4 years later.
'Again.....' Mark thought as he forcibly gazed at his mother getting raped by assailants unknown to him, but known to his mother, Lauren.
The history repeated itself.
And Mark could do nothing, this time too.
It was just another peaceful day with Mark exploring ways to do something and get stronger; he had an undeveloped, but still stronger than a normal 6 year old, body with not even a hint of knowledge on to use mana.
Posy, who was a daily guest of their home, arrived at the same time she would arrive everyday, but the news she brought was horrifying. She screamed that there were people unknown, who were slaughtering everybody, which included Marshal, in the village, which Mark didn't even have a chance of exploring yet, but before her words ended on their own, they were ended by unknown hooded people, who slashed Mark's "granny Posy's" neck, which led Mark to watch her head bounce around the walls of his small but homely house.
The assailants this time hid their identities and had their way with Lauren, this time Mark's mother was incredibly unlucky as there weren't only one or two assailants.
Upon the entrance of the assailants, an unknown but ominously oppressing aura enveloped the entirety of Mark's home, maybe even the entire village, before the man who was identified by Mark's mother forced Mark to watch everything happening with an unknown force, which was similar to the mana he had seen his parents use.
Mark's bloodshot eyes were forced to remain open by the unknown power which held him afloat, metres off the ground; he was even forced to watch everything up close by the man whose death was destined to be in Mark's hands.
After everything was done, Lauren's head was forcibly turned in an unnatural angle as the hooded man, who held Mark afloat, walked towards him with a dagger in his hand.
"This scene should remain in your mind as you die. Take this as a lesson to never go against an aristocrat!" The man with a hoarse and cold voice said and slashed Mark's eyes with his dagger.
But,
"....." Mark didn't scream.
His eyes had returned how they were before his rebirth, dead, even before the man slashed his eyes.
Of course, the man believed that his aura was too fearful to the kid who couldn't even understand what had just happened with his mother. The man continued to watch Mark's wide open eyes which were spurting blood without letting the child to close his eyes even for a moment.
"Hey, give me the "mutated sewage rat's crystal."" The man commanded to his underling, who was panting, satisfied. The underling gave the man a finger-sized prism-shaped crystal which the latter put in Mark's mouth and forced him to swallow it.
"You shall think of the scene you last saw till your last breath." The man muttered and left, or that was what Mark or Ken heard after he fell down to the ground with a subtle thud.
Seconds later, everything turned silent except for the roaring voice in Mark's consciousness.
'I'll kill them. I'll kill them. I'll kill them.....'
"I'll kill them all!" Mark muttered and a kind of pain he never felt assaulted his body.
DING-!
[Character's synchronised story has been successfully re-enacted!]
[User, Daddy_Darkness', customised character has been created!]
[Perfect synchronisation complete!]
[[Mutated sewage rat's crystal] [Rank – F (-)] [Inconsumable] has been consumed!]
[[Abyssal (Ex)] has been activated!]
*
There were different kinds of monsters all-over Miorus, and all of them had different kinds of abilities, except for one which was a monster but couldn't be considered one, and that was the [Sewage Rat] a rank F minus monster.
*
Mark's 6 year old body twitched uncontrollably before everything stopped abruptly as if the crystal ingested body had become lifeless.
But,
It wasn't that.
[[Rank – F (-)] crystal has been consumed and assimilated under the effects of [Abyssal (Ex)]]
[Stat [Mana] has been unsealed!]
[[Skill: Body of a mana genius] has been acquired!]
[Due to the [Class: Heavenly Sword Emperor]'s effects [Skill: Body of a mana genius] has been changed to [Skill: Body of a martial genius]]
[Under the effects of [Abyssal (Ex)], [Skill: Body of a martial genius] has been upgraded]
[[Skill: Heavenly Martial Body] has been acquired!]
[[Class: Heavenly Sword Emperor] has leveled up by 1!]
[Player can now check the "status window"]
Even as all those information about him gaining a skill under the effects of whatever it was, flooding his mind, Mark didn't move even a bit, but understood something.
"I got stronger....." He muttered as his heart reeked coldness that could even freeze the snow itself. What he wanted since he understood his retained past life's memories had happened, but it was too late. He couldn't save "his mother," again.
He couldn't save "his family," again.
"Jessi, I became hollow in this life too...." Ken muttered.
"..... Another round of my lifeless life, huh...." Mark muttered.
After seconds turned to minutes, minutes tuned to hours, Mark did nothing but lay down on the ground as if he was dead.
'This scene should remain in your mind as you die. Take this as a lesson to never go against an aristocrat! You shall think of the scene you last saw till your last breath.' The man's words continued to linger in Ken's mind, making it overload with thoughts.
'Status window'
[Mark – Ken]
[Username: Daddy_Darkness]
[Class: Heavenly Sword Emperor] [Level – 1]
[Skills: [Abyssal (Ex)], [Heavenly Martial Body (SSS)]]
[State: Blind, hollow]
"That's the [Last Life]'s interface....." Ken mumbled under his breath.
He wouldn't dare call the world he was born into to be a game, but even if it was, now that he was "alive" in that world, it wasn't a game anymore, so to make it easier for him to accept everything about himself and the world he was born into;
".... This world is similar to the [Last Life]'s game....."
That was it.
And, now, with the what feeble information he held about the game, he would grow stronger, strong enough to destroy everybody that stood in his way; in his previous life, he wanted to be the strongest and destroy everything and everybody that stood in his way, but he was but a mere human and death would come for him too, one day or the other. But, if it really was the world, Miorus, from the game, then it was possible to live forever if one transcended the limits of a human.
"Starting with the assailants...." Ken muttered.
"..... I shall tyrannize all the lives that dare live in my presence....."
*
A day later.
Ken stood up and walked inside his house which he was extremely familiar with, went into his parents' room and neared the wardrobe where his mother's favourite red coloured scarf hung on the handle of the wardrobe, grabbed it tied it above his closed eyes before grabbing the short-sword hidden beneath the bed and walked out of the room and the house, where everything unfamiliar greeted him.
Blood tainted scent of cold breeze trickled his nose which scrunched for an instant before relaxing as if already used to it.
THAK-!
THUMP-!
Ken was forced on his fours when his leg caught on to something. He tapped on the cold and slightly wet thing to feel what it was and soon found out that it was an headless body of a woman.
"Granny Posy...." Mark mumbled before sounds wings flapping trickled his ears.
'Vultures, crows, or maybe even eagles.....'
He thought of something and dragged Posy's body back into the house, went back outside to find rocks of the kind he was searching for, found them after a few minutes of grabbling around, before he walked back to the house and towards the kitchen, found the flammable liquid which was brought back to the hall where his mother's and Posy's dead bodies were; though it was regrettable that he wouldn't be able find his father's body, he couldn't help it.
He splashed around the flammable liquid on the lifeless bodies before he clenched both of the rocks he found outside and grazed them against each other, harshly.
He grazed at his own fingers and wrists a few times, but he didn't stop until the fire was lit. When he felt the heat, he backed out of the house, knowing his entire house would be lit up like a torch since almost everything in the house was made out of wood.
"Rest in peac-"
"Please rest."