《God Butcher》


 Prolouge

    In the endless white expanse two figures stood.


    "So do you understand your mission mortal?"


    "Yeah, so, you''re really not gonna help me?"


    "Yes now it is time for you to go"


    I felt a tug and then everything vanished, reality slipped and fell, it folded and cracked and then settled. I felt myself being pushed and then there was light, blinding light but it was probably my eyes not adjusting. So this is what it felt like to be a baby huh? weird. I suddenly felt myself being picked up and carried by a large pair of hands only to be flipped upside down and then sma AAAAgh! what in the---oh wait they were just checking if I can breathe properly but damn that hurt. I was suddenly moved again but this time to a smaller more slim pair of hands, my mother, I presume.


    The woman held me and nused me for a while and suddenly I was lulled to sleep.


    Felicia POV


    I held the frail child in my arms, he was so small, so very small yet he housed strength, I felt it. He soon fell asleep and I then picked him up and passed him to Daira the nurse maid. Daira was a large woman, bigger then most men, she wasn''t beautiful, given her barbarian heritage but she followed orders quickly, thoroughly and well, she spoke in a weary voice "Mistress we must now conduct the affinity test for the young lord before he wakes" I nodded. It was best to conduct affinity tests for children while they were asleep as they subconciously tap into their affinity and it is to diffucult to get them to understand when they are awake.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.


    I summoned a golem and had him carry me and the child to the rune room. We walked in and daira quickly took her position and began channeling her mana into the spell circle while I moved the child into the centre. We were a noble house so we had many of our own facilities yet my husband was off participating in the war and my sons were asleep, so only I could witness this. I left him in the centre and stepped back and waited. As the mana seeped through the runes it arrived at the child only to extinguish and fade into him and then, his affinity formed above him. An affinity is a persons allignment with specific energies and can take a visual representation like fireballs for fire and stormclouds for lightning. The image took the shape of.....Hell, that was what I saw, a land of fire and brimstone, filled with blood and bone, infested by demons, enshrouded by darkness, sealed by unholy horrors and corruption. This was only the first level of the tower of my sons affinity. They increased in violence and horror as you looked lower and lower only to end in the abyss, the eterenal void, the true end of everything even divinity. Marks bgan to take form on the childs stomach and move up to his arm, they were a sickly blue and formed strange pattens and were of a strange origin.


    Diara had fainted long ago, I simply watched as the child opened its eyes.


    Kurse POV


    I opened my eyes to find myself in a different place and to see my mother standing shocked and her moth agape. Then she moved at the speed of someone you wouldn''t expect to have just after giving birth, she grabbed me, not gently by the way and rushed through the gigantic mansion full of marble halls. She slammed open a door and ran into the woods and then looked at me after we''d gone about 30 minutes of running and said "forgive me child for you are cursed and do not belong in the house of light and are hereby disowned and deat to me, the clan and the world" then she dropped me and ran off.


    In my first day of life I lost my mother. This began my journey to power, to complete his mission and served as my lesson of what kind of world I was in.

 Crawl

    Hades POV


    I lay there wrapped up in the blanket reviewing the absurdity of the situation, I fell asleep for a while and when I wake up i''m dropped off in the middle of a forest to be eaten by monsters and beasts. I didn''t scream or try to move, not yet at least because it was dark, and in the dark do the beasts lurk. I lay there and tried to fall asleep to the sounds of the forest, and I can''t fall to sleep, yes i''m scared out of my mind because at an moment a random creature could come along and eat me, the entirety of the situation weighed on me and I had to vent so I scramed, or gurgled whatever babies soundlike when they throw a tantrum. That little outburst went on for a while till I heard the footsteps and the most beautiful sight I''d ever see in my short life.


    It was a dwarf, a stone son, he had a beard as orange as autumn leaves that drifted down to below his knees, he was stocky and built, he was wearing a chainmail shirt with leather patches around the joints and a series of steel plates covering his chest, thighs, legs and one of his arms. He had an axe over his back that would be more appropriate to say was a hunk of metal attached to a stick, it had runic carvings all along it and they glowed a bright emerald green. His face was stalwart and grim, his jaw protrude out of his skull like a branch out of a tree, he had a massive crooked nose, scarred and burnt skin, he was blind in one ey and had teeth that belonged to a dog, but right now he was an angelic beauty in the depths of hell, and trust me I know what thats like.


    I screamed at him, or gurgled, whatever but I got his attention. He looked around and then spotted me, he stroked his beard and said"What in the forge fathers beard is this?"


    Orge ebonfire POV


    I followed Edens instructions and trailed the sound she supposedly heard, damned pointy eared bastards, look I only tried to cop one feel I didn''t try to kill her, why give me the cold shoulder, for the entire day shes been getting me to do jobs that keep me away from her.


    I walked around in the general direction and then I heard it, a scream, and I looked down and spotted a tyke who was so small he could be mistaken for a rock, he screamed and screamed and the I said"What in the forge fathers beard is this?" who left this child in the middle of the dark woods, theres only beasts in here. I went over and picked up the boy, well thats what I assumed, its hard to tell babies apart like it is to tell apart elven men and women. I looked at him closley, and saw he had hair the colour of bones, a putrid white with streaks of red and black throughout, his eyes were a strange purplish blue, somethig like polluted water you find in celerin.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    I carried the boy back to our camp and shouted "everybody gather, we got ourselves a bit of a dilemma". As i waited for everyone to get their lazy bums out of their tents and get outside to meet me I inspected the child for his mana signature, as noble familes have similiar mana types and feelings, he had no discernable traits though, his mana was obscure yet full of strength, I felt dread inspecting his souls outer-rims. As I was pondering over his noble status the others showed up.


    "What is it Orge, i swear if this is another of your so called inventions i''m going to send you back to stone hill in a bodybag" said Rif the beastkin, I replied steadily "Calm down Rif, we''ve got a serious problem, look here" as i shoved the baby into the wolf boys face. "What, which woman did you steal that child off of?" I was about to reply when Eden interjected "Show me the child Orge" and I did, but what suprised me was her tenderness, as she held the boy, she spoke gently this time and said "Its alright everyone go back to your tents, he was abandoned by his mother it seems, we''''ll take care of him" I was shocked I quickly asked "How do you know that?" she looked at me and said "Are you really as stupid as you look, did you forget I can see peoples memories, its the perk of being a moon-elf"


    Hades POV


    I was amazed at how it all went smoothly and they took me in, I would''ve expected some arguing but it seems this elf woman has some status, and a past, it would take an idiot to not notice the sadness in her eyes on that pristine face, that was as pale as the moon and as beautiful, her hair was the colour of the stars and her eyes were a deep blue that looked as deep as the ocean. She grabbed me and took me into her tent, fed me some mysterious porridge like substance and then fell asleep with me.


    It seems I was lucky, now it was time to see for how long before another tragedy befalls me, but before that time i''ll need to get stronger or I think the furture will strike me down.