The door to the basement opened and Melissa walked out of it with her baton dripping with blood, there was a satisfied smile on her face.
Behind, on the bed, Gavin's listless body lay with blood marks all over his body, he was only wearing black underwear.
"It's already morning, so get up and get dressed, I don't want your father to see your pathetic state, so make sure that you act properly in front of him." She said and turned around to see him.
However no reaction came from her words, she looked at his bruised body and remembered how she relived all her stress yesterday.
For the past few years, her husband is not taking care of her properly at night, and she needed to relieve her stress somewhere else, and now she has got a way to do so, and she decided to cherish it as much as she can.
"Come and eat breakfast, after all, you will need it for what is about to happen tonight, I have prepared something special for you tonight." She said with a chuckle and then closed the door.
Hearing the door closing, Gavin opened his eyes, and tears dripped from them. His whole body was crumbling in pain.
'I will make sure to pay back this bitch a thousand times.'
Shakily he got up and ruffled through the drawer to get new clothes. After that, he applied some medicine to the wound that Melissa has left for him.
"Ahh..." A grunt left his mouth, just as he applied the medicine to his wounds.
After a few minutes, he stood up from his bed and wore some clothes.
"Today is the day I will leave this shitty village and I will make sure to pay these guys what they deserve by a hundredfold."
Gavin clenched his fish and made a firm resolution.
Standing up he moved out of the basement and from the back door of his house he entered the garden.
A voice came just as he entered the garden.
"Hello brother, where are you going?" In front of him stood a girl the same age as him, she was Melissa's daughter and his step-sister Anaya.
Gavin looked at her and gritted his teeth, 'Why does she have to be here of all the people.'
Just like his mother, Anaya was also someone that Gavin hated to his core. Although she didn't abuse him physically as she was also powerless, as she hasn't awakened her spirit yet.
However, she was the reason Gavin got in trouble many times with his father.
Gavin looked at her smiling innocent face and cursed in his heart. 'This bitch acts so innocent, however, she is far from that. I know that she will become even more ruthless than her mother after she awakens her spirit.'
In the past, she always used to act friendly to him as it was speculated that Gavin would also awaken a beast spirit just like his father, however after his awakening, her attitude turned opposite and she started bullying him.
"You know that Mother has assigned me to keep an eye on you, so you don't run away, she mentioned that she enjoyed last night with you." Anaya said and came near him, her hand moving over his shoulder and then she reached for his groin.
"You know mom shouldn't be alone to enjoy you, how about you give me a chance." Her face came near his left ear, and Gavin could feel her breath on him, "I promise you will enjoy it more, with me."
She then clenched her fist in his groin.
A sudden pang of pain ran through Gavin's groin as he jolted back from her. His legs turned into noodles as he folded them in pain.
"Hehe... You are so cute, brother. It's a shame that Mother wants to keep you all for herself."
Gavin clenched his jaw. "I am going to take a bath in the river," He said and strolled out of the house at a fast pace.
Anaya looked at his disappearing back and giggled again. "Make sure to come back early, you don't want Mother to be angry."
Gavin didn't pay any heed to her words and kept moving.
Getting out of the house he moved toward the wilderness, he has heard that there was a way to the nearest town from there, and he has seen the way before and he remembered.
However one needed to move very carefully through that path as one can face many wild beasts.
After a few minutes, Gavin stood at the Wilderness entrance and gulped his saliva, 'I have to get out of this village.' Determination flowed through his eyes as he took his first step toward his freedom.
However, everything came crashing down when he heard a voice from his back.
"Gavin! I told you that Daddy will come looking for you today! Are you planning to run away?"
Gavin knew from the voice that it was none other than Jack, the small guy with a cut on his upper lip.
He turned and looked, Jack was standing there alone with a whip in his hand, the whip was his spirit. There was a smile on his face and he licked his lip just as Gavin looked at him.
Gavin squinted his eyes seeing that Jack was the only one here meant that he has a chance of running away.
So without wasting any time, he turned back and started running through the wilderness, he didn't take the intended path but entered the woods instead, so he can at least have a chance of escaping.
"There is no point in running away, I am a grade three martial artist, I will catch up to you easily, just give up and come back to me!" Jack shouted in anger seeing that Gavin was trying to escape.
He didn't want to follow him into the forest as it was very dangerous, he could get killed if he took one wrong step.
Jack looked at Gavin's disappearing figure and gritted his teeth in anger. "Wait! you piece of shit!" He also started running behind him.
Gavin looked behind his back and saw Jack coming towards him at high speed, cursing he increased his speed and jumped toward the inner wilderness.
However, he underestimated Jack's speed. Suddenly a whip came at blinding speed and hit him in the back, leaving a blood trail on the ground.
Jack stooped and stood at his place, a chuckle left his mouth. It is no use for you to run. I will only make it harder for you later.
Gavin understood that it was impossible to run away from Jack so he summoned his hammer too.
His eyes were bloodshot as he shirked at Jack. "Leave me alone! Or either you or I will die here today." He was ready to throw his life away.
Jack looked at his fierce condition and took a step back. Flaring his nose he raised his whip again.
"Hrumph! Do you think you have any right to die?! You are my toy today, so do as I say!"
*Whip*
His whip moved forwards and hit Gavin in the chest taking a piece of skin out with it.
"ahh"
A grunt left Gavin's mouth and he flew backward into a hole.
Standing up he saw that the hole he fell into was actually a dead end, so now he had nowhere to run. Gritting his teeth he spat out some blood and looked at his hammer.
"Is this the end?"
Jack stood above the hole and looked at his prey. "Now you have nowhere to run and even if I kill you here no one will know. Haha... I am gonna enjoy torturing you. Now come out and lick my feet if you want me to give you an easy death."
Gavin didn't give his words any heed as he was contemplating about ending his own life.
Just as he was about to bite his tongue, suddenly a lightning strike hit from the sky and connected with his wooden hammer.
The force of the strike was so great that it sent Jack to fly away in the distance.
*Boom* Jack smashed into a tree behind, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Gavin on the other hand turned unconscious from the strike, his hammer floated above his chest covered with lightning and suddenly turned golden in color from wodden.
Gavin's body also started changing, his height increased from five feet nine to six feet seven, and his muscles also started bulging from his clothes, tearing them apart.
Suddenly he went from a frail-looking teen to a robust giant and a few seconds later another lightning strike landed on Gavin, jolting him awake.
He stood up and looked at the Golden Hammer floating in front of him, he could also see that there was a black bead embedded in the hammer.
Power rushed through his body healing all his wounds.
A voice then rang in his mind.
"Heed my command young lord, wielder of Pantoran. I declare you as my master!"
The hammer suddenly wooshed and landed into his hand.