The experience of channelling pain had done almost nothing as far as I could tell and as we kept marching on Cronos spoke saying "Horas this test I have lived through. I once had 8 kid and they fought the Demons and were doing well till Arzoth appeared and he inflicted deadly levels of pain because of that my kids all died. I can survive this test but I may end up fighting Arzoth."
I didn't reply or say anything back, I knew the pain of losing someone you love and Arzoth would likely force Cronos into emotions the same way Alexander pushed me.
The land scape had changed to what looked like a dead tar pit leading between mountain.
There were 4 separate mountains and as far as I could tell they did not merge.
We walked down this long path when suddenly 1 of the mountains seemed to bend, I could not explain it but the sight was surprising to say the very least.
I walked on towards the mountains for several kilometres and the 4 mountains started to merge into 1.
The area I was in started to shift and alter and before me stood large door before I could utter a word the pain started and I channelled it perfectly and whined up a punch opening the doors before me.
Yuri and Cronos were fine however depression seemed to scare Cronos's face.
This chamber looked like a tomb as it was poorly lit with a human made of black smoke standing over what looked like a grave.
The black figure bellowed out in a loud roaring voice "I am Arzoth. I must express my deepest apologies to all of you before me for my test on you will be double fold in this chamber. Firstly you will face the pain of death thereafter all 3 of you must fight me if you wish to seek any aid from me."
We didn't get a chance to say a thing when suddenly the pain started this time it felt like every inch of my body would explode plus Yuri was in such great pain that it poured into my mind through our mental link.
I focused my pain and it started to strengthen, I was almost on my feet when I noticed Cronos leaping in to fight Arzoth.
Black bolts of lightning passed by Cronos as he blasted his flames at Arzoth apparently he decided to hold back and not use lava.
The flames were white as if they had been pushed the absolute maximum and I noticed the ground around Arzoth turn to lava.
In a single roar like declaration Arzoth said "Enough you win Cronos!"
I looked in suspense as Cronos firmed his footing and after a few seconds Yuri was on her feet.
Yuri stepped forward and Cronos suddenly powered down and stepped back towards me.
I dropped into my subconscious and enhanced Yuri's Chakra giving her fire as a usable power.
I had known it was possible and suddenly Yuri started throwing bright red fire that was almost as refined as a Laser beam.
The skills Yuri used were unrefined and she was absolutely unrefined, if Arzoth wished to he could break through her defences or attacks and damage Yuri.
Arzoth spoke again in his loud roar saying "Enough young 1, refine your combat skills or you will only be a liability in the future."
Yuri seemed to take it terribly as she clenched her fists and walked behind me.
I started to walk forwards when Arzoth spoke saying "I will show you no quarter Creation user but be warned if you are insufficient to beat me no mercy shall be granted."
I charged in and instantly black bolts of lightning struck my field and it was in that instant that I noticed the lightning purifying the air around him.
I concentrated hard with every ounce of will I could muster and still no power could manifest so I decided to fight hand to hand.
I tried to leap towards the smoke figure but I was so slow compared to him that it made almost no sense and I pushed my consciousness to the white tetrahedron, I was inside trying to figure a way to use my limited power and skill.
Arzoth was about to slam lightning into me when I felt the tetrahedron give me access to lightning, keeping my focus in the tetrahedron I opened my eyes and a pure black line of lightning shot forward.
The power was extremely low and I could not enhance my body with power but fire it off.
I started firing away pushing Arzoth to block the strike repeatedly till finally the lightning struck him in the side and dropped him to the ground.
I rushed over to see how he was doing and as I arrived the smoke turned to me saying "Very well you win for now but the next time we meet this pathetic show of power will not suffice. What is it you seek."
I looked back at the Etherious and said "I am Horas Ra. I need your aid in controlling this power I have acquired."
Arzoth replied "That request must be discussed when you meet all 5 Etherious now continue on to the next world and be warned pain is easy to see as an enemy but there are emotions more dangerous then this.
Shradow take the immortals to the next world Malcous is anxious to fight the son of Ra."
I didn't get to say a thing and the surroundings changed once more.
We were dropped dead centre in the middle of a demon city that appeared to be a paradise.
The Demons here looked like ogres and as we walked past them we experienced no hostility or any kind of negative emotions in fact I felt completely at peace.
I felt something not right in my past 10 years of life and all of a sudden I felt at peace, the words of the last demon still rang in my ears.
Horas and Cronos seemed to be unbelievably happy and calm neither of the 2 seemed to notice that we were being made to feel at peace.
I struggled to fight the feeling as I wanted to enjoy the feeling but deep down I knew my home faced danger if I didn't over come this.
Horas walked along with the Demons as if he had no worries and the mental link between us scream as if Horas needed help.
I braced up a punch in my right hand gripping my thumb inside my punch and I punched Cronos hard on the head.
The pain fleshed through me into Horas and suddenly Horas realized what was going on.
I struggled to fight the emotion and just as Horas snapped back he pulled me into his White place that had started to change.
The white place was far more intense then it used to be and inside Horas thought me to overcome the peace.
The method explained to me was to focus to the future and to feel the worry peace suppresses, I was told to remember the bitter failures of the past and strive to over come them tomorrow.
I grabbed hold of my knees and Cronos looked at me gritting his teeth trying hard to fight the emotions.
Horas had thought through why the mental place didn't work well for Cronos and figured that our link made the linkage far stronger however Cronos was a temporary link and partial.
Horas seemed to be making progress rapidly in his powers despite the fact that he was far slower and weaker then even myself at the moment.
Cronos bumped into an ogre and in the next instant he shouted "Horas use your lightning now and push them all back these are the great devils!"
Horas pulled up his arm to the sky and suddenly streams of lightning scattered of blasting the ogres.
The ground scorched and the entire paradise around us turned to a waste land, Horas started screaming something but I was so panicked I could not hear what was being said.
The ogres had turned into horned devils with tails and they darted towards us showing rows of sharp fangs.
Cronos and Horas fought them back till a large grouping of thunder descended before us followed by a growling roar then I heard "Continue to the mountain at your back Son of Ra, plans have needed to be changed."
A rumbling could be heard and the entire land around us dropped its illusion and appeared to be nothing but rotten landscapes.
Cronos kept releasing his White flames and Horas kept up his thin lightning streams.
The 2 fought hard falling back slowly yet surely, Horas seemed to face the lack of power by getting angry and channelling it out as lightning.
2 days seemed to pass and we entered a passageway that seemed to lead to the Etherious of this world.
Cronos stopped us suddenly and said "We may end up meeting the other 3 Etherious so I need to tell you about them Malcous and Arzoth are exactly as they appeared however Molgath was once my friend and trust me his a wild card who would burn us for fun so don't expect mercy from him. The next 2 were stronger then Ra and Isis however immortality trumps that right now Horas is a big dud and Yuri is our only hope so if we meet Alzac or Nalfiem hope they show us mercy."