Chains Of Heaven

As I finished cooking the eight heads... I mean as I saw that the beast was finally defeated and could no longer move I gave a sigh of relief. This means that it should be safe to move closer to it.

As I got close I needed to make sure it would not try anything while on the way. It seemed no longer able to move and all but I did not fully trust it would remain this way during the entire return trip. As such, I wrapped it in even more chains and using my control over the earth I created a mask to cover it's face and not let it breathe or open it's mouth at all. Now it will not be able to breathe or shout any orders to other beasts, which might have happened otherwise.

Truly, it was good to think ahead.

Well, I know it should have some vitality that would likely make it able t shrug off what I did to him soon enough, as such let's put some of the essence of the Scarlet Blood Flower into it, it is a type of herb that the essence can ensure that the injuries do not close and that it makes sure that the pain receptors are working full force. It is a very useful herb in medicine to make sure we can properly treat the injury and that it's restauration will be complete as well as make sure the receptors around the injury are working properly.

In this case, it will make the beast feel too much pain to properly think and with the continuous lost of blood it will not recover it's vitality at all.

But now there is a problem, this beast really gives me problems.

I can't quite risk walking around with a beast being dragged by me like that. The other profound beasts would see it as a great tonic due to it's Noble Bloodline, which I totally agree as I already took the most important and nutritious part of it for myself and it was delicious (I wonder if one day I would be able to find a Royal or Emperor bloodline level of this beast, the taste of the meat then would be even more wonderful, hmmm foood), but I must take this evil creature back to the elders.

Oh, I know. Using my earth control I make a coffin around it and pull it to my back to carry. It is a bit heavy but nothing I can't handle.

Now that this is done and it should not be able to try anything we should move on from here.

Huh, is it just me or is this beast sniffing as if it is going to cry? Nah, it is probably my imagination, it probably is trying to make me lower my guard in front of it and not go any further than I did.

Well, I guess it might be just about enough, but just to make sure let's put some earth to close its ears as well and while in the coffin it would be unable to see as well. With it's eight auxiliary heads out it has lost a big part of it's fighting ability as well since it's species could release a sonic attach via a howling of all it's nine heads but now it can't since, well, I felt like eating a delicacy and it is my enemy, so...

Yeah.

I feel no regret about doing this.

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Descending the mountain I notice that the formation was closed again, it was a tad annoying but I bypassed it without much of an issue. A gaping hole was left in it, but it recovers quite quickly, impressive work.

I move quickly, not leaving any sound as I move freely through the woods. I look up and see that it is quite late but I feel that it should not yet be midnight.

It is a shame I do not have any beast that I tamed with me now, it should have had been enough if I did have at least one.

"Well, I can just hope that the capture of this evil fellow will grant me enough points." I said to myself as I looked over the box behind me.

"Why m-"

A soft sound rang out, it was weak and very, very quiet, almost to the point of inaudible really.

I stopped upon hearing this, I stopped in my tracks. It was weird, it sounded similar to a person speaking but not quite equal to one. It was like I could hear a person's talk at the same time as I could hear what I do when an animal talks to me.

I move to the location where the sound came from, as I approached I saw that there was some blood on the ground and clear signs of struggle as well.

And there, behind the foliage, laid a 'girl'.

Well, she is a member of the Beastkin race, a race that was born from the mix of a humanoid and a profound beast. They are mostly the same as humans appearance and intelligence-wise but they are almost as much determined by their bloodline as profound beasts, have inherent powers as well as having a profound beast core. Most honestly considers that the main difference between them and actual profound beast is that they can learn to speak the common language, learn the professions that humanoids can, and can use profound arts if taught as well as looking mostly the same as humans except for some characteristic of their beast side like a tail, ears, and sometimes fur/scales.

Well, truth be told hardly anyone ever teaches or cares for them, they are seen as beasts for humans and the profound beasts hunt them down just like any other human. They are more like scorn to almost everyone everywhere.

This one looks quite injured, I know my time is running out but helping her is more injured than some silly tournament. Considering how close she was to where that piece of trash was before it is possible she fought him, a fact doubly likely as her injuries look like they were made by claws that match what this evil creature I am carrying has.

... Let's stab it once more, for good measure.

I begin treatment, I first clean the injuries in her before using my profound energy to remove any lingering energy from the attack she received from the fight she was on. After doing so I made her eat a pill I forged that should help heal her injuries and another to help her recover her lost blood. I then proceeded to send in a pill that will make her energy recover faster as, currently, she doesn't have even a drop of energy on her. I can't even tell what her cultivation level is to be honest.

As I finish that I see that she is not waking up but is visibly improving. Very well, now to treat the most serious injury she has, that being in her eyes. They are deeply wounded and it seems like they were almost ripped out of her, the damage is severe so I pay special attention to healing them

I decide to use Light Profound Energy. It might be the hallmark of the Life Creation God but as I have half of the manuscript where she wrote down all she knew of medicine and Light Profound Energy it is not impossible for me to do so, especially since Light Profound Energy isn't exactly impossible for people to use, it is actually very easy to control and understand it, only that it has absurdly high demands for one to be able to use.

What I can do currently is quite weak and the effect is not even 30% of what it would be like have I had the actual inheritance of the Life Creation God to help me with this, but it is good enough to heal someone weaker than me in a small enough area. The weakness is due to how incomplete the current manual I have is so I have to figure things out by myself regarding this profound energy, thankfully Wood Profound Energy has great healing effects and learning it helps by quite a lot.

It takes just a little while but her ears are fine now. As I sigh in relief she opened her eyes and looks at me.

Now that I have the time to look at her properly I feel a bit embarrassed. I mean, she is almost fully n.a.k.e.d with barely any clothing to cover herself.

She is a girl of about 14 with very long purple hair and with golden scales in her legs and arms. In her back, a long reptilian tail could be seen and her hands and feet were more akin to claws than actual hands and feet.

"Were you the one that healed me?" She asked.

"Yes, I saw you were injured and I could not let it be. Especially when it was because of that evil beast that was trying to kill all participants in the competition." I said honestly.

As she heard that her eyebrow started to twitch.

"I see, are you a participant then?" She asks with clear resentment and anger in her voice.

"Yes." I answered simply and she tried to get up but her injuries were still quite serious. "Hey, calm down. Why are you trying to move while like that? Your injuries are far too serious for you to move about right now." I told her.

As she heard this she was trembling.

"You, you want to kill me, right? I am also one of those sent to this place as a target, you only want to kill me right? All you humans are like that, good on the outside but greedy and bad inside." She says in fear before putting on a brave face as she tried to use her profound energy.

I look at her for a second before sighing.

"This place, this culture, this world really is rotten." I said, more to myself than anything. Isn't this girl just that? A girl, like any other. Yes, she is of a different race, but she is still a rational living being and I cannot tell if she is good or not. Besides, as a doctor I prefer to heal whenever possible and as I look at her now I can almost say for certain that I'd seen her before. As if she looks just like someone I know about, and while I can't say for certain who (I have very vague memories about anything personal from my previous life) I still am pretty confident that she is not an inherently evil being, unlike the evil beast I am carrying behind me.

Seeing her distrust I speak.

"Look, why we don't begin again? Hello, my name is Enkidu. What is your name?"

"... Medusa, my name is Medusa even if everyone else calls me the name of my ancestor instead anyway. So you choose, you can call me Medusa or Gorgon, I am too tired to care anymore."

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Author's Note:

Some people are complaining that Enkidu is too nice or too innocent, and honestly speaking he is quite nice, but not exactly innocent. He can recognize malice in others, he had spent years around it and learned to realize when others want to cause him harm.

And I said from the very start that he is not like the regular MC of a Wuxia, those who are always looking to climb higher and basically only think of themselves and don't really change the world in any way. His objective is bringing forth a better future to the world at large, not simply grow by himself.

Also, Tushan Yaya will appear in the future but the first actual love interest will not be Medusa nor Cai'er, who will be showing up soon. It will be someone that had a terrible life in the CANON of the story she is from and that I honestly like despite, in her original story, being evil.