The First Store System

As the battle between Nevada and Phoenix settlements came to an end, Aakesh completed his quest and gained a reward of ten trillion XPs.

Aakesh then focused on the screen that had been continuously running in front of him. Since it didn’t obstruct Aakesh’s view if he didn’t want to watch, Aakesh never thought of deactivating it.

On the screen, Aakesh could see the Elf in an injured shape as he got carried by the winning army. Aakesh didn’t face such treatment since he was an adventurer and had no links with either Nevada or Phoenix settlements.

Since the Elf and his other friends who had the same fate as him didn’t gain anything significant from the war but became survivors despite being the only seventeen who had lower levels than Aakesh in the settlement.

ɴ[0)ᴠᴇʟ When Aakesh had watched the fate of the seventeen people, even though the number of golden lines was in good numbers, the red lines weren’t any less, either. If not for the black lines being very fewer, then some of the seventeen may have even died in the war. The war was short, but it was cruel. The previous lord of the Nevada settlement became an example of that. His half-burnt head was still crying for mercy from the lord of the Pheonix._.

The seventeen were currently outside the range of the skill Fortune Eye. But if they were inside and Aakesh would have activated it, he would have seen that the black lines had almost disappeared, while the number of golden lines had seen an increment due to more than half the red line turning into that.

“Adventurers, if you want to exit the settlement, the time is now. Our lord would now go through a purge and kill every last of the shits who live here,” A soldier suddenly approached Aakesh and told him about what was going to happen next with good intentions.

The soldier was one of the soldiers who had survived the killing blow from Aakesh due to the battle ending prematurely after the uncle of the lord of the Phoenix settlement made a grand entrance and captured the lord of Nevada.

Instead of feeling vengeful toward Aakesh for almost killing him, the soldier gained a deep respect for him. The soldier originated from a race native to a tribe in the Dark Forest, and they loved mighty people. It was also the reason the soldier had chosen to join the army of the Phoenix settlement when the now dead son of the lord had defeated the soldier.

Aakesh only expressionlessly nodded toward the man and stayed there since his primary task for coming into this place still hadn’t gotten fulfilled.

Time flew by.

After seeing Aakesh still not leaving even after the soldier urging Aakesh twice, he gave up and departed to do his duty and take part in the hunt. The second thing the soldier’s tribe loved after the mighty people were killing. It was also the reason for their love of the strong.

Aakesh had no interest in the event that was about to come, nor did he feel any sympathy toward the citizen of the Nevada settlement. He focused his eyes on the screen. He would leave right after his selected candidate gained something significant, and Aakesh earned his reward.

More time flew by.

Even though the soldier had informed Aakesh of the purge, when it had begun, the soldiers left quite a few people alive. The purge was only for those with no background. As for those with family backgrounds, even the lord of the Phoenix settlement didn’t dare to kill them.

Killing someone in battle was a different thing. It would rarely result in any action from top families, but killing a member of a top family in a purge was humiliating for the family, so it would demand action, which would sometime blow to a devastating war.

Many Panagea’s inhabitants dreaded large-scale wars since they were an example of what it does to a world. Even the only Chaos-level lifeforms to exist on Panagea couldn’t survive a war and left the world with a ticking timebomb; if adventurers failed to diffuse it, it would destroy Panagea.

“Stop!”

As one of the soldiers was about to kill the Elf after capturing him, suddenly a shout rang in the area.

The soldier instinctively wanted to continue, but the next moment, an invisible pressure arrived on him, and it threw the soldier backward.

The soldier’s forehead became wet with sweat as he knew he had failed to comply with the order and let his instinct win. But the punishment he dreaded never came.

The owner of the voice stopped in front of the Elf. He couldn’t help but look at the Elf and the sixteen other lined people with a surprised expression.

“Uncle, what made you personally come here?” The lord of the Phoenix settlement, who had finally become happy after killing the lord of Nevada, couldn’t help but come over after seeing his uncle stopping execution.

The lord didn’t feel that his uncle had begun feeling sympathy for the people here since he had seen even more cruel actions done by his uncle’s hands.

“I never expected to come across this situation here,” The uncle couldn’t control his excitement and responded to his nephew while still focusing on the Elf and his group of friends.

The uncle suddenly waved his hands. The next moment, a green light engulfed all the seventeen people looking at him with a mixture of negative emotions in their eyes.

The next moment, all the injuries the group of people had disappeared not only physically but mentally as well.

“Are you all living together from birth, or did you meet later in your life?” The uncle suddenly asked, without giving the group any moment to take in what was going on with them. A moment earlier, they could see their lives whispering goodbye, and now they were here, feeling better like never before.

The lord didn’t disturb his uncle and decided to wait to know the answer before coming to any conclusion about his uncle’s strange behavior.

Time flew by.

Everyone except those with backgrounds got killed, while the seventeen left with the lord’s uncle. The lord had his jaw almost dropped to the ground when he found out the reason behind his uncle’s strange reaction.