The First Store System

The sun rose with all its glory on the Anga continent and brightened the lives of many. With it, the mysterious and famous store in the capital city of the Bisan Empire also opened its door and welcomed the customers.

The number of people waiting in the crowd reached an outrageous tens of billions of people, making the three thousand mile empty space around the store overcrowded.

Despite there being so many people, there was not a single sign of chaos when no one was even monitoring the place.

As the store opened its door, the person closest to the store’s entrance became the first to enter. The man then greeted the mysterious and terrifying store owner. After that, the man turned around and welcomed all the customers into the store.

The scene looked straight out of an apocalypse, but the serenity in it gave a never felt before calming to the people who might witness it.

The store’s entrance looked to be only wide enough to welcome two people at once. One spot was held by the store’s assistant, while the other would be for customers to enter.

But things were entirely different. The space that looked enough for only one person to enter welcomed several hundreds of customers at once, and yet, not a single person in it faced resistance.

In no time, the overcrowded radius of three thousand miles around the store turned empty. The store’s assistant then turned around and went to his respective space.

“Congratulations, senior,” Jonnah respectfully congratulated Aakesh for completing thousand years as the store owner in Kakot.

Aakesh only nodded in response to Jonnah and didn’t speak anything.

The number of people entering the store was like an ocean, and almost all of them were here for Panagea. Those who owned any of the three cards went toward the portal room.

In contrast, those who did not own any store cards queued up before Aakesh and Jonnah to complete their purchases.

Since there was already an assistant at the store, fewer people were willing to ask Aakesh to work. It caused the queue to be longer in front of Jonnah.

After several minutes went by, the store hall turned empty with only Aakesh and Jonnah present there.

“Senior, can I also enter Panagea?” Jonnah requested Aakesh.

He had become the store’s assistant for more than nine centuries, and his benefits were still there for him. Even though for becoming the store’s assistant, Jonnah got fifty free Panagea hours, he still could buy more extra hours if the store wasn’t busy.

There were currently more than a hundred billion virtual portals in the store, and tens of billions of them were still empty, so Jonnah could enter Panagea. The only blockade was if Aakesh didn’t like it.

“Go ahead,” Aakesh expressionlessly told Jonnah.

“Your free Panagea hours for this month are already over, so you would have to buy them,” Aakesh added.

Despite being the store’s assistant, the rule of any customer being only able to stay in Panagea for eighteen hours a day(six hours in the Primal dimension) at most was still applicable to him, even when he had his free hours included.

“Thank you, senior,” Jonnah thanked Aakesh and hurriedly went toward the portal room.

Panagea had done wonders for billions of people in the Primal dimension, as there were many examples of an overpowered being rising overnight.

Panagea had also become a source of employment for many, despite its outrageous exchange rates.

Low soul stones in Panagea weren’t considered much, but when exchanged in reality, they became a heaven-defying source of earning for many.

At the same time, seven adventurers in Panagea had reached equivalent levels of ascending. They only had to exchange their cultivations in reality, and they would be able to ascend overnight with a hundred percent chance of success.

Despite a hundred percent chance of success, not a single customer exchanged their cultivations in reality.

They knew that if they exchanged, they would become overly powerful and would be able to ascend, becoming legendary figures in the eyes of many. But at the same time, they also understood that they would have to lose the support of the store.

It was not a hidden fact that The First Store only had a single branch, and only in the future, it would open another branch in the Sacred dimension.

At the same time, Panagea also showed its difficulty.

It had been a thousand years since Panagea came into existence in the Primal dimension, and yet only seven people had become eligible to have enough levels to ascend.

The higher the level more the difficulty grew. If it took someone a year to reach Level 200, they would then take ten years to achieve Level 201.

Currently, there were thousands of adventures, who had been stuck in Level 240 for more than a century, and they still had ten more levels to reach Level 250.

(A/N: It is a century in the Primal dimension, not Panagea.)

Many people had even commented that it was easy to become a peak Immortal in the Primal dimension than becoming one in Panagea.

Despite these comments, Panagea’s popularity only saw an increasing curve.

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Jonnah excitedly touched the closest portal to him, using the tip of his fingers, and the next moment, he got sucked inside.

Jonnah was also one of the participants that had been stuck at the 240th Level for the past several decades. The reason for his hurry and excitement as he was only a single hour of work away from reaching Level 241.

After being stuck at one level for more than eighty years, how could he not grow excited after finally being able to increase his level?

The next moment, Jonnah found himself back in the spot he had left yesterday before exiting Panagea.

A hurried expression appeared on his face as he directly rushed toward his destination.

The city he was currently in was in a war, and Jonnah’s quest wanted him to fight as one of the soldiers for the city. The war was in its end phases, and it would most probably end in a few days.

Having a Level 240 fight as only a soldier showed the strength of the city.

His duty as a soldier would end today since the battle between beings exceeding Level 400s had already begun, and it had no use for people with his levels.