Shang: Smoke, rubble, and ruins. Is there a war going on?
Shang says as he enters the place that looks like a scene from World War 2.
Shang’s thoughts: No smell of gunpowder. I guess there is no war going on and this place does not feel like Fallout 3. The stone buildings do not match any historical period I know. Did I enter a fantasy world?
Shang then hears a shout which language sounds very similar.
Shang’s thoughts: That language… it was Korean right?
Shang quickly enters the shadows of a nearby ruin and sneaks quietly towards the direction of the shout.
At the location of the shout, he sees a group of people stopping a black-haired female traveler in her path. Then a girl with orange hair appears, shouting and attacking the group members who are wearing something similar to Qing dynasty with her ancient hula hoop. Seeing how useless his group members are, the short brown-haired leader of the group who is wearing a western jacket, steps in and renders the orange-haired defenseless by injuring her with a gunshot to her leg. Losing her agility, the orange-haired girl was beaten up by the group members in revenge.
After the group members vent out their anger, the leader wants to finish off the girl but the female traveler stops him by offering a chest which contains her family heirloom in exchange for the life of the orange-haired girl.
As Shang watches the separation between the group and the pair which consists of the female traveler and the girl, he senses something is off from both the traveler and the leader of the group.
Shang closes his eyes and opens them again to reveal his golden pupils.
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In his vision, the true form of the female traveler is a black cobra while the leader of the group still looks human but has trails of black smoke around him.
Shang’s thoughts: The female traveler was indeed no human but that leader….hmm…
Shang closes his eyes again to switch off his vision of truth.
Shang’s thoughts: I am starting to like this demon body. What else can I do with it?
Before Shang enters this world, he was queried by the system on whether to change the race of the current body, create a new body or reincarnation. Shang picks the second option as reincarnation increases the time which Shang has to stay in the world.
System: Unlocking Shopkeeper’s Clone…
System: Retrieving data from various functions…
System: Operation completed. Bringing up available race choices.
System: Race Options: Human. Angel, Demon, Spirit Being, Martial Being, Spiritual Being, Celestial Being (Narutoverse), Nephilim, Nephalem (Diablo III), Hybrid, Mixed, Random, etc
Shang’s thoughts: Hmm… Hmm… So many choices to choose… Should I choose “Random”?… On second thoughts, it is better not to play around…
Shang chooses the race "Demon".
System: Your current racial rank is "Lesser Demon". Would you like to rank up once or to the maximum?
Shang: This is new… To the maximum.
System: Rankup completed. Your current racial rank is now Demon Count.
Shang: Shouldn’t my racial rank be higher than this? Can you show me all the ranks?
System: Racial Ranks (Demon): Lesser Demon, Greater Demon, Demon Noble, Archdemon, Lesser Evil , Greater Evil, Primal Evil.
System: Racial Ranks are split further into nine levels. Ninth level is considered the strongest. This level system does not affect the racial rank (Demon Noble)
System: Racial Rank (Demon Noble) are split further into nine classes. They are Knight, Baronet, Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquess, Duke, Archduke, King.
System: The condition to go above the racial rank (Count) is to become a sovereign.
Shang: The sovereign condition again!? How bad do you want me to be king?
System:...
The system does not answer Shang’s question in return.
Returning back to lurking in shadows, Shang finds a place to reside for the day as he still has not figured out what world this is.
The next day, Shang hears a loud announcement for public execution and joins the crowd by watching it from the rooftop.
After some time, the public execution becomes a failure and the brown-haired man takes out a circular tablet which has three horses carved on it.
Brown-haired man: AMHAENG-EOSA CHULDUYA! (SECRET ROYAL INSPECTOR IS HERE!)