The First Store System

“Leave! If you ever return after today, your hand will be the last thing I will cut. I will cut you into pieces and send it to your father,” The next moment, a voice filled with a cruel tone and killing intent rang inside the person’s head as he cried in pain due to losing his hand.

The cries came to a stop as the person’s entire body started shuddering. “You…you are not Mag…Magne!” The person spoke with a trembling voice.

No answer came in response to the person’s comment, but the pressure attacking him suddenly grew twice, throwing him several miles.

“There will be no second warnings,” The next moment, the voice rang inside the person’s head again.

The person space jumped straight away, not willing to stay for even a moment there.

“I welcome you, your majesty, the direct descendant of honorable Soran, the one thousand, three hundred, and forty-seventh Emperor of the Xandar Empire,” The Divine King knelt in the air after the person left and greeted the voice.

The voice belonged to none other than Randolf, who succeeded in subduing the sword and becoming the new Emperor of the Xandar Empire.

“Meet me in the palace with all the Divine Kings,” A voice rang inside the Divine King’s head, and nothing was spoken after that.

The Divine King nodded. He then disappeared from the sky above the capital city of the Xandar Empire. While the citizens looked worried due to the sudden disappearance of the Mysterious peak, and then an enemy appeared.

***

“Damn it!” The person cursed in anger. In spite of the fact that his hands had already recovered, he still remembered the humiliation by which the voice had treated him.

“You are going to regret it,” The person’s eyes turned cold and vicious as he muttered.

The next moment, he did a space jump again. The next time when he appeared, he was in front of a palace.

Since the array around the palace restricted direct teleport or flying into it except for the Emperor, he had to enter the royal palace spanning hundreds of miles on his foot.

The person belonged to the Pocoso Empire, one of the five Empires on the Anga continent, and also the Empire from where George, one of the first and regular customers of Aakesh’s store, came.

“Father, your son is here,” The Person called out to his father after traveling for a few seconds.

“Young prince, the master is in meeting with his ministers. It wouldn’t be wise of you to disturb him,” A soldier appeared in front of him and told him in response to him calling out.

The person’s face turned ugly, seeing the look of no respect on the soldier’s face, but he controlled himself from lashing out since he had no choice but to stay calm. The soldier in front of him belonged to the royal guard, the exclusive soldiers guarding the Emperor.

Every soldier in the royal guards belonged to the royal family or was a strong expert, coming from different parts of the Primal dimension. So they were more valuable to the Empire and the Emperor than a prince like him.

“It’s urgent,” The person calming himself replied with a hurried face.

The soldier only took a glance at him and disappeared in response, making the person’s face uglier.

“You!”

“Return to your house and stay there for the next million years,” Suddenly, a familiar voice rang inside the person’s head.

The person recognized it as the voice belonged to his father, the Emperor of the Pocoso Empire.

“But-”

“Ten million years,” The person wanted to complain, but his father interrupted his sentence midway and increased his punishment.

“If in these ten million years, you or your clone are seen for even a second outside your home, you will be put in prison for a million years.” The voice added, warning the person not to attempt breaking the punishment.

The person had no choice but to leave and do as ordered by his father, as refusing to follow it was no less than suicide since the Emperor of the Pocoso Empire was known for his apathy toward his children, except for the crown prince, his elder brother.

***

“I believe this situation to be one of the Ancestor’s tests,” Randolf commented with an expressionless face as 99 Divine Kings listened, seated on their respective chairs in the throne room.

“The situation can’t get any worse for our Empire than this. First, we lost most of our resource points, and now even my father, one of the greatest Emperors to grace this position over these countless years,” Randolf added. The Divine Kings still listened without interrupting Randolf.

“We all know what would happen to the stability of our Empire if we didn’t find anything to replace the resource points lost due to the Mysterious peak,” Randolf said. All the Divine Kings nodded.

Since their Empire followed the Faith system of cultivation, the stability and strength of the Empire and Emperor depended upon the firm belief of the citizens on the top post.

So due to the sudden disappearance of the Mysterious peak, the Empire lost several of its money-making resources. They had enough resources for the Empire to stay stable for a few decades, but after that, the downfall would begin.

The citizens got good lives from the Empire, so they had a firm belief in the Emperor and the 99 Divine Kings and granted them regular faith energy. But if that good life got snatched away from them, the belief wouldn’t be firm anymore and would start to decrease at unimaginable rates. It would result in the reduction of the faith energy and also the strength of the Emperor and the Divine Kings.

“Keeping this in mind, as the Emperor, I’ve decided to take ten Divine Kings with me and search for the reason behind the disappearance of the Mysterious peak,” Randolf finally presented his reason for commencing the meeting.

“Your majesty, you don’t need to go. You’re the last male in the direct line of Honorable Soran. If something happened to you, the Empire would fall,” One of the Divine Kings stood up from his chair, knelt, and pleaded to Randolf to change his decision.

“I’ve made my decision,” Randolf replied. He then made a gesture of raising his hand. The next moment, an invisible force appeared and made the kneeling Divine King stand up, and it then pushed him to his chair.

“Your majesty, you can’t do this to us,” A familiar female voice rang in the hall as Randolf’s mother entered the hall.

Despite being the mother of Randolf, she couldn’t call him by his name after becoming the Emperor since the post was linked directly to the sword left by their ancestor.

“Mother, leave the hall,” Randolf expressionlessly ordered.

Randolf’s mother was taken aback by the sudden order, but before she could persuade Randolf, a gentle force acted on her and took her out of the hall and then to her room.

Randolf had absolute power over the Xandar Empire, so his every word was like the words uttered by heaven itself in the owned territory.

“Your majesty, your mother is right. We won’t accept this decision of yours.” The 99 Divine Kings stood up from their thrones and responded simultaneously.

The risk in Randolf’s order was too much to take by the Empire.

Their Empire may fall someday after decades if they didn’t find a replacement for the resources lost due to the disappearance of the Mysterious peak, but here if Randolf died, their Empire would fall in a day.

Randolf’s eyes turned cold, seeing every Divine King refusing to follow his orders, making the Divine Kings shudder.

“Your majesty, if you want to punish or kill us, go ahead,” One of the Divine Kings responded, looking directly into the eyes of Randolf. While he spoke, his entire body shook in fear, but he didn’t move his eyes away.

“I don’t know what else to do. I can’t let this Empire fall on my watch,” A helpless expression appeared in Randolf’s eyes, seeing the determination of all 99 Divine Kings.

A silence then fell in the hall as the Divine Kings refused to go through Randolf’s order, while Randolf wanted to go through what he wanted.

“You all are fearing because of me being the only male, so I would impregnate my sisters today, leaving everything to the ancestor,” Randolf suddenly spoke, breaking the silence.

For being of a level like him, having successful pregnancies wasn’t a big deal since, in his power system, strength didn’t get passed through the bloodline.

The next moment, he waved his hands, and soon, all of his thirteen sisters appeared in the hall.

Before the Divine King could say anything, Randolf and his sisters disappeared from the hall.