Portal City – Sector CoreA hyper-tech fortress surrounded by ten-kilometer-wide defense rings and energy barriers that shimmered under moonlight. Within its walls lived humanity's elite—Guild Masters, System Hunters, Researchers, and Legacy Clans.
The city never slept.
The moment Rishabh crossed its main gate, the scanners froze.
Scanning… Scanning… ERROR.
❌ No System Class match found.❌ System Signature Unregistered.⚠️ Unauthorized SSSS+ Tier Entity Detected
Security drones surrounded him instantly, locking onto him with mana-barrel turrets. Civilians scattered. Red alarms blared.
"Stand down," a calm voice echoed from the sky.
From above, descending on a personal anti-gravity platform, was Lady Nyra Xelan—one of the top 10 Guild Leaders, known for her cold logic and rumored to be half-machine.
She eyed Rishabh like a scientist examining an unstable artifact.
"You're not from any known faction. That system—where did you get it?"
Rishabh's reply was a simple smile. "I cultivated for it."
The System Evolves Again
✅ System Update Completed!✅ New Passive: [Heavenly Presence] – Automatically Dominates Lower-Ranked Systems✅ Feature Unlocked: [System Devour: Allows Absorption of Broken/Weakened Systems]🔓 Hidden Stat Unlocked: [Karma Thread – Tracks Fate-based Enemies]🔥 Warning: Fated Encounter Approaching – Estimated in 4 hours.
He didn't even need to fight now. The pressure from his aura alone caused low-level system users nearby to black out or kneel involuntarily.
Even Lady Nyra twitched slightly.
Secret Faction Contact
Hours later, Rishabh was "invited" to a blacksite—one hidden deep underground, run by a mysterious group known as The Archivists of Dawn.
There, he met an ancient-looking man named Sage Omrith, who claimed to know Bodhidharma from "before the fall of the old world."
Wait—what?
"Your death was not fate," Omrith said. "It was scripted by those who feared your rise across all realms. You were never meant to reincarnate."
"But someone... interfered."
That's when a twist emerged.
Omrith handed Rishabh a shattered shard of a core—a fragment of an ancient cultivation system far older than even Rishabh himself.
✅ System Fragment Detected: [Origin Code: Immortal Engine: V0.1]❓ Compatibility: Unknown🔒 Fusion Option Locked – Requires [Other Half]
And here's the mystery:
"There's another reincarnator," Omrith said. "And he holds the other piece."