8. Peacock Empire

“Idiot, who told you to give him drugs. Let him feel the pain, we were ordered for full efficiency”

“Sir, what to do with him after the operation”

“I will keep as my specimen, if he is alive till then let him be of some use” a doctor with a spider tattoo looked at Shivaay and spoke.

Shivaay could only see some dizzy images, some doctors in white coat were operating on him. He was in extreme pain but couldn’t speak or move even a single muscle, he lost his consciousness soon after.

Few months passed; a war aircraft appeared just above the laboratory…few men in black uniform jumped down. If someone sees them, they could easily tell they were highly trained forces.

“Commander, the location is clear…no one is here except a dead boy’s body, identity unknown…hold on he is alive but hardly breathing”

“Commander, maybe our intel got leaked somehow, they escaped” a soldier wearing black uniform informed his commander

“Today is not our lucky day I guess…now what to do with this half dead boy…let’s take him to our outpost” commander said.

Shivaay woke up, he slowly opened his eyes. He was in so much pain that he couldn’t even feel a thing. He slowly observed his surrounding, he doesn’t know if he was in the enemy territory…he could see the entire room painted white… he realised he was in the hospital.

The door opened… “Be at ease child, you are hurt…do you remember anything” saying a man in military uniform pulled a chair and sat down near him. He recognised it’s the uniform of the peacock empire. The Vulture empire shares its border with the Peacock empire on the south side and vast ocean on the north. Both the Crow and Kite empire are on east and west respectively.

Shivaay was surprised as how he end up here, the last thing he remember was some doctors operating on him. “Child, we know you are from the Vulture empire… we rescued you while doing a mission near the border, you got blessed by a high-level god before but now your root meridian was missing, we can only help you if you help us…after that we will send you home” the military officer said with a firm tone.

He was devastated, the only thing that could help him in taking revenge is no more. How will he survive now in this cruel world…with no root meridian he is now crippled, but he calmed himself. He looked at the man “So if I told you everything you would send me home” Shivaay new it can’t be that simple, but he has no choice in the foreign empire.

“Yes” the man nodded.

He told the man everything from the old man to the people in black cloaks and the doctors. “Okay, you rest now I will contact you soon” the man left.

A week passed, Shivaay was doing fine with the painkillers given by the doctors the pain subsided. He thought of running away from here, one time he even tried to get out of the door but it was heavily guarded outside…so for now he left everything to fate.

“Hello Shivaay, how’s your health?” the military officer appeared once again but this time with few of his colleagues and doctors. “I am alright… so are you planning to send me home now” Shivaay said void of any emotion.

“Sorry we can’t, the vulture empire discarded you and said you ran to the peacock empire with your family, you are now their enemy…by now they must know that you lost your blessing, given the fact the fighting took place near the city it was no wonder… the vulture kingdom was involved in it”

You think I didn’t know about it; no guards were present in the city wall at broad daylight… how can that be possible, Shivaay thought but didn’t said out loud. “What will happen to me now?”

“We have a proposal for you, you have lost your root meridian but high-god energy is still deep inside your cell. We are offering you to be a test subject for our artificial root implant, genetically modified”

“Such an important military experiment you are going to run on an outsider like me…but why? even if it’s a risk to life their must be some volunteers in your empire”

“There is, but none of them is blessed by a high-level god. And those got blessed by, are important assets to the empire” Shivaay knew he would become the ginny pig of the empire, but if he wanted to become strong, he had to take his chances…without root meridian ,leave taking revenge he can’t even survive for long…afterwards I will try to escape.

“Okay I will do it” All the officers were happy. They quickly gave him the contract to sign…they can’t use the chakra binding paper as he doesn’t have any chakra and thus after that began leaving one by one.

“Sir, he will run away after the experiment. Contract is just a piece of paper”

“I know, that’s why we will be also be using the ancient god crystal. He will not survive this…but atleast we will get the experiment data” they laughed and left the hospital corridor. Shivaay knew nothing about what’s going on behind the scene.