At a resting caravan , a single skinny boy at the age of 10 sat on the ground while leaning on a rock to rest . His face couldn''t be called handsome , it resembled more a rat .


    His heigh certainly small for his age . Just as he closed his dull brown eyes to rest , he opened them again . Now the dark brown eye looked mysterious and evil .


    Gripping his hands as if he test a new body he looked around . No other person surrounds him , no wonder when his face looked like a disgusting rat . If one would imagine him in a movie then he would be the a sly and evil traitor .


    Suddenly he grinned while giggling for himself . It looked creepy for a kid , but he didn''t cared about it .


    He looked at his stomach which now has a thin layer of fat . It didn''t changed much but the boy grinned even more .


    Naturally the boy is the old man in younger version , he maked a contract with a godly demon which everyone already forgot . The ancient demon is even a league higher than belzebub and lucifer who seemed to be the leader of the demons .


    But since he was too evil and too murderous the ''good'' side sealed him and destroyed every single document about him . It worked , nobody joined his cult anymore and after countless of years nobody nourished his hunger with sacrifices anymore .


    Thus the old man used the demon to travel back in time to change his future . To make it attractive for the dying demon it only needed the sentence : "I will give you sacrifices for it" . Strong beings still have some power despite being on the verge of death , especially for those godly beings .


    How he knew of the demon ? He discovered it at a ancient site with ''monsters'' which mothers used to scare their child .


    If you don''t behave * will come and punish you !


    After painstacking research he found out that the demon was an extremely strong demon capable of threating ancient gods and godly beings .


    Not only that , his research lasted for his entire life . Searching for clues on fairy tales to forbidden documents .


    His ''friends'' tried to convince him to stop , but in the back they laughed how foolish he is .


    "I wonder how they would feel if they knew that i got a new chance with my whole knowdledge ? laughed the skinny boy inwardly .


    Looking down his ''clothes'' which are nothing more than used rags he schemed his future path .


    Suddenly a bell ring sounded from the centre of the caravan .


    Thinking for a while the skinny boy rushed to the sound source .


    What awaited him was a grim man holding a bell while shouting they should be faster . Groups of children hurried towards him . He kicked one kid after it walked past him causing it to fall .


    "GARBAGE MOVE !"


    The skinny boy ignored the other children and walked with the other children towards a tent .


    "STAND IN A ROW YOU FILTHY THINGS !" yelled the man .


    In a second a proper row appeared . The man bowed towards the tent and spoke courteous : "Everyone is here , my great lord ."


    Silence filled the air as the man ended his speech .


    Unexpectedly some armored mans walked towards the tend while holding a child . It was a boy at the age of 10 like the skinny boy .


    "Sir , he tried to escape . Normally we would kill him but the decision are made by you great lord ." one of the mans spoke while bowing .


    The grim man with the bell moved towards the child , still bowing towards the tent .


    "I will punish him for the disrespect of the lord , may i great lord ?"


    A hoarse voice talked : "You may ."


    Delight appeared on the great man while he walked towards the child . Lifting the bell as a weapon he slam it on the face of the child .Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    *Ding* *Ding*


    With every slam the bell sounded .


    "TRASH ! WHY DIDN''T YOU APPEAR WITH THE BELL ? CAUSING THE GREAT LORD TO WAIT !"


    Blood splattered all over the ground , it is certain that the child will be a face cripple for the rest of his life . The lips open from bloody wounds and the teeths shattered . The forehead bend into a small debt .


    "I- i ------ ii " the child tried to say something .


    "HUH ?"


    "I---- ii------ b--bbeeg master -ff---oor mmmee--ercy ." it finished its sentence while kowtowing towards the tent .


    The grim man stopped while looking at the tent .


    "Continue ." the hoarse voice sounded .


    Blood splattered everywhere as the child continues to beg while the grim man pounded the face of the child .


    Every other child looked at the hard beating . Mostly with fear , but not a single thing of pity could be seen in their eyes .


    The skinny boy too , only watched as if it is normal for the child to die .


    Remaining of the child was only a bloody meat paste . As if disgusted by the blood , grim man wiped the now red bell with a rag . Then he commanded the guards to clean up .


    Soon black dogs appeared , well nourished with dark shiny fur . They ate the former child while the guards spoiled them .


    After that the grim man took out some small flask . He walked towards the first of the row with a needle and one flash . He stinged with the needle and collected the blood with the small flasks . Afterwards the flasks is taken to the tent inside .


    Then the hoarse voice divided the children in two groups . Soon it is the turn of skinny boy , the grim man collected the drop of blood till the hoarse voice sounded .


    "Left ."


    The grim man pointed to skinny boy while indicating that he should move to the group with the most people .


    In the end everyone got seperated . One small group and a big group of children .


    The grim man announced with a big smile that the small group has talent to be mages and warriors while the bigger group can only be their slaves . Then he turned towards the smaller group and started flattering them .


    After the announcement the ''talent'' group will be guided by the lord in the tent and the new slaves will have their free time .


    Most children seemed to be disappointed about the fact that they don''t have talent but skinny boy just moved to the outer caravane side while sitting down .


    In his past life he would be one of the talented , after confirming his talent was grade 13 .


    Now , he changed his talent with the demons power . Not higher but lower , excactly grade one . He transformed his remaining talent into a small powerful layer of fat which seemed not be worth of it however skinny boy planned it all .


    Who said talent will decide everything ? As long as there are no factors like luck it isn''t certain that talent will make one stronger .


    Sitting on the ground the skinny boy looked at his spiritual force .


    Normally one would absorb spiritual force from the surrounding or treasures to rank up and get stronger . The grade of the talent will decide how fast a person can rank up .


    Thus talent grade 1 or 2 was in no way better than 0 talent since the accumulated spiritual force is only useful for a healthier body and a sharper mind . This is the reason why the man in the tent didn''t called out for skinny boy. Even if he trained in magic , with his talent being 1 he has to train for years to be able to cast a normal fireball or any other basic spell .


    But since skinny boy or old man already planned his future he naturally searched for a way to get better talent . After all grade 13 may seemed higher than 0 or 1 i, but it is still a very low talent in this world . It only meant that the talent is 13x higher than 1 .


    For talentless humans even talent 1 may already seem like a godly being but in the magic world it is only some lower slave who is able to cast a fireball or ice shard after years of training .


    Sweat poured out of his body as skinny boy concentrated on his spiritual force . Skinny boy could saw a tiny ball of light in his abdomen .


    Without any hesitate skinny boy moved the tiny spiritual ball into his head region . Abruptly pain caused skinny boy to sweat even more . Blue veins appeared on the head of skinny boy . He closed his eyes .


    Slowly the small layer of fat which he traded for his talent seemed to vanish into nothing . As well as the spiritual ball which he moved to his head region .


    Skinny boy slowly breathed out while sweat dripped down from his head like a waterfall . Opening his eyes the surrounding seemed unrealistic clear , he felt as if he have two pairs of eyes .


    Smiling the skinny boy stood up . He didn''t looked at his arms or legs which almost looked like bones with skin over them . Neither did he look at his rippy ribs .


    Suprisingly he stretched his arms and maked signs with his hands . Signs with means to it . Numbers from 0 to 5 .


    He controlled both hands perfectly , every single number he thought of appeared in a split of a second . As if he have split his mind in two to achieve it .


    To ''split'' is not the word to describe it , however what he did was to ''copy'' it . Resulting in one minion-mind being excactly the same as the original mind .


    Wiping the dripping sweat away skinny boy walked towards a certain location of the carvan . It was more a slave transport caravan since nothing is transported except childrens . Either bought by slave merchants or found in the streets of citys .


    Not a single child is restricted by any chains or any magical spell . After all there are many children and who cares if one or two disappear ? Besides not many children dare to escape , at least they get food and a warm shelter if they work for the lord . Although many value their freedom more than food , most escapees end up in monster stomaches .


    The kids who got beaten up by the guards is one of the unlucky ones . Why did he tried to escape when the guards wanted to please their master ?