CHAPTER 1: THE NEW JOURNEY
In the dark forest, there was a boy who was sleeping peacefully. As he opened his eyes, he exclaimed, "Where am I? I thought I was dead. "
He tries to recall things, but he only remembers that he was on the verge of death before falling asleep here. So he ignores it for now and starts walking around. While walking, he would start recalling a few past things.
His name was "Itish." He was a handsome young man, aged 25 years, with light brown eyes, black hair, and light brown skin tone.
His past was tragic. On earth, He was a brilliant student from the start. His parents were really proud of him. Their family had owned a great fortune for many decades, so he never felt the need for money. His parents suffered a lot of assassination attempts from their competitors, but they got lucky and did not lose their lives. But not every day was lucky for them. After surviving nearly 6 assassinations, they were successfully killed in the 7th assassination attempt. Itish was in trauma for a few years because of it, but he did not lose hope and tried to continue their lineage. He had a wife named Leena and a cute newborn unnamed baby. As he was not used to this work, he was not able to perform well. His competitors knew it, so they did not even try to do any steps, because they knew it would not be long before his family fully declines. But it was not long before he died in a car accident. He wanted to find out who killed him or if it was really an accident. After that incident, he just found himself sleeping in this dark forest, which was too good to be real. The forest was so dense and dark, and occasionally there was a beam of sunlight coming from the sky, but it was too small to provide good vision. He was only able to see up to 50-60 meters ahead. After observing for a few moments, he started to walk ahead. After walking for nearly 2 hours, he finally saw light ahead. A few minutes later, he came out of the forest and was shocked to see that it was a full sunny day and still dark in the forest he was in.
Outside the forest was a plain field full of grass. He was trying to find highways or towns so he could ask them where he exactly was. He did not want his wife to suffer from the mocking of his family members. After thinking about this issue more, the more anxious he was getting to reach back home as soon as possible. After walking for a whole day on a plain field, he was able to see some houses which resembled some kind of ancient structure.
"Am I transported to the past?" he thought to himself.
After thinking for a while he walked in front of the door which looked too ancient. There was a carving of Sanskrit shlokas on it. He knocked on the door a few times before the door was opened. He was shocked to see that the one who opened the door was a lady who was the nearly same age as him. But that was not too surprising that she was a lady but she was too beautiful than any woman he saw in his whole life. Those long curly hairs, milky skin tone, hazel eyes with a cute smile on her face. She was wearing a long red saree with a little glittery effect on it. She was wearing a shining necklace with a pair of ear ornaments. This was just like a goddess descended on the earth.
After gulping saliva he asks slowly, "Miss, may I ask you, Which is this location?"
When she heard him her facial expression started to get confused. After a while, she calmly started to say something in Sanskrit.
The same thing which was happed to her started to happen with Itish he got confused. Then he realized that he did not know this language at all and the same goes for her that she don't know what he was talking about. After running his mind fast he started to draw a square on the sand and used some hand gestures to ask location.
Seeing him doing this the lady knew he was trying to ask about the location so she says in her language, "This is a small town named Milan situated in the Akasha (Space) Dynasty.
He knew some words in the Sanskrit language as he was from India, Where there were many common words like it. After knowing it he thinks for a while and then starts to get ready to leave.
When the lady saw it she asks him with some gestures if he can stay here to rest for a while. He was also so tired so he just accepts the offer without thinking twice.
When they are inside the house he asked her name, She replied with a pleasant smile "Manavi". she asked him to sit on a wooden chair while she was preparing dinner for tonight.
"Where are you from?" she asked casually.
"I just forgot the name of the place," Itish replied in an awkward tone.
"Don't worry, I am not forcing you. Answer me when you will be comfortable," Manavi said in a friendly tone.
After dinner, he goes to the bedroom. A large mirror stood in front of the bed in the bedroom. He did not think twice and started to observe himself. He did not change much. His skin was way more healthy-looking than before, and his eyes were a light green instead of light brown. After observing himself for a while he lies on a bed and starts to think about his past life and there were tears in his eyes, he knew his wife must be suffering now. His parents died in hands of their competitor's family. As he was the only child of their he inherited everything excluding some shares. Because he never had ambitious plans their competitor knew that even if they do nothing his family will decline. So he was safe, But his family members were the ones who were too jealous and angry with him to waste his father's whole life's money getting wasted like that. So he assumed this must be one of his family member's plans to get him killed. Itish falls asleep while thinking about everything.
In his dream,
he was in pitch-black space, where no star could be seen. "He was puzzled to be in this environment." He was able to recall that he had fallen asleep in that room, but this dream was so real that even pinching himself felt real. While still in a confused state, he finds himself on the earth, and he gets excited, but after seeing the scene in front of him, he falls to his knees. All his family members had died. Heck, not even family members, but the whole human race on earth was extinct. Rivers of blood were flowing everywhere. While he was on the verge of crying, the voice resounded in his mind. Why are you crying? It's the future image of your world after 10 years. But before Itish could ask anything, his eyes opened from his dream. He was soaked with sweat all over his body.
He took a bath, and thinking about his dream, he made up his mind to find a way to go back to his family.
After that, he goes down to notify his leave but when he saw that lady he was so mesmerized she was glowing with a grey light. It looked too holy that he did not dare to interfere and planned to wait for a while. After half an hour When she opened her eyes she saw him staring at her intensely.
She smiled and asked. "What happened? Why are you too surprised?"
Itish was a fast learner so he thought for a while and after knowing what she said he was so shocked. He thought to himself "Is it too normal to see people glowing What does she think?"
He asked in a confused state " what was that grey light which was surrounding you?"
When she heard it she tilt her head and said with a smile, "it's my aura", and why you are asking such a basic thing everyone has it and you are also included.
When Itish heard it he was more confused but he calmed himself and asked again "So how am I supposed to use it?"
When she heard it she got shocked and said with concern "You are serious right? If you are then you would get killed within one day outside, You are already lucky enough to reach me."
When Itish heard it he got serious and asked, "Why is it like that?"
She asked him to seat on a wooden chair While taking a sip of tea she starts explaining to him. "We are the cultivators and we should always thrive for strong realms because only strong will have the right to do anything he wants others will be crushed and not even given any right"
After waiting for a while to let itish digest the information, she continues, "As I am from the Akasha Kingdom, I have to use it as my base power, I can control space to some extent." After that, she starts to demonstrate it by using a book. She placed it on the table and, using some mental power, she sent the book to another corner of the room instantly, which shocked Itish from head to toe.
He asks in a trembling voice "How can this is possible?". Manavi proceeds to explain it and her spiritual power. "There are 15 levels of power currently known in this world. We are from the wood section who controls powers of manipulating all the wood elements." "I am currently at the third level of Akasha (space element) power Which is common here.
After listening to everything Itish thinks about the cons of revealing his identity and comes to conclusion and says, "I have a secret to say just don't disclose to anyone, I am from another world where there are no powers." and he proceeds to explain everything about his death and teleporting here excluding his laziness part, as he didn't want to leave a bad impression on such beautiful girl.
After knowing everything she thinks for a while and gives advice "If you go outside of this place now you will be killed by beasts outside easily, even level 1 beast is ten times stronger than you, and beasts outside are mostly second to third levels. So you should stay in this town for a while and find out which power you belong to and after reaching the 3rd level you can go outside on your own. How about it?
Itish smiled softly and answer, "Such a beautiful girl is caring about me how can I decline." Hearing this Manavi's face goes red. After chatting for a while she takes him to a local sect for his admission.