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Vidyut is walking on a street with no one around. He is wearing a black T-shirt with white trousers and a black coloured earmuff placed on his ears. Some water vapours are flowing out of his mouth whenever he exhales. After walking for some time in different streets, he reached a road bustling with people. There are many vehicles on the road, People are walking on a footpath on the side of the road. Vidyut crossed the road and walked further on the footpath. Many familiar figures were walking on the footpath. After covering some distance, Vidyut caught a glimpse of a tall building, on the gate some words were carved, Vir academy. Just when he was going to enter in Academy, A familiar voice reached his ears, "Wait, Why did you come here alone?"

He stopped and turned around slowly. Vani was standing there, her hands folded in front of her chest, face twisted, eyes furrowed and lips compressed into a thin line exuding a fierce resentment.

"Sister Vani, Um... Uh... I... I just thought of taking a walk to measure the distance from my home to the academy."

He suddenly cursed himself in his mind "Aaah..., What kind of excuse is that? Idiot, I am an idiot."

Vidyut knew he was in a dangerous situation. He stood there bowing his head a little, bracing for an impact.

"From tomorrow, Don't come alone. I'll pick you up with Mom." Vani said and moved towards the academy and all reactions vanished from her face.

Vidyut was shocked. It was the first time when Vani was not beating him up for his mistake.

Actually what Vani said is true. Vidyut just wanted to avoid her. Vidyut felt guilty after seeing her reaction.

"I made her sad." Vidyut thought and a heavy weight settled in his chest.

He ran towards Vani and said, "Sister..., I am Sorry."

"It's okay.", Vani said but her face didn't show any reaction.

"Sister, I am really sorry. I will not avoid you again."

"I said it's okay. Don't bother me." Vani replied again.

Vidyut didn't dare to say anything else and just followed her to the academy.

Her eyebrows lifted slightly and a slight upward arc formed on Vani's lips showing a slight smile.

"Mother was right. He is just anti-social. I need to be good with him." Vani thought.

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A room with tiled floors and desks spread all over. A device looking like a board was fit on a wall just in front of the door, Many lights were fixed on the ceiling and some lamps were fixed on the walls.

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Some students were talking and befriending one another. Vani entered the class followed by Vidyut and became the focus of attention. All the students have seen, How Vidyut performed in the academy entrance test.

Vani went deeper inside the class and sat on a chair. Vidyut followed her and also took a seat on her right side.

Suddenly a loud voice entered Vidyut's ears,

"Even though you got first rank in the entrance exam but I will not let you outshine me in the class."

Vidyut didn't even turn around to see the speaker which made the speaker angry and he came in front of him.

It was a boy with blond hair. He came near Vidyut and brought his face closer to Vidyut, "Are you trying to ignore me?"

Vidyut turned towards his Sister and said, "Sister, Do you know who is he?"

Vani smiled in her mind and thought, "What a blockhead?"

She watched him and said, "Aren't you Manit, the second position holder? Why are you bothering us?"

"So you know me? It's good, I have got some fans, Huh", The boy smiled and said.

Vidyut looked at another side ignoring him completely and Vani also rolled her eyes and looked at the Wooden door.

Manit saw both the siblings, his smile trembled, arms flailing and legs stiffened, "They totally ignored me. Do they think of me as some kind of Joker at their birthday party?"

He stomped his foot and screamed, "Hey, I am talking to you two. Watch here and listen to me."

Both siblings still did not focus on him.

"Don't you know who am I? I am the young master of the Sharma family. My big brother is the left-hand man of the Leader association's boss."

Vidyut fell on the table and snored, "zzzz....".

"Are you for real? How can you sleep? You are intentionally ignoring me." His body trembled and he started sobbing.

"I will tell my mom about you. She will punish you, Sob... sob..."

He ran towards his seat.

Vani first looked at the crying boy and then at Vidyut who was sleeping, with a flabbergasted expression.

"Are all the boys so peculiar? How can one cry because of being ignored and another one sleep between a conflict."

After a moment, The door opened and a woman who looked to be around 25 years old entered the class. She has black hair and brownish eyes with a beautiful face cut and a dazzling smile that seems to brighten up stars.

"Hello students, Welcome to the first day at the academy. My name is Akansha and I am your class teacher for your first year. She moved her fingers and a small yellow circular formed on her fingertip. She threw it on Vidyut but as soon as it reached a radius of 5 meters it disintegrated and was absorbed by Vidyut.

Akansha wore an amused expression.

"Although I didn't compress the energy much, But to be disintegrated by a five-year-old kid is still a feat."

She condensed another ball of energy but bigger than before and threw it again.

When it entered the range, It disintegrated a little bit again and got absorbed by him but it still hit Vidyut's head and he woke up. He rubbed his eyes from one hand and head from the other.

"So today we are going to start our first class. In our first class, we'll be learning about cultivation stages. "

All the students focused their attention.

Akansha described,

"Human cultivation is divided mainly into 6 stages.

The first stage is "Bal (Strength)", the Second stage is "Tej (Radiance)", the Third stage is "Aatma (Soul)", the Fourth stage is "Yog (Yoga)", the Fifth stage is "Avatar (Avatar)" and the sixth stage is " Rishi (Sage)"

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She continued, "The first three levels are further divided into ten substages each. Stage first, Stage second and so on to stage tenth.

There is a large Gap between every stage that even five normal first stage Bal level cultivators can not overpower a second stage Bal level Cultivator.

This gap keeps increasing in further stages and levels."

Vidyut who was in a half-asleep state till now heard all this and regained his focus.

"Such immense gap even in starting stages of cultivation."

Akansha continued, "One can only cross a stage and enter another stage if he has gained the required amount of spiritual power Spiritual powers are divided into 12 stages from level One to level Twelve. "

After Class time is over:

"Okay, this is for today's class. We will discuss this further in the next class. "