The Merchant God

Chapter 2: Meet The System

A thousand years later in the Central Continent which is the territory of humans, there are 3 empires 6 kingdoms and 9 great sects that is protecting this mainland. The 3 empires are the Glorious Empire, The Divine Empire and the Unholy Empire. Each empire has 2 kingdom and each kingdom has 1 great sect guarding the said kingdom.

Like for example, the Glorious empire has the Golden Valley Kingdom, the Snow Mountain Kingdom and the Babylon Kingdom. Each Kingdom has their own great sect which are Sky Burning Sect, Heavenly Frost Sect and the Golden Furnace Sect. And each of this great sect has subsidiary Sects in the small villages which is within the kingdoms territory.

“Hmm… where am I?” Alexander grunting and ask himself as he is trying to wake up from a very long time slumber. “You awake Kid?” a hoarse voice can be heard from the other side of a wooden door. And suddenly a middle-aged man enter the room. “I found ya lying in the forest and I thought yer dead so I was about to give ya a proper burial if ya didn’t wake up for another day.” The man suddenly laugh “yer very lucky kid, base on yer clothes and smell when I found ya, ya been in the forest at least for a week or so hence yer very lucky that no beast attacked ya!”  

While the man kept talking to Alexander, Alexander suddenly heard a certain ring is being heard inside of his brain “Rrr... Rrr… Connecting to the host now loading… 1%” and the number is keep on getting up “50%...60%...75%...90%...100% loading complete! Please enter your name” Dumbfounded, Alexander was unable to react. “What the hell is this?!” cursing inside “is that your name host?” the unknown voice reacted. “The f**k you saying! My name is Alexander F*cking Mcdowell!” Alexander rebut. “confirming with the host your name is Alexander F*cking Mcdowell?” before giving another reply the man suddenly ask “are ya okay kid?” startled, Alexander muttered “yes” the unknown voice reacted “thank you for confirmation the name is now registered as Alexander F*cking Mcdowell. Please wait for the system to synchronize in your body. Current progress 10%, estimated time to finish the synchronization 4 hours and 59 minutes.” As the voice faded, Alexander wanted to cry as the name registered was not the name he intended to use. “what hell is this?! Is this some kind of sick joke? And what with that monotone voice and the f*ck is this “system” its talking about?!” With so many questions in his head, Alexander just chose to ignore it for now and wants to gather some information.

Staring at the man “Hey old man, where am I And how long I’ve been out?”, “yer in my house dumb kid! And ya been out for a while now. If ya haven’t woke up, it would be your 5th day today since I found ya” the middle-aged man answered. Alexander roam his eyes in the room he is in right now and noticed some peculiarity. Alexander also tries to get up to open a window to see what it is outside “based on the wares on this room, the weather outside and the civilization, I should be in a certain village.” Thinking to himself. “old man, what is this village called?” inquiring the middle-aged man. “I’m not an old man ya dumb kid! I have a hecking name!” grumpily said to Alexander. “the name’s Merck! The great hunter Merck!” proudly introduces himself. “and you are currently in my beloved village called Sleeping Forest! And I am also the current village elder!” after the introductions, Alexander and Merck talk all night about what happen and what is the last thing Alexander can remember before passing out in the forest which is just outside of his village.

“by the way kid, yer not a criminal are ya or wanted by an aristocratic family right?” Merck asked. “the f**k I know old man I don’t even know the name of this fella’s body” is what would Alexander would like to answer but didn’t. “no I am not and I am just a kid! What can do to those aristocratic family!”, “just making sure kid, I don’t want to be in trouble with those pesky family.”

Based on the information Alexander gathered from Merck, there are 3 aristocratic family in the village and they are the Gaidar, the Paule, and the Bolino family. Each family specialize in one thing, for example, the Gaidar family specialize in combat in which almost 70%-80% of the guards that is guarding the village is under the Gaidar family. As for the Paule family, although they are not combatant type family, they the heart and blood of this village as they are controlling the economy and businesses in this village. Lastly, the Bolino family, in front, they are the most balance family as they have a combatant branch in the family and a business branch in the family however, they are the most mysterious of the three aristocratic family.

After some time, Merck let Alexander stay on his house to have a rest since he just woke up and then they’ll just discuss what he can do once he is good to go. As Alexander was left with no choice he decided to just rest and sleep for now as he is still weak and can’t do anything.

In the middle of the night, in a certain study room “have you investigated the background of that kid?” if Alexander is awake, he will recognize this voice and the owner of this voice is Merck. “yes elder! We have finished our investigation.” Answered by the calm voice in the dark. “it appears that this kid has no background or wanted by any aristocratic family here or by any on the nearby villages. Also the kid was not registered as a folk to any of the villages ledger that is missing but…” the voice pause and Merck raise his eyebrow and said “but what?” suddenly a paper appear in front of Merck “elder, do you remember the incident 2 months ago regarding on the beast tide that had happen in the nearby valley?” Merck thought of something “are you saying that this kid might be a surviving person from ‘that’ village?! But that’s impossible!” he exclaimed but the man in the dark continued “it is the only explanation that we can get based on the details that we have right now elder.”

Merck sighed and fill his cup with tea and took a sip on it to help him calm down. “alright, that’s all for today you can go now.” With that said Merck stand up and walk to the window and stared at the moon and stars that are shining brightly in the sky “a survivor huh.” Mumbles to himself as his eyes shone up while he took another sip from his cup of tea.

In the morning and ringing sound is coming through Alexander’s brain “Rrr… Rrr… System synchronization complete!” Struggling to wake up, Alexander open his eyes and see a weird message and a panel in front of him “Welcome Back host! I will be your assistant for this life time! I am called the Guiding Merchant System or GMS for short.” Confused, as Alexander was about to ask the voice in his head a question, he was interrupted by it “before anything else host, please be advise that you are the only one that can hear my message and see the panel in front of you as you are my owner. Also as for your wish on your last life, I will be guiding you on how to be a successful Merchant!” Dumbfounded, Alexander just ignore the voice and check out the panel in front of him;

Name: Alexander F*cking Mcdowell

Age: 16

Money: 0

Power Level: 90(Mortal Rank)

Strength: 12                     Intelligence: 13

Charisma: 11                   Wisdom: 12

Endurance: 10                  Luck: 20

Agility: 12

Skills:

Hide(Mastery)                Tracking(Mastery)

Appraise(Mastery)         Apothecary (Beginner)

Smithing(Beginner)       Haggle(Beginner)

Titles:

‘The one reincarnated for the 100th time’

‘Sole Survivor’

“What the hell is this?! I’m a mortal right now? Not even a yellow ranker?!” Alexander was shocked as normally, when he is being reincarnated his power level will be at yellow rank as the standard and of he is lucky enough, his starting point is as a blue ranker. “Damn it!” Alexander sighed “I guess this will have to do but what are these titles?” Alexander tried to hover his finger to one of the title on the panel “’The one reincarnates for the 100th time – as the chosen one of the god of trickery and mischief, he provided you a temporary immortally that cause you to be resurrected every time your vessel dies. This title is given to the host once he is reincarnated for the 100th time and after that, all forms of death will be permanent however as a compensation, the god provided you this system.” After reading the description, he doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry at this moment because from now on, there will be no more restart and no more reckless abandon as once he dies, he dies permanently. “huh… so this will be my last life.” Alexander felt a sense of lost but at the same, a new found of resolve is blossoming in his heart “Since this will be my last life, this time I will be f*cking merciless on my enemies and with this system, I will f*cking crush my competition!!” killing intent can be felt coming out on Alexander’s eyes.