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Chapter 2 - "You can't be him"(2)

The doctor moved his hand towards the greenish colour hand that came out as the third hand of Aldric," This is the Phantom Path, just like that book" The doctor touched the hand and continued," Same as what the book said, it is solid and can take any shape the user wants.... You can't be Prince Aldric".

The doctor was sure that he was Aldric by the fact that Aldric was the only one in the world to have the powers of the forgotten Phantom Path which he got with the help of an experiment.

"But I am... I am Aldric" Aldric said while changing his palm into a flower.

"We need to talk but alone... I need to tell you a lot" Aldric said while the doctor was not ready to accept that a 2 year old boy who had been in a coma for 17 long years, woke up and got out of bed and then somehow ended up in his horse carriage behind a teddy bear.

"You want this" The little girl saw that Aldric looked very weak and thin so she offered him a cookie, Aldric took it and Dr. Enstien snatched it back, then ate it himself.

"We need to get inside the lab right now" Aldric urged the doctor.

"Ok but first I need to leave her home"

"Ok... "

They took a U-turn and left the granddaughter of the doctor at her home while Aldric and the doctor continued towards the lab which was a few hours away.

Meanwhile, the driver did not know anything because it was soundproof and every time they had to give any instruction they had to open a lid, that was the only way to make the driver hear any instruction.

Dr. Einstein kept on asking about how he ended up here and how was he even able to talk and walk but Aldric only said once they reached the lab he would explain everything.

After a few hours, they reached the lab and while entering Aldric wore the doctor's lab coat so that no one would know who he was. Well, they will think that he was some sort of a patient who ran from a hospital.

They reached the private cabin of the grand lab where Aldric closed the door and carefully observed the surroundings.

"Now tell me everything right now." As soon as he finished saying this, someone was coming near the doctor's cabin, possibly one of his subordinates.

"Someone is coming, I will be under our desk"

"What?.." The door opened and a man in a lab coat greeted the doctor and said, "Doctor aren't you supposed to be at the royal palace? The message did not reach you?"

"No, I got the message, it is just I have... urgent work to do"

"Ok... I have a new message" That man in the coat got excited and smiled while he said," It came from the royal palace, The Prince said he had the blessing of the great mother and he has the brain of a 19 year old boy and the most shocking thing is that he vanished from the palace, now no one knows where he is, can you believe that?"

"Maybe anything is possible in the world, and after all, it is the great mother," said the Doctor.

"Yeah, that's the message... I will be on my way doctor" said the man in a lab coat who got out of the cabin, even though there was a glass wall, still from outside you can not see inside but from inside, the outside of the cabin was visible.

"He is gone, now come out" Aldric crawled out of the desk and then he kept looking outside. He was trying to make sure that no one would eavesdrop on them.

"Ok, I will keep it sweet and short... And you will not say anything before I finish" Aldric said while he sat on a chair and Dr. Einstein was standing near the desk.

"So when I was two years old... Everything was fine and it was all normal... Like I grew normally and when I was 10, my trainer and I went to a treater to slack off. When I was 16, I was already a refinement rank 2. When I was 32 I was refinement rank 3. I don't remember but in a year or two after that, my father, The King gave me to that demon to teach me discipline and so that he could put some manner inside of me-"

"Demon? Who is Demon?"

"Dreadbane, Whitedeath or maybe you know him as Parikshit Kuru, he was one of the sickest people alive right now. he is... OK let's leave him for now... After that, for about 40 years or something I fought alongside him and he became the best ally. He and I were both literally feared by the enemies, my ship, him and abomination, no one could defeat us.

"He was the general of the army, I was the vice general... We had only an army of 2000 men, which was the least amount of soldiers in any army at that time, the minimum requirement to join our army was to have at least a C+ aptitude.

"At our peak, we had 200 B graders and 2 A graders in a single army, we were the army of generals. We were so strong that for the next 20 or so years we fought all of the strongest armies in the world and only a few could even hold us for more than 3 days. My father died, I became the King" He did not tell the fact that he was the one who got his father killed.

He continued, "We trusted each other so much and we became the strongest in the world and wherever we went, we won... we won everything there was.

"He made me the king of the whole world, no one in the world had the same authority as me or him. But then I betrayed him and killed him on the order of the great mother which led us to time travel and I fell into a coma because I had refinement rank 6 before the time travel happened and after that, I was in a 2 year old's body, my habit of making the blood run fast backfired."

"So you time travelled and the story that you made up about the great mother giving you blessing was made up by you to escape from the royal palace."

"Yes, I made it up."

"Are you sure you were not dreaming in that coma, maybe you just saw all of that in that dream and now you are thinking of time travel."

"NO, if I was dreaming into a freaking coma then how would I know you and how would I escape from the royal palace or even walk or talk to you while having the memories and brain of a two year old."

"If you time travelled, then that means you are the only lucky person who time travelled like I did not do the time travel"

"You are already 120 or something now and by the time of Parikshit's death, you were long gone, how can you time travel."

'Is it really possible to time travel in the past... I visited his bed a year ago and he was in a coma, according to the message timing and him coming here are all in sync. If not for time travel what else can give a two year old the ability to talk and walk' Dr Einstein was thinking about the possibility of whether is it really time travel or not.

"What are you thinking now?"

"So every other entity that was alive by the time of Parikshit's death, time travelled or is it just you"

"I believe it is only me or there has to be someone claiming to be coming from the past, you tell I was in a coma"

"Nobody, the world was normal... wait maybe not"

"What do you mean?"

"The time when you fell into the coma, the same time strange thing started to appear like when people crossed certain ways they were getting late or early from their expected time and those ways had strange phenomena like they were a gust of wind extremely fast and a second later the wind is gone, the trees stopped moving as if the wind was never there or some animals moving too fast or something moving too slow when you look far away.

"There were many abnormalities in the predictions, that also started at the same time. The predictions were very bad, almost all of them failed to determine the correct time. So, all of this happened because you time-travelled in the past."

"Maybe I am not the only one, Parikshit, he was executed and not even his ashes remained but all of this happened right after that, maybe he also had all the memories of his past life.

"What is he doing right now?"

"Wait" the doctor went to look for a file in his locker, " I keep a record of every interesting fellow and magicians are always interesting... Found it.

"Parikshit Kuru, possibly the only magician on the planet. He is from a remote village far south, in the kingdom of Rudrpur which is an ally of Swargadari, he is a disciple of a person who is known as the invincible Arden. He killed an elite soldier who was also his assassinator when he was only... 19 with the help of magicians' capabilities. When asked by the invincible Arden about his sword techniques, he said someone came in his village and taught him while Arden still does not believe that statement."

"Wait... the invincible Arden was his master who taught him sword... When did this happen?"

"Exactly the next day you went into a coma"

"This explains a lot and they did not cross-check in his village about the origins of his sword techniques which resembled Arden's sword welding techniques."

"This report said that the villagers said that the story may be true because what he said happened but they had no idea he was on the level of an elite soldier"

"Continue..."

"Then he went on and killed another elite soldier soon after that. When he turned 20 he faced his first war and by that time he was promoted to the rank of an elite soldier despite him not fulfilling the requirements. He did great in his first war after that there is not much info about him. After that he came here to the capital to train with the soldiers for a whole year, this was when he was 28. In World War 322, he was 31 and he finished the war at number 2, in the ranking of elite soldiers.

"He is on a different level than the rest of the elite soldiers, the number one was B- grade at the start of the war, so he was not recognised as a general. He is almost a general at this point. The only other piece of information that can be useful is that he loves to travel the world and has been spotted at different locations throughout the country."

"He is too different from what he was in his past life. What do you people call him?"

"Currently he is just called Magician."

"Why didn't he kill me? After all these years he had such a good chance"

"Me, the director of the research institute of Astradhal, your father and mother, are the only people to see you other than the doctors like the royal doctor and a few of his assistants."

"Now what?.... Maybe I have an idea, you have to make new artefacts that can help me use my powers more freely. Make one for the faster flow of vi-shakti-tejas, one for... precise control and copy the B grade version of Magniflux."

"B grade version of magniflux... You know it might take years to do that"

"I know you can do it and in my past life, you figured it out in 5 days. Also, message the royal palace that... I came to meet you and give them the same story about the great mother. Tell them that I was with you and then I left for somewhere, you have no idea, I left to fulfil the orders of the great mother. Just do this much and give me some normal clothes and a lot of money 'cause I am going toward the residential area. It will be a long journey."

"Why?"

"To meet my friends."