The World Of Demons And Gods

On the vast grasslands of Alexandra, on the southern region, by the creek. There's a huge patch of burnt grasses, and at the center of it, a youth was sitting on lotus position. His face was calm, however, what contradicts this expression is that his entire body is soaked with cold sweat and not only that sometimes he would shiver in pain.

Cyrus, who is cultivating have finally started to feel the setbacks of getting his body drained with anima once again! The sharp and tingling pain from around his body can be itchy however, he could only endure and try to replenish his anima reserves quickly.

Time has passed, Cyrus has completely recovered from his drained state, he stood up and sighed once again.

"I have to know, how many minutes I can endure while mahika attacks," Cyrus muttered in silence.

Without taking a stance and on his usual carefree position, while holding his sword and his other hand is on his waste, he pointed his sword forward, "Hephaestus, lend me your flames once again."

*Bang!*

Flames which have calmed down earlier have once again abruptly exploded, unlike before, Cyrus has controlled the flames before it spread once again. As the pillar of flames circulates around his body, Cyrus finally stance himself seriously. Soon, Cyrus leaped to the air and his flames followed him.

Holding his sword, he covered the entire sword with a high concentration of flames making it glow in bright orange and the berserk flames have also scattered around the sword. Tightly gripping the hilt of the sword, Cyrus, with a flash of his hand, swing the flaming sword on crescent slash!

"{Fire sword arts: Burning Crescent Moon Slash!}" This is Cyrus one of his original skills, his sword skill was 'Crescent moon slash' he combined this basic sword attack with his flames creating a fused sword art with his fire element! However, this wave of fire is not simple fire, it is also fused with his energy creating intense pressure and once it hit something, this energy would collapse creating a force and due to flames, it explodes!

When he released the flames coupled with his energy, the wave of flames came straight down at the grass field on a crescent shape.

*Boom!*

Cyrus can only use fused elements on his sword attacks because he believed that if used straight mahika, then he could most likely use two or three mahika skills before exhausting himself completely and this would be disastrous in a fight because no one can tell if his opponent can avoid his mahika skills.

So to solve this problem, Cyrus has decided that the most efficient way to increase his power strength is by enhancing his sword skills with his elements and the more he uses it, the more it can be refined and the more it is refined, the powerful it can get increases.

The ground exploded in a huge chunk of dirt and dead grass, and the air became so hot that the heat wave it created from the explosion dried the grass on the blast radius. The impact, however, had a long crevice on the ground.

"This is good." Cyrus seeing the effects of his attack, nodded and smiled.

Cyrus did not stop to test his limits as he went at the creek away from his horse. Holding his sword tightly, Cyrus bombarded the creek with burning crescent moon slashes and soon the surrounding produced explosions and splashes of water.

When he was about to lunch a fifteenth time of his sword slash, his fire mode suddenly dissipated and worse, his body actually gave up and spat a mouthful of blood to the creek!

[Cyrus! (Master!)] Both Lily and Lynae exclaimed in shock when they saw this.

After spatting a mouthful of blood his entire body collapsed once again, and like before, he can't move again!

[H-hey! Are you alright? Speak!] Lily shouted at him, while Lynae, quickly went to the drained anima reserve of Cyrus and started pouring all her anima as quickly as possible!

Because of the intense after effect of draining his body, Cyrus felt like extremely numb! The colors on his eyes dimmed and his mouth constantly drooling blood. If one looked at his state, they would surely mistake Cyrus that he's dying!

But of course not, he's obviously not dying, his body just can't handle his body on its own. Once a mortal started cultivating, as their strength increase, they move away from being a mortal and their mortal body can't take the weight and the strength that grew as their power increased, that's the reason why cultivator strictly wouldn't allow themselves to drain their anima completely. Because with the help of anima, it can support the body of the cultivator from its mortal body.

Not only that, the higher the cultivator rank is, the deadly it can get when their body drained because they have long gone away from being a normal mortal!

To escape such cruelties of this life on the cultivation world, one must ascend to the divine way to remove this restricts!

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Ten minutes later, when Lynae has filled Cyrus anima reserve deep enough to cover her entire feet with her anima, she frantically looked at Lily, because Lily is the one checking Cyrus health conditions.

"Is master alright?" Lynae worriedly asked.

Lily shook her head and smiled wryly, "Don't worry, he's fine. He'll get better soon."

Just as she had said that, on the outside world, Cyrus body twitched and slowly he stood up and coughed.

"*cough* Damn… That's a bad one…" Wiping the blood on his cheeks and lips, he chuckled helplessly.

'Just you wait you freaking tattoo, once I get my sister's cultivation technique, I'll feed you up until you get choked!' Cyrus slightly angry to the tattoo that has caused him to be this weak, he couldn't help to throw a tantrum deeply.

[Cyrus, you okay?] Lily's voice once again rang.

"Hehe, I'm fine… Lynae." Cyrus smiled and called,

"Yes, master?"

"Thank you."

Hearing this, despite being a spirit she still has a body that functions well, on the bottom of her heart, she felt warm. Lynae couldn't help to sweetly giggle, "You're welcome master!"

[Damn you, Cyrus! You're making us worry, don't ever do that again without notifying us!] Lily g.r.o.a.n.e.d, a little angry but also quite helpless, she didn't how and when, but she recently got attached to Cyrus and treat him as a friend, or someone closed to her.

"Yeah, I'm sorry… I've made you worried, I won't do it again." Cyrus scratched the back of his head and sat on the grassland."

[Hmph! You better be!]

"…"

[… So? What did you find out by exhausting you anima like that?] Lily asked seriously.

Cyrus sighed and replied, "It wasn't impressive…. By the time I used my 15th time using the burning crescent moon slash, it's already my limit and my body gave up. In fact, to make it safe, I can only probably limit myself to use 13 infused attack with fire mode." Cyrus casually said and stared at the starry night skies then became quiet…

[Don't worry about too much Cyrus, once you get your cultivation technique from your sister things will get smooth.] Lily softly said trying to comfort him.

"Yeah… Thank you, Lily." Cyrus smiled.

Lily has disconnected their conversation and once again, the world around Cyrus had turned quiet. Only the sound of flowing water, soft winds and the rustling leaves of the trees.

'Sis… I wonder will you get disappointed if we met once again? Or you will feel pity?' Cyrus' heart felt like something cracked within his heart…

He looked at the moon on the horizon, then smiled faintly…

'Sis, I wonder what you are doing right now?'

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Morning

Early on the morning, once Cyrus has finally woken up, he took a bath and caught some fish once again then roasted it. While waiting to cook, Cyrus groomed his horse then packed things up, and once everything is settled, the fish got perfectly cooked.

Cyrus mounted on his horse and started to move while eating the roasted fish on a stick, once he got finished eating. He threw the stick on the side of the dirt road and both of his hand held the reins tightly.

"Hyah! Let's gooo!" Cyrus flicked the rein and soon, his speed increased and soon, the place he had stayed within a couple of minutes grew into a small dot before disappearing on the horizon.

Cyrus destination is Alexius city and the distance is still quite far away, he can safely arrive on the city by the time the sun sank on the horizon.

Hours and hours of horseback riding Cyrus finally stopped because he stumbled upon something on the road. A crossroad.

"There are two roads… Hmm." Cyrus looked at the two roads, then took out his map that he got from the police officer, "Ohh, I see, the left on is towards to Lightning city, while the road ahead is towards Alexus city!" Cyrus nodded, then kept the map once again.

He flicked the reins once again and continued his travel to the road ahead of him.

Thinking the name of the lightning city once again, he recalled something, 'Lightning city? Isn't that the city of the strongest clan in the entire Celestia? The lightning Clan?' Cyrus mused to himself.

'Well, heck, as if I care about them, what's important right now is to arrive at my destination quickly.' Cyrus sighed as he thought then flicked the reins to increase the speed.

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Once again, a couple of hours of traveling, Cyrus wanted to stop and find a place to rest and for his horse too. The horse stopped at running speed and only walked slowly.

Cyrus took out his map and finding the best location to rest, the nearer the river, the better. While sliding his finger on the map tracing his location and the best location to stop by, he finally found the best place!

"Alright, that on-"

*Boom!*

"H-huh?!"

To Cyrus shock, something exploded not far from him, because he had been staring at the map this whole time, he finally noticed not far away from him, he noticed multiple figures on the road.

Cyrus puts the map down and looked at the people far away from him.

'These people…' Cyrus' eyes squinted, and a terrifying cold glint escaped from his eyes, and if one has noticed this, their b.u.t.t would tightly clench out of fear.

Far away from him, multiple carriages surrounded a vehicle like a machine, in fact, this is a car! However, this car is the one that exploded, and the entire car is tipped to the side of the road.

From Cyrus location, he could clearly hear the wild laughs of the people that surround the tipped car, and from Cyrus experience, these people are bandits!

"These bastards!" Cyrus went down the horse and started to walk, however, before he could continue, he finds something interesting.

Cyrus had sensed something peculiar inside the car that had just tipped, not only that, he could feel it getting stronger every second!

Under the wild laughs of the bandits, the rear seat of the car, because the car is tipped to the right of the road it blocked the rear right door and the person on the rear sit could only get out of the vehicle on the left door, and this left door is very visible to the eyes of Cyrus.

*Bzzt!*

The door suddenly crackled creating arcs of electricity and soon, the door got kicked by the person inside the car!

*Bang*

The rear left door got blasted away and due to the terrifying force of the kick earlier, this door launched at terrifying speed and struck one of the bandits on the head with a *Peng!* before collapsing the ground with his mouth bubbling while twitching.

"!!!" The group of bandits quickly got alarmed and looked at the tipped car on the blasted door.

*Swish*

Soon, a person jumped out of the car!

When everyone, including Cyrus, saw this person their expressions went stiff!

Bandits: (◉_◉)

Cyrus: ( ﾟヮﾟ)

The person who jumped out of the car had a feminine body, not only her entire body is covered with electricity dancing around her body wildly, and the intensity of this electricity is extremely terrifying as this person is actually mad and not only that her entire appearance cannot be described by single word…

Cyrus who had beauties inside of his dantian had his eyes enlarged as he looked at the woman.

"She's terrifyingly beautiful!" Cyrus screamed inside his heart!