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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 – 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 – 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.]

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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.