Zachery opened his eyes, but he didn't wake up in Alexander's body; instead, he had come face to face with Alexander himself!
Alexander Leonel stood in front of him, blinking dumbfoundedly as he glanced at Zachery.
'So, it's not going to be that easy, is it?' Zachery thought as he glanced around, feeling completely in command of this white realm. He quickly made a table and two seats and sat down on them.
He beckoned Alexander to sit while he was thinking at breakneck speed about what to do, and within seconds, he had a hypothesis.
"W-who a-are you?" For a barely 18-year-old to walk into a pristine white room and meet an entity capable of conjuring anything like nothing...
Everything was perplexing and frightening for him.
"That's not the important question right now, is it?" Zachery put on a fake smile and gazed at Alexander with fake confidence. "Isn't your wife still afraid of the wolf who is watching and waiting to tear her down?"
The atmosphere darkened as a result of this. Alexander's face distorted in a horrible rage that Zachery could sense.
"Do you want to help?" Zachery's smile grew more genuine as he peered into Alexander's eyes, as they both spoke through their eyes.
[Agreement reached]
[Host can successfully descend on Etheria via Alexender Leonel.]
[Final processing of World Travelling is being processed...]
'There's more?' Zachery pondered as he squinted his eyes. But then Alexa caught his attention as he was thinking.
[You're going to like what's gonna come next.] She smirked, but Zachery abruptly admonished her, telling her that she should focus on his body rather than what he was doing.
Especially watching after Edda. But Alexa simply countered, claiming that she was not bound to a primitive brain like Zachery and that she could easily multitask. Zachery simply shook his head and smiled in response.
[Transporting Host to the Ultimate Shop Inheritance.]
'What?' Zachery's head was full of question marks at first, but after he started browsing around the so-called Ultimate Shop, it was full of exclamation marks.
[Systems]
[Ultimate Farming System:- 10,000 EXP Required.]
[Ultimate Devourer System:- 100,000 EXP Required.]
[Ultimate Fighting System:- 1,000 EXP Required.]
[Ultimate Fist System:- 10,000 EXP Required.]
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[Talents]
[Amidexterious Physique:- 100 EXP Required.]
[Robust Physique:- 100 EXP Required.]
[Rapid Nervous Mortors:- 150 EXP Required.]
[Reenforced Vitality: 50 EXP Required.]
[Show More...]
When Zachery saw all the stuff he could literally buy for only some game-like point system, he was completely taken aback. Alexa also reminded him that this shop was Grendum's legacy.
The All Consuming, Grendum's moniker, had another nickname.
Devourer of Systems.
He had slaughtered and devoured an infinite number of system bearers. Zachery was tearing his hair out right now because he had rashly spent the 10 EXP to level himself up.
So now he didn't even have enough money to buy the most basic talents because he lacked 10 EXP. If he had any talents from the outset, he could have gotten a head start in competing against others, but now he'd be treated the same as any other native.
Zachery shook his head and smiled to himself. Now that he realized what all of this World Travelling was about. He would be more prepared the next time.
Zachery sighed and regrettably shuttered the business, but all hope was not lost.
[Noting that the host is descending in with no systems, therefore the default system is being integrated.]
'Ha!' Zachery laughed childishly, reassuring himself that he was, in every sense, a protagonist!
As he glanced at the last notification that came over his view, Zachery's eyes gradually blurred.
[Level up System is being integrated...]
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When Zachery opened his eyes, all he saw was devastation and wailing. As yells and shouts rippled around the battlefield, fire and heat invigorated his entire body.
'We're losing,' Alexander grumbled in his head as he peered left and right. As he witnessed the dire scenario, Zachery looked through Alexander's body as well.
Zachery and Alexander came to an easy understanding. Zachery would make Alexander stronger. In exchange, Alexander would pledge to be loyal to Zachery when the time comes.
This was signed in a contract that Alexa provided free of charge to Zachery. Alexa had one more such contract that he could utilize on this planet, but that was all.
Zachery could take possession of Alexander's body at any time, but he just sat in the back seat, taking in his surroundings.
Zachery's initial objective was straightforward: Stop Primera's assault and consolidate Alexander's Leon Empire.
With the information he had and the information Alexander's brain possessed, Zachery's intelligence steadily devised an intricate strategy.
[The Level Up System has been implemented...]
'I'm taking control,' Zachery said to Alexander, who stepped back obediently. Zachery gradually seized possession of Alexander's body, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a spear thrusting towards his head.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!!" Screams rang out throughout the battlefield, but they all came to a halt when they saw what happened next.
Zachery's eyes grew icy as he saw the spear approaching at the fastest humanly conceivable pace, yet it was all for vain because this body of his had crossed the threshold of human possibilities.
Zachery avoided the thrusting spear with a simple body tilt and closed the distance, causing the spear user to feel uneasy.
Zachery squinted as he examined his body.
Zachery was not only looking around when he was on the sidelines and Alexander was controlling the body. He was gradually letting his spirit feel the body and becoming acquainted with Alexander's unearthly skill.
However, while he was closing the distance in the combat with the spear user, he grimaced when he reached halfway because, according to him, he should have already reached the spear user due to his superhuman speed.
But when he looked down at his body, he realized everything. Zachery was so preoccupied with getting acquainted with Alexander's body that he forgot to look around his body.
Thick metal-plated black armour encircled his body magnificently, from the soles of his feet to the tip of his hair, and Zachery took a nanosecond to admire the craft that encircled his body.
But that was all there was to it.
His mind ran calculations again, this time including the armour, and he closed the gap between himself and the spear user.
He decided to keep the armor after noticing that he could still move quickly, retaining superhuman strength. When the battlefield was this tense, it was also prudent to retain this sturdy protection around his body.
Also...
Zachery raised his fist and closed it, rattling the armour with the force with which he clenched his hands. He grasped it tightly and rammed it into the spear user's head.
His hand initially slammed into the spear user's head, causing his facial bones to break and blood to flow from his lips due to several broken teeth.
Zachery did not end there.
He didn't stop the fist and brought it down, slamming the spear user's head against the tiled floor of the walls.
There was a disgusting squelch and a retching plop. Zachery raised his fist, dropping blood and brain stuff from his clenched fist.
He looked at enemy soldiers with unbridled bloodlust as he shook his clenched hand, cleaning blood from his metal armor.
...It kept the filth away from the body.
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