Knowledge and Divinity Book 1 : Knowledge

Finally I'm A Real Alchemist

     I trained in the goblin market for three more days, and had started getting as strong as Bear. There came a point when I could sence the king's mind trying to penetrate Moonscales' and Sakhi's, but Bear kept him at bay. I helped him in that as soon as I got strong enough.

     Alchemy was a lot easier when I had more knowledge on how the world works. Bear suggested me to search for human minds with more knowledge on science and learn from them, so I did just that. I realised that distance didn't matter. I could read someone's mind as well as destiny if I knew who I was reading. Of course, I couldn't read anything if I didn't know who to read, if I didn't know the mind, then I have to physically be present, I have to see my target.

     I had more conversations with Moonscales about how she found me, how the king found me. The king was searching for me since I was born, but it was only about a week ago when Sakhi killed Boney, that the king could track her. As I told you, to find a particular mind in the world, you have to first know who you are looking for. The king is always linked to his best warriors, and he was linked to Boney when he died. That's how he found Sakhi, and through her, me. But before he could get to me, Moonscales found me as the creatures in our side always had an eye on most of the king's closest followers, also Boney. They found Sakhi, and Moonscales found me. Of course, the king wouldn't come himself to get me. There was no way to be sure if I had actually changed Sakhi's destiny, and if he came himself then Sakhi would probably kill him then and there. So he sent the knight to my house, but Moonscales had been protecting me. He waited till I went to school and Moonscales followed, and then went in to take my parents. Moonscales had a couple sorcerers and a slayer guard my house, but the knight killed them and took my parents.

     Everyday, Moonscales used to go out and speak to "our army", but come back with... nothing. There was no news about the king, what he was planning, how he was going to try to kill Sakhi or me, nothing. But on the third day, as soon as she landed, she announced, "We have found Bloodshed. He is somewhere in the konkan reagion, near the Arabian sea"

"It's a trap", Bear said. There is no way Bloodshed would give himself up so easily. Especially after losing the slayer in kalyan. I bet it was Bloodshed who you heard in kalyan"

    I noticed that Bear still called her "the slayer", but Moonscales was more casual with her now. She called her by name, and didn't take her name with disgust. "How do you know it was Bloodshed? It could have been the knight. After all, he was the one sent to kill me"

"No, I don't think so. Moonscales had already found you, and was protecting you now. I think Bloodshed was sent to kill Sakhi before Moonscales found her. I guess the king thought that Moonscales was destined to find and protect Sakhi, but with her occupied with you, he thought that Bloodshed might be able to kill her"

"And anyways, we don't have a choice. Even if it is a trap, Sakhi must start somewhere. We know what her destiny was meant to be. If we have any hope of defeating the king, then we must try to do what she was originally meant to do."

     So Bear had seen her destiny, and had shown Moonscales, too. I feared that Bear would tell her that I didn't know Sakhi's destiny, but he didn't. He probably wanted me to read it at my own time, he waited for me to make up my mind, and if Moonscales found out, she would probably force me to read.

     I joined Sakhi in the conversation by linking her mind to ours. When I tried to link her to Bear, he resisted. But, now I wasn't as weak as before. I nudged his mind a little, and he let her in. I told everything we had just discussed to Sakhi, except the part involving her destiny and me changing it.

     "In that case, we must go right away", she said, and summoned her sword. I now knew how she did it. She remembered the exact structure of her sword, which was made by sorcerers for slayers (sorcerers' soul had some limitations lifted, not all). The sword was made such that if the slayer has a particular limitation lifted, he or she would be able to feel each and every particle of the sword along with it's position. Then, the slayer would be able to know wherever the sword was, then he or she would turn it into particles that would always hover close to the slayer's hands, and materialise whenever needed. It was a very sophisticated kind of magic (or science, whatever).

"Keep that away, we are not fighting Bloodshed here", Moonscales said. She made her sword dissappear again.

"And if you need a good weapon...", Bear waived his hand, and one of the cupboards opened. In the cupboard, there were weapons which should've been too big to go through the door.

"No, thanks. I have my own."

"I wasn't talking to you", Bear said, and signalled me to go to the cupboard.

     As I went near, I saw that the cupboard was a lot bigger from inside than it looked, it was actually a small room. There were steel swords in special kind of wooden stands, spears stacked in a corner, rifles hanged on walls above tables full of smaller hand held weapons and ammunition, including hand grenades and pistols. But the one weapon that caught my eye, was a sort of a magician's staff, a long stick painted red, and decorated with gold. I mean real gold, not gold paint. There was a solid gold dragon curling through the base, and a man hovering just above him. Near the top, in more polished gold and a more blurred effect, were humanoid figures merged into each other, depicting the Gods. Above them, was a small golden spearhead. Apparently, it depicted the might of the Gods and why we should not oppose them. I picked it up, and felt the smooth gold surface merged with the wood. When I came out with it, Sakhi was already near the shop entrance waiting for me, and Moonscales was already gone.

"Come on", Sakhi said. "Bloodshed would get away"

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You must be wondering why such a detailed description is given for this weapon. What is its significance? Is it going to kill the king? Read on to find out.

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