1 The Beginning

It all started on the afternoon of May 10th, 2018. It was on that damn day that my life officially went downhill.

Classes had finished about fifteen minutes ago, and everyone was either talking between themselves after the exam or preparing to leave. The mood on the clasroom was very bad and I was no exception, especially when Adam walked over towards me. He was as smug as a piece of shit could be, and I certainly wasn't fond of it.

For you to understand my situation, let me tell you a little about my life at High School. I was that shy person that always sat at the front just so I wouldn't have to deal with the people at the back. Due to me not being in any circle of "friends" I was automatically designated as everyone's punchbag both physically and verbally. Everyone else either bullied me through words, or didn't care at all. There was only one that did hit me physically, and that was Adam.

Adam was more or less your tipical alpha male of the class, and I hated him as much as I could hate someone. He was always down to bully me, specially if he was together with his crew of idiots that followed his orders just to be a little popular and not be bullied either. He wouldn't do much besides insulting me in front of others, but when we were alone, he absolutely enjoyed letting out his sadistic side on me and relieved all his stress by hitting me until he was tired of it.

I lived alone since my parents had passed away a few years prior, which triggered my current behaviour of letting everything happen and stay silent since there was no one who could truly help. The teachers always told me they would call his parents, but they were filthy rich and they always bribed the teachers so they couldn't do anything, and if that didn't do, the teacher would be fired the next day and the fault would be thrown to me.

This happened around four times already and by now I had given up any hopes of standing up to him since he would just make the rest of life out of High School hell itself too. So there was no surprise in the class when, as soon as the teacher left, Adam approached me. Everyone else started to talk more loudly in order to ignore what was about to happen, and I simply recoiled in my seat.

"Yo. Come with me to the back of the gym, there's something I have to tell ya."

"I can't, I will miss the bu-"

"Did I fucking asked? It was an order, you dumbass!"

He hit me in the back of the head with his open palm and it hurt quite a bit. He was holding back for some reason, probably so I could last him some more when we got to the back of the gym. I stood up and the height difference was showing already.

Fun fact; I'm the tallest of all in this class, and that too had been used against me. I used to play in the basketball team and other sports, but when my parents passed away I lost all motivation and the little interest people had in me too. Even if I was taller, I was still weaker than Adam due to my lack of excercise and the fact that it was too painful to train since I was hurting every day both outside and inside.

He guided me out of the classroom, but before we could step out, a blinding light covered the entirety of it and in the blink of an eye we were no longer in the classroom. We were now standing in the middle of an ominous and incredibly big white hall made of what I could guess was marble. Around us stood many soldiers wearing plate armor and wielding halberds pointing at us, and in front of everyone, sat upon a golden throne was what I assumed was a king, as he was wearing a crown.

"Welcome, Outsiders, to this my castle. I am King Rahgot of the Zynith Kingdom. I ask for your pardon for this situation, as it is a first time for us as well. You have been chosen by God to come and save our lands from the forces of Evil! So please, step forward and present yourselves, brave heroes!!"

The man had a long white beard, and he seemed to be around 50 years old since he still looked quite young for someone with that hair color and length. His blue eyes pierced your soul and you could feel that he was in command of the entire room just from the tone of his voice. The first ones to step forward were the group of bullies and some of the popular people, after which came everybody else, and me at the end.

At the end of it all, after everyone presented themselves, the King moved his left hand and what looked like a priest stepped forward with a book on his left hand and a white glove on his right hand. The King motioned towards us before explaining what was about to happen.

"Allow this priest of mine to touch your skin, for he shall [Identify] what blessing has been placed upon you by the many Gods of this land."

The priest passed one by one, touching everyone's forehead before humming as if he was meditating. After which, he announced the God they had been blessed by. There were but a few that got a important reaction, me included.

"Adam, your blessing is that of Thyr. The God of War."

"Is that any good?"

"It's perfect."

The damn bastard actually got blessed by a cool God. I kept my voice silent, but inside my mind I could feel the words forming up and dissapearing once he got to the next one. He was one of Adam's friends, Jack.

"Jack, your blessing is that of Helios. The God of Order."

(Order my ass! That guy was the most perverted of the three, and he always tried to molest me even before Adam started harassing me! Why do all the bastards are getting the good ones?)

I thought to myself as the priest moved to the next one, he was the last of the three main bullies, and he was more or less the brute and stupid amongst the three, Eliot.

"Eliot, your blessing is that of Eorlund. The God of Thunder."

(Alright, this is just ridiculous. Just why are they getting cool ones? Everybody else was blessed by some minor farm god or something!)

The priest continued announcing the blessings. Most of them were according to my toughts, they were mostly blessed by Gods of farming or secondary utilities like Blacksmithing and such. A few others were blessed by rare ones, a few of the girls actually got blessed by some Beauty God, and there were two that were blessed by a Lust God.

Obviously they were instantly showered with glares and sharp eyes by everyone, including the king. But as the priest touched my forehead, he instantly turned away and looked at the King in horror.

"This....This one has been blessed by...Vokun. The Goddess of Darkness and Evil."

The guard surrounded me before I could do anything, and I was forced to face the ground of the room. Many of the other students glared daggers at me, and the King looked at me with despise, as the priest backed away in fear.

"This one is no good. Take her eyes and brand her. No evil will reside in my castle or eat my food."

"Wait! Why?! What's happening??!!"

"Silence! You are cursed by the forces of Evil! You don't deserve our hospitality! Begone!"

"NOOO!! LET ME GOOO!!"

My screams stopped once I was knocked out by one of the guards and dragged away. That about does it for the introduction to what is happening right now. I woke up in the middle of a dungeon, with a furnace by the side and tied by hands and feet to a wooden pillar.

A man entered the room and took out a dagger, letting it heat up in the furnace while he prepared a branding iron stick. Obviously, my bad luck had been used against me once more, and before I could do anything about it, I had lost both my sight and my freedom on my first day in this new world.

That room was filled with screams of agony and the laughter of a man, and after that, I was thrown into a cell, where I would sleep and eat for the rest of my days. Or at least it was supossed to be that way.