Game World [#2]

He looked at the house, a very bad feeling growing deep from his chest, he knew it was because the mere sight of the place he was abused physically and mentally was enough to make him see long forgotten memories of his deep, dark past that haunts him to this very day in various PTSD attacks that he has throughout the day. Taking a deep breath and calming himself down, he opened the door to his personal hell, letting the demons of the past enter his heart and attack his soul, as memories of pain and suffering attached themselves at his feet acting like heavy steel balls, which were connected through the chains of fear that attached themselves to his heart and heels. His footsteps echoed through his mind as he reminded himself why he was here in the first place, to say goodbye forever and move on with his life, oh, and also to tell them he was going to move far away from this and live his life.

That's all.

He got this.

His previous name was Essek Bright, now he got a new first name since his surname was from his real parents, the ones who loved him before they died in a car accident, without other relatives he had to go to a orphanage and soon he became a toy at the hands of these two psychopaths. He will, of course, bring them to justice as well, but as Erick Bright and not Essek Bright, since Essek Bright is long dead and buried beneath the years and years of memories he wished to ger rid of forever... At the hallway, appeared Karen, his adoptive mother, and beside her was Dave, his adoptive father. He knew both of them were bad people, so he came prepared with pepper spray just to be safe! "Hello." He said through his gritting teeth, he hated them, he hated their entire existence, but he didn't want them to die... No, he wanted them to live and suffer, because they deserved it.

Even though Erick grew to be a gentle and shy soul, he was capable of hate and much many other emotions of such magnitude as well. After all, he was human.

"Hello son, come, come, let's sit down." Karen came forward and tried to touch Erick, who flinched and dodged her touch, making her frown and but smile seconds later as she walked towards the kitchen, because the house was small, the dining room and the kitchen were in the same place, it was convenient and compact as well. Dave looked at him with his piercing gaze that he always has on his utterly ugly and perturbing face, both he and Karen were terribly underweight and overweight respectively, so his thin body and his wife's big body are an odd combination, Erick would never use their appearance as something to mock them because who is he to judge, right?

Regardless, he followed his mother to the kitchen, where he sat at opposite sides of the kitchen to make sure they couldn't be near him and would be able to hit him. He didn't even sat down as both of them did, no, he stood up looking down at them and said: "You two, i came here to say three things. First, i am leaving this place forever, I am going to live happily away from both of you, and also I'll bring you to justice for what you did to me. Even if it means i that this doesn't end here, i am willing to continue this if it means you'll both be brought to justice." The more he spoke, the more his parents stood there looking at him in the same way they looked at him when he was a little boy, like he was a piece of delicious, succulent, piece of meat that they wanted to devour...

He unconsciously took a step back, but soon stood his ground and looked down at his abusers, he was ready to leave. As he was leaving, however, a sudden singing pain drove itself on his left shoulder, making him wince and look at it to see a dart imbedded inside his shoulder, he looked back at his adoptive father who had more darts on his hand, but these darts looked a little strange... It was then that he noticed, it was a little red arrow? A little crooked arrow that would definitely hurt to take it out, he knew it would, he studied medicine after all! So he decided not to take it out, but let it inside him, to stop it from bleeding. "You will not leave this house alive!" Tye voice of Dave shouted from behind him, Erick quickly turned around to see Dave and Karen, both holding those small arrows and with wicked smiles at him, he slowly took two steps back before he ran.

He ran towards the kitchen, he needed a weapon to defend himself, and knives were a great idea.

Just the he felt several of those little things enter his body, his back, his legs, and his shoulders as well, which hurts a lot. He gasped as his feet gave in, he fell forward and hit his chest on the ground, just like he did several times on the past, being pushed, kicked, punched to the ground by them. When he tried to move, he felt pain on his feet, his head turned as he tried to look at his feet only to see two big red arrows holding him down by piercing his skin with the arrow, through the floor of the kitchen. He couldn't move...

He felt despair, this wasn't supposed to happen, he knew that. This was not normal, he tried ro move only to feel more pain, and hear the cackling of the two behind him: "I'm done waiting, we should eat him now! Before he gets better!" That was the voice of Karen, but heavily distorted to the point of being almost demonic... "We should do it slowly, making him suffer through the process, makes the meat and soul taste better!" Erick felt his skin being slowly pulled out of his legs, he screamed in pain and tried to move only to have his back stabbed with another one of those little arrows, he began to feel it... He was going to die. The demonic cackling of both and the pain brought him back to his memories, where he saw himself being held at the basement, Karen holding a whip and grinned as she hit him with the whip because she wanted to, his skin was destroyed and he was bleeding, his mind was fuzzy and he felt his whole body burning as she threw salt on his injuries.

And right now, they were also using seasoning to eat his flesh.

It hurts.

His heart began to burn, making him wince as something inside him began to move outwards, out of his body with great power and explosive prowess, he could only hear his adoptive parents shrieks of pain as something happened. What he didn't see was that from him, an explosion happened, covering the whole house in a blinding light for a second, the kitchen and great part of the house was completely destroyed by that blinding light, reduced to ash... His parents? Gone, not even ash was left behind, just poof!

They felt great amount of pain though.

Erick fainted, due to the pain, the stress, and using too much of his magic.

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[Analyzing Backstory...]

[Awakened Sub-Origin has been selected, Awakening method has been selected. Skill/Power has been received due to Awakening method.]

• [Skill/Power: [Pain Resistance I] received.]

[Player entering the world... World Selected:

Marvel World]

[Randomizing world... Adding characters... Adding events... Fourth Wall has been created.]

Harew opened his eyes as the information of hus backstory entered his mind, he could only sigh as he saw the thing about the Fourth Wall... This was to stop players from using outside information to their advantage! If the player knew the world and the world events, with the [Fourth Wall] players can't tell other characters about anything outside of the game, they need to use informations they know from the game, and if they have abilities from outside the game, they'll have an easier time learning that skill inside the game as well!

When he opened his eyes, Harew, who was now Erick and couldn't break character because of the [Fourth Wall], looked around. He was in the hospital, but he doesn't know how... That was unil the game gave him information about what happened to him: He was found at the kitchen, bleeding while two corpses were around him, they were the burned bodies of his adoptive parents and due to how he was found, it was determined that a gas explosion happened and he was the only survivor of that. There was no wounds from the arrows on his body, as if they never happened! It was due to his his new passive ability:

[(P) Magical Regeneration I: Just like normal regeneration, but comes from your magic.]

It would keep him alive in dire situations. He then received a notification from the game, asking him to:

[Select your Magic System:

Somatic: By the sound of your voice, reality shall be bent. (Weakness: Silence)

Gesture: By a wave of your hands, mountains shall fall apart (Weakness: Lose appanages)

Material: By the mark of magic in your body, oceans shall boil and freeze (Weakness: Lost of material)

Will/Imagination: By your mere thought, the world shall break apart (Weakness: Loss of Focus)

...]

Erick sighed, he had to choose one immediately, one that didn't hurt him as much: [Imagination/Will] was his choice. He watched as the screen broke apart and melded back into his

[Character Screen:

Name: Erick Bright

Gender: Male

Origin: Magical

Sub-Origin: Awakened

Domains: Holy [Apprentice]

Magic System: [Imagination/Will]

Spells: [(A) Heal I]

Background: [Doctor]

Skills/Powers: [(P) Medicine I], [(P) Cooking I], [(P) Magical Regeneration I], [(P) Pain Resistance I]

The screen soon shattered away when a nurse walked inside the room accompanied by a doctor, when Erick saw the man, he got a weird feeling and saw a transparent veil on top of the man, like he was wearing some kind of thin cloth on top of him that covered his whole body... Behind the veil, Erick could see a humanoid male with shining green eyes and light green skin with vines and leaves for hair, which was interesting. The woman looked fine though...

[New Skill:

[(A/P) Magical Sight I Unlocked]

[Magical Sight: Your eyes can see beyond the thin veil that separates the natural and the supernatural. You can see spirits, through simple illusions, and see some supernatural's true form.]

The man was surprisingly good looking, he had a small gentle smile when he looked at him only to frown when he noticed Erick looking "at" him, his real self. Looking through him... He turned to the nurse, that had little blobs of red flames floating around her, in fact, her whole hair was on fire! She looked at Erick who tilted his head sideways and said: "I think i got hit hard... I'm seeing things now."

[New Skill:

[(P) Acting I Obtained]

[The art of controlling one's emotions and movements to portray a role... Or simply lie to your audience.]

[(P) Lying I Obtained]

[Lying is very easy, but telling half-truths is always better.]

Harew the gamer smiled, but Erick the character felt bad to lie to them. The doctor and nurse looked at each other in the eye for a second before the nurse sighed and whispered to herself something, Erick only saw her lips move and she soon turned to the door and locked it, just to be safe. There were mundanes in this hospital as well as supernaturals, and they just got another one, by the looks of it he must be a magic user due to the surrounding magic in the air that circulated him like he was part of it, as it did with everyone who can use magic. There was an incident where he was found, so he must be an [Awakened], a rare type of magic user that have been born in the mundane world, normally they would learn about their magic as soon as they were born which makes them [Born] magic users.

But differently from [Born] Magic users, [Awakened] Magic users were born in a dangerous or strange environment that makes their magic retreat to them and protect them internally and externally if necessary, this boils up the magic, making it stronger and stronger, sometimes so strong the user dies when they awake their magic. That's why [Awakened] Magic Users are rare, and Treely Enroot, the Forest Nymph doctor just met one.