The youngest heir of the Gray Family, John Gray, son to Patriarch Paul Deus Gray, a demi-god, and Imperial Princess, Jane Deus Imperius, was actually born with a failed innate talent, unable to train in swordsmanship.
His mother had no time to even care for him, and hardly cared to, instead fully focused on the imperial heir struggle for the throne. His father as all patriarchs, was never free and even if he was, John was the bottom ranked of the heirs, unworthy of any aid past the allocated status and resources.
Even with all of these factors, the resources and status of a Gray heir should have allowed John to live a luxurious and full life, but his existence was in truth seen as a sin against the Gray family's legacy and honor.
The accountants took his resources, either dividing them up for their own pockets, or giving them to other heirs to curry favor with them, in the end he lived on nothing but loafs of bread and meat. Furthermore, his personal butler who raised him died only a few days before he did, leaving him truly alone in the world.
His emotions were extreme in nature, jumping from one side to the other repeatedly. He felt deep sorrow that cut into his bones, and yearning within his heart for the things he could never have.
Laying in bed for most of the day drowning in his tears, writing countless books of fantasy filled with sorrow and desperate wishes, he lived a truly painful life. Even going days without speaking a word or leaving his room was normal, in fact if his butler had not forced him to eat, he'd have withered away a long time ago. His wild mane like hair remained down to his ankles, the majority of the time, and he wore pitch black sets of clothing every day.
As for the circumstances of his death, they remained unclear even after the memory injection. One thing that was included in the information, however, was a tutorial on the system.
Its origin was unknown, but its functions were clear, aiding and accelerating the user's host far past their limits.
[Initial 3 random rewards available.]
A roulette interface with a large red button and question marks in place of the rewards then appeared.
[Roll?]
'Roll!' After understanding the system, John's doubts melted away.
To begin with, questions without any answers meant nothing to a man like him.
The roulette spun three times, each time stopping on a set of question marks.
The first item, a frozen drop of liquid materialized in front of John.
[9-Star [Perfection Dew] rolled!]
[Recreates the body into a most perfect vessel.]
The second and third item then followed, two silver and golden playing cards.
[6-Star [Skill Card:Acceleration(Growth)] rolled!]
[Grants the ability to instantly accelerate in a certain direction.]
[7-Star [Skill Card: Enhanced Reflexes(Growth)]
[Enhanced Reflexes.]
[Applying all items!]
As the drop of frozen dew melted into his body, and the two cards transformed into light spots that entered his glabula, his body was covered by a brightening golden light.
His mind seemed to freeze for an instant as a large amount of energy passed through his body. In moments everything about about him down to the deepest level was changed.
His meridians, veins, and talent arteries were all cleansed and strengthened to the best possible level, his skin turned fair and pure, unblemished by all things.
His already handsome appearance even went up a few notches, though his hair only gained a silver touch and his clothes remained the same, he was truly transformed into a noble prince.
Attempting to push himself up, he leaped into the air, his new body's physical capabilities beyond his understanding.
"This body. It's really amazing." Clenching his fist, John was deep in thought about his own state.
Quickly sitting down, he took on a
crosslegged position, and focused his breathing.
'All paths lead to the one origin, and from it stem the branches of reality, fire, ice, earth, wind, thunder, darkness, light, space and time, all converge devouring and growing with each other,' Chanting repeatedly, he entered a state of full concentration.
[Unranked [Origin Ascension Art] recorded.]
The [Origin Ascension Art] was his own self created technique, with the lofty goal of encompassing and manipulating all things, so he used it as the base of his entire being.
Midway through his training, he furrowed his brows.
'It's too smooth, far too smooth, is this how geniuses train..?'
The strength of the Northern Continent was ranked at the top level of the Margrave Realm, mainly because they followed the Immortal Power System with its 9 main levels:
1-Qi Cultivation Realm
2-Foundation Establishment Realm
3-Core Formation Realm
4-Golden Core Realm
5-Purity Tri-State Realm
6-Eternal Tribulation Realm
7-Nascent Ascension Realm
8-Soul Formation Realm
9-Earth Immortal True Realm
The immortal system focused on gathering and condensing qi into a foundation and then into a core, the core is then shattered into a nascent soul after the practicioner achieves the tri purity state of the soul, mind, and body, and survives the tribulations. The nascent soul is then ameliorated into an immortal spirit, and only two final phases remain before ascension, the Earth Immortal body and mind.
Ranked second were the mages with the magic circle system, by engraving revolving Mana circles into their hearts, they achieved extremely large innate power reserves that they use to cast magic spells, power artifacts, and achieve reality bending effects:
1-Apprentice Mage: 1-2 Star Mage
2-Intermediate Mage:3 Star Mage
3-Experienced Mage:4 Star Mage
4-Advanced Mage:5-6 Star Mage
5-Master Mage:7 Star Mage
6-High-mage:8 Star Mage
7-Arch-mage:9 Star Mage
8-Eternal Magus: 10-11 Star Mage
Ranked third were the swordsmen, though their strength equaled the first ranked immortals, the requirements and difficulties of achieving the higher levels were far too limiting.
The Western continent's swordsmanship based system instead encompassed three aspects: Physical Strength that requires special innate talents, Enlightenment that required a certain sort of mind…