"Took him long enough to put me on, another week and my power would've depleted and forced me to hibernate or die, stupid fire almost killed me. My maker was right that my body wasn't perfect though," looking at his original body he saw a few small holes peppering the outside the largest of which destroyed the Time rune while the other runes were showing varying degrees of damage.

Knowing his original body couldn't be repaired without his makers' knowledge, tools, and magic he took it from his finger placing it on his forehead using the last remaining energy the band melted away into the shape of the remaining runes, the emerald stayed in the center of his forehead, the runes flew into the skull and branded themselves into the floating green orb that was his soul.

Bang!

Inside his mind, it sounded as if a large gate had just slammed into his mind, reeling from the disorientation he brought his focus towards this intruder in his mind. In his mental space just like it sounded was a massive black metal gate, of course, the gate was over 400 feet in height with the sigil of a large flaming eye in the center.

At the base of the gate was an altar, strangely a feeling of longing and grief overcame him, rushing forward he placed his hands upon the altar. "Welcome my decendent and first inheritor, this message was left for any remnant of my forces or bloodline left alive after my destruction during the Battle for Middle Earth."

Shock and overwhelming loss settled upon him hearing his makers voice once more and learning of his death."Now that you have arrived inheritor the system in place will assist you in your rise to power, but it will only grant you abilities, skills, and knowledge you have earned. You can give copies of information to the system for rewards so long as it is useful and isn't currently stored within the system.

As the first to arrive, I will bestow you two gifts, the first will be access to information on smithing and enchanting, it may prove useful for gathering resources and making connections. My second gift is to remake that disgusting thing you call a body, you are my inheritor, not some rouge warrior or cursed reanimated corpse that would be mistaken as a low born piece of filth. When you leave here your body will be remade it will only take around a minute, so I advise you to brace yourself the experience will be...uncomfortable."

Flinching at the brutal honesty of his maker, he did agree that his body wasn't the most pleasant but it had been his only option to survive, that small pause escaped his notice as a small spike of pain drove into his mind. Along with information of smithing, forging, runes, and enchanting he was given everything he would need to rival any mortal smith only the dwarves of his same level would have an advantage in the working of metals, shaking off that slight headache he heard the sound of a chain breaking and cold and detached females voice.

"Welcome to the Wraith Lord System, any and all resources of your level will be unlocked and available for purchase through contribution points. Would you like to run a scan of your body?"

Whats a Wraith Lord or a scan? the points I understand thanks to my makers' explanation it will depend on my efforts to gain information worthy of the systems standards. With slight hesitation, he confirmed the scan, a screen of dark green light appeared in his vision with words in black slowly populating the surface.

Name: n/a

Race:Undead

CP: 0000

Physique:Tier- 0 Stage- 8

Agility:Tier- 0 Stage- 2

Intelligence:Tier- 0 Stage-9

Wisdom:Tier- 1 Stage-3

Health: Sever Wounds

Devour- Absorb (T-1)

Mind- Alure(T-0), Mind Control(T-0)

Space- Short range teleport(T-0), Pocket Dimension(T-0)

Death- Raise Undead(T-0), Command Undead(T-0), Death Bolt(T-0)

Looking at the screen confusion over some aspects arose," System can you explain the Tiers and stages portion of this um list?" a slight pause "Of course inheritor, a Tier is a base level of power

the higher the tier the more powerful that aspect is, stages are sub-levels raising it past the ninth stage will increase the Tier by one, your innate abilities will grow with your own power as well with mastery over the abilities themselves". "What is CP and also what happens after tier nine"?

Another pause, "CP is your contribution Points, as for your question pertaining to advancement it is either unknown or you have not unlocked that knowledge in the system. Inheritor bringing your attention to your health you have severe wounds on your soul if you cannot halt the essence leaking from your soul you will perish in one year and three months, also you should choose a name for yourself it is unbefitting of your status to remain nameless."

Nodding to himself he thought in silence "I knew those injuries must have been deep but I didn't know that they were that severe, no wonder he fell without a fight, looks like when I absorbed him some of the injuries came with him, that spear those gods used must've been exceptionally powerful to leave that kind of everlasting damage.

A name huh I guess the system has a point, ill have to think about this I wouldn't want to be like that soldier what was his name...kayl no kyle that was it definitely don't want to end up like him. System, I want to copy my memories of cultivation techniques how do I do that and how much will I be compensated for the information?

"Place your hand on the altar and will the transfer to happen, what is useful will be taken what is not will be discarded. The calculated value of the information is one million five hundred thousand points. Congratulations you have unlocked Tier(1) and Tier(2) of the Systems Store would you like to examine what is available or receive a recommendation?"

"Why were the points so low and I'll take the recommendation, for now, I'm looking forward to my new body," he asked curiously as to how ten thousand years of cultivation knowledge seemed so low. "A vast amount of the knowledge had key components missing or damaged, salvaging what was left to recreate the techniques or making brand new ones will be very useful.

More testing will take time if something of higher value is created through the system using this knowledge you will be compensated appropriately. Recommending 2 Tier (0) abilities Wraith Armor and Wraith Weapon while recommending a single Tier (1) Soul brand. Each of these skills can be upgraded and supplemented with additional abilities from higher tiers, later on, the total CP cost is one hundred thousand do you accept this price?"

Feeling a slight pressure as he felt the abilities become one with him, he finally moved away from the black gate and back to the alleyway, there was less light available showing time had passed along with him while inside his mind space, though at a slower rate by about one-third of he had spent inside his mind space, "I wonder when my body will start HMPH!"

Falling face first paralyzed by the pain he couldn't scream and couldn't think, he was just a skeleton laying face down in cabbage.