Manav tightened his hands tried to break the neck of humanoid anglarfish.
But anglarfish was not less, it suddenly turned over with force, and freed it's neck from Manav's hand.
But can't free it's head lamp and it broke it.
Anglarfish swam few meters away from Manav and stared at him.
Anglarfish touched its forehead and found his lamp broken, it screamed loudly and swam toward Manav.
Showing it's excellence of swimming in water, despite the density so high in deep water.
Humanoid anglarfish punched Manav in chest from upside.
Manav immediately commanded his body to hold the hand of anglarfish, he knew that only holding the anglarfish in deadlock can he be safe, because water is home of these fishes and they are like wind.
The bodies of fishes is very slippery.
Moment the right hand of Manav was about to hold the hand of anglarfish it retracted in strange angle, leaving Manav's hand eating dirt in water.
"Sh*t, if this goes on I will definitely die." Manav cursed.
"Overload the core, increase the both hands speed." Manav commanded.
Anglarfish flew to the back of Manav and started scratching Manav's back with its long nails.
Because the back of puppet body was made from steel, there was no big damage, but with each scratch the deepness of wound was increasing.
Manav commanded and the left hand rotated to backside and tried to hold the hand of anglarfish scratching.
Anglarfish retracted it's hand, but manav caught the fingers of anglarfish and crushed them.
"Screeech" Anglarfish screamed with pain, it swam back few meters away and stared at Manav's body with red eyes.
Humanoid anglarfish observed the surroundings and found the cliff few dozen meters far away and a gleam shined in it's eyes.
"Screach" Humanoid anglarfish made a soft sound containing anger and started to swam away from Manav.
"Huh? Where are you fish, today I will crush you into pulp, with my 100 times strength, be aware of being catched by me." Manav was confused after long time that anglarfish didn't attacked him.
Boom*
Suddenly something kicked Manav in chest, and there was a depression in the chest.
Steel on Manav's chest was dented inward, clearly showing a leg mark.
Manav flew few dozen meters back, Manav tried to use his hands to grasp something under his body, but there was nothing.
Manav started to drown deeper and deeper understanding the cliff.
Humanoid anglarfish swam on the cliff with its injured head hand and leg laughing strangely with viscious gleam in it's eyes.
Manav was not stopping just falling and falling.
You're thinking if he can't feel how can he know that he touched something or not, puppets have a special sense in them, found and made by puppet makers, makers knew that if puppet don't even know that he can grasp something or not, how can it complete the command given by them.
Manav was just using his hands trying to grasp something here and there.
After drowning for quite a few hours.
Manav found that his movements are slowing like his mana is depleting or being sucked out by his core.
Manav's vision started to darken, after a while it completely darkened.
At first Manav can see the small lights flowing from his mana core but now he can't even see that, and his thinking is blocked.
Now this was something, for first time Manav fell unconscious or he was sleeping.
...
"Manav, why you left us?" A female figure said to Manav.
"Yeah big brother, why did you left us, you knew I was learning to make your favourite food, and let you taste it on your birthday coming after a few days, why?" Little girl's figure standing behind Manav's mother said with anger and grief in voice clear.
Suddenly a hand grasped the shoulder of Manav from behind.
Manav quickly turned back and saw his father's figure in haze holding something sharp and something his right hand.
When Manav squinted his eyes to see what it was, the figure inserted the knife in Manav's stomach.
"Ugh" Manav hold the place where knife was inserted in pain.
"No no you're not my family, who are you?, show me your true appearance!" Manav yelled loudly while backing up.
"Hahahahaha, helloo, child how are you? You know me! Nah you don't know me, I'm abyss, you must have heard this name in your previous life." Suddenly everything in front of Manav changed and he was standing in middle of nothing but just dark, he saw up, and found a cliff there.
A voice resounded throughout the whole area, like there was no voice coming from certain directions but from everywhere or from the Manav himself.
"Who are you? Why I'm here, is this all your doing?..." Manav started to question, but before he can complete them.
"Shuuuush, hmm now it is completely silent, who I am, I have already said it, why are you here, is this all my doing, hmm I don't know which question I should answer first, but I will only answer one question, I know all of your questions, because you're not the first one to come here, but you sure are unique one to come here." The voice resounded again, untraceable, where it came from.
"I am abyss, source of curse, but not the bringer of curse... hmm looks like you're lucky today, because of not dying, ah I want to taste your strange soul."
Manav's figure started to become transparent.
"What a pity, what a pity."
These are the last words Manav heard when he was teleported from that abyss.
Manav didn't know that whether that abyss is regretful of not tasting his soul, or regretful for not completing his speech.
Manav can't collect any information from that little conversation, other than that source of all curse is that Abyss, but he is not the creator of curse.
But Manav knew one thing that even if Abyss was not the maker of curse, he was the one most benefitted from the curses.
These types of dimensional demons are never straight guys, when you try to understand them from one position they had already changed their appearance and transformation from another position.
Meaning is that they say something and do something, shows something but we see something else.
They are not the one to be trusted.
...
Manav's vision returned he tried to use his hands to sit up, but body didn't followed the command.
Manav just lay there watching the ground very closely, because he was lying on his chest.
And his face kissing the ground.
"Hellooo... Uh what happened here? Where are the guests?" A little figure suddenly appeared out of the things air, and talked cheerfully, but found that there was no one around.
"Huh?" When little figure out his chin on hands, it saw the manav lying on the ground.
"Hey! Why are you kissing the ground so intimately, you know it's very hard to clean the room." Little figure yelled at Manav.
When little thing saw that there was no response.
"Ahh looks like another died guest, let's go from here wasting my time, I have to told those cleaners to clean the area, to welcome other coming guests." The little figure said and disappeared from there.
After a while two puppets came in by pushing open the door, dragging a big floating box.
Two came and picked up Manav's body in tatters and threw it in the box.
After doing this both pushed the box or of the room and walked through the long alley, steps aligned.
After a long walk they reached a in front of a dirty door, from time to time there was hott air coming out from the gaps in the door.
One of the puppet pushed open the door and other pushed the box inside.
Other one also came in and helped to pull out Manav from the box and threw him near the heap of garbage.
There was many types of garbage, there was broken puppets, broken boxes similar to the one pushed by these puppets, and many broken parts of magical tools which worked quite well in the past.
But now they are in garbage heap after their usability ended.
Manav was concious whole the time.
He saw himself being picked up and their in garbage heap.
When Manav reached in this garbage room, his mana recovery has increased like there is an abundant quantity of mana here.
"Heh, if people in this world are Chinese and Korean cultivators they might be crazy to gain the access of this room or fight to death, but what a pity to those cultivators they are present in this world, but his thing I have been thrown here, more I can recover faster." Manav said to himself while rotating his head to observe the situation here.
After quite a hours Manav stood up with help of his remaining hands.
"Now let's begin the work of repairing in this treasure heap, which is garbage heap for others." Manav murmured to himself excitedly.
...
On the other side.
A Teenage human was teleported to the place where Manav was before.
The little fairy appeared.
"Hello destined one, if you want to become powerful and gain opportunities you have to complete the tests made by my esteemed and respectful master." The little fairy says to the teenager, clapping her little hands.
Teenager didn't said just nodded while staring at the little fairy with strange hidden gleam in his eyes.