Athens 512 BC
Explosive news has come from Sparta.
One of the two kings of Sparta has been found guilty of treason.
His head is now displayed on the entrance of Sparta.
His family was also been executed.
But that was to be expected, this was not a kind world.
And the Agiad does not want some remnants to start a rebellion or start killing for revenge.
Leonidas the half-brother of Cleomenes has taken over the other throne of Sparta.
Some of the news was not officially confirmed.
Like if the magistrate was stripped of power.
If this was true, then the power of the Agiad had risen even higher in the Greece political climate.
But one thing was true for sure, the prince of Sparta has been kidnapped and his father is not happy.
There is a bounty on the head of the prince.
Anyone who can point Leonidas in the right direction will receive 1000 gold from the city of Sparta.
Under the temple of Athena Deimos was still strapped on the operation table.
After a bad night of sleep he woke up.
Deimos not understanding what is going on, starts to panick.
"Calm down Deimos" said Dariel.
"Panicking doesn't help in this situation".
Deimos calmed down considerably.
"Listen well Deimos I don't have much time left here".
"I have been called back there is an emergency and I am needed".
"I have changed your nanites so that they can directly report your accomplishments".
Deimos hearing this almost started crying.
"Don't dry; you have to stay strong". Dariel said.
"I will visit you as soon as the situation is fixed".
"Do you promise to come back" Deimos asked with teary eyes.
"Off course I will come back" she leaned forward and gave a kiss on his forehead.
It felt like sunshine trickling your skin in early spring.
After the warmth was gone so was Dariel.
Deimos, now all alone in the room looked listless to the ceiling.
A quarter of a hour later the door opend.
A old man walked in with a stern face.
"Hello Deimos; you can call me tormentor".
Deimos didn't even look at the men in frond of him.
Tormentor ignored the silence, and continued talking.
"We will be going trough the procedures, to make you a worthy member of the hand of Persia".
"The first thing we have to work on, is your poison resistance".
"Imagine a assassin dying because used poisen bombs, but he had not build up resistance for said poison".
"He would be a joke and a shame for the ones who trained him".
"I started talking about something unnecessary again; my age must make me sentimental".
"Well shall we get started then young Deimos"
"Your parents got a good sense of naming I must say"
"Deimos bringer of panic that was always gonna be your destiny".
"Be it on the battlefield as a Spartan or now when your fate changed again as a assassin"
"You would always bring panic to the ones standing against you".
Throughout totmentors whole monologue, Deimos was unresponsive.
After mixing different toxic ingredients made from both flora and fauna mentor walks to Deimos.
He forcefully opend Deimos mouth and shoves the goo inside his mouth.
Deimos almost instantly begins to scream.
The toxins work because his physique is being suppressed by the sun insect poisoning.
The sun insect can suppress his intake of dark matter, making him weaker and less resistant to poisons.
Without his superior body, he had to use everything in him to survive.
Luckily his Super healing was only partly suppressed.
Because of that he could make it trough the torture.
The veins all over his body looked like earth worms wiggling under his skin, they had a
sickly deep green colour.
After making it trough, Deimos was sweating on the table where he was still bound.
"Good" said mentor seeing he survived.
This was the most toxic potion he ever used for building up immunity, this should have killed the child 60 times over.
Mentor walked out of the room where he saw Serbian.
"You were right Serbian he is special"
He survived the drake's breath, with this we can continue our experiment.
"Good" said Serbian.
The next few weeks he got fed a great amount of toxins venom's and poison's.
At some point they didn't do anything to him anymore.
After mentor left the room again; Deimos now a lot livelier, looked around how to escape.
But before he had the time to do so he felt a change in his body.
[System update]
[You got a new blessing]
[Snake from the garden]
(The snake used to be the most magnificent animal in creation.
Having strong scales, 5 claws, a strong ferocious head and deadly venom.
But he tricked Gods children into falling for sin, because he was jealous they were chosen to take care of creation.
He was stripped of his legs and forced to crawl trough the dust and mud.
Cursed to have a eternal grudge with with the descendants of men.
His descendants would bite the heel of Adams protege while they would crush his head.)
(To trick the sons of men the snake can speak every language.)
[Babylonian speach]
(The snake is the pinnacle of venom and poison)
[All your body fluids are now poisenous and your bite is venomous]
(With every toxic object you ingest your poisen gets stronger)
(The snake has many small scales as defence)
[ Your skin has changed to many tiny scales]
(Your defence has risen significantly)
Deimos felt the changes in his body.
What brought him great joy, was that he felt his new physique slowly assimilateing the sun insect poison.
It was a extremely slow process that would take years.
But it gave Deimos hope.
Not only would Deimos be immune for sun poisoning after his body consumed the poison in his body.
His spit and blood would have the same characteristics as the sun poison.
Making people burn from the inside and cook themselves, when the came in contact with it.
With this change, he could bide his time waiting till he could escape from this organisation.
But for now he could only wait.
And dream; dream of home.
Dream of Sparta.