Today is my fifth year in this world ofcourse I didn't have any birthday party in fact I never had any birthday party even in my previous life. In my previous life I only celebrating my wife's and son's birthday so I don't feel anything special about my current fifth birthday as Soka.
As a five years old boy I have lean but muscular build because of my early training. I can help my mom doing house chores, my mom often took a worried glance at me but I can also feel happiness from her. It seems that she was happy that her son grow to be a responsible kid.
I can also do some weight training using nearby stones to increase my training intensity. Carrying a relatively heavy stone while running, side steps, sit ups, push up and other exercise to better hone my muscles.
Soka know that this happiness will not last long because he know somewhere in this world Karno and Sengkuni will try to f*ck his life. They will manipulate his live making him and everyone around him, life a miserable life. killing everyone he cared to drive him to desperation.
"with my current ability I can't do anything against them"
"I can only train using everything I have to prepare so that when the chance comes I can f*ck them up"
"after all only the prepared one can seize chances and opportunities"
Seeing his parents smile happily enjoying their humble life making him more determined to train his body to the fullest.
"I don't want our happiness to be destroyed by those f*ckers"
With this determination I can life discipline life consistently which is very difficult for me to do so in my previous life. A lot of great peoples in my previous world said that discipline and consistency are the key to success of course luck also very important but without effort, luck will not come and even with all of these efforts I do to break free from their control fail, at the very least I can say to myself "I've tried".
*SLAP*
I slapped my own cheeks with my palms
"what the hell am I thinking"
"why am I already thinking about failure and making excuse before I even begin"
"I must succeed whatever the cost"
"failure isn't option"
Somewhere in the hidden cave three peoples talking with each other one of them have a pitch black skin like materialized shadow, the other one is an old man who sat in a chair made of stone and the last one is a teenager who have all part of his body filled with burn scars.
"Sengkuni have you found the candidate for my rikudo seed bed?"
"my life is about to end we need to find someone to grow my rikudo, it's pity that I awaken this netra at the end of my life"
The old man with white hairs sighing lamenting at the cruelty of fate. Netra itself is culmination of bloodline power in the eyes. Some very special bloodline can give birth to Netra power. Netra is very special because this power can be transferred to someone else who have capability to wield it. For those incapable to inherit it's power they will die if they got Netra power. And this Netra named rikudo by Karno because he sense it has six kind of powers.
After hearing the question from the old man named Karno, the shadow like figure named Sengkuni decide to answer.
"Sakti and Vidya clan is impossible to target because once we disturb them an hornet nest called Dahana country will be on hot pursuit of us, we can't risk our existence to be known to them yet"
Dahana country is one of the biggest country in this world and undoubtedly one of the strongest provoking them right now is asking for death.
"so this will only left Swasthya clan who was also descendants of Widhi as our targets because they are scattered without any protections"
Not many people in this world know that Sakti, Vidya, and Swasthya clan are descendants of a god called Widhi whose known to public as creator of this world. While Sakti and Vidya are amongst the strongest clan in Dahana, Swasthya was a clan that once own a country named Avarta which has the power rivaling even Dahana country by itself.
But Avarta got destroyed by joint attacks of Vajra and Tirtha country. Vajra country is the rival of Dahana country till this day and Tirtha country is also a big country that have military power only slightly weaker than Dahana or Vajra country. Avarta which in the alliance with Dahana at that time waiting for Dahana support while enduring the join attacks from Vajra and Tirtha country, in the end Avarta country got destroyed without getting any support from Dahana. Dahana government made statements that at that time they also got attacked by Vayu country and they can't split their military forces to give reinforcement to help Avarta.
In Rangga world there are many countries , most of them are small countries and Varsha is one of them. Varsha always shrouded with conflicts because Varsha are bordering three big countries. Varsha bordering Dahana, Vayu, and Bhumi country.
Currently there are six big countries in the Rangga world they are Dahana, Vajra, Bhumi, Tirtha, Loha, and Vayu country. Vayu is considerably weaker than other big countries but because they live in a barren desert no country willing to invade them. Vayu even as the weakest is no less aggressive than Vajra country who known as the most aggressive country amongst the big six. Basically banditry is the most common and everyday activity they do to gather resources from the surrounding countries.
"after months of investigation I met with very suitable candidate"
Sengkuni silent for a moment to gather some attention before he continued his report
"a couple of Swasthya just giving birth to a boy few years ago"
"they life in Varsha, a chaotic country shredded by conflicts, so with the lack of order and numerous conflicts we can easily manipulate the kid to our heart contents"
"that couple lacks any knowledge about Ksatriya which is the one who wield mana to fight so they are powerless, it's risk free to target them and ofcourse it's piece of cake to decide their fate"
Hearing Sengkuni report, teenager with burn marks all over his body feel uncomfortable and interjected.
"Vidya Karno can you give me that eyes instead, I believe I can grow that Netra power splendidly"
Karno attention shifted from Sengkuni to Anuraga, a teenager with burn marks all over his body
"Anuraga I didn't doubt that you can make this netra grow after all you are a Vidya yourself, but you know our ultimate goal with this Netra is to summon Vidhinium from the spirit world"
"so the first time this netra summon Vidhinium the user of this netra will have their life essences sucked dry making that user died or permanently disabled because of the massive energy needed to bring Vidhinium from the other world"
"Vidya Karno, I am Vidya Anuraga willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good"
"ENOUGH ANURAGA MY DECISION IS ABSOLUTE I HAVE MY OWN PLAN FOR YOU AND ONLY YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF DOING THAT"
Seeing Karno mad and annoyed, Anuraga feel intimidated.
"ugh...bu..but isn't it too cruel using an innocent kid for our cause"
"tha...that innocent kid will live his entire life manipulated by us, experiencing desperation and sadness until the day he die without knowing anything"
"wha..what did he do to deserve that kind of life"
"wh..what rights do we have to do all of that to him"
"Anuraga, don't you experiencing it yourself how rotten is this accursed world"
"nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world"
"the longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this world are merely pain, suffering and futility"
"listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well"
"as long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist"
"the selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love"
"these are the circle of causal relationships that cannot be separated that will keep us in an endless loop of misery"
"I want to sever the fate of this world"
"A WORLD OF ONLY VICTORS"
"A WORLD OF ONLY PEACE"
"A WORLD OF ONLY LOVE"
"I will create such a world"
"and only through Vidhinium can we achieve that"
Hearing Karno speech, Anuraga fell into silent and deep in thoughts remembering all of the sufferings he and his grandma experienced and remembering Dhatri death which make him plunged into deep sadness and sorrow.
After he is done lecturing Anuraga, Karno made his decision.
"okay you take my eyes and plant them to that kid"
Karno eyes turned into purple colored with circles pattern and then he gouging his own eyes and giving them to Sengkuni
"remember always monitor that kid and make sure he grow according to our plan"
"now go out immediately, I need to train Anuraga more so that he can become a worthy successor of mine, I don't have much times left"
Sengkuni silently merging with the ground where he stand just like melting until he completely gone.