Kingly Adventures

Sindh woke up to find himself in a hospital room. He had a massive headache and saw strange images in his head. He shook his head and tried to get up but his headache along with weird images returned with full force. He lost conciousness and fell back on his bed.

Alexander wanted a reliable mouth piece for the play he was going to construct.At first he wanted to use the magi as they would be easy to manipulate but if he could think of this then his opposition could also think off this. So, he focused his attention on the magus. Alexander had planted a last and most important vision that Sindh would get immediately after awakening but he did not expect the magus to fall in coma. This time Sindh really fell in coma. Alexander examined his condition and saw that the blood vessels in his brain had burst due to the intensity of the vision he had given Sindh. Alexander healed about 25 percent of the damage and told the healers to gossip about it as the eastern magus were in their camps but they had posted their men in the hospitals.

Alexander saw as the eastern magus once again arrived in Sindh's room. Alexander saw as Jay examined Sindh and healed him up quite nicely. Alexander sat back on his chair but could not found a comfortable angle to watch the upcoming show. Alexander conjured himself a good armchair and ordered Rose to bring him popcorn. When all was set, Alexander used the last bit of his magic present in Sindh to give him a jolt in order to wake him up.

SINDH's ROOM:

Jay and the others were quite startled when Sindh woke up quite suddenly and started to hyperventilate. The other magus quickly gathered around him and after a few seconds, Sindh returned to normal. Sindh let out a sigh of relief when he saw his friends and colleagues around him. The old magus asked, " Are you alright? Are you in the condition to talk about how you landed here?"

Sindh recounted the events and also told the other magus about the strange visions he had been getting since his exposure to the strange magic. Padma, " What these visions are about?"

Sindh, "I cannot recall them clearly but I have this feeling that they are very important for us."

This time another magus spoke up, " Sindh, I can help you in recalling those visions if you want."

Sindh, " Please do that, Prem."

The magus came forward and placed his hand on Sindh's forehead. Alexander thought, " These magus, each have some specialization. I saw one laying down the attack wards, one laying down defensive wards, the magus named Jay healing people, this Prem fellow is adept at mind arts. This makes things a little bit difficult for us. But, if we know in what field a magus specializes then the fight would be half way over. In these 10 days, 1,000 more magus have joined the ranks of my kingdom. The chambers are also nearly complete. Soon, I will have many Ranked magus under me."

After a few minutes, traces of worry and fear could be seen on Sindh's face. Sindh snapped his eyes open and said, " We all are in grave danger."

The old man asked, " What happened?"

Sindh, " The visions contained information about powerful artifact which resembles our.... Let's not talk about this here. When can I leave from here?"

Prem, " You can leave now. I just have to alter the memories of few healers and the hospital records."

Sindh, " Please make haste!!! What about the team with me and the recruits?"

The old man spoke up, " We cannot extract them all as we don't have enough time to take care of them. All the magi who came with us are investigating the happenings of the past days and also searching for our enemies. All of the healers, we have with us are deployed with the ȧssualt teams and the healers here are taking good care of our people so we are not to going to extract them till they wake up. Jay has checked up on them and they should awake in 3 to 7 days. We also compelled the healers to take good care of our people. Don't worry."

Alexander watched as the eastern magus along with Sindh returned to their camp. They put down many wards around their meeting room then all the magus present focussed their attention on Sindh Pal.

The old man spoke up, " What is the matter?"

Sindh, " The visions coming to me were about a powerful artifact which bears striking similarity with our national treasure. The visions showed me the lost history of our world and the dangers that our ancestors faced. It also gave warning"

Padma, " What warning?"

Sindh, " Warning of an invasion from an other wordly being."

Padma laughed , " Have you lost your mind?"

The old magus interuptted, " Padma, let him finish."

Sindh nodded gratefully towards the old magus and continued, " The artifact shown in the vision is a key to control it's counterpart which acts as a lock. This makes me believe that our national treasure is the lock."

Jay, " What past events and dangers did you saw? How can be you sure?"

Sindh said in an awed tone, " I saw the ancient magi and the powerful magic wielded by them. I saw the creation of werewolves, vampires, veelas, elves and other magical creatures by the ancient magi. I saw dragons who were bigger than mountains. I saw the pinnacle of magic. The magic we are capable of doing now is nothing when compared to ancient times. Then, that being arrived in our world."

The old man, " Can you prove your words?"

Sindh, " I can swear a magical oath."

Perm, " No, magical oath will not work. If his mind perceives the visions to be true then his magic will also consider him as saying the truth "

Sindh, " I can mark all the ancient sites of importance. Many of them are not even discovered by anyone whether magical or non-magical."

Padma, " You do that and after that you take some rest. We meanwhile, will check the authenticiity of your information."

Alexander watched as Sindh Pal drew the location on many ancient sites on the world's map. As Alexander had already conquered more than 75 percent of land area and the entire oceans, he had already explored all of them and the sites present in India and China were explored by his elves. He got many magical weapons and chariots from India and from China, he got some elemental manipulation techniques and body enhancing rituals and exercises. The magical chariots had now lost their utility due to development of portkeys and appariation while the magical weapons were powerful but required massive amount of magic to launch. Moreover, they also required the use of Sanskrit language in order to be used. But, Alexander decided to keep all the recovered items as one don't know when he would be required to use them and send them to R&D Department to study.

Over the next 4 days, the 20 magus checked all the sites and found them there in detrioting conditions but the validity of the Sindh's claims was proven. The old magus reported all their findings to the higher ups and waited for their response. Then, the team leader of the advance team awakened and Alexander moved on to the next phase of his plan. Alexander changed his modus operandi regarding the awakening eastern magi. He decreased the intensity of visions and the vision would come only once after their awakening when they sleep. The extent to which they remember depends on their memory. This would further give credibility to the visions.

Alexander watched as Rina after few hours of waking up, again fell in sleep and the visions started. Alexander was keeping watch over Rina as he did not want another case of severe brain damage on his hands. This time only Jay and Prem came to check on Rina. She had an expression of awe and respect after hearing their introductions. Apparently, Jay was one of the best healer of the empire while Prem was the youngest magus to specialize in the mind arts. They interrogated Rina about the visions and Rina surprising remembered 90 percent of the vision but she had written them off as weird dreams. The magus turned grave and took Rina away with them. Over the next seven days, all the eastern magi woke up and all of them remembered their visions up to some extent. Alexander had not given the same vision to all of them but a chain of connected but incomplete visions in order to make things difficult for the easterners and entertaining for him. Alexander also had his people further increase the difficulty and deadliness of the tomb. Alexander watched as a high level meeting took place in the base camp between the magi present at the ground zero and the higher ups of the empire through some kind of magical device working like a long distance telephone which can be put on speaker. Alexander turned his full attention to the meeting and watched the events unfold.

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