The First Store System

Chapter 155: Late

Time flew by, and another hour passed in the store without the appearance of Aakesh. Around 1.2 million people were currently sitting in the store, waiting for the event to start.

More than 700,000 of the 1.2 million people came here to the store for the first time, and they weren't here from anywhere close.

Many in the crowd belonged to Kingdoms and Empires located in the center of the Anga continent. They were here due to the sudden announcement in a Kingdom like the Chivell Kingdom in the night.

Powerful beings were always in search of opportunities, and when a Kingdom that had several Tao Palace cultivators, and a peak Tao Palace king, announced the details of an event happening in some low-level Kingdom in the dark of the night, it meant an opportunity may have arrived for them. So they didn't wait and also joined the event told in the announcement.

So there were currently more than 10,000 cultivators exceeding the cultivation level, Tao Manifestation in the store, waiting for the event.

"Do you think our spies heard the date of the announcement wrong?" One being covered in a dark cloak whispered to the person sitting next to them.

The person in response looked at the being like he was the most stupid person the person had seen. "Are you stupid? If we heard the date of the announcement wrong, then what are these people doing here?" The person scoffed.

An embarrassed expression appeared on the being's face in response. "Cough! Why do you think then the store owner hasn't arrived until now?" The being coughed to clear the embarrassment and asked.

"I've no idea," The person replied while shaking his head.

Both the persons were peak Tao Palace cultivators and were best friends, so when they heard the announcement, they both also came here.

Upon entering the store, they became confident that an opportunity was waiting for them after seeing the entire hardwood floor that looked like a mini-world from inside made out of Ashamba in the store. Despite being only one level away from reaching the peak of the Primal dimension, they couldn't sense anything in the store.

But four hours had passed, and the store owner was nowhere to be seen. After asking from the people who had watched other events and were citizens of the Bisan Kingdom, they found out that the store owner acted nonchalantly and didn't care for anyone's feelings, so they couldn't help but get nervous, thinking that maybe the store owner had decided to stop the event. But after seeing, not a single person leaving the store, they also decided to wait the entire day as the only thing they had in abundance amount was time.

Qi cultivators who had reached the level Tao Palace could live up to trillions of years even without having any lifespan increasing treasure. Since they had only lived for 80 billion years old, they still had too much lifespan to live or waste.

They were here because, despite having trillions of years to live, the cultivators who failed to achieve Immortality before the age of a million years had almost zero chances of ever ascending to the Sacred dimension. 

The idea of becoming an Immortal might seem great in stories, but when there were millions of such Immortals in one top organization, it took away the value of working so hard. What's the point of cultivation if you don't even wish to reach the peak of the power of the Multiverse?

There were many like them who could achieve Immortality if they worked hard, but their aim of ascending may never take fruition due to the lack of their talent.

***

"What do you think happened to Aakesh?" Evelyn asked with a hint of concern in her voice.

George couldn't help but laugh in response, seeing Evelyn's concern. She glared at him for laughing at her concerns.

Seeing the glare, he stopped laughing. "Today is the last day, so he must be preparing for the event to make it even greater than the last two days combined," George confidently responded with a smile on his face.

"Let's just hope what you're saying is correct," Evelyn commented, seeing the confidence of her boyfriend.

***

While hundreds of people entered the store with each passing moment, the crowd chattered about why the store owner hadn't appeared. The chairs Aakesh had added were already filled to the brim, but extra chairs appeared with each person who entered the store.

The floating door the crowd had gotten used to appeared suddenly in the store above the platform.

Seeing the door appearing, many in the crowd cheered. The first-time visitors also joined the people in the store when they discovered the reason for the cheer. Since many of them had come here after paying outrageous amounts of Primal stones to travel to this low-level area, their excitement knew no bounds.

The next moment, the stairs connecting the door from the platform appeared. Soon, the door opened, and Aakesh stepped out of it. He then stepped down the stairs and appeared on the stage.

Aakesh nodded after seeing all the chairs full. The next moment, he asked the system to add the same number of chairs as the current number of people sitting in the crowd, and the next moment, 1.3 million extra chairs appeared in the store, stopping the store from looking overcrowded.

The crowd was looking at Aakesh for getting the reason for him getting late, but Aakesh ignored them and started announcing the next event.

He had no plans to organize the event this late at the stage since he had three or four events planned for the third-day event.

Four hours earlier,

[Host, you can't give the Heartpiercer as the reward.]

The system suddenly announced. Heartpiercer was the name of the bow Aakesh had created for the first event today.

Since he liked archery the most out of other weapons, he decided to make a bow as a reward. He enjoyed the making of the bow so much that it crossed the threshold of the Primal dimension.

Anyone who won the bow would become the strongest of the Primal dimension at that moment, but he knew this wasn't the reason behind the system's refusal.. Because, if the system were against it, it would've already told him when he had made the bow, not now when the event was going to start.