Chapter 17 - Ivy the Dryad

Cyrus left the town of Dunfolk and headed to the port city of Grand Mariner. Being a large trading port, it would be logical place that would have a teleportation portal.

Based on the map of Alamander that Miranda gave him, the Martial Realm Academy was a large city in its own right. It wasn’t a small secluded school like the Abominable Abyss, rather a large city campus.

He was unsure if the teleportation portals will connect directly to the Martial Realm Academy, or will he have to go to the nearest city which was Aragoth, the capital of Alamander.

As he traveled, the roads began to get congested with other travelers. It appeared that there was a checkpoint which was manned by mages and warriors.

At a glance, Cyrus could see that this group was quite powerful. There were 20 warriors and 4 mages in total. Each mage was at least a level 1 mage and among the warriors, they were at least level 7 squires.

As Cyrus arrived at the checkpoint, the mages looked at Cyrus.

“You! Remove your cloak and state your name and purpose” commanded a mage

Cyrus removed his cloak, revealing his dark elf face and silky white hair

Instantly the warriors surrounded Cyrus and his horse, with their weapons unsheathed and ready to attack him. 

“My name is Grim. I am headed to Grand Mariner for leasure” Cyrus answered

“And what makes you think you would be welcome in Grand Mariner?” asked the mage as he brandished his staff.

“I don't see how this is any of your business” said Cyrus, his hands loosening his grips on the reins and dropping his left hand low. .

“Do you want to die?” asked the mage as his staff conjured a fireball that floated in the air above the fire mage. The other magicians started conjuring as well.


It was obvious they didn't like him. Dark elves had a bad reputation for being an evil race, and many would kill a dark elf on sight. Of course Cyrus knew this, but being a dark elf in disguise was better than showing his true self. 

Cyrus smiled and released his killing intent. Suddenly all the 4 mages' spells faltered as they lost concentration and foamed at their mouths as they passed out.

Cyrus released his seal from this left hand that pierced all 4 mages' chests, straight into their hearts. Then as the red seal flew back to him, 4 other seals flew out of the mages' chests. 

As the 4 were official level 1 mages and were more powerful than him, each death created a new seal.

One could see that the seals were in different colors. The original seal was bright red, while one of them was flaming red, another one was ice blue, while the other two were cyan.

"A fire mage, an ice mage and two wind mages" muttered Cyrus to himself as he held his left hand up and the five seals circled around his hands menacingly.

The other people on the road were terrified and started fleeing, leaving Cyrus standing there by himself, surrounded by the warriors.

They conjured up their courage and charged forth to kill him. 

Cyrus gave a mental order and all 5 seals rushed to separate targets and each seal flew through the bodies of one warrior after another. No matter how they defended, the red seal sliced through shields and armor like wet tissue paper.

While the original red seal ate through each victim's body, the red fire seal burned directly through, leaving a burnt hole. The ice seal left a hole in the victim's body surrounded by ice. The two wind seals merely left a clean hole through its victims.

However, when they all returned to Cyrus' left hand, they sated his hunger and made his level rise ever so slightly. 

He didn't bother with using his killer intent as these squire level warriors were all beneath his attention, letting his seals slaughter them.


As the warriors were not level 1 warrior level but were rather mere squire levels, there were no new seals formed.

Cyrus immediately swiped all their belongings into his spatial ring and the red seals all disappeared back into his left hand.

There were 24 mercenaries that were killed, including 4 level 1 mages and 20 squire level warriors. Their energies flowed into his body from the red seals and as he sat under a nearby tree, he refined the energies into his body.

Within minutes he discovered that his level had increased to a level 5 acolyte level.

“That’s all? I killed 4 level 1 mages and 20 squires and this is all? It would appear leveling up will take longer than I thought” said Cyrus as he looked for his horse to continue his journey.

He discovered that his horse had ran away, but the mercenaries had a large eagle nearby with a saddle on top. Happily, he created a rune and placed in on the eagle to control it and then boarded it and took off.

He also removed Dani's skin and clothes, deciding to wear the set of clothes he bought in Dunfolk. Disguising as Grim got him in as much trouble anyway. 

He flew up high into the sky and headed for Grand Mariner. Flying would save him several days of traveling and he wondered if he could bring his eagle with him through the teleportation portal.

As he was flying, and since he was being hunted, he flew in a straight line toward Grand Mariner, rather than following the winding roads.

After a few hours, he was flying over dense forests when he heard a loud commotion that sounded like a epic battle between colossal forces.

His flight path seemed to be taking him directly to the battle as the sounds got louder and louder.

In the distance, he watched as a giant oak tree appeared to be battling a group of monstrous apes that were over 20 foot tall.

“Demon Apes” thought Cyrus. They were level 1 demonic creatures, the equivalent to a level 1 mage or level 1 knight.

There were 7 of them, and their leader looked like a level 3 golden demon ape with horns. They were battling a large oak tree who was carrying and protecting a pretty dryad on its branches.

Cyrus realized that the demon apes were after the dryad. By eating her, they would grow several levels more powerful. A dryad was rare and considered a treasure, even by humans.

As Cyrus arrived closer, the demon apes were busy destroying the oak tree, which was already dying in agony. Its branches were being ripped off and bitten off and as the oak tree was fading, the nymph was also dying as their lives were linked.

The eagle landed nearby and Cyrus jumped off heroically. His left hand released his seals that flew into the fray.

Within moments, 6 of the demon apes were killed as the seals flew through them. However, the seals could not penetrate the tough hide of the level 3 golden demon ape!

Cyrus lifted his right hand and used the rune's power of attraction to pull the dryad to him as the runes buzzed around the golden demon ape, infuriating and distracting it.

By now, there were 6 new seals formed from the other level 1 demon apes. Each of them were dark lack in color similar to the fur on the demon apes.

Cyrus regretted running away and not picking up the monster cores from the 6 killed demon apes. But the dryad was fading fast.

Cyrus looked at the pretty dryad and opened her legs, immediately pushing open her vaginal lips wide, exposing her cervix and imprinting a rune on it with his penis, enslaving her.

He felt his body changing again. Level 6 acolyte!

"Magical creatures. Fucking a dryad and killing 6 demon apes only got a 1 level upgrade" he thought to himself. 

She gasped as the felt the loss of her freedom and could not resist as the last remnant of her life force was fading.

Cyrus retrieved the seed of the monster vines he created and drew a rune between her breasts to implant the seed into her heart.

Then he cast a spell on her body, merging her life force with the life force in the seed. Instantly, her eyes opened and she looked at him.

She stood up and vines came out of her ass and entwined with his body.

“My name is Ivy, who are you master?” asked the Dryad

“I am Cyrus, and you are mine now” said Cyrus as he pulled off his mask that was made out of Dani’s skin and they embraced and made love on the back of the eagle.

This was the first time Cyrus has had sex with a magical creature like her. Dryads are by their magical nature very sexually attractive, and spawned countless legends of their beauty. However, they were powerful in the forest, and normal humans would not be able to go near one, let alone make love to one.

Both their bodies entwined as Cyrus took pleasure in every pump into Ivy's body. On the other hand, Ivy was lost in her lust, being made love to by this strange, powerful yet seemingly low level acolyte.