The moment he stepped through the garden, he was met with a garden that looked almost like a giant farm land!
There were all kinds of fruits and vegetables growing everywhere with colorful flowers of all types growing in every crevice wherever he looked.
Under his feet he saw a paved dirt path that led into the garden that the plants didn't seem to cover despite their enormous growth. So he decided to follow this path as that looked like the one he had to follow.
As he walked down the path for 10 minutes, he noticed a river nearby with animals of all kinds drinking from it!
There were cows, tigers and, 'Triceratops??'
Dinosaurs seemed to walk this garden as well! He couldn't believe what he was seeing, but there it was, a dinosaur that towered most of the modern day mammals drinking besides them.
He kept on looking until he noticed.. It.
A being, with white and gold knight armor that glistened and reflected the sun. It had the face of a pale chiseled man with blonde hair. There was an ox decorated on his right shoulerpad, an eagle on his left shoulderpad, and a lion on his chestplate.
He first believed this being to be a man, but it had four wings behind its back and looked extremely tall despite kneeling down to drink from the river!
In one hand of the being was a handful of water from the river entering its mouth, and in the other..
A sword covered in what Amihan believed to be the flames he use on his energy, the same energy which he was used to manifesting and turning into flames or ice!
Cold sweat had began forming on his entire body when he laid eyes on this angelic being. Not only because of its appearance, but because he knew it could already see him, as if eyes were everywhere on its body.
The being, still kneeling, stopped drinking from the river and spoke, "Welcome, human. I am one of the 7 Cherubims of His Majesty, the second highest order of the Ninefold Celestial Hierarchy."
Its voice was that of a man who spoke perfect English, Amihan believed it must know every language to speak it this well.
When the cherub finished speaking, it rose to a massive 15 feet height with a very broad width!
Amihan was only 5'10, so this being was as tall as a tree compared to him, 'Shit..'
"Human, the fact you can enter means you've found a way to grow your soul.. Seeing as there is no one else who came with you however, we will take care of you, who has abandoned the path set by His Majesty, OURSELVES!"
With a roar so loud that all the animals scattered and birds flew away, a pressure like no other descended upon Amihan.
It felt as though this being was crushing him, but it hadn't even moved from his position!!
Nonetheless, he was able to grit through with the help of the energy layer he formed around himself!
"YOU!!"
Seeing that this mere human can actually use his essence reserves, which is saved for the soul, and actually manifest it into existence, it became very pissed off.
'Only the Seraph and His Majesty Himself can do this! How could a mere human do it even better then the Seraph?!!'
Because humans were made in the image of the deity of this world, they always possessed the ability to manifest and conjure their essence reserves! Their souls and bodies were made however so they barely had room for essence, making humans special but not to the point they threaten the deity.
But Amihan, with the help of some unknown being out in the universe, was able to grow his soul and body and break the limits!
Amihan stared at the eyes of the 15 foot tall cherub with determination to defeat him and get to the tree. He began to manifest a fireball in his hand.
Seeing the human stare at him with little fear, the Cherub felt beyond humiliated!
He gripped his sword and dashed to Amihan with great speed!
The river was wide, so there was at least 400 ft separating them both.
But the cherub was closing the distance within seconds! It only took it 3 seconds to cross 200 feet due to the sheer speed and size of his steps, it was as if it was running faster then an olympic athlete!
Seeing this, Amihan put both his hands forward to form the fireball faster, using up 25 energy to form a basketball size fireball, with another 25 to add the flame element!
He then used another 5 energy to launch this fireball at great speeds at the cherub's chest!
The fireball travelled as fast as a bullet, surprising the cherub as it arrived in the blink of an eye!
*BOOOOM!*
The fireball exploded on impact! Engulfing the cherub in flames around its chest and head, "RAHHH! YOU FILTHY WORM!!!!!!"
Despite the flames ravaging it's body, it closed in on Amihan and swung its 4 meter flaming sword down at him!
'265..' Amihan noted down how much pure energy he had left and made his move.
He manifested 20 energy around both of his legs and feet, giving his legs a lot more power! He sidestepped and dodged the flaming sword that was coming down at him with great pressure and speed!
*VRMMMM- BO- BOOOOOOOM!*
When the sword came down, it began to break the sound barrier, eventually breaking it when it was halfway down! When the sword struck the ground, it blew up the ground and shot forward an arc of flames, scorching anything in the way with flames!
The sidestep Amihan did was so strong he sent himself flying, dodging the giant explosion!
He hadn't used energy this way before and just came up with something in the heat of the moment. He broke his fall with his legs, but the force was still there so he started sliding far away with his legs leaving 2 long dirt trenches as he was pushed!
After finally coming to a stop, he realized he wasn't damage anywhere surprisingly. He also realized the layer of energy around his body was still there, but not as bright. And the extra energy around his legs were still there too with the same shine as earlier!
'Instead of wasting my energy on fireballs, why not a weapon..'
With that, he formed a 2 meter long sword that was made of 50 energy in total.
He could've made it using 30, but he didn't want to risk it breaking so soon, so he tested to see if he could increase the density rather then the size of the sword, and it seemed to work!
With that, he had a 2 meter long white broadsword. The color of his energy like the thin layer around him was dark grey, just like the fireball and the flames around the sword the cherub wielded.
But it appears that merging energy into energy can brighten its color, making it denser and overall stronger!
When the Cherub found it didn't slice the human, it looked around until it saw the human standing 100 feet away, but this time he had a white glowing sword in both his hands?!
"You think you can fight against US, THE ONES WHO GUARDS THE ALL MIGHTY AND HIS GARDEN ALL BY YOURSELF?!"
Seeing it wasn't able to kill the human right there, and that same human holding a sword now preparing to fight, the Cherub felt like an annoying fly was just buzzing in his face on purpose! IT NEEDED TO DESTROY THIS ARROGANT FOOL!!
The cherub dashed and sliced down at Amihan, who had manifested another 30 energy around his arms and shoulders that glowed bright white just like his sword! He now only had 165 energy left, but he believed this should be enough.
*VRRMMM- BO- BO- BOOOM!!*
Amihan gladly met the cherub's sword with his own, using the boost from his energy on legs and arms to swing his sword upwards at a speed that matched the cherub!
When both swords collided, a huge explosion occurred between the two, blasting both of them a few meters away from each other!
Although Amihan's sword was able to negate the fire arc that the flaming sword produced, the forces from both swords and the one's wielding them caused space to crack where the swords met!
A few pitch black cracks that expanded out into the area appeared, causing anything near the cracks to become light blue and freeze from the cold space!
After a few seconds the universe repaired the cracks closed and space in the garden went back to normal. But both Amihan and the cherub didn't notice this at all for they had already locked onto each other!
Amihan immediately dashed to a tree, holding the sword in his right hand and using the left to grip the tree along with his feet planted into them as if he was a frog ready to bounce. Then he dashed to another tree, and another and another, he was building momentum!
The Cherub was taking this fight a lot more serious now after that exchange with the human, so it gripped its sword tightly and raised it above its right shoulder, ready to meet the human.
*Crack- BOOOOM*
Amihan landed on one more tree, which cracked when he landed on it, then he dashed to the cherub! The force causing the tree to explode!
*BO- BOOOM*
The momentum caused Amihan to twirl and do multiple front flips midair as his sword spun with him, looking like a ball of spikes coming for the cherub!
When both swords met, the cherub had a strong base so it only slid back slightly but had its sword and arms pushed up all the way!
Amihan was sent flying into the ground, but immediately got up and dashed to the side and dashed forward again, with his sword slicing from the right.
The cherub curved its sword from above to the right to meet the humans sword, forming a crescent moon with how fast it curved its sword!
*VRRMMMM- BO- BOOM BOOM BOOM!*
Each time Amihan was hit out of air and sent to the ground he'd dash to the side to aim for the sides of the cherub, and each time the cherub would come down and counter it!
It was an exchange that was breaking the space in the Garden as they both swung forth, aiming to annihilate each other! They were leaving craters and cracks in the space and void that kept spreading throughout the garden!!
*BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BO- BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*
…
The river that was nearby had mostly become frozen due to the cracks in space that were still being repaired near it along with most of plants and grass in the area!
Amihan and the cherub were both panting while staring at each other somewhere in the vast garden.