"What the hell?" I yelled at the top of my lungs, the voice was not me it was someone else. I quickly ran towards the bathroom mirror to see my face in it, I looked at myself with curiosity and fear. The man staring at me was not me, he was someone else. "What happened?" I asked myself, looking over my new appearance as a man who was 6 feet high. This man had black hair with a single purple line at the top, he had soft skin likely a result of constant care for the skin, he had a sharp chin, and the most striking part of his body was his eyes. 

His eyes seem to have Central Heterochromia or the halo effect. It is when the iris has a ring of one color around the pupil and a different color in the outer part of the iris. In this man's case, gold around the pupil is purple outside and in the other eyes, he has the same situation but inversed like purple inside and gold outside. His eyes seem to suck me into them, they have a strange attractive force to them.

[ Host found, Detected heartbeat is normal, Insisting memory transfer]

This was the last thing I saw before being assaulted with a headache so bad that I could drink the entire Brazilian coffee I keep in my house. Although it lasted for only a few seconds, it was enough to make me think like years had passed. I regained my sense which I didn't even know I lost, and looked at myself with a newfound understanding. I had reincarnated into this world it seems, as Alaric Darius, sick ass name by the way. 

In my previous life, I was called text which my parents found out the hard way that it is not a good name to name your kids. I was bullied straight through elementary middle and high school, these early years of my life were hell. I had only one mission which was to survive, these had me feeling like I was in a jungle more than a civilized place of learning, it was the law of the jungle and all you could do was to survive as much as possible. 

I finally made it into college, now I already tried to change my name but I couldn't do it because it appears that everyone in my town already knows me somehow. Anyway, college life was much better and I had improved myself too I did a lot of martial arts and other exercises. I plan to go into the police academy, after getting a degree in criminology because I had this gift since I was a kid. I could analyze and understand details better and notice things others wouldn't I don't have photographic or even eidetic memory but I could call myself to have an excellent mind. 

I did become a detective and even one of the best detectives in the world, but the last thing I remember was being shot in the head while trying to protect a kid from the bullet. I then woke up in the body of Alaric Darius, he had a perfect content life, although he did not have many friends. He had a family of 5 including him there were 2 other siblings for his parents, his parent although not rich were not poor either. They came to country A from country I in the late 19's, they quickly established themselves here and started a company which eventually was bought by one of the giants for a big sum of money.

With that money, they worked in finance which although did not increase their wealth did not decrease it either. My brother was found to have cancer when he was 9 years old but was recovering very fast, it has been 3 years since then and he was about to be discharged. Everything turned to shit when, in a plane crash his parents died it was honestly one of many bad things that followed this man. His brother died from his surgery for cancer, it was supposed to be the last surgery but due to the news, he was not able to make it. His sister was a victim of a serial killing, and although the killer was found and arrested later on it did not bring his sister back anyway. 

All this happened in a month when he was finally done with all the rituals that followed and came home to find another shocking message that seemed to have put the nail in the coffin. His long-distanced online girlfriend who he only ever met in a Zoom meeting turned out to be from the Beru family. This was one of the big families rumored to control the world with others while putting a front of democracy. Of course, this was from conspiracy theorists but still, the Beru family's power was undeniably vast, they primarily worked in finance but have other companies these companies however are to remain ordinary at best. 

His girlfriend was the only heir except her cousins to the throne who was the head of the family. This was the final revelation that caused this man a heart attack and his brain to give in completely, this is also when I took over. 

"*Sigh*, holy fucking hell. I pity this kid, although born with the beauty that many wished toposes he was homeschooled and never had any friends to talk about his life. He was intelligent but still, this is the reason why homeschooling never worked. It can make some intelligent but they will lack the necessary social skills and eventually,y they can't talk about things like what happened to this guy." I said loud enough only so that I could hear it, I looked into the mirror and said "Thank you for your body and your life, I will make sure to cherish it. I hope you also get a new life like me"

I walked downstairs, I was alone in the empty house. The house itself was neither massive nor was it small, it is a 2 story house with a balcony at the top with glass panels. It had 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and one additional room which was used as a praying room according to the traditions of country I. I walked into the living room and sat on the sofa with my eyes closed for a long while. Although I was a great detective I did not want to be that again in this life. I had enough of my adventures with crime fighting, random kingpins popping up, and a full-blown-out business man acting like insecure children throwing tantrums for not getting the result they wanted. 

I wanted to do something else, I read about a situation like this when the MC gets reincarnated. I want to build something that will last, I want power, I want excitement, I want to build an empire. "System," I said out loud, remembering the message that appeared before me.

[Yes host?]

This was the message that popped up, it seems it lacked the AI's voice but there is some intelligence just not voice. "Explain what you are," I asked.

[I was a system, with the ability to mold based on the user's wishes. I sensed your desire to build an empire and by scanning the world you are in, I have a couple of systems that I can download. I decided to become the wealth system, a system specifically designed to make you the king of wealth.]

This message surprised me somewhat and I decided to ask "What are the functions you have currently?" This time instead of a white screen there was a gold screen with the following message.

[ I allow them to invest in a certain field, this also comes with knowledge of the field and groundbreaking technology. You have to build the other ground-breaking invention yourself by either investing in that field more using your wealth to increase your knowledge and then doing it. The system also doubles as a debit card and gives the host an untraceable debit card, it will give you all the necessary tools to complete your investing process (market trends, etc.). You can call status to see your current stats.]

I quickly formatted a plan to make an empire with this system, this was a hard challenge since in my original world there are already a bunch of shit to deal with just so that one can open a business but here there are monopolies and multiple hidden powers at play. This world is 10x the original earth, but it maintains the same land-to-water ratio of 75% water and 25% land. The other difference is that Africa is split into 2 parts earlier than it is in the original, and a new continent forms in the center of those parts. So effectively there are 9 continents in this world. 

*Ring* Ring* I heard a ringing from upstairs, I walked up to see my phone ringing with a familiar face on the front of the screen. I saw her name and said it out loud "Veronica", oh shit I completely forgot about her.