Lagan Wakes.

"Where am I?"

Logan realised that he had appeared in a unique world.

The sky here was pure golden, and there seemed to be twelve suns The sky.

The suns were arranged in a strange pattern with two strange ones in the lead. and high above the other ten.

The first among the two strange unique stars was a rainbow-colored star filled with multiple colors. Sparks of different colours filled it, multicolored wisps flowed out from this sun as the revolved round it.

The second one was deep dark purple, it had sparks of purple lingering around it with strands of deep purple miasma slowly seeping out at time and returning back.

"Strange! What are those two stars and why are they so far apart from the others?"

What Logan said was right the two unique stars were very far apart from the others. The next row of stars was four, with unique colours; silver, indigo, white and black respectively and individually. They were radiating vibrantly.

The next crowd were six suns with four larger ones and two smaller suns at the sides. They also had their respective colours.

"The essence of nature? Could these ten smaller stars within reach be the essence of nature? Then what of the other two that seem so far apart, what are they?" Logan continued to study his surroundings.

He realised that apart from the golden sky and the suns that radiated their individual light, there was nothing else here.

He felt his consciousness drifting away as he finally woke up from his slumber.

"Logan bro you're finally awake!" Jason's voice came from beside as he realised he was in a medical facility due to the white bedsheets and some surgical tools that were around although there were not many surgical tools.

"I thought you were gonna leave me and go on into the underworld to find beauties there, you were so weak! you seemed like you could die at any time." Jason seem like he was almost about to burst into tears.

"What are you talking about? I was only out for a few minutes... Besides how did we get to this place?"

Jason suddenly looked at him weirdly.

"What?"

"You mean you don't realise you were unconscious for more than one month?" Jason said in confusion.

"Out for a MONTH?" Logan's mouth hung agape

'But I only looked at that strange world for a few minutes at most.' Logan recalled that immediately he passed out he appeared at that strange world. 'could the time flow have been altered there?'

"Not a month! I think it was a month and two weeks."

"But how is that possible?"

'could the laws of time be twisted in that place?' Jason pondered.

"I don't know maybe you were too busy having fun In your dream that you forgot the passing of time." Jason grinned mischievously.

'Sigh, we are back to the crazy Jason once again...'

"That's right! What about the guy that came to kill us? Is he... Dead?" Logan closed his eyes abruptly before slowly muttering the last word.

"Dead? He wishes! Something that had never happened before had happened to him... Guess that's what you get for messing with a handsome man like myself."

Logan suddenly opened his eyes in shock "He is not dead? If he is not dead, then what happened to him that could be worse than death?"

"He has lost his affinities to the essence of nature, possessing no element and no cultivation!"

"..."

"What?"

"I said he had lost his affin-" Jason repeated but was abruptly stopped by Logan halfway.

"How is that possible?"

"I dunno, all he kept saying was 'The figure in flames did this to me' but no one has found this figure in flames no matter how hard the elders check the Azure Forest"

'I took his elemental affinity? I mean I'm the figure in flames so if it took his elemental ability, it means I took it, and-'

Logan's thought was cut short by Jason's next few words "Logan bro, we're best brothers but you hid the fact that you were at the eighth stage of the Elementary realm from me, why?"

"I'm at the eighth stage of the Elementary realm?"

"Huh? Have you forgotten your cultivation level? Feel your core"

'Core? Whoa, I have a core! Since I am at the eighth stage of the elementary realm could I have absorbed that man's cultivation? Damn, does this make me the villain of this world?"

***

While Logan and Jason continued talking. In a faraway place a man could be seen in a regal green robe, he gazed into the distance not looking at the beautiful flowers before him, seemingly thinking of something.

At this moment a man suddenly appeared behind him "Faction leader, he is waking up!"

'Woosh!'

Immediately the man was nowhere to be seen as he received the news, all that was heard was the fluttering of the wind, it seemed like this man had teleported but he hadn't, all he did was use his speed due to not possessing the space element.

He appeared in a temple, the temple had different machinations surrounding it and it was made of brown bricks.

Looking inside the temple one could see multiple cores lined up, they range from rank seven, eight, nine and above.

These cores that could cause two factions to go to war were lined up in a pattern as their essence was being rapidly drained, they no longer had their lustre and seemed like they would burst apart at any moment.

The energy from the cores seemed to flow to a pulsating purple heart.

'Badumn, badumn!" the purple heart was beating loudly and it was quite large.

Slowly as the cores lost their luster one after the other the heart suddenly opened, from within it seemed someone was struggling to get out.

Boom

Boom

Boom!!!

Like an earthquake, sounds of someone punching the heart from within resounded in the temple, before the heart finally burst apart with a final strike...

The purple liquid flowed out of the cracked part and a naked figure with purple hair and purple eyes that slowly regained their clarity looked up and looked at his surroundings.

"Welcome son!" the faction leader said in a pleased tone.

"Hungry! I need food! Hungry!!!" the purple-haired figure said in a hoarse voice.

The faction leader said to the man beside him, "give him food..."

"Please faction leader I'll never betray you! Please!" cries of pleas followed the faction leader's order.

The figure with purple hair reached out to this human as a deep purple strange aura-like substance slowly surfaced on his body and flowed into the man.

"Hmm! Yummy," the man said as he slowly absorbed the man's essence.

"What have you done to me? Why can't I feel my connection to the essence of nature?" the hollowed man who looked like all his blood had been drained said in a hoarse voice.

"More food!" the purple-haired figure said as he used his right hand to crush the man's head.

"Give him more food!" the faction leader said as a happy smile played on his lips.