《Aphorix Daemons(Discontinued)》


 Prologue

    2,200 years ago. Old Era Aphorix, year 666.


    Demons came down from the sky, attacking the denizens of Aphorix. Not a single soul knew what they wanted.


    They brought destruction with their flying ships, and their destructive weaponry. They also brought many nightmarish creatures with them.


    Soon, almost every part of Aphorix was on war. Everywhere but one, the Magicless continent. Why? The name itself sort of explained why.


    People in the Magicless continent didn''t have magic energy in them. The lands and the people of that continent couldn''t contain magic for unknown reasons. So the demons couldn''t care less about that place.


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    One hundred and eighty years of war had passed, but war was still ongoing. A genius blacksmith named Xenonus Zidoris, had managed to refuge to the magicless continent.


    Xenonus brought precious materials with him such as; Meteorite, Mythril, Magic stones, etc.


    He also started his own worksmith and created his masterpiece, a ''War ring''. ''War rings'' are special rings imbued with magic and magical attributes for use of combat.


    Xenonus used 5 of his ''War rings'' for himself. He also spread his rings to worthy people in order to banish the demons back to where they came from.


    Twenty years had passed, and his journey to banish the demons with his comrades, succeeded. Thus, winning the 200 years of war.


    The demons that were left, were imprisoned in the Volcano continent. For better safety reasons, he created 9 barriers surrounding the whole world of Aphorix to keep these demons on lock. He also surrounded these barriers with trecherous and mysterious weather to keep the barriers safe.


    Xenonus became emperor of Aphorix for his conquest on the demons and his unimaginable works.


    ~End of Prologue~

 Chapter 1 - Humble beginnings

    New Era Aphorix, year 2000.


    "Ares!!! Wake up!! You''ll be late!! This is your first day in the academy!!"


    "Okay mom!!!!!!"


    Ares wakes up in a lazy way. This was his first day going to the academy. But for him, this was torture. He hates doing complicated stuff. He even hates it when he had to walk a few feet just to take a sip of water from his mug on the table.


    After taking a bath, he changed into his new uniform.


    ''Man this uniform looks weird, I don''t want to have a job like mom. I hate doing jobs to begin with.''


    ''Heheh, you might be wondering why I''m monologuing like this. The truth is, I have always liked story books and novels. I also like the monologuing parts.''


    ''I wanted to be like the main characters in those stories. Like Xenonus the empe- eh who am I kidding. This is real life, I can''t do awesome magic like Xenonus. And it''s not like I''m in a story.... right? I wish though.''


    ''The only magic I can do is bending shadows a little bit. Because of that, I can''t go to the academy''s magic division. I can only follow my mom''s footsteps and go to the scholar division.''


    The truth was, even though scholars get much more money than the average magicians, the magicians above the average level get loads more. You could say that Ares''s mom is rich, but when comparing her pay with the pay of a good magician, it''s like comparing an ant to a beetle.


    As Ares keeps monologuing, he arrived to the front of the academy. The name of the academy was Rogue academy, named after the town it resided. The town was originally a normal village, but it got famous because it was the place where emperor Xenonus made his War rings.


    Even though this town was in the Magicless continent, it had many magicians. Magicians travel to this town to either learn or teach magic. Some people even consider this town as a tourism place.


    As Ares enters the gate, he saw many students around his age. He was 15 years old, but his height was below average. Because of that, people thought he was a wannabe student.


    Ares then entered his designated class. As the main attraction was the magic division, the scholar division didn''t have as many students as the magic division.


    The scholar division was a division for people who sought to learn about how things work and how to do things, like math and science. A scholar can usually be many jobs, such as a teacher, an architect, a tax collector, and jobs that would require intellect.


    Ares''s mom was a scholar, she had money to get a tutor to teach Ares during his early toddler to pre-academy age. He was also smarter than the average from the start.


    ''Oh wow, this class is tiny. I wonder how many students are in this class.''


    ''This is somehow familiar. Did I have a past life as a student here??''


    Weirded out by his own thoughts, he decides to go to his seat.


    As the day went on, the learning hours were done for the day, and so he went home.


    He felt bored as he did when his tutor teached him. Even though he was smart, he wasn''t at a genius level smart. He was just the average level smart.


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    Months passed, Ares made friends and studied normally. But occasionally, he had an ominous feeling of familiarity to his way of life.


    This sense of familiarity got his nerve wrecked. He got annoyed because he couldn''t remember where or when he experienced these things. And soon, he got plagued by these thoughts daily.


    During these abnormal days, he often dreamt of a familiar place. He dreamt he was on a world called "Earth", studying in class with friends. Doing his daily routines and exploring this "Flat" world called the Internet.


    But these dreams had now occured every night. Strangely, he could remember almost everything in those dreams. It''s as if those dreams were real life.


    Day by day, his knowledge of Math and Science got better, his logical thinking also got better. It continued even when he actually surpassed the teachers. But this was due to Aphorix being a world of magic, people did not sought comfort from science. It was easier to use magic.


    But seeing this boost of intellect, the teachers gave up on teaching him. The teachers, who studied Math and Science for years and years got jealous.


    His intellect was actually normal. Ares who was actually a highschool student in his dreams couldn''t help but ace all of the Math and Science studies. Those studies were on an elementary school level on Earth, and that''s why it was pretty easy.


    But this wasn''t the case for the teachers, for them this was a level where normal people would consider hard.


    Set with jealousy on their heads, the teachers decided to boycott Ares. One teacher even pretended Ares didn''t exist when in class.


    Ares was mad, but deep inside, he was sad. He asked his friends to help him, but they couldn''t do anything. If they helped Ares, they would get low marks and restart a year.


    One quiet night, Ares sneaked outside of his house. Driven by his despairity of being mistreated, he decided to break into the Magic division''s magic laboratory. Rumours said that there was one War ring contained inside of the lab.


    The reason for this was that he wanted to leave the Academy and become a ''Venturer'', venturers are people who explore outside of the barrier. They earn money by mapping the outside world. The outside world of his continent''s barrier that is.


    Every entire football field size of area, a venturer maps, they earn almost as much as a full fledged scholar like Ares''s mom. But those jobs are dangerous, creatures that are also dangerous lurk in those lands.


    And that was why Ares needed a War ring. He needed power.


    SMASH!!!!


    The glass window outside of the lab broke. It was Ares, he entered the lab in a sneaky way. Ares saw that the ring was in a glass container.


    ''How does this open, okay just break it."


    BANG!!!


    ''It won''t break??''


    Suddenly, a hand choked Ares, and he passed out due to not breathing.


    To be continued....

 Chapter 2 - The dark room

    Alex found his eyes and mouth covered. But, not long after, a person uncovered the cloth covering his eyes.


    ''Why is it still so dark?''


    Ares found himself tied to a wooden chair in a dark room, with just one torch as the source of light.


    "Hello kid. Guessing by your looks you must be a student here."


    "...."


    "Not gonna talk eh?"


    "...."


    "Well you broke into the lab, so you have to pay."


    "...."


    "Men, search him."


    Two men entered the dark room and searched Ares. They found his student book. The person in charge seemed to be happy finding this.


    "AHAHAHAH!!! This just gets easier and easier!!"


    "!!!"


    Alerted by his laugh, Ares struggled to untie himself. This might seem as a brave move, but in truth he was just scared shitless. He just wanted to run away.


    But his thoughts went back to reality. The person in charge talked to him again. That person was reading Ares''s student book.


    "Ares Zidoris, age 15, 1st year student, scholar division. Psshhh, Zidoris?? Why did your parents give you the great emperor''s name?"


    "...."


    "Why did such a pipsqueak from a small scholar family have the emperor''s last name?


    "...."


    "Was it out of their parents'' ego? In any way, your name sullifies the emperor. Only descendants of the emperor should have that name."


    "...."


    "And what''s this?? Almost perfect scores on every science studies, you have quite the brains."


    "...."


    "Oh silly me, I forgot why you didn''t speak. Your mouth was covered with cloth. I shall remove it myself."


    The person removed the cloth covering Ares''s mouth.


    "FUCK YOU!!!!"


    "Oh, quite the potty mouth."


    After hearing the person''s respond, Ares spat at the person''s foot.


    Seeing his shoe covered half in spit, the person went mad.


    BOOM~CRUNCH


    In an instant, a shockwave blowed away the two lackeys away and Ares''s legs was twisted like a noodle.


    "RAAAAAARRRGHHHHGGHHH!!!! MY L-LEGSSS!!! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?!?"


    "AHAHAHAHAH, that was payback for spitting on a lovely man such as myself."


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    "Y-YOU.... YOU!!!!!!"


    Whilst writhing in Ares had his life flashback. But what was weird was, it wasn''t one life, but two. The latter life he saw, was all of his Earth dreams, even things that didn''t appear in his dreams like his Earth version''s childhood.


    "Kid, forget your name. We will give you a new name."


    "HUFF HUFF HUFF, PEOPLE WILL FIND OUT ABOUT THIS!!!! RAARRGHH!!!!"


    "Oh no they won''t, after this, we will inform your parent and school that we had sent you to the capital as an exchange student. I''m sure they would be happy."


    "HOW!??! Y-you''re- the PRINCIPAL??"


    The person, or rather the principal smiled widely.


    "I am. I also ally with the kingdom, they will cover for me if I get into trouble eheheh."


    The principal was a man of wits, before he was the principal, he was the kingdom''s trusted officer. He excelled at using magic rings.


    "Without further ado, let''s cut to the chase. Men, bring him to the flesh room."


    "Y-yessir!"


    "Arrgh what are you going to do to me?! Answer me!!"


    "Oh nothing, we are just trying to invent something new. From now on we should call you ''Flesh 1''."


    As the two men carried Ares to the flesh room, Ares saw the horrors of the place.


    cells full of mangled humans and creatures are left and right. The passageway they carried him seemed to be a cellar of sort.


    It seemed that they had carried experiments in that place. The walls and floors are made of stone and dirt with the occasional wood.


    Dried blood was everywhere, bones and such was as easy to encounter as pebbles on the road.


    Arrived at the room, the two lackeys tied him to another chair.


    Concerned about his legs, Ares asked about how would they deal with his legs.


    "H-HEY!! Don''t leave yet, what about my legs?!"


    But they didn''t answer. They just left him.


    Baffled by the events, his sight went black and he quickly fainted.


    After the two men left, a woman came in. The woman was silent. After she came in, she poured an elixir onto the twisted legs and quickly left afterwards.


    The noodle-like legs eventually straightened into normal looking legs.

 Chapter 3 - Horror

    One day had passed, Ares opened his eyes in the flesh room. His legs were fully healed. Confused and scared, he tries to find an exit.


    ''FUCK FUCK FUCK, What did I get myself into?!''


    While he searched for the possible exit, his thoughts only went to his Earth life flashback.


    Why did his Earth version''s childhood memories also get into his flashbacks?


    As he thought more and more, he had an epiphany. He recalled that on Earth, there were stories of people getting reincarnated in another world.


    ''That''s it!! I''m probably one of those main character in those isekai stories!!"


    ''So this is why I have a habit of monologuing, I''m that anime main character.... probably.''


    ''I feel like I''m still myself, I don''t feel like those isekai MCs.''


    ''Of course I do, this isn''t a story. THIS. IS. REAL LIFE.''


    ''See what I did there? I tried sounding cool in a monologue. I think I''m becoming crazy.''


    The thoughts of becoming crazy didn''t sound good to him, so he stopped monologuing and tried to keep his sanity. But then....


    KRIEEEK


    The door opened, it was the woman who poured elixir to Ares''s legs. But of course, he didn''t know because he wasn''t awake at the time.


    "Come out."


    "O-okay."


    Ares walked out of the room and kept quiet. The woman had three bodyguards, they don''t look big and scary. But somehow, they give the aura of strong people.


    Ares, was a coward. The reason he liked spending time at home was that he was unsocial.


    The reason he wanted to become a venturer, was so he could overcome his unsocial behaviour. But truthfully, his unsocial behaviour wasn''t that bad.


    And although it wasn''t that bad, he thought that it was bad. It was one of his insecurities.


    As he walked, he nervously asked a question to the woman.


    "U-uhhh, where are we going?"


    "Not far, just over that corner."


    When he entered the room on the corner, he was shocked. There were hundreds of rings in that room.


    Each of those rings had different designs. Awed by the designs of those rings, he tried touching one.


    "Keep your filthy hands of off those rings!!"


    The woman stopped his movement, she looked furious.


    "Those rings are not for you. Now come here!!"


    "Yes ma''am!"


    They walked over to a shelf. The shelf contained plain looking rings. Some were even broken.


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    The woman then gave Ares one of the plain rings. Ares took the ring then asked in confusion.


    "Umm ma''am, why not give me one of the beautiful rings?"


    "Those rings are not meant for you, those are meant to be finished products. Yours would be a prototype."


    "But why do I get the prototype?"


    "Stop asking questions!!!"


    The woman was infuriated. The person she talked to wasn''t supposed to talk to her in the first place.


    "Just be quiet okay??"


    "...."


    "Good."


    They exited the room and went back to the original room. But the room was bigger, it seemed like it expanded.


    What was more was that there were tools and other things in that room. Before, it was just empty. Now, it looked like a full on torture chamber.


    Ares freaked by this, shivered. His eyes watered, nose runny, even his bladder almost bursted.


    ''Noooo, they''re gonna torture me!!! God HELP ME!!''


    But then, the woman told him what his life would become for the rest of his life.


    "Starting from tomorrow, you will become our test subject. Do not worry, we will provide you food and a bed."


    "!!!"


    "Your tests will be daily. You will get used to it, so do not worry. For now, put on the ring."


    Ares obeyed the woman and put on the ring. Coincidentally, the ''tomorrow'' she mentioned was Monday.


    The next day, his life turned one-eighty. He was tortured for 16 hours per day.


    On Monday, he was boiled, burned, freezed by magic, and then healed by drowning in a pool of elixir.


    On Tuesday, his skin was peeled, his mucles were carved, his hair was pulled by force, and then he gets healed with the elixir again.


    On Wednesday, his limbs were cut off, his penis and testicles were cut off, his nose and ears were cut off, and then he gets healed again.


    On Thursday, his bones were ripped out of his arms and legs, his insides were ripped out, his eyes and tongue were ripped out, and then he gets healed again.


    On Friday, he gets poisoned with all sorts of poisons, he gets dipped in acid, and then he gets healed again.


    On Saturday, his blood gets drawed out, his heart gets crushed, and then he gets healed again.


    On Sunday, he gets drowned in water, liquid metal, poison, blood, urine and faeces, and then he gets healed again.


    This was his routine, everyday. The only time he wasn''t tortured was when he eats or when he sleeps.