The World Of Demons And Gods

*Caelian Mountain Northern Side*

As the sun gradually came closer in the horizon, the skies had turned into a great hue of warm colours creating beautiful scenery, its beauty would capture the hearts of people who love nature.

But to the group of wounded mercenaries that climbs down the mountain, it was just the worst of all as night approaches. With almost all of them wounded and exhausted on the battle throughout the day, they could only hope that there won't be another nightmare when the world has turned dark.

But gladly, these mercenaries felt a little relieved because of those two people who had joined them to return back at the Alexus city, these two people are naturally both Cyrus and Krystal who had given them hope to be saved from the hellish encounter back on the top of the mountains. And because they have seen their absurd strength with their bulging eyes, they knew that these two could protect them if there's danger along the way back to the city.

When these group of mercenaries gradually decrease the distance away from the exit of the mountain, Krystal had commanded Adrian to start their plan and made him fly back at the city.

Adrian hesitated to leave his men to these two youths but seeing the two easygoing youths behind the line of mercenaries like there's no possible danger that could happen in the way he still had sensed the two while casually talking to each other have their spiritual senses scattered around the area in which made him relieved and finally left first by flying away.

Seeing Adrian floated up in the air and talked to his little brother with few reminders before leaving, Cyrus' sighed. Unlike Krystal that recently obtained the ability to fly using her anima swords, he felt a little envious of them, because to him, flying is very convenient when travelling at a longer distance than by foot, which irks him a little.

While still looking at the gradually disappearing flying figure that looked a lot more like an elongated boulder than a person on the horizon ahead of them, he asked Krystal right beside him, "Have you gone to Alexus city before?"

"Yeah, countless time already. Since that's the capital city of this country, with this status of mine it's only natural that I go there back and forth… Don't tell me, you don't know about that?"

"I have read about it by books back in the Annesly kingdom and information about the other countries is very vague and hardly explained at all," Cyrus said.

Krystal snorted, "Heh, what can you expect with that kind of ruler back in your country, a selfish bastard that doesn't care about his people and even his own family."

Krystal clearly loathed the king of Annesly kingdom, she had long heard and learned the deeds of that king, it was also the reason why she participated in the war back then. She wanted to kill that bastardly king, although she had nothing to do with the citizens of that country and definitely it's not her duty to protect those people but upon learning that those people have been always under the dark without even knowing made her frustrated in anger.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, Cyrus aside from ignoring at the fuming girl beside him, her words reminded him of Eponine, one of the princesses of the kingdom of Annesly who wanted her freedom and had mistaken the 'cruel' young master of shi-clan who had completely change for her to live the rest of his life for her but she didn't know that and ended her life quickly as she committed suicide, and not only that, the cause of her death had led the young master of shi-clan to feel the loss and committed suicide too after being beaten by Cyrus thus angering the entire family of Shi-clan.

He was glad that his parents were there, if not he will probably hardly handle the wrath of the patriarch of the Shi-clan, the father of that young master.

Remembering that time, it was the hardest fight he had experienced so far and lost to it, he didn't lose because he was beaten down physically, but emotionally. He had multiple conflicted thoughts at that time, and now thinking about it, it was very funny that an old soul like him who had experienced half of the lifetime of his previous self losing to his emotions. He felt that he was too innocent, so innocent that he hasn't experienced emotional setbacks on his previous world, that's why he had the hard time to adapt and shocked to see the more cruel world on his new life.

He felt that this was understandable why he has always emotional setbacks and have unstable emotions after having exposed to the real world and experience what 'true life' is. Because in his previous world, he hardly leaves his home, he spends most of his time on training martial arts and studying during his early days as a kid and focused a lot more on work as an engineer during his a.d.u.l.thood, he was not exposed much on the affair of others and haven't met other people and know about them aside from his family, if he had to count which made him hardly emotionally conflicted back on his previous world, one hand is enough to count those setbacks because it was too few.

And now that he has a new life and decided to change his life, he was now exposed to the world more clearly and feeling the right life that he should feel and learned something from it that would help develop and m.a.t.u.r.e his 'self'.

Now, many days have already passed since he had left the Annesly kingdom and met a lot more people along the road while travelling towards the academy, he finally understood things and what he should focus more. As killing has already become a part of himself as a cultivator who will keep ascending to power, he will meet more enemies ahead that he needs to kill… He has gone numb to feel unnecessary emotions when fighting because he knew, if he kept doing that, his hesitation would kill him instead.

That's why during these past days, he had become more indifferent and quieter compared to his previous self without even knowing, even his spirits inside have felt this change they just didn't talk about it as they are also clear on Cyrus situation as they have knowledge of his past self.

'Now that I remember, I have that black orb that I got from Eponine, she said it was a demon heart.' Cyrus thought to himself as he unconsciously put his fingers on his chin while walking.

"Cyrus? Hey, are you even listening to me?" Krystal voice suddenly became clear on his senses he quickly removing his thought away and looked at the lady beside him.

"What did you say? Sorry, I was a little lost thinking of something." Cyrus said while scratching his head with a wry smile on his face.

"What!" Krystal was shocked to hear that and couldn't help to be a little displeased about it since she was talking about her frustration to the king of Annesly kingdom and have talked about their plan when they arrived at the city. Grumbling a little that she could only hear she then looked again at Cyrus and this time, he was looking at her which calmed down her a bit before explaining things to him once again, "Listen, when we got there we don't need to act our plan for few days and during those few days, we'll use our time to settle down in the city temporarily in the inn and you do that, while me on the other hand, I will go visit my older cousin, she has a mansion there we'll talk about other things when we finished that."

Cyrus nodded then he quickly recalled something that she has just said, "You said you have an older cousin living in that city, why don't we stay there?" He asked.

Although he wasn't aware of what he had just said and casually said it, Krystal was dumbfounded at Cyrus, 'This guy doesn't care about status at all! To think he'd suggest that, this guy is sure unique ah!'

"What?" Finding that this lady beside him is staring at him with 'unbelievable' look across her face, he frowned a little as he asked. 'Is there a bug in my face?'

Krystal's brows twitched a little before looking ahead, "N-nothing, Me and my older cousin are not really close to each other, and although she isn't bad, I always feel uncomfortable towards her…" She explained as she continued, "In fact, we're close when I was a child and helped me back then, but ever since then, I would always feel uncomfortable that's why our relationship over time had been degraded back into a fellow clan member from being one of my close family."

"…" Cyrus kept silent after hearing her explanation, he looked ahead, 'From being close together into just being a fellow clan member? Something must have happened back then.' As soon as he thought of that, he shook his head to remove that thought away as it doesn't concern him.

He doesn't want to pry over her matters in the past, there are more important problems in his hands currently that he should solve first before he could off track in his path to help others.

"Sorry I asked." Cyrus glanced at Krystal.

"Huh? It's fine. In fact, I'm more shocked at you that you have guts to ask something like that." She laughed.

Cyrus didn't understand what she had said first then realizing it, he let out a sound of 'ah-' before he felt a little embarrassed. It's true that he didn't care about statuses, even if he did, he will be at the top as one of the most powerful statuses if he just proved that his parents were the divine slaughterers and he was their son.

If he used that status, he believed that he was no way inferior to Krystal's status as the first young mistress of the Éclair clan. But alas, he doesn't care about that, not even a bit, heck he would not even hesitate to spit on a noble if he wanted to.

…

When everyone had finally arrived at the bottom of the mountain safely without a hitch, all mercenaries felt relieved and looked at the road ahead of them. After that rocky mountain, things had gone back into a great plane once again.

The moon had already appeared on the dark night skies, and the world was already dark. Afraid that accident might happen the mercenaries quickly took the wagons that they had used to get in here in Caelian mountain.

And seeing those carriages, Cyrus was a little startled because the wagon they were about to ride in was completely modern looking, the iron cast wheels have shock absorbers and the wheel itself is plated with elastic material like rubber, these wagons are even built from cheap metal.

If Cyrus was to call it, I'd be more a trailer/freight than a wagon.

As Cyrus observes the carriages, he noticed that there are four demi-beast each wagon that looked like reptilian specie, but its size was like that horse ready to propel the wagons… And speaking of a horse, Cyrus had completely released Hopkins in the wild after learning that there are wagons that are faster than horses, and that horse was happy when he was released by him running away.

Cyrus felt a little hurt, but he knew he would leave it eventually, so the sooner Hopkins left, the better. He's afraid that he might get attached to that kind and cute horse.

When everyone sat on the wagons, Krystal and Cyrus were at the front of the wagon, and that wagon was at the front of the convoy of wounded mercenaries. After checking everyone has settled inside their wagons, Krystal shouted, "Alright, let's move!" With that, she quickly hopped at the wagon and sat right next to Cyrus, and Cyrus commanded the four demi-beasts to move after Krystal have settled in.