Bab 1: Mark Spencer

Vermillion Bird Continent, Imperial city of Phoenix Empire;

The city is bustling with people roaming on the streets, especially in the commercial district of Hanga.

Thousands of visitors from other Empires and kingdoms flock towards this popular area, every day. The majority of them either come here to eat the food made by Divine Chefs or get a nice weapon from the weapon stores.

While the food business was always booming with customers every day, the weapon stores, on the other hand, were struggling with the competition.

It's because seventy percent of the customers were always taken by the big 3 stores.

First is the Everlasting weapon store, which was owned by a business tycoon who has the backing of Swordmasters guild.

Second is Lunaris, which was backed by an Elder of Phoenix Empire Magicians guild.

The third and final is the Hollow weapon store that belongs to the Vice Guildmaster of the Archers guild branch of the Empire.

Over the years, as they accumulated millions of spirit crystals, these three weapon stores developed branches in almost every kingdom that belongs to the Phoenix Empire.

At one of the small alleys of the district, there's a small weapon store which almost had the same condition as other small stores.

An old man dragged the chair out and sits outside to bask in sunlight as it was too cold inside the store.

As his neighbors don't seem to have any customers, a couple of them also joined him to talk about their lives, their children's lives, etc…

A tall, handsome-looking young man in his mid-20s who seemed like he was passing by while looking left and right, stopped in his tracks.

Looking at the signboard and the paper in his hands, a smile appeared on his face. "Here it is…"

He then saw a couple of old men talking to each other. He called him out, "Excuse me… is the owner of this store, inside?"

The old man, who was busy chatting with his neighbor, stopped talking as soon as he heard the young man.

He thought he was a customer. "It is me. Please, come in."

The young man was led into the store. He looked around. There he saw various types of weapons were hanging on the walls.

Suddenly, a particular staff that was placed on the wall behind the counter attracted his attention.

He immediately walked towards it. His eyes lit up, "this is one fine material. A combination of Rosewood and Hazelwood in 3:2 ratios. That's rare. Oh! Grade-7 Midnight wolf's blood is the catalyst?

That means it will give a mage tremendous strength if he were to engage in a battle after sunset. Worthy of its gold grade…"

"How… How did you know this?" The old man was taken aback. Except for himself, no one knows that the midnight wolf's blood was used as a catalyst during its creation. Its grade was even more of a secret as he was worried that it will only bring harm to his store and himself.

And the fact that this young man was able to tell its composition just by a look shocked him even more.

*Ahem* Clearing his throat, the old man said, "That's our family heirloom, not for sale."

"Don't worry. I can't use this even if I wanted to." The young man waved his hands while maintaining a smile. "I don't possess Ether particles."

"Ah!" The old man was once again taken aback as he heard him. He fell into confusion even more. If this guy is just a civilian, how come he was able to appraise a gold-grade weapon? "Young man, would you like to see ungraded weapons?"

Ungraded weapons are those that were used mostly by mortals who were born without Ether, a particle in the body that will grant people certain skills as well as create a way to increase their life span.

As for graded weapons, they will start from Iron, then, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and finally platinum. Above platinum, there are semi-divine and Divine grades but they are only available to the top experts around the world.

So, a gold-grade weapon is indeed a fortune for most of the spirit warriors whatever path they have chosen.

The old man certainly became worried upon hearing this customer's analysis. It was only after he realized this guy is a civilian, did he sigh in relief.

But still, his wariness didn't disappear. He wanted to know whether he's really a customer that happened to pass by or a spy sent by someone.

So, he prepared to show him all the collections of ungraded weapons that he stored. If he is a spy or someone with a motive, surely, he would get irritated by checking out several weapons that are trash in the eyes of higher rank spirit warriors.

However, to his surprise, the young man gave an unexpected reply, "I would like to buy your store, Owner Yang."

He then showed the newspaper where he put an ad selling the store for thousand gold coins. "The ad mentioned that the weapons in the store are included but since you said it is a family heirloom, I have no objection if you want to take it away."

"Eh? You want to buy my store?" The old man was really surprised that someone accepted the offer. If that young man wouldn't have said that he can take the staff with him, he would have suspected it is because of the staff.

After all, the starting price of a gold-grade weapon is at least 500 gold coins, which is enough for a normal person to live his whole life if he goes and lives in a town.

Still, because of his wariness, the old man decided to leave the city with the money and the heirloom, right away, to go back to the village where his son and daughter-in-law are staying.

As the old man agreed, he immediately brought the documents of the land and handed them over to the smiling young man while the latter took a bag of gold coins out of thin air, scaring the hell out of the old man as normal people without ether can't do that.

But, he didn't ask for the reason and quietly took the money. After counting the gold coins, the old man took the midnight wolf's staff and left the place after saying goodbyes to his neighbors.

While neighbors became curious about the new owner, the young man closed down the shutter. His face turned cold as he spoke, "System, show Character menu."

Suddenly, a holographic screen appeared before him.

Name: Lu Zhen (Mark Spencer)

Strength: 0.3

Intelligence: 0.7

Defense: 0.2

Agility: 0.1

Vitality: 0.8

Resistance: 0.1

Charisma: 6.8

Bloodline: N/A

Attribute: N/A

Spirit Path: N/A

Ether Quality: Nil

Ether energy: 0

Rank: N/A

Skills: N/A

Life span limit: 80 (55 years left)

QUESTS:

Main Quest: Acquire a weapon store (completed)

Reward: Weapon Creation. (Click to receive the reward)

Side Quest 1: Earn 100 gold coins from selling the weapons (In progress)

Reward: System store.

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Bab 2: Starter Pack

Mark Spencer is once a century genius military weapon designer who was well sought by the generals of the army, navy, and the air force or his country.

From machine guns to missiles, submarines to aircraft, he was known to design unique and futuristic weapons.

One day, he was contacted by the world's biggest mafia group to be their weapon designer for a hefty salary. However, he refused their offer, which resulted in his kidnapping during his holiday stay outside the country, despite the heavy security.

For five long years, they kept him on an isolated island and forced him to make weapons for them, until one day, he somehow managed to escape from the island and contacted his friends from the army.

But, who could have expected that he will be betrayed by his trusted comrades as the higher-ups were in suspicion of his defection...

In a desperate struggle, Mark jumped into the ocean, but because of heavy wounds, he wasn't able to swim and slowly drowned.

An unknown amount of time later, he opened his eyes only to find his soul transmigrate into a world of magic, where the original owner named Lu Zhen, who was born as a prince of the Phoenix Empire.

However, due to his inability to gather ether energy in his body, he was switched with a servant's baby by his biological mother without the knowledge of his father, the Emperor.

Despite facing such an unfortunate incident at birth, Lu Zhen grew up happily as the son of a village chief until one night, his foster parents get killed by a burglar, leaving the fate of a twenty-year-old prince in the hands of his father's best friend who took him in and let him work in his weapon store as the manager, located in a nearby town.

Five more years later, while he was sleeping, his soul suddenly gets attacked by a soul from another world.

As a result, his weak soul was crushed and absorbed by the other soul, thereby, occupying his body.

The moment Mark opened his eyes, along with the memories of the previous host, he also found a mysterious weapon system that appeared in his brain.

And the first thing the system asked him to take over was a weapon store to activate the weapon creation.

After resigning from his previous job of being a manager at a store, he waited for two weeks to understand the system as well as to stabilize his mental condition.

With his parents dead, Mark immediately put his property for sale and cashed out all the money before setting off to the Imperial city.

After buying a seemingly normal weapon store, he immediately closed off the shutter and clicked on the quest reward to activate it.

*Ding! You activated the weapon creation.

*Ding! You received a starter pack. Please check your inventory.

*Ding! You received a new quest. Please check the quest list for details.

Mark then opened the inventory with which he was familiar. Like in the games of the modern world, there were five hundred slots in it of which a few of them are occupied by clothes, pouches full of gold, and a few other useful commodities…

Except for those items, there's an image of a gift pack that wasn't present before. He clicked on it.

A blinding light flashed before him before the system voice sounded in his head.

*Ding! You received a signboard. Please check out the inventory.

*Ding! You received an Android assistant.

*Ding! Single-shot pistol is unlocked. Please check out the gallery for details.

*Ding! Bullet is unlocked. Please check out the gallery for details.

Suddenly, a familiar blinding flash occurred before his eyes and a perfectly built handsome looking young man appeared.

*Ding! Please name the assistant.

If not for the notification that said the word Android, Mark would have thought he's a real person.

He was indeed surprised by the system's generosity.

Upon remembering his younger brother, Mark named his assistant. "Allen Spencer."

As soon as his naming was completed, the Android came to life and greeted him with a bow, "Greetings, Master."

"I gave you the name of my sibling. So, you can address me as Big brother or Big bro, from now onwards."

"As you wish, Big Brother." The Android saluted him.

Mark inspected him as he did with the staff, earlier. The details appeared.

Name: Allen Spencer

Spirit Path: Fighter

Rank: Four-circle (Intermediate)

SKILLS:

Active:

Laser Eyes: Shoot laser from his eyes and cause heavy damage to the opponent.

Incineration: Shoot powerful blasts of fire from his palms.

Lightning fist: Punch the enemies and paralyzes them with an electrical shock.

Passive:

Battle Craze: Able to fight nonstop while absorbing solar energy.

"Hmm, the system indeed sent a useful one to protect me. However, his rank is too low."

*Ding! Please earn credits to upgrade its strength.

As if it read his thoughts, the system immediately sent him a reminder.

*Ahem* Clearing his throat, he changed the topic. "System, open Gallery."

A holographic screen appeared before him that was full of hundreds of images being grayed out.

It was something he saw before. So, he didn't pay attention to them and clicked on one of the images that looked like it was available. The details appeared.

9 mm Bullet

Grade: N/A

Price: 20 silver coins.

"20 silver coins per bullet. So expensive. If even the price of a bullet is this high, I wonder about the price of the pistol."

Mark proceeds to click on the second available image.

Single-shot pistol

Grade: N/A

Effect: A pistol with a single round of ammunition. Must be reloaded after each shot. Capable of inflicting heavy damage on a mortal. Damage decreases as the strength of spirit-warriors increases.

Range: 10 meters

Price: 5 gold coins

"I should sell this one for 5 gold coins? System, isn't the price too high? It's an ungraded item and needed to be filled with bullets every time." Mark can't help but complain.

Even for the people living in a city, 5 gold coins are enough for a common man to eat his fill, three times a day for at least three months. With five gold coins, people can afford to rent a house with three rooms for one month.

With 5 gold coins, one can even buy ten ungraded weapons from other cheaper stores.

So, he wondered whether people would even care to buy them…

In response to his complaint, the system sent him another reminder

*Ding! The rarer the object is, the more valuable it is. The prices set by the system are always fair.

"Well, can't do anything about it if the system is adamant on its decision. After buying this store, I'm still left with 300 gold coins. I can at least live for two years without any problems. So, there's enough time to sell the weapons."

He then opened the quest list to see the new quest.

Main Quest: Sell your first weapon provided by the system (In progress)

Reward: Dismantling skill.

"Dismantling skill? What is it?" Mark asked the system.

*Ding! You can select any object that you own and select dismantle. The object will be converted into credits according to its quality.

"Oh! That's useful…" Mark immediately eyed the weapons displayed on the wall.

He then opened the gallery once again and clicked on the pistol.

*Create*

A sole option appeared before him. He clicked on it.

*Please select the number*

Since he only needed to sell one to complete the main quest, he selected only 1.

*Ding! Single-shot pistol has been created. Please check your inventory.

Mark opened the inventory. There, he saw a pistol image. He took it out and looked at it carefully. His eyes lit up, "This feels nice in hands."

Just as he was about to close the inventory, Mark's eyes captured an empty board in the inventory. "Ah! That's right. I almost forgot about the signboard."

He clicked on it.

*Ding! Would you change the name of the store or keep it.

"Of course, I will change it"

*Ding! Please name your store.

"Genesis"

He named the weapon store with the same name as his code name from the past life.

A signboard with a name appeared on the floor as his hands are full.

"Okay, we are all set. Now, it's time to open the store."

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