Chains Of Heaven

After passing the test for the competition I had so many eyes to me that it was unnerving. The gazes made me sweat a bit but I focused myself, I had promised Medusa to take her shopping for a bit so that is what I am going to do.

I was about to leave when a person approached. It was a girl of about 16 years old, she has short purple hair and deep green eyes, she is a bit on the short side of things and is quite beautiful, her face was quite delicate and cold but there was something in her eyes that I could swear reminded me of something.

I could not put my finger on what, but it was a fact.

"You are the current first place, Enkidu, correct?" She asked in a monotone voice.

I nodded at that, I admit that my appearance isn't exactly easy to forget considering my long green hair and my clothes being so simple that they actually stand out. That is not to forget that I may have had brought attention to myself when I dumped that beast on the ground and when I showed up in a small dragon at the last minute.

... I must try and stand out less from now on.

"My name is Sheng Cai'er, I am a member of the Sheng family and current third place. I just wanted to ask if you'd be participating in the jobs tests or only in the combat test."

"I intend to test myself on the various jobs tests, will you?" I ask and she shook her head.

"No, my interest and destiny is in combat only so I never learned any jobs." She said. "It may be unnecessary to say this but I want to inform you that, as a competitor, I feel no intention of losing to you, even if you did a good job due to your knowledge of the jobs. That is all." She spoke before turning and leaving.

Medusa, that was beside me, looked at her leave and spoke.

"Weird girl." She asked at the end excitedly and I shook my head.

"I don't think she is that weird." I said. "With the way the world is right now most consider that to advance in cultivation one must cut off their emotions, become mad men and women who only think of growing higher and higher." The disgust in my voice was undeniable, despite my best wishes.

"I see that you dislike this sittuation." She mentioned.

"Of course I do, the world is more than just cultivation and improving one's capacity for killing. Take for instance these jobs, they may have the potential to be used for war, true enough, but they also can be used for great things. One example would be the Blacksmith job, with it one can create weapons, true enough, but they can also help in the creation of the walls to defend a city where people can live in peace. Another would be the Formation Master, he can create killing formations, true, but it is also possible to create a formation that would enrich the farming lands, letting the regular citizens be feed better and saving people from hunger. So it is easy to see why I dislike the current 'trend' in our society, killing the emotions of a person only makes them unnable to think of others as more than tools, it destroys the world for the benefits of silly notions such as honor and glory."

"You are an odd person. Do you not care about honor and glory? Leaving a name for people tens of thousands of years in the future to remember?" Medusa asked.

I scoffed.

"As if. What is honor and glory for me? Would the fact I receive such a thing equal the feeling I get from helping a child that was about to die? What is the weight of my name being known by all when compared to the knowledge that I helped save a city that would have died otherwise, that my actions saved hundreds of thousands of lives." I spoke.

Medusa said nothing, just looked at me for a little while before nodding to herself.

"I see, you are similar then."

I asked what did she mean but she refused to answer, just walking close by. I sighed and just continued guiding her as we both left the place. She might be quiet now, but she seems relatively fine for now so that will have to do.

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The next competition will only happen in the morning, right now it is 1AM and this might be the middle of the night but in a city chockfull with cultivators there is obviously shops opened.

We browse through the city for a bit, Medusa was still quite weak and her energy still didn't recover at all, but she could at least move about well now.

"You truly are a great doctor, Enkidu-sama." She said and I raised an eyebrow at her.

"... Sorry, for a moment I forgot that you are not a member of the place I am from, you have such a pure nature aura that it is easy to forget this sometime." She admitted. "Back in the place I am from we use a few terms as honorifics, in this case I used sama as a sign of respect."

"... Fine, I understand." I said and I kinda really do. It is confusing that she wants to keep calling me like so but it is understandable I guess. Anyway, there is something I have been wondering about. "Medusa, you keep talking about the place you are from, what do you mean exactly?"

As I said that she stopped in her tracks and didn't say anything for a moment before speaking again.

"Sorry, Enkidu-sama, but I cannot say right now. I still don't trust you enough for that, it is something too important for me right now." She said and looked down as she spoke.

"Well, okay then. Everyone has his secrets and if you are not comfortable sharing them with me then it is fine." I told her and she sighed in relief.

We were about to enter a store when I heard the sounds of a street fight, it was weird because the energy in the air was not being stirred so the people fighting did not have any profound energy or were considerably weak. People like that would not make a scene in the dead of night with so many cultivators close by, if they annoy any of them for a reason or another it is entirely possible that they would all be killed for it.

Before thinking too much I dash to where the sound is coming from, I didn't warn Medusa about me moving or why but she managed to follow without any difficulty or strain.

She was about to say something until we arrived at the scene of the fight.

There were about 5 people fighting, 4 grown-ups that reeked of alcohol and one kid I recognized.

It was Levy.

He, for some stupid reason, was challenging 4 people stronger than him just like that. His face was swollen and he looked about to fall but he was focused despite the pain he must be feeling.

Did, did he really went and do what I think he did?

For f.u.c.k's sake, he is an idiot sometimes.

Without hesitation I created several chains around me, all snapping around each of them and sealing them up.

"The f.u.c.k? Who the hell did this shit? Release me at once, you sonuva bitch." One of the grown men yelled, and for insinuating my mother was a 'bitch' (never met or heard about her much, but this is no excuse for saying whatever he wants) I tightened his chains just a bit more. He can breathe and nothing is broken, but he will definetly feel some pain for the foreseeable future. It is incredible how a person who knows medicine can know just how much punishment another can take without any issue in the future.

He should be thankful I didn't use any acupuncture in him, now that would be enough for him to suffer without injuries.

I ignore him and the others, I throw some needles of profound energy at the four a.d.u.l.ts, they pierce in a precise acupoint, they lose consciousness easily enough after that. This little trick is only useful if the person has less profound energy than me and profound beast's acupoints are too different for one another so finding them is an exercise in futility for me.

As they fall asleep I sigh in relief knowing that they should be fine come morning. I put some light energy in that needle, it should be enough to help clear their hangover tomorrow as well as any light injury from this whole debacle.

Seeing that this was done I turned to the small idiot that was glaring at me.

"... I could have taken care of this myself." Levy said annoyed.

"Oh, sure. And when your profound veins improve that would magically save you from getting beaten to death by these four, or they would mystically help you heal from all the bruises and broken bones you'd create and not leave you possibly bleading to death in a ditch somewhere. Great plan kid, hitting a wall with your head until it gives, your head that is." I spoke annoyedly and he just glared.

"Humph, I already managed to evolve my veins a bit, I could sense them changing a little already, if you had not stopped me I could have won!" he said in childish petulance.

"Sure, and in exchange, you'd be bringing a whole lot of attention to you in a place where if anyone wants they could kill you at without any issue and barelly needing to raising a finger whatsoever. You are too reckless to leave for your own decisions." I said and turned to leave, him following me regardless of his own d.e.s.i.r.es.

"Hey, let me be, you a.s.s. I don't want your-" And that was as far as he could go as my chain wrapped about his mouth, shutting him up.

After that I thought of using acupuncture on him but gave up on that idea, it would not work as his profound veins are much too unique. I could, however, use acupuncture to help stimulate those veins and make them easier to evolve.

Seeing the kid struggle I rolled my eyes at him.

"Do you really need to act like that when all I am trying to do is help you NOT get yourself killed?" I asked and upon hearing this he finally relaxed.

Now that is more civilized.

I took him with me and Medusa to the clothes shop and, while we waited for Medusa to chose her own clothes (and ignoring the clients and sellers that were giving us a stinky eye for letting 'filth' to act so freely in a 'civilized' place), I removed the gag on Levy's mouth.

He was about to speak when I spoke first.

"Listen, kid, I don't want to see you try and kill yourself like what you just did there. When I spoke to you about your veins I was being completely and utterly honest, but it is no reason for you to just up and do something so utterly braindead like what you just did. Did you think that you could just up and become strong by being utterly reckless and depending on idiocy? If you want to grow you need to be smarter than that."

"And how do you suppose I can get any better without doing it this way? I don't exactly have a fancy teacher to help me whenever I need nor do I have a sect to help me out, I am just a slum's rat that can only do things in a utterly reckless way that depends on dumb luck to win. It is the only way for me!" He yells back at my words.

I stay put for a moment there and think about what he just said, it annoys me that it was true but I do not want him to continue doing reckless things that would likely have him killed instead of helping him. And all because I just had to help him by telling him about his profound veins.

Now, I can either walk away and pretend this has nothing to do with me, the kid will likely die but if he survives he will be incredibly strong for sure. But, the chance of that happening are just too low by himself. I guess, as a responsible, kind-hearted, and good person that would never cause too much harm to anyone innocent-

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3° Person's P.O.V.

A certain lion somewhere vomited blood as his master readjusted one of his bones back to place, Enkidu had kicked him a lot in an effort to make sure he would not be able to move and many of his bones are either broken or were misplaced, showcasing all his ability to inflict as much pain and incapacitating the enemy until barely an inch of his life before making sure the being would stay there for a GOOD while.

The blood vomited out had poison mixed in and the lion have had to pass out in pain multiple times by now.

"What a demonic and evil brat, a true Demon God of Destruction! One day I will definetly get revenge for this." Elder Sheng said as he continued using his stock of medicine he took several hundred years to acc.u.mulate to heal his

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Enkidu's P.O.V.

- I can only really do one thing here.

"I understand, then I have a proposal for you. Would you like to be my student then?" I ask.

"I refuse." Was the answer.

... This kid is gonna be a headache, that is for certain.