The counterattack department was made by the rouge agent Carlos. The department recruited high potential souls to possess the bodies of pure souls with vengeance and show them a life that makes them satisfied. I'm Carter, a 16-year-old soul. I died just before being adopted while running back home with my manga book. Being a crazed fan of system novels, the possibility of owning a system and being part of a bigger agency excited me to the high heavens. I was equipped and trained by the system itself, to be the perfect machine to solve 'special case'. But that's for later.

[Function Tutorial selected!]

[Please ask any queries that you have currently.]

"Can you explain my task and purpose of existence?"

[The system is tasked with the purpose to relieve pure souls with vengeance and help them ascend into the samsara cycle. You are an agent who is to live as the souls and satisfy their conditions. These conditions are never too excessive, but it should be understood that failure in harvesting the soul shall cause high punishment.

Please choose the sections the user wants to explore.

1: Skill points

2: Stat points

3: Skill usage

4: Market]

"Please give me a briefing of them all please"

[Skill points are used to upgrade skills and are also kept through each purge. The points are received when accomplishing certain missions. The missions are reusable and skills purchased will disappear. however, it is possible to choose certain non-physical skills after completing the mission, provided you have the talent for it.]

[Stat points are basically...]

"Wait for a second, why aren't the skills permanently gained?."

[Many souls don't relate with a foreign soul with different resources showing more talent than them, it doesn't satisfy their wishes of changing their lives, so to increase the compatibility to the maximum, you have the skills not being transferred. However, non-physical changes can be kept as it is considered as self capabilities.]

"So that means if I get a skill related to intelligence and business and many metaphysical skills, I get to keep them?"

[No. You can only carry a maximum of 3 skills based on your rating. Your rating from the purged decides which skills can you keep. You will have a panel to communicate and ask the soul for specific skills, but it lies in the hand of the soul itself.]

"Great, so a dead soul decides my life," I say before gasping deeply. I knew that some souls are bound to have certain bad histories where I might need combat skills as such. But remembering that I could just practice till my body remembers it, I remember a certain novel idea.

"Hey system, will the price of the skill change if I already have some knowledge regarding the skill?".

[Yes, but it decreases based on your mastery. Per 2% mastery, you get a 1% discount on the skill. It can never decrease beyond 50 % unless your mastery of the skill exceeds what the skill possess, so you get a title that helps with comprehension instead of knowledge]

Infinite possibilities rushed through my mind until I realised what I could do to exploit the crap out of this system.

So with a blinding smile on my place, I ask "When do I begin?".

To be continued in the next chapter.