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MarKed

🇺🇸Mepo
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Benji has recently been accepted into one of the three prestigious Academies of Adventurers and Elites. He's nervous about it all but eager to make friends. A new school life of training and magic awaits him, but he can feel the stares. Heck, he can practically hear the question on everyone's mind: 'What's that mark on his face?' ———————————————— !!!UPDATES!!! [RESTRUCTURING CHAPTERS {19-34}] Super busy with my job, school, and well life so once again please bear with the slow updates. I've started the process of correcting some things and adding the arc I skipped. I'm a more confident writer now so please look forward to the new content! The chapters being work shopped are [18-34] so kindly ignore those please ;p. A new cover will mark the completion of this process. [It has begun] Saturday is the day I try to post, but I may drop a chapter a day or two later. -v- Oh and count on me not dropping this story it's my very first after all so I'll write it to its end >;) ———————————————— Credits Thank you Lapiz for the amazing cover art! Please go check them out if you like what you see. Their name is blacklapiz on Fiverr. They have an Instagram too so give that a follow @blacklapizuu Thank you Baxtli for the wonderful sketch used for my christmas thank you. Go check them out on Fiverr. Their name is baxtli. ———————————————— [Me] Hello, Dear reader, I'm Oliver Mepo, but you can call me Mepo. As you already know this is my story "MarKed". I aspired to be a writer for some time now, and yet I never had a work of mine seen by actual readers. So I decided to comb through my library of ideas, and put one out there. Call this my punch to the sky. Hoping this works at least a little. Heck if this blows up I might become a full-blown writer. So please let me know what you think. Tips on how to improve or polish my writing are appreciated more than you may know. I'm a newbie, but I do hope you'll stick around to see how "MarKed" unfolds.
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Chapter 1 - Prologue–A Place of Darkness

A cave—the place of darkness chosen for my trial. I sit on the cold stone ground staring at the being before me. My face a ghastly mask of horror and shock.

"What did you say," I whisper as I backpedal away in disbelief.

My Inaltiare, however, kept his formless eyes locked with my own.

"I will not be enhancing you," he repeated again.

"I…don't understand," I say, my voice shaking.

I knew all too well that failing the enhancement trial meant death. I feel the tears streaming down my face. I can only think of my mom. I promised her I'd come back home. I hadn't even considered the thought of failing. I clench my fist in frustration.

The Inaltiare watches me for a moment, then turns walking away.

He stops a couple of paces away, "Come back to me when it's gone," he says, his presence fading.

'Come back? But I failed the trial, didn't I—'

But I could no longer speak—let alone think—as a horrible feeling surges through my entire body. It feels as if every ounce of magic is being drained from my body. As I crumple to the ground, my vision fades, my eyes close, and something inside me wakes up.