The First Store System

“Why don’t you introduce a product that will make us close?” Lilith suddenly asked with a knowing smile on her face. Then without waiting for Aakesh’s response, Lilith turned around and left the store since there was a large queue waiting behind her for their turn.

Aakesh only shook his head with a wry smile since she had gotten used to these antics of Lilith in the past several decades. She still had a lot of time left for her vacation, so Aakesh only expected her actions to get weirder.

Aakesh then stopped thinking about it since after Lilith left, there was already a customer standing in front of him with a page in her hands.

There was no virtual book floating around the page, so the girl hadn’t bought the preview option.

“Store owner, I want to buy this one,” The girl timidly requested Aakesh.

Aakesh expressionlessly nodded and glanced at the page in the girl’s hands. The next moment, all the details of the cultivation art appeared in his mind.

“You need to pay 70 ordinary Primal stones,” Aakesh expressionlessly told the girl.

The girl nodded and took out seventy ordinary Primal stones from her space ring with a look of struggle on her face. It was all the wealth she had with her, so if she bought the art, she would only get left with a few ordinary Primal stones.

The girl’s hands struggled as they pushed the Primal stones toward Aakesh.

Aakesh didn’t take them into his control yet as he wanted the customer to be sure about the purchase.

“Forgive me, store owner,” The girl had a red face from embarrassment as she apologized. Even though she was blushing, she still didn’t push the Primal stones away from her.

Aakesh didn’t speak anything in response but only expressionlessly stared at her.

Finally, a few seconds later, the girl gave up on her struggle and pushed the Primal stones away.

“Are you sure?” Aakesh expressionlessly asked as once he took the amount, there was no returning from the sale unless the item failed to do as per its description.

The girl’s already red face turned even redder as she nodded and then didn’t dare to look straight into the face of the store owner.

Aakesh didn’t speak anything in response and waved his hands. The next moment, the Primal stones disappeared from the store and appeared in the system space.

“The art is now yours,” Aakesh expressionlessly told the girl and gestured to her to move since there was a crowd waiting behind her for their turn to come.

Aakesh understood that the crowd would stay for only a few days like this since there was a limit per life on the sale of the cultivation art per grade, and no cultivator could buy the cultivation arts higher than their level, so the customers would get saturated after a few days.

The girl thanked Aakesh and left the queue and then the store.

As expected, the next customer arrived right after the girl left, and Aakesh got busy again.

Time flew by.

The store saw a further increase in the number of customers today since the number of virtual portals had almost doubled, while at the same time, there was a new product.

After the time flow upgrade arrived in Panagea, the number of customers didn’t stay fixed per group. Those who couldn’t afford any other time flow rate chose the same flow rate and left the portal only after two hours passed in the Primal dimension, while those who could afford went for the three times rate and stayed for the whole six hours in the store.

More time flew by, and the remaining hour in the store came to an end. The Anga continent and Visteerna welcomed the arrival of the darkness with the setting of the sun.

With the setting of the sun, the mysterious store also closed for the day, announcing an end to another fruitful day for many across Visteerna and the Primal dimension.

***

After closing the store, Aakesh turned around and looked at Lily, who was just an inch shorter than him in height.

“Let’s go for the training,” Aakesh smilingly commented. Lily nodded with a mixture of distraught and helplessness in her eyes.

Aakesh ignored that expression since he had already gotten used to it. Whenever the time for training arrived, Lily would have the same mixture of emotions. For some reason, Lily didn’t like training even when she worked harder in her supposed conquest of Panagea.

The next moment, Aakesh and Lily disappeared from the store’s hall, bringing a round of silence in the empty store.

After appearing in the selection area, Lily chose her usual training environment and pushed the switch. The next moment, the space started cracking in front of her and sucked her inside.

After Lily left, Aakesh went to his right and picked his weapon for the day since Aakesh had been using a different type of weapon every day for the last several days.

Aakesh then went to his left, chose the training area, and pushed the button. The next moment, a similar situation like LIly emerged as a space crack appeared and sucked Aakesh inside.

The next moment, Aakesh found himself in familiar surroundings. It was none other than the training environment where Aakesh could only enter once and would have to face a different opponent every day.

Not even a moment had passed after Aakesh’s appearance here, when suddenly a blue window appeared in front of him. It asked whether Aakesh wanted to start from the first round or begin from other rounds till the eighteenth level, which Aakesh had yet to clear even when he used the sword.

Aakesh chose to start from the first round since he had a new weapon in his hands today, and he still wasn’t aware of what race the opponent belonged to.

After Aakesh chose his option, light particles started moving away from the blue window, and in no time, the window entirely disappeared, waiting for Aakesh to clear the first round or return tomorrow since the training environment was only available once a day to Aakesh, until he died.

“Roar!”

Not long after, a bestial roar filled with majesty and cruelty rang in the area, announcing the arrival of the beast.