The First Store System

[Host, why don’t you turn this auction into a spectacle?]

As Aakesh sat on his chair, thinking of enjoying the auction, the system suddenly asked.

“No, let it be a single-item auction,” Aakesh replied back.

Even though auctions were enjoyable for everyone, Aakesh felt one was enough. He also had another event to choose the store assistant after it, so Aakesh couldn’t just let the auction eat the entire day.

Since it was only a suggestion from the system, the system fell silent after hearing Aakesh’s answer and didn’t talk about the auction again.

“Aakesh, I also want to join the auction,” Lily, comfortably seated on Aakesh’s bun, requested in her childlike voice.

“You can’t. I and the system had a deal,” Aakesh answered. Lily had become an inhabitant of Panagea with the benefits of the adventurer after Aakesh didn’t want to let Lily get stuck in the dangerous situation as she did with the wolf king.

At that time, Aakesh and the system had made a deal. The deal contained some conditions, and Lily not being able to have a territory in Panagea other than the one she conquered on her own was one of them.

“Hmph,” Lily scoffed in response. She was already aware of the conditions, but she only wanted to try out her luck.

“Why don’t you bid, and then I will come to meet you there,” Lily suddenly had an idea.

Aakesh only smiled as he had no interest in buying a territory in Panagea and letting it go to waste after the participants had worked so hard to win it in the first place.

Lily got her answer from Aakesh’s smile. She didn’t bother him about buying the territory again.

Lily instead asked Aakesh to make the auction of the territory as big as possible. She wasn’t aware of the conversation between Aakesh and the system since it had happened in his head.

Time flew by, and thirty minutes had passed in the blink of an eye.

After getting the request from both the system and Lily, Aakesh decided to turn the auction into a spectacle. But unlike what Lily and the system wanted, Aakesh restricted the auction only to the territory.

Aakesh postponed the beginning of the announcement by thirty minutes.

At the same time, he removed the communication blockage inside the store for the next thirty minutes. In those minutes, the people could call for as much help as possible to win the card.

Since Elena wasn’t a professional auctioneer and Lily wanted the auction to be a spectacle, Aakesh let a professional join Elena and him on the platform.

The professional was willing to do it for free, but Aakesh did not. Elena would pay twice the amount that any professional auctioneer would earn from big auctions. Since Aakesh had said it, Elena had no issues with it.

At the same time, the store would also take 0.1% of the total value of the price at which Elena sold the territory. Elena had no issues with it, as even if the store wanted five percent, she was willing to do it.

As the thirty minutes of preparation time came to an end, the communication restriction returned to the store, and the time for the auction to begin arrived.

The professional auctioneer’s name was Xandarossi. He had an excited expression as he took center stage on the platform.

The card was only a finger’s distance away from him, so he wanted to touch it.

The next moment, a current ran through his body as a warning to him not to touch it. Since Elena had decided to sell it, it was an ownerless item, and only its new owner would be able to grab hold of it.

“Hello, people from different races! I am Xandarossi, your auctioneer for today.”

“It is with the greatest privilege I announce the item of today’s auction.”

“The card floating next to me is a territory in Panagea, the world where dreams are possible!”

“It needs no introduction as every one of you is here for it and already knows its value.”

“Since there is no defined value of the card, the auction would begin with the starting price of one inferior Primal stone!”

“Those who want to bid, write your offer on the paper lying next to you.”

“Before making the bid, please remember, the bidders would only get two chances to bid. So bid according to that, and don’t hold back!”

“You have two minutes to make your offers! Let the auction begin!”

Xandarossi announced the start of the auction. The next moment, two pieces of paper appeared next to every attendee seated inside the store.

The paper for the bidding was made of extraordinary material as the participants only had to think about what they wanted to bid, and the next moment, that would appear on the paper.

Since there were only two chances to bid, every bidder began to think of what to offer on paper to win the territory.

Elena had calmed down after the nervous storm at the beginning of the auction. She didn’t have to worry about the winning bid for the territory being low, as the first annual event was a legendary event. Many attendees were still familiar with the offers made by Robert.

Two minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and every bidder had made their offer on the paper.

“Please raise your hands with the paper on which your bid is!”

Xandarossi announced and became the first bidder to raise his right hand with a folded paper in them.

Every bidder did as told, and the next moment, the paper disappeared from their hands and appeared next to Aakesh.

Aakesh knew the value of the items, so he became the judge of the value of the bids. He was also the only person who had no interest in the territory. He wouldn’t be biased in his choosing, and everyone appreciated Aakesh for doing it.

It was also the reason behind the store taking 0.1% of the commission on the total auction price since Aakesh couldn’t work for free, and it was all going to be in the pockets of Aakesh.

Aakesh’s pockets had grown even further in the last few days after he completed the store upgrading quest, and his commission increased to five percent.

There were more than five hundred million bidders in the auction of the territory in Panagea. Many of them only wanted to try their luck since they didn’t need to pay any extra for it.

It would take a while to read all the offers and calculate their value, but Aakesh didn’t want to spend that much time.

Aakesh didn’t even have to open the folded paper as the content written on it was already in his sight whenever he looked at any paper.

The next moment, Aakesh activated multitasking, and all the more than five hundred million bids appeared in Aakesh’s mind.

First, Aakesh discarded those bids that had a value less than the worth of a supreme Primal stone mine.

In no time, more than four hundred million bids were lost, and only around a hundred million bids were still left in the competition.

As the bids began to get discarded by Aakesh, the paper referring to those offers also started to disappear. Their owners also got the news about them being out of the race.

After a moment, only two bids remained standing in the competition.

The two bids had the same value. So Aakesh couldn’t select a winner from them. Since there was one more chance left for the bidders to make their offer, Aakesh announced the value of the bids.

Now only those bidders who could bid more than the stated offer would write their offers on paper. This round wasn’t for anyone.

No one dared to waste Aakesh’s time by bidding nonsensically this time, and only twenty-seven bids larger than the previous two bids appeared in the hands of Aakesh.

Since Elena had heard the value of the bids chosen in the first round, her heart had started beating chaotically. If not for the system interfering, the consequences would have been dire for Elena.

The value of the bids chosen in the first round was equivalent to the total wealth of a peak mid-tier race. Elena was a human, and Humans weren’t even at the peak of the mid-tier races in the Primal dimension.

So even if any of those bids were to become the winner, in just a moment, Elena’s wealth would have grown to surpass the wealth of the human race.