The First Store System

Chapter 1132: Ayriel's Decision!

George's bloodline cried as the Kindeva woman looked at him. Every pore of his body was urging him to bow.

George tried to fight through it, but as time passed, he found his struggle was in vain. His body was slowly bending.

Suddenly a grin appeared on the woman's face, and before he could understand, the bloodline pressure attacking him disappeared as if it were never there.

The woman then moved her face away and closed her eyes while he stood there for a moment.

Since whatever happened inside the store wasn't intentional, nor could it cause danger to George or Katrina, the system didn't act.

After a few seconds, George calmed down. The bloodline pressure no longer affected him. He took a step forward, approaching Aakesh.

No new customer was talking with Aakesh, so he didn't have to wait and immediately reached Aakesh.

"Senior, I want to tame this beast," George requested. It wasn't immediate, as he glanced at the woman, thinking of asking Aakesh about her identity, but he decided against it and stated his purpose to the store owner.

Aakesh nodded and took the card from George's hands. He took a quick glance at the beast and then tapped twice on the storefront pattern at the back of the card.

As the process usually goes, George found himself in a different place after Aakesh returned the card.

George himself was a creature that thrived in an area where the concentration of fire and darkness elements was abundant, so like the majority of the customers, the environment benefited him instead of creating an advantage for the beast.
There was no way of measuring time in the battle area, so after an unknown amount of time had passed, George trumped over his opponent, winning the battle.

Soon after, he found himself back in the store's hall with his hand still stretched and the card in his hands. George couldn't help but raise his eyes in astonishment when he found that no time had flowed inside the store while he was battling the Hellfire Cerberus.

George soon returned to calm since these features meant nothing to the store or the store owner.

Time flew by.

"You need to pay fifty-five thousand… Sacred stones," Aakesh informed George since only the payment step was left before he became the owner of the Hellfire Cerberus.

George nodded and then took out the required stones from his inner world and pushed them toward Aakesh.

Aakesh waved his hands, and the next moment, the mountain of stones disappeared from the store and appeared in the system's space.

[Host, the amount is correct!]

The system's voice rang in Aakesh's head. "The payment is complete. The beast is yours to summon," Aakesh announced.

"Thank you, senior!" George thanked the store owner. He didn't leave but stood there for a while.

The idea of asking questions about the Kindeva woman rose in his heart, but he would shoot them every time since, from the way the woman was sitting on the chair next to the store owner, it meant that the relationship between Aakesh and the woman wasn't ordinary.

There was another woman on the chair who looked to be in disguise, but he felt nothing to fret over from her, so he didn't focus on her.

Katrina noticed the cautious glance of the man, so she had no choice but to open her eyes. When George saw those crystal clear eyes up close, his heartbeat instinctively grew.

George panicked and controlled his heartbeat immediately, not wanting to offend the Kindeva woman.

There was a reason that, despite being from Hell, the woman was in her true guise as a Kindeva member, and yet no one tried to attempt anything against her. If he tried that, things would be different.

"Your majesty!" George nodded toward Katrina with a respectful tone.

Time flew by, and several minutes passed.

Katrina asked George about Hell since George was stronger than the last creature from Hell.

Even though George didn't know much about Hell due to his indifference to knowledge, he still knew more than that man and cleared some of Katrina's doubts about it.

Even though around two years had passed since Katrina decided to travel to Hell and use her power to cause some chaos, the plan was still active. She was only waiting for Autumn to fulfill the bet.

After the conversation between the two was over, George went to the waiting corner, waiting for his turn for Panagea.


***

While the scenes were playing in the store, a different situation was going on inside Panagea.

Ayriel found herself in a terrible situation several years ago. She saw a gigantic beast, whose arrival changed the entire situation. She found herself in a vast garden, with its end nowhere in sight.

At the same time, traveling in the garden was also difficult since even a single breath would make her drunk.

Years had passed, and Ayriel was still in the garden, with no gains made in level or wealth over the past years.

Ayriel and Ayana's relationship had never been worse than it had been for the past few years, and different terrible situations were also playing around. It was as if someone was playing a cruel joke on her. Many times, Ayriel would find herself questioning whether it was time to give up on Pangea as years went by, but she was still stuck in a range of a few miles.

If it were Ayriel from before the store, she would have given up on something like Panagea, but from Aakesh, she came to know about the hidden danger around her. Even though she didn't know what it was, it was still better than living in the dark, not knowing the trouble.

Considering the risks, Ayriel decided to continue with her stay in Panagea. At the same time, she also gave up on leaving the garden. Instead, she decided to devote all eighteen hours of her stay to building immunity against the fragrance that permeated every corner of the garden.

It was tough at first since she would become drunk and then fall asleep for hours, but as time passed, her capacity grew and the time she stayed sane increased.

After years of devoting eighteen hours every day for the last three years in Panagea, Ayriel finally built up enough immunity to at least survey the area.