The First Store System

Chapter 936: The Fifth Product(4)

Judiaah proceeded toward the store with his sole subordinate following him.

Judiaah didn’t feel much when he found the invisible barrier interrupting him from seeing or hearing things inside the store. His cultivation level was lower, so he didn’t even try to force his sense inside.

His face was calm as his right foot landed in the store. The next moment, the surroundings changed as Judiaah found himself in an aesthetically pleasing room.

Judiaah’s eyes landed on the floor as he felt the hard ground beneath him. The next moment, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets as Judiaah recognized the item.

The floor beneath the crown of the Arboria family was made of the Eternal Stone. The Arboria family only owned that much.

Judiaah had no choice but to raise the store owner’s status in his heart. Someone who could afford this quantity of Eternal Stones couldn’t come from a low-level family.

Judiaah then turned around, and his eyes fell on the blue-skinned man comfortably seated on his chair. It didn’t bother Judiaah that he didn’t recognize the race of the store owner because there were countless races in the Sacred Dimension, and many of the most prominent races preferred to live closed off from the outer world.

“Hello, store owner,” Judiaah said and approached Aakesh.

His tone wasn’t respectful, but there was no looking down in his voice. Judiaah chose to treat Aakesh as someone equal to his level.

Aakesh responded to Judiaah with a silent nod and waited for him to ask the most important question.

Judiaah also stood there, waiting for the store owner to greet him back, but the greetings never came. After seeing Aakesh treat him the same way he treated others, a tiny vein on his forehead protruded.

Judiaah took a deep breath and calmed that popped vein down. After a pause, he introduced himself: “I am Judiaah Arboria, one of the seven princes of the Arboria Family.”

“I am Aakesh,” Aakesh responded with the usual answer.

Aakesh had also heard of the Arboria Family since it was one of the thirteen families of the Valtors. When Aakesh learned about the races after waking up, the system also shared some major facts about the races with him.

These thirteen families are the only significant information the system shared during the Valtors introduction because Valtors weren’t even a mid-tier race and had never been blessed with a cultivator above Supreme God.

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“What store products are currently available in the store?” Judiaah asked, after giving up on getting anything other than an indifferent expression from the store owner.

Judiaah even thought that it was a feature of the store owner that he was born with such an expression.

After Judiaah asked the most significant question, Aakesh became a machine and introduced all four products in a single breath.

“What do you mean by saying that adventurers in Panagea…” Judiaah’s obsession with valuable things came out of nowhere, and he started to ask Aakesh a lot of questions about Panagea.

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“Can you sell me the portal?” Judiaah suddenly asked.

“Only the things I introduced are for sale,” Aakesh replied expressionlessly.

“At least tell me a price?” Judiaah asked again. He wanted the virtual portal for himself.

“You can’t afford it,” Aakesh replied, indifferently staring at Judiaah.

Judiaah wanted to speak, but his mouth suddenly stopped as Aakesh pointed at the rule board.

“Arguments with the store owner can lead to a permanent ban from the store!”

Judiaah’s lips twitched as he read the rule. Judiaah was angry with Aakesh for treating him like this, but he calmed himself down.

First, he didn’t know whether the talisman left by his mother would help him in this situation, and second, even if it did, Judiaah didn’t think that Aakesh was someone he and his family could offend.

The power hierarchy was such that he treated those beneath him indifferently, while those above him treated him as such.

Judiaah’s face had become awkward after Aakesh’s last remark, so he tried to remove it by looking here and there. His eyes then fell on the square box placed next to the chair.

From what he saw, the pill was in the store’s hall while the other three products were in those open rooms, so Aakesh hadn’t introduced him to it.

“What’s this?” Judiaah asked, forgetting about his awkwardness.

It was true that Judiaah didn’t like Aakesh’s tone, but it was also correct that he wanted the store’s products as well, especially Pangea. Its effects were heaven-defying, and he wanted to benefit from them.

“It’s a card machine. The store has three variants of cards available: Higher Store Card, Supreme Store Card, Ultimate Store Card…”

Aakesh introduced the three cards and their benefits to Judiaah. Judiaah looked surprised at Aakesh as if understanding why Aakesh didn’t introduce the cards to him.

Aakesh could understand what was going on in Judiaah’s head, but since he didn’t feel the need to explain, he didn’t speak and waited for Judiaah to buy one.

Since Judiaah didn’t come from a top race, affording or even seeing an ultimate Sacred stone wasn’t a possibility. There was a lesser probability of him affording a supreme Sacred stone as well, but there were some chances.

Even though one supreme Sacred stone was worth a hundred thousand higher Sacred stones, it made sense that someone from a clan with Supreme Gods could afford it; after all, higher Sacred stones were the usual currency between True Gods. But that wasn’t the case. Every supreme Sacred stone mine had a 0.000000000000000000000000001% chance of giving birth to an ultimate Sacred stone. Even that chance was too much for the top races to leave supreme mines in the control of races such as Valtors.

The Valtors could have trillions of higher Sacred stones in their combined treasury, but finding even a few supreme Sacred stones would be a rarity.

After Aakesh introduced all three store cards, he waited for Judiaah to make his choice.

‘I can’t use that supreme stone only to buy a card!’ With a supreme Sacred stone in his possession, Judiaah had a thought in his heart.

It was his mother’s gift to him when he was born. It had caused a storm in the family, but his mother didn’t care since it was her own wealth.