Chapter 5 part 2 Malcous

The smoke figure spoke saying "Cronos you the last person in the universe I'd ever imagine entering my domain. The Demon slayer himself on the world of the demons, if it weren't for my race I'd erase you this instant."

Cronos then replied "You almost died to me Malcous don't forget who here is the superior warrior. If you could erase even a single immortal we would all be dead by now so stop bluffing weakling."

I stepped in saying "Cronos stop it this instant we are here to ask for his help not for you to aggravate him. Forgive me Malcous I have not introduced myself as yet, I am Horas Ra. I have come to seek assistance from you with regards to the power you use and how it is used. I need to use the power of creation."

Malcous spoke up before I could go any further saying "Immortal we know well that you posses the power of creation however granting you assistance will be determined by all 5 of us together. Each of us will test you on the coming worlds to see if you are worthy of the help you seek. I feel that I need to tell you what I will test here in the next few moments, I will plunge you 3 into the deepest parts of your memory and dredge forward all your pain. You will have to learn to channel it at the very minimum to make use of the power of creation once you meet me again the challenge will be for you and you alone Horas, I will face you in honoured combat."

I was worried in that moment just how long would it take for us to complete this task.

My head rang with pain as I didn't fall unconscious instead all my memories were playing as I moved along.

I looked at Malcous as he suddenly took of disappearing from sight in an instant I cleared my throat and in the gurgling dialect of demon I said "Shradow please aid us in crossing to the next world."

The space behind us suddenly turned dark as if covered by a shadow and the demon Shradow now stood behind us.

I looked at the demon and said "Thank you for all your assistance. You most certainly have helped us greatly."

Shradow said nothing back and place his 3 fingered hand over us touching each of us with only a finger tip and then we felt the sudden change as we felt like we had been compressed. In the next second we stood on a world covered in yellow pools with yellow rooming clouds.

Shradow had been before us but in the next instant he had disappeared once more.

Cronos and Yuri were struggling a lot to handle the flowing memories and the look of extreme pain had overtaken their faces.

I glanced around and noticed that the area we were in was somewhat abandoned so I spoke to Cronos and Yuri saying "Sit here and face your memories if I'm correct myself and Yuri can get done a lot faster then I may be able to assist you."

Cronos replied "Very well let's face this!" the reply was riddled with discomfort and pain.

The 3 of us sat and started exploring our memories I sank into the white place and this time it was more like an odd world inside a triangle with each side being the ground.

I sat inside this place and suddenly the memories flowed through me even faster and finally after what seemed like an eternity my memories of pain had faded.

I reached out from this place and caught Yuri's consciousness and dragged it into my white place.

Yuri had an extremely weird awkward feel as she entered my mental space and I suspected she felt that this was an intimacy of a greater level.

Yuri sat next to me and then the 2 of us together faced her memories and pain till finally she had overcome the pain.

The 2 of us slowly opened our eyes and it was at that moment I noticed Cronos was fairing worse then us.

I pressed my hand on Cronos's forehead and concentrated the white place to extend to Cronos.

It had taken me almost 12 minutes when finally I pulled Cronos to the white place, unlike with myself or Yuri nothing was visible however Cronos faced his past and after 8 long hours he finally awoke exhausted on the ground.

I had not entered into Cronos's mind instead I had lent him my mental power.

Cronos suddenly calmed down and looked at me calmly then he said "That's the power you used to become so intelligent and enhance mental training. I'm surprised your progress was so slow."

I sighed and replied "The mental power you saw is vastly improved to how it was in the past. I couldn't control or use that power all the time, I basically have used it for almost 600 years and that too was way more limited then what you experienced."

Cronos pondered on that for a few minutes then he stood up and said "This planet should be a walk in the park since we have no pain to exploit now."

I shook my head and replied "If this power is liked to emotion trust me pain was likely just the beginning and each world will have something new."

Cronos marched on and myself and Yuri followed him it was only then that I noticed Cronos had been letting of small cinders from each step he took.

The way demons tormented us only improved our mental strength bringing out even greater power from the being.

Chakra based power enhanced the power we had however if your Chakra had more fuel to use it resulted in greater power with a proper output.

We had walked for nearly an hour when suddenly a giant beast charged at us.

The monster was odd as it seemed to have rocks for skin and blended in well with the environment, finally the monster had reached me and I kicked it hard in the face.

The monster was knocked to its side and started to slip into a yellow pool, the monster clawed hard at the walls of the pool in a desperate attempt to stay out of the pool.

I watched the monster slowly slip into the pool and then suddenly 4 demons charged towards us.

Myself and Yuri took up defensive positions as the demons attacked us, the first demon released a black flame that came straight at us and no mater how hard I tried my powers still refused to respond.

The flames were not sustained but released in short intervals and in that moment I charged between the attacks knocking the 4 demons with a swift barrage of kicks and punches.

As the 4 demons lay on the ground I declared "I challenge you to fair combat!" the closest demon suddenly replied "We mean you no harm we just wish to save our pet."

I rushed back to the pool and hopped in grabbing what seemed to be a claw and flung the beast out of the pool.

The huge creature whimpered and scurried of to its masters at which point the 4 demons walked towards us and said "How may we repay you. Name your reward and we shall acquire it."

I looked back towards the demon before me and said "Can you tell me where 1 of the 5 Etherious are on this world?"

The Demons looked at us worryingly and said "On this world you are inflicted with crippling pain when you face the master Arzoth. We can help you like most of our kin however beings of flesh struggle greatly when true pain is inflicted."

Yuri looked at me with a stern look that scream don't think of pain lightly as I replied "Please help us!"

Cronos froze in sudden fear and the leader of the 4 pointed of into a distance saying when you see 4 mountains become 1 go to the peak and enter the volcano.

Pain surged through my body and I fell over as I could barely even keep my eyes open under the pain.

My bones ached and my organs groaned in pain as I tried desperately to figure out how this helped me progress.

I tried to understand the emotions again and suddenly I slipped into the white place this time the entire place had reformed into a perfect tetrahedron, the ability to comprehend was accelerated millions of times over.

You don't fight or over come emotions you embrace and use them, so I started to channel the pain into desperation and it instantly stopped.

I looked over to Yuri and pulled her into the white tetrahedron then she learnt the lesson from me.

I turned to Cronos and he was at peace already however he curled up as if he had been truly beaten down.