Enslaved

Two men with armour were standing at the gates of the city. I assumed they were the guards. So I walk up to them and ask them the name of the city. Me still with my childlike appearance, made me look innocent in the eyes of the guards. So they told me.

It turns out, it's called "Fell" and its supposedly on the human continent. By the way the world is separated into 5 separate areas. Which are like Kingdoms. They are the human lands, the demon lands, the beastman lands, the magical beast forests, and the merchant desert. Which encompasses the whole continent. Currently were on the Human continent.

I run back to my mom and we enter the city. Immediately, I sense looks in our direction. Which are a mix of pity, hate, and greed. I can't tell them apart. It was probably due to our clothes. My mom was wearing some torn pants and worned shirt. I on the other hand was worse, I had brown shorts on with a torn long sleeve shirt. As well ass long dark brown boots that went half way my leg.

I grab my mom's hand and we run into the alleys. After all they're my home anyplace I go. I immediately pull out, my weapons, from the secret compartment on the bottom of my boots. Which consist of sharpened short stick, and wooden needles.

Then I tell my mom to go hide. But she resolutely refused. Then pulled out her cheap bow and told ME to go hide. I wasn't one to argue and plus I prefer to fight from a distance.

Two men enter the alleys, they both were leather armour and have swords. Suddenly my mom rolls out of the trash we were hiding behind and cocks an arrow and releases it,  in the same motion. It flew sharply towards the men and hit one in the knee. Again my mom cocked another two arrows and released them. Moments later the two men fell over.

I am about to run over to my mom to ask about her sudden display of finesse. When I see another man, running towards my mom. I throw my needle at him but it barely pierced his skin. But it gave my mom time to cock an arrow and release it. This man was stronger than the previous two. Then more men enter the alleys and surrounded us. They first captured my mom and used her as a hostage to capture me. They knocked me out. Before falling into the deep abysss a message appeared in my head.

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< You've unlocked the hidden Job - Phantom . Do you accept?>

-...........Yes

I opened my eyes and looked around. I was chained to the wall along with a bunch of other kids. I wished I could escape but they took my clothes and boots. Then I remembered the job I unlocked. It seemed that in this world people get stronger by jobs. These jobs are learnt and improved giving the person a better job with better benefits. By the way people can learn only one job. You can change it, but its extremely difficult.

It seemed that the job, that I unlocked was a subclass of the assassin job. Which to unlock you had to kill someone. But the subclass Phantom, you had to be in a life and death situation. For most people they would runaway, before it reached that point. Especially assassins, so this class was rare.

It gave me a couple abilities, one which was night vision. Now that I looked around these kids seemed to starved and were all my age or a little older. It seemed that I was enslaved. Sucks. But the thing I needed to find out the most was wether or not my mom was alive. "So for now, I will bide my time." I thought silently.

Another perk of Phantom job was the mimic skill. Which allowed me to learn skills of other jobs, which would probably be useful and the mist skill. This ability was probably the most handy in my current situation. It allowed me to turn my body into mist. The only downside was that the transition between going into mist form and back was too slow. I secretly tried turning my hand into it, since it was dark no one would noticed. But it took a whole five minutes. The good thing was that after trying it a couple of times the transition got a bit faster but still was pretty slow.

"Maybe, I should escape." I thought to myself. After all in mist form I was impervious to physical damage, I think. But then again I don't know where my mother is. So I need to find out more information. I would soon regret this decision.......