The First Store System

Chapter 811: A Situation in the Primal Dimension(1)

Time flew by, and the sun was on the verge of setting down.

Except for Favan, the store hadn’t seen any new customers despite it being in a busy area in the city.

Aakesh didn’t waste his time thinking over the reason behind the lack of customers since it was only the first day. No one can stop an idea whose time has come. It was now the store’s era in the Sacred dimension, so the number of customers was bound to grow. The rate might be slower than what Aakesh wanted, but it would grow.

More time flew by, and the sun set down.

It was now time for Aakesh to close the store. Aakesh stood up from his chair, went to the manual door, and slid it shut. He then locked the hatch, bringing an end to the first day for the store in the Sacred dimension.

The day had gone without any trouble or issues despite Aakesh being a non-Vurron, which was somewhat out of Aakesh’s expectations.

Since it was nighttime, Aakesh decided to return to his usual schedule. First, training, and then he would enter Panagea.

Aakesh didn’t leave for training right away since Lily still wasn’t here. Time flew by, and after a wait of around half an hour, the store hall had a movement.

“You are late,” Aakesh rebuked Lily since he didn’t like dilly-dallying when it came to training.

“I am sorry. I will tell you the reason later,” Lily apologized, seeing the stern look on Aakesh’s face.

Aakesh didn’t speak anything in response but only waved his hands. The next moment, both of them appeared inside the usual selection area.

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While only around two days had passed for Aakesh in the Sacred dimension, several years had gone by in the Primal dimension without Aakesh as the store owner.

The sudden ascendance of Aakesh had taken the store customers by shock, but since the store continued to run the same way, they forgot him, except for some of the old customers.

One such customer was Maria. Around a year after, Maria transferred the leadership of Skylord to Evelyn and attempted the tribulation.

The chances Maria had earned in Panagea and in the Primal dimension weren’t insulted as Maria successfully passed her tribulation and ascended.

Maria wasn’t the only one to ascend after Aakesh left the store. There were many customers who had long ago reached the peak of the Primal dimension but didn’t ascend since someone strong like Aakesh existed as their goal. But once Aakesh left, they turned their eyes toward the Sacred dimension with a new aim of becoming a store customer there and attempted tribulations.

There was no failure among store customers, and the store maintained its perfect record.

At the same time, there were customers who wanted to ascend but couldn’t ascend despite them being at the peak of the power level. These customers were the members of the Titan race.

Eris was one such customer. His story was legendary to the other store customers since he was the only one in the store’s entire history up to this point to rule over a territory equal to a large town.

But for some reason, his light had dimmed when he lost the territory after its protection period was over. His store occurrences became irregular after that point. No one knew what had happened to him, but around five hundred years after his win in the inaugural event, Eris returned to his previous character.

Only Aakesh and Lily knew what had happened with Eris. He had lost himself in greed due to there being an Absolute stone in his territory and then losing it. It took him hundreds of years of efforts to calm his mind, which in turn made all the headstarts Eris had made in Panagea due to his win that year disappear.

When Eris returned, he was just one of the store’s customers.

Eris had always wanted to ascend and reclaim the glory of his ancestors. But the curse of the Asura race continued to block his path to legend.

Eris had accepted it, but then the store came to his life and showed him a way when he sensed the increase in his strength after one session of the Gods & Demons difficulty level training area.

But then Eris got another setback due to losing to his own greed, so when he returned to the store after centuries, he came with a clear goal in his mind.

His goal was to reach Level 250 and try to ascend.

The goal was extremely difficult, but it was the only thing keeping him sane, so he continued to persist hard, no matter what difficulties came his way.

Eris’s hard work over the past centuries finally gave him the result, as he achieved Level 250.

When Eris came out of the Panagea, he still had six Panagea hours left. But Eris didn’t care since he wanted to see whether Panagea was able to break the curse or not.

Soon after leaving, Eris found a window floating in front of him.

It was the exchange window, and it showed the items and their prices to bring them out to reality.

On top of the window was the chance Eris had been waiting for long, the exchange of cultivation. Next to it was the outrageous price Eris needed to pay.

Eris didn’t even care to look at what the price was as he tapped on the cultivation to buy. His eyes were nervous as they waited for Eris to succeed.

Soon, Eris heard an alert in his head, bringing him back to reality.

[The amount stored in your card is insufficient to complete the transaction. Please add the remaining amount to complete it.]

Eris finally had to look at the cost and had his eyes popped out as if they would come out.

Next to the Level 250 cultivation, one quadrillion supreme Primal stones were written in bright letters.

Eris’s breathing got rough as even he, who had lived for countless years, felt the amount to be too outrageous.

But when Eris compared the cost with the value of the item, he found the cost to be lacking, as how can supreme Primal stones get compared to successful ascension, no matter what their number was.