'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Enhanced

It was late in the evening as the crickets were conducting their orchestra nearby the orchard behind the domain as everyone in the domain had fallen asleep.

Earlier in had informed Heather that I would be in the study and do not wish to be disturbed as I wanted to enter my meditative state, not to enter the realm since the tasks had been completed but to go and find some solutions on how to have a stronger mind and body through proper meditation.

Heather agreed at my suggestion as she prepared the twins to sleep and retired on our bedroom after I had bid her goodnight and kissed her several times until she giggled softly.

"Don't do that, dear. You don't know what you did and later I would be looking for you, then how?" Heather pushed me away since my actions somehow made her slightly aroused and I still had a long way to go to achieve my target.

I then went to the study and cleared the area a bit while I sat down on the soft mattress they were prepared earlier by Heather. Since the study table and other furnishings had been pushed aside to make room for me, I was sitting comfortably in the centre of the room with nothing behind my back for support.

"Alright, Ceres. I am ready now. Please bring me to the part where it all began, shall we? I would need to learn the fundamentals of the purpose of this meditation so that I could fully harness its benefits. As you already know, I need to have a strong mind to be able to perform more tasks in the realm."

I motioned to Ceres as a heads up as I sat down, settling in a comfortable cross-legged position as I controlled my breathing and closed my eyes. I cleared my mind and thoughts and soon I went through a vortex that brought me to a gazebo of some sort in a village setting.

I was in my third person's perspective and I could see my other self and I observed that he  (or I even) was wearing a strange type of clothes and I can't place my finger which era it was.

I saw my other self sitting cross-legged on a hexagon piece of mat that looked awfully uncomfortable as a short, less than 5 feet tall wrinkled old man and holding a walking stick was ambling about.

"Listen to my voice and you would need to concentrate on your chakra point from the centre of your abdomen. That's your 5th chakra point and that controls the whole meridians of your body."

"Concentrate solely on that point and control your breathing. Breathe in from your nose and count to 6 as you inhale. Hold it in yourself for another 6 seconds and then exhale through your pursed lips for 6 seconds. Then hold your breathe for 6 seconds and repeat."

"This is the proper way to meditate and open up all the chakra points from the 5th point onwards. Remember, in this state, you might be in the most vulnerable since you cannot be disturbed at all or else your meridians would go haywire."

"Hear my voice as you control the flow from the 5th chakra point before going up to your 4th and 3rd and so on. Once it reaches the top of your crown, rotate the flow back right to the 7th point and back to the 5th again."

"Concentrate the flow and at the same time control your breathing for 6 seconds at every stage. Do not falter at all and you might reach a higher stage of meditative state of mind."

I listened to the wizened old and wrinkled man that was ambling around my old self in his walking stick. He talked to my old self just like he was talking to me right now and I felt enlightened by his methods.

"Alright, we are done here. Let's move on to the other old man, shall we?" Ceres spoke to me and I simply made a sound to affirm the move and soon a flurry set of images flew by and I was soon brought to another place in another dimension.

The first one was kind of laid back village setting but right now I was in another form of body and was in another era. A modern one which I had seen it before once when the half headed guy was guiding the old self to project the mind to blew out and light up a piece of a candle before.

"Where is this place, Ceres? Earlier in the village, where was I exactly and now we had moved to another era, a modern one and I am sure I could learn a few things from here." I asked Ceres and was told the following, "Back then in the village was a parallel universe, it was somewhere in the Polynesian Islands and the clothes that you wore were the traditional ones back then."

"Right now, you are in Thailand, Pattaya, present time in the future and you were here based on an editor of some publishing, an editorial company he deals with short films."

"Your cute little partner there has a third eye and people with third eyes were able to distinguish themselves. Let's not get into the details but there's something that you need to take note over here."

Ceres informed me and I knew that in this era, there were somethings that would be left unspoken. Land of a thousand smiles, as what Ceres had pointed out based on the current location and time.

Once again I saw my old self in the form of a rather unhealthy young man that was puffing his way time and again and had lacked his personal physique. It seems that this old self was a bit chubby in a way and don't seem to exercise much. Hahaha.

I saw my old self standing in the courtyard of some religious place, a red, huge, wooden double bay door was looking ahead of it. I saw my old self near done plains and was wearing some kind of garb that looked similar to the people who were killing around and they were all bald-headed except my old self and the cute little partner.

"Listen carefully kid, I want you to stand right there but keep your one leg straight and the other slightly bent and lazy, like you are waiting in line to lay for your packet of cigarettes... Yes... That's right. Put your hands at the side loosely and then breathe easily."

I saw the bald-headed man instructed my old self to stand 'on one leg' in a sense that most of my weight is concentrated on the straight leg while the other leg was slightly bent and off centre.

The arms were hung loosely at the sides as my old self was standing there and was adjusting the posture according to the bald-headed man's instructions.

"Remember the breathing exercise that u had taught you before? Slowly breathe in through your mouth for 6 seconds, hold it in for 6 seconds, then exhale through your nose for 6 seconds, hold it out for 6 seconds and repeat."

" Yes... That's the way, kiddo... Maintain that posture and be one with nature. You would feel your body swing around but you would not fall because you are going to be a big bodhi tree."

"Your straight leg is the trunk, your foot is the roots that hold you tiled to the ground and your upper body and arms are the tree trunk that sways in the light breeze. Continue your breathing until you had reached that stage."

I watched how the old self was standing as he closed his eyes and was somehow managed to concentrate on his breathing methods and at the same time managed to stay upright. A tree trunk eh... Something new to learn from this bald-headed man I suppose.

After watching my old self doing the breathing exercise, I noticed that his body was slightly swaying on the ground and his upright leg was somehow kept him rooted and fixed to the ground without falling...!

Then in that state of mind, I could see my old self raised his arms slightly perpendicular to the ground before him like as if he was sleepwalking and then he started to move his lazy leg in a circular clockwise motion as he pivoted in the ground by his straight rooted leg...!

My old self had his eyes closed and I managed to get closer to him as he breathes in through his mouth slowly and followed every single instruction that was given to him. His raised arms moved voluntarily like he was in some sort of trance as he slowly moved them gracefully like an eagle taking flight.

The more I observed, the more I am intrigued by these types of movement and the half headed man just stood there watching my old self every move. I saw him pick up a long staff and walked close to my old self and without a single warning, he struck horizontally across...!

*SWOOSH*

The staff cut through the air in supersonic speed and I waited for the awful sound of the staff connecting to the waist of my old self but all I heard was a dull thunk sound. The next moment was so surprising that the hair behind my neck stood up...!

My old self was able to block and grab hold of the incoming staff attack while in his meditative state and the next thing shocked me as my old self pulled the staff forward towards his body, making the bald-headed man lose his balance!

"Using the energy to convert and oppose it. This is the making of a pugilist Audemars. In this state, you could see the incoming staff attack and knew where it would land and what you could do next. You converted opposing force to be yours. Look at your posture and legs, it doesn't change much."

Ceres pointed out and I noticed what she said was true and I was truly surprised that my old self could perform such a feat...!

Ceres wanted to explain further to me but she was afraid that I might get an information overload since I need to have some reference books to refer to back in the White Room. So instead, she explained what was being observed by me right before my eyes first.

The next thing the bald-headed man was doing was to lunge at me as he threw a flurry of punches and kicks as my old self either dodge his attacks or simple parry him with his seemingly weak defences. The movement of the arms was so fluid that it seemed that it doesn't have any effect but the bald-headed man kept his attacks at a steady momentum.

After some 10 to 15 minutes of attacking my old self and not a single hit landed, the half headed man just used a single command 'Recover' and he went back to the steps of the building and sat down with the cute little partner of my old self.

I saw my old self relaxed his arms at the sides and breathed easily like before and finally opened up his eyes.

"Tell me what you had seen and what you had done so far kiddo." the bald-headed man beckoned to my old self and I heard him say, "I saw a stick attack and I grabbed to stop its advances. Then I saw a series of threats coming at me and I did the same too. Any threats that had advanced towards me was eliminated one at a time."

The bald-headed man nodded his head and congratulated my old self for a job well done." You had truly reached your enlightenment after my niece had performed the advanced unlocking of your meridians. From 7 chakra points, you now have an additional 12 more points unlocked. Practise hard, kiddo. It would save your life one day."

12 additional points? Where is it located? I asked myself and Ceres immediately responded to my inner thoughts." your shoulders, elbows and palms of your hand, your side hips, knee and feet. These are the 12 more points that had been unlocked that helped you absorb the essence of earth, water, wood, wind, and metals in this world."

"In short, you had become one with nature and even in your conscious mind, you would be able to sense lurking dangers, traps et cetera and would be able to avoid and evade them or simply confront them head-on."

"Woah...! I become a formidable fighting machine if I could achieve that, am I right?"

"Not a formidable fighting machine, Audemars. You're made of flesh and bones, so basically you could be more alert to your surroundings than ever. Besides, only you could activate your third eye and no one else would be able to sense it even if the person is an evil witch...! "

It seemed that Ceres could sense my inner thoughts since I had planned to move out to flush out the evil Witches together with Guy MacDonough and one Assassin, making it a party of six in the next few weeks to come.

At the meantime, I would be using these lull period to achieve what my other self had attained. It would be something awesome and I wished to achieve it within 2 weeks time. That's my personal target among training up to enhance my strength and endurance.