The First Store System

Elena, Elasha, and Eros began to strategize as the timer appeared in their minds.

Only three months were left before the last battle for the territory would begin.

At that time, the system had tweaked the time flow rate of the store. Within the store and the outside world, the time began to flow in sync, but the rate of time moving inside the tower continued at the same ratio of 1:1,000,000.

So while three months had passed for Elena and the other two participants, only a few seconds had passed for the attendees and the Primal dimension.

When the round of strategies ended, the time flow rate inside the store grew and began to match that of the world inside the tower.

Aakesh didn’t want the attendees to know the strategies of the participants before the battle began, so he did it. As for what the attendees felt about it, Aakesh didn’t give it a thought. He had already done enough for the people to enjoy the events.

As the deadline of three months ended, the timer disappeared, and a space crack emerged next to the participant’s thrones.

“Win the war for me,” Elena ordered her subordinates and told them to leave through the space crack.

“Go ahead and don’t let me down,” Elasha ordered her subordinates.

“All of you have no choice but to win,” Eros ordered his subordinates.

The three participants gave their respective orders and sent them on their way to the battlefield.

When the halls turned empty except for the presence of the participants, the space crack turned into a screen and began to show the scenes of the people inside their respective camps.

The participants weren’t allowed to leave their halls and interfere. Now they could only wait and watch till the result of the battle arrived, praying for their strategies to work.

The competition was between three participants, so there were three enemy camps on a vast ground devoid of any life except for the soldiers.

Each of the participants had already separated their respective armies into sections to make the commands more effortless and faster to implement.

The competition was three-way so there were chances of two participants colluding to defeat one and then fighting the penultimate battle between the two camps.

The three participants had also this situation in their mind, so each of them had asked their commander to attempt to contact the other party. Each of the three had the same commander, and it was none other than the organization leader.

Aakesh had also expected this situation to arrive if the number of participants conquering all four worlds grew to more than two.

To solve this issue, Aakesh had designed the penultimate battleground to be a vast area. It would be difficult for the armies to come in contact with each other. At the same time, it would also mean that the battle would be very long.

To solve this, Aakesh had added another situation. The bloodlust in participants’ hearts would grow every day.

If for one year, they failed to vent their bloodlust in the battle, the armies would begin to fight their own fellow members as the soldiers would lose their sanity.

At the start, Aakesh had announced that some information was to be found by the participants themselves. The bloodlust was one such piece of information.

It would not only affect the participant’s strategies, but it would also increase the difficulty of the penultimate war.

As expected, due to the battleground being this vast, for a month no enemy camps found each other.

As there were ways of communication between the battalions and the headquarters, the commander was aware of everything going on in the war. At first, the commanders had plans to communicate with the first enemy camp they came across, but as the bloodlust grew in their hearts with each passing day, the belief in communication began crumbling.

Finally, when one month had gone by, the bloodlust in the hearts of the soldiers had grown to a dangerous extent.

After a month, the camps of Elena and Eros came face to face for the first time.

The Eros’s camp had around three thousand soldiers, while Elena’s camp had five thousand soldiers, making her the bigger of the two.

The commander of both parties wasn’t quick in deciding whether or not to communicate as the two soldier camps began their battle, disregarding the order from above.

Since Eros’s soldiers had an early Level 11 in their midst, while Elena’s only had three peak Level 10 soldiers at most, Eros’s camp won the first battle.

The battle was no less than slaughter for Elena’s camp, so after the defeat, soldiers in Eros’s camp became enemies to kill at sight.

Even the commander hadn’t expected things to go this way. But no soldiers returned from the battle to punish them for disregarding his order, so the matter got settled on its own.

Time flew by, and three months had passed in the blink of an eye.

Elena and Eros’s camps had come across three times. Out of which Eros came out as the winner two times, while Elena won the last round.

Eros and Elasha camps had come across two times, with Elasha winning both encounters.

Elena and Elasha camps had only encountered each other once, with Elasha coming out as the superior.

After three months, Elasha looked to be at the top. Her reason for winning all the encounters was that she only had eleven battalions, with each of them being led by a peak Level 11.

Elasha decided to bet on quality over quantity, so only those camps that had a peak Level 11 in their midst could give challenge to her.

In the sixth month, Elena’s commander personally took action and extinguished one of Eros’s camps that was led by a peak Level 11 person.

In the eighth month, Eros’s commander took action and killed three camps of Elena, out of which none were being led by a peak Level 11. So the loss taken by Eros was still greater.

In the eighth month, Elasha’s commander also took action and extinguished one camp from each Elena and Eros. Elena lost one of her peak Level 11 beings, while Eros camp was led by a late Level 11 being.

In the ninth month, Elena’s commander took action again, only to run as he came across the headquarter of Elasha’s camp. But before leaving, the commander had killed a lot of soldiers, extinguishing the bloodlust in his heart.

As time went by, the battle grew crueler, and the number of casualties continued to rise.

As the next year began, one of Elena’s camps started a battle between themselves as their bloodlust had crossed the limit of their sanity.

Even Elena, who had decided to stay calm, couldn’t help but grow nervous as she had lost the most number of soldiers in the majority of the encounters they had come across.

More time flew by, and three more years passed in a flash.

Since Elena had the highest number of soldiers in her camps, she was somehow able to survive despite losing soldiers at such a high rate.

The same wasn’t the case for Eros, as, at the end of the fourth year, Eros only had his commander, seven peak Level 11, and a few thousand soldiers with him.

Since things had reached this extent, Eros was the first to lose as Elena’s commander, and the ten peak Level 11 razed Eros’s base to the ground in a sudden assault.

After that only Elasha and Elena were left in the competition.

While leaving the camp after the attack, Elasha’s commander and other peak Level 11 attempted a sneak attack on Elena’s commander.

The battle was cruel beyond any words as Elena left three peak Level 11, and her commander became seriously injured. Elasha’s camp was no better as it only lost two peak Level 11, but all other soldiers that had come with them had died.

After that, the final battle between Elena and Elasha began. Elena had the quantity on her side, so in no time, Elasha was only left with Level 11 in her camp. While Elena still had tens of thousands of Level 10 and below on her side, other than Level 11.

Numbers didn’t matter when the power levels reached this high, but even then a suicide attack was something feared by cultivators.

Elena’s commander ordered every soldier below Level 11 to self-explode, resulting in an explosion powerful enough to devour several Level 11 with them.

Some of the Level 11 in Elena’s camps couldn’t escape faster, so they added oil to the fire by self-exploding, creating an even more destructive explosion.

The suicide attack did its work as it took the enemy camp by surprise, and they also lost many Level 11.

The battle reached its last phase after that, only to end when Elasha’s commanders died.

Elena’s commander also died in the end, but three people were still left alive. These three people were the deciding factor behind the selection of the winner, and they were…