The First Store System

Bella couldn’t stop herself from bending down and snapping the plant out. Only when she stood straight did she come around and couldn’t help but get shocked after seeing the plant in her hands.

Before she could even understand what was going on, an invisible force suddenly descended and threw Bella out from the altar.

The next moment, Bella found herself standing in the same spot she was on before the strange worm had pushed her toward the altar.

She still remembered the blue-skinned adventurer that had helped her, so she looked around only to see the figure standing a few hundred meters away from her. At the same time, she didn’t find the strange worm no matter where she looked.

Bella wanted to thank the adventurer, but before she could, without even taking a glance at her, the adventurer left the area since there was no dead end, while there was a direction of how to exit the place in both of their head.

Bella still had some time left before the piece of memory disappeared, so she knew everything about the plant in her hand.

It wasn’t any widely available herb, but a rare Mythical grade plant that had even more value than some Divine grade material.

Since Bella knew about the value of the plant, she knew that she couldn’t take it out. If someone found out about her having the plant in her possession, she wouldn’t even know how she died.

Since the situation was problematic for Bella, she decided to absorb the plant. She needed to take some caution while doing that, but for Bella, the more time she had the plant in her possession, the more troublesome the situation would be for her. There are many people who can see through space rings in her city alone, so there was no time left for her.

There was a pretty simple way to absorb the nutrients of the plant, and that was to eat it raw. As the memory suggested, Bella ate the plant.

The next moment, a cocoon made of the colors brown and grey surrounded her. It was of the same color as the plant. The branches were grey in color, while the triangular leaves were brown.

***

Aakesh had already left the area since he had already got his reward for watching the event.

Since the plant the girl earned was valuable, Aakesh earned a whopping one level as a reward, becoming Level 236.

There was still a few hours left before sunrise in Panagea, so Aakesh decided not to exit Panagea currently. It didn’t take long for Aakesh to leave the place since there was a map in his head, and he also didn’t come across any of the three terrible creatures.

Aakesh was unaware that he didn’t see any of the three creatures, but he was in sight of them.

The three beasts were conversing, with the tiger-like creature sitting in a higher position. They had mixtures of expressions in their eyes as they talked about the war and what the arrival of adventurers entailed for Panagea.

***

Time flew by, and it didn’t take long for the remaining time to arrive to an end.

[Host, the sun is about to rise in Panagea!]

As Aakesh was currently traveling, he heard the usual system alert in his head.

Since the sun was about to rise, Aakesh didn’t linger in Panagea anymore. The next moment, a streak of light appeared where Aakesh stood, and when it disappeared, Aakesh was also gone with it.

The next moment, Aakesh appeared in the portal room in the store. He then turned around and left the room.

Since there was still some time for the sun to rise, and Aakesh never opened the store earlier than its time, he summoned the door of his room.

Some time later, the door and its stairs appeared again as the door opened with a click, and soon, Aakesh stepped out and descended to the floor.

There were still a few minutes left before the sunrise, so Aakesh went to his chair and waited for that time to come.

Time flew by.

[Host, the sun has risen!]

Aakesh opened his eyes as the system’s alert rang in his head. He then stood up from his chair, went to the store’s gate, and opened it, announcing the start of a new day for the store.

As usual, a large crowd of people waited for the store to open. As soon as the store’s gate opened, their eyes shined, and an expression of excitement appeared on their faces.

Aakesh only took a glance at the large crowd since he had already gotten used to seeing so many people waiting outside his store. At first, it took a while for Aakesh to adjust since he only had a few customers, more than a hundred in more than eighty millennia when the store was in its first phase. Now Aakesh got that number of customers in less than a second.

Aakesh didn’t let the crowd wait for long and moved away from the door, turning around and returning to his chair. The next moment, the people surged into the store like a tide as the number crossed the mark of one hundred and fifty million customers for the first time for the store.

In no time, an area that looked to be in chaos due to so many people turned empty, with only two buildings silently standing inside it.

The majority of the customers that arrived this early had to do with Panagea, so those who had cards went to Panagea after setting the time flow rate in Panagea just from their cards.

Those customers who didn’t own any of the three cards went to Aakesh, creating a queue. They paid for their services and then went toward the portal room.

In no time, only a few hundred customers were left in the store hall out of the more than hundred and fifty million customers.

These few customers were also here for Panagea. But they first decided to check the cultivation arts since currently, there were enough virtual portals, and there wasn’t any fight to enter Panagea.

***

A/N: I know, I have been irregular this month. Sorry for that. I was going through some mental issues. I would open my laptop to write, and then a few minutes later, I would shut it down since I didn’t have enough motivation to write due to the tanking numbers of subscribers over the past few months. My family also saw this, and they finally confronted me yesterday about it and made me understand just how happy I used to be whenever I used to discuss my story with them or start writing it on my laptop. I will try my best from today to be punctual. I have even forgotten the number of chapters I owe you. But we will come out stronger from this.

Thanks to all who have supported me up to this point. The story wouldn’t have reached this stage if not for your unconditional support.

To say my thanks, I will try to have a mass release of more than ten chapters the next month. Sorry once again for your waste of one coin over reading this.