Book: A Thousands Years of Pain
Author: Moyeen VN
Book Size/Pages: 142
Book Available: Amazon, Flipkart
The story revolves around a kingdom named Kinshuk, where there is one trusted aside of King Vasunanda named Kabir and his son Atharv who is at the age where he will now train and slowly succeed his father (It’s a legacy going through generations). When Atharv first entered the royal palace, he was faced with the issue of damaged crops by insects which was further proved that was man-made knowing damage done by one of the king’s relatives in thirst for power over the kingdom. After all these incidents Atharv was given a choice of whether he wanted to continue being the king’s bodyguard (right-hand man) like his father or not where he selects to follow legacy. This whole conversion between the king and Atharv was placed when Nishka led Atharv to king. She didn’t know at that time she was going to play a vital role in the coming years (As well in the further story there is something between her and Atharv then we never know).
After decades Atharv was ready and was side by side with his father as the right hand of king. But the situation was different, everywhere there were dreadful situations as war fell between the two kingdoms. The rules for war were that war would be done at every 7-day gap as those days would be focused on the deaths of the dead from both sides and regain energy for a new war day. Near the end of the war, it felt like Kinshuk was on a negative or a losing side, where there was the only way that could be imagined that could lead them to victory over Atharv was, the voice that he was getting again and again in his dreams since war started.
Finding that voice led him to Vipritvaan (Forest of Adverse in Nature), a place with a horrific vibe and full of wild and dangerous animals. While entering the forest Atharv was again led by a voice that he was hearing in his dreams to a well, where at the bottom of the well he found a stone from which the voice was coming. Stone calls itself Halahal (Yes, the same one from the story of the great churning of ocean milk), and there he found the way to stop the ongoing war, but there were some conditions and price to pay (as saying goes nothing comes free in this world).
As Atharv returned with new war day breaks, and in the middle of that it was a bit difficult for him to express what he found in Vipritvaan, and with that he lost his consciousness. After 3 days, when he regained consciousness, the king himself visited him and he recited what he found and what was the preferable solution to win the war for them. And the path was to go back to the past and find a solution to stop this war before the war was declared. But for going back to the past they need to pay a price in the form of blood and not only royal blood but blood of all the people of Kinshuk kingdom.
King agrees with what Atharv says and plans to kill the whole kingdom by mixing poison with water supply and who are not dead by that king will cut their head by himself and in the end, he will suicide in front of Atharv. But before the plan goes as per Atharv find out that this is all kind of loop and all this incident killing of people, king’s suicide, or going to past and recursion.
And while thinking about the whole situation and studying the loop he finds there is no solution to this loop except one to go back to the past by sacrificing people for blood. While sharing this with Nishka, she suggests despite losing terms, why don’t we do the exact opposite (i.e., not choosing to shed blood and go back to the past)? As a sudden thought, Atharv stops the king from poisoning the main water stream just in time and delivers things about just going to war and then using the power of stone.
When they went to war they found there was no one from the opposite side and as they entered the enemy’s city they found all the people dead except one with another half of stone. Atharv found out another person was also in the same loop as him and did the same(doing the opposite of what Stone says) and they lost. While conversing they found the voice behind the stone was not a stone but a person whom they came to know and that person in the middle of this chaos was successful in getting the stone, in the middle of this the person from the enemy’s city got killed.
After this the loop broke and Kinshuk won, cleared other cities’ mess, made a memorial for people over there, and returned. But back in Vipritvaan, there is something or someone…
