The World Of Demons And Gods

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‡Two Hours had passed‡

Once Cyrus had taught everything that Xiao Fang needs to protect himself, he lets Xiao Fang practice his own while he guides him and watching on the sidelines with both of his arms supporting his head while leaning on the wall behind him.

However, Cyrus started to frown, "Ugh, this kid is so awful at punching." he was disappointed because all the time that he spent to explain and taught to this kid seems to be waste. With another sigh, he could only wryly smile and accept this.

Because it was not about talent to learn self-defense, because, like singing, it is a skill and skills can be trained and improved as times goes by.

Soon, Cyrus turned to get bored, he tried talking at the two girls inside, but it seemed they were immersed in their new clothes that they even ignored Cyrus.

With a sigh, he stared at Xiao Fang, "Hey Xiao Fang, why are you determined to train this hard?" Cyrus asked and followed by his thoughts 'despite being awful at it.'

While punching using a hammer fist, Xiao Fang did not stop punching as he answered Cyrus, "Because... There's someone I want to beat and defeat." he said with a frown on his face and once he punched again, due to his anger creating adrenaline on his body, when he struck his punch out, it created a *Swoosh* sound and when it struck the wooden dummy that Cyrus created. It quickly had a dent in it.

'What a typical reason...' Cyrus sighed as he had heard this multiple times in the past. He had also had a typical reason for why he did learn to do all the martial arts that his family wanted to teach him.

"So, who is this person you wanted to beat?" Cyrus asked.

"..." Xiao Fang did not answer as he threw multiple strikes on the wooden dummy as it creates multiple breaking sounds and soon with a palm strike,

*Pak*

The head of the wooden dummy finally broke as it fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Cyrus could see that when Xiao Fang was trying to remember something from the past and asking about that topic, his anger would always explode and Cyrus could see that only to his movements as Xiao Fang became aggressive all of a sudden.

"..."

Cyrus went quiet and while both of his arms are still supporting, he turned his head to the other side, "Forget it." He said.

He knew that something like this is a very s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e topic; he could only respect Xiao Fang's silence.

Suddenly...

A running sound could be heard coming from the streets. Cyrus quickly looked towards that direction and what he saw was a woman panting heavily it was as if she was being chased out by someone, but, by the look from her face, it is unlikely that she's being pursued.

However, when Cyrus saw this woman, he quickly remembers this face as he met him at the clothes store earlier!

Cyrus quickly sat up straight and looked at this woman strangely, 'Did I do something bad to this woman? For her to follow me on this place...' Cyrus thought to himself.

Soon, with another breath, she walked towards Cyrus, "I finally found you." She said, however, this time; her voice was different from what she had shown to Cyrus before. Her voice seemed to get much softer and trying to show respect towards Cyrus.

"What do you want?" Cyrus asked casually as he stared at the woman with his sharp eyes.

Startled, the woman stopped her foot from moving forward as she looked at Cyrus, however, she was hesitating to say something.

'Hm? What's up with this woman?' Cyrus was baffled with this strange woman, earlier, she was extremely haughty when the two of them first met, yet this time, she's being timid all of a sudden.

Soon, the woman did not hesitate anymore as she fiercely looked at Cyrus, "I want you to help me out." She said seriously that made Cyrus startled.

"What? Why? Did I owe you something?" Cyrus asked strangely, but soon, he quickly understood why she is showing this attitude to him. "Tch, whatever request that may be, I won't accept it." Cyrus frowned as he coldly stated.

The woman bit her lips, and tightly clenched her fist. "Yes, you don't owe me a favor... But in exchange for helping me out, I can offer you material things that I have!" The woman said as she threw three spatial rings towards Cyrus.

Despite spatial rings are expensive and rare to the commoner world but to those noble people, it was easy for them bought as if its worth is nothing.

Cyrus flicked his arms in a flash as he caught all the spatial rings, he stared at the three low graded spatial rings before sending out his animal on the spatial rings to see what's inside.

Soon, Cyrus checked the spatial rings one by one.

The first ring contains a huge pile of cyan crystals and there are even purple cards! Seeing this large amount of money on his mind, Cyrus could not help to gasp in amazement, however, something like money could not buy him a favor.

When he checked the second ring, it contains a lot of cultivation method and cultivation techniques and weapons, although all of them are low graded, they are still above average.

At last, when he looked at the third ring, what he saw had made his mind quite startled, because, on this black space of spatial ring, there is a black orb that floats mid-air as it was covered by an extremely tough looking orange barrier.

'What is this item...? This does not look like a common treasure or item around here... Just where did this woman get this item?' Cyrus thought to himself.

When he removed his consciousness away from the ring, he seriously looked at the woman on his front, "Just... Where did you get this item?" Cyrus asked seriously, as he tried to probe the woman.

"I know you would ask that. Strange isn't it? I stole it from my family's ancestral hall... It was said that it was a demon's heart that had gone lost when a demon appeared on Alexandria kingdom, in Alexus city." The woman smiled as if she had caught Cyrus on her hands.

However, Cyrus flicked his arms and threw the rings back at the woman. This action had quickly startled the woman, "W-wha?"

"I would still refuse; I don't care about the first and second ring, however... The third ring possesses too much danger for me to handle, a demon's heart? Do you want me to get killed? No thanks." Cyrus shakes his head as he sneered at the woman.

"W-what about it! You can keep it in silence right!? It might help you in the future!" The woman shouted as she tried convincing Cyrus.

"Tch, don't bother to try convincing me again, I won't hold back to slap you right now if you dare to do that I again," Cyrus warned as he slowly radiated his rich paladin rank aura and pointed it towards the woman.

'I hate poisonous woman, and the way you're acting right now is similar to them.' Cyrus thought to himself. He never had an experience facing a woman before except for his family from previous and current life. So he really did not know, but with the help of reading and watching movies, he could differ what a poisonous woman and what is not.

When she sensed and saw what Cyrus is creating on his face now and the aura he released, she was quickly terrified as she took a one step back as she crossed her arms to protect herself because cold shrills had quickly flowed around her body.

Meanwhile, Xiao Fang, who has been quiet all along he quickly covered himself behind the boxes, because no matter what happens he is still in danger because right now, he has not created his dantian and meridians!

If he gets caught on a sudden fight, his life might be in danger.

The woman had s.u.c.k.e.d her tongue back when she was about to try to refute but suddenly were threatened instead.

"I... I just want to escape from my father's madness... He forced me to marry one of the young masters of the Shi Clan with my little sister... However, I do not want to marry a person who is much unknown to me, and when I heard that the one who picked me was an extremely secluded person and merciless and killing someone without hesitation... It just made me afraid, and because of that... I want to break those ties off..." The woman timidly said and this time, she was depressed and frustrated by her father.

'So, it was like that... It would be understandable if someone forced your freedom into someone... But, in this world and in this barbaric world there's no such thing as self-freedom if someone holds you, you can't have your freedom, as long as someone is stronger and higher than you, you would not be able to escape from their grasp unless you grow powerful than them...' Cyrus thought to himself, as he feels sorry for her.

To Cyrus, having your freedom suppressed would be remorseful.

Cyrus looked at the woman on his front as remembered what she had said, "So, you're the princess, no wonder." Cyrus sighed, he was slightly startled, but remembering their meeting, he should not be surprised,

Cyrus stared at the princess; soon, he could see that real tears are dropping from her cheeks. Seeing this just made Cyrus sigh as crossed his arms as he asked, "Sorry, but your matter has nothing to do with me, I can't create trouble just because of you. You're not my friend and not a member of a family either."

With that, Cyrus turned around and looked at the hiding Xiao Fang that has a shocked expression towards the princess.

Not long after, Xiao Fang stared at Cyrus and when he noticed that his temporary master was staring at him, he was startled.

"M-master, what a shocker. That woman was the princess, she is indeed looked beautiful." Xiao Fang said while wryly smiling, soon, he noticed Cyrus' hands.

Cyrus' hands were creating a gesture indicating Xiao Fang to walk away with him.

'It seems… Master wants to escape.' Xiao Fang quickly understands what Cyrus wants to say as he quickly nodded.

The two of them walked away from the crying princess.

"S-Since it has reached this point..." The princess had stopped crying as she stared at Xiao Fang with a fierce look on her eyes.

Soon, she quickly mustered all of her anima on her feet and quickly took out her personal dagger below her dress that strapped to her right t.h.i.g.h, with a sharp noise; she spun the dagger mid-air and caught it.

By the time, she caught that dagger; she leaped forwards towards Cyrus with extreme speed. When Cyrus sensed this, he knew that she was going to strike because the moment her aura exploded, Cyrus already sensed it very quickly.

When he was about to turn around, he immediately tightly gripped his right fist and by the time his body turned and send out a fist, the princess appeared on his front, however, when his fist was about to hit the princess on the face, she suddenly disappeared and avoided his attack with her extreme speed!

'Shit!' Cyrus cursed when he immediately knew what she was aiming for!

The princess quickly locked her left arm at Xiao Fang's neck that quickly choked him lifting him up off from the ground!

"Don't you dare to move a single bit! Or else, I'm going to kill this brat!" The princess fiercely threatened while tightly holding the knife as it pointed at Xiao Fang's head.

Cyrus quickly stopped his action as he fiercely stared at the princess as he clenched his hands tightly.

"You woman had gone to insanity, just for the sake of your freedom, you threatened me using a hostage?" Cyrus sneered in pity as he slowly put his hands on the air.

Meanwhile, because of the sudden action that he could not even see and understand what happened, Xiao Fang had just found himself on the end of the line as he was being used as a hostage!

Because the princess has tightly locked his neck, Xiao Fang could not breathe as he tried to escape, however, to his dismay, he cannot budge the princess even a bit!

Tears slowly swelled up on his eyes, he had not even made his revenge yet, and yet, right now, he might lose his life if his master made a single action!

When Cyrus moved his hands upwards, Xiao Fang quickly closed his eyes out of fear that he might get stabbed on the head. However, the princess had not found a threat to it!

Seeing this action, Xiao Fang had remembered something like this earlier that his master had taught him!

He is trying to disarm the princess!

'Oh master, I hope you won't fail!' Xiao Fang wished with all of his life on it.

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"Shut up! You don't know how I feel!" The princess shouted in madness, as she did not feel anything wrong at Cyrus hand movement, because right now, he looked open right now.

"Hahaha, you think you're the only one suffering the same kind of situation? As far as I could remember, there are many princesses and noble woman who are forced too, like you, yet, they were able to take and accept the reality that their fate has set upon to them." Cyrus laughed in pity.

'This woman probably had been imagining that love is like a fairytale and perfect that she has a freedom to choose, she can't distinguish what's real and what are delusions... It would be real if it were back at earth, however, in this place... You are weak; you wouldn't be able to make decisions for yourself if you can't fight for your freedom.'

Cyrus coldly thought to himself, however, he could not say this to her face because if he did, she might explode in insanity once again and take Xiao Fang's life along.

"You are fighting for your freedom... In a wrong way." Cyrus seriously said as he removed the pity smile on his face.

Hearing this, the princess' eyes contracted, "Shut up! There is no other way! I-I can't love someone whom I don't love and had never even met before!"

"THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO ACCEPT THE REALITY!"

Cyrus shouted in anger as he retorted, he cannot withstand hearing her selfish tantrums anymore.

Right now, right here, Cyrus had finally understood what it feels and how it looks like when someone had deluded his or her dreams into something impossible. He, of course, feel sympathy towards this woman, however, her actions had gone too far!

He was also at fault too for declining her request and cutting the single and only thread of her hope. It was that at moment, it drives her to go crazy and choose to do this kind of path for the sake of her freedom that she wanted to have.