Chapter 5 : The world stopped [4]

Himalaya...

On this internationally known mountain, a singular scene occurred, the snow falling from the sky was stopped in the open air as if maintained by a supernatural force.

The wind had stopped blowing, this place appreciated by the bravest climbers was still so calm that even the bravest man would feel a hint of fright and astonishment.

But the strangest thing was that at the top of the mountain, a shirtless man with long black hair was sitting at the top with his eyes closed.

He had a musculature so developed that he could have put any body builder in the world to shame.

He was sitting quietly in a meditative posture, except for the sound of his powerful breathing, anyone would have believed that this man was dead.

Time passed ...One year ...Two years ...Three years ...Ten years

But in the 128th year, something incredible happened, the air around the man began to fluctuate and each of his breaths became deeper and deeper.

His body, which was hypothermic and covered with glalce for a hundred years, began to release a slight heat that slowly melted the ice on the surface of his skin.

But despite all this the man did not wake up, he remained in a meditative posture without moving a centimeter.

As time went by, the air flow around the man became stronger and stronger, his body became warmer and warmer to the point of evaporating the snow.

Time passed again and again, man still did not move but the strange phenomena around him became more and more pronounced.

Three hundred and seventy years later.

The volume of the man's muscles gradually decreased, his body had become completely red and radiated a hellish heat, a violent gust of wind surrounded him and pushed everything within a radius of two meters around him

But suddenly, for the first time in almost five hundred years, a new change occurred.

The wind gusts disappeared, suddenly the man's body stopped releasing heat.

Everything became calm again, but it was at this very moment that the man opened his eyes.

The man raised his head and looked up at the sky for a brief moment before slowly rising from the ground.

"How many years has it been?"

James clenched his fists as he looked at the landscape around him before shaking his head.

He grabbed his long hair that had grown several meters long before instantly cutting it off with his hands.

"It's time to go home."

James moved slowly forward before taking a leap.

*Boom*

The ground beneath his feet broke, like an arrow shot from a bow he ascended to the sky at full speed before slowly tilting down the mountain.

*Boom*

He crashed to the ground falling from a height of several kilometers without any damage before running at full speed in one direction.

He ran across the eastern and central United States at a speed equal to that of a sports car.

Then, arriving at the seashore, he jumped into the water and swam like a fish at full speed, crossing the sea at a speed that cannot be described as exaggerated for a human.

. . . .

A few months later.

Old-York...

James walked with a certain melancholy in the familiar city so familiar but at the same time so foreign.

He entered a crowded hairdressing salon, sat down on a chair and took two scissors and quickly trimmed his beard and hair.

Seeing the face he had even forgotten in the mirror, he sighed deeply

He left the barber store and headed for a clothing store.

He threw away his old ramshackle clothes and wore a black pants and a long-sleeved white shirt before leaving the store.

He also found a new pair of shoes in a nearby store and walked calmly before stopping in front of a building he entered.

He walked through the hallways of the building before stopping in front of door 537.

He bent down and removed a key hidden in a flowerpot next to the door and opened the door.

He walked slowly inside the familiar room and looked at the photos hanging on the wall with a slight hint of sadness.

He sat down on the living room sofa and stared at the clock hanging on the wall which was completely stopped.

"It's time to see if my assumptions are correct."

James took a powerful breath before contracting his muscles to maximum, the air around him suddenly began to vibrate, the whole room began to shake as a reddish energy began to emanate from his body.

"Agh!"

James shouted aloud with his sweaty forehead as his aura around him grew more violent.

"Agh!"

A thin layer of transparent energy becoming more and more tangible repressed his aura.

James focused even harder, the power of his aura reached its peak, the whole building began to shake, his pupils disappeared and became completely white, his body was sweating with abandon.

He felt a terrible, indescribable pain running through his whole being, but he clenched his teeth.

His aura violently blasted, he felt his body become stronger and the red energy around him became more tangible and more concentrated.

All of a sudden he heard a sharp noise, his body no longer felt any opression.

The intangible barrier that imprisoned him until now broke and fell to pieces, his aura disappeared, he suddenly felt a gentle breeze coming from the window caressing his face.

But he no longer had the strength to move, he gradually lost consciousness, before fainting falling to the ground but at this last moment of lucidity tears flowed from his eyes, for the first time in 3879 years.