CH- 3, SANDHYA LIFTED THE SWORD !

"Cough cough… you…"

The boy stared at Sandhya while trembling in anger. The other boys who were with him were also terrified after witnessing their leader get defeated by an unknown girl.

The boy who was laying on the floor looked towards his subordinates for support saw them retreat a few steps and then run away. He was furious. He shouted, "You damn losers trying to ditch your leader? Just wait… you…"

"You done?"

He turned his head towards the voice and saw the girl standing there without the care of anything.

"You…"

Before he could finish an immense pressure engulfed him. As a demon beast is looking at him with cold hungry eyes. Then he looked at those dark eyes which were staring back at him. He felt like it's trying to devour him. He had never felt anything like that. He cowered backwards and ran away.

It was a good thing that the compound of the library was a less crowded area. So, there weren't many people. Those who were present didn't notice anything. Or else it could have been a piece of big news in the local newspaper for the next day.

Lola who was watching all of this quietly from a faraway place silently chuckled.

"Not bad. Didn't expect her to be able to frighten a person just by her mere gaze. What will happen after she awakens power?"

Then a thought crossed her mind.

"I think today is not a bad day for testing that out. I should take her there after this."

…

"Are you all right?"

Sandhya asked the little girl. The girl nodded and bowed to show her gratitude and ran away.

Sandhya was confounded. Is she looking that scary? She sighed and finally went to the library for which she was there. After she borrowed and returned the needed books, she went back to Lola.

"Let's go."

"Sandhya wait…"

She faced Lola and asked, "Yes?"

"Before we go home, how about you go to a place with me? I want to run a little test."

Sandhya was surprised. The time for the test hasn't arrived yet so what does she want to test?

In these four months, after Serena leaves her with Lola, she is giving her lessons on how to channel her magical energy through objects. Serena had experienced how Sandhya can transfer and channel her magic through objects. It's a technique which is for beginners and one of the fundamentals in the foundation of magic. Serena had handed the responsibility of the foundation of Sandhya's magic to Lola, who is performing this responsibility way too well.

She answered, "Okay."

From there they headed towards a small shrine. The environment of that place was good. After stepping into that place, the disturbance due to the earlier incident vanished and Sandhya felt calm. The air around the shrine was relatively fresher while covered with green trees.

Lola took Sandhya to a small hill behind the shrine. After walking some distance to upward they found a small open space on which there was a big rock on which a sword was stuck in it, its handle facing heavenwards.

Lola went up the rock and faced the sword.

"Sandhya, this is the holy sword of this shrine and also one of the few devices which can be used to check whether a person has a solid foundation or not. Since we have been working on your foundation from the last four months it's time I see if it has benefited or not. And if you are listening to my instructions and training."

Sandhya nodded in approval.

"As you can see this sword has lots of small and big markings like a ruler. You just need to channel your magic into this sword and try to lift it. When you feel that you have hit your limit and you can't lift the sword anymore tell me, I will check the marking."

"Okay."

Lola came down from the rock and Sandhya climbed up to the sword. As instructed by Lola, Sandhya held the handle by both her palms and took a deep breath to concentrate on it. She let loose her body and started to pull the sword by channelling her energy into it.

After some time, the sword moved a bit. Lola looked at the sword with anticipation. When the sword moved Sandhya channelled more energy into it and kept channelling more and more energy.

For a good amount of time, the sword didn't move after that but Sandhya felt like the sword in her hand which felt like an immovable object at first had turned lighter and gradually it felt lighter and lighter. And then Sandhya wasn't able to feel it's weight at all. That's when she lifted the sword into the sky at once.

Lola's eyes rounded in shock. When Sandhya wasn't able to lift the sword anymore after the first move, she had thought that her suspicion was right. But that thought completely crushed the movement Sandhya lifted the sword. It looked like that sword has exactly made for her and has been waiting for her to show up.

"Sandhya!"

Lola exclaimed and ran to her. Sandhya was still standing there holding the sword in the air and was examining it. Lola held both her hands which were gripping the handle and put the sword back into the place.

"Sandhya, stop putting your magic now!"

"Okay."

Sandhya listened to her and stopped giving her power to the sword. The sword slipped from her hands and went back into the hole with a loud thud and the whole place tremored. Sandhya and Lola lost their balance and fell back.

After Lola calmed down, she immediately stormed out of that place with Sandhya like their lives were in danger.

…

After they went away two boys came to that place running. Both of them were wearing some sort of uniform. One of them inspected his surroundings to find any person. There was no one except them. His sight then fell on the sword resting on the rock. There were small cracks on it beside the sword. He went and examined it.

"Someone was here."

He faced the other boy who was with him and said, "Looks like the person somehow managed to lift the sword but then that person's magic ran out, because of which it fell back into its hole creating these cracks. The loud thud earlier must be due to this. But there's no one to confirm my theory. What do you think?"

The other boy remained silent like it has nothing to do with it.

The first boy sighed, "Let's get back. And report about it to the chief."

…

Lola who was dragging Sandhya along with her finally stopped and breathed with relief. They have come far away from that place as much as they can to not get noticed by anyone. But she was still worried what if there would be a big commotion after they left? Will they try to find who did this? Will anyone report about the weird incident to anyone? Were there other people besides them?

She thought even if there were, it's fine as long as no one has seen them.

Now she is regretting running that test without telling Sere about it. What will happen if she knows about it? What will happen when she will know that her Sandhya has an exceptional magical affinity. Dammit! She should feel proud of it but she can't help but panic. She almost bit her nails but didn't eat it.