My sweet sleep was interrupted by a strong smell and hotness near my face. I opened my eyes and saw him stretching something towards me. I was dazed by sleepiness and took it. After a while or so, when I actually was awake I looked at what was in my hand. Fk what is this.

I quickly stood up holding myself back from puking. This is my first time seeing meat. I don’t dislike people eating meat and I thought I won’t ever have this reaction seeing meat. I quickly walked over to him and handed it back.

“I am sorry but I can’t eat it… it’s actually first time I saw meat, maybe it’s psychological but I really can’t.” he took it back silently and I walked back where I originally was, still feeling embarrassed for my reaction. How would I feel if I offered someone food and they reacted like that… I sighed and held my face in my palm.

After a few minutes I felt something else being stretched at me. I looked back and saw a packet of biscuits. I looked at him, this guy… he’s so different from what I thought he was. I took the pack and smiled at him. No smile back and he went back to where he was sitting. I wasn’t hungry so I stuffed the pack in the bag and wore my jacket and shoes back. Thinking about it, I should have taken a bath, but how am I supposed to do that if he's near and I was too sleepy for that earlier.

Anyways I saw him packing his bag, so I walked over to him. He looked at me, kept his bag down and went into the forest.

What am I supposed to do? He left his bag here and I am sure he didn’t mean for me to carry it… does that mean he told me to wait? Does he lives his life like that? I mean I used to think he must be fighting some unearthly, out of this world problems to save the world after leaving those guys behind and this man here is…

Anyways, I’ll take this chance to take a shower. But what about clothes? I looked in my bag, there should be some stuff in it. Mr demon should be considerate enough for that. And yup I was right, he was considerate, and this bag contained everything I can think of. There were some packs of canned fruits, bottles of water, 3 sets of clothes, an extra pair of shoes, slippers, some disposable things and some tissues… oh wait, there was another compartment, here’s a knife… and a dagger. A toothbrush and toothpaste, a body wash, a few sheets, both plastic and cloth ones were also in this bag, in different compartments. How did they fit this all in a single bag?? There was a tent on the top of my bag. Looking at it, bag was pretty big but if it was me who packed this stuff… it was gonna be a mess. I looked around to see if there was any other human existence nearby, I wanted to go to the area where there were bushes for a bath but it is near where crocs were resting, so I just went to the water directly. Being in water after doing absolutely nothing and waiting for a person to get me to any of the masters was so comfortable that I had no mood of coming out anytime soon. After a few minutes of soaking in the water, I got out and quickly put on my clothes… should I wash these? I thought hard and decided to use the water available and wash my clothes, who knows how long this bro will wander around the wildernesses. I did wash them with water only. I had soap, but I felt that the river was too clean to wash clothes with soap, after all this soap would run off in the river. This was one reason, another was that this was my first time washing clothes, I've never washed them in machine, leave alone washing them with bare hands. Just after rubbing the shirt twice, I felt soreness in my arms.

Now the problem was where to dry them… I looked for a while, nothing was clean enough. After a few minutes of wandering here and there, I took some tissues out and wiped a rock clean and put clothes on it to dry. I could have used the plastic sheets but then they would get wet too, and then I'll have to wait for them to dry and then I'd have to stuff it into the bag properly which is too much of a work so I just used paper tissues.

Now what? I hope I had a mobile phone, a pretty nice way to pass time, if nothing else, I could have clicked some pictures.

How was Anik doing though? If it wasn’t for demon’s warning I wanted to give him some heads up on what he was about to encounter. The places demon used to summon the masters were based on my memories. I asked him to send Anik to the places that require medical skills, I can’t be of any help at all if I went there but for Anik this should be easy. He was supposed to get water and fire master while I went for earth and air ones. Of course I know about all this but he has no idea. I hope he can get it done with ease. He doesn’t look like someone who reads a lot, leave alone watching dramas or anime. The dramas and novels I read were fairly popular ones. I hope he knows the story, at least he knows basic info about the characters. If he ever had any girlfriend or a female friend then they might have told him a little about any of these. Asian entertainment was on it's peak when these things were released. I used to talk for endless number of hours when I found some new interesting stuff... so maybe someone used to tell him too. I specially asked Mr Demon to send him to the 'Fei' world, I gave him that one because I told him a little about the story when we were talking about ‘bone chilling’.

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Anik on the other hand found himself landing in a sword fight. One of them looked a little maybe gay and another was a girl, looking about 24, the fight suddenly paused for a moment as they both looked at the intruder. The gay guy suddenly coughed out blood and stumbling he supported himself with a wall. Still unaware of what was going on Anik did nothing except stupidly looking at both of them. He doesn’t even know where Ashleen is. He pulled Gayatri closer and looked at the girl who apparently won the fight.

She was looking fiercely at him as if wanting to slice him in two.

“Who in the hell sent you here?” she asked pointing her sword at him. Tears slowly rolling down her, she looked pitiful.

“No… no one”

She moved closer and held him by his collar. “You better speak or else you won’t be able to see sun tomorrow.”

Anik frowned as he looked at her. Why was she so angry?

“Don’t overexert yourself, you are in a critical condition”

“You dare tell me” she too coughed out blood and kept her grip over his collar tight, as her breathing became more and more complicated.

"I... I'll..." she was unable to finish her words as she fainted.

Anik was already confused and now he was in a den in the middle of some snow covered mountains, with two patients in hand. He held his face in palm and looked at them. Gay guy was looking at him warily.

Anik asked Gayatri to help him lay the lady straight and then proceeded with passing medical mana to her. Her complexion bettered and he moved towards the guy. He took a step back but Anik smiled reassuringly and passed mana to him too.

“You are poisoned too, don’t fight like that again” Anik can help him but it would cost him a considerable amount of mana. If it’s not for his own advantage, why would he overexert himself? Anik has never been kind in his entire life, leave alone now, when no one knows who will be your enemy tomorrow.

After a few minutes he was done with this and sat down with a plop, as he felt drained from the use of mana.

He sat down straight to think what was happening. He in his mind thought that all the three of them would get somewhere together and move through the troubles together, but now since he was with Gayatri then Ashleen should be alone. And the demon said he won’t join, thus he needs to quickly understand everything and try to get to her.

Thinking about it, he saw something. The place he landed had a huge dark red colored flower, which was crushed by him. After a few minutes, the lady woke up and looked at that flower, she got up wobbling and dragged herself to the flower,

“It has lost it’s properties after being crushed” said the gay guy as he looked at the lady. She seemed to have lost all her strength at his words and feel to her knees. Tears started rolling down her eyes as she held the petals of the flower.

“What is wrong?” since he was the one who destroyed this flower, he wanted to help her.

“You are…?

“I am the lost successor of medical valley of Ladakh.” Anik thought about it, the lady and the guy seemed to be wearing some historical clothes. Since it is historical ear and these two were fighting for a flower, it should be of some medicinal value, so he introduced himself with his medicinal name. Since he got a message that his fame will spread then maybe these people might know about him.

“You can’t change anything”

“You want to give up on his life so easily?” it was the gay guy who spoke. To think that they were fighting a few moments ago, that seemed confusing.

The lady looked completely broken, she looked at Anik,

“You know bone chilling?” she asked without any expectations. Her lover was on verge of death and the most important element for the elixir was gone. There is no way someone can treat him without it.

Anik flinched at this question and seeing his reaction, the lady turned her head away.

“I know”

“Can you heal it?” there were many people who know about it, being able to treat was a completely different thing.

“I can”

“It’s okay, I know”

“I said I can heal it”

“…” she looked at him for a few minutes before finally she continued speaking with a shaky voice.

“You…You said… you can?!”

“Yes”

“Come with me, quickly.” She grabbed him by his wrist and started walking out of the den very fast. Gayatri followed quickly but bumped into Anik.

Anik pulled her back into the cave.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s about to snow and there are chances of storm” said the gay guy as it was obvious looking at the sky. The lady seemed to have gathered herself together as she stepped back in the cave and looked at Anik.

“What do you need to treat him?”

“Mana”

“…”

“Qi energy” said Gayatri. Anik knew there was an auto translate system in this comic, which translated everything in real time. Except a few words, which are either intentionally spoken in different language or are not completely understood by the speaker.

Gayatri seemed helpful when it came to languages. There were no such chapters in the comic at all, it means that there is no original manual and Anik can rely on his own brain only.

“Qi?”

“That’s how I treat my patients.”

“You’ll have enough qi but you need to make sure his survival.”

“How long has he been poisoned?”

“About two decades years”

“How is he still alive!?”

“His uncle used his entire existence to keep him alive”

“…” I guess I made a stupid reaction as she continued to explain.

“His uncle used all his mana to trap the poison from spreading, but because of this his own mana was also trapped.”

“Then what happened now?”

“He used his long trapped skills to get revenge from someone, which needed him to use his mana.”

This will be hard, Ashleen’s poison was just a few days old and it costed him so much mana, what is gonna happen with the guy she’s telling about?

Suddenly there was a huge roar outside.

“It’s coming, said the lady looking at the gay guy.