"Nooooooo!!!!!!!!...."screaming in despair and pure helplessness Azreal bolted awoke from his slumber.
Seating on the bed with cold sweat forming on his forehead Azreal looked around with his nervous eyes.
Believing that he died from his soul core becoming a snack for an unknown evil core, Azreal awaited for the darkness to arrive and bring him back to the dark abyss were he'll be tortured again by the will of the dark world and this time Azreal was not confident that he could find a lucky break like this one.
Having a helpless look on his face he waited for some minutes but nothing changed, the darkness that he feared didn't arrive, he was not dragged inside the world of lost memories. He still had his body seating on the king size bed.
" Am I not dead...?.. " Not feeling any change in himself or the environment he was in, Azreal said in a doubtful tone.
Not able to bare with his dreadful thoughts any longer, he took a deep breath to calm his mind as senseless worrying will not solve anything. Infact it will only make him more miserable then he is right now.
After calming his whirlwind of thoughts, Azreal got up from his bed and started checking the things present inside the room, as he thought he might be hallucinating before his death, an illusion that his mind had created for not able to cope with the his reality.
He checked every corner of his bedroom to see if it was an illusion or not, but to his relief it was all real not at all an illusion that he had thought.
" It looks like i really am alive.... right now....Sigh..."
Standing infront of the broken window that was broken yesterday night, Azreal looked towards the sun setting behind the mountain of the green forest. It looks like he was unconscious for sometime as when he started his meditation it was still early morning but now seeing the setting sun infront him, he calculated the change in time inside his head.
" Atleast I am alive right now.... Sigh..." Not giving much thought to this change in time, Azreal went towards the mirror and look for any visible change or abnormalities on his body.
' I don't look much different from before except for my eye color ' Other then his black color eyes having a little shade of dark red in it, similar to the evil core he saw inside his subconscious space. Everything else looked the same from before he went to meditate.
" It is good that i don't see any physical change or I might have to run away from this household " After finding such an comfortable and secure environment. Azreal was great ful that he didn't went thorough some kind of major mutation. He didn't had the resource plus the knowledge about the world he was living in. So, to be on safer side he still wanted to stay in this household and collect all the resource and knowledge he needed to live alone in this world.
'Now that i know I am not dead then what was the propose of that black core ?... was it just to eat my core and change my eyes color??.... or their is ...more to it ?.... ' After sorting out his thought, the major question still remained inside his head. What was the propose of the evil core.
" I can't get my answers with just these speculation I have to see it by myself and find my own answer"
He sat back on the bed in lotus position and started meditating once again to find the answer to his questions. Similar to the last time he lost his connection to the outside world and drifted in the subconscious space.
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Opening his eyes inside his subconscious mind, Azreal didn't delayed one second and started moving towards the place were he saw his soul devoured by an unknown core.
Moving as fast as he could inside subconscious mind, Azreal reached the place within few seconds.
' Looks like eating my core made it grow a bit bigger ...' Standing infront of the mountain size black-red core that had grown even more bigger by devouring his core. Azreal had an helpless look on his face, shaking his head in dismissal he moved around the core in an orbital manner to see if it was negatively impacting his subconscious space.
But even after orbiting the core for more then ten times, he didn't found any visible impact to his subconscious space. It looked as if all those thing that he experienced were all but an illusion and the black-red core was the orignal core of his subconscious mind.
' But how could that be possible ? ' In his previous world Azreal read about many types of magical knowledge but he had never heard or read about, a soul replacing its core with another.
A soul core is an irreversible naturally made phenomenon, if ones soul is destroyed then the soul itself would perish from any world. It was so scary that the strong lich lords in the netherworld would also be scared over this phenomenon. After all once soul core was the foundation of every type of being living in every world.
' If what i am thinking is true then the only way to prove is to feel the elemental energy through this core '
Making up about his decision to prove his assumption was true. Azreals illusionary figure seat infront of the huge core with his back facing the core.
' According to my past memories,... I have to feel the rhythm of core and connect my consciousness to the core to feel the essence of the world.
Seating in the lotus position, Azreal slowly starts to feel the unique rhythm of his new core. At first their synchronization was not good but after some error he started blending with this core.
With every successful synchronized rhythm, Azreal and the core started glowing with an hue of black-red aura.
Slowly the aura became so bright that it dyed his whole consciousness in an bloody red color. And inside this bloody red world was Azreal, seating in lotus position. Not at all familiar with what was happening inside his subconscious mind. Azreal entered the in zone were only the super natural could enter. The space were you could feel the laws of the world and absorb the elemental energy. The mystical space leading towards godhood and immortality.
The domain of Laws.