《Great Merchant System - My business shall spread across the universe》


 Prologue- Death and the Systems arrival

    ¡°Hello!¡±


    ¡°You, yes you there¡±.


    ¡°Yes I know you are thinking that how do I know about you. But it¡¯s a secret. Just know that I know about you. And remember to be silent about this secret cause even those oldies don¡¯t know about this. You know those group that oversee each planet and call themselves as GOD. Even they don¡¯t know how to do it.¡±


    ¡°So let¡¯s get back to the main point. You came to know my story right. Well it¡¯s a long one.


    Oh!, you say you have plenty of time then its ok. To begin my story, we have to take a peek to the past and you can see how it all began.¡±


    My story began with regrets.


    You see on his death bed every person suddenly starts thinking about its past and present. No matter how successful a person may become there will still be some regrets in his hearts and those regrets will turn into his inner demons that will torture him even after death. At the end of my life I also had some regrets in my heart. It¡¯s not like my life was crappy or full of bad luck. I was well off. Working 9 ¨C 5 my whole life I earned pretty good sum and basically everything was just fine. I was an orphan who was supported by the charity foundations so I never had to worry about my parents and I passed my graduation on those moneys. My regrets were just three, I never really tried to find out who sent those money, cause surely no charity fund will donate this much on a single person I just didn¡¯t care.


    Secondly I was too busy in working and earning money that I never got to share my life with anybody. I was basically alone my whole life and didn¡¯t try to marry. All this money at the last moments went to the charity foundations and orphans across the country. And lastly I never intended to just sit in an office and work for 9 ¨C 5. I was a free spirit by heart. I wanted to travel everywhere doing business all over and known across countries. But I never got the chance. This was my biggest regret.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    Then it all happened, in my final moments in a rundown house. Something I never expected happened to me. Till date that incident is clearly in my mind. Let¡¯s take a look.


    Sigh all that money for nothing. I earned so much just to donate it at the end. Now I¡¯m lying in this house in the alley hoping to die like an orphan just like I was born. But still I¡¯m glad. Nobody has to cry for me. I can pass on without any worries, surely those regrets will haunt me in death but I can still cast I¡¯m glad that I cast aside my past. It¡¯s good to pass on without any worries and a clear heart.


    I closed my eyes losing my consciousness. Everything was fading to black. I stopped thinking about everything. Even if I wanted to I just can¡¯t. My consciousness was hanging to my mind by a thread and can break any moment. And then finally my mind stopped working. I lost all sense. I waited for death to come. But nothing, no afterlife no death god totally nothing.


    After a brief span of consciousness my mind suddenly started working again. All thought came back to me. I was really startled cause even now I can smell the smell of my house and I can see its really my house. This was getting creepy. Surely I was dying. I was sure of that but how come I¡¯m alive. I was getting really afraid but still all my life experience helped me calmed down. I calmed my mind and heart and thought about some happy things and decided that I can take on anything. Even if I have to live a few more years poor. I have already cast my past aside. Hopefully my last wish can be fulfilled. If I can live a few more years then I think I can open a small business with those few dollars left with me.


    Just as I was thinking about this that a sound rang by my ear.


    [Ding!]


    [Congratulations for getting selected as the new host for the Great Merchant System].

 Chapter 1 - System Integration

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    I stood there frozen from shock. I didn¡¯t understand what was going on. It felt like some sort or hallucination so in order to wake up I pinched myself hard in my cheeks. But the pain that followed told me that everything was real. This, this was going out of my mind. Actually the screen floated inside my mind so I didn¡¯t understand how all this was happening.


    ¡°Just what the hell is this Great Merchant System¡±.


    I muttered under my breath. Just as I said those words the screen that previously congratulated me changed and a new screen took its place and reading what was written on it left me breathless.


    [Great Merchant System ¨C Great merchant system is a system that is designed by the first and the greatest merchant of the ancient era whose name has been lost in history in order to select a new merchant to roam the universe once the previous once is lost somehow in the river of fate and time. The system¡¯s job is to help the host become the greatest merchant and stand at the top.]


    I stared dumbly at what was written. There were just too many heaven defying things written in there. After reading this I felt like a frog in the well not knowing anything. It¡¯s true though, I¡¯m just a normal salaryman who worked 9 ¨C 5 without knowing anything else.


    There were too many question popping up in my mind so I decided to ask them.


    ¡°Who is this first merchant you speak of...?¡±


    But the response I got was totally unexpected.


    [User privilege too low. Please rise up in the ranks and become more famous.]If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    What¡­ I was left dumbstruck. After that all the questions I asked were given the same response so I decided the important question for now.


    ¡°what is this rank and privilege you speak of and how to rise them...?¡±


    [Rank is a way to determine how much progress the user has done with the system. Different ranks provide different privileges with the system and all sorts of benefits. Host I advised to work hard and rise in the ranks for there is no use in being rankles.]


    Wow! that was too much info right there. If this system is as mysterious as it seems to be hen I can¡¯t even imagine what sorts of benefits it will provide me. But first how to rise in the ranks. It didn¡¯t give an answer to that. Just as I was thinking to that the monotone voice rang inside my head.


    [Right now the host is rankless as the system is not yet initialised. After officially initialising the system, the host will be fully initialised with the system and will gain the 0th rank. Further information will be provided after the complete integration the of system with the host.]


    So, it¡¯s like this. This left me in a thought. What should I do now, after all who knows what will happen after I initialise it. What sort of future will I have. But one thing was sure, that if I accepted this system everything will change. After thinking for hours, I decided to go it with. After all it was my life long wish to be a businessman and now that I am being given a chance, I am not going to kick it away. And with that I shouted inside my head


    ¡°System START INITIALISATION¡±


    [LOCKING ON TO HOST¡¯S CONSIOUSNESS.


    MODIFYING WORLD LAWS.


    SCANNING HOST¡¯S BODY.


    CHANGING HOSTS¡¯ BODY AS SUITED TO THE SYSTEM.


    REMOVING HOSTS¡¯ CURRENT INFORMATION FROM THE WORLD.


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    STARTING INITIALISATION IN 3¡­¡­2¡­¡­1¡­...]


    With what felt like a series of commands everything went black. And who knew that the next time I woke up, it will be the start of a legend.