"wake up!"

"Get up you bastard!"

"Don't try to avoid work by saying you're tired."

Hey.. what's going on? Why is everyone screaming? Isn't someone sleeping?

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"That hurts you bastard," I screamed angrily as I felt something like a whip hit me. 

"Get up and go to work or you won't get any food."

I quickly got up and looked around. I saw people who looked like giants. I don't know how tall they were. They were wearing clothes similar to those worn by beggars on the street, but even worse. 

Some were looking at me with pity and others with schadenfreude. Then I looked to the side and saw a person looking at me with contempt and holding a whip. It seemed that he was the one who hit me. When I wanted to speak.

" ah. ah..."

I suddenly felt a pain in my head, and new memories of a twelve-year-old child came to me.

After understanding the situation almost I got up quickly to complete the work so that I don't strike again. 

After an hour... 

A child sitting in a hut eating some bread thinking 

Well, it seems I traveled in the body of a child. The place around me is unfamiliar, and there are a lot of slaves, so I can assume I either moved to a new world or moved through time, but the latter is not a candidate after some notes about the history of the place.

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I'm actually kind of excited to try something fantasy like reincarnation since I used to watch some anime and novels in my previous life. 

As for my previous life, I will only grieve for my fiancée. Fortunately, I did not marry her so as not to make her a widow later.

And No problem with worrying about mom and dad - I'm an orphan. My parents passed away in an accident when I was 12 years old. It seems that I also died in a major accident. Maybe I'm not the only one who died in that accident. It was a big accident.

As for this body, according to his memories, it seems that he died due to overwork and it seems that he was an orphan, as one of the army members found him in a place near the slave camp, so he brought me back here and left me. It seems that the person in charge of the area thought that I was the illegitimate son of that person, so he ordered someone to take care of me. When he saw that no one asked about me, he neglected me when I was six years old. 

When I think about it, it seems like the person who found me has a high position in the army. 

So I started working in the mining area doing some simple jobs to get food until I was 12 and started mining stones, and apparently, I couldn't stand the work. What a miserable life it was. 

As for this world, it seems that it was hit by a meteorite about hundred 150 years ago. 

With the fall of the meteorite, many animals evolved and became wild, and there are animals the size of a twenty-story building. 

 I don't want to think about the fate of the zookeepers where even the mice have become the size of a cat. 

But as the danger increases, some people discover that they have supernatural powers by eating monster cores, which they obtain from inside monsters.

 But it is not that simple, as many of those who ate this core died immediately after eating it, and a few succeeded in obtaining supernatural powers such as throwing fire, meteors, ice spears, and other abilities. 

With the development of discoveries through experiments and the sacrifice of many people, they discovered that abilities are obtained according to the compatibility of your body with the element of the monster's core. For example, if your elemental affinity is for fire, it is not permissible to take any core that is not for fire. 

That's why they invented a machine that measures your affinity for the elements, and that's all I know, as people in the slave area don't know much about this matter because there is rarely a person with a racial affinity in the slave area. 

 But it doesn't matter because every year they test 12-year-olds and the next test is supposed to be a week from now. 

The next day, I woke up and went straight to work. Perhaps due to the original body's memories, I didn't feel strange or find it difficult to adapt.

I went to the digging site and grabbed the tools.

"Hey, kid, how are you? I heard you got hurt last night."

I heard a mocking voice and ignored it, knowing that this person always bullied the original owner of the body and stole his food.

"Why aren't you answering? Are you deaf or something? Do you want to get beaten?"

He approached me, and for some reason, I felt a strong urge to hit him. Maybe it was because of the original body's memories. Since he volunteered himself, I would take revenge for the original owner.

Oh, I'm sorry, but I think I heard a loser here.

"What did you say, you? Have you gone mad since yesterday?" he said in shock because I usually endured insults with my head down.

"That's not it, but you, loser, don't you know that your wife is cheating on you?"

I said casually.

When he heard my words, he was stunned, then anger ignited in him. "Are you mocking me? I don't have a wife."

I said with a provoking smile, "Oh, I didn't think you'd know."

His face twisted with rage, and he started to hit me. As he struck, I began to shout.

"Help!

"Security, someone's breaking the law here, please help!"

The guards rushed in and began to arrest him. When the fool saw the guards coming, he realized he'd been tricked and looked at me with hatred.

"When I come back, I'll get my revenge on you," he said maliciously.

I didn't care. The test is in a week, and I must succeed. If I don't, I'll simply escape. Staying here is not an option.

This fool would be punished by digging in the inner part of the mine for two months.

The inner part contains a lot of energy or radiation harmful to the human body. Prolonged exposure leads to a disease that emerged after the apocalypse, and this disease has no cure.

This disease can be avoided by wearing a special suit, but no one cares about the slaves, especially those who work in the inner part, who are usually punished for misconduct or criminals sent from the city.

The outer part isn't entirely safe either, but the energy levels are low, so only a small percentage of people get sick, unlike the inner part, where staying for a few years is a certain death.