a new world

a portal has opened 10 meters above the ground. the portal was shiny and glowed as bright as a sun. the portal itself was colorless and spectral but if one looked at that point he could see the disruptions in space.

from the said portal a young man fell into the ground with a big crash, leaving a small pit right below the portal.

"WHY CANT IT SEND ME TO THE GROUND FOR ONCE" screamed the one who fell from the portal.

hil needed some time to deal with the pain for his current race couldnt handle much pain, and for a 14 years old human that fell 10 meters directly into a dried land and tough dirt, he was dealing with a lot of pain.

after an hour the pain started to fade and it no longer bothered hil, he could stand up now and check his surroundings. it looked like he was in the middle of nowhere, considering he was sent to the medival ages it was very likely he was in the slums of some big city or maybe, the slums were the city.

hil was surrounded by a terrible smell of ash, metal, sweat and blood. all those foul smells mixed together created the feeling of a war.

"check". hil started to move and walk around a bit, to look at his surroundings and to get used to his new body.

hil walked for a few minutes, stretching his arms a bit while walking. after confirming his new body was healthy and didnt have any broken parts he decided to look for people... or some kind of life forms.

fortunately, hil found the residence area in the place he was and as he suspected, he was at the slums. he saw a few houses that looked old, the wood was rotten and almost decaying, there were no windows in most houses just some holes to let some light come in and he also noticed a few people near the houses. there were 6 people and every single one of the people wore torn rags and had no shoes, apart from one person. his clothes looked brand new as if the beast used to make it was slaughtered just now, his pants were long and looked very warming and he wore boots. it looked like the five people in rags were some sort of slaves and the rich guy was a merchant or some noble.

"well what did i expect, even in a lowly place like this theres a clear hierarchy" hil searched for what the slaves were doing, hoping they delivered something valuable until...

"FOUND YOU, LITTLE RAT"

a person dressed with a simple iron chestplate and a simple helmet shouted at hil.

"GET BACK THERE BEFORE ILL MAKE YOU"

hil thought he was probably one of the slaves and decided to play along for now. even if he wanted to do something it wasnt worth the bother. the rich guy wouldnt let a slave go like that, would he?

"oh err, im sorry something fell on my head. could you remind me what i was doing?"

hil thought he should get to work for now since he did want to see what the slaves were doing.

"argh, these slums, something always wrong with the people here, some are sick, some are stupid and some are dead" the guard started to complain under his breath.

"well take a pickaxe and follow those slaves, you are lucky we still didnt get there. if we did you would be in a deeper debt now".

the guard grabbed his arm by force and took him to the line after he gave him a pickaxe.

after hil got in the line he started to walk with the other slaves. the guard that brought hil was at the back of the line and the rich guy was leading the line to the mine. hil noticed all of the slaves were around the age of 15, they probably were sold by their family to cover a debt or something like that. after an hour they reached the mine. the guard went with them into the mine while the rich guy stayed at the entrance. they walked in and started to search for ores. when someone found an ore vein he called the others and they started to mine the ore out of the rock.

after a long time of mining the guard shouted "ITS BREAK TIME, come get your food before you starve haha."

every slave ran towrads the guard while hil dragged his feet, he didnt understand why they ran so fast just for food. when he got there he noticed each slave was very thin, like they only ate the bare minimum to be kept alive and keep mining. everyone apart from the guard and hil ate like its their first time seeing food. the guard ate some meat while hil and the slaves ate some weird looking soup. hil started to feel hungry when he saw everyone eating and started to eat too, until suddenly the guard shouted "GET BACK EVERYONE ITS A GOBLIN, RUN TO THE ENTRANCE"