The Destiny Eclipsed

A couple of hours later…..

In the conference round table, all the brothers have gathered around with grave faces, the information Sushani gathered were just too unimaginable.

"Hey replay the videos, let's see if we could make something of it."

Anil suggested, in fact, he's the only person with a stable mind among this group. The rest of the group, including Hari, were thunder-struck.

Sushani looked around before playing the video once again, as others inched to edge of their seats.

A few seconds later, the video played. In front of the camera, a mutilated bloody human figure was tied to the wooden chair.

He kept on mumbling… "Kill me, kill me, ….. please kill me."

One could only fathom the torture he has been through from his terrifying fresh wounds and burns. He certainly in a state 'Life worse than Death', unsurprisingly this is the teen Hari bought.

"Who are you?"

An emotionless cold, eerie voice resounded, the guy was waiting for this question.

"Thank you, thank you….." the mutilated human opened his vacant eyes before starting.

"I'm Yash Hydre. Young Master of Hydre clan, Gyru city; during an expedition I offended 'Tyrant King'. Though I was a promising talent in the city, it's nothing before the magnificence of 'Tyrant King's stardom.

That ruthless fellow wiped out my clan and crippled my brain, making it not so easy to use. But he even went a step further to banish me to the World of Mortals."

Though it was a short, everyone present could feel the overwhelming sadness and bitterness bottled. Still, none of the brothers sympathized with him, rather everyone watching the video were utterly confused and clueless.

"Where is your city exactly located?"

"My city is in… is in… Ori Realm… Ahhhh"

All of a sudden, all his orifices bleed and his eye opened wide while pupil shrunk; a figure rushed to him and tried emergency treatment only in vain.

"He's dead."

A short declaration in the same indifferent eerie voice and the figure turned around. It was Sushani, she was the one who tortured Yash to pull out some answers.

And the video ended with a black screen an irritable silence prevailed.

"Maybe that guy was lying?"

Anil could only give a stupid suggestion to break the suffocating silence.

"It's impossible, Sushani is Expert Interrogator; she's the best or one of the best in this field. So no one can deceive her, certainly not this dumb brute."

Hari answered without turning his head, and Anil had a sudden flash of inspiration.

Anil raises his voice in excitement but was shot down once again.

"He was neither delusional nor mentally ill; his pupil movements were steady, his pulse was normal and I couldn't discern any other symptoms of mental instability. The most baffling thing is his mysterious death, it's unreasonable."

Riya shot down Anil's assumption with facts and all the others nodded; while Anil was speechless.

'how could you guys be so shameless; it's already a miracle that he didn't die of that inhumane torture and you have the gals label it as unreasonable death.'

Anil mentally criticized his brothers for being so thick-skinned. Actually, Anil threw up when he first saw this video, he just couldn't stomach the violence.

"There's undoubtedly some issue with this guy; he moment he uttered the word 'Ori Realm' he mysteriously died.

The only logical conclusion this clue leads us is that the fella named Yash had some sort of mechanism which will be triggered if he utters these characters; which is totally illogical.

Furthermore, he didn't hesitate before uttering 'Ori Realm' which means he didn't know about the mechanism.

Instead, he would have committed suicide long ago by uttering these words instead of going through the painful torture for more than an hour.

Priya substantiated the point of focus to give everyone a clear picture.

*sigh*

"I think contacting the teacher is the only way, he'll certainly know something about this guy and Ori realm."

Then he placed a triangle pod on the table, it was a state-of-art holographic projector; a digital flower girl popped from the pod, literally a loli with lily head.

[Welcome, Ex-Soldier Hariharasudan.]

It was a cold yet cute voice, no emotion could be traced, but a strange flavour of charm was just bizarre to hear.

"Lily connect to Jagor Lion."

Hari ordered Lily's Indian Military Artificial Intelligence.

[Request processing….. Authentication….Authorization...Connecting to Marshal Jagor Lion.]

"Hari it's been a while. How have you been? What are kids up to now."

Like a caring father, the old man enquired Hari's well-being; he's Hari's mentor Jagor Lion, the head of the Indian Army. Hari's face blossomed with a smile brimming, he nodded his head quickly while everyone followed his lead.

Just when Old Marshal noticed a new face among them, Hari drew his attention.

"Teacher, please look see this video." Hari solemnly stated before switching on the laptop.

The old Marshal was totally unfazed by the bloody scenes, once the videos ended, he tied his hands back and vacantly looked into the screen.

*sigh*

"Why are they so irresponsible, treating the earth like some wasteland; idiots."

Though the Old Marshal mumbled Hari and others could easily hear it; then he turned around and wrinkled his brows looking at Hari.

The Old Marshal made some strange hand signs. Then he moved towards them and walked out of the hologram.

"How did you.. break out.." Hari's tongues were tied in shock.

"Why should I break out, it's not a prison. Lad are you sick?"

The old Marshal answered with a puzzled face, intentional teasing his student a bit out of habit.

*SIGH*

"Brat you're still the same dumbo didn't 2 years of idling enlighten you even a bit. Huh…. Seems you had a fortuitous encounter; what happened?"

The old Marshal criticized while carefully scanning Hari though he was in some sort of astral form. He intentionally avoided anything about the Yash and the mystery swirling him.

"Sir...er…What are you talking about."

Hari asked as he looked at his teacher full of confusion.

"You're rapidly recovering haven't you realized it yet, there's some strange energy in your system mending all your internal injuries.

By next month all the injuries and internal damages would be mended; you would make a complete recovery."

Marshal Jagor spoke as he scanned as though he saw through Hari's body.