After meditating for an entire night, Pragna felt quite refreshed. He saw the time and took out the black card which creates a portal to the main hall of library. After inserting a fragment of his soul into the device, he understood how to use it. He simply has to will it and the card will open the portal.

As he operated it a black circle opened up in the main hall. He entered it. He thought there will be a passage like last time. But as he entered the black circle, he exited it from the other side and in the next moment he entered the main hall.

As he was about to look around,

You entered the Library

Wisdom 50+ temporary

Intelligence 50+ temporary

Hidden functions of Blessing of venakaya are being unlocked.

New stat unlocked, Knowledge! Intelligence is analysis. Wisdom is enlightenment. When both are combined a new data is born. A new understanding is created. Knowledge is born! An endless cycle will be created.

Knowledge greatly increases your comprehension.

Skill created, speed reading lvl 1. Increases the speed at which you absorb data into your mind.

Blessing of venakaya, hidden message- Learning is one step. Applying is the other step. Who said data has to be always represented in a window form?

Pragna was surprised when he saw all this notifications.

He did not feel any extra smart, but according to the notification, he is smarter compared to his past self. Pragna felt weird when he thought about this change, which cannot be noticed.

Maybe he can gain a better understanding of it, if he observes it carefully next time? But how to know that precise moment when it occurs?

Also the data representation? Does that mean there are more ways to view information from system other than a window display?

As he was deeply lost in these thoughts he heard,

“Pragna are you ok?”

Pragna remembered why he is here in first place and noticed his surroundings. He is standing in a vast room with smooth polished wooden floors. The room is in the shape of a circle. On the edges of wall of the room, there are many lifts. People were busily going in and coming out of these lifts.

As he was looking at the busy crowd, Pragna noticed that he is standing in a barricaded corner along with Agarthala and three other people.

Agarthala introduced Pragna to each one of them. “Pragna meet Biazib, Harima and Evy. ”

When Pragna looked at all three of them, he felt something odd about them.

Biazib has a well-built body. But there is something about this guy that Pragna could not put his finger on.

On other hand this Evy girl’s appearance itself is quite interesting. She has scars all over her body! Those injuries healed long time ago but those scars on her white jade like skin tone gave an eerie feeling. Someone performed Glasgow Smile on her. There is a scar running from her left eye to her right side of her jaw.

The least cons piques of the three; Harima also has something about him that bugged Pragna.

Pragna wanted to use his skill to check their status window, but before he could Agarthala said smiling, “Pragna you remember my advice right? Why don’t we make it for few more days?”

While other stared at Agarthala in confusion, the one for whom the message is intended, Pragna got it and stopped using his skill.

Agarthala continued, “Follow me and I will assign your work and access rights.”

All of them boarded an elevator. After exiting the elevator they saw a huge corridor leading to many doors. After walking for few minutes they reached a door with name ‘Senior librarian’. After entering the room, Agarthala took out three cards and three keys from his desk and handed each one of them a card and a key respectively.

He told them, “These cards give you complete access to the realms in the library. Now to the important point, here when someone uses a private realm to study or learn, they are not allowed to bring the items of that realm outside of it. Once they leave a realm the soul puppets will re-organize the things back to their place. But once in a while an error occurs; the books and the items can be misplaced. Though the books are placed back into their right place over the time, we like to keep the library more systematic. ”

He told Pragna, ”Your work is re-organizing. These are the keys to your office. In your office you will find a computer, by which you can see all the realms that need help. When you go to that realm the item that is displaced will have a red glowing mark on it. You have to put them back in their right slot. So any doubts? ”

Pragna asked, “These cards seem to be like keys to open portals to different realms, so how do I tell it to open to a specific realm?”

Agarthala said, “Once you insert you bind it and-”

Pragna interrupted, “bind?”

Agarthala smiled and answered back, “binding means putting a piece of your soul in it. After that it will be bound to you. Later when you use this card a list of names will appear in your mind. These are the names of the private realms in the library. If you want to open realm under that name, for example cooking, a portal will be opened in your office, which will lead to the private realm that contains all the information related to cooking. Doubt cleared?”

Pragna nodded his head in agreement.

Agarthala started talking with Biazib, “When a customer registers to visit a private realm, they will be given a token. On that token duration of time the customer can stay is recorded. After the time is over, the customer will be automatically teleported to the exit hall. Once in a while customers will misplace the token. The only way to exit the private realm is with the help of token. The problem is that the token will start dissipating after that fixed time and that dissipating smoke is the trigger for teleportation, so during the process of dissipating if it is not on the body of the customer, they will be stuck in that realm till someone helps them to leave. So whenever a customer is not back from the private realm after their fixed time, you have to go in and get them back. ”

He then started talking to Evy, ” You are assigned to monitor our most used private realm. Formation’s section.”

Then Agarthala told Harima his job, “You will work in the soul puppet maintenance department. Once in a while the soul puppets will not work properly, so you have to go to that specific realm and fix it. If you cannot fix it anymore take it to the maintenance room.”

“Ok then you can leave and start your work. Good luck!”

Both Pragna and Evy left. Harima and Biazib on other hand are waiting to ask Agarthala something.

Harima talked first, “Senior, I heard you enjoy this, so bought it for you. Please accept it.” He placed a black glass bottle on Agarthala’s table. Its mouth is well sealed. The bottle has green tinge to it, while the liquid inside it is black.

Agarthala looked amused when he saw this and said, “Thank you Harima. You go back to your office, I will visit you later.”

Harima left while smiling.

After Harima left Biazib asked, “Senior, can you assign me to the martial art section and puppet house?”

Agarthala said, “Not until you fix your temper.”

Blood drained from Biazib’s face when he heard that and tried to hurriedly answer back, ”Senior, he enticed me, if not for that I never would have attacked him.”

Agarthala laughed, “Entice you? All right then let’s watch what happened.”

Agarthala took out a rectangle block. The rectangle block projected a screen in the air. On the screen a video is being played. It went like this

In a closed-off large stone room Biazib is practicing with a shield and short sword, each moment is well executed and well balanced. While he was practicing a group of young men talking loudly were coming toward him. When they saw Biazib practicing, a boy who seemed to be the leader of the group snickered and said, “It seems the best students of E.S school are nothing but a joke! Only cowards use shield as weapon. True heroes will only use swords to fight. They will fight while flying on them! They use their fingers to manipulate the sword, while it is hovering in the air! ”

Biazib did not react to it. He just practiced like they were not even there. Not seeing any reaction from him, the boy got further agitated and made another comment, ” Why am i surprised?! Anyone associated with that bastard is definitely a coward.”

The moment he heard that statement Biazib stopped practicing. A wrathful expression appeared on his face and he asked the boy coldly, “What did you say?”

A grin appeared on the boy’s face. He said while looking at Biazib, ”It seems the bastard has quite the loyal friend.”

What happened afterwards was amazing and at the same horrifying to watch!

Biazib leaped towards the boy with such speed that it almost looked like he was flying! Before the boy could react, Biazib used his shield to strike him. The momentum due to impact was so high that the boy flew towards the wall like cannonball!

He hit the wall and slid down to the ground and stayed there unconscious!

When the rest of the gang saw this, they were stunned!

One of the men came to his senses fast enough and attacked Biazib using wind magic and launched a wind blade at him. Rest of the men coming to their senses followed his queue and bombarded him with different kind of attacks.

But alas Biazib evaded all of their attacks! He would use his shield to deflect some attacks, while dodging others very narrowly!

Whenever he got close to one of the men, they would always be attacked from their blind spots!

Where ever he went arms and limbs flew into the air! He was not just hurting them, he was hacking them into bits and pieces!

Realizing that none of their attacks are working, rest of the surviving group started using defensive spells. Those spells would form around them like transparent domes. The boys thought they were safe. Instead what happened next stunned them. Instead of attacking the dome, Biazib would raise his shield against the dome and directly ran into it. All of them were expecting a collision course, but instead of that when his shield came in contact with the transparent dome, the shield somehow allowed him to pass into the dome!

The men inside the shield were scared out of their wits! The boy who created the barrier immediately cancelled and ran away!

After seeing that the protective barrier is not effective against him, rest of the groups disrupted their defensive spells and tried to run-away from him.

But that did not stop Biazib! He chased them with unbelievable speed and still hurt them!

After sometime the entire room was covered in blood, severed limbs and people screaming in unbelievable agony!

While this was happening, Biazib was chasing down the rest of the men around the room. For some reason the practice room’s doors are shut tight. No was able to escape from the room.

The men whose bodies are still intact are begging for mercy, but it had no effect on Biazib!

One of the men tripped on a severed leg and fell down and like a tiger waiting for its chance Biazib jumped towards him!

But before he could strike the boy, a sword flew towards Biazib. He reflexively dodged it with his shield. When Biazib looked around, he found that the boy he knocked unconscious is awake and staring at him venomously. He is the one who launched that sword at him.

Biazib started running towards him. Suddenly the boy is surrounded by more than 100 hovering swords!

All of them flew towards Biazib in particular set patterns.

Biazib ran through that barrage of swords as though he was running through a simple rain!

Whenever a sword came close to him, he would slightly change the angle of his shield and the sword would either get deflected and knock into other swords sending them whirling in random directions or the sword would simply shatter as though it is made up of glass!

His sword strikes were exquisite to watch! Every time he used his sword to strike the swords that are coming close to him, he would attack at the exact weak point of the sword and those swords would either break or shatter into pieces!

And more than anything his speed! He was moving at such speed that even in the recorded video afterimages were forming!

The boy who launched this flying sword attacks was stunned when Biazib came out of those sword barrages, without any injury. Fear could be seen in the boy’ eyes when Biazib was just few metres away from him.

That boy started chanting something fast! But Biazib was much faster! Before the boy could finish the incantation, Biazib jumped towards the boy, shoved the sword’s tip into his mouth and used the shield’s edge to strike on the top of boy’s head!

Reflexively boy clenched his mouth in pain, but that put him even in more pain!

Since the sword was still in his mouth during the strike, the boy’s tongue got shredded!

Unable to handle the pain boy lost consciousness, but that did not stop Biazib from further attacking him.

He caught the boy’s body by neck and threw him to the floor.

When the boy’s body hit the ground blood, bits of tongue and some fragments of teeth sprayed from his mouth onto the floor!

Biazib started hacking of his limbs. When the boy was screaming in unbelievable agony, he kicked him in his groin to shut him up!

But that still did not calm Biazib’s anger! He took the severed arm of the boy and started hitting him with it! Biazib was screaming while hitting him, “You want to use your fingers to move the sword? I DON’T THINK YOU CAN USE THIS ANYMORE! ”

The boy who was so badly maimed made a sound that was barely coherent,

“p..l…e..a..hh”

Though Biazib could not hear what the boy said, he understood that the boy was begging for mercy.

But for some reason that only made him angrier!

He threw away the arm, sat on the boy’ chest and started punching him in his face! Before this the boy’s head at-least looked like a head! But after few punches the boy’s head looked more like a crushed bloody meatball! There were no features left to distinguish the mouth, ears or anything!

The rest of the boys watched this gore-fest in pure fear! Those who could run, ran towards the closed doors. Those who could not run crawled towards it!

All of them were trying to break open the doors! But it did not even budge an inch!

They were too afraid to even turn back and look at Biazib!

They were screaming while hitting the door, ” GET US OUT OF HERE! PLEASE WE BEG YOU! WE WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN! GET US OUT AND WE WILL GIVE YOU ANYTHING YOU WANT!”

As though someone answered their prayers, the doors that were shut tight, suddenly opened up. All the boys who were banging on the door fell onto the floor! But they were in no condition to care to see who opened the doors. All of them ran away like death was chasing them out of the room!

While everyone who was still conscious was running from the room, two men ran inside.

Of the two men one is quite burly, and much taller than the regular standard, while the other is thin and with a slightly taller stature. If you observe closely there is a resemblance between this thin man’s face and the boy’s (pre-intact) face.

When both of them saw the state of the room both were stunned!

Before they could digest in this scenario, they saw Biazib hitting what looked like a meat pulp.

Both of them ran towards him. The thin man wrenched away Biazib from the boy, while the other leaned over the body of the boy and started checking if he is still alive.

Biazib is screaming, “I WILL KILL HIM! LET ME GO!”

Biazib who could smash swords like they are made of glass is surprisingly being restrained by this man. Biazib could not even move, all he could do is struggle and shout.

The thin man is not paying any attention to Biazib. He asked the other guy “is he still alive?”

The other man answered, “Barely.”

While saying that he put his hand above the boy and water started forming around the boy’s body like a cocoon. Slowly the bloody pulp started looking slightly human again.

He said to the thin man, “Take Biazib to dean’s office. Do not come out till you see the dean.”

The thin man refused and said, “I am not leaving you here.”

The burly man said, “Nothing will happen to me. On other hand if they find you with him here, they will try to pin the entire blame on you. Get out of here, don’t argue back Lin! Leave, now! ”

Thin man stared at the burly man for a second and then started dragging Biazib towards the exit.

With that the video stopped playing, and Agarthala asked Biazib, ”Tell me, is that what they call an over-kill?”