that fist, making his fist release an insane power, Rudra launched out his black line punch.
*Boom
As soon as his powerful fist landed on the rock in front of him, instantly a lot of crevices began to spread across the rock, and in just a few moments the rock broke into pieces and crumbled down. There was no limit to Rudra's happiness, he had a mixture of emotions flooding inside him right now.
Rudra wanted to test himself. And for now, the most exhausting thing he could do was to form medicines. Rudra immediately took out the rank 2 medicine recipe that he had gotten. Upon reading through the recipe, the first few words as a heading were, "Bone strengthening pill."
It was a pill, that would strengthen one's bones to a certain level. However it was a low-level bone-strengthening pill and didn't have much effect, but even a little bit of its effect and its value could make two clans like Rudra's skambha clan go on conflicts with each other.
Rudra took out his ingredient box from his spatial sack bag. In that ingredient box, he nearly found everything needed for the bone-strengthening pill. But one thing was missing.
'Red somniferra cherry.'
Which he had to find right now. But in the dense forest, it could be hard for him to find, after all in this dense forest he could even lose way and get lost forever. Rudra moved the rock out of the entrance of the cave. He hid the cave entrance by moving the rock back to its front.
Where Rudra was standing, from that spot there were two ways, to his right was the way to the city, and to his left was the forest. Rudra chose the way to his left. Rudra knew that he had to very carefully guide through that forest as it would get denser as he got deeper into it.
But the biggest concern was that the forest at the end connected to the Nikhaali mountain range in the south, which was popular for giving shelter to one of the most dangerous beasts, deep into the forest range.
However, the beasts never dared to enter the city areas and stayed happy in the forest ranges, until one would go rogue and in the end would get terminated by the high-class warriors. But there have been many cases of travelers who get lost and are unaware of the fact that they have entered the beast range, ending up being ripped apart by the powerful beasts.
Walking through the forest Rudra noticed that the trees were getting higher and its leaves were getting more dense, but somehow he moved ahead very carefully. On his way, he also found many small ruins or stone paths mixed into the mud leading through the forest and then they disappeared.
These paths helped Rudra a lot and guided him through the safest path of the forest. But he knew that along the safest path, he would not find the valuables, therefore he began to find them in the surroundings as well.
On the other part of the same forest was a group that walked through the mudded path of the forest. Their steps crushed the dry leaves generating footsteps.
"Boss, boss, boss!", A voice was crying out in fear from that group.
"Stop barking like a dog!", another voice which seemed to lose its temper screamed.
"from the beginning, I didn't want to come in this spooky forest, but you all forced me!", that voice cried out again.
"You are feared of these forest trees even in daylight, come on be a man?", the low-tempered one argued.
"Stop arguing like a pair of chickens in a rainstorm! We've got a mission to accomplish.", a calm voice shouted at both of them.
"So, Jalraa, what is our mission.", Another member of the group asked the leader of their group Jalraa.
"Master Masaan has sent us here to acquire a special herb called Red somniferra cherry.", Jalraa replied.
"Red somnifera cherry, what is this herb used for why does master need it?"
"Even I don't know Heeru, he just needs it.", Jalraa said.
"Heeru, Leksha, and Anan, you all be careful and keep searching for that herb, we must find it.", Jalraa ordered them.