After saying that all, elders moved towards back of spirit hall. There one can see an old wooden door embedded which is hardly noticeable from outside due to similarity of color of the wall and door. Emma signaled her daughter and Julia (who also followed them here) to enter after Garry &Jacob. They did as they are signaled. Emma watched the surroundings once to check nothing is out of order and then closed the door after entering the room at last.

Julia and Emmy stepped down the staircase and followed Garry & Jacob to a large hall. There were two tables in the hall to one side and at one corner there were some weapons stored. The tables were filled with books, Amulets, Talismans and scrolls, but they weren’t much in numbers. They hardly numbered more than thirty. At center of hall there was an oval shaped table surrounded by 15+ chairs. Garry took the head seat and Jacob followed by taking opposite seat to Garry. Julia and Emmy didn’t sit down and continued looking around curiously. They were standing in the way while elders can see their eyes filled with curiosity and bafflement. They are watching at things till Emma who followed them entered the hall and coughed lightly, Ahem you can look at these later first have a seat. Following her words Emmy and Julia come back from Trans and took seats at the table with Emma.

Wow mom, if I don't come here today personally, I would never have found out that there is a secret basement under spirit hall of village. Emmy looked towards her mother and shouted like a child enthusiastically.

Calm down Emmy, it’s not as we want to hide this from villagers. But Village Chief has to follow some rules too. Emma explained to Emmy and Julia who now listening carefully what village elders are telling them.

So let me first tell you something, Garry started talking while looking at Julia and Emmy. While we can now tell you some confidential information but for that you two have to swear that you will never share the information with anyone. This information may cause the destruction of the village and life of every single person related to this village. There was a solemn aura surrounding Garry while he mentioned all this. Emmy and Julia gulped the saliva forcefully and nodded heavily as if she understood the importance and severity of all this.

After Emmy and Julia taken the oath under the watch of Garry, Jacob stood up and went straight to the wall at right side of table. He placed his hand over a stone and pressed it with some force. After that he came back and sat down at his seat. They waited for 5 minutes silently. Then there are some sounds from the surface and stairs, Emmy and Julia turned their heads towards hall entrance reflexively. Then four more persons entered the hall. They looked at Emmy and Julia with some curiosity in their eyes while they took the seats surrounding Garry. They are two Middle aged man and two women who came into the hall.

Garry coughed lightly to turn everyone’s attention towards him and started the conversation in a solemn voice.

“As everyone is here we will officially start the meeting. The Subject and Object of the meeting are with us today joining the meeting too. Let’s first introduce everyone.”

As you all know this is Emmy, Healer Emma's daughter. And woman sitting beside her is Julia Sinel who has her son Jack Sinel in her arms. The four newcomers nodded at Julia and Emmy in a greeting. Julia and Emmy replied to their greeting by nodding their heads. Now you two already know Emma, Jacob & me then let us introduce these four. Emmy knows them for sure but Julia didn’t know so Garry motioned towards the four to let them introduce themselves.

I am Han and by profession a Blacksmith. I have a smithy in Northern side of Chiban Village market.

I am Fred and I am the teacher of spirit academy at Bultar Town. I am assigned to my village as academy representative and head of Chiban Spirit institute.

I am Sophia and by profession a scribe. I have a shop in village; you are welcome to purchase any type of amulet or talismans there.

I am Hina, a hunter.

All four newcomers introduced themselves to Julia. Now Garry once again started to speak. They are also village elders. In total we are 10 village elders. Only 7 of us are currently present here and Rosy, Harley and Dinp are outside village on some assignments. Now as you all know each other we can start this meeting.

So the purpose or subject of our meeting is Julia & Jack Sinel. As all the elders here know that Julia was found wounded and unconscious near Sujo Mountain in Chiban forest and Julia suffered some injuries at head and lost all her previous memories. Emmy found her injured and with some help from Jacob, Julia was transferred to village. Emma tried her best to heal her and from what we can conclude from Julia’s conversations. Julia only remembered her son Jack Sinel she is holding currently. But according to Experience and knowledge of village elders we never heard about Sinel family or clan. So we can’t properly figure out origins of Julia and Jack. But Emma found no Contracted Guardian and Inner Energy in Julia’s body which indicated that Julia may come from a backward village, tribe or clan where they don’t even started evolution. That’s why we decided to let Julia be a villager her and also try to let her awaken her spirit so that she can found any work to live and mix in village.

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Fortunately today is the day when we decided to awaken the spirit and we are here after the ceremony.

“Garry, just come straight to the main point and don’t just blabber about the circumstances. I have a lot of work to do.” Fred interrupted Garry in the middle of his speech and said annoyingly.

You are inpatient as always Fred. Fine... fine Garry scoffed and looked towards Julia and pointed a finger at Jack who was still fast asleep. “Jack Sinel is the Subject of today’s meeting” Garry smiled and looked at the elders smilingly.

Humph... why don’t you explain the reason and just announce like we are diviners who can tell everything by just looking at it. Fred said annoyingly while staring at Garry. Garry laughed out loud and said you always has complaints dear Fred.

Today morning Jacob and Emma joined me to witness the spirit awakening ceremony. Emmy took Julia to spirit hall and we just started the ritual as always. Julia has to left little jack on floor as he didn’t want to be in arms of us strangers. We started the ceremony and little Jack started mimicking Julia from the back. He is around three years and 5 months old exactly but seems quite interesting boy with calm demeanor and extraordinary intelligence. He copied each movement of Julia from start to end and at last successfully awakened his spirit. Garry told this all incident in one breath and after finishing looked at all four newly arrived elders with a smirk on his face.

There is a sudden silence in the hall. No one said anything for full two minutes. Fred, Hina, Sophia and Han just fixed their eyes on sleeping Jack. After two minutes Han broke out the silence by asking “You are joking. Right Garry”

No, Garry replied with only single word. After hearing to Garry Fred stood up from his seat and walked towards Julia with shining eyes still focused on Jack. Julia gripped Jack and tried to cover Jack into her chest. Emma coughed and said don’t make Julia nervous. This makes Fred come back to his senses. I didn’t mean to do it Julia.

Julia just looked towards Emma who smiled and nodded towards her to ensure her of this.

Julia loosens her grip to Jack and Fred took Jack from Julia’s arms to his own. He took Jacks arm in one hand and closed his eyes like he is checking something. After some seconds Fred opened his eyes with a bewildered expression on his face. He laughed and sends Jack to Julia. Fred come back to his seat and said calmly it’s a miracle.

Now Han, Hina and Sophia also showed an amused expression on their faces and just looked at little jack like he is something they desire. This all made Julia uneasy.

Emma Looked as whole situation is being awkward by second and tried to change the atmosphere. So, Can we start discussing now? All elders look at each other and nodded.

“Julia, you already know about your memory problem so I think you don’t know anything about this world.” Garry asked to which Julia just nodded.

“Julia you are now a member of our Chiban village and we also want to help you, but at first we need to clarify the current situation to you” Emma added to which Julia nodded again.

“It’s first time in our knowledge that someone awakened his spirit at the age of three. It’s not like nobody tried it in past, but certainly no one succeed or never mentioned about it to the world. In today’s time, the age of spirit awakening is 7 years. We never heard of anyone younger than 7 years achieved something like Jack did. So if this information is made public there may be bad impact over your and jack’s life. That’s why we didn’t disclose the information and just come here at first to decide what to do.” Julia stayed silent for some time as if understanding what Garry has said and after some time nodded to Garry.

So Julia in my opinion you should join us and stay at Chiban as a resident. We will teach you and little Jack about the world. It will be easier for Jack to learn but for you it will be a little difficult. Garry Said to Julia and waited for her rely.

“It is okay, I will listen to you.” Julia said.

Then it is decided from today onwards Emma will take care of Julia’s education and little Jack will live as a normal child’s at Village. He will learn with children his age. Let him adjust to the customs and environment here. And last thing I don’t want to listen to special circumstances of Jack from outside. Once I got to know that anyone of you leaked the information be sure to got punished, especially you Emmy. Garry declared to everyone present.

Everyone nodded and stood up. Emma came to Julia and held her hand. Let’s go than we have work to do Julia, Emma said.

We will see you later village head, Julia bowed slightly and left with Emma and Emmy.

“Hey Garry, I want boy as my disciple” as Julia left with Emma only 6 elders are there and Fred said to Garry.

“It does not gonna happen. Why every time you saw a talent you want to take them as your student Fred” Han objected. Hina & Sophia just smiled after hearing that. Garry smiled and started speaking to them.

“You all can be quiet; it is not that I don’t want Jack to learn from you. But you have to take Jack’s age into consideration. He is only Three and a half years old currently and I don’t want to put pressure on Jack. He can decide by himself or Julia can decide for him. I just don’t want us to quarrel for little Jack. If possible I want us all to teach everything we can to little Jack.”

“It’s a good idea Garry, I support this point and in future if Jack wants to be a student of anyone others won’t complain.” Sophia supported Garry’s idea and Hina also nodded.

“Than what about Jack & Julia’s spirit Garry” Han asked. Garry looked at them somewhat puzzled and with serious expressions and stated “Julia’s spirit seems to be a Tree (Plant type) and the energy emitted while spirit awakened seemed to have an effect of calming soul and refreshment. I think Julia may be a well known healer in future and that’s why I assigned Emma to teach her about everything. And in case of little Jack, No one from us elders present at awakening ceremony have any idea about what is spirit of little Jack or what type of energy that is. It seems like energy isn’t complete or maybe it is not something we have seen yet. We have certain doubts regarding this sometimes it felt like healing type sometimes it is highly oppressive and aggressive type. So Emma and I conclude maybe it’s due to early awakening of spirit that affected the whole business. We have to wait and in future maybe we can find out more about this.”

Hina murmured “According to ancient records the spirit of one person expresses his inner thoughts, Soul and temperament. It seems soul of little Jack may be injured or incomplete or evolving. In any case it’s a good thing that we can watch little Jack by ourselves and guide him.”

“That’s the biggest problem here. Currently Jack has to be with Julia as he is just a little boy. Let him watch Julia nourish her spirit and work. According to ancient records only at 7 years, a child can awaken his spirit naturally. And it takes 2-3 years to nourish the spirit and gain little understanding of energy. By 12 years a child has to go on and choose a contracted guardian or you can say a contracted guardian will choose a child to protect. So we have to wait for 3 years at least to let Jack start the journey of evolution.” Garry sighed as he finished telling his views.

It’s fine with me. It is not like we can’t deepen our bond with Jack and from my perspective it will be best if Jack understands regarding different professions and can choose any one of them in future. We can just let him play for some time with his mother and also let him watch our work. Maybe he will be interested in any of our work, Han said enthusiastically.

So that’s all for today I think. And you all if possible just help Julia to understand things better as she has no prior knowledge of anything. Garry added to which everyone nodded and left the basement.