"If you are going to the southern district to meet your friends, then take a Thoughtlink Rune with you. We will stay connected and when are you going to tell King about this?" Dr. Einstein voiced his concerns with a sense of urgency.
"Maybe never... I mean he will freak out" Aldric tried to dodge the question," You made a Thoughlink Rune earlier this time"
Dr Einstein appeared to be deep in thought," I probably did that because we needed to explore those strange locations and those strange locations appeared because you time travelled, so it is like a butterfly effect"
"Whatever effect but what does this thought rune you speak of can do"
"It can make voice travel with the help of vi-shakti-tejas and some vague images as well, it took some time but it can record the surroundings for some time" More or less it can also work like a video recorder.
"That is some extra features. Setup that for me but remember to keep everyone away from looking after me and don't tell them that we are connected with thoughtlink rune, OK?"
"Got it"
Thoughtlink rune is like a device with which one can send a voice message to another person with the same pair of thoughtlink runes. It was made up of many metals with which one can use the vi-shakti-tejas to record and send voice messages as well as receive them. It looked like a modern-day smartphone but wide and very heavy like 5 kg. It was like a heavy black stone and had a place to put the thumb to run vi-shakti-tejas and record, that place to place the thumb was at the on-screen fingerprint sensor, it had numerous copper lines going through it.
Aldric got out of the lab like a pro and no one could notice him.
Then he went to a place like a metro station, where one can take the overpriced trains to go anywhere in the city except the eastern district because people love to live a fake life of money and power.
This vehicle has an outer structure like a train and it works like a roller coaster where it first takes in energy to go up the tracks with the help of magnetism very inefficiently and weirdly. Then it goes down with speed but overall it is still very slow. For Aldric, it was one of the best means of transport as there would be many people inside the trains, and it would be easier for him to hide.
After many hours he reached his destination. He was still wearing the white lab coat and this time normal clothes as well so that if necessary he could abandon the lab coat. He had a perfect disguise and that was his face as excluding a few people no one in the world knows how he looks.
'I have to get to Rakesh's cafe, my friends are always there after the military academy.' Aldric thought while eating a few cookies he stole from the doctor, 'Palak works there and those idiots even placed their own table in the cafe to always have a table in the cafe... They might be in that table'.
He made his way to Rakesh's cafe in like ten minutes, while walking he abandoned his lab coat.
He soon made it to Rakesh's cafe which was not very good looking when looking at the cafes around it. The cafe was large in size, looked ugly and had many tables, it had a second floor where people could talk and do meetings and that was the place where Aldric's friends owned a table as the cafe had a lot of space on the second floor also Palak was sister of one of the friends of Aldric, who worked there.
Aldric went to the second floor of the cafe, where three men with cards were playing a game on a table on the farthest corner of the second floor, when Aldric arrived and sat next to them they did not even pay attention and just kept playing cards while making bets like that a group of broke friends would make as the winner does not have to pay the bill today.
"Stop playing the cards..." When Aldric said this even the air did not move," I will say again, stop playing" Aldric laughed but the game was too intense for them to stop, "Fine, then this what you deserve" Aldric then used his powers of the Phantom path to create multiple hands and then took away all the cards from their hands.
"What the..", "Who did that ?", "Rakesh!!!"
"AAhhh.. It's this kid" shouted Mukesh who was sitting right beside Aldric, when Aldric caught all the cards in his hand.
"Didn't Mommy and Daddy tell you to not mess up with the military? If they didn't I am telling you, say sorry and walk away"
"What if I didn't?" Aldric said with a straight face while nodding, "What can you do?"
"Suresh just grab him and in a single punch he will know the power of the military"
"Oh kid, just say sorry and walk away we don't want to hit you," said Suresh.
In just a second more than six hands came out of the back of Aldric and hit the three of them. One got nose broken, one got hit in the jaw and the last Mukesh got hit in the stomach.
"AAAA.... You had to say I am strong idiots and we would have said anything" Mukesh cried out in pain while lying on the ground.
"Now all of you sit down on your chairs"
"Ok, boss... Ouch.. Help me, Suresh," Said Mukesh while getting help from Suresh whose one hand was on his broken nose.
"Now listen to me and you will not disturb me till I am finished"
"What did you break this time?" shouted Rakesh who spawned right behind Aldric.
Aldric grew a third arm and gave Rakesh 10 gold coins, "Thank you, whoever you are, because these close-fisted people have over two months of credits.."
As soon as Rakesh was finished saying this, a woman's voice came from the start of the second floor which said," Rakesh... Rakesh... I heard you lost 50 gold coins in gambling yesterday... where are you?... ahh.. found you." She was a young woman probably in her 30s but currently, but she looked like a devil when she said that and then she took her sandal in her hand and threw that thing at poor Rakesh. The sandal was coming right at Rakesh and just a microsecond before it could hit him a green coloured Phantom hand stopped it from hitting Rakesh. It was a total Superman moment, the three idiots started clapping and Rakesh looked back at Aldric and said in appreciation with a smile on his face," Thanks boss"
"Now go away and don't disturb me, I have some work with these idiots", Aldric spoke with almost no emotion on his face. Rakesh nodded and with the sandal in his hand walked towards his wife and handed her the sandal.
"Same instructions as before don't disturb me before I finish" Aldric spoke and placed both of his hands on the table while looking into the eyes of the three idiots.
"Listen when I was 16 years old, I had an instructor who was an earth type catalyst because my powers were somewhat similar to hers and we both did not like to study. So, we went to slack off with a secret passage from the palace to the theatres. That is where I met you because all of you didn't have money so you entered the theaters illegally and I saw you one day. Slowly we became friends and after some more years, I told you three that I was the Prince and you started respecting me. That was when I was 21 or something, after that for many years we stayed together and caused some... no actually many trouble for the capital city and at that time I was like 40 or something we joined an army of-" Aldric saw Rajesh, one of the three idiots having his hand up like he wanted to ask a question, " OK ask"
"We don't remember seeing any instructor," Rajesh spoke as if he had solved the most difficult question in the world.
"Yeah... Yeah..." Mukesh and Suresh followed right after.
"Also you don't look 40 or something sir, very well-maintained" Mukesh added his compliment.
"Ture... Absolutely true... Mad respect" Suresh and Rajesh said together.
With another set of instructions and a smack on the head of three of them, they listened to the story till the end as Dr Einstein did.
"So you time travelled and you are like from the future..."
"Like those people from plays" Suresh was taking out the theater plays.
"So what are the orders captain" Said Mukesh in a very professional manner, like a soldier asking questions to his captain.
"We are going to kill that demon Parikshit or we should call him 'Dreadbane' from now on."
"Mad respect... Truly mad respect for you going after the best elite soldier in the country... but don't you think we can summon him and just kill him when he is asleep."
"No, many people in my past life tried that tactic on him and none of them ever survived." Aldric scratched his head and said," We need to find him and kill him because there is a very good chance that he doesn't know that I have all the memories from my past life."
"Just one more question, why did you betray him after everything he did for you" Rajesh looked down at the table, expressing his sadness for Parikshit.
"I didn't want to, I was ordered... OK?" Aldric almost shouted and then calmed in a second and spoke," Great mother Savitri ordered me to kill this demon... It was not my decision."