Favor to be repaid in future

It was around evening, Zeph and Sauren found themselves sitting inside Mercenary corp hall waiting for Boss to call them for a meeting.

"Ok, you can go now inside,"

said May as she waved at two friends who were sitting completely still and quiet. She found it weird but didn't think too much of it.

They arrived inside the office and sat down before Boss.

"Looking at your glum expressions, you must have failed at the commission. Well don't take that to heart, beasts tend to avoid such large human cities. So it must have gone far away till that time "

Sauren and Zeph nodded in dumb expression but in reality, was that they were still recovering from the serpent queen incident.

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"So Stand up and place your hands on pearl. Do not resist its energy and let it flow inside your body."

Both of them complied with her instructions and we're surprised to find pressure from pearl completely gone. They put their hands upon pearl and by repeated instructions of Anastasia completed the oath. After completion, a thin blue energy circle was formed on their biceps.

"This oath will remain until you repay the favor of Naaga clan. If you died before repaying debt then, I will be merciful enough to not implicate your descendants. This due will finish with your deaths."

"Don't worry. We will repay the favor of Naaga clan "

Said Zeph but he has truly felt powerless in today's circumstances. He made an inner resolve to repay this due because it will always remind him, that he was alive only because of the mercy of some other.

"Now go, take the path back from where you came inside "

Zeph and Sauren silently left the lake castle and proceeded towards Zephyr city. The white snake which was fighting with them earlier came close to the queen who was sitting outside in the hall and said,

"Princess, what was need of going at such lengths to save the lives of two foolish humans. I think we should have killed them at every moment."

"After Father's passing, I'm an heir of clan call me Queen from next time.

And about these humans, indeed, I didn't expect anything from them but it was necessary to bind them. I didn't kill them because we beasts need to change our attitudes too. Humans are the dominant species of the current era if we kill those, the organization behind those will certainly probe in our valley.

And we do not have such strength to face those powerful humans, it can even lead to a massacre of our tribe. thus it is best to remain under the radar as suggested by father.

Now enough talk, tell those other snakes not to wander outside, that foolish dragon will surely try to find our place "

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After a small talk with Boss, both of them found themselves sitting in their favorite restaurant.

Sauren slapped down the table hard with his fist and said to Zeph.

"I have decided to become stronger. Today was an insult to us. we were like insects to her, even when talking to us she was not paying us attention."

"It's true. But She is right and strong so we can do nothing about it "said Zeph calmly. He put the cheese into his mouth with a fork and savored the taste by closing his eyes. He had mostly recovered from the setback of feeling powerless.

" Then we will just have to be strong enough so we can give back the favor we owed. It will be soon a time when we will talk as equals, …..huh"Sauren waving his hand clenched soup bowl and gulped it down in one go."

On that night, they furiously meditated and revolved their chakra to convert more and more energy for reaching a breaking point for the next level.

The next few days were the same, they went to the forest for training and sparring with each other. Their motive was to open navel chakra as soon as possible.

It was noon with the sun shining brightly overhead. A handsome boy with long black hair was sitting in meditation cross-legged upon the branch of a tree. Suddenly with a splash, another boy with spiky black hair and green eyes emerged out of the lake beside the tree. He was coughing badly to remove water from his mouth.

"Fu*k, *cough*....*cough*. You said..*cough*.. it will be easy and here I nearly choked myself to death."

"I was doing that training from twelve years of age "replied Zeph from tree branch without opening his eyes.

" Man you were trained from childhood and how am I supposed to breathe underwater without the use of serpentine energy cloak."

"I will once again repeat the process.

Sit inside water cross-legged and hold your breath. Instead of forming an energy cloak to form an air capsule around your body let your skin come directly in contact with water. Slowly release the breath and let chakra points inside your body activate and demand oxygen from whole body cells.

Slowly due to no intake of air, your consumption of oxygen will be so reduced that you will be able to hold your breath for more and more time. Repeat training to achieve less usage of oxygen. It will help you to use elemental energy proficiently without any wastage.

I can even spend three or five days in water without the use of any energy."

"Yeah, yeah I am trying again"

Sauren once again immersed himself in the pond to resume his training.