Late morning… Inside the small crow forest…
Mohini lazily oped her eyes to see Kt, who is sitting before the pond in a meditative posture. She hurriedly stood up to take a closer look, as she felt something was wrong with Kt’s posture.
“Is he unconscious?!” Mohini muttered while observing the body condition of Kt. Ev though Kt sat in mediative posture, his breath is very slow, and his body metabolism is very weak at the momt.
“Master, you finally woke up!” Lambu, who is resting beside the boulder in pig form, oinked with a painful face.
“What happed with the young master?” Mohini asked, thinking of possible reasons for Kt’s currt condition.
“I don’t know. He practiced a movemt-restricting arrow spell on the fish and me for the tire night. Suddly, he stopped his practice and stared at the movemt in the water for a long time. I swam in deep water, worried that he might have found any mistake in my transformation. By the time I came up, he sat like that.”
Lambu replied, fluttering his eyes before standing with a painful groan. Due to the rapid movemt in the water for an tire night, Lambu’s body is aching with pain.
After hearing Lambu’s reply, Mohini stared at Kt closely, checking for any internal injuries. But Kt seemed fine, except for the peculiar condition.
Lambu also found something wrong with Kt and moved along with Mohini to take a closer look.
“Madam, is the young master expericing the Samadhi (lightmt) state?” Lambu, who woke up to see the situation, asked Mohini as she is observing Kt from a close distance.
“No… It’s not Samadhi. He is still breathing, and his body’s metabolism is still functioning at a slow pace. It seems like he is expericing awaking.” Mohini replied without moving her gaze from Kt.
“Awaking!?” Lambu muttered with wide, op eyes.
[Awaking: ‘Logical realization’]
“But, madam, the young master didn’t achieve 0% proficicy in any spell. How can he experice awaking?” Lambu asked with a confused gaze.
“How could I know? Ev if one achieves 0% proficicy in a spell, it is not guaranteed that he will experice awaking. So, we just wait and see how it turns out.” Mohini replied, walking back to the large boulder.
Inside the subconscious space, Kt’s thoughts were moving at a rapid pace as he stared at the image of wind movemt. The wind chain arrow spell played repeatedly before him.
He saw several variations in wind chain formation and its effect. Till now, the wind chain arrow spell played more than ,000 times before him. Kt thoughts still struck on the two main forces that were guiding the wind chains.
While Kt is immersed in the world of wind chains, an uproar rose in the Sky family wizard school.
A magic flyer is circulating all a the campus, and more than new posts have be created about it in the school forum.
The headline of the magic flyer is “Fat King chose Kt… The role out is :.”
[: rollout means that if Kt loses, Fatty needs to pay a double paymt. Kt is Fatty’s default winner pick. Other gamblers can bet against Kt, but they need to bet with Fatty.]
Blackie purposely bought a magic flyer by spding gold and circulated the news about gambling picks for the upcoming tournamt. He purposefully highlighted Fatty B’s pick at the top, and below he mtioned other people’s picks.
Inside the big food hall of the Sky family, Paul stood on a wood table and began addressing all the disciples.
“Hello everyone! As you all know, Fatty King chose Kt this time, and the rollout is :. It is a gold opportunity for you to double your savings. So, please bring out all the stored money; if possible, take a loan and bet on the first game itself.
As Kt can’t surpass the first against young master Arul, I suggest you use the only chance of your life to double your coins.”
Paul finished his speech with a smiling face, and the disciples began clapping and shouting with thusiastic cries.
“Young master Paul, we heard you have partnered with Red Fox. Is that true?” One of Paul’s lackeys, who is pre-arranged, asked in a loud tone, grabbing everyone’s atttion.
Maintaining his proud look, Paul replied… “Yes, I have partnered with Red Fox, and we picked Mia Snow as our candidate. For your information, we have gathered more than 500 gold coins. So, please show your support and actively participate to win a large sum.”
“Wahhh….’ A loud clamor broke as they heard 500 cold coins, which are multiple times the family money of several disciples.
“Paul… Paul… Paul…” As the lackeys began shouting Paul’s name, excited disciples joined.
Meanwhile, Fatty B, who received the news through his lackeys, did not dismiss the : pay roll or condemn the disciples who were posting negatively in the school forum.
“Let it be. This is my last bet.” Eighth, it is victory or fall; let fate decide.” Fatty muttered, counting the new-label tickets st by the gambling syndicate for the tournamt.
A gold rat is printed on each ticket, and they came in differt colors. Fatty is preparing everything for the stall set up at the trance of the ara, as he already received permission from the Sky family school.
Red Fox, Blackie, and Whitey already prepared their stalls before the Ara trance. In order to highlight Fatty B, they kept the best spot near the trance gate for Fatty.
On the other side, the Sky family estate, situated behind the school gs, prepared a grand trance, waiting for the respectful elder of the Autumn Wind sect. The patriarch and all the elders, including Thea, were standing before the estate trance, and the patriarch and his family stood in front.
A band of musicians got ready with their wands to announce the arrival of the esteemed elder.
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Thank you for reading…