Chapter 2 - Spatial Ark Land

֍ Updated, Revised, and Edited: 4/08/2022 ֍

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*Ding*

[Open Welcome Gift!]

[Accept?]

*Ding*

[The Great Imperial Xoplis Royal Family Body Refinement and Spiritual Practise Manual

- Host will be gifted Unique and Undiscovered Training Manual practised in a past life, but the Manual has been revised by the System

- Removing any negative repercussions and side effects, the Hidden Manual of the Great Xoplis Royal Family can be practised by the Host and others alike to improve their bodily strength, mental fortitude, and soul's spirit

- None from the Great Imperial Xoplis Royal Family have been able to utilise the Training Manual besides the Host in a previous life, even then it wasn't complete.

- The current version is the complete Training Manual, allowing the Host and others to make the most of its immense capabilities to improve the individual's foundation and bloodline]

[Primordial Body Transformation

- Host will go through a molecule change down to the last atom where the body, mind, and soul will be rebuilt and strengthen by Primordial Spirit Energy, helping recreate the Host into a being capable of performing epic feats]

[1,000,000,000 Credits

- Free to be used in the System Store as Host desires]

[Spatial Ark Land

- A Hidden Land connected with Hosts mind and soul, that expands along with the Host's personal development and external invitations of improvement]

[3x Creations Cards

- Omnipotent grade, Host can use these cards and create anything of their choosing without having to supply resources and it will be completed within a few seconds.

- Anything can be made with no restrictions.

- Host should remember, Cards are incredibly Rare and difficult to acquire even through the System Store

- If the Host provides the System more information in regards to the use of the Cards, it mean a better end product as requested]

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Esmond accepted the gifts without hesitation and went through some of the most gruesome and painful transformation he'd ever gone through in his endless lives.

Not know the extent of the changes happening, Esmond soon felt some of the weight from his past lives clearing up as his body status and soul became free of the curse and its affects.

Esmond couldn't sense it just yet but a moment later, he noticed part of his body splitting apart till the flesh turned into dust.

Soon after, all the flesh, bones, and muscle reappeared out of thin air, but this time everything had a sharper and stronger appearance and senses.

Each bone particle was denser and stronger by who knows what amount, which left Esmond struggling to keep up with the body changes and strength disparity which showed by his grip breaking the bed side planks.

Clenching his jaw shut tight, Esmond fell in between consciousness, trying to maintain some sort of focus while the improves occurred to his body.

Once the pain and changes had ended, Esmond didn't wait and chose to practise the Great Imperial Xoplis Royal Family Body Refinement and Spiritual Practise Manual within his bedroom.

In his mind, there was no point in wasting time, so Esmond pushed himself to dive into practising the Training Manual because the longer he waited, the harder it would be to practise.

After around 10 minutes, Esmond felt his body go through another change but this time the pain was nothing in comparison to what he experienced earlier.

This was rather due to his body still being numb from the earlier transformative changes, which made the new string of painful improves to see rather pleasant in comparison.

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When it was all done, Esmond looked around his room to see filth that came out of his body, smeared across the walls, roof, and basically splattered across every surface available in the room.

Running to open the window to the outside fresh air, Esmond crashed back into the ground, utterly exhausted and out of breath.

'Fuck…'

Complained Esmond as he had to smell the heavy and oppressive odor from the black filth excreted from his body.

It became rather pungent to Esmond due to his heightened senses, which made his smelling senses superhuman.

'Let's clean up this mess first.

Then I can deal with the rest of the shit…'

Running around the house as light as a feather, at speeds one would find impossible to keep up with as the person would seem like a blur, Esmond quickly cleaned up his whole room.

Not just that, Esmond decided to rush through the house and clean up any mess to save his mother the hassle.

Employing his heightened senses, Esmond blitzed through his whole house, cleaning every single surface, including the roof.

The kitchen and bathroom went through a rather deep clean after Esmond noticed various surfaces that seemed clean, but according to his vision appeared rather filthy.

Other than that, the bathroom and laundry went through deep cleans, though it wasn't overly long and done in under 10 minutes.

In fact, the whole house was cleaned thoroughly in under 30 minutes, with a minty lemon fragrance left in the air.

Once Esmond decided to rest after cleaning the whole house and showering, he finally chose to check his Status through the System Interface.

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*Ding*

[Status]

[Name: Esmond Manston]

[Experience: 0/1000

[Body Condition: Healthy]

[Body Status: Primordial Human]

[Status: Healthy]

[Strength:20]

[Endurance:20]

[Stamina: 20]

[Dexterity:30]

[Intelligence:40]

[Agility:20]

[Wisdom: N/A]

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'What is up with wisdom?

Oh fuck! The curse is gone!!'

Esmond couldn't believe what he was seeing.

The Curse Status was gone on his Soul, making him free of his cruel fate through eternity!

He was beyond ecstatic, however he remained quiet and civil, as he wasn't a hundred percent sure of the System's success, and wasn't willing to die just to find out.

After showering and cleaning himself up, he finally saw the extent of the body transformation, which his body looking like a fine piece of specimen chiselled by the Gods or some heavenly artist.

'Fuck! I look damn good!'

His vanity took over until it clicked, and Esmond understood that his features went through a massive transformation he wasn't expecting.

His eyes looked much deeper than before, like they had seen galaxies and Gods, even though the vastness of the endless expansion of space was much more interesting.

The hints of red tones in his dark black hair now dazzled when the light fought to reflect off the darkness of the void one felt when looking at his hair.

Esmond's tanned skin look even more glowing and clearer of filth accumulated deep within his body from dirt, grime, and even foreign substances throughout the organs.

He was finding it hard to take in the changes to his whole appearance, however one voice that could help soon came into his mind.

'Fuck me sideways, what shit was that?!

I feel like I was baked then shat on by some icy prick till I was hard as stone.

The fucking cycle continued endlessly for God's sake!' cursed Carter, not even bothering to hold back out of frustration.

"Sorry Carter, my body went through some changes because of the damn System update… *Sigh*…"

'What System update?'

Immediately a boat load of information went through both of their minds, sending the duo into shock, only for Esmond to barely keep himself awake by biting down on the inside of his mouth.

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The pain was enough to stimulate Esmond to remain conscious as the System released a surge of information not only to Esmond, but Carter, the other consciousness sharing Esmond's mind.

The reason Carter found it weird when Esmond mentioned a 'System update' was largely to being a System itself that was bound to Esmond after his first death, countless lifetimes ago.

They'd fought by each other's side, experiencing everything together, rather than alone, which built a solid foundation for their relationship that went as far as to bound each other as brothers.

Carter worried for a moment about its own existence with another System operational, but to its surprise, the new System overwrote the programming of the old System, which included Carter's code.

Thankfully it went through an update and improved marginally, much to Carter's delight.

Though the upgrade cost Carter some sense of its past after reading through the updated code, as part of the old System was barely recognisable.

This led Carter to wonder how much of its old self remained and what portion of it was the new and improved 'Carter'.

For now, Carter chose not to dwell on it any further and moved onto understanding what Esmond went through along with itself.

Once everything became clear, Carter could only shake its imaginative head in distate and anger at Esmond's and itself's bad luck.

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'You still in pain or finally over the main speed bump we had to go through?'

"Still reeling in pain… Argh… I hate this, Carter." Whined Esmond while sprawled out on his clean bed.

'Aww piss off with that whiny bullshit, Esy.

Now listen… I had my own little transformation that you won't believe so get ready for what I am about to tell you, but I'm pretty sure I'll regret it.'

Carter went through the various changes to its own programming, though Carter spoke about the main points of the System they would be inevitably sharing.

Much to Esmond's surprise, Carter knew a fair amount about his mission back in his original world.

"I'm going up against those pricks from the past?" complained Esmond, as memories of all the assailants he'd come across in his past life's came to the forefront of his mind.

'Unfortunately, yes… According to the system, the Astrok Empire is the nearest Galactic Nation bordering the Solar System.

A scout ship of the Empire will come in contact with Earth by the year 2050 to see how the populous has changed and if Humanity of Earth has achieved space travel or some sort of space colonisation.

However, based on the past memories of yours and this hot ass System with epic processing speeds and functions I honestly wish we had in the past, you lucky son of a bitch, has enough time till 2025 comes around, during which an end of the world event will take place.

Several political 'geniuses' believe firing their news at once would force the others to do the same, expecting their defence satellite protect them, however that never works out and each other their nations blows up to kingdom cum.'

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That's right, during a past life Ben had finally come upon information about Earth and learnt it all went up in flames during 2025 when a political assassination went wrong and was unravelled to find a connection with an opposing nation.

People died within minutes, as the world population passed away at a moment's notice from a wide range of military arsenal, which included nukes from many different nations.

With nobody left, nature took back what was originally its own and overwhelmed the world, taking it back to an age where nature was dominate and the overlord.

When he first learnt about the news it left Esmond broken, as he felt all hopes were gone of his return, yet the impossible happened and he was the damn proof, evident clearly by simply being in his own room.

Esmond felt like asking a couple questions on the matter, but he paused as the System notified him of a quest.

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*Ding*

[New Main Quest!]

[First Steps to Emperor!]

[Host is required to take over the planet known as Earth amongst its populous.

By unifying the planet under one identify can it finally enter space and hope to establish an Empire or Nation that survive in deep space.

Yet the true goal of the Host will be to reach a level where the Empire or Nation can rival the 10 Great Empires of the Milkway]

[Tasks to Accomplish] [Each Task will be considered as a Quest of its own with a subsequent reward]

[0/1 - Create World Bank that is largely owned and controlled by the Host, as it will be required to form an Empire or Interstellar Nation]

[0/1 – Establish Unified Space Force to protect Earth's interests and citizens in space]

[0/1 – Establish a form of government to manage the decisions of the Empire or Interstellar Nation]

[0/5 – Create 5 specialised forms of military to serve the Empire and its citizens]

[0/9 – Build 9 cities that will become known as the first Imperial Cities of the Empire (Must be built across Earth or Solar System)]

[0/1 – Build Imperial Capital City of the Empire (Must be on Earth or Mars)]

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[New Side Quest!]

[Getting Started #1]

[Host needs to do some basic Quests before real progress can begin!]

[Please use this time to take in all the immense information of the System, dear Host]

[0/1 – Establish Connection with the Global Internet Network of Earth (System Advises 'Carter' can be of great assistance)]

[0/1 – Begin forming the basic steps to creating a business empire capable of spanning across the globe using knowledge from the countless past lives of the Host to aid in the endeavour]

[0/1 – Establish Private Security Force to aid in the Host's plans and goals, moving forward in creating a global empire or nation]

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[New Side Quest!]

[Daily Fitness Chores #1]

[0/1 - 50-kilometre run]

[0/1,000 – Sit ups]

[0/1,000 – Push ups

[0/1,000 – Squats]

[0/1,000 – Pull ups]

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'Holy Fuck!'

That was the only thought going through Esmond's mind, instead of being coherently strong enough to now be sway by the interesting System Interface.

Not knowing if he should focus on the Side Quests or deal with the System, Esmond left the decision to his other half.

"Got any idea Carter?

… Carter…?" not hearing anything from his other half, Esmond called out once more to Carter, who chose to speak up, but this time its voice was rather excited.

'I don't know how… but you best get your ass in here somehow, Esy.'

Esmond got up from his bed and looked for his phone so he could first check the time, as he wondered when his parents who come home.

Before Esmond knew it, the phone was in his hand, and the System's cold monotonous voice entered his mind.

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[Host will be moved to Spatial Ark Land momentarily!]

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As his hand tightened around the phone, Esmond's vision darkened for a second, only for it to come back along with his other senses to be surrounded by endless meadows of grassland, trees, small hills, and a rushing river in the distance.

Natural sunlight lit up the whole world, much like Earth's Sun, with its natural heat and UV light to manage the healthcare various plants and meadows.

Esmond was about to look around further, but a loud voice boomed within the space, nearly making Esmond go deaf from the explosive sound.

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[Recognised!]

[System Spirit Essence has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Iron has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Gold has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Copper has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Silicon has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Steel has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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[Recognised!]

[Lithium has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]

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An endless stream of sounds continued to go off in the space, nearly crushing whatever will Esmond had not to burst out and shout because of pent up anger.

Only as the voices ended and things calmed down in the space, that Esmond finally got his act together and examined the Hidden World properly.

"It's fucking amazing, isn't it?"

Esmond heard a voice to his left and was astonished to find another person standing beside him when he turned to look.

Roughly the same height as Esmond, the mysterious man had deep black hair, tinged ocean blue, separating its similarity with Esmond's own.

It also contained several streaks of silvery white hair, that also matched with Carter's unique eye colour.

A combination of ocean blue and silvery white irises appeared opposite of Esmond's, including the pupil's which were split in a cross section tilted on its axis, much like the letter 'X', but it contained one vertical pupil slit as well.

The pearly white wasn't like Esmond's own, but Carter chose to set his skin to a tanned state much like Esmond's own.

Before he could question the individual, Esmond believed he figured out who the person was, much to his surprise and sheer shock.

"Carter?… is that you?"

"I look fucking gorgeous, don't I?

Say it!

I look fabulous, bitch!"

Esmond could help but laugh seeing Carter's behaviour now that he achieved a body of its own, much like his own, with some modifications.

Otherwise, they were fairly similar in appearance, much like twins.

Esmond noticed Carter was touching himself all over… not in a bad way… just trying to get a sense of everything he'd never got the chance to have.

Genuinely happy for his other half, Esmond smiled happily while watching Carter getting use to his new form.

Carter had always wanted a form besides being the Spirit of the System previously embedded in Esmond's mind.

He had bright blue hair that matched the blue sparkling eyes and the pearly white skin.

Carter had a basic shirt and pants on, but the plain nature of it made it feel quite of nice and fashionable.