Chains Of Heaven

"I must admit, you surprised me." Gugalana said as it shrank it's form to one that wasn't as massive. It now looked to be about only 8 meters tall instead of the monstrosity in size it was previously.

Enkidu looked at Gugalana, his mind now much more peaceful and calm as he spoke.

"It was not easy, but I imagine I passed the trial."

"Yes, and you did a wonderful job at it." Gugalana said before he huffed. "If only you hadn't gone and took that egg out I would be even more satisfied with you. however, you seem to be as dependable a person to have this egg as I will possibly get anyway so it may as well stay with you."

Enkidu nodded but had to ask something.

"I need to know, why exactly did this egg appear on such a place? something like that should be in somewhere much safer and certainly not on some random place like that." Enkidu said and Gugalana released a sigh.

"I suppose I should tell you, you will be it's caretaker from now on after all so it makes enough sense." Gugalana said as it started explaining. "You see, long ago both your ancestors fell in love-"

"Wait, what you mean by 'both'?" Enkidu asked, wondering what exactly the other man was talking about and Gugalana blinked in wonder.

"You, you DO know that the Dongfang clan is the Emperor clan originated from the Elemental Creation God, right?" Gugalana questioned and Enkidu tilted his head a bit as he never heard of it.

"But, I thought that the Evil God never had a kid." Enkidu said and Gugalana shook his head.

"Your knowledge of the world really is incomplete." Gugalana said as it decided to explain some basic matters to him. "You see, when the original Goddess created our universe she divided herself in eight parts, four became the Creation Gods and the other four became the Devil Emperors. However, the source from which each of those great ones was born also age birth to two types of existence. The first was the Emperor clans, they were originally mortals like any other but with their origins tracing from those original sources. The Emperor clans all had incredible talents and they were superior to most others of the same cultivation stage with few being their enemy in the slightest. Any Emperor clan, in their apex, had at least 500 God level cultivators with most of them able to fight even three God class enemies at once.

"The Dongfang clan is from the same source as the Elemental Creation God, and just like the Creation God could reach absurd levels of control with the elements and could use several combinations of elements that few could hope to replicate, so did the clan developed in where all their members had something that others could not easily replicate and all had an incredible talent for one or more Laws.

"Another Emperor Clan, not that anyone can call it that, was the Myriad Clans. It was the one that originated from the Life Creation Goddess and, much like she could give birth to life extremely easily, the Myriad Clans were several species born from where she came from, none of them could match the Emperor Clans but they were much more numerous and when you combine their Gods they having over one thousand Gods in their Clans if combined. There being six who could be considered the strongest of the Myriad Clans, the Fairy race, Giant race, Dwarf race, Beastkin race, Fisherman race, and the Angel race."

As Gugalana finished explaining this Enkidu slowly nodded, after understanding the origins of both his bloodlines, even if by broad strokes, Enkidu requested that Gugalana returned to explaining why the egg of Tiamat was in a place like that.

"That was a location no one should be able to enter." Gugalana explained. "That place was created for the same motive that the sword core in your hand was created, as gifts to the daughter of the Evil God and Heaven Smiting Devil Empress. They originally wanted to gift that egg to their daughter and, thanks to your very unique bloodline, the barriers around that place actually thought you to be her and let you in just like that pool let you enter it, resulting in you obtaining the egg even if it should have never had been removed from that pool."

As Gugalana finished explaining Enkidu had to wonder if this is what some mean when they talk of a MC lucky chance. Because it sure feels like it.

"So, this sword core, it is also one of these gifts?" Enkidu asked for confirmation and Gugalan nodded.

"Yes, in total those two love bird idiots had prepared three gifts for their little princess, all of them absurd to say the least. For instance, the sword core you have in hand was never completed but it used for material a piece of Chaos Stone. A chaos stone was a material formed at the creation of the universe, and then slowly evolved over the millions of years. It became a naturally formed totem of the universe laws, with the traces of the universe's source energy left on the chaos stone. Many Gods would try all they could to get even a single pebble size of such a rock as it carries traces of all the Laws in it, and they took a giant mountain and compressed it to create this sword core. Even the wood used for the handle is the wood of a World Three, a three so big that in each of it's leaves one could place an entire world in it."

Enkidu felt some cold sweat running down his back as he heard this, this ugly sword that looks like even a barbarian would not take a second glance at really was an impossibly great treasure. Shame that it was a sword and thus not something that Enkidu wanted to use unless it was life or death.

However, Enkidu could not resist and took out that sword core. As he poured his spiritual perception into the sword core he could almost see something, it was hard to discern but-

"Stop." Gugalana said loudly, breaking Enkidu's concentration. "You should not try to do this again. A Chaos Stone, even if it wasn't condensed, had simply too much information for your current cultivation realm. If you were to try and study it too much then you would likely have your soul falling in confusion as it would be unable to discern reality anymore, your death as the result."

Gulping Enkidu put the sword core away, better not to use something like that if he can avoid it.

"As for the last gift, I am not exactly certain what it is except that my master left it at the hands of the Dongfang clan for safekeeping a long time ago after the death of his kid."

As Gugalana said this Enkidu thought for a while before he looked at the Hyuga girl that was, even now, looking intensely at him and her surroundings.

Standing up he went until beside her and spoke.

"I intend to put a seal in you to make sure you can't tell anyone of what you have seen or heard, after the seal is put you will pass out so, for what its worth, sorry for pulling you in this whole mess." Enkidu said before he frowned as he got close enough to her, pulling her hand ha touched her wrist to sense if what he was seeing through his Eyes of Discernment was right and, it really was.

He understood it, one glance at her and he understood something very clearly.

She, she was like him. Not exactly like him, not by a far shot, but she was similar enough.

As he was processing this he noticed her eyes looking at him intensely before she spoke.

"Beautiful."

As she said that Enkidu moved back in asotnishment as he never would have imagine that, in a situation like this, someone who should by all rights be his enemy was instead calling him beautiful.

As if she just realized what she had just spoken Hinata fumbled to explain herself.

"S-Sorry. I, I didn't mean anything bad by that. It is just, I could see your profound veins and the energy in them and, I have never seen a more beautiful profound energy before." She said in a fl.u.s.ter and Enkidu was actually amused by that.

"Heh, thanks I do try my best." He spoke and chuckled a bit, knowing deep down that most of the reason why he had his current accomplishments was due squarely to the Library of Heaven's Path and the other items on him.

He then looked at the girl intensely before closing his eyes, he went to check on the Library of Heaven's Path regarding her and see what information there was about her there.

What he saw he did not like.

The low self-esteem, the hidden injuries from the several nastier attacks of the gentle fist, the malnutrition in the last few months, more and more information that painted a very terrible picture that Enkidu was not by any stretch appreciating.

Turning to Gugalana, as he could well imagine Hinata would not answer honestly, Enkidu asked.

"What was her condition when you brought her? How were the other members of her clan here treating her?" he asked as there were clear pieces of evidence of a spike of bad treatment of her in recent months, the chance that this was due to a new environment was quite likely.

"She was being surrounded and attacked by her clansmen." Gugalana spoke easily enough. He knew well enough of the Hyuga clan, a family that was merely a offshoot of an offshoot of one of the Emperor clans and considered itself great because of it and that they obtained their eyes via marrying a member of the Dongfang clan in the past and, through it, created the Byakugan. They were at most foot soldiers in the past great war and still acted as if the world centered on them because of something they obtained via marriage, their eyes were truly special but they could not match up with the true supreme eyes of that Emperor clan.

Hearing what Gugalana said Enkidu nodded his head and thought for a moment before he spoke to Hinata again.

"Before I do anything, I would like to ask you something." Enkidu said and she looked at him with curiosity. "Do you wish to go back to your clan?"

"It is my duty to do so." she said automatically, no emotion whatsoever in her voice and Enkidu could see that this was an automatic answer, not something she actually thought about before speaking.

Shacking his head Enkidu asked again.

"Answer me honestly, do you want to go back? Is it something you d.e.s.i.r.e to do, to go back to your family despite knowing what awaits you there." Enkidu said and Hinata looked conflicted for a moment before she spoke again.

"It is my duty and fate to go back to the clan. I am a member of it and have a duty towards it." She said softly, but anyone could see that she was speaking this as if it was a mantra instead of something she actually d.e.s.i.r.ed.

Enkidu sighed, this sort of decision is also something she wishes for and so it was what she would do in the future. He would not force her to renounce her clan, not if she didn't want to.

In his eyes this was no different than an abused housewife who refused to seek help even when requested. But, he would at least offer her one thing.

"Very well, but after putting this formation seal in you I will not give you back to these people outside. I will let you go back to your clan when you are properly close to your clan's territory." Enkidu said. If she wanted to go and return to her abusers then so be it, but he would not give her to those who wanted to kill her right away and, if by traveling with him, she creates some actual backbone and decides to not return, then all the better.

She was about to speak up but Enkidu gave her a gentle smile and said as if natural.

"It is either that or I save the people outside the trouble and kill you swiftly here. I would at least make it painless and quickly, both things I doubt your clansmen outside intended to do." He said, only to make her lower her head and bite down her lip in frustration before nodding her head.

He was being honest. Even when he was at his maddest state he would not strike her down in irrational fury, but if she was going to die our of her own volition like that he would rather do it himself to spare her the pain that she would certainly get from said decision. But, in all honesty, he would definetly prefer if she just went with him instead.

With a defeated expression she nodded her head.

With this settled Enkidu was about to put the seal when Gugalana spoke up.

"Young men, before you continue, I will give you your reward." Gugalana said as five drops of an extremely deep blue tone, one other with yellow and white tones to it, and one last with extremely darkness emanating from it. The first two released powerful auras and were clearly valuable beyond what most could ever hope to match, the two released thunder aura but they clearly were not of the same level even if both were way beyong Enkidu right now. The black on, though, that one was something else. It was, for the lack of better words, extremely dark and emanating extremely dangerous vibes from it. "These five deep blue drops are five drops of my own essence blood. When you absorb it you will be able to practice my own set of profound arts, the Heavenly Fury Art. I derived it from my studies from Heavenly Tribulation and some other things I learned with time, it is an extremely powerful set of profound art of the Thunder and Wind element.

"I realise you are currently not good with those two elements, your weakness during aerial fighting is quite obvious so this should be a good help to you." Gugalana said and Enkidu nodded in agreement. He knew that, should the fight just now be on the ground, he would have had a much better time and be able to win without nearly as much troubles. If he were to continue down the way of cultivation it would be for the best if he learned some Thunder and Wind Laws to help him in the future to deal with aerial combat. "My essence blood will also raise your talent for Wind and Thunder by a considerable degree, but these five drops can only match up to one of this other Blood Essence." Gugalana said with some annoyance as the yellow and white one got closer. "This one belonged to one of the Vicious Ten, the ten most powerful beings bellow the Creation God level being able to jump ranks and challenge a Creation God directly while still being a True God. None of the Vicious Ten was trully humanoid with some being no different to beasts, but their power was the real deal and no one could ever doubt their power. This one may not be as heaven defying as Tiamat was on her peak back then, but it still was extremely powerful.

"This is one drop of the Eigth rank of the Vicious Ten, the True Qilin. You have fought the projection of a descendant of impure blood of it, one that had yet to master the clan's techniques and that could be considered far from perfect. It was only a descendant many times removed, far from the peak and 100 of him could not measure up to a pure blood True Qilin of the same rank. I honestly shouldn't have been able to have this, but, this drop of blood was obtained by me in a stroke of luck long ago. It should raise your capacity for Thunder and Wind by a considerable margin as well."

As Gugalana said this Enkidu could sense how these drops of blood clearly were special. He wondered if, after absorbing both, he would obtain a talent for Thunder and Wind able to match his other abilities. It would certainly help if it happened like that.

However, he turned to the last one and Gugalana's eyes narrowed as it looked at the last one.

"And as for this last one, it is best if you do not absorb it for now. Unless the darkest time arrives you should avoid even touching it, just keep it sealed will be enough. But, when the darkness come, you must use this drop of blood if you decide to enter that abyss." Gugalana spoke and Enkidu looked at it as he began to wonder and decided to ask.

"What do you mean by that? And what even is this drop of blood?"

"As for what I am talking about, speaking now would be useless and would only give you unnecessary worries. And as for what is this drop of blood, this is the essence blood of a darkness foreign being, a true demon."