Chapter 22 - Grand Mariner

As Cyrus entered Grand Mariner and was immediately impressed.

The city of Grand Mariner was very big, possibly even bigger than the capital of Misteria, Gloryheim.

It was messier, less grand and it looked like it grew organically in a chaotic and unplanned manner. It was indeed a real seaside trading city.

Having been on the run for a while, Cyrus immediately checked into the nicest hotel he could find.

While seated at a table for dinner, he overheard the conversation within the restaurant.

“Did you hear? Tyra the Tyrant is in town to challenge Kulgar, leader of the Despicable Mercenary Group” one of the customers said. He looked like a mercenary and was very tough looking.

“Tyra the undefeatable warrior? It is said that whoever can defeat her can have her body. Why don’t you try out and challenge her?” asked his friend who also looked like a tough mercenary.

“Are you kidding? Everyone who has challenged her has ended up dead. Her skills are that of a peak level 2 fighter” said the first mercenary.

“But Kulgar can beat her right? He is after all the century slayer. He supposedly fought and defeated more than 100 warriors in the cage matches in the coliseum in Darhill” said the second mercenary.

“Only one hundred? I heard Tyra has been known to kill several hundred at once when she fought in the battle of Lotus Hill on behalf of the Silverbell Nation” said another mercenary who joined in.

Suddenly a huge mace was thrown at the third mercenary, smashing him into the ground.

The other two immediately stood up and drew their weapons as their friend lay dead on the ground.

“Somebody talk bad about our boss? Of course he would beat the bitch. And after he is done with her, the rest of us will get a chance fucking her torn up pussy” said a small man licking his dagger.

He was backed by several large mercenaries behind him. One of them was the one who threw the mace. Suddenly, they all pounced on the two mercenaries and started bashing their heads in with their heavy weapons. Within seconds, their heads were meat paste.

This drew gasps from around the restaurant. Cyrus was already half way up the stairs as this was no concern of his.

“So Tyra the Tyrant…. Hope you didn’t bite off more than you could chew” he thought to himself as we headed to his room.

The next morning, Cyrus headed to the center square where the challenge was taking place.

Using the agility he got from Alyssa, Cyrus traveled on the rooftop and landed on a tall roof overlooking the square.

By now the square was full of people, and standing on one side was Tyra, in her mithril bikini. The other side was Kulgar, a huge man with a battle axe that had a handle as tall as Tyra herself.

Kulgar himself was close to 7 feet tall and build like a tank. As the match started, he roared and charged with his battle axe.

Tyra ducked and avoided the large axe swing as it embedded itself in the ground with a loud thud, dust flying everywhere.

In a blink of an eye, Tyra darted behind Kulgar and sliced the ligaments behind both of Kulgar’s knees

He fell to his knees in pain as Tyra turned her body like a top and instantly chopped off Kulgar’s head.

The crowd was silent as Kulgar’s head flew in the air and rolled towards his mercenaries, looking directly at his group.

They trembled and suddenly roared. All 20+ warriors charged at Tyra, causing the crowd to back off and run away from the battle.

However, Tyra simply smiled and charged at them. Cyrus was impressed as Tyra seemed like a engine of destruction, easily avoiding the mercenaries’ clumsy blows and killing them one after the other with one strike each.

It could be said that Tyra already gave Kulgar respect by using several blows to finish him. His mercenaries were slaughtered like chicken as she gracefully avoided all their attacks.

Cyrus wondered if he was lucky that Tyra didn’t go full out against him. Because at the level she was showing now, there was no way he could have drew with her in their earlier fight.

After that, Tyra took several more challenges, but defeated and killed all her challengers easily.

At the end, when no one wanted to challenge her, she looked at the roof.

Cyrus smiled and nodded at her, then turned and walked away. Tyra smiled back and collected her spoils before leaving. She had a suspicion this was not the last time she would see Cyrus.

Later that day, Tyra walked into the mercenary guild to look for missions. Among the missions was a dead or alive reward for Cyrus Van Dume with a sketch of his face.

“Cyrus… so you have a bounty on your head?” she thought to herself.

Upon reading the background of the mission, she muttered “Darstrong Magus family. Cyrus really pissed off a powerful group”

She pulled the poster off the wall and kept it.

There were whispers all around “Tyra took the Van Dume mission. The kid is dead for sure” as she walked out.

She had no intention of going after the bounty. But she wanted to keep a picture of him as she couldn’t keep the vision of the handsome youth and his naked body kept popping up in her mind.

Thinking of that, she blushed to herself. “Martial Realm City huh? Maybe I will go there soon” she thought to herself.

In the meantime, Cyrus spent time in the shops looking for new clothes. As he escaped the Abominable Abyss Academy, he only had the robe on his body and a spare robe in his ring. He had several clothes made from human skin, but decided against wearing them. He had been wearing Dani’s clothes all these while, and even they were torn up due to his fight with the Golden Demon Ape.

After buying some standard leather adventurer clothes, he bought himself some weapons such as two short swords, a good bow and several quivers of arrows.

Although primarily a mage, he had acquired Alyssa’s warrior abilities. So he bought weapons that were similar to those Alyssa used.

He did wonder what he would be like had he fucked and absorbed Tyra’s warrior abilities. She was magnificent in the challenge matches.