The World Of Demons And Gods

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‡Two Hours Earlier‡

When both James and Shane entered the office of Shi Xiaoyan, Cyrus had already walked few kilometers around the city by just looking and strolling around; thinking if any items that would come useful when he will travel all alone.

Due to the city has an area of 280 km², it was quite large to explore around. And what Cyrus had noticed is that there are many guards patrolling around the city.

"There must be a city scale celebration or something..." Cyrus muttered to himself as he glanced at the marching patrols of soldiers on the other side of the street.

Soon, the more he approached towards the center of the city, the guards and patrols are increasing that even Cyrus could only gasp in amazement.

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"Oi! You brat despite having a talented brother, you, on the other hand, is a trash that only knows to brag about your brother and insult us!"

A loud shout in the alleyways on the side of the street echoed, Cyrus looked towards that direction and saw a familiar kid being beaten up by gangs that are slightly older than Cyrus is.

Cyrus had immediately remembered the kid as he recognized this kid that being stepped on by these gangs. That kid was the one who had bumped to him outside the hardware shop and being chased up by those gangs.

"So they finally caught him huh…" Cyrus muttered in silence.

'Should I help out? I want to help... but...' Cyrus was frowning as he looked at this scene, he does not know what to do.

"Argh! Ugh! Uwuu~" The kid cried when he was struck by a heavy kick from one of the gangs on his c.h.e.s.t and on his head.

Soon, his nose started to bleed out, and seeing this, Cyrus did not hesitate anymore as he quickly approached towards them with a quick pace.

When he entered the quiet alleyway, he was immediately were noticed by one of the street thugs. These street thugs had all wore dirty robes and one of them, probably the leader carries a 4x4 wood on his right hand.

These thugs have only elementary rank and what made Cyrus baffled is that they are so weak yet they are acting arrogant that he could not comprehend why they are doing this.

Because they cannot sense Cyrus because of his seal, and even if he did not have that seal, these street thugs could not read his real strength but they would be able to feel that their heart would start to get itchy.

However, this time, they do not feel that itch on their hearts when they encountered powerful figures, but to this newcomer, what can they tell is that, Cyrus is an ordinary human.

"Who the hell are you?" The guy who carries a stick flicked his weapon on his other hand.

"It would be better if, you released that kid right now so that no one will get hurt." Cyrus casually said as he stared at these people with his cold gaze.

"Tch, what an arrogant mouth... Jepoy, beat that guy for me." The boss of this gang kicked the person near to him.

Without complaint, this man named 'Jepoy' approached Cyrus with a sinister smile on his face, and when he was only feet away from Cyrus and taking advantage of his height, he looked down at Cyrus as if he was looking at his own bootlicker.

"Hmph, you should know your place." Jepoy scorned, and when lifted his hands, his body quickly went paralyzed and petrified.

Not knowing why, Cyrus had already used his foot to kick his balls of life, this balls of life are the weakest part of a man yet shameless to strike.

Cyrus had understood this logic, but it was so stupid to bother it and used it to stop this farce immediately.

"A-Ass..ho..le.." Jepoy slowly collapsed as he cursed before contracting his body to a 'C' position while holding his balls of life with his mouth leaking with saliva due to the pain that he is experiencing now.

Seeing their fellow comrade suffered in great catastrophe, they could not help feel sympathy towards him.

"How dare you!" Their leader abruptly exploded before suddenly leaping towards him, he lifted his wood and smashed it towards Cyrus.

*Pak!*

The wood he used was smashed apart into many pieces of splinters; however, to Cyrus, it did not affect him that much.

Shocked, their leader's eyes contracted and slowly moved backward, "H-how?" He stuttered as he looked at Cyrus with his eyes full of fear, because right now, Cyrus is already radiating with a formidable aura, however, he cannot read his strength!

"Tch, if you don't swarm away, I'll beat you all and make you taste the soil with your mouths." Cyrus threatened as his aura kept increasing and increasing until these street thugs could not help to get their heart extremely itchy!

What a shitty luck! All the street thugs cursed on their hearts and quickly ran away as they dispersed in many directions.

"E-Eeek!" The leader screamed out fear as he quickly runs for his life.

Seeing them dispersed away, he took at a glance at the kid on the ground, and when he saw this kid's eyes, which is sparkling brightly as if he was idolizing someone. Cyrus quickly cursed on his heart due to this kid will start pestering him.

Cyrus quickly turned around and when he was about to walk out, the kid quickly jumped from the ground and leaped towards Cyrus, "Xiongdi, wait up!" He shouted as he quickly grabs one of Cyrus's arms.

(Xiongdi = Brother)

"I'm busy, get lost." Cyrus annoyingly said as he tried to shrug this kid's hands off. However, this kid is more persistent that he had expected.

"You're so strong! It was stronger than my brother could muster at his full strength!" This kid's eye was flashing with brightness due to his idolization towards Cyrus, however, this looks what made Cyrus quite annoyed. "Alright, alright... I'm busy so let me go."

Cyrus pushed this kid's hands away from his arms, turned around once again, and tried to walk out.

"I-I'm Xiao Fang!"

"I didn't ask your name!" Cyrus casually shrugs him once again.

"B-but you'll be my master!" Xiao Fang shouted as he quickly held Cyrus on his foot, despite his weight, Cyrus was walking casually as ever, as if Xiao Fang's body did not affect his movement a single bit!

"Master my ass! Go train with your brother than waste your time here!" Cyrus fiercely looked at Xiao Fang; however, soon, Cyrus was startled to what Xiao Fang was creating on his face.

His face was covered with dirt, and tears, however, behind that. His face eyes are full of resolution that easily attracted Cyrus because as a martial artist, one should have a resolution when they choose to take this path than to a scholar life.

Cyrus could not help to remember his past self in his previous life. He was once like this when he trained hard; he has this kind of resolution in his eyes every day for one purpose. It was to protect his unknown family.

Yet, he did not know, if he had successfully done that... However, his unknown death and what happened before his death was blank to Cyrus memory, as for he could not remember anything about it...

Remembering his previous life, he has this uneasiness on his heart yet felt much unknown to him as for he did not know why.

He momentary frowned before removing this to his face as he looked at Xiao Fang seriously.

'Right now, it was still not noon... I guess I could waste a short amount of hours to teach this kid with basic martial arts.' Cyrus thought to himself as he looked upwards to see the sky to determine where is the sun at the moment.

Confirming the current time, he looked at Xiao Fang once again, however, this time he has a faint smile on his face.

"Okay, I'll teach you but for only three hours." Cyrus casually said as he sat on the wooden crates on the alley wall.

Hearing this, Xiao Fang's eyes brighten as he quickly moved forward and when he was about to perform master and disciple kowtow to Cyrus, he was immediately stopped by him, "This is not a formal discipleship and I'm not taking you as my disciple but only here to give tips."

"R-right!" Xiao Fang obediently stuttered as he quickly kneeled and sat on his knees as he calmly looked at Cyrus. "T-Then, what are you going to teach me, master?" Xiao Fang asked as he quickly used the word 'master'.

Hearing this felt weird for Cyrus, as he did not any disciples back then.

"I'm not going to teach you elemental arts nor about cultivation, but self-defense!" Cyrus smiled as he spoke in English to make it look authentic and cool to hear.

"Eh? What's that? Self what?" Xiao Fang was quickly baffled by this foreign language that he had never heard before.

(Cyrus pronounced Self-defense in English.)

"Self-defense, it's very useful and most of the time, I used it to fight and protect myself with it." Cyrus smiled with a smug look on his face, and he said self-defense in world language.

However, after understanding what it meant, Xiao Fang was quite disappointed he initially thought that it would be heaven-defying martial arts.

Seeing this, Cyrus smiled as usual, as he explained casually that caught Xiao Fang immediately,

"Self-defense helps to prepare you for unexpected situations but also helps you to develop mental awareness and physical health! Not only that it has many benefits in this world that we live in." Cyrus smiled as he tried to attract Xiao Fang.

Hearing this, who had been bullied earlier and chased out. It caught Xiao Fang's attention immediately!

"W-What benefits does it have, master?" Xiao Fang asked eagerly as he moved slightly closer to Cyrus to hear everything very clearly.

"For now, I'll tell you the three important benefits of self-defense! First, it is for safety, as it will give you the ability to protect yourself and defeat the attacker, and knowing to defend yourself can help you feel a little confident to protect yourself. I will teach you the basics later on how to quickly disable and protect yourself from an attacker and escape easily."

"Second, it will give you a sharp awareness to your surroundings, because learning how to self-defense can enhance your awareness to your surroundings, because you may never know when you might get attacked, especially when you never plan to get attacked. So, you must always be on the lookout in your surroundings."

"And lastly, it could give you a fighter's reflex because, in a fight, a movement is equal to a power, because think about it, you can't stand around and wait for your opponent to attack you on his next strike right? So, movement and your guts reaction are very important in self-defense." Cyrus casually taught and tackles it to Xiao Fang with his eyes closed and moving his fingers as if it was a teacher's stick.

Hearing this eagerly had made Xiao Fang mood quickly interested and understand its benefits and for him, this is what he needed the most!

(For what? to brag about his brother?)

Once Cyrus had seen this when he took a peek at Xiao Fang if he is listening, he felt a little happy, he did not expect that teaching an imm.a.t.u.r.e kid would be fun, especially when they create faces like this.

"So, did you want to learn it?" Cyrus casually asked.

"Of course master!"

"Heh, you brat. Now, I'll teach you the fundamentals and finally teach you the basics." Cyrus stood up and walked towards Xiao Fang. "Self-defense mainly stresses on volatile combat techniques such as punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and even open hand methods. There's also grappling, joint manipulations, locks, restraints, throwing, and the most shameless is, vital point striking, which for a man like us, here in this spot."

Cyrus explained while smiling, and when said the last sentence, he pointed at his own balls of creations.

Meanwhile, Xiao Fang eagerly nodded his head as he tried to remember everything. For him, already this martial arts manual could be forgotten easily if he did not remember it.

"Okay, okay! Then master, with self-defense can I take down a bigger and robust opponent?" Xiao Fang quickly asked.

Cyrus immediately stopped at explaining as he looked at Xiao Fang with a baffled look on his face, "Of course, you can, but it would be difficult since you will always be relying on your speed and reflexes as for you can't fight them head-on." Cyrus explained.

Hearing this, Xiao Fang once again nodded like a jackhammer.

"Like I had said, with self-defense, if you used your mind; taking any opponent down is always possible as for everything and everyone would have a weak spot. Self-defense can teach you how to focus on your target while you control your own body. Because, without balance, it is almost impossible to fight, think something like a bird fighting a savage demi-beast on a river. By gaining your body control and balance, you will be better to protect yourself mentally and physically." Cyrus smiled, as he offered his hands to Xiao Fang as he asked, "Shall we start?"

Hearing and seeing this, Xiao Fang's eyes brightly lit as if he finally seen a hope for something in his mind. He quickly used Cyrus hands as he stood up and with a single nod, he said, "Okay! I'm ready to learn things from you master."

With that, Cyrus smiled as he faintly nodded and soon, he had started to explain things and taught Xiao Fang basic martial arts skills such as hammer fist, foot works, and most and foremost few different types of kicks and grappling as well as takedowns skills.

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