บท 23: :The Fake S-rank skill user

Inside a little swimming pool surrounded with rocks and a fence... Precisely inside Alpha's compound. Cyrus and Alpha could be spotted in the swimming pool.

Cyrus was just relaxing in the hot steam water and Alpha was in a towel and a green lemon in her eyes.

"I heard you've been entering dungeons all by yourself, is that true?" asked Alpha with a low tone.

"Yep... Just soloing ten dungeons, that's all. How did you come to find out?"

Alpha sighed, rolled off her towel, and was now naked, except her lower region was inside the water, which meant Cyrus could only see those delightful breasts.

"Doesn't matter how I knew, so tell me. Have you been getting stronger lately?" Alpha balanced the green lemon properly as she awaited Cy's response.

For a moment, Cy would have boldly said yes he was stronger. But when he came to think of it, it wasn't true. "No, I've just been fighting the weak ones."

Cy replied as he stared back in the direction Alpha was, but the girl was no longer there. She was in the water. All Cy could see was her floating towel.

"Uh?"

Gradually, Cy felt something between his legs... As if warm and climbing up to him. It was Alpha, she swam up and leaned her back beside Cyrus.

"Relax, I wasn't planning on having fun with your boy between your legs... They're not worthy."

Hearing those words, Cyrus gave her a smirk accompanied with a raised eyebrow. "You're looking down on him, I don't like that," said Cy in an almost cheapish voice.

"Haha, Bossie, if they were as mighty as you say, trust me," Alpha smiled deviously. She gave Cy her eyes that seemed to want to reach behind her ears and added, "I would have been riding them now."

Overall, Cyrus didn't bother proving his point. He just stepped out of the pool naked. Alpha didn't realize this until she turned when Cyrus voiced out.

"If it wasn't for the meeting I have with Nerd, maybe I would have shown you how mighty he can be," Cy muttered.

Simply put, Alpha was speechless. Her eyes widened from what she was seeing in front of her. She gripped herself tight from what she was seeing.

Not only has he become muscular, but she was also completely wrong from the beginning and the stuff in front of her proved it to be fact.

'B... B... Bossie,' thought Alpha.

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Meanwhile...

Cameras were shuttering endlessly, and the media were outside the Nerd Freelancer association, accompanied by black Lemos and men adorned in black suits escorting one man adorned in red suits.

Overall, the man was letting the cameras take pictures of him simply because he made sure he gave a pose.

"And make sure that's on the News headlines," said the man.

Nerd on the other hand was at the door waiting for this moron to walk faster. Alfred was also beside him. 'Christ, I just need him to clear an S-rank dungeon of the devil king, and he turned the invitation into a photoshoot,' thought Nerd.

"What should be the headline sir?!" a media asked.

The red suit man clapped his palms together, and with a grin, he muttered. "Jack, the formidable S-rank skill user strikes again."

Eventually, he got to the door. However, his stupid act of fame wasn't entertained by Nerd. "Alfred, stay here and wait for Cyrus. And don't let the media get close to him... He hates cameras."

Alfred gave a nod and Nerd gestured for Jack and the bodyguards to follow behind him. Not quite long, Cyrus could be spotted walking towards the media.

As he had ordered from Nerd's dress shop, he was adorned in black, looking all hot. The media couldn't resist him.

"Woah, check that guy out! He'll make a good face of the week headlines," yelled a cameraman.

"Uh?"

Before the cameraman could raise his camera, Cyrus had already gripped it calmly and warned him, "Don't think about it next time."

"Please evacuate, it's Mr. Nerd's order that he shouldn't be captured," said Alfred who had run in between them with his hands spread out.

"Hey, no one tells us who or what to capture, when we get or see something good it's our duty to inform the public."

Alfred gave the Media a deadly gaze, touched the tip of his dark shade, and slowly brought it off. "Well, are you prepared to face the consequences?" he said with the voice of a killer.

"Please Mr. Cyrus, come with me."

Cyrus and Alfred walked past them and headed inside the building, no one dared raise a camera and even Alfred was also curious why Cyrus wasn't in cohort with pictures. Overall, the man who had noticed Cyrus was a bit sad.

'He.. he smashed my camera by just grabbing it,' thought the cameraman while staring at the camera bearing Cy's palm. I guess not everyone is photogenic.

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"So what's it gonna be, a million dollars obviously won't be enough to hire an S-rank skill user to do your dirty assignment," said Jack with crossed legs.

Nerd who was sitting opposite released a sigh of frustration, clearly, Jack was who they said he was. One of the eleventh S-rank skill users in the east and hard to hire with little cash, in other words, this man here was a deadly force to be reckoned with.

"And like I said, I'll also be needing three A-rank skill users to accompany me. I mean you don't know what you could face in the gates, could be a mini army of Angels," Jack chuckled.

At this point, Nerd was beginning to suspect this guy, yes Jack hasn't gone into a gate without a party but all testimonies say he's the one who takes down the boss and angels, no one has really seen him in action except for those he raids with.

"Well don't fret, I could only hire one rank skill user, and I believe he's here."

The door unlocked and Cyrus plus Alfred strolled in. 'So that's the guy huh? The strongest S-rank skill user of the east,' thought Cy.

"I'm teaming up with him?" Jack inquired.

"Yes, Mr. Cyrus would be the only one accompanying you to the raid, simply put, he'll be a bystander and one to give me feedback if you do your job properly... So Cyrus will not be engaging in battle."

Jack glanced at Cyrus with a stern look, as if he planned on seeing through Cyrus.

<<<Red>>>

-[Someone is trying to see your innate potential}

-[Debuff skill Activated: Blocking Access to stats}

-{Blocked}

Jack stared at Cyrus who gave him a slight smile and from that, Jack knew Cy knew. 'He knows I'm trying to see his skill, if he's strong enough to block me then the raid shouldn't be a problem,' thought Jack.

"Hmph, well I can take care of myself, there's a reason I'm called Jack the Reaper of the East... So let's get this raid started."

Cyrus rolled his eyes, inwardly, he thought 'I can barely sense a drop of mana in him'.