“Hmm, now this is getting interesting.” thought Evan. He just saw that after the ceremony was over all the participants one by one visited his father and again congratulated him. Suddenly after talking with his father many figures vanished one by one as if they were not here before a second. He even saw the different types of their vanishing act.

Some simply blurred, their forms melting into the air like smoke dispersing in the wind. Others stepped through shimmering portals of different shapes and sizes, the edges glowing with sparks of different colors. From some gates he could see the other side while others were opaque. The most enigmatic vanished silently, their presence fading as though they were never there.

“This is very, very interesting. Especially the ones who just faded out.”

He then carefully starts observing how they were leaving. While it did not shock him as he due to time spent in void could make it possible. But there are some things which he could not make possible even with his knowledge like the ones who just faded out.

Back to the group of leading figures,

“I just noticed another spike in the fluctuations he is emitting. This is not good. We have sealed fluctuations but I fear he could break it in some days.” said the man in blue robe.

“Hm….it's a bit of a problem, we would have to use more powerful means to hide the fluctuations. Just now some members of the family sensed the fluctuations but couldn't track it back to him due to the seal we placed.” Morgan said with frustration. He was grandfather of Evan and also a grand elder in the clan.

“For now let's put him in isolation with only his parents. I would talk with Atrick about the situation. Let's wait and see till he reaches 5 years of age.”

“I hope it's a one of a kind prenatal talent, it has been a long time since any one in the clan had a one of a kind prenatal talent” said the blue robe man.

“Yes, it's indeed a very long time. For we can only wait and see what futures hold for him.” told Morgan to the group. The group actually were family members of Evan with the blue robe man being the elder brother of Morgan.

After the ceremony ended Evan had been taken to a new hall where he saw a woman sleeping peacefully on the luxurious bed. The bed was floating and not touching the ground. The woman was wearing what seemed to be a very soft white gown with her hairs left open. Her eyes were closed but she was having a small smile on her face. She was radiating a pure and innocent aura that would calm anyone. Literal visualization of peace.

The air around her seemed to hum with serenity, her gentle smile like the first light of dawn. Her gown shimmered faintly, as though woven from moonlight itself.

‘Hm….she should be my mother Lady Saphire, my mother. All remaining should be maids probably.’ He pondered on the way to the bed beside his mother. As soon as he was put on the bed the sleeping lady opened her eyes and looked at Evan with tenderness and love.

“What is it ? Hn” she asked Atrick.

“Evan-Evan Walker,” said Atrick.

She kissed Evan on the head and stood up from the bed picking him in her hands. She then brought Evan near the window and let the warm rays of the sun fall on the newly born.

“How was the phenomenon, I am sure it was unique and powerful, so which grade was it ?” she turned and asked Atrick with a hopeful gaze.

“Hmm…about that ...there was no heavenly phenomenon at the time of birth, which is not impossible……hhhhhhh…... .but don't worry, the heavenly phenomenon does not completely indicate the talent of the newborn. Remember elder father Devan too had little to no phenomenon when he was born but still he made such achievements. Alas if not for his stubborn personality he would have passed the bottleneck.” Atrick said with coming near saphire and looking into her eyes.

“I know but everyone knows the manifestations are Supreme Dao’s way of celebrating the birth of new talent in the universe. At the time of Lord Devan there was manifestation but it was not on a grand scale. In our case you are saying there was no manifestation, how could I not worry?” she asked.

Though Lady Saphire's tenderness stirred something unfamiliar within him, Evan found it hard to reconcile her warmth with the cold rationality of his scientist's mind.

While they both were talking with each other and consolidating the misfortune of not having the heavenly manifestation. The little one was quietly listening to their voices and constantly analyzing the information.

‘Oh heavenly manifestations are a way of celebrating the birth of talent. In my case there was none so I am a person with no unique thing. Just a plain newborn of the Walker clan. Hm.. but when did I care about these things. Nothing is absolute. I would change my own destiny. For now just gather as much information as possible and determine the next path’ he thought as soon his eyes drifted into the darkness, sleeping in his mothers arm.

His next few months just passed laying down on the bed gathering information about the clan and the world in which he was born. From the general talking of the maids and the conversation between his grandfather and his parents he came to know many things.

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The Walker clan being one of the most powerful entities in the world they live in. He also heard many different terms like Dao, different types of worlds, plane, realm and many more things which took a long time to decipher.

Due to the order of his grandfather he was in isolation with only his parents and maid. After a month he was moved to another chamber with the many maids and many children of his age. The chamber had many babies of below one year of age, with many caretakers taking care of the new ones.

Another interesting thing was that they were not breastfed a single time, to avoid boredom they were taken to different places, shown different types of things and made to do different activities. This entirely was false as when the first time they were taken outside he clearly heard the maid telling others to run the formation meaning they were in the same place it was just that they were put in an illusion.

Most of the time all the babies spend their time sleeping and looking at the illusions and doing other simple things they were made to do.

Evan wants to collect information but as it happens there was no way now. But he always remembers that nothing is absolute. This was a little problem for him, after a few days he formed many ways of getting information. One of which was reading the books which the chief maid had.

The chief maid was a bit of a mature woman with some wrinkles but she looked beautiful. She used to read books when handling the babies. He also observed that each day she would check each baby and that was his opportunity.

After a few initial days, when it was his time for check-up he held the hand of the chief maid tightly, when he was separated he started crying. Seeing his drama and crying the chief maid got scared. This was not good for her, it could even turn into her replacement. Looking at the watery eyes of Evan she decided to have him with her for some time. When it was time for the babies to play Evan still refuses to leave her. She eventually decides to let him stick with her.

Evan was sensible, he knows what to do, now achieving his goal he started reading the book which the main read. These books were just common books about tales and legends. But these were the golden source of information for him. Then it became a daily routine of sticking with the chief maid after checking.

As the days passed by Evan cleared all the confusion and doubts he had about the terms he heard from his grandfather and parents. For some reason he couldn't listen to the maids talking to each other. During this time he saw many parents, even his, coming to the chamber and talking and caring for the kids for sometime.

One such day he got to know the last piece of information that was important.

‘So the name of the realm I am in is Walker realm, pretty straight forward. A realm is territory of a power. There are many realms in the universe. The Dao universe has numerous galaxies. Each galaxy contains numerous planetary systems and each system has a number of planets. So this is a different universe than my previous one. This one follows the Dao path. Maybe there are other universes too who knows.’ he pondered and formed a simple map of the universe in his head. A universe at top with galaxy in middle and planetary systems at bottom.

‘Talking about the power system, this universe has the Dao path. There is not much mentioned about this in the books. I guess I will soon find out about it anyway.’ He thought while still being in the chief maids arms-she was reading the book while he was also secretly looking at the book.

‘Another interesting thing is that we are neither eating nor excreting. Also not a single baby is feeling hungry.’ He thought about this and came to the conclusion that it could be due to some sort of special environment.

Weeks passed on and Evan had pretty much read all the books from the chief maid. He now had started getting bored. There was nothing to do now, it was roughly 5 months he was here and from last 3-4 months he was not reading books instead he was listening to the chief maid and other maids. They too sometimes give valuable information to him.

During this period of time he saw many extraordinary babies. Some of which could even fly. One has a different color of eyes, as soon as he saw these babies he knew they were not normal like him. These special babies were given extra care and were kept separated from the normal ones.

‘So I am a normal child with nothing special about me, hehehee that’s what others see. My biggest gain is the amount of time I spend in the void and my intellect.’ he thought while looking at other normal babies and then again towards special ones with a determined gaze.

He also came to know the names of babies not all about but of the remarkable ones around him. He quickly remembered the names of special ones with their powers and their faces.

There was one child that had nothing special, he was a simple child. No colorful eyes, hairs or showed any superpower. Evan often wondered why he was placed with special ones. One such time while he was observing other babies he saw the unremarkable baby was being picked up by a maid to move out.

The child seemed to have mistakenly thought there was danger to him, thus Evan observed something mind blowing. The baby showed a grunted expression while making noise and the second maid’s hand came close to picking up the baby.

No one knew what happened even the chief maid. Just as the maid’s hand came close to the baby the baby just turned around and evaded it. The maid reached out to pick the baby but the same thing happened. No matter how many times she tries to pick him up the baby would turn and even do what seemed to be crawling to evade the hand.

Evan was shocked after seeing it, he quickly analyzed what he saw and instantly came to the conclusion that the baby was using freaking time powers. Yes the little chap was slowing down time around him and evading the hand which was trying to pick him up.

The maid too was shocked, she quickly told the chief maid and then after the chief maid came she picked the child up and moved outside. Evan doesn't know how she picked the child up.

He also saw that some babies which were older were picked and moved somewhere else. From the chief maids conversation he came to know that newborns older than 1 year are moved outside. He still has 7 months remaining. What he would do in these 7 months he doesn't know. He planned several things but it would depend on what happens after he concludes the plan he is working on.

What he didn't know was that his every activity was monitored by both his father and grandfather. In a different area within the realm, two towering figures were sitting face to face placing chess.

Morgan’s tone was grim. “Ancestor If the seal breaks prematurely, there’s no telling who might notice. We can’t risk exposure—not yet.”