He sat upright and found himself lying in the green grass at some distance from the lake and a tiny boat was floating there just at the side and surprisingly not drifting away even though it was not tied up. At first he was a bit confused since he observed his surroundings and the forest trees and the lake because he remembered he was in that cave standing before the mystical object but then Bharat realized that somehow he was able to reach the same secret realm of the Asura’s which he was seeing till now through the mystical object.
Additionally, he was taken aback to discover that the same egg-shaped magical object was also there with him, placed right in front of him. After a moment of confused staring, he noticed that the object had begun to shrink and had now shrunk to the size of a small, shiny ball that easily fit in his hands. It then floated over to Bharat and attached itself to his neck as a necklace, growing a thread on its own. In response, Bharat attempted to remove the thing from his neck, but the more he struggled, the more firmly it seemed to be fastened to his neck. After trying unsuccessfully to take out the mystical object for some time he gave up on it.
Bharat stood up and walked over to the little boat to look at it. He noticed that the boat was still floating there on the lake just as it had in the image that the mystical object had shown him in the cave when the Royal Asura had disembarked from the small boat.
After staring at the boat for some time he decided to ride the boat since he did not know where else to go because every direction he saw he only found trees and forests.
As soon as he set both of his feet on the boat it started moving on its own as if it had its own mind. Though Bharat had seen how the boat was moving when the Royal Asura was riding the boat at that point of time he thought that the Asura was directing the boat but now it seems like it is on its own.
Since he could not do anything about it he just let the boat take him wherever it was going, however he had an uneasy feeling about it. After floating on the lake for a few more minutes the tiny boat had automatically risen up from the lake and started floating in the air and as Bharat saw the distance between lake and him was getting bigger and then the boat went above the clouds and with that the level of uneasiness also increased by a level. Though Bharat had been airborne previously in the spaceships and also in the Air planes but this was different since in the air planes on earth you are well seated with seat belts with all the safety measures.
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Also the air planes on earth are totally covered but on this tiny boat as it was floating above the clouds he could feel the air which was flowing on his face and he could see the different landscape and the lake which was passing by so it was a totally different experience and the fact that he did not have any control over the boat that added to that uneasy experience which he was feeling at that point of time.
As the tiny boat sailed in the secret realm first he saw the different landscape such as the vast expanse of the forest, rivers and mountains also the alien wild animals which looked very different from the species of earth and after some time the boat sailed over the clouds as he saw that almost everywhere below as well as all around him he was surrounded by the white clouds and he felt like he has come into a heaven as per the description of heavens in those fictional movies and the view was so good as the tiny boat was floating he was enjoying himself and completely forgetting for a moment that he was in the secret realm of the Asuras.
The tiny boat began to sink beneath the white clouds after several hours of sailing through the sky, and this time he saw something very different. As he descended from the world of white clouds, he could see from the top that a massive black mountain followed the end of the forest, where a sea of red lava was flowing. As the boat descended into the sea of red lava, the temperature in the air abruptly increased, and in every direction he turned, he could only see red burning lava.
When the tiny boat hit the sea of red lava, there was a hissing sound because the wooden boat was cooler than the lava. Miraculously and strangely the wooden boat was not burning up even after coming into contact with the red hot lava. Bharat wondered why the tiny boat was not burning up because it was made of wood, but he soon understood that it was only for his benefit because if the boat burned up, he would also suffer a painful death.
The tiny boat sailed on the sea of hot and glowing red lava and after some time he also saw the strange earth worm like species which were swimming in the red lava sea but he was not surprised since he had already seen them previously in the image projected by the mystical object however he was scared that if these creatures attacked now then he was dead meat for sure.
As he crossed his fingers hoping that these strange creatures would not attack him the tiny boat kept on sailing through the red hot lava crossing from between those strange and scary creatures but surprisingly those creatures did not attack him perhaps these creatures had thought of Bharat as one of the Asuras as he reached the shore of the red lava sea and he disembarked the tiny boat.