Chains Of Heaven

"So, what is it that you will do next?" I asked and the girl sighed tiredly.

"I will probably die." She admitted with a sad tone.

"... Why exactly did you end up here? I don't feel that you are a bad person." I said, and it was true.

From as long as I can remember I remember noticing the eyes of others. The malice in others, no matter how they hide it, can be noted. I had to know that to know when to get ready while in my can for the beatings, to know if it was safe to ask for some food or not. If not for that, I am sure I would have long been dead. I know, however, that simply having malice isn't enough to claim that the person is bad, I have seen many examples of this before, but I still note that. There is always some degree of malice in the eyes of others if given time to note, the only eyes I have ever seen before that have not a hint of it are the eyes of teacher. Well, teacher says the same about me as long as there is no mention of my life before I met him, the less I think of that the better.

And, Medusa's eyes are exceptionally clean of malice. Of what I can see of them they seem just tired of it all. There is some malice, but it is so little that I can easily tell she is not a violent or evil type of person, more like she just has the steel to defend herself when needed. For her to be put in this mountain where they said only violent beasts are put, it does not make sense.

"... Because I was protecting my village." She said but before she could continue her stomach began to growl.

I smiled seeing this and spoke.

"As I see it, we have very few choices here. The elders outside will likely kill whatever profound beast inside this place after the tournament ends, so you can either stay here or we can leave this place together." I said before explaining. "I confirmed beforehand that we can either kill to obtain a profound beast core or tame the profound beast, it is optional even if no one expects someone to tame a beast too quickly. We could make it so that you become my tamed beast and this way we can leave here. After the tournament, we can decide what happens without the looming danger of the elders trying something." I explained my idea, it was honestly the best idea I could think of right now so she can decide.

"... Would I be given proper food?" She asked.

"Of course." I said immediately before taking out some of the soup from before that was still warm.

She looks at it incredulously before feeling the smell. As she did this it was easy to see her water her mouth at it, despite not eating the meat of the soup she ate the medicinal rare herbs and drank the soup itself. As she did so the energy she took it energized her a good deal.

She looked at me intensely for a moment more before speaking.

"... OK, but only to get out of here." She said and I nodded, but now that this is settled I had to do something about this situation.

The answer was taking out another tunic-like my own and giving it to her.

"Please, put on some clothes." I told her and, despite the fur, she blushed.

"Th-Thank you, when those cultivators threw me here they took out my clothes as I was to be considered a beast and 'beasts don't need clothes'." She said and I sighed.

Honestly, the cultivators of this world are so stuck up that I would not be surprised if someone developed a technique to use the stick up their asses to beat others. I mean, why the f.u.c.k you should judge others based on things like simply race? As long as the other is intelligent one should not simply go killing and discriminating for something as petty as that.

This is just so f.u.c.k.e.d up. It is the same with the practitioners of darkness energy.

No matter who or why they are hunted down for that and killed because they were born with those powers, acting like having those powers automatically makes one evil. Everyone should just chill, for f.u.c.k's sake, it is not so difficult to just do that. If kids of 3 years old can become friends regardless of those matters why does the 'wise man' with thousands or tens of thousands of years are incapable of doing that?

F.u.c.k.i.n.g idiots with colossal sticks up their asses, the lot of them.

Breathe Enkidu, you gotta breath and calm down. You just need to focus on what your next step should be.

"When we get out of this place we will buy you some clothes you like, that should help you. Now, can you stand?" I asked, reigning in my emotions over her situation and that of this world. I had long since gotten used to pulling back my emotions.

She nodded her head at that and we began to move to leave the place. For some reason Ji Ji, that moved to nestle in my head the entire time I have talked with Medusa, raised her head and looked at Medusa for a moment before laying down again. Her and Da Ming are in the middle of an evolution process for the evolution of their bloodline and that demands time and energy. The energy for that is relatively easy for me, my energy is perfect for it, but the time is not so easy as that means that both Ji Ji and Da Ming sleep a lot when nesting on my body.

Well, we do need to hurry so I guess we should hurry things along a bit or I might be disqualified due to simply not getting out in time. I look at my c.h.e.s.t, or to be more precise at the little fellow nested in my c.h.e.s.t, and poke it with a bit of energy.

Da Ming opens his eyes and looks up at me tilting his head.

"Can you give us a lift outside the mountain?" I asked and he nodded, he jumped out of my c.h.e.s.t and tunic, as he got out his size changed to about 6 meters long, his scales shining in a pure azure light and his aura one of nobility and elegance.

He had evolved to have some likeness to a Flood Dragon, it is not quite equal but there is a mix of bloodlines showing more and more on him but the dragon aspect is definetly the strongest. It is not so strange, despite all their pride of their bloodline dragons are extremely promiscuous and would have offspring with all manner of creatures, they are horny bastards so to say. I bet that they would even bang a c.o.c.kroach if they could fit, and I honestly can imagine there being a dragon-c.o.c.kroach mixed race somewhere.

I approached Da ming and hopped in, Medusa was flabbergasted at Da Ming but quickly did the same while looked at Da Ming in shock.

"This, is this a Flood Dragon?" She asked.

"Not really, it is just similar in bloodline. Its name is Da Ming, it is in the process of reaching Half-Royal tier bloodline but he can pause it for a moment to help us in getting out of here." I said and she nodded, still looking at Da Ming in awe.

It is to be known that Flood Dragons are descendants of the Blue Dragon and are capable of reaching the Emperor or even Divine level bloodline when they are old enough. They are quite rare.

And thus, my little 'excursion' in the mountains ended. I got some rare herbs, saved many lives, and empowered my body further by a bit due to eating some of the heads of that lion.

I wonder, would it be too cruel to treat it just so it can recover its extra heads and improve its bloodline for me to harvest them again? They are just so delicious that the idea sounds way too appealing.

Thoughts for another time I guess.

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"... Let me see if I get this straight." Elder Sheng said, his bear trembling as he spoke. "You found out the attack on the profound beasts, saved the participants, tamed more than 400 profound beasts with many being stronger than you in just under three hours, found traces of the beast responsible for the attacks, hunted it down, and then you captured it via a formation of your own design, a poison of your own design, and various other means. After ALL that you found-"

"Medusa." I told him to help move this along.

"Medusa, here and tamed her, tamed a BEASTKIN who are infamous for being impossible to tame, and then you just came back with a beast that is close to having a bloodline evolution to Half-Royal level bloodline." He spoke and I nodded my head. "I understand, but why did you cut off eight of the nine heads?!" He shouted at me.

"... Because they are a known delicacy and cutting them would diminish the lion's offensive abilities that might have been able to be used against me when I retrieved the beast. Considering it led an attack against the youths of the continent it is possible it was under orders of an evil person or organization that might want to create mayhem so measures should be taken to deal with this possibility. I may be inexperienced but I believe elder Sheng should be able to help to identify anything I missed." I told him.

"..." He stood there quietly, his face flushed red and trembling a bit before he spoke again. "And, just to confirm, how did you get to this beast?"

"I followed the traces of a flying type profound beast, I noticed that the beast was hiding behind a formation so I assumed it might have had the help of a despicable traitor of the organizations that were setting up the formations, I know speaking this might be putting me in danger but justice must prevail and as a member of this continent I can't let such evil and despicable action of some random bastard who is the score of humanity go unnoticed." I spoke with indignation. I only really realized this a little while ago but it was definitely strange that the beast was being protected by a grade 3 formation.

As I speak my reasoning I notice that elder Sheng's face went from red to purple as another elder laughed.

"Elder Sheng, you don't seem too well. I think you should rest for a bit, why not go and take a look at your contracted beast? As a renowned beast tamer I a sure it must be quite a special creature and being around it is sure to help your mood." I proposed and hearing this elder Sheng looked at me, the lion in the ground, back to me, and his mouth opened and closed without uttering a single sound.

Weird, I am pretty sure my idea should be good. I surely love petting Da Ming and Ji Ji whenever I am a bit stressed, I do love animals after all just like any beast tamer does.

"Hahahaha, did you hear it old Sheng? It seems some random bastard that is a despicable traitor of humanity has let its beast create mayhem. It is just a shame that we could never have tasted those heads, however, that might have been for the better, I can only imagine how the owner of the beast must feel after seeing their prized beast having lost almost half it's value just like that." A new elder, this one wearing a blue and green gown said and laughed while elder Sheng fumed and left while carrying away the lion.

Bye-bye, snack. I hope we see each other again, when you are recovered preferentially.

Seriously, they are too good.

"Now, let me tell you that the punctuation has been accounted for. The participants you helped transferred all points beyond the necessary to pass back to you so we have an account of your points now. Go and check the list to see your position." The new elder said and I bowed in agreement before moving along.

I started from the bottom up and continued from there. It was a slow process but right on top, I saw something I did not quite expect or hopped to see.

5th Place - Senku Xing - 11678 Points

4th Place - Bibi Dong - 14130 Points

3rd Place - Sheng Cai'er- 14200 Points

2nd Place - Wangquan Fugui - 14500 Points

1st Place - Enkidu - 676954 Points (new record established, the last record being 21460 points)

... Why? Wasn't I careful not to stand out? So why did I stand out like that?!