-------- Arthur's Pov ----------
After being dragged into the portal, my sense of direction became so warped that I couldn't tell where was where.
If I had to describe how it felt, I would say that up was down, and down was left, and left was up and down at the same time.
"Argh!" I screamed in pain as the migraine I felt was getting stronger. And as they did, I began to see 'images' or 'clips'.
No, I think it would be more appropriate to say that they were memories. As they felt like something I knew but forgot and then remembered.
I was remembering my past. Which not too surprisingly were the dreams I have been having lately.
Dreams of being from a cultivation world. With the 'me', then training and cultivating madly with all sorts of powerful foes at my neck.
'These memories are incomplete,' I thought.
The more I remember, the more I noticed that the memories I recalled were only in parts and most of them stopped halfway.
Although there was one part that was complete.
'So that's how I ended up on the earth,' I thought, as I saw the memories of how I created 999,999 soul clones of myself and sent them to different worlds with the gems of the multiverse.
'That means the Time Gem must have been responsible for stopping time when I almost got shot in the head?'
But, it was also what was the trigger that led to the migraine and the recovery of my past life's memories.
As I recalled the very few memories, I began to wonder about who was the being that saved me. And also about the uniqueness of planet Earth.
With all these things and many questions in my head, I suddenly felt my back on a hard surface, along with the end of my memory recovery, and the headaches.
"Ugh..."
I slowly opened my eyes to see a blue sky and tall trees. With my hands on the ground, I shakily stood up, using a nearby tree to stop myself from falling back down because I still felt dizzy from the impromptu space travel.
Shaking my head vigorously I tried to stop the dizziness, which worked a little.
"Am I back in the previous world?" I asked myself, as I looked around this forest that was a bit too silent for my liking.
"But where am I..."
I couldn't complete that statement as I bent forward and started vomiting. After a while, it stopped and I started walking in a random direction slowly.
As I did, I pondered on what to do. And then I decided to see if I could draw out the gems. But that ended in failure as I couldn't sense anything at all.
*Boom!*
"What the?!"
As the explosion suddenly went off a long distance away, that caused even the ground where I was to tremble.
A part of me felt like going to see what was going on. After all, I'm in an actual cultivation world!
A world that I once imagined living in. I mean, how cool would it be to witness super abilities being used in real life?
"Yeah, right. I am not planning to die so early. The first rule in a cultivation world, 'remain as low key as possible and avoid any kind of exposure until you are strong enough."
With that, I turned in the opposite direction and started walking as fast as I could. And soon, I could run again as my sense of space became normal.