Biazib is surprised when he saw that video unknowingly he voiced his doubt, “There are cameras in that room?”
Agarthala said, “Your teacher placed them in every room you reserved for practice.”
Biazib knew he was caught red handed, but that did not stop him from making further arguments, “But you saw it right? They did provoke me. I reserved the room for solo practice. They bribed someone to enter it. If Fei wanted to talk to me, he would have come alone. But instead he bought his gang. They were trying to kill me. What am I supposed to do? Let them kill me?”
Agarthala laughed when he heard his reasoning, “Kill you? You are trained by the demon of nether realm, even though you are still half-immortal you contracted with 5 different soul weapons and you have higher regeneration skill. Biazib, they posed as much threat to you as a single ant does to an elephant.”
Biazib said in an exasperated tone, “But they attacked me.”
Agarthala pointed out, ”I am not talking about you fighting back. I am talking about this”, he played the video from where Biazib was sitting on the boy and hitting him.
“The fight was already over. He was pleading you, yet you got angrier when he begged you.”
Biazib asked, “Are you saying I should have been more merciful?”
“No, I am saying you lack emotional control.”
Biazib looked at the man in-front him. The owner rarely involved himself in the employee’s job assignment. Which means Agarthala is the one who decides who gets what job. When his teacher decided to hide him here, Biazib flat out refused his idea. He always faced the problems head-on. He is not going to change it for this!
Then his teacher told him about this places called martial art section and puppet house that existed in the library of Agarthala’s realm.
Every known martial art’s manuals can be found in martial art’s section, and for Biazib who obsess about martial arts, place of such collection is a paradise!
For every martial artist the biggest problem is finding the right sparring partners. If they are stronger than you and do not know how to control their strength, you may permanently hurt yourself. But sparring with someone much weaker than you, will not help you to get stronger.
To compensate for these kind situations, practice puppets are designed. You can make a setting on them to just your level.
They make superb sparring partners!
And every puppet ever made to practice different martial arts, its design can be found in the puppet house!
When Biazib was sent here, he thought finally he found his paradise, but now Agarthala dropped a ton bricks on his head saying that there are conditions to follow it.
His teacher clearly warned him not to provoke Agarthala and his teacher is known for his pride!
Seeing Biazib lost not knowing what to say, Agarthala smiled and continued, ”Do you know why I specifically gave you this job? Some of the customers after entering the private realms will voluntarily throw away their token to stay longer. If you can bring 100 such people to exit hall without harming them much, I will assign you to the sections you want. ”
Not having any option he agreed with Agarthala. After leaving he started going towards his office.
He thought he got an unbelievable chance to improve his skills, but instead he got this!
Though it may seem like Agarthala gave him an option to work with, it is same as a non-existent as one! Library is notoriously famous for its harsh punishments towards thieving and intrusion in the library. So practically no dares it. Agarthala as might well as asked him to capture a primordial and that would have been easier!
As he was on his way to the office his dull eyes suddenly lit up. He had an idea how to enter into the martial art’s section!
Harima is quite happy with his arrangement here. Not just that but after his brother talked to Agarthala, he had an ashen expression. He told Harima that he will not be seeing him for some time and left just like that. When Harima heard that he will not be seeing his brother for quite some time, he knew that he can enjoy his life as much as he wants. Anantha realm has many famous adult entertainment spots. As long as he can curry favour with Agarthala he can do what he wants, or at-least that is his plan. He went to his office, he found Agarthala waiting for him!
“Before your brother left he made deal with all the adult entertainment spots in Agarthala. You are banned from all of them.”
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“What?!”, said Harima.
Agarthala said, “Yeah, your brother told me to lift the ban only after you practiced Moon’s reflection.”
Harima tried to say something, “But senior I am--”
Agarthala said, “Look, if it is according to me I would let you go the brothels, but your brother specifically told me to do it like this. It’s not like there are no other places to have fun in Agarthala. So practice well, bye.”
Harima watched as Agarthala leave. He felt miserable realizing at the fact that his brother could still dictate terms on his life.
Pragna went to his office and started the computer. On the computer there is only one icon, called library. After opening it, he found two columns; the right one is small, while the left one is large. The right one showed list of sections in library and if you click one of those icons, on the left column in showed contents of each section. Right now it displayed only two sections, ‘Cleaning’ and ‘Tracking’.
As Pragna was about to open those realms, he heard a knock on his door. Pragna opened the door and it is Biazib.
Biazib asked, “Mr. Pragna can I ask for a favour?”
Pragna said, “Go on.”
Biazib said while smiling, ”Actually I want to enter the martial art section, but my card does not allow me. So if you can open it for me, I would be grateful.”
Pragna smiled and said, “Am I allowed to do that?”
Biazib while his smile faltering said, “If you can help with this matter, I can compensate you.”
Pragna silently watched Biazib for few seconds and said, “I will think about it.”
Biazib jubilantly laughed, “Thank you!”, after saying that he left.
Pragna calmly thought about this Biazib’s situation. If Agarthala really wanted to ban Biazib from those realms, he would tell Pragna also that not to allow him to go there. This entire restriction of not allowing him to go there is seemed to be orchestrated to facilitate a budding friendship between Pragna and Biazib. That is why Pragna immediately did not agree or disagree to Biazib’s request. He wanted to some more time to think about it.
After sometime, he took out his card and opened portal to the section-realms of, cleaning and tracking.
First he went to Cleaning section. After seeing his own private realm, he had a rough idea how big these section-realms are going to be. But this place was much bigger than his expectations. When he entered the cleaning section-realm, he thought he will enter an insanely large room, but instead there is bright sky above his head. He was standing on patterned-circle which is a dais. There are rows of soul puppets hovering near him. The moment he got of the dais, one of the soul puppets came near him and scanned him.
Then it said in a robotic voice,
“Junior Librarian Pragna, please follow me to re-arrange the items.”
There are neatly laid paths leading from the dais. He followed the soul-puppet along one of these paths. As he went along he saw there are paths leading from this path to large hovering sign boards, each one having different titles. Behind these hovering boards, there are rows of book-shelves arranged in systematic patterns. Some of the titles were quite interesting like, ’cleaning with parasites’, ‘puppet dusters’ and so on.
After following the puppet for some-time it leads him to hovering board called, ‘air cleaning’.
He went into that section. As he looked, he found that the shelves were arranged in semi-circular pattern. In the middle this area there are few tables. On them there are books that need to be re-arranged. All Pragna had to do is arrange them back on the shelves.
Pragna looked around and a small smile formed on his lips. Looking at these soul-puppets he knew that they are more than enough to re-arrange the books. This job is given to him with only one specific purpose, to make him read these books. By specifically sending him to a realm and arranging few books for him to re-arrange, they are trying to make him read these specific books.
When he understood the owner’s plan, he felt odd at this roundabout way. If the owner really wanted to him read some books, why send him to section-realms under the pretext of re-arranging the books? Why can’t he simply give the list to Pragna and he will read them all at once?.
Pragna took the first book on the table thinking to himself, ”This is going to be cumbersome”