He felt like cursing the gods at his own situation being this pitiful.
In two lifetimes, he is still a pitiful person. It felt like the heaven is trying to mock him.
He is Ford Baker. A Transmigrator who found himself in the body of a perfect copy of him in another world.
Unlike the one, him on the present and on his former world are different.
On his past life, his family are rich and owns a multi billionaire company. Being the son of that kind of family, he have everything in his life. All the convenience and anything he wants are given to him with just his whim.
He truly felt like the king of the world.
One day, he became the owner of his own company after his father fell ill and nothing can cure him anymore. Being a son of a prominent person who owns this kind of wealth, he got an elite education and can do all of his work just fine.
He made sure to mama the company as best as he can so he won't disappoint his family, and also continue his life of luxury.
Who would have thought that one day, he will be blindsided by those he considers as his trusted aides. In just a few months, all of his liquid assets are slowly vanishing and he is suddenly acquiring a bad rep, and also a debt that came out of nowhere.
Forced to take the fall due to being the company's owner, he is forced to leave his position.
Only to later on learn that the one who planned this all is the person who replaced him. A person he truly trusted.
That person seems to be so determined to make him gone that after he got the company, he also made sure to destroy his life. His house has been taken, all his money is gone, and there is nothing left to him anymore.
It seems like he can't even contact his family, maybe because they are disappointed at his catastrophic failure.
In the end, he died on a street, regretting everything in his life. Thinking that if he did something differently, it might not have ended like this.
Before dying, he swore to himself that he will become the most richest person if there is truly a next life.
Now in this body, he just woke up in this one a week ago.
His current body have the same appearance and name as him. Though their backgrounds are like heaven and earth.
The Ford Baker of this world is just a son of a declining factory owner. They didn't have anything in their life other than the factory, and the money they can barely make from selling their products.
His father seems very determined to rise his industry to the top, and when he died, the owner of this body before he wakes up to this world decided to continue on his legacy.
He didn't have any parents left, so he has been doing everything in his lonesome. Because there are no workers in his factory, he has been using it and trying his best to advertise his factory as much as possible.
He can't even get his quota, and there are still the many issues about his taxes and other debts. So the equipments and other things on this factory are slowly being sold just to pay for those.
In the end, it seems like Ford Baker collapsed under pressure, and he is the one who replaced his consciousness.
"Does god truly hates me, that even in my second life, I am still pitiful like this!?"
As he felt like the world has forsaken him, a prompt suddenly appears in his face.
[Welcome Host!]
[The Omnipotent Exchange System has been activated!]
He is surprised when he sees that prompt, his eyes widening at the sight.
"What is this!?"
[This is the Omnipotent Exchange System. Using my functions, you can convert anything into points, which you can use to buy everything in my catalogue!]
"It's speaking to me!?" He exclaims in shock.
[... You seem confused. Don't you have any knowledge about our existence?]
"What the hell are you talking about?"
He really is confused. He is not the type to be reading something like webnovels or other forms of media. The only things that he watches are movies from Hollywood, or news reports.
[This is troubling. Other hosts usually knows about our existence.]
"Well I don't. So what the heck are you!?"
[I am a System that can help Host achieve anything in life. If you want to get stronger, I can help you with that. If you want wealth, then I can create anything so you can have that wealth. Nothing is impossible for me!]
Is this my imagination? Am I becoming crazy!?
He has been thinking like that with a frown on his face. He felt like this one is totally impossible, that something like it is not supposed to exist in reality.
[Your trying to deny my existence when your situation itself is also impossible.]
He widened his eyes at that realization. He decided to ignore how it manage to read his thoughts as he thinks about the implications of what it is saying.
Yes. I am supposed to be dead. So why am I in this body. Second life is still superstition in our world, and there are no proof about it.
"Okay. Let's say I believe you can do whatever you are claiming you can achieve. Why me?"
His mind turned to business mode, and he decided to ask about it. Even if it's just useless questioning a floating panel in front of his vision, he'd like to learn what it wanted from him.
[You have been one of the luckiest person who got chosen to be my Host. That's all the reason you can get!]
He can't believe that. After the betrayal on his past life, he got a mentality that nothing is free on this world. Anything must have a price on it.
[Of course there is a price. You need to do something else before you can use my functions.]
"What am I going to do?" He asked with his eyes narrowed.
[You just need to convert something, preferably inanimate objects. It is also fine even if it's a living being, though I can only convert low intelligent creatures like insects.]
"What does converting entails?"
The System explained to him about it.
Converting is just literally turning the object into some form of special energy that the System can use. These energy can be turned into any other objects that the User desires. He can even create his own planet if he have enough of this special energy.
This special energy has been dubbed by the System as the Exchange Points (EP). To make it convenient to the Host, he created a catalogue that lists everything he can do and turn it like how one would see an online shopping catalogue.
He also have many functions within him that are still locked and can only be unlock by achieving some sort of requirements. For now only the catalogue and the conversion are the only things that he can use.
[If you are still curious about what you can do, why don't I give you a quest to act as your tutorial?]
"... I don't know what Quest are you talking about, but if it will give some sense to whatever you are talking about, then I guess that won't hurt."
[Affirmative]
[New Quest]
[Convert Something]
Convert something in your vicinity until you get 100 EP.
Rewards : Normal Ticket (x1)
"You said I can convert anything?"
[Yes]
He nodded before looking at the scraps lying around this old factory. He thought of something and decided to go along with it.
"I want you to convert all the dirt and insects in the place."
[Notice : Conversion are only limited to your line of sight]
He nodded before looking around.
"Okay. Convert what I told you awhile ago while I am looking around."
[Affirmative]
After doing that, he is surprised when the stains and dirt on the walls and floors are quickly vanishing, and also some of the small line of insects on the cracks of the walls. Just by looking around, everything, even the dust were vanishing like his line of sight is an eraser of some sorts.
"Amazing..." He mutters under his breathe.
After he takes a look around his factory, a prompt finally appears.
[You got 3,000 EP]
"3,000?"
He is curious how he got a lot of it. He thinks that dirt and insects aren't supposed to cost that much.
[I convert things by their weight, height, quality, and also their spiritual essence. Insects and plants have a small trace of spiritual essence, which can give you a single EP everytime you convert one.]
"What about the dust and stains?"
[Their from weight and height. Because those are just trashes, so they are already at the lowest quality. You will need at least a kilo of those things just for a single EP]
That means converting insects or plants are a lot more cost efficient than just dusts and stains.
[Quest Complete]
Rewards : Normal Ticket (x1)
[By acquiring something from the System, you unlocked the Dimensional Storage. You can put everything in here. Also, everything you bought or got as a reward from the System will be automatically be put in here. Please make sure to check it out.]
"Okay. How can I see that?"
[Ford Baker]
EP : 3,000 (Shop)(+)
Physical : 0
Mental : 0
Spiritual : 0
Magical : 0
[Abilities]
[Inventory]
Normal Ticket (x1)
"What can I do with this?"
[You can just tell me if you want to use the ticket or not. You can also tell me if you want to open the Shop. That is where you can see my catalogue and buy whatever you want using your EP.]
"What can this Normal Ticket do?"
[By using it, you will randomly get an item that is ranked by Normal.]
"Rank?"
The System, seeing that it's Host is also confused about that, decided to explain about it's Ranking System.
Ranks indicates how valuable it is on the Multiverse. The System is the one who ranks it.
There are fifteen ranks. The Fifteen Ranks are....
Trash
Common
Normal
High
Superior
Supreme
Epic
Legendary
Mythical
Divine
Universal
Cosmic
Phantasmal
Primordial Chaos
True Primordial Chaos
The Normal rank consists of items that are normal to the world, based on the System's perception of it.
[Would you like to use it?]
"... Okay. I don't know what kind of normal are you talking about so I want to see it."
[Processing...]
The new floating panel occurs, this one showing a lot of options and a light moving through it at a fast rate. It seems like whatever option the light stops on, it will be the thing that he will get.
As the light goes around the millions of list on the options, it slowly becomes slower and slower until the image zoomed in on the one that it stops in.
[Congratulations! You got 1,000,000$!]
"... What!?"
This is just his first exposure to the wonders of this system.