In a large Ancient room, five human figure could be seen in the center of the room, in a deep meditation state, far from all of them in one of the corner to the south west of the room a middle aged man seemed to be struggling with something painful, with his eyes closed and his distorted expression on his face he keep gritting his teeth harder and harder.
Suddenly he opened his eyes and look around him , panting heavily although there was no sweat on his face ( due to soul projection form) anyone could tell that he must have a hell of nightmare that makes him nearly out of breath.
Alen was panting hard, he don't why but for some reason he recalled his worst memory of all the time , That is the episode when he first touched the big flame ball just like the one here floating on the platform.
The only reason I touch that ball was because of mine previous encounter with the mysterious flames, but none of them gives me that kind of reaction, or to say torture I got just after touching it. Alen thought to himself.
It has Already been years from when that incident happened to him, but Alen still shiver like a dry leaf even just by thinking about that.
That pain was hell of a kind, not only it makes him feels endless torture and pain, his soul also seems to burning by the flames of the fireball.
The fireball was cyan in colour with various colours mixed within, it was an mysterious flame he never seen before, but he wasn't that surprised as he have already seen different types of flame before he got here.
Alen rub his head that still seems to be hurting a bit because of the hellish nightmare he had just gone through.
Putting his headache aside for now, Alen stood up and walked toward the centre of the room, standing at the middle of the room Alen looked at all the five human figures and then at the cyan fireball floating on a platform, at a distance away from him.
He shrugged a little and moved his sight away from the cyan fire ball, after some time of pondering, he moved toward the exit of the room.
Standing outside the room he looked at the endless path and infinte no of large dome shaped room on the both side of the path.
How much time, would I have stay here, Although I admit that I was kind of reluctant to leave this place in the past, but that was years ago, I have already gain enough knowledge to overthrow the cultivation world itself, Now what remains is to find out an exit. He thought to himself as he looked at the endless path and infinite room ahead him.
He have already visited thousand and thousand of such room in the past years as well travelled thousand of miles of the endless path but no matter how hard he tried, no matter how much he walked he doesn't seems to find the end of the path.
Lets see,what I have gained till now, weapon techniques, alchemy portion formula, elemental control arts , smiting technique, runic Formations and I seems to forget the name of other, ahh whatever I have already have enough knowledge to forged a new and unique path for myself, the only thing that matters now is to find out a way to get out of this place. Said alen with determination as he walked the endless path.
Alen no more care about reincarnation as he can't all the soul projection here are waiting for reincarnation in the soul world, but he is not one of them, this soul world is a place to reincarnate human soul but he is a mutant, so he is nothing more than parasite bacteria in this foreign world ,if not for the mysterious runes and the worm hole, he won't be here in the first place.
When Alen was busy in recalling all the knowledge he have learned till now, he came across something new, he only learn it for one time , or came across this thing recently but still he remember it like he have already memorised it years ago.
"The Ancient path" said Alen with a high pitch voice, he didn't seems to encounter anyone who have achieved ancient path except in the memory of the youngmaster.
That leo lang is really powerful, although I was hiding in the deepest part of the young master soul I still felt some tingling after leo lang attacked his soul. That was hell of a shock for me, having gone through thousand and thousand of lifetime, that was the first time I felt a sense of danger. Said alen recalling the last moment of the young master life.
I wish If I could meet such an powerhouse in my lifetime. Said alen in scoffing way, he is still wandering in this mysterious place like a ghost, and still didn't seems to find a way to exit from it, knowing all that he still wishes to see someone that powerful.
But suddenly as if someone has listen to his wish, the golden mysterious runes resurface on his back once again, they glow with blinding light that spread to every part of the endless path.
Alen was dumbfounded because of sudden turn of event, anyone would be imagine your walking on a straight path to your home or something and suddenly a bright eye blinding light shines out of nowhere what would be your expression.
Although it had also happened in the past, but not at the same level as now, but still it was neigh ignorable, if not for Alen dormant state of mind due to the large amount of memory of jack that keep pouring into his mind he could have noticed it previously.
But now, he Is his top notch condition so it's neigh impossible for him to didn't notice the dazzling light around him.
The dazzling golden light linger around for some time before disappearing to nothingness, due to high intensity of golden light Alen have to closed his eyes as it was impossible for him to keep them open.
After some moments, he slowly open his eyes as the high intensity from before seems to disappear into thin air, he opened his eyes and soon the familiar portrait came into his sight, the endless path and numerous room.
He rubbed his eyes once hoping for something better, but still after rubbing for three to four times he didn't notice any change around him.
What was that dazzling light all about, given the intensity it emitted, the light have to be far from normal, but why didn't something happen then." Alen was hoping for him to teleport from this current place to another one where he could easily found a way to his world, but all his expectation turned to naught as he still stood in his previous position, he was at before the dazzling light.
Ah!! Whatever, I also am not hoping for any kind of miracle to happen, so it's alright " he said after some pondering about the origin of the dazzling light but because of no information at all he can't came to any conclusion, so giving up he starts to move again.
He walked and keep walking as there was no sun and moon beside the endless and rooms all the surrounding is painted in full white like a dense fog spreading to infinity, because of that there was no means to measure the absolute time, no one can tell for how much time Alen have been treading this path.
Alen himself seems to become somewhat bored because of indefinite amount of silence around him, Although the place was absolute deserted, it didn't gave any kind of creepy felling that can make someone's hair stand.
"How much of distance I have to covered before its come to the end " said Alen hopelessly, this is the only thing he can do question himself, about when and how will his journey end.
Now, if I think seeing someone lifetime journey is much better than moving on this endless path, only if I have the luxury to remain in this palace forever, I would love to watch different and various adventures lifetime event of thousand and thousand of humans .
These were Alen real thoughts, he really loves watching human being growing up, their adventure, their tenacity to remain calm in life threating, their slyness, crudity ,selflessness, humour's, love he loves everything about them, although he himself is mutant, and mutants hates human as human hates them, but still knowing all that he couldn't stop himself for loving them.
But it's also true that he will not accept any of these things if someone of his kind were to ask him about it.
Alen keep walking for indefinite amount of time , but all of a sudden he came to halt, as he seemed to notice some strange light tiny sparkles in a way ahead him , they were so tiny if one was not to look carefully he/she will undoubtedly won't be able to discover them.
As a new hope of ray rise into him, he speed up his pacing and hurriedly runs toward the strange sparkles of light ahead him, the more nearer he came to the tiny sparkles the more those tiny sparkles began to shine.
From tiny sparkles, to large dot, from dot, to beam of light they keep becoming bigger and bigger proportional to the distance Alen is nearing them.
After some intermediate amount of time Alen finally reached the source of the strange light, but what he saw next nearly brought him to kness.
A large humongous door just like the one he came across before coming to this place, with the same size and composition, the gate seems to touching the sky and spread to a distance of one's sight and beyond that on the surface.
But there was one major difference in this gate from the previous one the strange light it keep emitting continuously , Because of some unknown reason the gate seems to keep emitting strange light from it.
Alen wasn't that concerned about those strange light thing at all, as he have already regarded the humongous in front of him as an exit from the soul world.
He walked toward the entrance of the gate, as an ant standing before a huge mountain , placed his both hand on the gate and waited patiently, the mysterious ruin on his back came in play once after which, Alen disappear from his position.