Chapter 3: [V1/C2] WINDFALL

At exactly 11:37am in the morning, the man who collapsed on the stony ground woke up.

Upon waking up, he touched his head where the damage was done, to see if there are any injuries he received during his collapse, "Urgh..." [TOUCH], after touching his head, Rey sighed in relief "Phew... Luckily there doesn't seem to be any bleeding at all."

Upon stabilizing his condition, Rey took a quick look at his hands filled with callouses. A few moments later, he carefully stood back up again, as he stood up, Rey then walked towards the edge of the crater and there he saw a mysterious portal like black hole, floating in the middle of the volcano's mouth below and on top of the hardened magma.

Thinking back, Rey didn't seem to have seen any strange anomaly when he first took a glance at the crater, but now, there seems to be a mysterious black like portal leading to somewhere who knows where, while also exuding such a thick and dark aura which made Rey feel as if he's going to be devoured at any second just by simply looking at it.

Though he's at a high place and still far off from the anomaly, his mind kept telling him to run away.

As he watched the unknown portal in the middle of the crater, Rey took a huge loud gulp with his whole body trembling out of fear. The man just kept on shaking while profusely sweating, his bones screaming and his eyes already on the brink of fainting, his heart pumping like crazy.

Out of instinct Rey hurriedly picked up his bag along with his ice axe and immediately took a run for it from the side of the crater, he circled halfway trying to find a inclined edge which he can safely descend from.

After running and looking around, he saw a small old wooden boat hanging at a small dead tree. "Why's a boat here?" He asked.

Searching again once more, upon making it halfway through the other edge, Rey saw an edge perfect for descent but at the other end of said edge is a huge crevasse about 20 meter wide, reaching both ends of the smooth getaway.

Rey is now in turmoil as to what he'd do, "This is driving me nuts!" He said. Then a huge amount of magma splashed from the bottom center of the crater, surrounding the black portal. The magma that splashed reached a height where even Rey could vividly see it, upon splashing back and forth it steadily formed a pillar of magma.

Rey seeing the mysterious anomaly thought 'Holy Shit! What in the World's HAPPENING?!'. Tha man didn't watch how the situation will unfold from that moment on and continued to find a solution as to how to safely descend down the edge. 'Think Rey! Think!!' then an idea came to mind, "Aha! This should work!."

The man then hurriedly went back to where the old boat is at, leaving his belongings at where the inclined edge is at, he then frantically made a run for it,"Huff... Huff...!" Rey didn't notice that after the first magma pillar, there were another 7 magma forming into a pillars, upon careful inspection it looks like a circular barricade.

As Rey found the old wooden boat, he removed the vines and hurriedly lifted the old wooden boat which weigh almost 2.5 tons without any paddles strangely enough due to the urgent matter at hand he didn't notice the original weight of the boat, to him it feels like his just lifting a boat around 300-400 pounds. Luckily Rey was working out in the past 2 years so a boat this size and weight is a piece of cake for him.

The lone man on top of the mountain volcano's crater, wearing a simple black shirt is simply struggling to make a decision, this decision of his will either end with his funeral or his survival.

After Rey successfully brought over the old wooden boat, he then packed up his belongings and simply placed it at the back end of the boat. Looking back once more, he saw the Eight Huge Pillars of Magma encircling the portal.

His eyes were wide open shock in awe and marvel of such phenomenon. Without hesitation he looked back again at the bottom of the tilted edge and the huge crevasse in the middle.

"Surely, I won't die today right...?" He shakingly said with fear of Death in his eyes.

Without further ado, Rey pushed the old wooden boat halfway through the tilted edge and hopped on. He then began shaking the wooden boat to slide towards the inclined edge that is about 85 degree in angle.

While the boat were being shook by Rey, another explosion of magma arose making surprised. "SHIT!!" the boat successfully slided towards the slanted edge at high speed.

"TOOOOO! FAAAAAAST!!" he said as he scream his lungs out with his mouth wide opened, and with his skin looking flabby due to the strong current of wind. After successfully sliding through the inclined edge, the moment of his survival hinges if the acceleration of the boat can beat the 20 meters wide crevasse with no telling how deep it is if he falls through.

With just a few meters away, Rey shouted "MOMMY!! PLEASE DON'T LET YOUR CHILD GO TO HEAVEN THIS EARLY!!!" as the boat passes through the last phase before meeting the crevasses edge, the man closed his eyes with tears flowing down his cheeks.

He started praying as the boat started to float in mid air. "AMITABHA, LORD JESUS CHRIST, ANY GOD OUT THERE! PLEASE!" a second later he opened his eyes feeling as if the whole space suddenly stopped moving.

"What? Why isn't there any wind...?" He questioned. With his eyes wide opened, Rey saw that he's still currently in mid air. In shock, he made sure he wasn't dead so he looked below and saw the huge and deep crevasse beneath him.

"OH, FUCK! MOTHER OF GOD, I SWEAR I WAS A GOOD BOY!" he then closed his eyes once again and opened it to check if it's real. As Rey opened his eyes once more, he saw the same image earlier. "I'm really floating" he said with shock on his face, he then started laughing like a crazy lunatic, "Hahahaha... I must be dead....! There's no way I'm floating...!" To verify once more, he pinched his cheeks, and as he pinched it strongly with his left hand, he felt the immeasurable pain. "OUCH!!" he said with a tear on his eyes.