1 chapter 1 : Orion and Marius

I'm dead, well not literally but my fate is sealed! I am taken away by the city guards of Capua, one of the hottest cities in Rome. Why are soldiers brutalizing me?! Well, because I was surprised in the bed with one of the richest merchants' wife in the city.

 Poor me, victim of my incessant lustful desires, sex has always obsessed my mind and haunted my dreams, I was supported by my beautiful and delicate appearance. My name is Orion, illegitimate son of a great Spartan doctor and an unknown woman called Hygieia like the goddess . 

 With my darker skin color, it was clear that my mother was an outsider and according to my father, she was inhumanly beautiful. I'm handsome, extremely smart and under my "father" I studied medicine while he was responsible for treating the soldiers of Sparta.

 My father's medical skills were indisputable, he was clearly the best doctor in Greece, ahead of his time, he knew medical herbs and poisons, animal and human biology, he was an accomplished surgeon and I was his son, At the age of 28 I was already his equal, a genius among geniuses.

I learned everything there was to learn from my father But he confided to me that much of his knowledge came from my mother, whose medical knowledge seemed to be endless. He even taught me painting and sculpture by telling me that my mother loved art. 

 Despite my status as a medical genius with even better skills than my father, Sparta did not totally accept me among its people, I was still treated as a low-ranking foreigner, the son of a an unknown stranger .

 I had decided to leave my father's home and leave, go far from Sparta. When I turned 18, I found myself in Gaul where I worked as a doctor treating wounded soldiers, because of my appearance, sometimes I was mistaken for a woman.

I had long, braided hair with beautiful gray eyes. The others stopped doubting my identity by observing the gift that the gods gave me, a huge cock that was difficult to hide under clothes.

 At 19 I tried my luck in Capua, it was a beautiful town but hit by drought. I was recommended to a wealthy merchant in town to be one of his personal doctors.

Only there was a problem, his wife Léa, a magnificence and extremely attractive brunette woman. The first time I saw her, I got an erection that didn't escape his notice.

 I was handsome, very attractive and it was only a matter of days before, in the absence of her husband, she invited me to her rooms to fuck her and I took a vicious pleasure.

 Only, to my sad ignorance, I was being observed by one of the servants who was jealous of me.

This bastard reported me to the merchant and one day I was caught with my cock in his wife's vagina. Ouch!

 I was arrested, whipped and now I was going to be sold into slavery. Me Orion, a genius among medical geniuses, slave?! What have I done to the gods?! Well, it's true, I slept with married women and I never believed in them but I'm still a genius.

 My life will be put in the hands of other people and with my almost feminine appearance, it was too risky because there are individuals with wacky inclinations in this city.

 I tried to beg the guards to let me go but all I got were slaps, laughter and insults. The merchant was behind us and it was he who was going to sell me as required by the law, it was either slavery or death for me.

 We were approaching the market so I started praying to the gods, the same gods I never believed in and didn't care about all my carefree life but unfortunately I was indeed taken to the big square from the market to be sold.

 The auction began and there I was presented with such a beautiful and new merchandise, men and women came to see and many were interested.

 I tried to flirt with some rich-looking women in the hope of falling into the hands of a woman to whom I would, with great luck, be a sexual slave, but as I feared earlier, I was sold to a man with lustful and disgusting gaze.

 I wanted to cry, damn I'm not a girl.

 Once sold, his men took me away, I had tears in my eyes and when we were almost at his estate, I tried to run away but I had barely taken five steps before one A guard pushed me and I fell, my head hit the corner of one of the steps hard and everything went black.

 After an unknown amount of time, I woke up on a table, my head was bandaged and hurt, I had severe headaches and my vision was blurry. I wanted to speak but I couldn't, I had a fever and my body wouldn't stop shaking.

 Suddenly an elderly man came up to me, he examined me and looked under the bandages on my head, I couldn't feel my hair anymore, those bastards had cut my beautiful hair. Sons of bitches!!

 The old man or doctor I presume called the man who bought me and started chatting with him. "I regret to inform you that your merchandise will not last much longer, this slave suffered an extremely violent blow to the head and there is now a hollow in his skull.

 He has a fever and the supplies for his care will be expensive, the worst is that at most, even if he is well treated, he will die within a month. »

 My dearest owner started screaming and cursing in every way. In my head I was quite happy, « Bastard ! You pig, you wanted to play with the body of a genius like me?! Impossible, who did you think you were?! » I said in my mind.

 According to him, he no longer even wanted to play with my body as his original intention, this disgusting dog had decided to sell me.

 It made sense, if he killed me he would lose the money from my purchase and he didn't want me either with my low life expectancy. He had to sell me to make some of the money he had lost.

 A week after my accident, I was sent to the big pig's villa to serve because because of my appearance, I would at least please the eyes of his guests. One day, luck was on my side and an unexpected visitor arrived, Marius.

 Marius was a former Roman centurion converted into a wine merchant in Capua, he was visiting his friend the big pig and looking at me for a moment, he was interested in my purchase. For what ?! Because he and I are old acquaintances from Gaul.

 I was sold to Marius and he didn't say anything in front of his friend until we were in his cart where He finally broke the silence to speak.

 Marius: Orion

 Me: Marius.

 He burst out laughing and slapped me on the back.

 « You old scum ! Can I know why you are here in slave status?! Chained and at death's door?! » he said with a look full of anger and disappointment.

 I started to tell him about my misfortune and it all ended with him laughing in mockery.

 "Damn Orion, I told you that your sexual obsession was going to lead you to your grave but the worst part is that it has become a reality! ".

 As I said earlier, Marius and I met in Gaul. This man had been seriously injured and was in complete agony, the camp doctors could no longer do anything for him and the legionnaire had ordered that he be finished off to die as a Roman soldier and with all honor.

However, I insisted on taking over his case and treating him. of course it was to show me, I didn't care about his fate at first.

 It had only taken me 4 hours to take the man away from the arms of death with decoctions and surgery.

 Marius: Orion you saved my life once, I found my wife and my children. I was able to redeem you but your life is still in danger my friend, I am sincerely sorry for that.

 Me: Thank you man but I'm not dead yet!

 Marius: What do you mean by that?!

 "I have a way to heal myself but I will have to spend a little for the materials I need for my survival, rare and very dangerous herbs" I said.

 Marius: If it is to save your life, I will do everything and you will be welcome under my roof but I prefer to warn you.

 "What ?" 

 Marius: Touch my wife and you are dead!

 "No but oh it's okay, you're overdoing it! Besides, you're a friend and it's not okay for friends to covet each other's wives." He grimaced after my statement and drove us to his house, to the east of the city.

 --1 month later—

 I ended up treating and healing my wound perfectly even though there was still a hollow on my temple but my hair hid this defect well, among the herbs I had, one of them once mixed with Fenugreek oil could accelerate hair regrowth dramatically.

In just one month my hair was about half the length it was when it was cut. My hair has always grown abnormally fast. 

 I was now in front of Marius at his combat training ground, he was a former centurion and he had war equipment at home to train his son and continue training so as not to rust.

 [General POV]

 Marius stood in front of Orion with a wooden training glaive in his right hand, he looked at his unarmed friend in front of him and asked "Are you sure you want to do this?! You're a doctor, not a soldier !"

 Orion: It's okay man, plus it's just a wooden sword, no risk of killing me! I grew up in Sparta so I've been trained and I know how to fight, you don't have to hold back and what's more it's necessary for our future plans.

 Marius: Idiot, I already told you that you don't need to repay me for anything. I owed you my life !

 Orion: Shut up and attack otherwise I'll hit on your wife.

 Marius felt the veins on his head growing and was annoyed by Orion. Of course he knew that bastard would never do that to him but it still pissed him off so he started attacking.

 Orion stood in place and watched as Marius approached and prepared his attack.

 Calmly, he dodged Marius' first attack, then the second, third and subsequent ones. Marius alternated between different techniques and footwork learned during his training but Orion always dodged his blows with an ease almost bordering on insult.

 20 minutes later Marius was sitting on the ground panting, he looked at his friend and asked "Dude I'm dead tired ! How did you manage to dodge all my attacks so easily?! It doesn't make any sense old!

 Orion: It's simple Marius, I'm a genius and you're not!

 Marius: You and your big mouth! I should have left you with that big vicious guy, you could have used it differently.

 Orion: Damn! I'm going to have nightmares again.

 The main reason Orion was capable of this dodging feat lay in his head injury. The hollow of his skull was putting pressure on his brain in a certain area, this pressure released a good part of his brain potential and a great increase in his functions.

 By making an instantaneous but complex calculation on the slightest gesture of the person in front of him, Orion could predict these movements with 99.99% accuracy.

 That wasn't all as his creativity, learning speed, Instinct, reaction time and senses were pushed to a level unknown to humanity.

 Marius: You were talking about future plans! It was what ?!

 Orion: Lining our pockets.

 Marius stood up, "And how do we do that, oh great warrior Orion?!" he asked.

Nonchalantly, Orion just calmly replied, "I'm going to fight in the arenas." 

 Marius:...

 Orion: I will fight and you will bet on me, I will take 40% of the winnings for the moment for a month every evening until I become a free gladiator in the great arena of Capua.

 Marius: Already, we're going to do 50:50 but if you're talking about the big arena for the rest, what is your starting scene?!

 Orion looked at him with a Devilish smile before replying, "Hell's pit !" .

Immediately, Marius' face turned white as a sheet before muttering with a blank look, "You're really crazy!" .