Black Prime

After he fell unconscious, He opened his eyes and found himself in a Dark space. He looked around but everything was dark and he couldn't make sense of it.

 "Welcome Inheritor", Mark heard a monotone mechanical voice but he can't identify where it was coming from, however as he turned around he could sense an object coming at him with a fast speed. It stopped just about Thirty centimeters from him.

 He took a closer look at it and realized that it was a Pitch Black Gun it resembled the desert eagle pistol that was on his former planet.

 "You are welcome, Inheritor". Mark heard again as the gun continued spinning slowly in the air.

"Who's speaking"? Mark was curious as he stared at the gun, it was obvious that the monotone voice was coming from the Gun since there was nothing else in the surrounding.

 I'm the Artificial Intelligence of this Gun, It's called Black Prime, and it is bonded to your soul.

 Mark was intrigued after hearing the AI speak, he had heard of soul bound artifacts in this world, they were usually objects that can be of help to the owner and some of them are weapons like the Durian Spear of the First Kinases Emperor. "He stopped pondering and asked; so what are your functions and what is this space"?

 "This is your soul space, you are not supposed to discover it at your current level, you can enter it anytime by willing it, However further information cannot be disclosed to you and you will have to find out by yourself.

 Mark nodded thoughtfully and asked; Are you the one that brought my soul to this world? The AI ignored his question and continued; "The main function of this Gun is to generate a bullet blueprint that replicates a certain ability or characteristic of a living creature as long as the killing blow was delivered by using the Gun. The bullet can be shot by inputting a certain amount of energy".

 "The lowest amount of energy consumed to fire a particular bullet is different from another, and inputting more energy than the lowest energy required will enhance the bullet. To access the gun functions, a special User interface has been created for the inheritor, you can access it by calling out, "User Interface".

 Mark nodded and said, "User Interface", An Horizontal Holographic Screen was unfolded in front of him, with two icons labelled; Bullets and Gun Upgrade.

 "The gun can be upgraded by absorbing any type of energy, The gun upgrade process can be monitored by tapping the Gun upgrade icon on the interface". The other functions of the gun will be unlocked later on". The AI said and stopped talking.

 Mark was stunned as he heard the Gun's function as his brain gears spun rapidly as he thought of the pros and cons of using the Gun, morover the AI stated that other functions can be unlocked later. 

 He clicked on the Bullet icon and the screen changed, He saw a icon labelled; Available Bullets and a spin wheel icon labelled; lucky wheel but it was grayed out, Mark understood that it means the function is currently not available therefore he clicked the Available Bullets icon.

"Basic Piercing Bullet. Click for more details" That was what Mark saw after he clicked the Available Bullets icon, Mark clicked it and a new screen unfolded in front of him:

 Basic Piercing Bullet

Attack Power: 2 AP

Lowest Energy required: 0.5E

Description: An ordinary bullet with enhanced piercing function.

 "It seems this is the only bullet available now", Mark thought 

Mark clicked the Home icon and went back to the homepage before clicking on the Gun upgrade function, the screen flashed and an unfilled horizontal bar with 0/10E on top of it was shown.

 Mark swiped to close the screen and asked; "What type of energy is required to power a bullet and upgrade a gun"?, However he was met with deathly silence. "It seems the AI is not an interactive one, at least i now have a goal in this New World, which is to find out the secret of his transmigration and Black Prime seems to be the only clue, Mark thought before willing his consciousness to leave the soul space.

Three days Later, Mark was seen sparring with Cynthia in the training room, their wooden swords clashed once more and Mark was sent flying again. 

He wiped sweat of his brows and stood up weakly while placing his left hand on the wall for support.

 "You are progressing quite well young master, you have innate reflexes, although they still seem clumsy, as long as you work more harder you will surely progress".

 Mark was not surprised at the comment, as he had honed his innate reflexes through countless battles in his past life, as for the reason he was still clumsy, it was because he has not fully adapted to using this body to fight.

 "I don't think swords suits me", Mark said while keeping a cool face and dropping the wooden sword on the floor of the training room.

 "Why do you say that"?, Cynthia asked, still trying to accustom herself to her young master's recent changes, Before he would have been very pleased and even feel smug with her complement, because she rarely praised him.

 "I just feel like swords are not suitable for me, Mark replied while walking towards the door.

 Cynthia followed him quietly, as they exited the training room.

The training hall was quite empty except the presence of a few guards sparring with themselves, They greeted Mark respectfully and continued with whatever they were doing. Mark nodded and left the training hall.

******* 

 Sitting cross legged in his room, Mark closed his eyes and started cultivating, he has been quite unsuccessful in forming a Qi seed in the past three days, yet he was determined to form it as this was the only way for him to get an higher position in the Royal Academy's entrance exam, it is not a secret that the higher one's position during the entrance exam, the more benefits and special care.

Mark was sure that most people have already left for the Royal City Kinas, Which was a common thing at this time of the year since enrollment into the Royal Academy will be carried out and the Empire's Founding anniversary will also be celebrated next month.

"Perhaps it's time to try out the strange Gun", Mark has been visiting his soul space in the last three days to communicate with the Gun's AI, however it was unresponsive and Mark even wondered if he was dreaming when the AI first communicated with him.

 "I guess i have to find out by myself", Mark muttered as he remembered one of the specialities of this new world; Dungeons, yes this world has dungeons!, He discovered this information after reading another version of the world history in one of his latest visits to the Library, This dungeons are divided into different tiers from F to A tier according to their danger level.

 Dungeons where not discovered along with the advent of the world evolution, but where discovered when humanity researched how to stop the non ending mutant beasts armies, it was discovered that beast tides occurs when dungeons overflows with beasts, The discovery of dungeons around a hundred years ago caused a ground breaking breakthrough in space research, after dungeons crystals was discovered.

 A dungeon crystal only appears after the dungeon is overloaded with energy that it can't contain causing the destruction of the dungeon, leaving the dungeon crystal, The dungeon crystal can be used to create a controllable dungeon, and also has some other special uses, It is still being researched and it's currently being incorporated with technology.

 Even Mark was awed when he read the book as it seems that the humans in this world were centuries ahead of the humans in his previous world. He planned to check out the dungeons in the Royal Academy, however it seems that his plan has to be brought forward, since he needed to be familiar with the skills in his arsenal before going to the Academy, so as to know what kind of disposition he is going to adopt over there.

 Mark cast out all thoughts from his mind and continued his cultivation.