This is how I die…?

Lin Jie laid on his back in the middle of a burning warzone. His body destroyed in every way, limbs cut, bones shattered, his blood slowly leaking out below him.

Is this all my blood…? The rain mixing with the endless amount of flowing blood made it seem like he was resting in a crimson pool rather than dying slowly. The thousands of corpses surrounding him destroyed the illusion of comfort, however.

The coalition of races excluding humanity, the [Blood Star Empire] succeeded in their genocide, and after only a hundred years of war, they reached the farthest planet in the human system, Earth of the blue skies, and laid a slow and sick siege to it. Killing all indiscriminately, the children, the women, the elderly, even the pets. None survived.

After 36 hours, the only survivor was the lowest ranked and youngest knight on the planet, Lin Jie. Not the planet-rank knights that could fly a d strike down ships, but the 1-star knight that the coalition's soldiers saw as nothing more than a piece of paper.

Buddha…jesus…god..yahweh…the devil.. anyone! Save humanity! He called out to every diety he knew, but no answer came.

His tears mixed with the rain and flooded out in waves, but unlike his body' clear expression of despair, he was actually laughing. Loudly, like he was telling off the very heavens that granted the coalition victory, and doomed humanity to extinction.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS FUCKING UNIVERSE! LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WHEN EARTH FELL, LIN JIE STILL DREW BREATH!"

He screamed his lungs out and laughed like a maniac.

At the same time, large armored figures approached him. Their armors unnanturally sleek and black with countless runes and shapes all across the surface. Standard issue coalition armor, made to counter the weakness of the human flesh.

"A 1st-rank Star-Knight of the Gold Star Empire is stil alive?" One of them chuckled.

"From the sounds of it, he must've lost his mind," another joked.

"Enough chatter. End him." Their leader cut in.

The largest one leaned towards Lin Jie and his armor melted away, revealing a floating crimson skull.

"Devour!"

Lin Jie's soul floated out of his body and into the skeleton's jaw in a matter of seconds. No pain, no tears, no doubt, simply death.

And so, humanity's journey through the stars ended. Silently, just like it began.

Lin Jie's journey, however, hadn't yet started.

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In the void of death, he relived everything he had ever experienced.

Born as a street orphan, he didn't know what comfort meant, working full days from the moment he could think properly.

But unlike others in his situation, even when he was so poor he would struggle to eat everyday, he never once felt it was impossible for him to achieve something, striving towards his dreams everyday with full force.

Carrying the rarest blessing in the Universe, hope, he tried his best to be to become a knight. A warrior with a special status in the world.

After countless days and nights of training, failure, and more training he finally achieved knighthood, only for the greatest war in the universe's record to start only a year after his appointment.

In his final moments, when the crimson skull faced him, the world slowed down as memories of his childhood passed through his mind, the nun at the orphanage once fed him some sugar, such a memory stuck with him.

His friends and the other orphans, he suddenly missed their smiles. Even his cat, ludi crossed his mind. His lover, his first crush, his teacher, his favorite game, his favorite novel, his favorite player, on the edge of death he couldn't think of a single bad moment in his life.

Though he was an orphan, he even thought of his unknown parents.

He felt the regrets deep within, but they didn't surface to his mind in the end. As if they knew something he didn't.

Lin Jie died on the 7th of December 2099

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And woke up only a moment later

[System Fusion complete!]

[Initiating memory injection..]

…huh…?…I'm not dead..?..are there holo-screens in heaven?

[Memory injection in 1…2…3!]

A voice…?

An explosion of information entered into his mind all at once. More potent and real than any high quality memory shard he had ever used.

[Infinite Invincible Immortal System has fused with the host.]

[Analyzing the host's body…]

[Creating an artifical intelligence assistant based on the host's personality….]

[Reconfiguring the host's genetic make-up…]

[Configuring and personalizing system functions….]

What the hell just happened?!

The ceiling facing him was foreign, he leaped up and found a strange room, wooden floors, walls and furniture. The style like a chinese period drama.

"Ugh! These memories..? Lin Jie…The Immortal Hell…weakest disciple in the heavenly demonic cult…son of the northern heaven master…system..?" He digested the memories piece by piece as they flowed in.

"System..? How did I end up in this body?"

He was taught to remain calm no matter the situation, so he held his confusion and tried to gather himself.

Reincarnation?, transmigration? Those were all just novel stories… right?

[The host was reincarnated when the system fused with your soul. What you just experienced is memory injection for the host's new body.]

A translucent floating panel appeared in front of him along with a voice in his head, every word the voice said appeared on the panel.

"A holo-screen? If this is reality, then who am I speaking to?"

[I'm, Unnamed, your system assistant. I can speak directly into your mind.]

[The system has fully fused with your soul. You'll naturally find it intuitive.]

"This information in my head, it's real?"

[It's all true.]

"Earth! Humanity, what happened to them?!"

Only a moment ago he laid dying in the burning fields of Earth, his calm surprised even himself, feeling unnatural.

[All of those events have not yet taken place.]

[Please start going through the system functions.]

"I need to warn them! How do I go back?!"

[System LVL too low.]

*Sigh* what kind of a mess is this? His confusion only increased.

[Is the host ready to begin the system introduction?]

"What is this system thing? I've never heard of tech like this."

[The system can be described as a personal unique growth tool for the host.]

[To start, use the status command to check your current state.]

"Status."

[Lin Jie]

[Power LVL-23]

[Realm:2nd Level Of Bone Refinement]

[Martial Arts:[One-Devil Art(Lowest)]]

[Skills:None]

[Inter-dimensional Market]

[This shows an overview of system functions and some quick-access information.]

[Power LVL is a way of quantifying the combat strength of the host and others.]

[Skills are abilities not of this world, different from martial arts, they consume unique energies instead.]

[The Inter-dimensional market is a market spanning all of reality and the multiple realities where the host can buy and sell anything, no matter what, that he needs using Credits(The Market Currency).]

[Realm displays the host's current cultivation realm.]

[Martial Arts displays the current martial arts trained by the host.]

"Can I become a Planet-rank knight with this?"

[With the system the host can do anything and everything. Becoming a Reality-Rank God Emperor is only a matter of effort.]

"I…I-"

His eyes welled up with tears, and his heart beat like a drum. This was the greatest opportunity he had ever gotten in his life. The possibilities limitless, his past useless self, he could change everything and take revenge for humanity. All of the times he was reminded of his lowly talent flashed through his head.

[When the host completes a certain amount of achievements, you'll gain a Rank and a reward.]

[The host will receive a [Beginner's Box] upon fulfilling his first achievement.]

[Quest! [First Achievement]

Reward:[Beginner's Box].]

[An achievement can be anything, from taking a life, to a great action or influence upon the world, the host will have to follow his intuition to discover what constitutes an achievement.]

This new life, this system, I'll do it all this time!

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