《Re: Slave》


 Page 1 - Reincarnation

    Reincarnation


    Nothingness surrounded his consciousness. Then slowly light, started to appear. At first it was dull light. But grew brighter within seconds. Until it encompassed his whole consciousness.


    After the light died down. He opened his eyes. Which he immediately closed again due to the brightness. Which they were met with once again. After several attempts, his eyes adjusted to the light. He immediately started to look around. Processing everything of his mission and his death. Regret and anger boiled within him. To have died so easily made him wish to change himself.


    Looking around once more. He notice he was in a crib. Puzzled, he tried to get up. But was unable to put strength into his limbs. He looked down on his body which shrunk to the size of a baby. Suddenly a thought occurred to him. He didn''t shrink. He was reincarnated, given a second chance of life. Realising this Kush, resolved himself to live life to the fullest with his second life.


    After waiting for what seemed like decades for his parents of this life to come. Kush suddenly realised babies had to cry to alert their parents. Mind slapping himself. He started to fake cry. Which was surprisingly believable even though Kush never cried in his previous life. Even as a kid.


    Immediately a woman walked in. She looked to be five feet and a half. With shoulder length brown hair and round dark brown eyes. Her cheeks were sunken in giving her a rather "unique"  look. Still she was his parent he would respect her. In his old life, Kush father abandoned him and his mom died in childbirth. He was raised in the orphanage for a short period, before being kicked out on to the streets. At the age of 13. So this woman was the only mother he knew.


    She started to breast feed me. When I saw her breasts, as lovely as they where. I wasn''t excited, it was probably due to the fact that they were family. In his old life, he wasn''t a virgin but neither was he a playboy. He dated to relieve his urges he never actually felt a sort of bond or love for anyone except for a select few people.


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    .........one year later


    I finally was able to walk. I already knew how to walk but wasn''t able to due to the fact my legs were weak. I also learned that I had no......dad. I don''t know the specific but he never comes around. Also our family is poor, like extremely poor we barely afford two meals. We live in a old shack on the outskirts of some city.


    I also know that I was reincarnated into a place different from earth. My mother always speaks to me, in a foreign tongue. It was similar to english but had a combination of latin, german, and maybe......french.


    ................. 3 years later


    I am now four years old. I also know my name in this world its Ken. I  also learned the tongue of this world. Which is called the human language. Pretty average but there are many languages in this new world. I questioned my mother mercilessly but she had poor education, so her knowledge was limited. Still it was useful for a otherworlder like me.


    What I learned was that this world is called Gaia. It was made up of one large continent, which is referred to as the Rou Continent. I don''t what this derives from but it seems liked, a long time ago a Demon King unified the continent for while and was called the Rou empire. I''m assuming this is it. Oh yeah, this world also seems to have different race like demons, elvs, kobolds, goblins, dwarves, and even dragons. It also had magic. Thats all I knew but one thing was for sure I will make sure to learn magic. After all there was no such thing a magic in my previous world.


    A couple of months has passed and my mom and me are walking through the forest. We''re going to the city for a better life. Due to my curiosity and ceaseless pleading with my mom who''s name is Jane by the way. To move to the city, she finally agreed.


    Suddenly I sense something, for a second but disappears. I''m confident in my ability to sense things. After all I used to be a killer. My death was only caused because of adrenaline of killing someone. But I Ignore it. Before nightfall we reach the city.

 Page 2 - Enslaved

    Enslaved


    Two men with armour were standing at the gates of the city. I assumed they were the guards. So I walk up to them and ask them the name of the city. Me still with my childlike appearance, made me look innocent in the eyes of the guards. So they told me.


    It turns out, it''s called "Fell" and its supposedly on the human continent. By the way the world is separated into 5 separate areas. Which are like Kingdoms. They are the human lands, the demon lands, the beastman lands, the magical beast forests, and the merchant desert. Which encompasses the whole continent. Currently were on the Human continent.


    I run back to my mom and we enter the city. Immediately, I sense looks in our direction. Which are a mix of pity, hate, and greed. I can''t tell them apart. It was probably due to our clothes. My mom was wearing some torn pants and worned shirt. I on the other hand was worse, I had brown shorts on with a torn long sleeve shirt. As well ass long dark brown boots that went half way my leg.


    I grab my mom''s hand and we run into the alleys. After all they''re my home anyplace I go. I immediately pull out, my weapons, from the secret compartment on the bottom of my boots. Which consist of sharpened short stick, and wooden needles.


    Then I tell my mom to go hide. But she resolutely refused. Then pulled out her cheap bow and told ME to go hide. I wasn''t one to argue and plus I prefer to fight from a distance.


    Two men enter the alleys, they both were leather armour and have swords. Suddenly my mom rolls out of the trash we were hiding behind and cocks an arrow and releases it,  in the same motion. It flew sharply towards the men and hit one in the knee. Again my mom cocked another two arrows and released them. Moments later the two men fell over.


    I am about to run over to my mom to ask about her sudden display of finesse. When I see another man, running towards my mom. I throw my needle at him but it barely pierced his skin. But it gave my mom time to cock an arrow and release it. This man was stronger than the previous two. Then more men enter the alleys and surrounded us. They first captured my mom and used her as a hostage to capture me. They knocked me out. Before falling into the deep abysss a message appeared in my head.


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    < You''ve unlocked the hidden Job - Phantom . Do you accept?>


    -...........Yes


    I opened my eyes and looked around. I was chained to the wall along with a bunch of other kids. I wished I could escape but they took my clothes and boots. Then I remembered the job I unlocked. It seemed that in this world people get stronger by jobs. These jobs are learnt and improved giving the person a better job with better benefits. By the way people can learn only one job. You can change it, but its extremely difficult.


    It seemed that the job, that I unlocked was a subclass of the assassin job. Which to unlock you had to kill someone. But the subclass Phantom, you had to be in a life and death situation. For most people they would runaway, before it reached that point. Especially assassins, so this class was rare.


    It gave me a couple abilities, one which was night vision. Now that I looked around these kids seemed to starved and were all my age or a little older. It seemed that I was enslaved. Sucks. But the thing I needed to find out the most was wether or not my mom was alive. "So for now, I will bide my time." I thought silently.


    Another perk of Phantom job was the mimic skill. Which allowed me to learn skills of other jobs, which would probably be useful and the mist skill. This ability was probably the most handy in my current situation. It allowed me to turn my body into mist. The only downside was that the transition between going into mist form and back was too slow. I secretly tried turning my hand into it, since it was dark no one would noticed. But it took a whole five minutes. The good thing was that after trying it a couple of times the transition got a bit faster but still was pretty slow.


    "Maybe, I should escape." I thought to myself. After all in mist form I was impervious to physical damage, I think. But then again I don''t know where my mother is. So I need to find out more information. I would soon regret this decision.......

 Page 3 - A Slaves Life

    A Slave''s Life


    Ken your up, said a girl behind me. Before I was shoved onto the stage, by a brute.


    "And next we have a fine, healthy young boy who is more than able to suit your needs!" announced a smartly dress man wearing a turban.


    "We''ll be starting the bidding at 100 gold, do we have 150 gold?" Announced the man once again.


    This exchange continued until it reached 300 gold. I was surprised that I was bought for that much. After all I''m really plain looking, I reached 8 years of age this year but I was only 4 feet but I had light brown skin, black hair and piercing green eyes.


    I was slowly unshackled and brought to a extravagant carriage. It seemed to me that I was brought to be some kind of house slave.


    I had waited patiently for 5 months but all I figured out was that my mom, used to be a well known adventurer and was sold to a Noble in the Merchant desert. Which was really faraway, I hoped my mom survived. I would go save her but the Noble seemed to be rich and would probably hire bodyguards. Plus there were a lot of unknown factors in this world. I didn''t want to be needlessly killed. So I planned to train my job - Phantom. There were only a few abilities I had at the moment.


    < Night Vision >


    < Mist Form >


    < Hide >


    < Phantom''s copy >


    The last one was mimic but after a while in the dark room. It changed to Phantom''s copy. Which meant that I could gain one skill of anything or one I kill.


    I thought it was a cool ability before I realised that there was a low chance of activating it. Specifically 10 percent chance. Plus the skill was randomly selected.


    The carriage pulled to a stop. A tall, muscular pulled me down from the carriage. There was huge mansion present. I was quickly brought to the slave quarters. Where they made me take off my clothing and take a bath. Then I was given. Another pair of butler clothing. Literally servant clothing. Grumbling, I put it on.


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    They then informed me of my job. It turned out that I was bought by a rich noble who was currently understaffed. I was told to serve food and "Entertain" the guests. I assumed they wanted me to pleasure them. Which I wouldn''t do even if I was paid.


    Then they trained me on my job. It was pretty simple serve the quest, don''t spill anything or I would get punished. The pleasure part they left to my imagination. After I finished my training, they showed me the sleeping quarters. Which I had to share with three other people. Plopping onto on of the empty beds, I close my eyes. Exhaustion took over me and I drifted off.


    The next day I was woken up early, they gave me directions to my workplace and a warning.


    I made my way to the Kitchen, where I was met with a loud voice.


    "You fools! Hurry and finish the dishes! The adventurer''s will be here soon. " said one of the cooks.


    I was quickly ushered in and began serving the food. The adventurer''s were well mannered and our master and them. just engaged in idle chat. When one of the mage adventurers left to go to the bathroom. I also left my post and started walking out of the dining area with a quick pace. I quickly pulled one of the knives from the Kitchen from my outfit. Before the mage had time to react. I quickly cut his vocal chords and activated.


    Wishing from the bottom of my heart. I was met with a message ringing in my head.


    < Mana Manipulation Learned >


    I smiled wide and started to slowly walk back to the dining area. It was gonna be a fun day.......I thought darkly.

 Page 4 - Massacre & Plunder

    Massacre & Plunder


    While walking slowly, I try out my newly gained skill. < Mana Manipulation > It allows me to control the mana in my body. Surprisingly, I have large mana well. Which is the term for the amount of mana in one''s body.


    Overjoyed at my new ability, I try something new.I take out one of my knives and manipulate mana so it covers the knives entirely.


    < Enchant. Learned >


    I widen my eyes, this is the most useful ability a killer can have. If I can increase my weapons damage, I''ll be able to become several times stronger. Manipulating my mana once more, I try to get it to cover me entirely.


    < Mana circulation. Learned >


    Smiling, at all the new useful skills. I practically skip to the dining hall. When I finally reach it, I start to formulate my plan. I have 13 knives and  right now, their are 6 adventurers subtracting the one I killed. Along with the fat ass Master, who has 3 bodyguard warriors. Surprisingly the biggest target is the Master. He''s the one who holds the key word for my slave choker. If I eliminate him, everything else will fall into place. Though, I can''t afford to be too hasty with my knives.


    I open the door with a flourish, I enchant my knife and chuck it at main target which is the fat ass. The look of surprise on his face almost made me chuckle.....almost. The knife flew in a straight line and pierced his throat. Too bad I thought, that I couldn''t make him beg for his life, ha ha ha. I laughed evilly.


    The adventurers faces were priceless too, the looks on there faces when I killed the fat ass. Was of astonishment and shock. After all I still only pocessed a body of an 8 year old. Before they can regain their senses, I enchant three knives and throw them at the warrior in front of me and to remaining mage as well as an archer. After all they were the most trouble some. The knife aimed at the warriors head was blocked my him due to his instincts. The other ones weren''t so fortunate. The other two knifes hit their marks, the one for the mage embedded itself into his forehead. While the other knife cleanly pierced the archers heart.


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    Even I was surprised at the knives sharpness. The speed was my skill but the sharpness increased the damage tenfold. Happy with my < Enchant > ability. I turn to face the remaining....victims.


    The warrior is the first to attack. Madly charging in, due to his team mates death. I instantly pull out two knives and enchant them. Waiting until he''s only few feet from me, I throw one of my knives at his feet. Which he blocks, in the same motion I throw one at his head and another at his feet. He blocks the first knife but when he tries to block the knife heading for his feet he dies. There wasn''t one knife aimed at his head there were two. They both traveled in the same trajectory giving it the illusion it was one knife. This was a skill I developed in my previous world after countless years of practice on......real people.


    I pick up my knives and continue the massacre. I enchant three knives and activate < Phantom''s Copy >. The knives cleanly kill Master''s bodyguards instantly. They still seemed to be stunned at my previous display of skill. Frowning at their weakness, I hear a familiar message appear in my head.


    < Tracking. Learned >


    < Backstab. Learned >


    < Blood lust. Learned >


    Adrenaline, pumped through me. I lick my lips and turn to stare at the remaining adventurers. They were all warriors. Once I set my gaze on them, one of them yelled out "Monster!" and turned to run. Internally laughing, I activate < Blood Lust > and reply "Thank you for the compliment. Before using backstab on him. I killed the remaining two instantly and I start to loot the bodies. I take the sword of the first warrior I killed, it''s a nice long bastard sword. I also take all of their gold. Which amounted to a hefty sum of 475 gold. I don''t take their equipment since it''s far to large me to currently.


    I hear foot steps approaching from the kitchen. Thinking this took far too long, I activate my skill < Mist Form>. I spread my form out and quietly leave the aftermath of the murder. Little did I know, that the murder would be known as the "Mist Massacre."

 Page 5 - Forest Adventure

    Forest Adventure


    After leaving the murder scene. I reverted to my physical form and headed for the woods. I entered it through the back of the mansion, after entering the woods. I took off my bloodied butler clothing leaving only my white undershirt, and black shorts. Yes, I always like wearing an extra set of clothing. Since you never know, when you might kill again. Sure, I have my values. I don''t kill anyone, who doesn''t offend me. Of course I would never kill children either since they have their whole life ahead of them. I don''t really differentiate between gender and age though. Since an elderly woman might me a super strong mage.  Letting my guard down will only bring about my death.


    After all the Adventurers I defeated are barely above E rank and were only able to meet with the Master due to their connections. You might be wondering how I know that, but during the training I overheard some of the other slave''s gossiping. Plus E rank adventurers are barely above the bottom. SInce the rank''s are from F rank to A rank. The only Rank above A rank is S rank. Which are extremely rare. Even the three great empires only have a few S rank adventurers. Even forgetting S rank. A rank adventurers are uncommon too. Most adventurer''s are around D and C rank. While the more experienced ones being at B rank.


    Again forgetting adventurer''s, magicians have a different ranking system. From being at a first circle mage to a 10 circle mage. Most mages are around 3rd circle or 4. Since the leap from a fourth circle mage to a fifth circle mage is too great! A fourth circles mage can destroy about 100 people from a distance. While a fifth circle mage can level a village. Above fifth circle mage are monsters, they can destroy armies from a distance. Even close range they can stack defensive skills to fight warriors at D or C rank.


    Right now I''m not ranked but if I were to guess my strength, it would probably be about C rank. Even though in my mist form, I''m impervious to physical attacks, a skilled magician could probably use magic to bind me or seal me. Even a warrior at C rank also could probably beat me, if they attack me in my current state. So the first order of business is to get stronger. Then I would go to the city and get an adventure license.


    My future planned I enter deeper into the forest, I stealthily move around avoiding vines and other blockades. After hours of searching I find a nice clearing and start to set up camp. I enchant my knives and cut off the branches to create an indian style hunt. I was planning to set up a fire, but that would just attract animals so I didn''t bother. I gather a path of grass and entered my hut. I then laid the grass down and slept


    The next morning I was awoken by a low growl, groggily opening my eyes I exited my hut. Facing me was a 2 meter long snake. "Oh shit!" I said and threw a knife and fled. I even forgot to enchant it so it did little to no damage. Running I saw several other snakes. Hiding in the bushes or branches. "Just my luck to, make camp in a snake den." I thought to myself. I could defeat the snakes easily, but they had poison fangs. I don''t know much about the poison in this world. So if I were to get poisoned, I would have no way to deal with it.


    After a hour or so I was able to lose them. They weren''t particularly fast but were many in number. The only problem now is that I''m lost. Yeah..........I''m lost. Completely lost, I never had a good sense of direction but running for your life makes you forget you surroundings.


    Currently I''m surrounded my a bunch of trees and a large rock? Noticing how out of place it was, made me wonder if it was another animal. After all they might be able to change shape or or uh......ugh this world is definitely dangerous. I might be a killer but I still kinda feel scared of these animals. I''m used to humans but animals are a whole different story.


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    Scratching my head I think about the silliness of this moment. Here I am a professional killer being scared of a rock. "Unacceptable!" I thought.


    Feeling ashamed I start to defiantly walk up to the rock and notice another odd thing. There was an engraving on the rock. I try to read it before I realise, I cant read. Sure I can talk in this world''s language but I never learned how to read. After all we weren''t exactly rich. Sure there were some books around the shack but I never liked reading.


    Mad at my incapability, I kick the the rock. Yeah I like to take my anger out on other things. Don''t blame me since I am a killer.


    Turning to leave, the earth started to tremor and a loud voice boomed.


    "How dare you desecrate my home, you insolent brat! " roared the the voice.


    - Looking back at the voice I saw a 2 meter brute appear out of the large rock. He had green skin and flat nose along with small beady eyes. He reminded me of an overgrown goblin.


    "Huh! Too scared to respond brat!" Shouted the brute again.


    - Arching my eyebrows. I reply cooly "I have no need to reply to my next victim, but I''ll make you an exception." Taking out two knives. I let a smile creep onto my face and activated < Blood Lust >.


    "What! You dare threaten the guardian of this forest!" replied the brute.


    -  "But aren''t you just a goblin, how can you be the guardian?" I asked interested.


    "How dare you call me a goblin! I''m a mighty warrior of the orc race known as the GREAT Ron!"


    - "I''m Ken, so if your the guardian you should know your way around right?" I asked amused at his exuberant replies.


    " Of course! I am the guardian! I know this forest inside and out!"


    - "Would you be willing to show me around then?" I asked innocently. Unfortunately I still didn''t deactivate my < Blood Lust >


    "Huh? Why should I a great guardian help you! Replied the orc viciously.


    - "So if I defeat you, will you then be willing to show me around." I asked coldly.


    "You''ll have to defeat me first!" Yelled the brute and started charging at me with a club.


    I didn''t want to kill him. Since then he would be useless, so I put my knives back and unsheathed the bastard sword. I surround it with a thin layer of mana and got into position. The orc was surprising agile, he arrived where I was in a couple of seconds. Swinging his club down with fearsome strength. Using my reflexes I barely dodged but had no time to counter. Since the orc followed it up with a another strike. I adjusted my sword so it deflected the blow and countered with a diagonal slash. The slash pierced the the skin but got stuck.


    Pulling with all my might, I manage to pull it out in time to defend against the next blow. The power was beyond my expectations. It broke the fucking sword in half and blew me back across the forest. Using my mana I focused it into my fist and rammed it into one of tree trunks, stopping myself. Not letting up the orc followed me and prepared to strike again.


    I then activated my last resort skill < Mist form >. It was a last resort since I didn''t master it and the time it took to turn into mist and back was a whole 5 minutes. Luckily I was blown far away so I had time, so I retreated deeper into the forest. While the orc ran after me. When my mist form was about 60 percent completed. The orc was about 20 meters away. Trying something new, I tried to incorporate mana into my < Mist Form > To increase the speed of the transformation and a message suddenly appeared in my head.


    < Unlocked hidden Phantom skill ''Mana Mist'' >