The Bastard Child's Effect
A man in his thirties unexpectedly dies after he saves a young boy from being crushed by falling steel bars under a construction site that was unstable and unsafe.
When he wakes up, he finds that he is not as dead as he thought. He has just been reincarnated into a new world as the son of one of the most powerful noble families that are part of a sacred and legendary bloodline of exorcists—as the bastard child of the Arkham family, one that is the son of a mere servant and first love of the patriarch.
After his birth, he's given the name Loki by the first Lady and wife of the Arkham family, a name that didn't honor him but instead disgraced him. Not only that, but Loki learns that he is born in the era known throughout the world as the Calamity Era, an era where gods, angels, and demons are at war against each other. And like just being a bastard child wasn't hard enough, he also comes to learn that he doesn't have the magical talents of his legendary family.
As much as that is bad in this new world of his, he is not only untalented at having his family's power; Loki has another type of power, the one that no one in his family or the other legendary families, let alone the rest of the world, knows about. Despite having a mother who loves him unconditionally, he was still bullied and mistreated by his own family, from his older siblings to his stepmother.
He was able to withstand and handle all of it, but once his mother died in a very suspicious and mysterious way, his life went from bad to worse. Loki was now treated like a mere servant and working under cruel conditions in his own family, being abused and neglected. Sometimes he went to bed without eating for days, even weeks.
Instead of giving up and hating his life like a normal person should have in his position, he stayed strong and practiced his talents in secret that only his mother knew about, and in order to protect himself, he pretends to be weak and non-magical.
As years go by, Loki is now falsely accused of being the one who killed his own mother. Now he wasn't dealing with the hate from his own family anymore; the rest of the world saw him as a monster. And in a world that is full of magic so powerful that it can shatter reality itself.
He must not only keep his secret power hidden, now he must fight his way through the treacherous hierarchy of the oppressive world of magic and powerful families as he enrolls in one of the most powerful academies that is the first step of grooming young exorcists as the battle against the gods, angels, and demons brews closer.
Loki is on his own investigation to find out what really happened to his own mother as he finds himself between allies and foes that are caught in a grey line of morality, and he becomes the major centerpiece of this world of the deities as he learns more about them and the war that is drawing near.
Now he must take a big risk: deciding which side is he fighting for and which side is he fighting against.
