"I don't know what happened officer, I was at work when it happened. All I know is my eldest daughter is dead."
My father spoke to the blue men at our door. He kept telling me they were bad people and that I should stay away from them, but they seem nice.
"Well, there's no evidence suggesting it was a murder so it's most likely and accidental suicide. We're sorry for taking up your time, good night, sir."
The door closed and the old man turned around and looked down at me.
He pushed me to the ground and walked past to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of funny smelling water.
Right there he downed the whole bottle and moved to my little sisters room.
It wasn't too long until I could hear her crying.
He's doing that thing he always did with my older sister.
I know he's disappointed in me for not being a girl like them. Though now that the other parents gone, he may force me to do that anyway if the younger sister does what my older one did.
After an hour he came out naked and sweaty and started beating me, this is how it is every day, this is how it has always been.
"Amon, Wake up, we're supposed to be meditating."
Did I fall asleep?
I look around and see we're in the middle of the forest.
That's right, I took Maya out here to do some training.
"When are we going to do some real training? I'm bored of meditation."
"You might be bored but it's necessary. It's the only way to increase your magic and intelligence stats without engaging in combat."
Maya grumbles as she returns to meditating.
Her progress is slow, but she's been doing this for five hours straight every day for a week, her stats will be slowly increasing.
Most people don't have the time or patience for this, so they only go out and hunt for quicker results in the short term.
I look up at the sun to get a gauge on what time it was.
"Maya, that's enough. It's time for the physical training."
"Aww, that's even worse!"
"You saw Alex's and Edgars fight. Alex was physically superior, and this is what caused his swift victory."
"That's because his family specialises in buffing magic. They can even learn elemental reinforcement to further increase their output. I'm specialised in summoning and taming magic, why do I need to improve myself physically?"
"It's better to be jack of all trades than a master of one."
"What does that even mean?"
I sigh, why is she so intent on letting her summons carry her?
"It means you can't rely on one fighting style to win."
"Fine I'll do it, what was it again."
I flash a smile.
"One hundred push ups! One hundred sit ups! And one hundred squats! Followed by a ten kilometre run! Do it every day until you go bald!"
"Uh, fine, but I'm not going bald."
She starts doing her exercise and I take this time to examine her stats.
[Name: Maya
Race: Human
Level: 3
Strength: 65
Speed: 62
Magic: 104
Dexterity: 69
Intelligence: 123
Luck: 1,000,000
Skills: appraisal, summoning (IX), magic (III)
Title's: Monster tamer]
She's made quite the improvement. This would be considered quick even for an other worlder.
Once she's finished here, I'll take her to kill some monsters.
After a few hours pass she returns to where I'm sitting, covered in sweat.
"Alright I'm done, now let's head back."
"Not yet. There's a goblin horde nearby. Take them out, without using your summons."
I crafted a dagger using item creation and a piece of stone from the ground.
"Use this, from now on we'll hunt monsters as well to increase your level."
So when he said we he really meant just me.
'The monsters around here are so weak its not even worth me killing them.'
That was his excuse. That and something about trying to gain more power over space.
I don't even know what does that even means?
That prince is weird, but still, he's powerful, and incredibly good looking, even if he looks a little weird.
I'm lost in my thoughts as I come across the hoard of goblins, maybe about thirty of them, and draw the dagger Amon gave me.
He said I can't use summons, but if I don't summon Draig he won't know. I release my slimes and they scatter and hide in different places around the hoard, using their camouflage ability to hide from the short green monsters slowly closing in.
Regular goblins are weak, they have a stat average of around 10 which puts them below the average human's stat average of 25. But they can still be dangerous in large groups. And when the average person doesn't carry weapons, it's pretty much a guaranteed death.
They're rather arrogant creatures, believing that they have a chance because I'm alone. They can't even consider the fact that the slimes around them may also be enemies.
I switch places with a slime using summoning magic and stab the goblin through the back of the head killing it.
The hoard seeing the death of their comrade became enraged and attacked, only for my slimes to hold them in place, cutting of their movement.
I walk in slowly and finish them off.
I should report back to Amon, it'll be almost time to go back now.
[Name: Amon Britannia
Race: Human?
Level: 420
Strength: 103,950
Speed: 102,346
Magic: 752,923
Dexterity: 108,012
Intelligence: 735,978
Luck: 250
Skills: God's appraisal, God's status concealment, Ancient Magic (X), Skill creation, Weapon master (X), Evil eye (X), teleportation (X) future sight (IX) Extreme Will (IX) Space manipulation (V) magic manipulation (IV) mind manipulation (II) Item creation (III) revival (I) regeneration (IV) Item Box, poison immunity, paralysis immunity, sleep resistance, drug immunity, disease immunity, advanced senses, battle adjustment.
Title's: The First Other Worlder, Other Worlder, Champion of Life and Death, Dragon Slayer]
My stats have gone up thanks to my training. Though that hardly matters. I'll have a quicker path to strength through my skills, I need to master space, magic, and mind manipulation to be able to use them to their fullest before focusing on my stats.
Especially space manipulation, I know how insane the abilities I could gain from it are but right now I can only control gravity through bending the space at specific points.
My control's surface level at best and if I want to get stronger it'll have to improve.
The baths at the academy will be closed by now so if I want one it'll have to be here.
Using magic I manipulated the ground to form a large tub and pull large stones out of the ground to be turned into tile, before finally filling the tub with steaming hot water.
I strip down and climb in and relax in the warm water.
Looking up into the starry night sky I begin to wonder why I'm doing all this. Why am I helping Maya? Why did Zagreus reincarnate me? Will I ever be strong enough to serve my Lord, or am I destined to be this weak forever?
I must have been lost in my thoughts because a twig snapped a few metres away from me followed by a thud as something fell to the floor.
I look down to see Maya on the floor her face red as a tomato as she unsuccessfully tried to avert her eyes.
I hear splashing water as I approach where Amon was meditating before.
Did something happen?
I look around and see his clothes hanging from a tree branch.
Now I'm really worried, something must have happened to him.
I take another step into the clearing, snapping a loose twig on the ground.
I see him, sitting naked in a bath, looking up at the stars, the moonlight embracing him. His well sculpted muscles glistened, making him seem almost divine, and yet at the same time his red and purple eyes made him seem kind of sinister as they seemingly glowed.
The shock caused me to stumble and fall.
The noise disturbed Amon causing him to look down at me as I try to avert my gaze from his body.
"What are you doing down there?"
He spoke in a soft and soothing voice like an angel from heaven.
"Nothing."
I quickly stood up and averted my eyes from him.
"What are you doing having a bath in the middle of a forest!?"
"Why does that matter? Or is that you wanted to join me?"
My face flushed even more.
It's not that I don't want to, but to do such an indecent thing with a man I'm not even married to.
"b-but we're not married. And besides, I'm just a commoner. I'm just a worthless girl from a worthless family."
That's right, compared to this seemingly godlike being before me, I'm completely worthless.
Amon sighed before he spoke.
"Who gives a shit about that. Your blood doesn't define you. You are who you are, the same way I am who I am. Judging people based off of their blood is just as bad as judging people for their skin colour, or sexuality. So, are you joining or leaving."
I pause to think for a moment, the baths at the academy will all be closed by now, but we're still not married.
Although, if by some miracle he likes what he sees this could be a chance to change that possibility. And if he really doesn't care about my common blood, then that just increases the possibility.
I strip down and climb in the tub.