The First Store System

As Aakesh released the bowstring, the arrow that had appeared on it flew toward the bullseye, tearing through the air.

Aakesh had an expressionless face as he looked at the arrow moving closer and closer to its target.

“Whoosh!”

The next moment, the arrow reached the bullseye, but it failed even to hit it, let alone pierce the center.

Aakesh couldn’t help but get disappointed as he had appeared here after a long duration of few years, and yet he had failed to hit his mark.

The next moment, the flowing wind froze as a similar blue window appeared in front of him. To clear the level, Aakesh needed to hit as many marks as the level without missing even a single shot. Since Aakesh failed to hit even the first one, he would have to start again.

Since Aakesh had enough time, he selected the 104th level again, and soon the blue light swept past his sight once again.

Time flew by.

It had been several minutes, and Aakesh was currently attempting the 104th level for the umpteenth time.

“Bam!”

“Bam!”

“Bam!”

Continuous hitting sounds rang in the area as arrow after arrow hit its mark on the bullseye.

Aakesh had a cold expression on his face as he nocked his bow and stretched the bowstring, only stopping when it touched his nose, while an energy arrow had started emerging, beginning from its tail feather.

In no time, the arrow emerged in its entirety. Aakesh then released the bowstring, and it flew toward the bullseye, tearing through the air with a sense of freedom to it as if some caged bird had gotten free.

“Bam!”

The next moment, a sound rang in the area as the arrow succeeded in hitting the bullseye/ Aakesh’s eyes turned even colder as the arrow had missed its mark just by an mm.

Aakesh’s eyes then relaxed as the area around him froze once again, and soon a blue window appeared in front of him.

Aakesh ignored the blue window and disappeared from the spot, appearing in the selection area.

As Aakesh appeared there, he could see Lily waiting there.

“Why are you here this early?” Aakesh smilingly asked Lily, but the sternness couldn’t be hidden in his voice.

Lily flinched for a moment, hearing the tone, but soon it tapped on its head with a helpless face.

‘Why am I flinching? I am not at wrong here,’ Lily couldn’t help but think in her heart at that time.

“I won all the battles I was to fight,” Lily replied.

Aakesh didn’t say anything but only stared at Lily for a moment. He then moved his eyes away and asked the system for the chair.

Lily would never lie to him whenever it came to training, so Aakesh trusted what she said. At the same time, Lily heaved a sigh of relief, seeing Aakesh not asking any questions further.

Time flew by. As Aakesh and Lily started discussing their experience for the day as their tradition had become over the past several decades.

After their discussion came to an end, both Aakesh and Lily disappeared from the selection area and appeared in the store’s hall.

Within moments, a floating door appeared in mid-air after Lily had summoned it. The stairs connecting it to the floor appeared shortly afterward.

Lily then talked with Aakesh for a few seconds about her strategies related to the upcoming war in her territory and left for the room.

After the door and stairs connecting it to the floor disappeared, Aakesh turned in the direction of the portal room and proceeded toward it.

As usual, Aakesh’s eyes turned in the direction of the leaderboard straight after entering the portal room. Aakesh couldn’t help but raise his eyes, as he saw another change in the rank leaderboard.

There has been no change in the Panagea rank leaderboard for several decades, but only in the last two days, there have been two new addition to the table.

Yesterday, it was Pento who had made his mark by entering the top fifty. But unfortunately for him, he couldn’t sustain it for long, as there was a newer addition today, and Pento had gotten forced out of the leaderboard, not even staying there for a day.

The newer entry into Panagea was none other than Lilith. It was also the reason for Aakesh’s surprise since Lilith would have already been in the top ten if she was serious about Panagea, considering her knowledge and fighting techniques.

Aakesh then moved his eyes away from the leaderboard since it didn’t matter to him what made Lillith get dedicated enough to work hard and increase her level.

Aakesh then turned toward the virtual portal, touched the nearest to him with just the tip of his finger, and the next moment, a suction force more powerful than anything appeared and sucked him inside.

The next moment, Aakesh appeared on the same spot he had left before exiting the Panagea.

Since the time flowed three times in comparison to the Primal dimension, he had twenty-four hours here, and yesterday, Aakesh had decided to give half of that time to his class since he now wanted to upgrade it to Mythical grade.

Aakesh was currently in the Dark Forest and still very far from any semblance of civilization, so Aakesh decided to first increase his level through killings, and then in the last twelve hours, he would use his class-related skills.

Time flew by.

“Swipe!”

A swiping sound rang in the area as Aakesh cut the creature’s head with a clean swiping movement with his sword.

“Thud!”

“THUD!”

The next moment, two crashing sounds rang in quick succession as first, the head fell to the ground, and then the body.

Since it wasn’t the training area, the ground turned wet with blood while the body stayed there. The creature Aakesh just killed was three levels higher than him, so Aakesh felt the pleasure of gaining some XPs from the kill.

Without taking even a single glance around him, Aakesh put his sword back into the space ring and took a step forward. If someone were to be here, they would have puked, seeing so much blood and headless corpses spread across the area.