The First Store System

Aakesh was relaxing on his chair when he sensed footsteps approaching. Aakesh opened his eyes and looked, only to find a regular customer looking at him.

It was Elasha, a customer from the early days of the store.

(For those who don’t remember, Elasha is Lenna’s grandmother, while those who don’t remember Lenna should read the book from the start.)

“How are you?” Elasha smilingly asked Aakesh. Her tone had respect only seen in Elves when it came to Dragons since Elasha still believed Aakesh to be from the Dragon race.

Aakesh only nodded and then gestured to Elasha to share her purpose for coming here.

“What’s your current level?” Elasha suddenly asked as she couldn’t see the cultivation level of Aakesh. As for the cultivation showing the Void Forging, she would only believe it when she had turned an idiot.

Aakesh didn’t speak anything in response but maintained his expressionless stare.

A bead of sweat appeared on her fair white forehead, making it look like pearls as light reflected on it. Elasha felt as if Aakesh was seeing through her soul.

Elasha also maintained her posture as if she wouldn’t leave without the answer, but how could someone win from Aakesh when it came to patience.

Elasha had no choice but to give up on learning the answer as Aakesh maintained his usual silence and expressionless stare.

Sigh!

“Do you think I have reached a sufficient power level to ascend to the Sacred dimension?” Elasha asked Aakesh and finally stated her purpose.

“If I went to the training area, I am confident that I would ascend, but should I?” Elasha further added without giving Aakesh enough time to answer her first question.

Aakesh could see that Elasha had reached more than enough power and stability to ascend. In fact, she had reached that state several years ago. It was just that she was optimizing it further to have an even greater talent when she ascended.

In the past fifty years, the store and Panagea had helped her a lot. She had even reached the top three when it came to strength in the entire Primal dimension.

A few days ago, something happened that had made a foil in her plans to further wait and ascend when she had become the mightiest character of the Primal dimension.

Since she wasn’t aware whether there was this store or products like this in the Sacred dimension or not, Elasha was here to train in the Gods & Demons level training area one last time.

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“Your ascendance rate is a hundred percent, so you don’t have to worry about dying. As for whether you should or not, only you know that answer,” Aakesh expressionlessly responded, making things even more troublesome for Elasha.

If Aakesh had said yes, she would have ascended; If he would have said no, she would have further waited, letting go of the losses she would receive from the situation. But instead of answering a yes or no, Aakesh asked her to choose it.

Elasha understood what Aakesh meant by that statement, but still, she wanted to complain.

Since Elasha was one of the earlier customers when there were only a few of them, she had a healthy relationship with Aakesh. She could complain about his actions to him, and he would silently listen without stopping her.

Time flew by.

In the end, Elasha decided to take a loss and continue persisting in the Primal dimension till the time she became the mightiest character here.

Since Elasha was confident that she would ascend if she trained in the Gods & Demons level training area, she didn’t do it. She wanted to go to Panagea, but since all the seats in the second group were taken, She sat down and began a meditating session, waiting for her turn to arrive.

Time flew by.

The second group’s stay in Panagea came to an end as their six hours got over. The system then forced them out one by one, depending on their entry sequence.

Elasha, who was meditating, stood up from her spot, but only after Aakesh gestured the third group to enter did she proceed toward the portal room.

A few seconds after the third group entered the portal room and the store hall turned empty once again, a floating door out of nowhere appeared in the air.

Soon a stair connecting the door to the floor appeared.

With a clicking sound, the door opened, and soon, a furry creature just an inch shorter than Aakesh stepped out of it. It was none other than Lily.

“Hey, system, my chair,” A childlike voice came out of the creature’s mouth as she spoke.

The next moment, a chair with the same features as Aakesh but an inch shorter than his chair appeared not far from where Aakesh was sitting.

As soon as Lily sat down, she started sharing her today’s actions in Panagea with Aakesh.

Having used one of the wishes granted to her by Aakesh, Lily decided to take advantage of every opportunity at her disposal to get as many strategies from him as possible.

As Lily and Aakesh conversed, the time for the sun to set finally arrived.

Any vestiges of light slowly started disappearing as the sun’s effect on the ever-present darkness loosened.

Sometime later, the sun completely set down, not only bringing darkness all over the Anga continent and Visteerna, but it also announced the end of the day for the store.

There were a few customers still present in the weapons room, so Aakesh had to stand up from his chair and tell them to leave and come back tomorrow.

No one dared to argue or bargain with Aakesh, so the customers silently left. In no time, the store only had two living people, Aakesh and Lily.

Aakesh then went to the door and closed it, bringing another fruitful day in the life of the store to an end.

“Hey, system, ring all the mechanical alerts,” Aakesh asked the system as no quest would get fulfilled without them.

[Ding!]

[Host, congratulations on achieving the mission objective: Sale of Products, finally completed!]

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[Host, your rewards for the quest have been granted. You can check them in their respective sections.]