The soul garden

As he felt darkness envelope his vision he felt the pain that is plaguing him slowly subsided replaced by a chilling sensation that is enveloping him. "So this is what death feels like, huh!". As he thought that this was the end, he suddenly felt his surroundings light up and in the next second he found himself lying in a vast green land. As he slowly stood up he realized the pain plaguing him was no more and even his wounds were healed. As he looked around, it felt like he was standing inside a expansive garden.There were so many flowering plants around him and just behind him stood a huge tree that is so tall that, even Arthur looking up vertically from his position cannot see its total height. The air felt fresh and cool, just standing there felt like a relief and peaceful. As he was slowly looking around and enjoying his surroundings he suddenly felt a huge light descending from the top. He focused his eyes on the huge light and slowly the light came near him and transformed into a fiery red winged creature.As the being slowly unfolded its wings it transformed into a human female like being. She looks like a celestial with her red wings behind her back and her body that is glowing in a milky white color.She slowly stood before Arthur as he focused his eyes on her watching her every movement. After she opened her eyes she looked at the human standing before her and slowly started speaking. But before she could even utter a word cutting he off Arthur spoke "Aren't you a Seraphim?"Her demeanor broke and she blurted out "Huh, How do you know?". Realizing her blunder she went back to her previous graceful poise and started speaking "Yes you are right. I am indeed a Seraphim and you can call me Seraph". After she confirmed his suspicion, he realized that his doubts are true " he is not in his world anymore ".To confirm his doubts, he asked her without any hesitation "We are not on the utopian continent anymore right, I remember that I died. Where are we right now? Is this what they call heaven or something ?" Hearing his words Seraph replied "That is right, you indeed died and the place you are in right now is called soul garden and I brought you here. And human how do you know I am Seraphim? ""Well, back on our continent we have depictions of angels with red wings on the church's paintings and I did a research in my childhood on what those depictions are and thats how I know what you are. Now, if I am dead why did you bring me here?"Hearing his words, Seraph felt that she needed to do more thorough research on the history of the utopian continent. "Arthur Ashborn you are born with the highest affinity to light element and its pretty rare even in the universe for someone to be born with as much affinity as you are born with and that is why we are giving you a Second chance." before she could finish her words Arthur cut her off "wait a minute you are saying I was born with the highest affinity with light element, but I clearly remember I was not even able to awaken a element in my awakening time and the only thing going on with me is my slightly bigger mana pool and even that is not so good for me because of my differently built mana core. "Being cut off mid sentence for a second time, seraph frowned a little but quickly recovered and continued saying "Yes you are indeed born with highest affinity for light element, not just your usual light element but the foremost of all the elements 'Neo Light' also called as celestial light, but during your awakening the mana elixir that you drank is actually a poison which damaged your mana core and that is also what prevented your element from awakening. But now you are getting a second chance.""So what you are saying is I have a chance to return in time and this time actually awaken my element " hearing this seraph replied " Yes that is exactly what I am saying."Arthur, on hearing this, instead of feeling happy, frowned and asked "So what's the catch? There is no free lunch in this world so what do you want from me for doing this?"Hearing this, Seraph smiled a little and spoke "You are right. There is no free lunch in this world and for sending you back from death we need you to complete a mission"Arthur, who went into deep thought, spoke after a few seconds "So what's the mission?""This mission is going to be challenging and you, are very weak to even have knowledge about the particulars surrounding this mission. So reach a particular strength and then I will again meet you to tell you about what you need to do "

"But how can I accept the mission if I do not know what the mission is? " Seraph, hearing this, smiled a little and said "So you don't want to return. That is all right, we will find another person " looking at Arthur's face which is progressively getting darker she continued "Do not worry, this mission is useful even for you. It increases your power and it will actually align with your interests. You need to first increase your strength to become even eligible for this mission. So your primary focus is getting strong and everything else can wait for afterwards."