Like always, Soka diligently train his body under the guise of playing.
"I don't know when Sengkuni and Karno will monitor me so I mustn't show anything suspicious"
"Sengkuni has ability to be undetectable by anything and can split himself almost infinitely at least I don't know his splitting limit so monitoring me for 24/7 will not be a problem for him"
When carrying relatively heavy stone while running Soka suddenly feel sleepy, because of his vigilant mentality he know something isn't right, something suspicious is happening now but he is powerless to resist, in the end he helplessly fell asleep. Before fallen to the ground, black figure that come out of the ground caught him.
"really amazing kid even though he never had any Ksatrya training before, he managed to sense my indrajala"
indrajala is a general term for illusion techniques used by Ksatrya.
"even for most of veteran grade ksatrya they will be trapped in my indrajala without noticing that they are already falling into my indrajala"
Generally Ksatriya classified into three stages they are newbie, veteran, and purna. Outside of these three stages the one which is the strongest in their country and become the leader of their country are called as Raja. And some individuals who officially in the Purna grade but stronger than most of the other Purna are called as elite purna.
"his body is also amazing for five years old child without a formal ksatrya training his body comparable to a kid from prestigious clan that receiving rigorous ksatrya training since their childhood"
Sengkuni scanning his surroundings seeing that no one is around, he lay Soka on the ground and reading mantra to surround that location with his indrajala so both of them inside some kind of barrier. In that barrier no rain waters can penetrate no noises, smells, and vision can be detected from the outside.
Sengkuni pick a glass tube from his pocket. Inside that glass tube two eyeballs can be seen floating in transparent green liquid. After taking those eyeballs out he put them above Soka's clossed eyelids taking a scroll from his pocket, open that scroll and put it on Soka's body. Sengkuni reading another mantra and taping that scroll on Soka's body. Some kind of characters and weird symbols spread out of that scroll surrounding Soka's body making a weird circle and puff that scroll vanished in the white smoke.
Sengkuni channeling his mana into that circle continuously until that circle glow up and eyeballs at Soka's eyelids melted and absorbed by Soka. Sengkuni checking Soka's body to make sure everything is going according to his plan.
"hmmm... Nice, rikudo completely and perfectly merging with him"
"his body managed to receive the power of rikudo without being over burdened and his mana got activated by the result"
"this rikudo is just like a new awakened netra, without any special powers"
"just like trihita which is netra power that can be awakened by elite of Vidya clan when first awakened they didn't have any special powers and only give slight improvement in dynamic visions, fire element control, and indrajala"
"this newly awakened rikudo only have one trait and that is immunity to the other netra powers"
"hmm... Interesting I don't know if all newly awakened rikudo will have this power after all I don't have enough sample to do some experiments but this is very interesting, netra that will protect you from the other netra users"
"if I am not the one to do this merging ceremony I will never know that this newly awakened rikudo will have this ability"
"even though most of the time this ability is not as useful as newly awakened trihita's ability, but in a special case where he face of against netra users, this ability will be extremely powerful"
After Sengkuni was done with Soka he come back to Karno's place. Karno didn't notice Sengkuni's approach until Sengkuni began to talk to him. But Karno brush this off, attributing this negligence to his attention that was too focused on Anuraga and yet accustomed to his recently blind status.
"master Karno that child managed to merge with rikudo perfectly I believe he will become an excellent seed bed for rikudo and with a little push from me I'm sure he will summon Vidhinium without fail"
"I left one of my clone to monitor him 24/7 so our first step to create a perfect world will be rock solid"
Hearing Sengkuni report, Karno temporary switch his attention from Anuraga to Sengkuni but he still can't sense Sengkuni presence. He didn't want to admit that he can't sense Sengkuni, his pride didn't allow him to. He pretend to act authoritative as usual.
"what is rikudo status? Can he use the power of rikudo?"
Sengkuni didn't notice anything unusual from the Karno so he continued to report his duty to Karno.
"when rikudo completely merging with him, rikudo seems to get reseted"
"it's like a new awakened netra but unlike trihita which have many powerful abilities even as newly awakened netra, his rikudo didn't have any ability"
"maybe it's because he is not the original owner of rikudo"
"but he has an excellent body comparable to scion of the prestigious clan and when merging with rikudo his mana got activated"
After hearing Sengkuni's report, Karno seems unconvinced he is bit suspicious of Sengkuni's report there's no way a netra as powerful as rikudo didn't have any ability even as newly awakened netra. But he can't sense anything from Sengkuni and it doesn't cross his mind that Sengkuni will betray him.
For Karno, Sengkuni was his own creation. Sengkuni was a byproduct after his netra mutated from perfect trihita into rikudo after his failure in his rebellion in Dahana.
In his hiding spot where he was gravelly wounded and growing old waiting for his death Sengkuni was accidentally born from his shadow when his netra mutated. Sengkuni outlook on the world and ideologies, all of them are born from his own ideologies. There's no way someone with the same ideologies and goals as him will betray him.
Meanwhile Sengkuni is nervous, he can sense that Karno seems a bit suspicious of him. He didn't expect his "little" lie will make Karno doubt him. Luckily he has passive ability that make him can't be detected by any means except for the normal sight. With Karno currently blind status and Anuraga busy with his own training no one detected his nervousness.
I didn't know if I can use this information in the future but having one more information gap will definetly make me hold more advantage, after all information is the strongest weapon in the world. I only need to report what I need to report and hold the rest for myself. Even though my frontal combat power is lacking but my informations gathering ability is unparalleled in the world. As long as I can monopolize the informations I can control this world to achieve any goals I want.
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*sob*sob*sob*
Soka awakened and find out someone is sobbing beside him. Turning his head he see his mother crying face down. Because his body still weak he can only lift his right hand to touch his mother hairs trying to comfort and assure her that he was fine
"mom I am fine"
"nothing happened to me you don't need to worry"
Klesha lift her head, seeing his son awake she immediately hug him and continue to cry. She didn't even notice weirdness in his son's eyes. At this time Soka's eyes turned a bit purple with circles pattern. After hugging her son, Klesha managed to calm herself down. She want to ask her son what is he doing, what happened to him to make him unconscious but when seeing her son's face she was stunned her attention drawn in to Soka's eyes.
"Soka what happen to you?"
"why is your eyes turned like that?"
Soka can only remain silent he didn't know how to explain this incident to his mother in a way that will not make her terrified and to make matter worse he is now sure that at least one of Sengkuni's clone will be always monitoring him from now on.
I can't do anything suspicious, I must prepare for any tragedies thrown to me and everyone I cared while keeping it secret from Sengkuni.
My biggest advantage against Sengkuni is that I know almost everything about him and he didn't know anything about me. In his eyes I'm just an innocent and clueless kid.
It's been more than five years when the last time he read Rangga novel before his dead in his previous life coupled with his current life it's been decade, so he already forgot a lot of details in Rangga novel, but he still remember that in the original story my parents die in the hands of Dahana veteran.
Those veteran are strong enough to make non-ksatrya civilians helpless against them but they are weak enough to die in the hand of Soka who was for the first time managed to use one of rikudo power.
If those veteran are strong or famous veteran in this period time line I am sure I will not be able to kill them.