Feeling a sense of loss, Max sat, rewinding his conversation with Zhavrik. He couldn't help feel sad thinking about the poor boy.
A trace of killing intent was emitting from his body thinking about the people who might be the reason for the boy's situation.
" Whoever you are, wait for me, I will purge every single one of you who are responsible for Zhavrik's death." Max took a oath to purge everyone.
" Now let's get out here. Zhavrik said that with this new power, I should be able get out of here. Now that I have an idea of how to use this power of mine, I should be able to find a way."
Getting up from the place be was sitting, Max started looking around more keenly and trying to find a hint a change from his eyes.
" Damn how thick is the miasma. How many people were killed in this place for it to still remain even after 1000 years. I cannot see any thing other than this dark miasma. Instead of standing here, I should start moving at some random direction".
" Hope I don't come across any other ghosts. Man even thinking about the way I acted earlier when I first saw Zhavrik makes me wanna kill myself. It's good that my friends did not see my reaction or they would have made fun of me like crazy."
Remembering his time with his, Max started feeling a bit down. But he still kept moving looking around to find an opening out.
After walking what felt like hours in this timeless domain, Max found something. In not so far distance, he clearly felt change in atmosphere. The concentration of black miasma was less at that particular zone. No it was not less, it felt more like something was pushing away the black miasma from that place.
Max started moving cautiously towards the place with less miasma.
"There is definitely something here. This might be my way out. But how to verify my doubt. I don't see any portal or door to go through it. Should I just jump on it?."
Thinking to himself, Max tried jumping on the thing that clearly felt like a hole. But nothing happened. He even tried pulling it from his hand, but still he failed to achieve the results that he was hoping for.
"Should I use some mantra? Open sesame, abracadabra, Gili gili sim sim."
Seeing it not working Max cursed out loud.
" Damn since I entered this world, my mind seems to be working in reverse. Am I getting dumber and dumber. Is this the effect of this miasma?. I should get out of here before I completely ruin my mind ".
Determination flashed across his face to keep his brain intact, Max started using his brain properly to find a way.
"Should I use magic?"
He tried touching the hole and started infusing mana into it.
" Hmm, I clearly felt something, I should infuse more mana"
Max tried infusing more mana into the hole and this time he did feel the change in hole's size, this excited max and started infusing more mana.
The more mana Max infused, the larger the hole grew.
"Is this thing a black hole or something, why is it devouring so much of my mana. If it keeps going like this I will end up exhausted and who knows how long I will sleep if I pass out"
Seeing that the pace at which his mana was depleting, Max took his hand off the hole and tried finding something from this storage ring to fill his mana bar
"From the looks of it, this hole might be a portal of some kind. But this thing sure is greedy. After a certain point, it started slowing down. Atleast the size is not decreasing. May be it's got a timer. I should quickly fill my mana again and start supplying mana into it."
As he was mumbling to himself while trying to fill his mana, Max saw that the hole was shrinking again. Not at a fast pace but he can clearly feel that the size of this thing was decreasing.
"Well I jinxed it. My luck's already at rock bottom, should stop hoping for good things to happen".
Max gulped down all the Mana potion he found in his ring and started supplimenting mana into hole again.
After almost completely exhausting his mana once again, Max increased the portal's size to a dwarf size.
"Do I have a low mana capacity or this thing's got a big stomach. How much does it need to increase its size more. Well I should be happy with this atleast. But now I should do some aerobics stretching to fit myself into this dwarf size hole. Well even if I break something, I can heal it later."
Taking one last look at his surroundings, Max adjusted himself to fit into the portal.
After some Funny circus, he ended going through the portal.
"Finally!!!!!"
Max exclaimed with excitement with some happy tears in his eyes.
" Where am I now?. From Zhavrik's memories, this clearly doesn't feel like human domain. Why can't I go home peacefully and spend some time in my bed. Why should I struggle so much even before the plot of the story begins. Damned luck"
Cursing himself like he has been doing ever since he came to this world, he started looking around him.
Unlike the land of death domain, the place Max was standing now had contrasting difference. One was like plane white sheet of paper, the other is like a beautiful painting.
The place Max standing was a peak of mountain. He can clearly see sun radiating it's light to all the plants and animals in the vicinity, filling it with life and vibrance.
Every place his eyes landed, vibrant green grass were dancing. Thick, tall and huge trees below the summit were covering the vast land. Behind him he could see the path which might go straight down. Along the path he could clearly feel the warmness encroaching him.
" How I missed this feeling!, this is the feeling that led him to become an adventurous lad, now seeing such beauty in this new world of mine, I cannot help but get excited."
Max was enjoying the scene and felt something kind of vibrant in his ring finger. He Opened his storage. There he found a thin metalic device.
"Hmm is this a phone, damn it's soo thin. "Sapple" would have done any thing to get their hands on this tech"
Marvelling about the technological advancements, he took out the phone to answer
"He-"
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU ZHAVRIK"
But before he could even utter a word, he hear a loud scream from other side of the phone.