Chains Of Heaven

After completing his first trial Enkidu looked ready to fall over, but eating a few pills he started to quickly recover. Gugalana observed astonishedd at the speed of recovery of Enkidu, not being able to compare him with anything except for a young Divine Beast with how his blood vitality was exuberant, recovering at incredible speeds.

It waited until he finished recovering before speaking.

"Now, for the second trial, you must prove your fighting prowess."

As he said so Gugalana vanished and in it's place a gigantic storm could could be seen.

"To pass this trial you must break through this cloud, reaching the other side."

Enkidu, hearing this, could at least feel relief that this time he would at least be facing something he could use his techniques better against.

"Alright, it's time to enter!"

Enkidu set his resolution. Regardless of what there was inside, he still had to give it a go. There was no way out now, he could either pass or die, there is no other option for him.

If he wanted to go out, to take that which should be his back, he had to take the risk. Entering the cloud he felt himself shaken up, he truly felt a great pressure, making even him, who had always been confident in his abilities, feel some restraining fear.

That was due to what was inside the cloud.

Inside it many figures could be seen, they were members of different races with many appearances and bearings but all had one thing in common, each one of them was extremely young at about Enkidu' own age and all of them were extremely strong.

They were ancient freaks, beings which were geniuses even during the age of the Gods. Many of them even becoming Gods themselves or having the potential to become one at the time, not one simple or weak.

They were soul imprints, a small fragment of the souls of the geniuses at the time that were now being empowered and made as constructs using Gugalana's energy. This was yet another great formation which Gugalana's master have prepared long ago using the soul imprints of many geniuses of many places, the formation's original objective have long since become meaningless but it was still a heaven defying shocking formation.

Gugalana, to be fair, only let out geniuses with the power of around Emperor Realm and Sky Realm, but even they could not be underestimated with all of them knowing secret techniques and being capable of doing much damage.

Smashing forward, deciding to concentrate all his powers baring none he moved into action. Every exchange of moves was world shaking as Enkidu used the power of his spear arts mixed with his newfound knowledge over the Pulse of the World, both mixing together in harmony as it clashed with the opponent in front of him.

The enemy was using a morning-star, the power of each impact enough to turn any regular Emperor Profound Realm expert into mush. He was using the morning star into a barrage of untold number of strikes, their movements hard to predict as he swung them in extreme speed, actually displaying the Great Mystery of Extreme Speed of the Thunder Law. Enkidu countered it using his super, the two clashed in high speeds as the other figures approached.

A man with wings like that of a bird shot forward, his speed shocking as it tried to attack Enkid from the side using his sword covered in opposing Great Mysteries of the Wind Laws, the Great Mysteries of Slow and Fast enough to make the edge of the sword able to give a fright to most people and capable of cutting steel as if it was not even there. When he got close enough to almost touch Enkidu he missed the attack as Enkidu used his Heaven's Path movement technique to avoid it just in the nick of time, he tried to attack but he felt a wave of dizziness as the air around him vibrated in a strange form. That was due to the same winged individual, each wing hitting each other in a frequency that released a mysterious power.

That was the power of the Great Mystery of Music of the Wind Laws. It was mysterious and unpredictable, hard to use and hard to fight against when caught by surprise.

Enkidu shock his head twice before moving to the side as the morning star one came closer, his weapons coming closer as he did so and Enkidu was forced to avoid as thread made of thunder fell down on him, a large spider attacking from above.

As he avoided Enkidu was hit twice by the falling threads, they hurt especially hard as they contained the Great Mysteries of Judgment of the Thunder Laws, a power which centers on countering impure energies and devils and, wanting to or not, Enkidu was half devil.

Hissing Enkidu moved to face the spider but he was stopped yet again, this time by a humanoid being with four centipede-like appendages in it's back. It's appendages moved in strange ways, attacking from all angles and being hard to predict. Enkidu punched with his Pulse of the world but the attack was being cut by the opposing attack, the tentacles containing the Great Mystery of Spatial Wind, cutting everything in it's path without stop.

Feeling frustration as he had to again operate his Heaven's Path Movement Art Enkidu felt that this was not going anywhere. That was proven doubly so when one of them which until now was quiet opened his eyes. Two pupils could be seen in it and when Enkidu was gazed by it he felt all his movements slowing to a crawl as if time slowed down for him and space was constraining his movements.

'What a terrifying skill.' Enkidu thought as the energy around him simply refused to listen, as if the Profound Laws had no effect around him for how.

It was then that the one using a Morning-Star hit him in the back, sending him flying forward, Enkidu being able to feel as his bones creaked and one of his ribs broke. As he was flying forward Enkidu opened his eyes wide, using his Eyes of Insight Enkidu managed to see very little flaws on each of his enemies. However, he needed to act upon what he was seeing.

Without hesitation Enkidu moved to the one which looked the easiest to defeat, moving towards the spider at high speeds he knew he had to get rid of it and of the dual pupils man if he intended to win this fight. Taking advantage of the momentum he gained from the attack just now he darted towards the spider, jumping just in time to avoid a strike from the winged one that went past him. This time, as the enemy was passing him by, he managed to catch him by one of his wings.

Clasping his hand tightly at the caught wing Enkidu pulled himself closer and pulled himself over the enemy, capturing both he gets around his head as if he was a rider moving with his horse. It would be quite funny, if not for how Enkidu proceeded to beat the winged one's head using his fist with all his strength.

Each impact like the sound of two hammers clashing, the energy shocking as it reverberated throughout the area. However, even when having his face turned to mush the enemy didn't hesitate, his wings vibrating and wind blades raising in all directions, cutting Enkidu in many places with some being even possible to see the bone.

However, it was then that the winged one died in Enkidu's hands.

As it died Enkidu was about to move ahead when he felt like that soul fragment tried to attack his soul. This would be disastrous since it would make him lose control for a moment, it was the all out soul attack of an ancient freak after all how could it not be powerful.

However, it was at this moment that one of the things inside Enkidu reacted. The Magical Cube moving by itself, the soul trying to invade and attack Enkidu's soul being instead taken in by the Magic Cube as it a drop of water on the desert, disappearing without any effect.

Well, negative effect at least since, after being taken in, the soul became pure experience and memories that were promptly transferred to Enkidu.

Memories of a different life flooded Enkidu, understandings regarding that youth's race and it's experiences were all absorbed by Enkidu who learned all that youth knew, including his techniques and his understandings over the Profound Law of the Wind. One must understand, Enkidu may not be talented in the Wind, Thunder, or Fire arts but that is only when compared to his other talents, he was still at least comparable with someone who could be called a talent that only appears once every 100 years when it came to these elements and as such he could make use of these understandings of the youth from before.

Now being able to understand some of the Wind Laws Enkidu was much better off to face this entire test, and his gaze over the other geniuses of the past also changed. If before they were great disasters for him, now they were great tools for his future, if they too tried what the previous youth did then his powers after this trial would skyrocket once again. That was enough for him to put a smile on his face, even if the smile didn't remain for long since he was still on a dangerous position. But, at least, now he had a better chance at this trial.