Secrets of the Violet Pearl

That night he sat cross legged in the archives and focused on the mantras of the new training method. Each mantra contained many syllables and was a method to communicate with the Universe. The Scripture of the Ancients stated that the deeper one's level of communication with the Universe, the more one would be able to understand its workings and twist the Laws of the Universe according to one's will. But that was at the highest level of power, when one had a strong enough will and their body was able to handle the power of the Laws. Thus the very first thing one needed to do was create a body strong enough to handle the power of Laws, which could be done by slowly assimilating with the power of the Universe.

The knowledge he had received from the Book of Athenaeum also mentioned that the Scripture of Ancients previously, was only to train the body to create a strong shell. As for understanding the workings of the Universe, it depended on one's comprehension ability. It stated that the body was a manifestation of the Universe and was powerful enough to gestate it's own macro-cosmos. Thus, the Scripture of Ancients used the person's own understanding of the workings of the Universe to create a macro-cosmos. At the very peak, one's body would house another macro-cosmos, but the one thing that the Scripture was missing was a relevant technique to control that macro-cosmos. The previous Scripture of Ancient could be described as a method to gestate a wild Cosmos, but the newer one had incorporated the Scripture with the Wheel of the Chakra. The Chakra nodes acted as a central control point for the various levels of the Cosmos mentioned in the Scripture of the Ancients.

As he began chanting the mantra for the new Scripture of the Ancients, he felt his entire being soothed by the Universal Laws. Right now according to his new method, he would first open his Chakra nodes and then use them as anchors to create a new macro-cosmos.

But very soon he felt a strong sense of suffocation. The feeling of being soothed vanished. The more he chanted the more the suffocation increased.

He stopped chanting the mantras and opened his eyes with a troubled expression.

'Was I wrong? I don't think so, I clearly felt being connected to the Universe and then I was suddenly drenched with an intense feeling of suffocation. As if I was being sealed and imprisoned.'

"Athenaeum what happened just now?"

A puzzled Aria asked the system.

[Host's body has been detected to house an energy source]

Hearing this, his mind immediately remembered the strange violet pearl.

The very next day, Aria met with Jasmine and asked her the location of the medical center.

While going through the records he found that the current Academy had developed to the level of an advanced technological civilization and a major part of this advancement was in the field of medical science.

So Aria decided to get his body scanned and find what exactly was that pearl, after all he was still weak right now.

'Okay, so I am looking for a Resonance center, sheesh what are these names? Ah, here it is.'

Aria entered the room which had a huge projection above it with a red cross.

Inside there was no one. Once again he was flustered with it.

'Umm, what is this? Where is everybody?'

Just as he was beginning to doubt the location, Little Ki's baby voice greeted him.

{Welcome, Cadet Aria. How may I be of service to you?}

"Hmm. Ah Little Ki, is that you?" Aria spoke rhetorically.

"I would like to get my body scanned, especially my head. Lately I have been getting a lot of headaches." Aria provided Little Ki with a reason he had prepared beforehand.

{Hmm, alright. Please get undressed and lay down on the bed in the third room.} Little Ki said.

Aria got undressed and entered the room with the marking 'III' on it.

Inside was a huge machine and a bed.

He laid down on the bed and soon the bed entered the huge machine as various beams of light started to scan his body.

{Close your eyes and please relax.}

Little Ki's voice entered his ears which were rumbling with the noise of intense electromagnetic interference created by the machine.

Meanwhile inside a study room, Old Seven was reading a book titled, 'Teachings of the Sages' as a small black box beside him started ringing.

-Ring-

-Ring-

'Umm, who is calling me at this moment?'

Pressing a small button on the bottom part, he said.

"Who is this?"

{Marshal Seven, this is Little Ki.}

"Little Ki? What happened?" Old Seven closed the book with a thud. Unless necessary Little Ki would not contact Old Seven, thus he thought it must be an important matter.

{Marshal, Cadet Aria is currently undergoing a Resonance scan, as he indicated an intense pain in his head from a few days ago. According to the medical protocols I found no complications, but using the hidden energy detector, I found an anomaly. Please have a look Marshal.}

The black device slid back and a screen popped up with the image of Aria's head which was devoid of anything apart from small blue lines and a gray pearl in the bottom part of the head.

"Hmm, what is this?" Old Seven said, clicking at the gray portion, which zoomed in but all he saw was a mist of gray.

{According to the energy detector, the molecular energy composition of the gray mist is the same as the one emitted from the four artifacts. But this energy composition seems to be somehow integrating into the body of Cadet Aria smoothly without any abnormality and is dwindling rapidly.}

"WHAT!" Old Seven stood up with a surprised expression on his face.

"Who else knows this?" He enquired.

{Since Marshal Seven was registered as the commanding officer of Cadet Aria, the information had been delivered to Marshal Seven first.}

"Thank god! Use my authority and seal the information, no wait. Delete the information and any records of it." Old Seven said hurriedly as he pressed his thumb on a small glassy part of the box. A blue light scanned through the thumb.

{Command accepted.} Little Ki said as a green light flashed on the glass.

"Anything related to Cadet Aria must be informed to me and do not keep a record of any of his information apart from the basic one from now on." He continued.

{Under whose authority?} Questioned Little Ki.