Time passed slowly and six years passed by.
Time was especially slow for Stanley. After getting beaten by his father that day, he started to get beaten by other people in the village in exchange for some money.
During these years, his young mother cheated on her old husband and ran away, his father became an alcoholic and someone who almost lived in a brothel and his fat brother had already died in a drug overdose.
Most of the time, people came to Stanley's house, beat him and would give money directly to his father.
In the six years, Stanley had also found out about where he was and why he was beaten every day.
He lived in the Brixia kingdom, the second most powerful kingdom on the continent.
The continent was called 'Depix' which housed a lot of species other than humans.
Depix had elves, demons, beast humans, monsters and many more.
There was a big difference between monsters and demons. Monsters attacked any race they saw and had no or very less intelligence while the Demons specifically hated the elves and humans but did not attack indiscriminately. They did not want a war for killing some high-ranking noble.
As for Stanley being hated and beaten by everyone, he was born with red eyes and white hair, something considered a bad omen in Depix.
A legend existed on the whole continent. It said that two evil dragons, Charvyd, a male dragon who was the strongest dragon to have ever existed and Delinda, a strong female dragon lived thousands of years ago.
In the ancient language of the continent, Depixian, 'Delinda' meant a 'Royal Reptile' while the name 'Charvyd' meant 'The Slayer Of All'.
They both fought and almost destroyed the whole world, after their fight, which ended in a tie, they continued to terrorize the whole continent until the royal dragon, Derrick, appeared.
Derrick was a normal teenager until he awakened a power on his 16 birthday and then proceeded to single-handedly kill the two dragons and give peace back to the people of Depix.
From then on, most of the people born had the same hair and eye colour as Derrick, Black.
"The point was that Charvyd, in his human form, had white hair and red eyes and Delinda had purple hair and golden eyes. Anyone having one of those two was let off with a little tough life but someone with two of them, like me, will end up too miserable." Stanley said as he stared into the sky emotionlessly.
The previous six years took the hope he had and even his sense of anger was slowly fading away.
But, he also developed something else, a fear of his father and more importantly, a fear of death.
He had been in a lot of close-death situations in the past years.
Stanley was currently applying medicine to his wounds.
"Come in please, Lord." The voice of Stanley's father came.
He hurriedly wore a shirt lying nearby and stood in front of the gate.
Stanley had earned quite a few bronze pieces and wanted to ask his father to get him some clothes.
His father came in and with him, first entered a few men with blue uniforms and swords hanging on their waists.
After them, a man with a long beard came in.
When Stanley saw his father bowing and trying to make the man happy, Stanley bowed to him too.
"Lord Baron, this is my son. The one I told you about." Stanley's father said while pointing to the bowing Stanley.
Stanley was now able to feel the very same feeling he had the first time his father beat him.
"He looks weak. Are you sure he can take a beating?" The man asked as he held Stanley's chin with his whole hand and looked at him with a disgusted expression.
Stanley's father handed the man a whip and said," He can be beaten quite a few times, lord. Here, please try it yourself."
The man took the whip and started to beat Stanley with the whip using his full force.
After some time, Stanley slowly started losing consciousness.
The man stopped and put the whip down.
"I'll give you 10 gold for him." The man said and proceeded to exit the house.
When Stanley opened his eyes and regained his consciousness, he found himself in a completely new place but with a little better place to sleep.
"So, I was sold as a slave, huh? If only I had some kind of superpower, something unique like Derrick." Stanley said as he clenched his fists.
[The host has today completed six years on Depix. The system is starting to operate]
"Now, what is that?" Stanley was not surprised a lot. After his transmigration into someone else's body, nothing surprised him anymore.
[The system required six years to accumulate mana from the world. Today, it is finally completed and the system has started to function smoothly]
"No, like what is your use?"

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