The First Store System

Remembering the scene of his conversation with his aunt a few days ago, Glenn entered the cultivation arts room. He had no choice but to be strict with his routine as two people entered the room, following him.

The two people were people set up by his aunt not only to protect him but also to monitor his actions as well. Brinda was grooming her to be the ruler of the territory she had expanded, so she didn’t want any untoward action to happen in Glenn’s life. At the same time, someone was there to monitor his activities as well.

​ While Glenn entered the cultivation arts room, Aakesh got busy with taking payment for people entering Panagea, but they didn’t own any cards.

Time flew by, and a few hours passed.

A large queue had gathered in front of Aakesh, consisting of around one hundred thousand people. It didn’t look that significant only from seeing as the system controlled the vision. Only if someone were to count the people would they catch the number of people.

“Store owner, I want this cultivation art,” A familiar statement rang into Aakesh’s ears for the millionth time. The next moment, Aakesh repeated the usual process, and when the time for the customer to leave arrived, another customer took that place, and the same process got repeated again.

More time flew by.

The first group of people who paid for three times the time flow rate in Panagea got their hours over, and the system forced them out.

In no time, the store hall welcomed a large number of people, but soon, that number got reduced to only a few thousand. Some of them went for the cultivation arts room, some for the weapons room, while some joined the already large queue gathered in front of Aakesh. Around three customers had their last deadline of the year today for their Gods & Demons level training area.

Aakesh received another customer. When he paid and got the ownership of the cultivation art, the customer left, and soon another customer arrived to take the previous customer’s place.

Aakesh took a glance and found the customer to be unfamiliar, signifying that it was a new customer.

“Are you the store manager?” The man asked Aakesh with an excited expression evident on his face.

Aakesh didn’t speak anything in response but only expressionlessly nodded.

“Can I meet the store owner?” The man then asked.

“I am the store manager as well as the store owner,” Aakesh expressionlessly replied.

“You can’t be the store owner. I can smell the scent of energy I have only smelled in the Sacred dimension,” The man replied. His tone disapproved of Aakesh for lying to him.

The man’s name was Charles, and he was a human that had ascended to the Sacred dimension around thirty million years ago in the Primal dimension times.

Charles was a nobody in the Sacred dimension when he ascended, and this state continued despite thirty thousand years going by. It took him hard work to sustain his cultivation alone, let alone enjoy the luxury of power and longevity. He could be said to be in the lowest rung of the society there.

Around a few hours ago, in the Sacred dimension’s time, while Charles was having a meditation. He suddenly found himself in an epiphany.

Unusually, the epiphany wasn’t about his cultivation experience, art, or fighting skills he had. But instead, it could be said to be a kind of an illusion.

In the epiphany, Charles found himself seated on a chair almost ten times his size while a large horde of people knelt there in front of him. Since there was a darkness cover around the people, Charles couldn’t distinguish the race of the people, their strength, or even if they were alive. He could only feel that all the people in the horde were loyal to him. If he were to tell them it was the day in a night, they would willingly accept it and believe it to be the truth; such was the sense Charles got from the people.

The epiphany didn’t end as him on the thrones suddenly raised his fingers and muttered some words, which were incomprehensible to the current him.

The next moment, the horde of the people kneeling on the ground stood up and repeated similar words. The darkness cover was still there on all the people.

The next moment, the horde entirely disappeared from the spot while Charles on the throne raised his finger and waved it in the air. Not long after, a black screen appeared and started playing a scene on it.

Unfortunately for Charles, he couldn’t see the scene as darkness had also enveloped the scene playing on the screen.

Suddenly the epiphany started shaking as the real him was beginning to wake up from it. When it was on the verge of disappearing, the Anga continent on Visteerna appeared in his memory.

Since Charles was also an inhabitant of the Anga continent before leaving for his ascendance, he recognized the place.

In fact, if George were to be here, he would have recognized the man. Charles was none other than one of George’s ancestors and also one of the Emperors of the Pocoso Empire.

Being an Emperor and subsequently living at the lowest rung of the society in a higher dimension for more than thirty thousand years took a toll on his mentality.

After the epiphany came to an end, whatever assets Charles had, he sold them to buy an inferior dimensional traveling talisman.

The talisman didn’t cost much since it allowed dimensional travel for thirty years of the Sacred dimension of time. At the same time, it also pushes a limit on your cultivation to the intermediate Immortal.

The higher the grade of the talisman, the more strength the cultivator could muster in the lower dimension.

The talisman used by Lilith was one such example. It was a top-grade talisman, and it allowed her to stay in the Primal dimension for a trillion years, considering the million times the time gap between the Primal and the third dimension. At the same time, it allowed her to have such strength that Aakesh had zero chances of defeating her despite him reaching the limit of the Primal dimension for its cultivator.