"Hahaha... I knew he would make a fool out of himself."
In the middle of a large ground stood five teens in a circle with different weapons in their hands and in the middle, there was also a guy laying face down.
His clothes were torn by the beating he has just received.
A guy with blond hair who had an evil smile on his face and a sword in his hand moved toward the guy in the middle and spat on him.
He then stepped on his face. "You piece of shit, this is what you deserve to be so weak. How dare you look at my girlfriend?"
The guy on the ground grunted. "Roy, your girlfriend isn't even that beautiful."
He then also spat on the blonde guy.
Roy's face turned red at his remark, he knew that this guy was humiliating him. The other boys around also turned angry.
"How dare this pathetic guy still resist even after getting beaten up to this pathetic state, he truly is an idiot." A guy with long hair commented.
"Roy, teach this bastard a lesson, I think we should kill him, after all, he is a leech on our village." A guy with a small height remarked he had a cut on his upper lip.
Roy listened to them and flared his nose, he also wanted to kill this pathetic guy who just insulted his girlfriend. However, he knew that the Village chief wouldn't tolerate killing or maiming in the village.
He just kicked the guy in the face again with full force and moved back, "Killing him is not an option. It's late already, let's go home for today, we will beat him daily for the next seven days straight." Roy said and then moved back.
The other guys also agreed with him, they enjoyed beating this guy, so keeping him as their stress reliever was also an option.
"Gavin, wait for Daddy tomorrow, after all it's my turn to enjoy beating you. I will make sure to be creative and not let you get bored. Hahaha..." It was the guy with a short height and a cut on his lip. His name was Jack.
Other guys and even Roy shuddered at his words, they all knew that Jack was the most sadistic guy among the bunch, he loved torturing animals.
And now that he got his hand on Gavin, he will torture him too.
Gavin looked at them and kept quiet, he didn't rebuke them anymore as he was already exhausted will all the beating he has received.
These guys beat him up daily since the spirit awakening ceremony, as it turns out that he has awakened the weakest spirit in his village so he became an easy target for these village bullies.
After they left, Gavin stood up and spat on the ground in anger. "Why is my luck so bad?" He looked up and cursed the heavens.
The spirit that he got was a Hammer Spirit, however, it was a wooden hammer, and he can't even use it to do a blacksmithing job, so it was useless.
Dusting his clothes he cursed some more and then moved towards his home. Although he hated his home and his village, there was nowhere else he could go now.
Coming in front of his house he looked at the main gate and gulped his saliva, he was dreading this moment the whole way, he could stand getting beaten up by those bullies however his stepmother, she was the worse.
Clenching his jaw he opened the door slowly so he could get to his room without his mother noticing.
After closing the door when he saw that his mother was not there, he sighed in relief and moved to the back of his double-story house.
He lived in the basement as that was the place his stepmother allocated him after the spiritual awakening.
She always hated him, however before she always put on an act because of Gavin's father, however after it was revealed that Gavin awakened a trash spirit, his father stopped supporting him, which gave his stepmother full control over Gavin.
He opened the back door and through the stairs, he quietly moved down to the basement.
It was already after dinner, so getting food after coming late home was already a dream for Gavin.
Putting his head down he opened the door to the basement and sighed in relief that his mother didn't see him the whole way.
However just as he saw inside the basement his eyes dropped in dread. His stepmother was sitting on a chair in the middle of his room with a lantern by her side.
"My dear Gavin, so you have come back, you know that dinner is already over, so why did you come so late?" She asked him with a smile.
However, Gavin knew that it was not a warm motherly smile but a sinister one, she was just playing with him.
"Melissa, I am sorry."
Her name is Melissa and Gavin addresses her by her name as he didn't think of her as his mother.
Melissa stood up from the chair, with the uncanny smile still plastered on her face.
"You know that an apology will yield you nothing right? I have thought you that it's important to be punished for one's crimes so they don't go to hell later."
She said and then pulled out an iron baton out of thin air, it was actually her Spirit, an Iron Baton.
Gavin gulped his saliva looking at the baton, and goosebumps stood on his body, he knew that the last time Melissa pulled her baton was three months ago on the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, after she found out that he awoke a trash spirit.
He still remembered that night as her baton marks were still on his body, she is also a third-grade martial artist so Gavin couldn't resist her at all with his weak untrained body.
One could only cultivate Qi after their spiritual awakening at the age of sixteen. So Gavin was powerless against her that night.
And today was the same night with the same smile on her face, and just like before Gavin was also the same, completely powerless.
In this world, martial artists were divided into grades, the higher the grade the more powerful one is and Gavin was only a first-grade martial artist.
"I am sorry Melissa, this will never happen again..."
*Trench*
Melissa hit her baton on the metallic chair and interrupted his plea mid-sentence.
"Shut up you piece of shit and do as I say!" Her smile already turned into a grin and Gavin could see excitement flashing in her eyes.
It's like she enjoyed torturing him and the more he resisted the greater pleasure she felt.
Seeing her crazed look, Gavin closed his mouth and stopped resisting, he knew that the more he plead the more she will enjoy it, and he didn't want to give her any more enjoyment than she was already getting.
'Tomorrow I will run away from this village. And one day I will return to take my revenge.'
Gavin didn't run from this village until now because outside was a wilderness, filled with dangerous beasts, and the last time Melissa beat him, his father later came and stopped her.
So he thought that his father has forbidden Melissa from touching him again as after that night Melissa only scolded him.
However today he could tell that it would not end with only a scolding. And this means that his father has now agreed to Melissa's wish.
"Close the door," Melissa said with almost a giggling sound like she was about to have the time of her life.
Gavin on the other hand felt a cold rush in his spine. However, he didn't resist as he knew that he was powerless against her.
Turning around he closed the door of his room and when he turned around Melissa was now closer to him with a crazed look in her eyes.
He could tell that she was almost drooling, like a hungry beast that has gotten prey after a long time.
"Now strip!"