Rudra looked in the direction that sound had come from, there was a young man who looked a little similar to Bhavan and was trying to control his anger.
"Ugh, why?", Rudra murmured to himself as he didn't want any problems in his happy day.
'Havan', the twin brother of Bhavan. Although they were twins Havan had more talent than Bhavan.
"Rudra, you dare to hit my brother, when I am here?"
"He was the one who made me dare to do it.", Rudra gave a simple answer.
"Then let's see if I too can make you do that.", Havan said as he punched Rudra.
Saying this Havan ran towards Rudra and threw his fist. But again Rudra was able to avoid it. But when Rudra moved his hands for the counterattack, he felt a strong grip on his hands that had stopped him from performing his countermove.
Rudra shifted his gaze towards the hand that had stopped him, and following through the arm, he saw the face of a young man similar to the age of Havan. That young man pushed both Rudra and Havan away.
"What are you two doing here? And Havan didn't master Bhisam called you to meet him, what are you doing here?", the young man said.
"But, Devesh, didn't you see what he did to my brother?", Havan said to the young man.
The young man named, 'Devesh', argued back, "He got the beating for his habit of bullying! Instead, he should even apologize to Rudra, and you as well!"
"Devesh, do you even know what you are talking about?", Havan moved towards Devesh.
"look Havan, it won't be any better if you push this matter any further.", Devesh said as he stopped Havan at his spot.
"You…", Havan gave up at last as he went to Bhavan lifted him, and walked away to get his brother treated.
"Thanks for this help, senior Devesh.", Rudra said as he greeted Devesh with a 'namaste'.
Devesh was Jahnvi's elder brother.
"Don't mention it, after all, it's been a long since we met."
"Yeah, you are right senior, I am feeling a little better after meeting you! But I came here for something else!"
"What is that?"
"Actually I have to pay a debt of someone important from your clan."
"Can I know who it is? Maybe I could be of some help?"
"Actually, I would first like to meet Jahnvi, I came here after I hadn't met her for a long time.", Rudra sighed as he said.
"Oh, haha, why not… why not?", Devesh said hesitantly as he took Rudra to Jahnvi.
In the beautiful garden near the clan base, filled with flowers and trees near a pond stood a beautiful girl wearing a green dress, she stood there calmly with her eyes closed. The gust of winds blew her hair and the ends of her dress gracefully.
Following the wind, she begins to weave and swing her sword together. She weaved her sword in such a way that she seemed very experienced in the sword combat techniques. As if she had mastered all those techniques.
Rudra who followed Devesh to that pond was stunned for a moment as he looked at how gracefully she moved. He was shocked by the perfection of her moves. He wished that someday he would be able to know the sword techniques to such a deep extent.
"When did Jahnvi have such a mastery in the sword, as I remember, Six years ago before going to the academy, she didn't know even a single move!", Rudra asked Devesh.
"Same with me, I also can't figure out what she did?"
"Maybe she worked hard!"
Devesh nodded in agreement with Rudra's words, and after waiting for minutes Rudra finally asked. "So, when will she finish moving like this?"
"Even I don't know, but you should wait and I shall go now, I have some important work.", Devesh suggested for Rudra to wait and walked away.
Rudra just sighed and sat below the shadows of a tree near the pond, staring at Jahnvi's movements.
After training her sword skills for a while, Jahnvi felt sudden goosebumps with the gust of winds, she felt as if the winds told her someone was here, but that someone's presence seemed to enlighten her happiness as an alluring smile appeared on her face.
Jahnvi, stopped as she opened her eyes, to find no one there, "So you are finally awake from sleep, great, even in sleep you move like a sword itself, ready to slash anything."
Hearing the familiar voice of a young boy, she turned around to find Rudra sitting below a tree. Rudra stood up and walked to Jahnvi. At first, they both exchanged a greeting of, 'namaste' with their palms joined.
But then Jahnvi felt something, a powerful energy that flew around Rudra, "Oh, Rudra! I can sense your energy, you are now as powerful as a practitioner on the second stage!", Jahnvi said calmly with a smile on her face.
"Sure! But it wouldn't have been possible without your help.", Rudra said as he took out his spatial bag, and started to pull out something from it.
"what are you doing?"
"Just a moment!", Rudra smiled as if he finally found the thing he was searching for and pulled it out.
In his hands were 9 iron shillings and the Necklace he had bought for Jahnvi, "Do you remember when you lent six iron shillings to me, a green line flower worth three iron shillings, and even a spatial sack bag?"
Hearing those words a tint of realization appeared on Jahnvi's face as she tried to avoid looking into Rudra's eyes.
She blushed and said, "So what, you want to return it?"
Rudra smiled as if agreeing to Jahnvi's question, "Also I brought this Necklace for you, you can take it if you like it!"
Jahnvi seemed to be completely flushed as she looked at the necklace, "You bought this for me?"
"Yes.", Rudra replied as he gave that Necklace to Jahnvi, she also had to accept those coins, "Thanks for accepting these coins, and my gift, I now may leave!", Rudra said as he walked away.
"You know I am leaving in a few days?!", Jahnvi said just to stop Rudra for a few more moments.
"Oh, so your holidays are going to be over very soon?!", Rudra asked as he stopped right there.
"Yes, and after the holidays, I have decided to choose to transfer to the military academy, it will help me improve, and thus I can guide our clan further ahead."
"So you want to lead to your clan to become one of the greatest blacksmith clans?!", Rudra asked.
"Yes", Jahnvi said as she wore the necklace in her green dress, making her more beautiful. "How do I look?"
"To be honest, you look great!", Rudra said as he remembered something and walked away, "Okay, I will have to go now!"
"um….", Jahnvi wanted to say something but it seemed as if her words were stuck in her neck for some reason and she kept looking at Rudra who soon walked out of her sight.
He then walked towards the center of the city. Towards the lapis lazuli Auction house. Rudra first walked into an alleyway and wore his mask.
He then checked his spatial bag to find that right now he had a total of 3 bone strengthening pills. He decided to sell all of those pills in the auction. Rudra then continued walking towards the center. After a while, he stood in front of the same monument familiar to him.
'The lapis lazuli Auction house.'
Rudra entered the auction house and within the lobby today there were a lot of people. Most of the benches in the lobby were made for waiting people to seat themselves were all filled. Rudra frowned upon this sight, as he believed there must be something important for auction today.
This meant, secretly his grandpa could have also come to attend this auction. But avoiding all these thoughts he went towards the consignment department. Entering through the door and following through a small corridor he stepped into a large room where as usual, a middle-aged man seated on a chair, who seemed to be lonely and bored.
But as he heard the noise of the opening of the door, the old man swept his eyes towards the door to find a familiar figure. A young man with a black mask, covered in black clothes.
"Sir, please come and have a seat!", that middle-aged man pulled the chair closer and cleaned it, and gestured for that masked man to take a seat.
Rudra nodded as he exchanged a 'Namaste' with him.
Rudra said, "Today, I have something new for auction!"
That middle-aged man's eyes shone with a starry light incorporating excitement.
"Yes, sir, I am listening."
Rudra pulled out a box and opened it, and three red pills with a tint of green were revealed.
"Rank 2 bone strengthening ayurvedic pill, a total of 3 pills.", Rudra moved that box towards the middle-aged man. That middle-aged man grabbed that box and took out some of the pills which had a nose-pleasing medicinal smell.
But that man was interrupted, "You better hurry up, and call Mr. Devjan to analyze it."
"Yes, sir just a moment.", with those words, The middle-aged man ran out of the room.
A few moments later an old man entered the room, which was Devjan, and walked towards Rudra. Rudra could again feel his spirituality and aura. Rudra stood up in respect as he greeted Devjan with a polite, 'Namaste'. Devjan did the same with a smile on his face.
Devjan spotted the box on the table filled with some pills. Devjan with his hands grabbed that box and took out a pill from it. It had a very pleasant fragrance and with his spiritual power, he was able to recognize it was truly a rank 2 bone-strengthening pill.
"Great Mister, all these pills of rank 2 seem very specific, I am sure they will get sold at a higher price, do you wanna consign all these for auction?"
Rudra nodded agreeing with Devjan, "Great, hey, submit these for the next upcoming auction.", Devjan ordered the middle-aged man.
"As of you mister, sorry to inform but right now all the auction halls are busy, you will have to wait."
Hearing this Rudra couldn't do anything except think, 'Could it be all the halls are busy because of that specific item, what could it be?'