The test of knowledge was over and now was the test of Rameshwari's valour. The seats were removed from the stadium grounds and archers came towards her first.

Hanuman went towards Rameshwari, with a smile on his face, his hand carried a saffron cloth.

"Pratiyogita ko nyaayeyukt banane hetu, tumhare netro par patti bandhni padegi." Hanuman said.

"Jaisa aap chaahe." Rameshwari smiled.

And so Hanuman tied the cloth over her eyes. This scene suprised everyone, how will she fight archers blindfolded ? They were going to know now.

Rameshwari walked ahead, her ears alert, she heard the footsteps of archers heading towards her.

A smile appeared on her face as he raised her arms, and suddenly a bright light as if a star fell on her hands, people squinted their eyes only to see a brilliant bow in her hands with 108 strings, which she summoned using her Yog-Shakti.

The Gandiv. The trustworthy bow of Harihareshwari, made by Brahmadev himself for her Suryamandala avatar. Just beholding that best of bows in the hands of Rameshwari, the people got on the edge of their seats.

Firmly holding the grip of the bow, Rameshwari pulled it's strings to her ears, and when she let's go of them, a loud twang was heard, so much that it threw away the archers, generated strong winds and stuck fear in the hearts of the citizens.

For a moment the commoners became terrified, but because the terrible bow was in the hands of their beloved princess, they broke into cheers.

The archers got on their feet and went towards Rameshwari, surrounding her. Hearing them pull the strings of their bow, Rameshwari instantly took out an arrow from her quiver and puts it on her Gandiv.

Hearing the twang of bow and the release of arrow from the right side, she took her aim and shot her arrow with great speed as her arrow pierced the one shot by that Archer.

Seeing such level of archery display while being blindfolded, all the citizens in the stadium stood up. Even the royal family got goosebumps witnessing it.

And so several arrows were shot at her, some from right, some from left, some from front, Rameshwari shot most of them and ducked a few.

And when every archer had shot 10 arrows and she had countered them, the archers bowed to her, and left.

Rameshwari raised her Gandiv, the best of bows, up in the air and it vanished due to her Yog-Shakti.

Hanuman again came to her and gave her a mace, while she was still blindfolded. Rameshwari again went to the centre of the stadium and heard firm footsteps. The wrestlers were here.

The best Mals of Kosal were called, all of them were tall and well-built and they carried firm maces with them. Their stature was enough to inflict fear in the hearts of opponents.

Rameshwari focused on their footsteps, she could tell there were atleast 10 of them. They attacked her one by one, and she tackled and countered all their attacks. It took her sometime, but she managed to defeat all of those dexterous mals.

Then Hanuman handed her the sword and the swords men entered the arena, they were tall, muscular but still lean in stature.

But they didn't attack Rameshwari one by one, they were ordered by Hanuman to increase the level of difficulty for Rameshwari, and hence at once two attacked her.

A great battle took place, where the blindfolded princess was being repeatedly attacked, but still she managed to fight back, duck at times while strike at other times.

And soon she rendered all the swordsmen weaponless. The people cheered and hailed her, as the warriors bowed to her and went away.

The last battle of hers took place with the spearmen, witnessing which even Shri Ram and the royal family had stood up.

The spearmen, on the instructions of Hanuman, attacked her from all four directions. The blindfolded Rameshwari countered their attack efficiently.

When she spun her spear she looked like Narayan wielding Sudarshan Chakra, and when she attacked with the spear it looked like Mahadev wielding Trishul.

Since she was being attacked from all the directions, it took her a while to disarm all the warriors but she did manage to. When all the spearmen became bereft of their spear, they all bowed to her and left.

Rameshwari took out her blindfold, panting a little as the bugels were blown. But this didn't mean that the display of valour was over, it just meant another round was about to begin.

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A/N

Gandiv making appearance after long, but it's not gonna be the last time in this book 🌝✨✨✨

And next round gonna be hella interesting 🌝✨