THE EMBODIMENT OF TERROR-I

THE QUEST OF CHANDRAHAS-I

NEXT DAY

It was 4:30 AM the morning Moksh was ready to move with a small backpack with the essentials. The old man gave him a 'battle robe', and he asked, "What's this old man?" "It's a special battle robe; it is a protection, and its weight will increase according to your body endurance. The day when this robe feels like a feather on your body that day, you will be strong enough to tear your opponents to shreds."

Moksh understood that and said, "you will never let me have smooth travel, isn't it?" "Wear it, brat!!" the old man yelled.

"Ok Ok by the way, thanks for everything you did, old man.

No, I should say Master!" He replied, and the old man smiled said, "go ahead, achieve your goal, boy!"

Moksh went away; his destination was Sri Lanka, where the sword's location approximated, and the old man has even given him a side mission to attain 'THE SPIRIT OF GARUDA.' The legendary eagle who served Lord Rama and was killed by Ravana in the fight, but his spirit is still there. The person who attains the spirit of Garuda will get the abilities of flight and the eyesight of an eagle, and he kept this thing in mind and started his memory.

Moksh can't use airways because of his identity issues and even the criminal impression on him, so it's impossible to travel through normal means, and he has to travel Rameshwaram then has to travel by seaways. Moksh started walking after 5 hours; he was outside Delhi walking on NH-44; on the way, he found a truck driver who gave him a lift and the truck's final destination was Nagpur, and the driver asked: "so where are you going?"

He was thinking about an excuse and said, "Ah, nothing it was to find a small job to support my family, but I miss the bus, unfortunately, and thanks for giving me the lift." The driver understood and spoke, "Oh, I see caring for family is immense pain, and still, we have to love and care for them" he just nodded and smiled.

They travelled continuously for 10 hours, and it was now 10 PM; the driver stopped the truck over a roadside restaurant (known as dhabas) to eat dinner. Moksh doesn't have that much budget and just ordered plain aloo parathas, and the order arrived and ate it, and the driver told him that he wanted to rest, and after that, they will be moving. Moksh accepted the driver's concerns, but he was not tired and didn't sleep and was staring at the sky, particularly the northern pole star 'Dhruvtara.'

"so this is the man who killed my sister Anshita" A man standing far away on the other side of the road saw Moksh "let's test him", the man mumbled. The man started walking towards him, and Moksh got shivers of the treacherous bloodlust coming towards him and knew the person coming towards him was not something weak its powerful and monstrous. He got into the stance and started the Aura the moment he started, the battle robe he wore got heavy, and now he understands the usage of the robe, which suppressed his Aura to run wild.

The man struck him with a sword slash; it cut the ground into two parts; the impact was so strong that it destroyed everything around the radius of 5 km, and Moksh jumped high to avoid the attack and could see the man standing there and the man uplifted his gaze. The instance their eyes met the strong vibrations in the atmosphere due to intensities of their Auras and Moksh attacked back with a devastating punch that cancelled the sword slash, "Ho! that is a solid punch to cancel my attack, and by looking at your hands, it seemed you had trained with 'Halayudha'." When Moksh heard that, he realised this man was not just strong, but he landed on the ground then dash at max speed and kicked him hard, but the man blocked it; still, he felt that kick to his arm. "That kick is quite hard even after blocking it, I felt the effect," the man said; even Moksh was stunned, and his monstrous strength wasn't able to make him fazed, and he realised that old man's words were right there will be stronger enemies. The man said, "we'll meet soon," and disappeared Moksh just stood there and saw him disappear; the public got worried due to ruckus and tremors starting running towards the impact location, and Moksh just ran away too because the other people could suspect him.

The driver woke up because of the commotion and ran towards the truck in worry to secure it and saw Moksh standing beside the driver's truck and came huffing and asked, "Is the truck okay?" Moksh replied, "Yes, the truck is okay; you don't need to worry about it." The driver sighed and felt relieved "let's move now before the crowd increases more", he advised Moksh and accepted that both of them moved out within 15 minutes.

7 AM

Moksh woke up as his eyes fell asleep yesterday while sitting and moved his head around; the driver was not there.

Today, the sun was shining bright, and he moved out of the truck, stretched himself a bit, and the driver was sipping tea in a nearby stall "oh! you wake up drink some tea" driver said this and passed him a cup towards him. Moksh accepted the cup, drank it, and asked, "Where are we right now? how far we are from Nagpur." the driver replied, "we're something like 200 km away from Nagpur, " he listened after a while, they started moving again.

After 3 hours

The driver dropped him in the public market; he gave his thanks and left for further and noticed that he is low on a budget now "fuck I'm down on money now with this I can't survive a week."

Moksh roamed on the streets for a sightseen and saw a pamphlet to hire labourers after some time. There was an under-construction building; he went there and asked the head supervisor, "could you provide me with the job?" supervisor lifted his gaze and examined him from top to bottom and said that "you sure? will you be able to do it?" He said, "yes, I will be able to do every heavy lifting work, sir" supervisor didn't mind and accepted him right away as he was low on workers already.

Moksh got on the site and with the supervisor, and he instructed him to carry the bricks to the 5th floor. Moksh had more than 20 pieces of bricks in one cycle; all the labourers were shocked to see him; within 20 mins, he transferred more than 200 bricks. The supervisor was shocked and curious, too, and he observed Moksh because of him as he did the shifting of materials was done a lot quicker than expected.

5 PM

Today's shift was over supervisor called him and said, "you have a pretty monstrous strength and stamina" Moksh replied, "thanks, sir." supervisor went away, and Moksh didn't have a house to live or a place to sleep, but he earned a wage of 300 rupees and thought 'making money is difficult if I worked with mine previous frail body I would have died in this work.' He just started walking around the streets again, staring at the stores filled up with clothes, furniture and other things selling even checked some girls out and walked more to get a pleasant smell of meat getting barbeque he chased behind the aroma.

After seconds he reached the stall where the cook roasted meat on tandoor; it was 9 PM now his stomach was growling with hunger, and he ordered food with all the money he earned to fill his stomach. Moksh roamed a bit more and found a park and went there; he laid down on a bench and stared at the stars and slept after some time.