Devil's Business

The Three Labor

 ~For the one among those, the sacred labor has to be Good~~For the Glory among those, the sacred labor shall be fruitful~

~For the Almighty God of Heaven, The beaming light shall be in triumph~

“You can enter the next round, Bima.” Spoke a heaven Sentinel to the person ahead of it, acted as the guardian of the first gate of the lowest plane of Heaven. The lone human, on the other way up front is bowing to the Sentinel’s shimmering grace, then rapidly runs to the next stage of his challenge.

Over his fair looks and decent posture of the body, Bima was known for the taste of weapons for the battle. Being a fan to the longsword of King Arthur, He picked the look-alike immediately when he found one leaning down the collection of heaven’s artifact. For the man, a sword with double-edged sides would be more effective onto the battle itself than wielding two one-edged swords. A dominant knight would not be represented by numbers, more to the style and sophisticated means of war itself, or so to speak by himself for the reason of his choice.

When Bima arrived to the heaven’s land of divinity, several floating clouds are appearing one after the other and being adjacent towards Bima that was sprinting into its white terrain at the time. It is the resemblance of numerous joyful souls, the one who deserved the place on top of the sky and bathing under the infinite blessings of their God. Flowers are blooming around him, masking the happiness and hospitality of the Goddess and their grace to the young human’s spirit, alongside the blossoming and ripened fruit of the tree.

For the nature’s own reason to conjure themselves upon Bima’s all senses are to beckon their own cheers to the human’s effort in completing God’s challenge to the top. They called it as ‘three labors of heaven’, which was granted for a mortal to gain a place amongst the top-brass of the heaven’s lordship. A mere human, one might say, but modestly worthy to the moniker and its name upon the indefinite era of chaos of the world.

Nonetheless, if he wanted to carry the Glory name of God down to his name, He needs to wield the three sacred weapons of Heaven: The Holy Axe, Trident, and Dagger. It quantifies the start for the other two labors that he has to resolve the moment onwards.

Holy axe of heaven are the weapon augmented for the God of Skirmish. A swing of the axe would vanquish even the mightiest of stones, breaking the will of Hastya, The leader of Oculous of Heaven, and eliminate the fear out from its wielder. Only the valiant knight and true warrior of the chosen one shall bear the holy axe, or so the Lord of Tinker might stand upon his own steel creation.

Holy Trident of Heaven, in opposite to the axe and Dagger who were having its owner from the very beginning, was designated for the one who relished a short course of penetration upon the grid of their enemies’ bravado. It could pierce the toughest heart of any sea beast down the ocean, Skewering the guts of evil from hell, and even to cut open the mischief of a demon. Needless to say, this weapon merely fabricated for blessing the misdeeds upon the earth realm and beaming the holy light of God to its residents.

While being the smallest among else, The holy Dagger of Heaven has its own properties to boast. It was designed for the God of Assassin for its own conventional use to the duty. The smelted steel of the sharp edge from the Dagger could slit a God’s might and bringing agony to their infinite lifetime. It could be concealed and diminished under thin air, stabbing a target with no mercy and awareness upon the danger ahead.

The three of them are mandatory to retrieve for the very first start of the three labors of Heaven, and made him could admit the status of a Demi-God on the moment onwards.

In this floor, Bima needs to withstand the three guardian of the holy weapons. The first one is called as George the Prude, which was carrying the axe to fight the challenger as soon as they entered the battle arena of his. George was known to be petty and mischievous to the other holy Oculous of heaven, therefore brings him to the duty as a warmongering lord of the grand labor.

“What you lookin’ at?” Shouted George to Bima while directing its axe upwards to the man. However, none of the Oculous’ taunt appears to work out since Bima already springs across the holy axe. A single sweep upon the fingers and Bima could obtain the sacred axe in one piece, even though George surely felt the grip was tight beforehand.

“Oh no! Argh! Me smash you out of here!”

Without further ado, Bima slashed the vocal cord of the humongous giant and snapped them off the grid of his neck. In heaven, a mortal is forbidden to slay someone on the flesh, with exception upon any hazardous situation to which makes them have to beat the monster’s up by an escalating degree of act.

Henceforth the swift swordsmanship of the man brought more doom to the fallen giant, all due to the hidden compartment that unlatched by the seconds of his defeat.

The second test lined-up after a short course upon the runway. Another Oculous was holding the trident this entire time, now with armors and his own capabilities to utilize the trident’s prowess in full. Distinctive to what Bima had with George earlier, the second giant apparently more intelligent and proven to be one over-sized threat to fight against.

The giant speaks and showing his own courtesy by bowing to his enemy,”Good day, young Godling. I am Ruhva, the overlord of Alang of the south. My-“

(Clang!)

Bima snatched the interval to quickly laying his barrage of s***h to the knight-giant before him, wanting to end the battle right away. With a mouthful comparison over their body size, which was stood over a hundred meters in difference, the long sword is formidable to pose a menace to the chivalrous overlord.

“I’m impress-“

(Clang! Clang!)

The two metals were crashing towards each other by the continuous slashes from the mortal to the giant ahead of him. With blistering speed that dwells on Bima’s axis, the sluggish movement of the giant could not withstand the consecutive assault that Bima had towards him. As a result, numerous visible cut were appearing on the Oculous’ torso and carrying a thousand ache to his body.

“Such a buffoon for being reckless, young-!” Yapped the giant as he tried to finish the sentence before the mortal beast could snatch it out from him.

(Clang!Clang!Clang!)

Eventually, the blast of slashes from Bima could reach the two palms of the giant. He pushed the trident out from the socket by thundering them with his might. The Oculous, being punished and pressured to give the holy trident, finally forfeited from the battlefield by raising his arms to the air at the same time.

“Okay, Okay! You’re too-“

The compartment below the humongous size of the giant is opened up, causing him to fall without any opportunity to furnish his entire sentence to the man.

Bima is not wasting time to gloat on his success as he carried on to the next stage of the challenge. The third giant awaited him on the bedside of the river and keeping the dagger tight under his right hand’s grip. Contrary to the previous two giants, this one gotten more slender and firm down the waist. He also wears a cloak and and a scarf, all to cover the scenery of an assassin up close and showing up to his works of art in murder.

Before Bima could shoot his way to the huge-assassin, the giant make headway firsthand to where the guy’s stand and punishing his early-bird movement with the dagger’s might. The hundred thousands power from more than a hundred meters giant quickly dispersed to the blast of pace that the humongous cutthroat has displayed, knocking him a distance away back to the entrance.

(Clang!)

The giant quickly shoves himself to the guy and pushing a muscles down to Bima’s neck. Tons of weight from the vast dimension of the gigantic humanoid monsters gradually thrusting a commotion to the seemingly-unbreakable demi-god. Bima could circumvent the damage by his swords, but he wonders of how long would that be to endure the legendary dagger and its wielder.

“I don’t like to exploit this, but-“ Bima mumbled out his thoughts before the pressure from the dagger of the giant.

“Of what, you say, human?”

Bima’s long sword immediately glowing up and chewing the giant’s energy as it touched the beast’s skin through the dagger’s metallic edge. It eventually made Bima grows stronger and more bulky than what he was before. In contrary, the assassin’s slender body turning to be thinner and weaker with the amount of power that the sword’s suck from his physique, along with the force that the beast has upon the long sword’s steel of Bima. It is only needed a minute later for Bima to counter the huge contour of the giant assassin with ease, using only a nibble of his prowess.

“A noteworthy opponent. Thank you, mortal, for handing me such capacity to the test.” Said the giant assassin before the compartment below him opened up to his end.

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Bima headed for the second trial, which is held under the very nose of the fourth layer of the heaven’s sky. Unfortunately, he has to encounter the other trial that resides on the two floors prior to the fourth one for the right to face the labor itself.

For the primary stage of his adventure, he has to fight the barracks of lower sentinel with bare hands. It does poised not much of a beatdown to his crushing power of late, which drains any of those who tried to face him hand-in-hand. The trouble begins when a number of long-range sentinels attacking him from afar with their crossbows. He has to deflect all of the bolt of arrows while knocking the close-range melee attackers from the heaven’s side.

The subsequent opponents are those love-making cupids and their bows of heart. They have formidable boost over their legs and wings, which increasing their flying speed and having them even harder to catch and immobilize. Being an efficient warrior as he was with the gang of giants, Bima himself already advancing to the next battalion of enemy as he concludes there are no-threat issue from the searing love arrow off the cupid army.

Last but not least are the group of four-legged bird, or Griffin of the lore. Their riders are launching a barrage of magical fireball towards Bima and his way to the final end of the first stage. The scorching holy fire would punish any man with sacrilegious redemption, a cleansing flame of heaven and its properties to swipe away the bad memories in a form of painful reception.

However, being a demi-God makes him immune to such powers, only bringing him a nuisance towards the next level of challenge.

At the end of the runway, Bima finally stops and sheathing his sword inside. He has no fatigue at all despite the burden that entails him to the second trial. In front of the gate, another gatekeeper sentinel is greeting him with grace and smiling in serene expression.

“Please, young human. Put the legendary artifact to the available sockets on the right.” Ordered the sentinel in a soothing voice. Bima followed the instruction by no intriguing question upon his head. The sentinel then nodded and putting a key into its suitable hole, creaking the gate open for the human to enter the second time of his three-pronged trials to be a God.