Accepting master

Karan followed the old man throughout the town without saying anything.

The old man was thinking how everything changed after the arrival of West country people into this peaceful country of Essennor. The local citizens were slowly oppressed under unreasonable rules and taxes, any mistakes resulted in either imprisonment or death sentence it all depended on the mood of those foreigners. After more than two centuries of being colonized, citizens even started to forget how the days of freedom felt as even the oldest people living only remembered those days as mere hearsays. Those peaceful and prosperous days which felt like a fairy tale to many were vividly clear in the memories of this seemingly old man who was reminiscing old days while guiding this ordinary kid towards the outskirts of town of konta.

Soon they reached a courtyard which seemed to be abandoned since decades.

Seeing this courtyard a lot of memories surfaced in karan's mind because it was the house where he happily lived first four years of his life with his parents. But it's was confiscated by the government after his parents died in rebellion, at the hands of westerners.

Karan's eyes started turning red and watery while thinking about all this but he started calming down after a few minutes of silent crying with even more determination for his revenge against those western colonizers.

Old man seeing Karan slowly calming down said with a serious tone " kid, my name is Vishwas. But you will call me master if you want to learn from me and become able to get your revenge."

Karan having a nagging feeling that this old man was mysterious asked him with respect " Sir can you please first tell me what will you teach me?"

Old man Vishwas getting impressed by the rational thinking ability of karan replied calmy " karan, I can teach you the way of fighting, defending and many more things that can only be considered as supernatural powers but it all depends on your trust and determination. Let me tell you in advance that this will not be an easy journey."

Karan hearing his name from the mouth of old man Vishwas was quite surprised but than thought he must have heard it in the tavern. But who could explain the way old man took him to his old family house and directly said the deepest wish from his heart.

Seeing Karan not giving any answer thought of giving him the final push and said " yes I can read minds and I brought you here on purpose and I will teach you this as well. So, what do u say?"

Karan somewhat believing the old man tried to probe further into the old man's capabilities and asked " So even if I believe that you can read minds, but I am not so naive to think that it is enough to overthrow the mighty western Empire and their machinary." After saying this Karan eyed the the old man Vishwas intently as see any microscopic change in his expressions.

Old man Vishwas hearing Karan chuckled lightly and said " you are really a smart kid. I am getting more certain of my decision now."

After saying this old man Vishwas slowly lifted his hand in the air with open palm and a small ball of light started gathering on his palm. Which he threw towards a tree on street a little further from where they were standing with just a light movement of his wrist.

The ball of light slowly enlarged while moving towards the tree and when it came in contact with the tree it was large enough to cover the whole tree and it did. After covering the tree the ball on light turned into ball of flames and vanished just a few seconds later.

After the flames disappeared there were only ashes on the ground without any sign of tree that was privously there.

Karan seeing all this was shocked to his core and knelt down immediately speaking with excitement " Master, I am willing to go through any hardship. Please accept me as your disciple."