Chapter 24 : system upgrade completed
He was thinking about this until he received some unexpected news that solved his problem. The news was that Pandu had five sons, and those five sons were divine children.
He was happy to know that Pandu's elder son Yudhishthira was elder than Dhritrashtra's elder son.
So he found the silver lining, clearing the way for Yudhishthira to become king. But he also knew that Dhritrastra wouldn't let it happen so easily.
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Coming back to the present, when Bhishma heard the rumour of Duryodhana being crowned crown prince in the future, he quickly refuted it.
"Grandfather Bhisma, I will quickly clear this rumour, it is not a good thing to spread rumours about something which has not been announced yet.
Dhritrashtra told his grandfather with a smile on his face, But deep inside he was not happy with his decision but he was forced to do it.
"I want to tell all my people that it has not been decided yet whether my son Duryodhana will be crowned as the future crown prince, so stop spreading such rumours."
With a heavy heart, he announced this to the public.
The public who were clapping on the first thing, slowly became silent on this sudden announcement.
Duryodhana's smiling face first turned into sadness and finally into anger.
He started thinking," I am the future crown prince of this kingdom, but within a few days this changed into a rumour, that with the arrival of those 5 boys this is happening...
"No, I will not let them take it, This kingdom is mine, the thorne are also mine."
Just thinking about this, Duryodhana's face turned red.
Sakuni, sitting next to the king, said nothing, turning his dice. A terrifying smile appeared on his face, and a fire of revenge burned in his eyes.
"How long will their drama last? Why don't you start the competition soon? How long will you make us wait?"
I was getting bored seeing this and started yawning.
"Please soory me for this mistake," The drummer apologized profusely."Without thinking whether the news was true or false, I added it to Prince Duryodhana."
He quietly returned to his position and began waiting for the next participant to arrive.
After some time,Another chariot came into the ground,The horses of this chariot were white in color. A boy was sitting inside this chariot. This boy was a little less than 7 years old.
This boy was wearing a white outfit and had hawk-like eyes.
Prince Arjun, the third son of the late Prince Pandu, is said to be the divine son of Devraj Indra....
The drummer introduced Arjun to the public and said some strange things which very few people knew.
"Is that prince Arjun really the divine son of Devraj Indra?"
"I can't believe it, but would anyone dare to say such lies in front of the King? Maybe he is telling the truth."
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"The public started to be suspicious of this news, some were believing it and some were not believing it, they were all discussing many such things with each other."
People talked about this issue for some time and then gradually started talking less about it.
Arjuna smiled at Duryodhana and waved his hand towards him.
When Duryodhan saw this gesture from Arjun, he felt that Arjun was taunting him that now he would not become the crown prince.
"I will remind you of your status by defeating you," Duryodhan looked angrily at Arjun.
Is he out of his mind? He is responding angrily to my saying 'Hello'. I should not talk to him much, Uncle Bidur had clearly told us not to talk to the king's all sons, they are very bad peoples.
I did not believe him at first, but now looking at it, I feel he was right.
Arjun thought about all this and came to his own conclusion and decided to stay away from him from now on.
Seeing this I started think," have only these two come from Kaurava and Pandava, otherwise it seems that apart from these two no one else will come from this Royal family."
Now this competition will start only after the arrival of a prince or princess from another state.
In this way, time passed, and princes from several kingdoms arrived with their elders. By now, 10 princes and 4 princesses had arrived.
Whenever a prince or princess from another kingdom came, Dummar was given a letter about them, after reading which he would announce about them.
Now another chariot entered the ground,
Then I entered a chariot through a door inside the ground. Inside this chariot sat a girl who was the princess of a kingdom. She was approximately 10 years old.
His facial features were sharp and noble.She wore silver jewelry and was very beautiful. She was more beautiful than any of the princesses who were there to participate.
She had braided her black hair and had also put jasmine flowers on her hair.
A soldier came and gave Drummer a letter containing information about this princess.
He opened it and began to read, "Princess Poonuruvi, princess of a kingdom called Kalinga, far away from Hastinapur. Princess Poonuruvi's father Chitrangada
The princess's father, Chitrangada, has expressed his gratitude for being invited to the competition.He has specially requested our king to take care of his daughter."
The drummer finished reading the letter.
Hearing this, Maharaj Dhitharatsa shook his head in agreement. All the other princesses were looking at Princess Poonuruvi with jealous eyes.
Earlier,there was a princess who was a little more beautiful and a little less beautiful, but when Princess Poonuruvi came, her beauty faded away.
And some of the princes who were there had taken this promise in their mind that they should go back to their kingdom and send a proposal to their father to marry this princess.
Princess Poonruivi was not showing even the slightest interest to these princes.
My and , I sat down in my place and saw this princess, I felt familiar with her name as before but could not remember it.
[ Ding! ]
[ System upgrade completed, system is back in service with host ]
"Oh finally, the system is upgraded, I've been waiting for a long time, oh it seems the system is smarter than before.
Suddenly the voice of the system came to my mind, I was surprised and happy to know this and praised the intelligence of the system.
To be continued...