The First Store System

by Stayrr

A strange store which sells everything suddenly appears in the town. The Owner of the store is a young man and anyone who tried to mess with him %#@. The products of the store are expensive, yet the queue outside the store never stops. "So what, If you're an emperor. I'll fight to the death with you if you try to break the queue."

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Chapter 65: New Customer (1)

Throughout the Bisan Kingdom, there was a storm of shock while Aakesh and Lily peacefully slept in his room. It had happened after several decades that the Kingdom didn't sleep at night and stayed awake.

Every single member of the Schiller family died on the same day, which was too much news for the citizens of the Kingdom to take in. The citizens didn't sleep the entire night while thinking about their safety, but the situation for Punta was different. On one side, he was grieving the loss of his son, while on the other side, he was thinking about what treasure the Schiller family had lost.

The news of the death of the King, the Prime minister, and the Army chief still hasn't spread over the Kingdom. If it did, this day would become the second most solemn day for the citizens after the day where they suddenly had a new King in Punta.

Punta was just wandering all over the ruined rooms of the Royal palace when suddenly he stopped in his steps as he found a man standing in his front and gently looking at him.

The newly appeared stranger looked exactly like Punta, but the stranger had white hair instead of black like Punta. His eyes were the proof of his longevity and vitality.

"Father!" Punta exclaimed after seeing the man.

"How're you doing, my son?" His father gently asked.

"After Bani passed away, I never talked to him. I started hating him for what he did to my wife, but I never wanted him to die," Punta responded with a slight tremble in his voice.

"I told you, you should've had another son," His father responded as he appeared next to him and patted his shoulder.

A wry smile appeared on Punta's face after hearing his father's words. He would've had another son if not for his fear of harming Bani again. No son or daughter was worth more than his wife for him.

"I would send all of my informants to find out about the man who was behind this," His father said while patting his son's shoulder. The next moment, he disappeared from there and returned back to the place where he came from.

Punta took a sigh after his father disappeared. "Everything is lost!" He murmured while shaking his head in disappointment. He started randomly strolling around the royal palace again.

Time flew by, the light of the sun cleared the darkness of the night. Aakesh woke up on time and was stunned to find Lily already woken up.

"You woke up early today," He asked Lily as he pushed back his hairs.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep after I slept too much yesterday," She replied in her childlike voice while looking at her paws in the air.

"Good, Let's open the store," He replied as he stood up from his bed and went to the washroom to freshen himself.

After taking a bath, he wore the same clothes as usual. He then went down and opened the door of the store.

He noticed a lot of people in the market for when the sun had only appeared, but he had no intention to find out the reason behind it, so he entered back. He found the chair at the counter and sat down on it.

He then started visualizing how he would fight today in the virtual battle since there were no customers. He already had the skill to defend, but he didn't know whether the shield would be able to defend against that attack or if the opponent had another attack skill equal to or even more destructive than the attack he faced yesterday. So he had to make a plan for his battle, taking both the situations in his mind.

"Hello, senior!" While he was visualizing the battle, he suddenly heard a familiar voice. He slightly turned his head and saw Maria standing at the door.

"Hello!" He expressionlessly responded. "So, what pills do you want?" He then asked. He had already warned her twice about not buying pills in excess, but if she still continued, it was her issue, and it had nothing to do with him.

"Senior! I am not here for pills. I am here because I would be your neighbor from today," Maria excitedly responded.

"So?" Aakesh asked expressionlessly. What had he got to do with who his neighbor was?

Maria had no change in her expressions despite seeing no emotions from Aakesh as she expected him to have no response. "Senior! I would be opening a restaurant, so if you want to eat, you can come to my store," She excitedly told him and shamelessly promoted her restaurant.

"Sure," Aakesh responded. He already had plans to travel around the Kingdom, so eating in the restaurant next to his store wasn't a big deal for him.

"Okay, I would be waiting!" Maria excitedly responded and then left the store.

Aakesh Started visualizing the scene of the battle again. He had only closed his eyes when he heard the sound of footsteps. He opened his eyes and saw Maria carrying an injured man at the door.

"Senior! I found this injured man unconscious on the road, so I brought him here," Maria announced while slowly carrying the man into the store.

Aakesh stood up and brought three body healing pills from the shelves and then handed them over to Maria.

She didn't wait for a second and pushed the pill down his throat one by one. The pills started acting right away and healed the external injuries of the man in no time, but the man was still unconscious, so Aakesh went back to the shelves and pitched three mental healing pills, and handed them over to her.

Maria fed the pills to the man one by one. It didn't make him conscious right away. Only after several moments passed, only then was there a movement from the man's body.

"Please don't kill me!" The man shouted right after regaining his consciousness. He started repeating these words continuously after that like a crazy person. His voice got louder with each turn.

"It seems he needs two more inferior mental healing pills," Aakesh commented after seeing the mental situation of the stranger wasn't good.

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Chapter 66: New Customer(2)

"It seems he still needs two more inferior mental healing pills," Aakesh commented after seeing the man acting crazily. The mental healing pills specialized in healing the traumas since the man still was living the moment before losing unconsciousness, it meant he had gone through severe trauma, and three pills weren't enough to heal those traumas.

"Senior! Can you bend the rules and sell the extra two pills," Maria asked after hearing Aakesh. As there was a rule of only selling three pills to a customer, he had to bend the rules if she wanted two more pills.

"No!" Aakesh refused straight away without even thinking for a moment.

"Senior-"

"There is no point in complaining. I don't break the rules," Maria wanted to speak something, but Aakesh cut her off before she could complete her sentence and expressionlessly refused to bend the rules. In reality, even if he wanted, he couldn't break the rules; the system makes the rules, not him.

"But Senior, We are two people and can buy six pills," Maria still didn't give up and tried to make Aakesh sell the two pills.

"I have only sold these pills on your name. He's an unconscious man, so he isn't eligible to buy any products," Aakesh expressionlessly restored.

Maria wanted to speak something, but after seeing the indifference in Aakesh's eyes, not a single word came out of her mouth.

She suddenly remembered that she had one mental healing pill in her space ring, so she took it out and forcefully fed it to the man. The man fell silent after it acted.

He regained his sanity after the pill acted and started looking frantically around the store. He had a horrified face as he was facing some horror right now, making his face weird.

"Whe...where am I...I..I...I?" He tremblingly asked Maria while frantically looking all around the store.

"Calm down. You're safe here," Maria tried to calm the man down, seeing the man acting like he was facing a horrific situation.

"Where am I...I...I?" He asked the same question again.

"You're in 'The First Store', the store for all your needs," Aakesh suddenly responded, making the man turn around and look at him.

"Aagh! Keep your distance from me, you monster!" The man screamed in horror, seeing Aakesh.

Suddenly the temperature in the store turned cold as Lily showed his face. "Leave him! His mental situation isn't right!" Aakesh said, seeing Lily glaring at the man, while both the stranger and Maria had a horrified face feeling the chill in the air.

"He's insulting you for not being a human," Lily angrily complained as to how could she not see that the man called Aakesh a monster due to his blue skin.

There were several races living together in the Bisan Kingdom, but that didn't mean they had healthy relations between them. Issues would regularly emerge between the people belonging to different races in the Kingdom.

"Let it be!" Aakesh said as he didn't care about what the man thought of him. He couldn't just kill someone for calling him a monster.

"Hmph!" Lily scoffed and returned back to her favorite place, Aakesh's head.

"Sorry, senior!" Maria apologized after the temperature in the store got normal, while the man started running toward the door.

Maria seeing him running, followed him and before he could reach the door, grabbed his neck and dragged him back. The man was only an intermediate Nascent Soul cultivator, so it wasn't tough for Maria.

"Do you have money?" She then asked the man. Her voice was colder than before as she also didn't like him calling Aakesh a monster.

If there was someone whom she respected after her father, it was Aakesh, so calling him a monster was equivalent to insulting her. The man had some hint of sanity, and he could sense the power released by her, so he nodded his head and pointed at the space ring in his ring.

"Good, now order three inferior mental healing pills," She ordered without any hint of emotion while pointing at Aakesh.

The man did as Maria ordered him to do. Aakesh went up to the shelves and brought the three pills out. He then handed them to the man. The man then handed them over to Maria.

Maria pushed all the pills simultaneously down the man's throat. The man lost consciousness right away, but the next moment, he woke up. Finally, complete sanity could be seen in his eyes.

"Where am I? Who saved me? How did I come here?" He asked a barrage of questions after waking up.

"Senior saved you," Maria responded while pointing at Aakesh. The man followed her eyes and saw a blue-skinned man standing senior.

"Thank you for saving me, senior," He thanked Aakesh with a slight bow.

"Hmph!" A scoff suddenly echoed in the store. The man was stunned and looked here and there to see who was the owner of the sound, but he didn't find anyone.

"Your bill would be 75 inferior Primal stones, and your bill would be 150 inferior Primal stones," Aakesh ignored the thanks and instead asked for the payment from the man and Maria, respectively.

"What!" The man exclaimed in shock, hearing the amount he had to pay, but Maria took out the exact 150 Primal stones from her space ring and handed it over to Aakesh.

"But, How-"

"Pay the bill!" The man wanted to speak, but Maria cut her off in between and coldly ordered. The man didn't wait and took out 75 Primal stones and begrudgingly handed them to Aakesh.

Aakesh didn't care for the man's reaction and waved his hands, and the next moment, the Primal stones disappeared from the store.

"Senior! I will be waiting for you in my restaurant," Maria smilingly said to Aakesh and left the store. The man followed behind her.

"System, quest screen!" Right after the group left, Aakesh called of the quest screen.

[Mission objective: Sell products to ten customers,

Requirement: You need to have multiple customers if you want to have a famous store. Sell ten products to your customers in a week,

Number of products left to sell: 7/10,

Days left: 5,

Mission reward: A new product and addition in the pill varieties,

Failure punishment: Sales commission will be reduced to 0.5% of the product's price.]

"Finally, the quest screen has some changes," He expressionlessly commented after seeing the screen.

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Chapter 67: Earthen Trolls

Aakesh reclined back on his chair, after both Maria and the stranger left the store. He started visualizing the battle scene again.

Only a few minutes had passed when he had to reopen his eyes as he heard the sound of footsteps again. He looked at the door and saw a man standing at the door and curiously looking at him and the store.

It was the first non-human customer Aakesh had. The man had light grey skin with an absurdly large head. The man had six eyes which all blinked curiously simultaneously, a large nose with a small mouth. Aakesh knew what race the man belonged to; it was Earthern Trolls.

He had read about them during the quests. It was one of the weaker races in the entire Multiverse. Earthen Trolls had control of the earth element from their birth, but it was as if the Multiverse had forbidden them; they couldn't learn any offensive skills. They could only use these skills for support, so Earthern Trolls worked as the estate builders of the Primal dimension.

In spite of their weakness in power and usefulness in their work, no one dared to take them as slaves due to a rumor. The rumor said that Earthern Trolls are the experiment of an unknown being, and they don't like when someone touches their experimental subjects.

They didn't follow any cultivation system as they already had a long lifespan. Earthern Trolls averagely lived around for 12,000 years.

"Why are you standing at the door?" Aakesh asked as the Earthern Troll only looked at him and the store but didn't enter.

"I'm waiting for my mother," The man turned out to be a child as he responded in a childlike voice.

"Oh, so you're below three hundred years old?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked. Earthen Trolls were children until the age of three hundred, as their minds hadn't completely developed. Their mother refused to leave them alone until they reached this age.

"Yeah, I am only 182 years old," The children nodded in excitement.

"Where is your mother?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked.

"There!" The child pointed where his mother was. Aakesh had no interest in knowing, so he didn't check it. He only asked as leaving a child this young alone would be a rarity when it comes to Earthern Trolls.

Aakesh didn't ask anymore and closed his eyes. He fell into his visualizing session again.

"Hey, blue man, don't sleep! How do you have blue skin, and how old are you?" The child asked, seeing Aakesh closing his eyes.

Aakesh ignored the child as he already had a child sitting on his head, and he knew how cumbersome it was to have a conversation with a child.

"Why do you have six eyes? Can't you see from two eyes?" Another childlike voice echoed in the store as Lily appeared on the ground and looked at the child standing at the door.

"Woah, tiny animal!" The child exclaimed, seeing the size of Lily.

Aakesh had to begrudgingly open his eyes as Lily hated nothing more than someone calling out her size.

"Woah, large nose and a tiny mouth," What Aakesh expected didn't happen; instead, of getting angry, she retorted in the same tone as the child.

"Yes, my mother says that too. My nose is bigger than usual," The boy excitedly nodded and proudly proclaimed.

"Why did you come here, Turta?" Suddenly a hoarse female voice came from behind.

The boy excitedly looked back and shouted, "Mother, look how great this store is? They had the entire hardwood made up of Ashamba."

Both Aakesh and the boy's mother had a change in expression when they heard what Turta said.

Turta's mother came running back while Aakesh stood up from his chair. "How did you know it was Ashamba?" Before Turta's mother could speak anything, Aakesh asked the boy while he pointed at the hardwood.

"Oh, that-"

"It's because we also have it in our house, that's why he recognized it here," His mother cut him off before he could speak while looking at the hardwood. Aakesh could see his mother was trying to hide something, but now that he was interested, how could he not know the reason behind it.

"Okay, do you want to check things in my store?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked instead of asking another question, making Turta's mother secretly heave a sigh of relief.

"What do you sell?" The boy excitedly asked before his mother could speak.

"Currently, the store only sells pills," He expressionlessly responded.

"(I) First-grade inferior body healing pill for 25 inferior Primal stones,

(II) First-grade inferior mental healing pill for 25 inferior Primal stones,

(III) First-grade inferior dantian healing pill for 50 inferior Primal stones," He then told the pair of mother and son the name of the pills and their price.

"Aren't they too expensive for an inferior pill, despite its grade?" Turta's mother curiously asked, hearing the outrageous prices of the pills.

"No!" Aakesh gave a straight answer.

"Okay, we don't need any," Turta's mother also refused to buy any pills.

"Just one pill, Mother, I want to eat it," Turta pleaded with his mother after her refusal. He didn't know why, but the store gave him the feeling of closeness.

"No, they're too expensive," His mother refused again.

"Please, mother!" He pleaded again, with all of his six eyes turning moist.

"You..." His mother wanted to speak something, but no words came out of her throat, seeing the moist eyes of her son.

"Hey, store owner, can you reduce the price of the pill?" His mother then asked Aakesh.

"No bargaining!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded. "You have Ashamba in your home, and you think 25 inferior Primal stones are expensive," He added.

"So what if I have Ashamba in my house? That doesn't mean I would waste money everywhere," She scoffed. "Give me a body healing pill!" She added as she couldn't see her son upset.

Aakesh went up to the shelf and picked out a body healing pill, and handed it over to her. "25 inferior Primal stones," He asked for the bill.

Turta's mother begrudgingly took out the required Primal stones from her space ring and handed them to Aakesh.. "Let's go!" She then dragged away Turta from the store before he asked for more pills.

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Chapter 68: Disgust

"Give me the pill, mother!" Turta asked while getting dragged by his mother.

"Here, take it!" His mother gently handed him the pill.

"Oh, it's tasty!" Turta exclaimed in delight after eating the pill. "Mother, it tastes sweet," He excitedly told his mother.

A smile spread across his mother's face as she gently said, "Okay, I'll buy you another pill in the future."

"Yay!" He exclaimed in happiness.

"Mother, why did you lie about having Ashamba in our house?" He suddenly asked while walking with his mother.

"Because of your safety, my dear son," She replied with a gentle look in her eyes.

She stopped in her footsteps, turned around facing him, and bent down to his height, "Turta, you should never tell your ability to anybody."

"You're special, my son. If people knew about your ability, they would take you away from me forever," She gently added with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"No one can do that, Mother. When I grow older, I'll be stronger than anybody and then no one will be able to take me away from you," Turta said while raising his fist in the air.

A drop of tear streamed down her cheeks as she hugged her son. "You don't know how cruel the people living in this world are?" She said with a slight tremble in her voice.

The next moment, she wiped her eyes that had turned moist, and a smile emerged on her face as she said, "Let's go!"

"Yes, let's go. I want to sleep on my bed," Turta happily responded.

What they both didn't notice was that someone was watching their every moment while comfortably sitting in his chair.

"Why did you suddenly get interested in that pair of mother and son?" Lily asked Aakesh in her childlike voice, seeing a projection showing every conversation and every action of the pair of mother and son.

It has been several millennials since he last used the skill 'Watcher'. He asked the pair to buy a pill because only then could he see their actions while comfortably sitting in his chair.

The next moment, Aakesh waved his hands as the projection disappeared. He could watch both the past and present, so he didn't need to watch it all the time if he wanted to know about the pair.

"The boy knows about Ashamba," Aakesh responded to Lily's question.

"So, isn't Ashamba known to everybody?" Lily confusedly asked. Ashamba was a Primordial entity that would shed its barks in regular intervals, and the shredded barks would get used in several treasures due to their ability to negate almost all the energies present in the Multiverse. So Ashamba, despite being a Primordial entity and standing at the top of the food chain, was a known entity.

"No, you're wrong. No one should have any knowledge of Ashamba in the area around several thousands of kingdoms," He responded, shaking his head.

"So, what has that got to do with him creating an interest?" She asked.

"You're wrong again. It's not the boy I am interested in, it's the mother," He responded.

"Why would you be interested in her? Is it because she talked about someone taking his son away from her?" She asked.

"No, I sensed disgust from her for the boy," He responded while flicking Lily's head.

"Ouch!" Lily groaned and hissed in response to the flick, but Aakesh only smiled seeing her reaction.

"Why would you think that?" She asked after rubbing her head.

"Who knows? We'll find out anyway by seeing her actions and what is the ability that the woman talked about," He smilingly responded. "Let's forget the pair of mother and son. We should go outside. Seeing the projection made me see the market from my own eyes," He added.

"Really!" She excitedly exclaimed. Aakesh nodded in response to her excitement. "Let's go!" She said and took the first step, and he smilingly followed her.

"Senior, you came out," Maria said, seeing Aakesh out on the road.

"Yes, Lily wanted to, so I thought why not," He expressionlessly responded. He then focused on the building Maria was standing in front of.

"Is your restaurant still incomplete?" He asked maria, seeing a shabby building. Some laborers were currently working on extending the height of the building.

"Yes, It would take a week to complete the building," Maria nodded as she had only moved here today, and before she bought the building, the store here sold antiques, so she had to do some construction in the building.

"Okay!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded and moved forward. Maria only smiled wryly, seeing him leaving. She then refocused her attention on the building at the laborers working on it. If Maria hired Earthern Trolls, her construction would be done in a day, but their fee was very high, and she didn't want to waste money before getting a secure source of revenue.

Aakesh had told her that many interesting things were to come in his store, so if she wanted to buy them, she needed a lot of money as she was confident that products would have outrageous prices.

"Where do you want to go?" Aakesh asked Lily as she was randomly walking in the market.

"Today, we would just check the market," Lily excitedly responded as it was the first time when she was breathing the air outdoor. Aakesh didn't say anything in response and silently followed her while looking at the experiences of the myriad people around the market.

He could see a lady arguing with the store owner about the prices for the vegetable.

"I have been buying from this store for years, and now you want to sell me these tomatoes for 10 bronze coins per Kg," The lady argued.

"I had only started this business last month, and you've been buying from me for years?" The store owner scoffed, hearing the argument of the lady.

"So, what? I've been buying from this store since the store opened, so I would only buy it if you sell me two Kg at 15 bronze coins," The lady said.

"19 bronze coin for two Kg!" The store owner said.

"16 bronze coins!" The lady said.

"18 bronze coins! If you want to buy, buy at this price; otherwise leave," The store owner said his final price.

"Done!" the lady agreed right away. She paid the price and took out tomatoes.

Aakesh saw several scenes like this in the market.

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Chapter 69: Store Status

After strolling around the market for a few hours, Aakesh and Lily returned back to the store. They only witnessed the situations today instead of experiencing them, so they didn't have to spend a lot of time.

When Aakesh reached the store, he noticed a man standing at the door. He could recognize the man by his clothes. It was the clothes of the royal guards.

"Sir, do you have time?" The guard asked when he saw Aakesh returning.

"No!" Aakesh refused straight away and entered the store.

"Sir, youngest prince wants to meet you," The guard still stayed respectful as he had got orders to act all the time respectfully, irrespective of the situation.

Aakesh ignored the guard and sat down on his comfortable chair. "Sir-"

"Tell your prince to come here and talk to me if he wants," The guard wanted to request again, but Aakesh cut his request in between and bluntly refused to make time for the prince.

"Sir, there are emergencies in the royal palace, so he can't come-" The guard tried to request again, but his mouth froze, and no words came out of his mouth when Aakesh directly looked into his eyes.

"Tell him that if he wants to meet me, he would have to come here," He flatly responded. Not waiting for the guard's response, he added, "You can leave if you don't want to buy anything from my store."

The guard had no choice but to leave after Aakesh told him to since Pento had clearly told him not to raise his voice, not to change the tone to disrespectful, and especially not to stay if the store owner refused.

"Let's then watch the pair of mother and son," He thought, and the next moment a black screen appeared in front of him from the exact moment he had stopped.

There wasn't anything for several minutes as the pair of mother and son only journeyed toward their home. When they reached their home, Turta went to his room, and since he was tired from the day's journey, he fell asleep.

A few moments after Turta fell asleep, his mother entered the room with a needle in her hands. She slowly took out his blood drop by drop so that Turta didn't wake up. After taking exactly 111 drops of blood, she took out the needle and left the room while Turta snored peacefully.

"How many more days do I have to act as his mother?" She spat in disgust after coming out of the room.

"One month more!" A hoarse male voice echoed as a man whose face was engulfed in dark appeared in the room.

"Still one month!" Turta's mother complained. She had been acting as his mother for more than a century but still, even a day felt like a hell to her. She acted, on the outside, that she loved Turta more than anything, but in reality, she didn't hate anything more than him.

"Yes, It'll still take a month. Until then, take 111 drops of the boy's blood every day and make him feel happy all the time," The man ordered and disappeared after taking the blood from the woman.

"Just one month of torture more, Pucchi!" the woman whispered to motivate herself to act for a month more.

"You were right!" Lily said, seeing Pucchi and hearing what she said.

Aakesh didn't say anything in response and thought about the screen disappearing, and the next moment, it disappeared.

"Why did you switch it off? Let me see what plans they have?" Lily said after Aakesh suddenly made the screen disappear.

"Whatever they had planned, we would find out one month later. It wouldn't be fun if we already knew about it," Aakesh responded with a smile.

The next moment, Aakesh closed his eyes and started visualizing the battle since there were no customers, and he had decided to fight after he shut the store.

Time flew by, and several hours passed, no customers came to his store. Any person who would pass through the store would only take a look but not enter the store.

"Hey, system, what would be the new product you would add in the store after I completed the quest?" Aakesh asked as he had nothing to do right now.

[Host, the selection of products will be random in the lower range of the products.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice.

"Why would the products be in the lower range? If we add the products of the higher range, wouldn't that make this Kingdom grow at an exponential speed, and the faster and the larger this Kingdom grows, the more customers we would have," He asked the system.

[Host, you're right, but unfortunately, the Bisan and the nearby Kingdoms don't have the sufficient resources to buy even a single product in higher ranges.]

"I know that, but what if we sell mines of rare materials," He suggested to the system. Only the growth of resources in the land could grow the Kingdom. If the Kingdom grew, the number of rich people would grow, and similarly, his sales would increase.

[Host, your store level isn't enough to sell mines.]

"What is store level, and why have I never heard of that?" He confusedly asked as it was the first time he heard the word store level from the system.

[Ding.]

[Hidden quest: The first suggestion of products, successfully completed.]

[Mission reward: The store level successfully opened.]

[Host, you can check the store level by thinking about it. It would contain information regarding the store level and your store owner level.]

The next moment, he heard a number of continuous announcements. After hearing what the system said, he didn't wait for a second and thought about the store level. The next moment, a blue screen containing the information appeared in front of him.

Store Status:

Name: The First Store,

Level: 1,

Store owner: Aakesh,

Store owner level: 1,

No. of stores: 1,

Location: Bisan market, Kakot, Bisan Kingdom, Anga Continent, Visteerna, Primal dimension,

Current products sold: Pill (3 categories),

Store quests completed: 1,

Condition for update mission: Not met.

Aakesh nodded after reading the status screen.. It showed him the basic details of the store.

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Chapter 70: Herb Association (1)

There were only a few sections on the store status screen. Since Aakesh had just learned about the store level, so it was expected that it was level 1, his store owner level was also 1.

The only thing Aakesh was unsure of on the status screen was the store update mission. "Hey, system, what is this condition that I haven't met and what it meant by mission?" He expressed his doubts to the system right away.

[Host, the store wouldn't be updated just by meeting the required condition of the upgrade. After completing the requirements, you would get a mission, and only after you performed the quest successfully would the store update.]

The system responded in its mechanical voice. "So, what's the condition for getting the mission of upgrading the store to level 2?" Aakesh asked.

[Host, the condition would automatically present itself to you after you met even a single criterion. Since you haven't met any standard, you only need to sell the products, and you would get it.]

"Even secrecy in condition!" Aakesh complained to the system.

[Host, it's for your betterment. If you already knew the condition before meeting even a single criterion, it would become easy for you to meet the requirement, but if you didn't know about it, you would work and meet the standards without knowing, and you would grow as a store owner. Your ultimate goal is to become the legendary store owner, so you can't take any shortcuts.]

The system explained the reason behind not telling him the condition. "It's your ultimate goal. My ultimate goal is to find out the truth about myself, so I'm just doing whatever I can do to find the truth easier way," He corrected the system.

[Host, both are the same, only after completing the quests would you get pieces of information about yourself.]

The system responded in its emotionless voice. "I know!" Aakesh responded.

Aakesh and the system's conversation came to an early end as he heard the sound of footsteps. He looked at the door and saw a crowd of people entering the store.

"What do you want?" He stood up and asked the crowd.

"We heard you sell pills here, and the pills are magical," The man at the front of the crowd responded.

Aakesh could hear a hint of discontent in the man's voice, but for him, it didn't matter what they felt. As usual, if they were here to buy from his store, he would happily sell them the pills, but if they tried to start a riot, he would send them for reincarnation.

"Yes, I sell pills here," Aakesh expressionlessly nodded at the group.

"We are from the herbs association!" The man in the front said while pointing at the badge he wore on his chest. The badge had a symbol of a triangular leaf on which there was an H in brown color.

"So?" Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Don't you know the rules of the Kingdom?" Another man in the crowd asked.

"What rules?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked as he didn't know a single rule decided by the Bisan Kingdom. Since he would never follow the rules, he chose not to waste his time by checking them.

"You're running a store without even checking the rules decided by the Kingdom," The man standing in front of the crowd had a dumbfounded expression hearing Aakesh.

"What are you here for? Do you want to buy something?" Aakesh ignored the man's reaction and asked him.

"We're here to ask you about the source of the herbs for your pills," One of the men in the crowd explained the reason behind their appearance.

"According to the rules made by the honorable king Punta, it is mandatory for any pills selling store based in the Kingdom to buy herbs from the pills only from the herb association," One of the men in the crowd announced the rules for the store selling pills. The men didn't stop and added, "So, you need to show your source for the herbs; otherwise, we would've to seal your store from further selling pills."

"Do you want to buy anything, or are you here for only explaining the rules?" Aakesh ignored the men explaining the rules and expressionlessly asked the man standing in the front of the crowd.

"Didn't you hear that we would seal your store if you don't disclose the source of your herbs?" The ignored man angrily asked after getting ignored.

"I get the herbs from everywhere in the primal dimension," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Don't joke with us!" The man's face turned red from anger as he felt the store owner was joking. What he didn't know was that he was telling the truth. The system obtained material for the products it sold from all over the primal dimension. And the system also got the first born or created herbs and material for the products as its name said, 'The First Store'.

"Since you think so little of our herb association, from this moment, your store would be sealed, and anybody who buys from your store will face criminal punishment," The man in the front announced after getting no answer from Aakesh. "Put the sticker of seal outside," The man then ordered the people in the back.

"Yes, boss," A group of three people said and went outside. They then started drawing the pattern of the seal. Aakesh expressionlessly watched the scene.

"If you want to unseal your store, you need to come to the headquarters of the herb association, pay the fine of 1000 ordinary Primal stones for not following the rule, and start buying from us. If you don't, then forget to sell your products in the Kingdom until we're here," The man in the front then told Aakesh.

"You all can leave now!" The man then ordered the crowd to disperse. The people in the group followed the order and left the store. Only the man and Aakesh were left in the store.

"We don't want to become enemies. We are an upfront organization, and we have the duty not to let any wrongdoing happen to the Kingdom and its citizens," The man said after everyone left with an honest smile on his face.. "We know you killed the members of the Schiller family, but that doesn't mean we would become afraid of you and let you risk the health of so many citizens," He added.

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Chapter 71: Herb Association(2)

"Don't make us your enemy. We only want what's best for the citizens," The man told Aakesh. He then looked at Aakesh, waiting for his response, but the store owner stayed silent and only expressionlessly stared at him. He then added, "You can also take permission from the king directly if you want to run the store, but I would warn you against it as we would do our best not to let his highness allow you that."

"Okay, that's enough!" Aakesh stopped the man and snapped his fingers. The man thought Aakesh was warning him, but in reality, the pattern of the sealing the members of the herb association had drawn several moments before vanished.

"There...there is no point in threatening me. I would not unseal the store just because you scare me. Even if I die, I will not let anything bad happen to the citizens due to my organization" The man thought Aakesh was threatening him by snapping his fingers, so he tried to stay his ground. At first, his voice had a tremble, but after believing in his righteousness, his voice came straight without any trembling and fear.

"Why would I threaten you? You're just an organization of this Kingdom," Aakesh expressionlessly responded. Hearing Aakesh, the man got stunned for a moment, but before he could say anything after regaining his calm, the store owner added, "My store has the best products. I already have a policy for compensation. Since you're an upfront organization, I would let you go, but if someone from any organization, then I would have to take action."

"But, what about the rules of the Kingdom? You live in the land of this great Kingd-"

"Okay, that's enough. I don't follow the rules of the Kingdoms, I have my own rules, and I only follow them, and if you have got a problem with it, then go and complain to your king about it. Don't come to my store for doing this drama," Aakesh expressionlessly declared after stopping the man from speaking.

"If you want to buy anything from my store, it is open from the sunrise to the sunset. And if you come here to do this drama again, then I would destroy your upfront organization, and then you can play righteousness with other citizens," He expressionlessly added.

Aakesh may be expressionless, but the man got the feeling that his voice was getting colder with every word Aakesh said, and at the end, the man felt that he was standing naked in a snowstorm.

"I won't get afraid-"

The man tried to stay his ground after Aakesh's threat, but the next moment, his words came to a stop as he found his surroundings changing. After his surroundings got cleared, he found himself in darkness. He couldn't even feel himself, let alone see.

He didn't have to stay for long as only the next moment he reappeared in the store. It all happened so fast that the man didn't have enough time to know what happened. He only knew that he witnessed the chill of the darkness for an instant.

"You can leave. If you talk again about your organization ever again, I will send you there for your remaining life," Before the man could even fear what happened with him, he heard the cold voice of Aakesh.

"I would leave right away!" The man subconsciously said and rushed toward the door of the store without turning back. While running, he only had two thoughts in his mind, first, the thought about not being able to force the store to follow the rules set by the Kingdom, and second, the darkness he witnessed only for an instant.

He only had taken a few steps away from the store when his steps came to a halt. He had a struggling expression as he thought, "No, I can't let this store owner do whatever he wants, even if it kills me."

He clenched his fist in determination and turned around, facing the door of the store. He, with determined eyes, took his step forward, but it froze in the air. Despite trying everything, he couldn't put his foot down. A struggling expression reappeared on his face as he thought, "If I die, how would I influence the organization to do good. I can't die if I want to continue serving the people."

With this thought, he turned around to leave, but his steps still didn't move as he couldn't just let Aakesh go. "Damn it!" He cursed out loud in the market to vent his frustration. People only took a look at him and started doing their business as usual.

"I have to think of something. I can't just let the store owner go after not following the rules, and I also can't die by trying to warn the store owner," He thought in his heart.

"Think something, Mark!" He shouted in his mind to motivate himself. Suddenly, the conversation about the policy of compensation appeared in his mind. "Yes, why didn't I think of this before?" He said out loud. All the dilemmas and struggles disappeared as he got the idea to do both things at the same time. A smile then spread across his face as he returned back to the store.

"Oh, he's back," Lily said with interest evident in her childlike voice when she saw the man entering the store.

Aakesh had just started visualizing when he heard Lily. He opened his eyes and saw the man he had just forced to leave, entering the store with a smile.

"Senior, I thought of the way by which both of us can get our deal," Mark said, seeing Aakesh opening his eyes. He then added, "You don't need to do anything. We would do it here," He added, immediately before Aakesh decided to send him to that chilling place again.

"Senior, if you can tell me the policy of your compensation and let me test your pills, I wouldn't stop you from operating the store," He announced.

"Okay, you can test my pills, but you've to buy it," Aakesh expressionlessly said. If he sold three pills here, he would only be three pills away from completing the quest.

"But senior, you'll also benefit-"

"If you want to test my pills, you've to buy it.. I won't say this thrice," Aakesh responded, cutting the man's words.

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Chapter 72: Selling Pills

"You can test the products of my store, but you'd have to buy them," Aakesh told Mark.

Mark wanted to say something, but he still remembered the store owner's warning, so he didn't dare to refuse. He accepted with a sigh, "Okay, please give me each of your pills."

Aakesh expressionlessly nodded and took one pill from each of the pill shelves. "Here, your bill is 100 inferior Primal stones," He said as he handed Mark the pills.

"100!" Mark exclaimed in shock after hearing the price. "Weren't you selling the pills at 25 inferior Primal stones per pill?" He then confusedly asked.

"Who told you that? I sell pills based on their use," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Our Association got a complaint from someone that you're selling pills at an exorbitant price here," Mark responded. He didn't stop and added, "Otherwise, why would we come to your store when it has only been three days since you opened the store and looking at your store, we would've never doubted that you won't have permission from the king, but since we got the complaint, we had to act."

"Okay! Pay 100 inferior Primal stones, and you can test them," Aakesh expressionlessly nodded and responded. "Lily, since there is a customer, I can't go outside. I want you to find the customer that Maria brought and do whatever you want to do with him," He also ordered Lily in a voice loud enough for only both of them to hear. If someone complained about his store after getting healed from its product, then that person needed to die.

"Whatever I want?" Lily excitedly asked. She was a born predator, and she couldn't play with her hunt due to Aakesh, but now that he had given her permission, she would play with the man to her heart content.

"Yes, you can play with him in whatever way you want," Aakesh responded as he knew what Lily wanted. He didn't care what Lily would do with the man as he deserved to die for him.

"Whoosh!" The next moment, the sound of tearing through the air echoed in the store. Mark confusedly looked up, but after finding nothing, he took out the required amount from his space ring and handed it to Aakesh.

"Now, you can do whatever you want with it," Aakesh said as he waved his hands and the stones disappeared. Mark wasn't surprised by the store owner manipulating void as he had already killed a Void Condensation expert.

Mark didn't wait for a second and took out a glass coin from his ring. He then looked at the body healing pill through the glass coin. A struggling face appeared on his face as he didn't find anything on the pill even after looking for several minutes. He then tried to look at the other two pills, but he still didn't find anything.

"Senior, why am I not able to see the impurities of the pill?" Mark then confusedly asked as the glass coin he had in his hand was known as impurity coin. It had the ability to find impurities in the treasures.

"Because the pill has only 7% impurities," Aakesh expressionlessly responded. He had read about the impurity glasses. The one in the hand of Mark was inferior in quality. It couldn't even find any impurity when even 50% of the pill had impurity.

"WHAT?!" Mark shouted in shock after hearing what Aakesh said. "How can there only be 7% impurity in an inferior pill?" He asked after getting over the shock.

"Because the material used in the making of these pills is the best material in the primal dimension," Aakesh responded.

"Really!" Mark asked in a surprised tone, but inside he scoffed, "The best materials of the primal dimension."

"Since you've already bought the products and didn't find anything wrong in it, you can leave," Aakesh said.

"Wait, I want to buy ten pills each," Mark suddenly said. After finding no impurities on pills through his glass, he had already decided to buy several pills. He would've bought every pill the store offered if he had enough money, but given he only had 1000 inferior Primal stones on hand, he decided to buy ten pills each.

"No! You have already bought one pill each, so now you could only buy two more each," Aakesh expressionlessly responded. He had an excited expression inside as he had finally completed the quest of selling 10 pills.

"Senior! I wouldn't try to intrude on your store again, please sell me ten pills each," Mark thought Aakesh didn't want to sell him more pills due to him irritating him, so he tried to apologize.

"It is the rule. A single person can only buy three pills each," Aakesh said. "So, do you want to buy them?" He then added.

Mark, with a disappointed sigh, nodded and took out 200 inferior Primal stones from his space ring. Aakesh took out the pills from the shelves and handed them to Mark. He, in response, handed him the primal stones.

"Good business!" Aakesh commented. "We would have a new product tomorrow, so you can come and take a look," He then added as Mark was turning to leave.

"Okay, I'll return tomorrow since I need to buy more pills too," Mark responded and then left the store.

Right after Mark left, a number of announcements appeared inside his head.

[Ding.]

[The quest: Sell ten products to customers, successfully completed.]

[Mission reward: A new product and addition in varieties of the pills, successfully given.]

[Host, please check the shelf for the newly added pills.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice. Aakesh nodded and went up to the shelf to check upon the pills.

He saw two shelves in addition on the same block as the three pills and five addition on new shelves appearing right above them.

He first checked the two new pills appearing next to the first three pills. The first pill was a first-grade inferior blood explosion pill, and the second was a first-grade inferior energy meditation pill.

The blood explosion pill allowed the user to have a berserk mode for several moments in the case of emergency by risking their blood. It cost 25 inferior Primal stones.

The energy meditation pill helped the user in cultivating in their respective choice of energy. It cost 50 inferior Primal stones.

A/N: Any guesses, what's the new product going to be?

Whoever guesses correctly will get the choice to name a major character.

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Chapter 73: New Products

After looking at the details about the two new pills, he focused on the new shelf that had appeared after the completion of the quest.

There were five sections on the shelf containing five pills. The pills on the upper shelf had the same texture as the pills on the lower shelf, but the upper rack shone because of the splendor released by the pill.

He then looked at the information written just below them. They were:

(I) First-grade medium body healing pill: It can allow the user to heal even severed limbs. It costs 25 ordinary Primal stones,

(II) First-grade medium mental healing pill: It can heal the traumas of the being up to Void Forging level. It costs 50 ordinary Primal stones,

(III) First-grade medium dantian healing pill: It can heal the dantian up to the Void Forging level. It costs 75 ordinary Primal stones,

(IV) First-grade medium blood explosion pill: It allows the user to go on a berserk mode without losing control by burning their blood. It costs 50 ordinary Primal stones,

(V) First-grade medium energy meditation pill: It helps the user in their meditation, starting from Nascent Soul. It costs ten ordinary Primal stones.

"So, it's just an upgrade of the past and newly added pills," Aakesh whispered after reading the details. "Hey, system, are you sure the people here are ready to buy pills costing in ordinary Primal stones?" He then asked the system as even a single ordinary Primal stone equals 100 inferior Primal stones, so it was an outrageous price for a Kingdom like the Bisan Kingdom.

[Yes, Host. If there are valuable things, people buy them despite their prices, and we are selling the best of products at such a low price, so crowds will gather to buy them after finding out about it.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice. "Yeah, I see the crowd waiting all day to buy the pills in the store," Aakesh mocked the system in response to what it said.

[Host, are you ready for the new product?]

The system ignored Aakesh's mocking and instead asked his eagerness for the new product. "Of course, why wouldn't I be ready?" He excitedly responded.

The next moment, a giant roulette appeared in front of him. There were several blocks of different colors representing a different product. Several blocks even had a question mark on them.

[Host, roll it whenever you're ready.]

The system announced. Aakesh nodded and thought about rotating the roulette. The next moment, giant roulette started spinning with unimaginable speed. With every second passing, the spinning rate decreased. After a few seconds, the roulette finally stopped, with its hand pointing at a red block representing a red question mark.

The roulette then disappeared, and only the red question mark remained floating in the air. The question mark then started fading into nothingness. When the question mark completely faded, only a box remained in place of it.

The box then fell into Aakesh's hands. He confusedly opened the box and found a key in it. The moment he took the key in his hands, he noticed a blinding light on one of the door locks. "So, it's the key of that door," He commented while looking at both the key and the door, respectively.

"Hey, system, why would I get a key in place of the products, or do the locked rooms here represent different products?" He asked the system before trying to open the door.

[Yes, Host. The different doors here represent rare distinctive products. The roulette acts based on fate, and since your luck was high, you got one of the few unique products in the draw that you could only get after completing the quests.]

The system responded. "Let's see then, what is this one of the rarest products?" He commented as he took a step in the direction of the door. The next moment, he appeared in front of the door.

The door lock's shining intensity increased by several folds when the key arrived near it. Aakesh didn't wait and tapped the key on the door lock.

The next moment, the key melted into the door lock, and then the door lock started dispersing into light particles. After the door lock completely scattered into light, "Creak!" the door opened with a loud groaning sound.

The room looked dark from the outside, he took a step inside the room, and the light appeared, erasing the darkness. A stunned expression appeared on his face as the room was like a different world when compared to the store.

There was a concrete floor instead of Ashamba in the room. There were murals of myriad creatures painted on the wall on all sides. From the outside, the room looked small, but once inside, it appeared the same size as the store outside.

In the center of the room, there were five products covered in red clothes. Aakesh tried to see through the clothes, but he couldn't, so he manually went and took clothes away from one of the products.

The next moment, a tiny black-hole like portal presented itself. Aakesh took all the clothes away from the other product, and he found the same thing covered in red clothes. Aakesh knew what it was, so a confused expression appeared on his face, and he asked the system, "Hey, system, would we also act as the transportation company for the customers."

[Host, these dimensional portals aren't for travel. These are the virtual portals. It would allow the customers to experience a virtual world without the fear of death, and it would also give powerups and many rewards to the user.]

The system explained about the portals to Aakesh. "Are you sure? We should have something like this early?" He asked as it would completely change the dynamics of the Kingdoms here. Who wouldn't want to get powerful without any threat of death? Even Heavenly Monarch and Demigods would desire this technology.

[Host, you got it randomly in the roulette, so you've no choice but to start selling it from tomorrow since the dawn has already come today.]

The system responded. "Hey, system, what are the charges for using the virtual portal?" He asked the system. If he had a choice, he wouldn't have opened it right away, but since he got it due to his luck, there's no point in hiding it.

[Host, the charges are right beside the door.]

The system informed him. "I'll check it later, then," He muttered.. How could he not check the virtual portal before the customers? Thinking this, he took his step forward and entered the portal.

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Chapter 74: Virtual Portal

"Welcome to the world of Panagea!" Aakesh heard an announcement as he opened his eyes in a new environment.

He found himself in the air floating with only clouds surrounding him.

"Would you like to change your features, or would you like to look the same before entering the world?" A question out of nowhere rang in the surroundings.

"No need! Just send me to the world," He commented. He decided to learn everything on his own in the world.

There was no more voice after his words. The next moment, Aakesh disappeared from there and appeared in a market bustling with life. It was even busier than Kakot.

He could see people belonging to different races shopping in the market.

"Adventurer, welcome to the land of Panagea!" He was looking here and there when he suddenly heard an androgynous voice from behind.

Aakesh expressionlessly turned around and saw a gorgeous being with one golden eye and the other being a silver eye, standing in front of him. The being curiously looked him up and down, and Aakesh felt that he was currently witnessing the most intense form of beauty. Eight elegant, pulsing wings of light spread from the being's back and bathed the area in a warm stream. He recognized them as a subspecies of the top race, Yaksha, called the Angels.

The next moment, he shook his head as he noticed something wrong with him. "Stop the illusion!" He then expressionlessly said to the being standing in front of him. He knew he had fallen into an illusion when Aakesh thought he was witnessing the epitome of beauty.

He found himself without any energy. He was like an ordinary mortal right now.

"Oh… you got rid of my illusion this easily," The being didn't open its mouth, but a female voice appeared directly in his head with a seductive smile spreading across her face.

The next moment, the illusion disappeared, making Aakesh see the actual appearance of the being. She still had an otherworldly beauty, but it was nowhere on the level he thought of her just a few moments ago.

"Adventurer, you've arrived at the right time! The entire world of Panagea is currently going through a crisis! Would you like to know the story behind it?" The next moment, the voice returned to an Androgynous and asked him a question.

"Sure, why not?" He responded as knowing the story about the world first would make the journey fun.

The next moment, Aakesh and the Angel both disappeared from there and appeared in the air.

The surroundings on the ground also started changing as if time was moving backward.

At one point, the change finally stopped. The ground looked entirely different from before. Instead of a busy market, an open field where currently a war was happening appeared. The atmosphere on the battlefield was sark as if an ominous being was coming.

On one side of the army fought people belonging to different races whereas, on the other side, all the soldiers had the same appearance. Dark flames engulfed the soldiers made out of only bones in a humanoid body shape. They gave the feeling of darkness to Aakesh. They looked the same as undead, but he couldn't feel any hint of death from them, so he removed that option, and it was the first time he saw an unrecognizable race.

"Hey, system, is this race real?" He asked the system in his

He could see corpses adding on the side of the living side, whereas, on the other side, those who died vanished into the darkness, and then they returned back the same as before. He finally had an idea of their race after seeing this ability of the other side soldiers. An amused yet shocked expression appeared on his face. If what he thought was correct, then the virtual world is going to be interesting for him.

"Billions of years ago, the world of Panagea had ten Emperors with each Emperor ruling lands vast enough to put even combinations of worlds to shame!" Aakesh was looking at the tragic battle going on when suddenly the Angel next to him started narrating the events.

"Those ten legendary Emperors were Emperor Sudas, Alina, Anu, Bhrigu, Bhalana, Druhyu, Panis, Parsu, Yadu, and Kuru!"

"All the Emperors one day decided to meet and discuss about their empire. But a sudden conflict arose between them due to a question, "Who is the strongest Emperor of the ten emperors?!" At first, they decided to compare the value of the lands they ruled, but no one came off as better in the end as everyone had equal wealth. Everyone then declared themselves the strongest, turning the peaceful meeting into a fight between the ten Emperors!"

"The Emperors were no common beings. They stood at the peak of the Panagea. Each of them held enough power to destroy Panagea several times. They were so strong that even Time couldn't affect them. Since they were so powerful, the battle that they started continued for years without stopping for a moment. But even here, they were equal in power, so no one came out of the battle as the strongest."

"Billions of miles around the area they battled turned into a barren land with no chance of any life to ever grow on this land. Even the air in that area became so threatening that it killed the people trying to enter the land."

"After another draw, the emperors only got angry. They announced a war between the empires that would later be known as 'The battle of ten Emperors', and it would also be the start of an upcoming doom for Panagea!"

"Each empire had an army comprising of billions of soldiers. Emperor Sudas had an army comprising of Divine Elephants and Dragons, so his army started coming at the top in the battle against the other empires. The battle between the armies continued for centuries, and finally, Emperor Sudas won the war of the armies! This war added the damaged area to trillions of miles, with several trillions of soldiers dying. The dying soldiers included Gods as well as Immortals. No one was above the rule of these ten Emperors!"

"Emperor Sudas was declared the strongest Emperor of Panagea, but before he could celebrate, an earthquake affected the entirety of Panagea, and the source of that earthquake was the center of the location where once the ten emperors battled for their supremacy centuries ago!"

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Chapter 75: The War of Panagea

"Emperor Sudas was declared the strongest Emperor of Panagea after winning the war, but before he could celebrate his victory, an earthquake affected the entirety of Panagea. It was like doomsday for Panagea as the land engulfed billions of people all over the world. It even shook the Emperors who even ordered the Gods! The source of the earthquake was the center of the location where once the ten emperors battled for their supremacy centuries ago!"

"When they went there, they saw darkness emitting from the ground. They felt a danger of life from the darkness, so they tried to stop it, but despite using everything they had, they couldn't do anything. The Emperors that were even unaffected by Time couldn't do anything to darkness emanating from the ground!"

"The more darkness emanated from the ground, the intensity of natural disasters increased. It continued for one hundred and eight years. The darkness finally stopped originating. Instead, the darkness that had emerged before started contracting into a spherical core. Right after the formation of the core, the Emperors attacked it in the hope of destroying it, but they couldn't even put a dent upon it, let alone destroy it. They combined their attack, but still, the spherical core remained the same as before. The attack that could've destroyed Panagea several times couldn't even damage the core."

"I knew it!" Aakesh thought in his mind after listening about the core. He also finally knew who those soldiers were?

While the Angel continued telling him the story, "The Emperors finally knew their power had created something evil that even they couldn't destroy. The core started generating its body with a naked speed. The Emperors knew if they let it complete its body, it would be the end of Panagea."

"They called their armies and attacked the spherical core. But they still failed in the end. The core finally took its form!"

"Dark pearly eyes sat high within the creature's angular skull made of darkness, which gave the being a horrifying look. Several horns made of darkness sat atop its head. A thick neck ran down from its head and into a massive body. Its top was covered in darkness with a row of spikes running down its spine.

Four slim limbs carried its body and allowed the creature to stand elevated.

Enormous wings made of darkness that gave the feeling of evil then started growing from its shoulders and ended all the way down at its pelvis. The wings were bladed in structure. Its barbed tail ended in a gentle point and was covered in the same darkness that covered its entire body. The being gave the feeling that it was the embodiment of evil."

"Vritrasura!" Aakesh suddenly exclaimed, making the Angel stop her story. She then confusedly looked at him and asked in her original voice, "How do you know that name?"

But suddenly something strange happened, the confused look on Angel's face disappeared, and an expressionless face appeared. She then continued the story, "The creature introduced himself as Vritrasura! He then created an army out of nowhere made up of darkness. The darkness army fought with the combined army of the ten emperors, whereas Vritrasura alone fought the battle with the emperors."

"Despite outnumbering Vritrasura, the Emperors were on the losing end. This war continued for years. The Emperors weren't able to defeat Vritrasura, and the number in their army was dwindling down with the passing of time. Seeing no chance of victory, the Emperors made a decision."

"Since it all started due to them, they decided to end it themselves. The Emperors took out their hearts and created a seal using their combined power. If they activated the seal, they would die in some time, but if the Emperors didn't activate it, everyone other than them would die because they were unkillable. Since they started this, they decided to pay for it, and they activated the seal, resulting in the sealing of Vritrasura and his army!"

"With billions of years having passed, the seal has become weaker and Vritrasura stronger, so Panagea is on the verge of another crisis even bigger than before, but there are no Emperors to help. In the last moments of their life, the Emperors left their inheritances for the future generation so that they would be able to fight Vritrasura."

"Adventurer, I hope you find the inheritance of the Emperors and defeat Vritrasura to save the life of countless citizens of Panagea!" The Angel concluded her story and requested.

"I would try my best," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Thank you, Adventurer! The citizens of Panagea would appreciate your efforts! I wish you the best of luck to gain the inheritance of the Emperor!" The Angel said, and the next moment Aakesh reappeared in the market with no sight of the Angel.

[Host, do you like the story I've created for the virtual world.]

Aakesh was just going to talk to one of the passersby in the market when suddenly he heard the system's voice in his head.

"The story is good, but don't you think our buyers would have a hard time following the story and ending it?" He commented as he had read about the real Vritrasura. If the Vritrasura of this world even had 1% of the power the real Vritrasura had, defeating him would be almost impossible.

[Yes, Host. It would be very difficult for people to clear the story. But the value of rewards gained in this world would make even the Primordials wish to enter the virtual world.]

"Does that mean if someone gained the inheritance of the Emperor, they would get all the skills of the Emperor in real life?" He asked.

[Yes, Host. If they have enough price to pay to take it out.]

"What's the power level of the Emperor if they enter the real world?" He asked as he was curious to know it after learning about their imperishable ability.

[Below Devas, but above everything!]

The system responded. "Does that mean Vritrasura is at his full power here in the virtual world?" He asked as a shocked look appeared on his face.

[Yes, Host.]

"Why would you create a character of such level in this world?" He complained as he remembered the story of Vritrasura.

Devas had participated in a war only once, and that too they had ended it in 12 seconds. In that war, Vritrasura was the opponent who had forced the newly born Deva to interfere and was able to survive for 12 seconds in the battle.. That fight made Vritrasura the legendary calamity of the Multiverse.

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Chapter 76: Massacre

"Why would you create such a terrible character as the enemy?" Aakesh asked the system.

[Host, the quest for gaining the virtual world was supposed to activate when you reached the sacred dimension, but you received it on the product roulette, making it your product.]

"Doesn't that mean its fee would be high?" He then asked the system. If the world was supposed to activate in the sacred dimension, doesn't that mean it would also take the currency used in that dimension?

[No, Host. The fee for entering the virtual world would be based on the dimension it is activated in, so the price the customers would have to pay would be based on the primal dimension. This world is vast enough to accommodate populations of thousands of Universes at the same time, and it has enough stories for all of them to be part of and grow stronger.]

"Hey, system, would I be able to take the skills out for free if I gain them in Panagea?" He asked the system, as the system had told him if customers paid the sufficient amount, they could even take the inheritance out.

[Yes, Host. Everything belonging to the store is free for you.]

The system responded in its emotionless and mechanical voice. Aakesh nodded and stopped asking questions. He decided to check the world he was in before returning to the real world. He still had today's match left.

"What's the name of-"

"RUN! THE BEAST HORDE IS COMING!" Aakesh was asking a passerby the name of the place he was currently in when suddenly a shout echoed in the entire market. The next moment, he saw the people in there closing their shop and running as if it was not the first time they were facing this.

While Aakesh was watching the scene of chaos, suddenly, a blue transparent screen appeared in front of him. He stopped watching the crowd and focused on the display in front of him. Red letters started appearing on the screen.

[Adventurer, the town of Wolfden needs your service!

The town of Wolfden is near the den of silver wolves, so there would be a horde of them attacking the town from time to time. The town can't handle any more casualties, so join the brave guards of Wolfden and help them kill those terrible creatures.

Be careful while fighting silver wolves, for they are strong and swift. Kill as many wolves as you like: the fewer the wolves, the safer Wolfden will be.

You would gain the ability to manipulate energy if you successfully reduce the casualties by 25%. Your reward would increase with the decrease in the number of dead.]

"Oh, a quest right away!" Aakesh murmured after reading the contents of the display.

He needed the reward as he was currently an ordinary mortal in Panagea. If he wanted to grow strong and take it out in real life, he needed to have the ability to manipulate energy.

The next moment, the blue display disappeared, and instead, a number in blood-red appeared in front of him. It said 1400.

"So, I can't let more than 1000 people die if I want to get the reward," He murmured after reading the number. If he had to save people, he needed to fight from the start, so he rushed in the opposite direction of the crowd running to safety.

Many in the crowd tried to stop him, and many in the crowd praised him for fighting for themselves, seeing Aakesh rushing in the direction of the horde.

When Aakesh reached there, the fight between the guards of Wolfden and silver wolves had already begun. Seeing the battle, he didn't wait and jumped into the crowd of wolves. He didn't have a weapon, so he had to fight using his bare hands. He punched one of the wolves on its head, but instead of injuring the wolf, it made it angry.

Aakesh had an expressionless face, seeing the reaction of the wolf. He grabbed the head of the wolf and pushed it on the ground with his full force. He then did it continuously since it didn't die in one or two hits, while other wolves started surrounding him.

After the wolf died, he snapped out its fangs and started using them as a weapon. Silver wolves were known for their agility, but between Aakesh and them, there was no competition. He had learned so many battle forms that focused on agility that the wolves looked like a child in comparison to him.

It looked like he was dancing in the middle of the wolves as with every swing of the wolf fangs, he cleanly took down a wolf.

Time flew by, and the corpse of the wolves started accumulating near him. Even many of the guards stopped fighting and watched the massacre Aakesh brought on the silver wolves. The pain-filled howls of the wolves continuously echoed on the battlefield.

His unlimited endurance came into the virtual world with him, so he still wasn't tired. He was covered in the silver blood of the wolves while an aura of massacre emanated from him. His movements only grew quicker with every passing second.

He had killed so many wolves that even the wolves started running from him. Many injured guards took cover around him as there were no wolves near Aakesh, but he couldn't wait here. He needed to kill as many wolves as possible to make the entire horde flee. Killing the complete crowd was even impossible for him as there were wolves exceeding hundreds of thousands in a pack, and the wolf king hadn't even arrived yet. At least a million wolves would follow the wolf king if he entered the fray.

Aakesh then rushed over to another group of wolves some distance away from him. There was already an intense fight between guards and wolves. Numerous corpses were lying across the ground in different conditions.

He involved himself in the group right away. One of the wolves was just a single second away from ripping the head of a guard when suddenly a blue flash occurred. The wolf didn't even have the time to howl as its head fell to the ground while its other part struggled.

Aakesh didn't just stop there. With every swing of his, one wolf head flew. In less than a minute, he killed the group of 50 wolves and freed the guards from the battle.. He then rushed to another group without stopping.

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Chapter 77: Rewards

Time flew by, and a few hours had passed. Aakesh still was fighting with the wolves, but the situation was different. He was fighting while the wolves were running away from him.

He fought the wolves until the border of the Wolfden, as chasing them further could lead to a counterattack from the wolves. If the wolf king appeared, even he would be in danger, let alone other townspeople.

He returned to the group of the guards after chasing the wolves out. The loud cheers of the guards welcomed him. He only expressionlessly watched the scene and waited for his rewards.

Aakesh was confident that he had completed the mission successfully, but he wasn't sure by how much percentage he had reduced the casualties.

"Adventurer, thank you for saving us!" One of the guards stepped forward and thanked Aakesh with a bow.

"It wasn't a big deal," He responded without any expression on his face.

"Would you join us for the feast? We would have the feast to celebrate our victory over wolves," The guard then asked.

"No need, I have some things to do!" Aakesh refused straight away, as he had no thoughts of mingling with the guards, and he had already spent way much time in Panagea.

"Oh… it's unfortunate. You joining our feast would've made us grateful, and we also wanted to thank you for saving so many of our brothers," The guard said with a disappointed expression.

Right then, a man appeared out of nowhere in the group of guards. Every guard, including the guard who spoke to Aakesh, saluted toward the newly appeared man.

"How many of our brothers we lost today?" He asked in a hoarse voice.

"Chief, the counting of the dead is still going on..., but we've got fewer... casualties than the previous wolves waves," One guard came running down as he answered while gasping for breath.

The man whom the guard called chief turned around and looked at Aakesh. "Thank you for saving our brothers!" He then thanked him with a bow to his waist.

"No need, I was just doing the quest," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Still, we need to thank you! Due to your massacre of the wolves, the town of Wolfden would be safe for years as the wolves need to recuperate and reproduce for several years if they want to attack the city again," The man said with a smile.

"What about the wolf king?" Aakesh asked the man as he had read that the king of the horde at least moves with millions of wolves. Replenishing the wolves group isn't hard for the wolf king after having so many followers.

"The wolf king can't attack our town, as there is a deal between our head and the wolf king," The army chief responded.

The chief of the Wolfden was on the same level as the wolf king, so if it attacked the town, the town-head would interfere and fight with it. Since no one can't kill each other, they had made a deal that the king would never order its horde to attack Wolfden. The wolf king was at a loss in this deal, so it refused to accept it. The town-head then proposed another deal that only wolves without any energy could attack the town, whereas the guards who can't manipulate energy would fight those wolves.

Right then, a blue screen appeared in front of him with letters appearing.

[Adventurer, the town of Wolfden thanks you for fighting for its citizens.

In your fight against the wolves, you killed more than 20,000 wolves, saving lives of many guards of the town.

The casualties during the last wave were 1400. This time it was only 764, so you reduced the number of deaths by more than 40%.

Your reward for helping the townspeople are (i) The ability to manipulate energy, (ii) a new skill, 'Wolfbane'.]

The screen then disappeared while a blue light engulfed Aakesh the next moment. All the guards looked at the scene with jealousy in their eyes. They knew Aakesh had gained the ability to manipulate energy, and now he could grow stronger using the energy of the world. They also wanted to be there where Aakesh was.

"Congratulation, Adventurer! You can now grow stronger without any limit," The chief congratulated Aakesh.

Aakesh only nodded in response and tried to sense the energy in the atmosphere. He could feel clusters in the air, but when he tried to call them, nothing happened.

"It would still take time to be able to manipulate the energy of the atmosphere. Currently, you can only manipulate the energy inside you," The chief smilingly commented, seeing Aakesh's efforts.

"Since you've gained the ability to manipulate energy, you can now see your status. It would show all your details," The chief told Aakesh a piece of new information.

"Thank you!" Aakesh expressionlessly thanked the chief and thought of the status.

The next moment, a blue screen with golden fonts appeared in front of him, containing all his details.

Personal Status:

Name: Aakesh,

Gender: Male,

Class: None,

Level: Level 1,

HP: 100/100,

Energy: 100/100,

Physical attributes:

Strength: 10,

Agility: 10,

Intelligence: -0-,

Endurance: -0-,

Comprehensions: Hand fighting (30%), Archery (100%), Swordsmanship (100%),...

Skills: Wolfbane.

Aakesh nodded after reading his details. Except hand fighting, he had 100% comprehension in every weapon-fighting, Alchemy, Smithing, etc.

He only had one skill, and that too he had gained as a reward. He then thought of the details of the skill, and the next moment, a new window containing information about it appeared on the top of the status screen.

[Skill name: Wolfbane,

Level: Level 1,

Ability: It gives the user a psychological edge over the wolves. No mental effect of wolves below Level 10 would occur on the user, and similarly, the wolves below Level 3 will fear the user, wolves below Level 5 have only a minimal effect, and wolves between Level 5 and 10 may or may not get affected by the user,

Condition of growth: Train the skill to perfection.]

"Useless!" Aakesh mumbled after reading the details of the skill. He wasn't going to fight with the wolves all the time, so there was no point in this skill as even without this skill, he could kill wolves below Level 10.

"Did you not get good attri-" The chief asked after hearing Aakesh's mumble, but the next moment his words came to a stop as Aakesh disappeared.

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Chapter 78: First Victory

After reading about the skill, he thought of returning to the real world, and the next moment, he returned to the real world. He appeared in front of the virtual portal through which he had entered.

He checked his skill section right away and found the skill Wolfbane. "Useless skill!" He muttered again, seeing it in real life.

He didn't feel any effect from the energy he gained in Panagea because he was already way more powerful than him of the virtual world. He then took a look around the room once and left the room.

He noticed a board appearing next to the door of the room after exiting. He then focused on the contents of the board.

The first line was the name of the product in bright golden letters. It was 'Samsara Samraat'. After that, the brightness of the letters dimmed down severalfold. It then told the price of entering the world of Panagea.

Every time someone tries to enter the world of Panagea, they would've to pay an activation price of 50 infernal Primal stones, with every hour of their stay 25 infernal Primal stones. The longest any customer could stay in the world of Panagea is six hours.

"Hey, system, isn't the cost of entering cheap for entering a world like Panagea?" He asked after looking at the prices on the board. It appeared cheap to him to use a treasure like the virtual portal at such a low cost.

[Host, the price for entering is low because taking out a skill in the real world is expensive.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice. "Oh… How much would you charge for taking a useless skill like Wolfbane in the real world?" He asked in response to the system's explanation.

[One top Primal stone without any conversion in Primal stones.]

In response, Aakesh did not say anything as he got dumbfounded after hearing the price of taking out such a useless skill. He then shook his head as it had nothing to do with him. The greater the people spend, the better it would be for him and the store.

"Hey, system, where is Lily?" He asked the system as he stopped thinking about the price issue for the virtual world.

The next moment, a black screen appeared in front of him. The scene of Lily then appeared on display.

A wry smile appeared on his face seeing the display, as he could see a Lion running away from Lily while she chased it with a laugh. He then thought of the screen disappearing, and it disappeared. He could've called her back, but he stopped since he wouldn't let her go out regularly, so he let her play to her content today. If she wanted to return, she could return anytime as she had permission to teleport directly into the store, despite it being closed.

He then went outside and took a look at the dark sky. The sun had already set, so the market was empty and silent. He then turned around and closed the door of the store.

After closing the store, he disappeared from the store and appeared in the selection ground. Then, he took out the bow he'd been using for millennia and disappeared from that place, reappearing in the familiar arena in the midst of cheers. As expected, the applause turned into boo right after Aakesh appeared in the battle arena.

It was the only place where he smiled except with Lily. A smile would subconsciously spread over his face, hearing the boos of the crowd.

"How are you, losers?" He responded while waving his hands, making the boos even louder.

The next moment, the crowd turned silent as Aakesh's opponent appeared.

"You looked confident today!" The opponent said as he glazed at Aakesh.

Aakesh only smiled in response to the opponent's question. He took out his place and waited for the opponent to get in position.

With the loud sound of the bell ringing in the arena, the battle started. Both of them disappeared from their positions while the sound of metal clashing echoed continuously in the battle arena.

The crowd silently watched the battle as everyone could follow the actions of the combatants. Suddenly, the sky got covered by countless arrows like in the previous fight.

The air in the arena suddenly started flowing in the opposite direction as a white flash appeared, aiming to engulf every arrow and Aakesh.

The crowd looked at the scene of the flash engulfing Aakesh with their mouth wide open, but the next moment their eyes went wide open as the flash that threatened to submerge Aakesh flew in the opposite direction, even faster than before.

The flash engulfed Aakesh's opponent in no time. It all happened so fast that he had no time to counterattack or defend himself. The next moment, the whole arena turned silent as Aakesh appeared in the battle arena, whereas his opponent was nowhere to be found.

The next moment, light particles started accumulating in the center of the battle arena. It then took the form of Aakesh's opponent.

The opponent bent down right after appearing as surviving from the attack took everything out of him. Suddenly, an arrow arrived and took his head away with it. As if the arrow was sentient, it took a round around the arena for the crowd to see the head of the opponent.

After taking a round around the entire battle arena, the arrow with the head of the opponent on top of it faded into light.

The next moment, a screen appeared in front of Aakesh. It had two options, whether to face the round again or challenge to the next stage. He chose the option of challenging the next stage without even thinking twice.

The damage that had been sustained by the battle arena was automatically repaired after he chose the option. The corpse of his opponent also disappeared.

A few seconds later, his opponent for this round appeared. He was shocked at first, seeing the opponent, but the next moment he controlled the shock. It was the same man who had faced in the previous round.

The opponent took his stance right away and gestured for Aakesh to take his. The next moment, the bell rang and signified the starting of the battle.

Before Aakesh could even think of doing anything, he lost his consciousness as his head flew away, detached from his lower body.

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Chapter 79: Fighting Battles

The next moment, Aakesh reappeared completely fine after dying just a moment ago.

Remembering the scene a moment ago chilled him to his core. Right after the bell rang, announcing the start of the battle, he had just touched his bowstring when his opponent arrived in front of him and swung his sword, resulting in severing his head.

The opponent expressionlessly took a look at Aakesh and then left the arena. The crowd watched the scene without even daring to breathe. He also left the next moment, as the defeat he faced was too much for him to take.

He appeared in the store after putting down the bow in the selection ground. "Hey, system, did my opponent have the same power level as I do?" He asked the system because getting defeated in just a few seconds by a being of the same level was way too humiliating for him.

[Yes, Host. You can try fighting him by using a sword.]

The system answered and also suggested him. "Good Idea! It has been many days since I held a sword in my hand," He whispered.

The next moment, he reappeared in the selection ground. Instead of usually picking up a bow, he picked up the sword lying on the next shelf.

It was a one-handed double-edged sword with a razor-sharp edge and murals of a dragon threatening to swallow the Multiverse etched across the blade. It had a complex guard and a detailed grip. It had a dark appearance which could even suck out the light during the afternoon. It was made up of the corpse of the first Black Dragon, a Primordial and one of the strongest in all the three dimensions, but unfortunately, it got killed by Kartikeya countless years ago.

It weighed the same as a feather in his hands, but it was not its actual weight. If anyone other than him tried to pick it up, even a God wouldn't be able to budge it.

If Aakesh took any of the weapons he used for training, it would create a bloodbath not only in the first dimension but all three dimensions. But, the systems didn't allow him to take out any weapon in reality.

He picked the sword and the next moment reappeared in the familiar arena. A blue display appeared in front of him and welcomed him. It had two options, whether he wanted to start the fight from the first round or move straight to round two.

In light of his victory with the bow in the first round, he decided to go with the sword and see if he could finish the fight earlier compared to the bow.

The next moment, he appeared in the battle arena in the midst of cheers. A few seconds later, his opponent appeared.

"Oh... sword battle!" The opponent at first was stunned, seeing Aakesh using a sword instead of the bow.

"Yeah, I wanted to see who is quicker!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

The next moment, the bell rang, announcing the start of the battle. Since it was the first time for Aakesh to fight with the sword, his opponent gave him the first chance to attack.

Aakesh didn't waste his welcome and made the first move. He disappeared from his position, and the sound of metal clashing rang where his opponent stood. The next moment, they both disappeared, and the metal continuously clashed.

"It's enough," The next moment, Aakesh's cold voice rang, and the air around the arena suddenly turned colder. It chilled the crowd watching the battle. The next moment, his opponent started falling into the ground, severed into pieces.

The entire arena turned red from the blood of the opponent, but his sword still looked the same as before without any blemishes. The next moment, the same window appeared, asking him for his choice. He chose to go to the second round.

Suddenly, all the blood and body pieces vanished, leaving the arena clean and ready for the next match. Aakesh's opponent then appeared with an expressionless face.

The crowd started feeling even colder as both the opponent had cold expressions while staring at each other, making the atmosphere chilling.

The bell rang, and Aakesh's opponent made the first move, unlike the last time. A grin appeared on his face as he dodged slightly to his right, and a sword passed right through, but the next moment, two vertical half of a body fell on the ground with a thud.

The whole crowd had shocked faces, seeing the outcome of the battle. It wasn't Aakesh's body, but instead, it was his opponent's. Right after he had dodged the attack, he swung his sword vertically, and it split the opponent's body into two.

"So, it was the problem with my archery," Aakesh commented after defeating his opponent with ease in the second round. The next moment, the same window appeared, but this time, there were three options, go back to the first round, stay in the second round, or proceed to the third and final round.

He chose the third round without thinking too much. The next moment, the split body lying in the arena vanished. After a few seconds, his opponent appeared. It was the same being, but he could feel a sense of coldness and kill from the man.

The bell rang and announced the start of the battle. Aakesh and the opponent made their move at the same time. In the middle of the arena, "Clang!" the sound of metal clashing echoed.

"Now, this is a good battle!" Aakesh commented as he wasn't able to find a weak point in his opponent's fighting.

"You're right!" The opponent responded. His voice cold enough to chill anybody. He also wasn't able to find any weakness in Aakesh's fighting.

The two combatants were on equal footing at the start of the fight, but as time passed, the opponent started to tire, whereas Aakesh continued to fight with the same vigor.

"And, here I thought, you would give me a good competition," Aakesh said as the opponent started getting slower.

Suddenly, the air in the arena turned threatening as a projection of the Black Dragon appeared in the air. The opponent sensed a feeling of danger, seeing the Black Dragon. He also activated his most destructive attack to counter Aakesh's attack right away.

A projection of a White Elephant appeared behind him and roared, seeing the Black Dragon.

Both the projection looked alive, as the Dragon looked at the Elephant as if it was an ant.. The next moment, both the projections clashed, and a loud explosion occurred in the battle arena.

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Chapter 80: A New Day

"Divine Elephant," Aakesh mumbled, seeing the projection behind his opponent, but the next moment a smile spread across his face as he attacked.

The Black Dragon roared, shaking everyone sitting there watching with shocked faces. The next moment, it opened its mouth, which made the arena dark.

Suddenly, the sound of a rumble echoed in the battle arena as the White Elephant rushed at the Black Dragon. In response, the Black Dragon released a dark beam that he had just sucked from the atmosphere.

The attack even threatened the void as cracks started appearing in the space around the arena. The beam then clashed with the rushing Elephant.

The next moment, light returned to the arena. But neither the projections nor Aakesh's opponent was present, only a pit covering the entire battle arena, and Aakesh casually standing at the center of it was present.

The next moment, a blue window appeared in front of him. It first congratulated him for clearing the training, then it gave him three options, whether to return to the first round or second round, and the last whether to fight in the third round again.

He didn't select any option and returned to the selection ground. He then put down the sword and returned to the store.

"Hey, system, would the attack I used could threaten an immortal?" He asked the system after seeing the damage it did to his opponent and his most destructive attack. It wasn't even the most powerful attack he had in his arsenal while fighting with the sword.

[No, Host. Immortality is the level just before attaining the divine, so the defense of the body at that level is hard to break using such attacks.]

The system answered. Aakesh nodded as it was an unexpected answer, but he still understood. An attack that could kill the strongest Tao Palace expert without even giving them a chance of survival doesn't mean that it would be able to threaten the Immortal.

He then went to his room and fell asleep on his comfortable bed. He woke up the following morning, and a smile spread across his face as he found Lily sleeping peacefully.

He didn't disturb her, took a bath, and went down to his store. He then opened the door of the store and found a smiling Mark standing there.

"Hello, senior! I came here to buy pills!" He smilingly and respectfully said.

"Enter!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded and returned to the store.

"Senior! I want to buy three pills each!" Mark said.

Aakesh nodded and went toward the counter. Before taking out the pills, he looked at Mark and said, "We have two new addition to the pills today. Do you want to know about them, or do you only want these three?"

"Do they have the same impurity percentage as these three pills?" Mark curiously asked as he bought these pills to increase his knowledge, and the more pills he could buy, the more he could experiment.

Aakesh nodded and said, "Yes, and if you want pills with even fewer impurities than these pills, then you can buy medium pills with an impurity of only 5%."

"Really! 5...5% impurities!" Mark exclaimed in shock after hearing what the store owner said. The next moment, he calmed down as the better the pill, the more expensive it would be.

"Senior, what are the two newly added pills, and how much do they cost?" Mark asked after taking a deep breath.

"The first pill is first-grade inferior blood explosion pill, and it cost 25 inferior Primal stones. The other pill is a first-grade inferior energy meditation pill, and it cost 50 inferior Primal stones," Aakesh answered both of his questions.

Mark nodded after hearing the price of the pills. He was somewhat relieved as he could manage this amount with ease. "So if I bought each pill, it would cost me 175 inferior Primal stones, and I could only buy three pills at most, so it would cost me 525 inferior Primal stones," He thought in his heart.

Although it was a large sum for him, his love for alchemy trumped his spendings, so he took out the required amount from his space ring and said, "Senior, give me three inferior pills each."

Aakesh nodded and took out the pills Mark wanted. "Your bill is 525 inferior Primal stones!" He declared as he handed him the pills. Mark nodded and pushed the amount toward Aakesh.

Aakesh waved his hands, and the small mountain of Primal stones disappeared from the store.

"Senior, how much does the medium pills of their version cost?" Mark asked while pointing at the box of pills in his hand.

"The cheapest is first-grade medium energy meditation pill, and it cost ten ordinary Primal stones, whereas the most expensive is first-grade medium dantian healing pill, it cost 75 ordinary Primal stones," Aakesh responded.

"Senior, give me one medium energy meditation pill," Mark said as he couldn't stop himself from checking a pill with an impurity of only 5%.

According to the conversion rate, ten ordinary Primal stones would be one thousand inferior Primal stones, so he started taking them out. Before coming here, he had decided to carry all his savings in his space ring from now on.

"Stop! Ten ordinary Primal stones mean you have to pay them, not inferior Primal stones by conversion rate," Aakesh stopped Mark from taking out a mountain.

"Senior-"

"No, if you want to buy the pill, you would've to pay ten ordinary Primal stones. There is no choice in this matter," Aakesh bluntly said, as the system had clearly told him not to take conversion stones.

Mark nodded disappointedly and put the Primal stones that he had already taken out back in his space ring. He only had around 50 ordinary stones, so he didn't buy the pill.

He then left the store after thanking Aakesh.

[Host, you won't earn commission from the products you sell after this if you don't tell your customer about the virtual portal. As a new store, how can you not promote your best product to your customers?]

The next moment, the emotionless voice of the system suddenly rang in his head and asked him to talk about the virtual portal. It also warned him to take away his commission.. Aakesh didn't respond to the system's words, and instead, sat down on his chair.

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Chapter 81: Big Sale

In the absence of customers to promote the virtual world, Aakesh sat down on his chair after hearing the warning of the system. He then closed his eyes and started thinking of ways to win today's battle in the training session.

He had only won in swords battle, but he still remembered the humiliating defeat he faced yesterday, and he would win all three rounds with his bow before breakthrough as his opponent would also grow stronger with him.

Only half an hour had passed when he heard the sound of footsteps. He opened his eyes and saw a group of three people entering the store. He recognized one person in the group. It was Mark who had just left half-hour ago after splurging more than 500 Primal stones.

"Senior, I brought these two to buy from your store," Mark smilingly said. "He is Bislo, the director of the herb association, and he is Bisal, the deputy director of the pill association," Mark then introduced the two persons he had brought.

Bislo had an average build, and his hair had white streaks indicating his age, but his eyes contained vitality, whereas Bisal looked the younger version of Bislo with the same appearance. They looked like part of the same family, but Aakesh had no interest in knowing it, so he didn't ask them about it.

"Is it true that you've pills with impurities of 5%?" Bisal excitedly asked after Mark introduced them.

Aakesh nodded in response to show his affirmation. "Can we see it?" Bisal nervously asked. It was hard for him to believe that someone would sell a pill that contained impurities of less than 20%, let alone 5%, even though Mark had told him the pill was for sale.

"Yes, you just need to buy it," Aakesh responded.

"Why would you sell such pills?" Bisal loudly responded with excitement as well as shock.

"Forgive my son! He's just obsessed with alchemy, and that's why he's acting this way," Bislo apologized with a wry smile, seeing his son's excitement.

"No problem!" Aakesh responded. He then went to the counter and asked, "What pills do you want, medium, inferior, or both of them?"

"Can you explain to us about the pills before I decide to buy them?" Bislo respectfully asked.

His tone was respectful, despite being the director of the herb association because Mark had told him to behave, and he had also heard about the killing of Fred, a Void Condensation expert in the store. He would be an idiot if he tried to offend the store owner after that.

Aakesh nodded and said, "You can ask him about the inferior pills, and I would tell you about the medium pills." He then added without waiting to see the group's response, "There are five first-grade medium pills I'm currently selling in the store. They are:

(I) First-grade medium body healing pill: It can allow the user to heal even severed limbs. It costs 25 ordinary Primal stones,

(II) First-grade medium mental healing pill: It can heal the traumas of the being up to Void Forging level. It costs 50 ordinary Primal stones,

(III) First-grade medium dantian healing pill: It can heal the dantian up to the Void Forging level. It costs 75 ordinary Primal stones,

(IV) First-grade medium blood explosion pill: It allows the user to go on a berserk mode without losing control by burning their blood. It costs 50 ordinary Primal stones,

(V) First-grade medium energy meditation pill: It helps the user in their meditation, starting from Nascent Soul. It costs ten ordinary Primal stones."

"So, what're the after-effects of using the blood explosion pill, and how much power boost does it give?" Bislo asked after listening about the pills.

"It would make a peak Nascent Soul fight a late Void Condensation expert for a minute, and there would be a weakness for three days, and in the worst case, the user could fall into the coma, but there is no threat of life," Aakesh responded.

The group had shocked expressions after hearing what Aakesh said. "Can a late Void Condensation expert fight a peak Void Condensation expert after using the blood explosion pill?" Bislo asked as he himself was a late Void Condensation cultivator.

"Yes, it may give you a chance to fight," Aakesh nodded.

"Give us three pills each," Bislo excitedly said while pointing at the group of them.

Aakesh nodded and took out nine pills each from the counter shelf. "Your total bill is 1890 ordinary Primal stones!" He said while handing the pills to the group.

Bislo nodded and handed Aakesh the required amount for the pills. Being the director of the herb association had its perks. He earned more than 5000 ordinary Primal stones a month as his salary, and he also belonged to an affluent family.

Aakesh waved his hands, and the mountain of Primal stones disappeared from the store. They were turning around to leave when Aakesh stopped them.

"I have a new product in the store. Do you want to check it out?" Aakesh expressionlessly told the group while pointing at the open room.

"Since I have some time, I can check it," Bislo said with a smile and went toward the room. He didn't have time, but since he was happy after getting the pills, he decided to check out the product Aakesh talked about while Bisal and Mark followed him.

The group went to the room and found 'Samsara Samraat', shining blindingly on the board. They read the following contents and then confusedly looked at Aakesh to explain.

Aakesh didn't speak anything and entered the room while the group followed him.

The group sucked a breath of cold air seeing the portal in the room. It looked like a cluster of stars rotating in the darkness of the void, and it also gave them a sense of pressure.

"These are virtual portals, and you would transfer to a new world named Panagea with it," Aakesh explained while pointing at the portals. Without stopping, he added, "You can grow powerful without the fear of death, and you can also gain skills, spells, weapons, pills, potions, etc., in the Panagea. You can take your gains out in the real world if you pay the amount required for it."

The group had a dumbfounded face after hearing what Aakesh said. It was too much to take for them, especially the part about not dying.

"Are you telling the truth?" Bislo respectfully asked with a shocked look on his face.. Bisal and Mark enthusiastically looked at Aakesh, waiting for his response.

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Chapter 82: New Quest

"Would it really let us grow strong without any fear of death?" Bislo asked with a shocked expression as what the store owner told him was something unheard of, as growing without any fear of death is the dream of every power leveler. Bisal and Mark also looked at Aakesh, eagerly waiting for his response.

"Why would I lie to you? Everything I told you is the truth," Aakesh expressionlessly responded, making excited expressions appear on the group's faces.

They found it unbelievable at first, but subconsciously, they wanted to believe Aakesh, so Bislo directly paid the fee required for three of them. He only paid for an hour each, as he first needed to see it for himself, then he would pay for other hours. He handed 225 inferior Primal stones to Aakesh and entered the portal. Bisal and Mark also took a step inside their respective virtual portals after him.

Right after, Bislo paid for an hour. A sudden alert appeared inside his head.

[Ding.]

[Host, congratulations on selling your first virtual hours! Please see the quest window for the quest.]

The next moment, a blue window containing the quest appeared in front of him.

[Mission Objective: Have twenty players enter the virtual portal,

Requirement: Since the first player has already joined the world of Panagea, it's time for you to make other players enter the world. Twenty players would be the start for countless players coming in the store to use the virtual portal,

Number of customers left: 20/20,

Days required: 7 days,

Mission reward: Ten more virtual portals,

Failure punishment: Decrease in the number of virtual portals by one.]

"Seven days," He whispered after seeing the quest screen. He only had seven days to get twenty new customers, as he was confident that these three wouldn't be counted now, no matter how many times they paid for the portal.

He then exited the room and returned to his chair, as the system had told him the customers would spawn outside after their time in the Panagea ended or they got killed.

He only had just sat on the chair when the group spawned in the store with horrified faces. "We are really alive!" Bisal shouted after seeing him alive and uninjured.

"Haha… now I can have a breakthrough to Peak Void Condensation and then Void Forging without any worry," Bislo started laughing after finding out that he wouldn't die in Panagea.

"Cough! Senior, do we have to pay for re-entering the portal?" His laugh got stuck, seeing Aakesh expressionlessly staring at him. He fake coughed and asked Aakesh. Even if he had to pay again, he would still enter the portal as it was the dream of the rich to grow powerful just by spending money and not dying.

"No! You've already paid for one hour, so you don't need to pay until that time," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Here, please make one hour into six hours," Bislo suddenly said while handing 375 inferior Primal stones to Aakesh.

Aakesh nodded and took the stones from his hands. "Father, let's go. We need to take revenge on those metal wolves," Bisal urged.

The group then went into the room and entered the portal again.

"Hey, system, how many starting towns have you made for customers?" Aakesh asked the system as when he arrived on the Panagea, the town of Wolfden faced an attack from silver wolves, but Bisal talked about metal wolves, and there were no such species of wolves near Wolfden.

[There are more towns in Panagea than there are people in the Bisan Kingdom.]

The system responded in its emotionless and mechanical voice. "That is too many," Aakesh murmured as the population of the Bisan Kingdom exceeded hundreds of billions.

As Aakesh sat in his chair, he began to visualize how he would fight today's battle. He didn't want to get one-shotted like the battle yesterday.

Time flew by, and hours passed. The group of people had spawned several times during these past few hours, but they entered the portal right away as they didn't dare to disturb Aakesh from whatever he was doing. During this time, no customer came to his store.

Finally, six hours passed, and the group was forced out of the Panagea. They spawned back in the store and saw Aakesh still had closed eyes. They didn't want to disturb him, so they left the store with smiling faces.

Even though they were frustrated that they had to leave Panagea, the group smiled, knowing they could come back tomorrow. No one in the group passed the quests they got, so the six hours they spent in Panagea were a failure, but the feeling of not dying made them happy, and that was a success.

Only a few minutes had passed when Aakesh heard footsteps coming toward the store, so he opened his eyes. He saw Maria entering the store.

"Hello, senior!" She greeted Aakesh with a smile.

Aakesh expressionlessly nodded to her greetings and stood up from his chair. "I have new pills in the store. Do you want them?" He then asked her and told her the details of the newly added pills.

"Give me three medium energy meditation pills," Maria bought after hearing the details of the pills since it was the only one she could use currently.

Aakesh nodded and took out the pills Maria had asked for. He then handed her the pills, while Maria paid him 30 ordinary Primal stones.

"Senior! What's in that room?" Aakesh was just going to promote his virtual product to Maria when she suddenly asked while pointing at the only open room.

"It's the new product of the store," Aakesh expressionlessly answered and gestured her to follow him.

A shocked expression appeared on her face, seeing the portals in the store. She had seen a real travel portal in her life when she traveled with her father to a nearby Kingdom.

The portal she saw in the store didn't look anything like the travel portal she saw, but she had a subconscious feeling that it was better when compared with the travel portal.

Aakesh ignored her shocked reactions and told her the exact same thing he told the group before her, and she also had the same shocking reaction as them. She directly paid for the six hours and the activation fee as her trust in Aakesh was reverential. After paying, she entered the portal while Aakesh returned to his chair.

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Chapter 83: Another Battle

Time flew by, and another six hours passed. Aakesh got no new customers during these six hours, while Maria spawned around every five minutes during these past six hours. She also returned back to the world of Panagea right away without disturbing Aakesh.

She was in a battle with raiders and was in an unfortunate situation when her six hours passed. She then got forced out of Panagea and spawned in the store. She heaved a sigh of relief after she got saved from her death.

Aakesh had also opened his eyes as the dawn had already started arriving, and it was time for closing the store.

"Who did you have to defeat as your first quest?" Aakesh asked after Maria spawned in the store after her six hours ended.

"Human raiders attacked the town, and I had to save as many civilians as possible until the end of the raid," Maria responded with a slight tremble in her voice as the scenes of pillaging, raping, torturing by the raiders were still ingrained in her mind.

"Okay! Do you want anything more?" He expressionlessly asked as it was time for him to close the store.

"No! I would come back tomorrow, senior," Maria responded as she understood the context of Aakesh's question. She slightly bowed toward him, turned around, and left the store.

After Maria left the store, Aakesh closed the door of the store. "6 days and 19 more customers to go," He murmured as he brought out the quest screen.

Four days have already passed since the store opened in Kakot, and today was the busiest day in terms of sales. Today the store earned more than 1800 ordinary Primal stones and more than 1000 inferior Primal stones. He gained 1% of the total sales, which didn't matter much to him as he already had 5000 ordinary Primal stones after selling a space ring to Maria, but seeing the sales grow made him happy as only when the sales will grow, the store would grow. And with the store growing, he would be closer to knowing the truth about him.

Lily still didn't come down, so it meant she was still asleep. He went to his room and woke her up. He then took her to the selection ground with him.

Lily still wanted to sleep, but seeing the stern look in his eyes, she stopped struggling and begrudgingly went to her training ground. Aakesh then picked out his bow from the weapon shelf and selected the training ground.

The next moment, he appeared in the training ground in the midst of cheers. A blue window appeared in front of him with three options. He chose to fight the second round.

The shouting stopped when Aakesh appeared in the battle arena as the crowd still remembered yesterday's battle between him and the opponent when he used a sword. No one even dared to boo seeing Aakesh.

"What happened, losers? Are you afraid of me?" Aakesh asked with a smile, seeing the crowd silently staring at him with hints of fear in their eyes.

The crowd stayed silent in response and waited for the opponent to come. The next moment, the opponent arrived in the battle arena with an expressionless face. He didn't even look at Aakesh and took his position, Aakesh also took his position, ready to shoot in a blink.

The bell then loudly rang and announced the start of the battle. "Clang!" The next moment, the sound of metal clashing echoed throughout the battle arena as Aakesh shot an arrow directly at his leg, predicting his opponent's next move. His prediction proved correct, as the opponent arrived the next moment, swinging his sword at Aakesh's head, but Aakesh didn't even have to dodge as his arrow obstructed the movement of the sword, and it missed him.

Aakesh moved two steps backward right away as a hand came to grab his head, but he successfully dodged the hand. He shot another arrow, aiming at the leg of the opponent to stop his quick movement, but the opponent easily dodged the attack by a casual swing of his sword.

He shot arrow after arrow after that as he moved backward while his opponent chased him. Until now, Aakesh had been at the defeating end. The next moment, he stopped and activated a skill inbuilt in the weapon. With every shot, the weight of the arrow started increasing, which slowed his opponent's move.

Suddenly the air in the arena turned cold, as a projection of a sword appeared above the opponent's head. The next moment, with an unimaginable speed, the sword fell on Aakesh's head.

He activated the skill 'Counter Shield' right away to defend himself, but the sword cut his shield like a knife cutting through butter and successfully struck him down, splitting him in two. He faced the same defeat he had inflicted on his opponent yesterday.

The next moment, Aakesh reappeared in the battle arena. "So, this is the move you gained in this round?" He asked his opponent. With every round, the opponent and Aakesh would gain a skill. The sky of arrows he used in the first round was the skill he gained in the first round, and he could increase the weight of his arrows in the second round.

The opponent nodded with a cold look and left the battle arena. He also then left the battle arena as he faced another defeat using a bow, but today was a good battle for him.

He then reappeared in the selection ground. Since Lily was still in her training, he sat down on the ground in the meditative pose and started thinking about ways to solve the attack as his shield couldn't handle the damage.

Using the skill he gained in the first and second round simultaneously could allow him to slow down the fall as well as reduce the sword's power, and then he can activate the 'Counter Shield' to counter the attack. Whether it would be effective or not, he would find out tomorrow.

He then cleared his mind and waited for Lily to come. He thought of taking her with him to Panagea. He would let her live in wildlife in Panagea and do whatever she wanted. After several minutes, she appeared in the selection ground. She then told him about what happened in training. After they both returned to the store, he took her to the virtual portal room, and they both entered it.

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Chapter 84: Panagea(1)

Aakesh reappeared in the town of Wolfden at the exact place he had logged out. The next moment, Lily appeared. He had asked the system to spawn her with him; otherwise, she would've spawned in another town.

He appeared in the jungle where he last talked with the chief of guards of Wolfden. Currently, only he and Lily were present there.

"Where are we?" Lily asked as she curiously looked at her surroundings.

"We're in Panagea!" He responded as he lightly flicked her head, making her annoyed. But the next moment, a smile spread across her face after what Aakesh said next, "You can live however you want in the jungle."

"Really!" Lily excitedly asked as an open jungle was the best place for a predator like her.

"Yes! You can stay here as long as you want," He smilingly said. She got ready to leave when he stopped her and explained, "You're only a normal beast, so do anything keeping that in mind, and you can't leave this jungle without my permission at any cost."

"And you aren't allowed to create beast hordes to attack towns," He added.

"Okay!" She nodded and left him right away.

Aakesh then turned around and returned to the market. "Hey, system, if I buy anything here, can I also take it to reality?" He asked the system as he saw people buying and selling products in the market.

[Yes, Host.]

"Hey, system, should I start selling pills here?" He asked another question as he needed money to buy things, and currently, he had nothing in his hand. Earning money wasn't a big deal for him as he could create weapons, pills, or potions himself and sell them, but it was too much of a hassle.

[No, Host. If you want to earn money, you need to use your strengths. I won't help you in Panagea.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice. "Okay!" Aakesh commented with a sigh as he had to work hard if he wanted to buy skills. His eyes then fell upon a weapon shop not far from him. He decided first to check out the store and the level of weapons it sells.

"Hello, adventurer, what do you want to buy?" The manager of the store, who was relaxing, stood up and rushed forward, seeing Aakesh entering his store. It was only yesterday that he had saved the town of Wolfden, so he didn't want to offend the savior of the town by talking while sitting on his chair.

"I'm just here to see the weapons," Aakesh expressionlessly responded as he had no money on his hands.

The manager of the store nodded and started showing him the weapons around the store himself.

In Panagea, the weapon wasn't divided into the same category as the real world since in Panagea, people having powers varying between the three dimensions lived on the same land.

The weapons, pills, potions, or any kind of treasure were divided into several levels:

(I) Level(1-10) were called Inferior,

(II) Level(10-25) were called Ordinary,

(III) Level(25-50) were called Rare,

(IV) Level(50-100) were called Epic,

(V) Level (100-250) was called Legendary,

(VI) Level(250-500) were called Mythical,

(VII) Level(500-1000) were called Divine,

(VIII) Level(1000) was called Chaos.

There were similar names for some level of treasures in the Primal dimension, but the power they held in Panagea was like comparing an ant with the power of countless elephants. The level here signified the level of the user.

Only ten beings since the birth of Panagea had crossed the 1000th mark. They were known as the ten Emperors, so there were only ten chaos weapons in existence, and the inheritor of the Emperors would also gain Chaos weapons. Whether they can take it to reality or not was up to their capability.

In the store, the highest level of weapon Aakesh saw was the ordinary grade. None of them interested him as he could clearly see that many of them could reach rare grades, yet here they were lying as ordinary.

While thinking like this Aakesh suddenly thought of a way to earn money. He pointed at a blade, and the manager of the store respectfully handed it to him.

It was a short, thick, and jagged blade made up of wolfsteel, and its grip was wrapped in lavish silver wolf hide.

"How much for this blade?" He then asked the manager.

"Adventurer, are you sure you want to know the price? You're only a Level 1 warrior, and this blade can only be used by people above Level 10," The manager asked, as he himself was a Level 5 warrior and could see Aakesh's Level clearly. He didn't want to offend him, so he added, "But since you want to know, I would tell you. It costs 500 low soul stones."

"What's the average cost of a rare-grade weapon?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked another question.

The manager had no idea what Aakesh wanted, but he still truthfully answered, "50,000 to one million low soul stones."

Aakesh nodded and asked another question, "Pay me 100,000, and I would make this blade a rare-grade blade."

A look of shock and anger appeared on the manager's face. He controlled his anger and responded with gritted teeth, "Adventurer, I'm grateful that you saved our town, but you can't joke around like this."

"Why would I joke with you? Pay me, and I would make this weapon a rare grade," Aakesh expressionlessly responded, ignoring the manager's reactions.

"Fine, I'll give you a chance, but if you failed, I would complain about you to the town-head," The manager responded after taking a deep breath. He decided to give it as even if he failed, he would only lose 500 low soul stones, and it would also take away the debt of saving the town from the townspeople.

"Good! Show me your forging room," Aakesh expressionlessly said. If it were in reality, he would've made the weapon a rare grade in seconds only by purifying it, but since he was in Panagea and had no control over the purifying fire, he had to upgrade the weapon manually.

The manager nodded and clicked something in his shop, and the next moment, a door appeared for his basement. He then entered the door, and Aakesh followed him.

Underground, there was a much larger area than the store itself. As Aakesh glanced over to the forges, he saw several Dwarves working on them.. He found an empty forge in one corner and went to it.

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Chapter 85: Panagea(2)

Aakesh found an empty forge in the corner. He told the manager to wait for him in the store as he went to the forge. The manager nodded and returned to the store. He wanted to watch how Aakesh would upgrade the blade but didn't dare to do as it may offend him.

Aakesh started the forge and selected the temperature he wanted. He took out the hide grip from the blade and then threw it into the forge and waited for it to melt.

After it entirely melted, he took out the melted steel and then poured it into the mold to create the shape of the blade. After it took its form, he threw it again into the forge.

The process of blade creation continued for around fifty minutes since several devices could help in cooling and heating in no time.

The appearance of the blade had completely changed from before. It had a long, thin and straight appearance. It was made up of the same material, 'wolfsteel' since the material was underutilized in the previous situation. The grip was the same as before, made from wolf hide.

He didn't wait anymore after he completed the upgrade. He left underground and went up toward the store.

The manager was relaxing on his chair when he saw the door of the underground appearing and Aakesh coming out of the door the next moment.

"Did you fai-" He was going to ask if he failed as it hasn't been even an entire hour since Aakesh left, but his voice got stuck in his throat when he saw the shiny blade in his hand.

"Here, test it!" Aakesh ignored the manager's reaction and asked him to test the blade.

The manager nodded and gently took the blade in his hand. He took out a testing stone used to test the sharpness of the weapons and decided to use it.

He lightly swung the sword as he didn't want to destroy the testing stone, but the next moment a dumbfounded expression appeared on his face as the testing stone split into two.

It not only split the testing stone into two, but it also created a cut in the glass counter. The manager almost released the weapon in shock, but he controlled himself and didn't let it fall on the glass shelf.

"100,000 low soul stones!" Aakesh said the next moment, seeing the manager in shock after using the blade.

The manager absentmindedly nodded and took out a pouch from his store, and handed it to Aakesh. He took it and checked the amount in it. Having found the exact amount of stones in the pouch, he pinned the pouch to his waist since he was unable to manipulate the void and would only have access to space storage after crossing Level 50.

After taking the pouch, he turned around to leave the store when the manager suddenly called him. He turned around and expressionlessly stared at him to hear his reason.

"Adventurer, can you upgrade some more weapons?" He asked while his face was red with embarrassment. He didn't trust him at first, but now he himself was asking for help.

"No, I don't have time!" Aakesh refused right away as the time moved here at the same rate as in the real world, so he couldn't spend all his time here.

"I'll pay you 200,000 low soul stones!" The manager subconsciously replied as he was confident that the blade would at least sell for 600,000 low soul stones.

"No!" Aakesh refused right away and left the store. The manager only disappointedly looked at him leaving. He could've forced him to stay here and make weapons for him, but he had heard that Aakesh had killed more than ten thousand silver wolves single-handedly when he couldn't even manipulate energy.

After leaving the weapon store, he asked a passerby about where the spells and skills were sold. Once he knew where to find the items, he proceeded to the location.

There was only a single spell selling store in Wolfden and that too managed by the son of the town-head. When he reached there, he could already see the store filled with people.

The guards recognized him when he tried to enter the store, so they called the manager of the store, and then he personally took Aakesh around the store.

"Thank you for saving our town, Adventurer!" The manager thanked Aakesh.

"It was no big deal!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"What kind of skills or spells do you want, Adventurer?" The manager asked Aakesh as he showed him around the store.

"Offensive!" Aakesh responded.

"Since you're Level 1, you can't buy elemental skills. You can only buy weapon skills. Should I show some of them to you?" The manager told Aakesh. Under the order of the town-head, elemental skills couldn't be sold to warriors under Level 25, as only then could the warrior learn to control an element.

Aakesh expressionlessly nodded in response. The manager then took Aakesh to the first floor where VIP customers could sit, and the salespeople would come and explain the skills.

Aakesh found a chair and sat upon it while the manager himself started showing him the spells. The manager told him about hundreds of spells and skills, but none interested him as he could cause more destruction without using the skills the manager wanted to sell to him.

"Here, it's one of our best non-elemental skills," A grin spread across the manager's face as he started explaining another skill to Aakesh.

"Its name is 'Ability-Learning'. It allows the user to copy the skill of people weaker than the user and use it for them once. If the user can upgrade the skill to its limit, then they can use the copied skill as many times as they want," The manager told Aakesh.

"How much does it cost?" Aakesh asked as it was the only skill he found interesting. His attack power would be even stronger if he learned the skills of someone weaker than him and then used them on his own level.

"Two million low soul stones!" The manager responded with a wide smile on his face. He didn't stop smiling as he added, "Owner has told us to give you 50% discount on whatever you buy today, sp you can buy this skill for only one million low soul stones."

Aakesh nodded and left the store without saying anything in response since currently, he only had 100,000 low soul stones on him.. The manager only stood there dumbfounded with no idea of what happened.

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Chapter 86: Panagea(End)

After coming out of the store, Aakesh decided to return to the weapon store.

The manager was gently stroking the blade when he saw Aakesh entering the store. He, with a red face, stood up and put the weapon in its place.

"Adventurer, do you want to accept my deal?" The manager asked Aakesh as he could only think of this reason for returning to his store.

Aakesh nodded, making a smile erupt on the manager's face. But the next moment, the smile froze on his face after hearing what Aakesh said next.

"I have a new deal for you. Pay me one million low soul stones, and I would upgrade one of your weapons," Aakesh expressionlessly said.

"ARE YOU… are you joking with me? The highest any rare weapon would get sold for is around a million low soul stones, and you want me to pay that to you for upgrading the weapon?" The manager couldn't keep his calm for a moment, so he angrily shouted, but the next moment he calmed himself after seeing Aakesh's eyes turning cold.

"Yes, I would give you the best rare weapon in Wolfden," Aakesh returned to an expressionless face as he responded while pointing at the bow in one of the counters.

"No, I only have a lifetime saving of two million low soul stones, and you want me to risk half of it on a weapon. I can't do that to myself and my family," The manager refused as after working for decades, he had saved this money.

"Okay, I'll sell this offer to some other weapon store. I only came here because I've already made a deal with you once," Aakesh responded and turned around to leave.

"Wait!" The manager subconsciously yelled.

"What if the weapon fails to exceed the buying cost?" The manager asked as he didn't want to leave the deal since he had seen his ability after Aakesh upgraded the blade.

"It's up to you to sell. I'll give you the best weapon of the Wolfden," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Fine! But, I'll only pay you half of the amount-"

"No need! I want full payment of one million low soul stones after I upgrade your weapon," Aakesh bluntly responded, stopping the manager from further speaking.

"Fine!" The manager responded after staying silent for a few seconds. He didn't have the luxury to choose after seeing the resolute and expressionless eyes of Aakesh.

"Give me the bow?" Aakesh then asked for the bow he was upgrading.

The manager took out the bow from the counter and handed it to Aakesh with a determined face. He had already invested, so there was no point in thinking about it anymore.

"Give me a runestone too," Aakesh asked after taking the bow, causing a shocked look on the manager's face.

Runestone was a naturally built stone that could help in the enhancement of the weapon in different ways. It could enhance the physical properties or add a skill. The majority of runestones were used in weapons of epic and above grade. Rarely was a runestone used in rare-grade weaponry, so it was shocking for the manager.

"Are you sure? A single runestone cost 50,000 low soul stones," The manager asked after taking a deep breath.

"Yeah!" Aakesh nodded. The manager had already decided to go all the way, so he bent down and opened a locked drawer. There were three shining stones with a symbol of P drawn on it. He picked one of them, stood up, and handed it to Aakesh.

"Open the forge room!" Aakesh told the manager after taking the runestone.

Time flew by, and around three hours passed. With the passing of every second, the manager's heart turned heavy. He would stand up to check upon Aakesh, that why had he taken so much time, but he would sit down the next moment.

For the umpteenth time, he stood up thinking that he should check upon Aakesh, but the next moment, the thought of offending Aakesh appeared in his mind, so he sat down.

He had just sat down on his chair when the door of the forge room appeared, and Aakesh entered the store through that door with a pitch-black bow in his hand.

"Here, take it!" Aakesh then handed the bow to the manager.

The manager took the bow, but the next moment he stumbled to the ground due to the weight of the bow.

Aakesh ignored the manager's fall and explained the property he had added on the bow, "The bow would create a shield for the archer's protection every time they use it."

The manager stood up after using all of his force to pick up the bow. He then asked the help of Aakesh to put it on the counter as he wouldn't be able to. Aakesh nodded and casually put the bow on the counter the manager wanted.

The manager only looked at Aakesh with shock as he was only a Level 1 warrior, and still, he could casually pick up the bow with such weight. It weighed around 200 Kg.

The manager had some ideas in his heart to not pay the entire amount to Aakesh, but after seeing his strength, all such thoughts vanished from his heart. He took out a pouch containing a million low soul stones before Aakesh even asked for it. The manager then handed it to Aakesh.

Aakesh took the pouch and left the weapon store. He went right away to the spell store and bought the skill 'Ability-Learning'. After purchasing it, he returned to the real world as he wanted to test the power of the skill.

He teleported from the store to the mysterious peak directly. He then raised his hands, and a projection of a sword appeared above his head, creating light in the darkness of the night. It was the same skill his opponent used today while defeating him, and since he had already beaten him once, the skill 'Ability-Learning' worked, and he could use his opponent's skill once.

When his hand fell, the sword too fell, causing an earthquake to appear in the area around thousand of Yojanas.

A smile spread across Aakesh face after seeing the damage caused by the sword. A pit of thousands of miles of radius appeared while several beasts, unfortunately, died in the explosion.

Aakesh then returned back to his store. He didn't know that a few seconds after he left, a stranger engulfed in the darkness appeared floating in the air and looked at the pit.. Since the stranger's face wasn't visible, no one knew what expressions they had right now.

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Chapter 87: Difficulty of the Quest

Aakesh woke up the next day on time. Since he didn't take Lily with him yesterday, she was still in the jungle around Wolfden.

He stood up from his bed, took a bath to freshen himself, and after that went downstairs to the store. He went to open the store door right away and found a group of people standing at the door with big smiles on their faces. Aakesh recognized everybody. They were Mark, Bislo, Bisal, and Maria was also standing there some distance from the group of three.

"Hello, senior!" All four said simultaneously, resulting in laughter erupting from all four.

Aakesh only nodded at their greeting and returned to his comfortable chair. All four people followed him inside the store.

"Senior, six hours in Samsara Samraat for three of us!" Bislo said right away as he couldn't wait to enter the world of Panagea. He also took out 600 inferior Primal stones as the payment.

"Senior! Six hours for me too!" Maria chimed in, taking out her share of 200 inferior Primal stones.

Aakesh nodded and waved his hands. The Primal stones in the store disappeared.

"What town are you in?" Bisal suddenly asked Maria after she too wanted to enter Panagea.

Maria didn't answer and ignored him. "We're in the town Gandoline, the town of Elves!" Bisal didn't mind her ignoring him, so he told her the name of his town.

"Let's go!" Bislo dragged Bisal to the portal room, seeing him standing and trying to talk to the girl.

When they reached the room, they found one of the portals white, so Marl rushed outside and called Aakesh. "Senior, there's an issue with one of the portals!" Mark shouted.

"Don't mind it! You can enter your portals," Aakesh expressionlessly responded. He knew what portal Mark was talking about. Since Lily had entered Panagea and hadn't come out, no one would be allowed entry through that portal.

Mark returned to the room and entered the virtual portal, following Bislo and Bisal. Maria also went into the last virtual portal, making all the portals turn white.

"Hey, system, you should give extra portals for Lily and me?" Aakesh requested the system as all the five virtual portals had already gotten to use, and the store wouldn't earn anything from one of them, and he wasn't going to call Lily right now.

[Host, you can get one extra portal in your room, but not two.]

The system responded in its mechanical and emotionless voice. "Okay, put the portal which Lily had entered into my room," Aakesh responded, as he had decided to only enter after the store closing time.

The next moment, a white light passed in the portal room as one of the white portals disappeared, and instead of it, a new virtual portal showing the movement of the cluster of stars appeared.

Aakesh didn't have to see it in the person as the system informed him about it. He nodded and then thought of the quest screen, and the quest screen appeared in front of him.

[Mission Objective: Have twenty players enter the virtual portal,

Requirement: Since the first player has already joined the world of Panagea, it's time for you to make other players enter the world. Twenty players would be the start for countless players coming in the store to use the virtual portal,

Number of customers left: 19/20,

Days required: 6 days,

Mission reward: Ten more virtual portals,

Failure punishment: Decrease in the number of virtual portals by one.]

"19 new customers in six days," Aakesh murmured after seeing the quest screen. He then wished for the window to disappear, and it disappeared.

In contrast to his previous quest, where he only needed to sell ten pills, here he needed twenty customers rather than twenty sales, which made the mission tough for him.

The store had a daily runtime of more than 15 hours, and he could only have 15 customers if the two pairs of customers chose a full six-hour service. He needed to cut the game rundown time as it would be impossible for him to complete the quest otherwise since many customers would repeat the sales every day.

"Hey, system, you should cut the rundown time of the portal from six hours," He then suggested to the system.

[No, Host. It's up to you to complete the quest. I wouldn't do anything.]

The system refused right away. "Fine!" Aakesh expressionlessly responded. He then closed his eyes and rested while waiting for other customers to come.

Only an hour has passed after the group of Bislo, Bisal, and Mark entered the world of Panagea. They and Maria had already revived half a dozen times in the past hour.

While Aakesh was resting, he heard the sound of footsteps and opened his eyes. He saw a familiar figure standing at the door. It was none other than Pento, the youngest prince of the Kingdom.

"Greetings, senior!" Pento greeted Aakesh with a slight bow when he saw him looking at him. Aakesh only nodded in response to his greetings.

"Senior, I heard from my grandfather that you saw the death of my father," Pento commented after entering the store.

"Yes, I saw it," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"So, senior, can you put your weight behind me in the fight for the throne?" Pento asked right away as he didn't want to lie to Aakesh for the reason of coming here.

Punta had announced that the time for a new king to take the seat had come as he had no interest in ruling the Bisan Kingdom anymore, so Pento came here asking for Aakesh to support him in his fight for the throne.

If Aakesh helped him, he would not become king in only one case where Punta refused to accept him as the king, but it would never happen, so he was sure to become the third king of the Bisan Kingdom with the support of Aakesh. Pento nervously looked at Aakesh, waiting for his answer.

"No! I've no interest in involving myself in the petty game of thrones!" Aakesh flatly refused, resulting in a disappointing expression appearing on Pento's face.

Pento wanted to speak something when suddenly a group of three people out of nowhere appeared in the store.. He recognized two of the members in the group as Bislo was the head of a significant association of the Kingdom, and Bisal was his son.

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Chapter 88: Pento and the Group

Neither Bislo, Bisal, or Mark were able to defeat the metal wolves in a one-on-one battle, so they decided to fight the wolves together, and as a result, the group died during the loss of the fight at the same time.

They have already got used to spawning in the store since they have even lost count of how many times they've spawned from yesterday.

After spawning, they were returning to their portals right away as with every second passing in the actual world, their quest in Panagea was becoming difficult for them. Bislo had just taken his first step toward the room when his eyes fell upon Pento, who was staring at the group.

He froze in his steps as he needed to bow to the prince since he was an employee of the king. "Greetings, young prince!" He greeted with only a slight bow of his head as he was head of an organization and a Void Condensation expert.

"Hello, Mr. Bislo," Pento respectfully responded.

Mark and Bisal also greeted Pento after Bislo. Pento only nodded to their greetings.

"What are you doing here, Mr. Bislo?" Pento asked.

"Sorry, young prince. I currently don't have time to talk to you," Bislo apologized with a hurried expression on his face. Before Pento could respond, the group tried to rush to the portal room but had to stop after Aakesh told them to stop.

Aakesh then looked at Pento and expressionlessly said, "You can go with them and see what they're doing here."

"Okay, young prince, come with us. You could help us," Before Pento could speak anything in response, Bislo went to the prince and dragged him toward the portal room. He didn't forget to pay 175 inferior Primal stones before pulling Pento since they only had five hours left of their total time.

Pento had a dumbfounded expression as he saw devices like travel portals in the room. "Let's go, young prince, use that portal," Bislo said with a hurry on his face and pointed at the only empty portal.

But, Pento stood rooted on the ground as the sudden turnaround happened so fast that he didn't have the time to understand what happened. "Sorry, young prince, we don't have time," Bislo said as he pushed Pento in the portal, seeing him not moving. The next moment, he entered the world of Panagea, Mark and Bisal followed him.

"18 more," Aakesh murmured after Bislo pushed Pento into the portal.

While in the town Gandoline of Panagea, Pento with the group appeared. They were at a safe distance from the fighting going on between the guards and the metal wolves.

Pento tried to angrily yell at Bislo for pushing him, but words got stuck in his throat as he found himself in an unfamiliar area. As he glanced around, he saw beings with pointy ears fighting massive wolves even bigger than himself.

"Elves!" He exclaimed after seeing the Elves as it was his first time seeing them. He had heard several legends about their beauty, but when he saw the guard's appearances, he thought that even legends didn't do justice to their beauty.

"Where are we?" He then asked Bislo. His mood had calmed down seeing the appearance of the Elves.

"I would explain you about here later, but right now, we need to defeat those wolves," Bislo said with a hurried expression as with the passing of every second, the number of wolves was increasing while the same can't be said for the Elven guards.

The next moment, a blue screen appeared in front of Pento that only he could see. He was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a transparent screen in front of him.

"What's this blue screen? Can you see it?" He asked Bislo and the other two members of the group.

"Young Prince, I told you we don't have much time. Please read what's written on the blue screen and help us defeat the wolves," Bislo said with impatience and irritation evident in his voice.

Pento's face turned red from anger after hearing the tone in which Bislo talked about, but he controlled himself, as he would need the help of Bislo since Aakesh had refused to support him in the fight for the throne. He then took a deep breath to calm himself down as he would get an answer in some time and then focused on the blue screen floating in front of him.

"Let's go!" Bislo said after he noticed Pento taking his eyes away from the empty air in front of his eyes. He couldn't see the blue screen, but since one also appeared in front of him, he noticed the change in Pento. Pento expressionlessly nodded and followed the group into the fighting.

After Pento joined them, the fighting became several folds easier for them since being a prince, Pento had learned combat classes when he was a child, whereas no one in the group had any interest or experience in fighting. They were even weaker than the fighter of their equivalent level, so until now, they were dying regularly if the group of wolves exceeded five at the same time.

Time flew by, and twenty minutes had passed since Pento entered the world of Panagea. The group of four had killed more than fifty wolves until now without even dying for once, but suddenly an alarm and an announcement rang on the battlefield.

"Another horde of three thousand metal wolves have attacked us!"

The sudden announcement brought a look of horror on everybody's faces, fighting in the battle. The group knew why another horde had attacked them. It was due to the addition of Pento, another Adventurer in their midst.

Since they were only ordinary mortals in the battle against the wolves, fighting continuously for more than twenty minutes took a toll on them, mentally as well as physically. Their movements and attacks started turning lax, and the wolves started overpowering them.

They were fighting when suddenly a wolf from behind jumped on Pento. He saw that coming, but he couldn't dodge or fight back, so the wolf reached him and bit his head. After that killing, the group became easy food for the wolves.

The next moment, the group of four spawned in the store in the sequence of their death.

"I'm alive!" Pento exclaimed in happiness as he found himself uninjured in the store. Bislo had told him that he wouldn't die, but it was hard to believe until now when he found himself alive after death.

"Let's go! The mission has become even tougher," Bislo said as he rushed to the portal room.

A/N: Pento didn't go to the Appearance menu because Aakesh had told the system to remove that part as it looked stupid to him, and since he already entered Panagea with a playing group, he didn't hear the story of the ten Emperors.

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Chapter 89: Windfall

Time flew by, and five hours passed by, the group of Mark, Bisal, Bislo, and Pento were forced out of Panagea, and a few seconds later, Maria also joined them in the store.

Aakesh was resting as he hadn't got any new customers during these past five hours. He didn't care for their spawning, so he still didn't open his eyes.

"We'll be able to complete the quest tomorrow!" Mark happily exclaimed as the addition of Pento truly benefited them. The rate at which they were killing metal wolves was tens of times faster than without Pento.

During the five hours Pento had joined them, the group killed around 800 metal wolves, while the seven hours they had fought without Pento, they had only killed around 70 metal wolves and died more than a hundred times combined.

Their quest was different from Aakesh's. He had to reduce the number of casualties of the guards of Wolfden by at least 25%, whereas the group got the quest not to let the metal wolves breach the gate of the Gandoline.

Since Gandoline was the town of Elves and they were innately stronger than several races, they were able to handle the assault of the wolves and not let them breach the gate, however with the passing of time, the Elves were getting on the weaker side, but the appearance of Pento provided some relief to them.

An unsightly expression appeared on Maria's face after hearing the happiness in Bisal's voice. She still was very far from completing her quest. She had appeared in the town of Atley, the town of Vehivavy.

Vehivavy was a race that only had females in their midst. They didn't need a male to reproduce. They could procreate on their own without any sexual activity.

There was a sudden attack of raiders on Atley, and she got the quest to save as many women and children as possible. If she protected more than 100 women and children combined until the end of the raid, only then would her mission be successful. She would get a female physique as a reward to complete this difficult quest.

But in the twelve hours, she had spent in Panagea, she had only been able to save two children, and the raid would be over after five days. The only saving grace for her was that she felt that she was improving in real-time.

The people in the store then started leaving as they didn't want to disturb Aakesh, but Pento stayed and didn't leave.

He then stood in the store for Aakesh to open his eyes, not daring to disturb him. Aakesh could see Pento in the store despite his eyes being closed, but he didn't open his eyes.

He only opened his eyes after Pento stood there for around ten minutes. "What do you want?" He then expressionlessly asked as he looked at him.

"Senior, can I become a king in that world?" He asked as he had been having this question since Pento witnessed that he couldn't die in Panagea.

"You can be anything you want," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

A smile spread across Pento's face after he got the confirmation from Aakesh. "Thank you, Senior. I'll be right back with my guards," He said with a slight bow as he left the store.

He can make his guards stronger in the game, and then he would gain support from them in Panagea as well as in the Bisan Kingdom. How can he let this chance go, he thought and rushed toward his place.

Aakesh had no reaction to Pento's leaving as it would be better for him the more guards Pento brings, the easier it would be for him to complete the quest.

Only half an hour had passed when Aakesh heard the sound of footsteps. He looked at his door and found several people entering the store. Aakesh knew who they were as Pento was leading the group.

There were a group of ten guards behind Pento. Aakesh expressionlessly looked at them, while on the inside, he was excited as he would only be eight more customers away from completing his quest after the guards entered Panagea.

"Senior, would they enter Gandoline if they entered the world of Panagea?" Pento asked, seeing Aakesh expressionlessly staring at the group.

"Only If you entered with them," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

Aakesh nodded and paid for an hour for everyone and took them to the portal room and entered. Pento had already informed his guards everything, so they only followed orders and didn't care for anything else.

The next moment, Pento with his four guards appeared at the exact location where Pento had spawned in his first entry into Panagea.

Pento had no idea that adding adventurers would exponentially increase the strength and numbers of metal wolves, making the quest even harder.

The next moment, he, with his guards, logged out. He then took another four guards and entered the portal. After that, the group logged out again. He then entered the virtual portal with the last two guards.

This time he didn't come out until his one hour was complete. While he was in fighting, his quota of six hours ended, and he was forced out of Panagea while his two guards fought the wolves.

He only had to wait for a few minutes when the two guards were also forced out since Pento had only paid for an hour.

"Okay, you would lead this group of four people while you'll lead this group of people," Pento commanded as he divided the group of ten members into five with the guards that had already spent an hour leading each group.

"Senior, they would each spend three hours in Panagea," Pento told Aakesh as he handed 750 inferior Primal stones to him.

Aakesh nodded and took the Primal stones. Both the group wanted to go first, so Pento had to select the group that would enter Panagea before the other.

Time flew by, and six hours passed. Pento had already left after he paid for the group. The group that entered first were making strategies for their tomorrow fight against wolves in the store since they had already spent their three hours in Panagea when the other group spawned.

The group of guards then bowed toward Aakesh and left the store.

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Chapter 90: The Skill Ability-Learning

After the group of the guards left, Aakesh thought of the quest screen, and the next moment, a blue window containing the details of the mission appeared in front of him.

Number of customers left: 08/20,

Days required: 6 days,

He only focused on the number of customers left and the days left. "Eight more customers in six days! Now, it's doable," He commented after reading it, as only in the early morning, he needed to have 19 customers in six days for completing the mission successfully.

He then thought of the window disappearing, and the quest screen disappeared the next moment.

Since he had nothing to do, he thought of his status screen, and the next moment, a blue window containing all his details appeared in front of him.

Personal Status:

Name: Aakesh,

Title: Myrioglot (Think to expand),

Race: ,

Profession: Store-owner(Level 1),

Level: Level 6(initial),

Physical attributes,

Strength: 8,769,074 (121),

Agility: 8,785,851 (10),

Intelligence: -0-,

Stamina: -0-,

No. of quests completed: 8,

Skills: Energy Overseer, Detail-eye, Watcher, Chameleon-level, Counter Shield, Ability-Learning.

There was only a small increase in his strength and agility. The next moment, he thought of the skill Ability-Learning, and a new blue window containing its detail appeared.

Skill name: Ability-Learning,

Ability: It allows the user to copy the witnessed skills of being weaker or defeated by the owner. The user can only use the copied skill once,

Level: Level 1,

Condition of the growth: Finding the Level 2 knowledge,

Copied skill: Sword-Projection, Elephant-Projection, Sword-Flash….

Aakesh nodded after reading the details of the skill. The skill 'Sword-Projection' was greyed out as he couldn't use it anymore.

The next moment, both the windows disappeared with a wave of aakesh hands. Aakesh then sat on his chair and waited for new customers to come as there was still more than an hour until the store closed.

He didn't have to wait long as he noticed a female human entering his store.

"Excuse me, is this the store where Mark regularly visits?" The lady nervously asked as she got scared seeing a blue-skinned man expressionlessly looking at her.

"Yes!" Aakesh responded.

"Senior, I want to enter Panagea," She nervously said.

She was Mark's wife, and since Mark returned home yesterday, he hadn't stopped talking about Panagea. At first, it was impossible for her to accept that someone could let somebody enter a new world where they could grow powerful and never die. But she had to believe her husband, seeing how enthusiastic and serious he was about Panagea. So today, when she got free from her work, she decided to enter Panagea.

"Okay! But since the store is only an hour away from its close time, you can only enter Panagea for an hour," Aakesh expressionlessly informed her.

She nodded as she only wanted to see the world of Panagea. "How much for an hour?" She then asked Aakesh as she didn't ask her husband anything about it, and it was also a surprise for him.

"50 inferior Primal stones for activation charge and 25 inferior Primal stones for an hour entry," Aakesh expressionlessly told her.

The lady nodded and handed Aakesh 75 inferior Primal stones. Although it was expensive for her, she thought it was cheap after hearing so much from Mark about Panagea.

"See that room! There would be five portals, and you can enter in any one of them," Aakesh expressionlessly said as he pointed at the portal room.

"Seven more to go!" Aakesh commented after Mark's wife entered the portal.

Time flew by, and one hour passed. Mark's wife was forced out of Panagea after one hour was complete.

She had a disgruntled expression when she appeared in the store. "Senior, please let me stay there for one more hour," She pleaded to Aakesh after coming out.

"No, it's time for me to close the store," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

She wanted to complain, but the next moment, she found that her feet were out of her control and started moving out of the store on their own. She looked at Aakesh with a horrified expression, but Aakesh had no change in his face.

When she got out of the store, Aakesh closed the door of the store on her face. She stomped her foot in irritation and left the store as it was already dark.

After closing the store, Aakesh disappeared from the store and appeared in the selection ground. He picked up his bow and then appeared in the familiar arena in the midst of cheers.

He selected the option of the second stage when the window appeared in front of him. His opponent arrived in the arena moments later, wearing a cold expression. The bell then rang and announced the start of the fight.

Right after the bell rung, an arrow tearing the space flew from Aakesh's bow. His opponent dodged the arrow with ease as he disappeared from there and appeared in front of him.

"Clang!" The sound of metal clashing echoed as Aakesh had to use his bow to defend himself from the swing of the sword.

The fight continued, Aakesh had been defensive for most of the time, but his opponent was never able to put any kind of pressure upon him.

The sound of metal clash continuously rang on the battlefield as arrows and sword clashed. Suddenly the air in the arena turned colder.

Aakesh realized that an attack was coming at him, so the next moment, a shower of arrows covered the sky of the arena aimed at the opponent while the projection of a giant sword appeared above the opponent.

Aakesh then used the second skill of the bow as the weight of the arrow increased, and then they started bombarding into the sword while a transparent shield engulfed Aakesh.

The next moment, the sword fell, aiming for Aakesh's head, while the heavy arrows continuously bombarded into the sword, decreasing its power with time passing.

When the sword finally fell on the shield, the shield and the sword both disappeared at the same time. Neither Aakesh nor his opponent won this battle of skills.

Aakesh stopped the battle that moment as there was no point in continuing the fight anymore since his defense and the opponent's attack were equivalent, and he had no strong attack to defeat the opponent.

He then returned to the store and went to the portal room, as now it was time for his reentry into Panagea.

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Chapter 91: A New Quest in Panagea

After appearing in Wolfden, Aakesh first went to the jungle where he had left Lily. Since there was no way for him to communicate with her in Panagea, so he started searching for her.

While searching for her, he came across several beasts of different races. He left those who ran away from him, but those who tried to attack were killed by a single swing of his hand. Despite being a Level 1, he could defeat around Level 10 with ease due to his proficiency in different combats.

He finally found Lily. She was playing with the pups of the wolves. When she discovered the scent of Aakesh, she rushed toward him. When she saw him, she pounced on him.

"How's your playtime going?" He smilingly asked as Lily contentedly sat on her favorite place, his head after licking all over his face.

"Good! I made some friends with silver wolves," She responded.

"Oh, someone like you made friends," Aakesh asked as he never thought an arrogant creature like Lily would make some friends.

"Yeah, due to my high-level bloodline, no beast dared to come across me, and I didn't dare to go to any other beast as I didn't want to die being this weak, so when pups of the wolves saw me, they came running at me and then we started playing catch and run," Lily responded with a disappointed sigh.

"Oh, don't worry-"

Aakesh was talking when he suddenly stopped talking as a blue window out of nowhere appeared in front of him. Golden fonts then started appearing on it.

Aakesh knew he had got his second quest in Panagea, so he focused on the blue screen.

[Brave Adventurer, you have already saved the town of Wolfden once, but it seems it needs your service again!

You killed so many wolves that it would take at least five years for the silver wolves to create their horde again, and the wolf king also knew this. But it seems the wolf king had found a way to build a powerful race of silver wolves without having the ability to manipulate energy.

There is a high-level bloodline currently roaming in the jungle, and the wolf king has decided to take that creature's help to create super wolves.

Adventurer, you need to prevent this from happening by either killing the high-level bloodline owner and stopping the wolf king from creating super wolves, or by killing the wolf king, or by finding a way to stop it. Otherwise, the town of Wolfden will lose innocent civilians.

Your reward would depend on the result of the mission. May you be successful!]

After reading the quest, Aakesh picked out Lily from his head and looked at her with a weird expression. "Have you met the wolf king?" He then solemnly asked her.

"Yes, what happened?" She asked as she could see the change in sudden expression of Aakesh. He was only talking a moment before with a smile on his face, and now he had turned solemn.

"That bastard wants to use your blood to create super wolves," Aakesh angrily responded. In Panagea, nothing would happen to Lily, but taking her blood was equivalent to his blood both literally and figuratively in a sense.

"That's why he was talking respectfully to me yesterday," Lily said in an irritating tone. She believed Aakesh right away as he would never lie to her. She then took a deep breath and asked, "Should I return with you to the real world?" She was arrogant, but she wasn't stupid to believe that she or Aakesh could kill the wolf king, a Level 50 beast.

"I don't think you can leave now until I complete the quest," He answered as, despite him not wanting to, Lily had involved herself in the quest.

The next moment, Lily tried to return to the real world, but nothing happened. "What is your quest?" She then asked Aakesh as she couldn't leave despite trying for a few times.

"I have to stop that bastard from creating super wolves," He responded while thinking about ways to complete this quest as he didn't want to kill Lily from his own hands, and right now, Aakesh would be fighting a losing battle if he faced the wolf king.

"Since you can't return to the real world, you should return to the wolves while I think of ways to complete the quest," He then added as currently, he had no idea how to defeat the wolf king.

"Why not kill me?" Lily asked as she knew she wouldn't die and would return to the real world, and it was the easiest way to complete the quest.

A cold expression appeared on his face as he stared at her. The look chilled her so much that she started shivering. It was the first time she had seen this look on Aakesh. "I would complete this quest without killing you, and you can't kill yourself," He responded with no expression in his voice.

The next moment, he returned to his usual expression with Lily as he added, "You're my daughter, and how can a father kill his own daughter for selfish reasons." After staying silent for a second, he further added, "You don't need to worry. I won't let that bastard take even a single drop of your blood."

"Okay!" Lily responded. Her voice still had a slight tremble as it was the first time she had seen Aakesh that angry.

A smile appeared on Aakesh's face as he scratched her head and apologized, "I'm sorry. I would grant one of your wishes as an apology."

"Really! Any wish!" Lily exclaimed.

"Yes!" Aakesh smilingly nodded and added, "But not now, as I am not that strong."

"Okay!" She responded as she already had a wish in her mind, that Lily wanted Aakesh to grant her, as only she knew the extent of Aakesh's knowledge of the Multiverse and the capability of the system.

"Now, it's time for you to act as you usually act and try to extend the time as much as possible," Aakesh said the next moment, as his face turned solemn.

"It's time for us to play and have fun with these wolves," He added before Lily could respond.

He then told Lily what she had to do as the quest was time-consuming and left her there.. Lily returned to the group of wolf pups, while Aakesh returned to the Wolfden.

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Chapter 92: Treatment of Adventurers

After meeting Lily, Aakesh started returning to the town. He thought of ways to complete the quest without any harm to Lily, as for him, he would lose the mission if Lily got even a little injured.

"Hey, system, I have told you not to allow Lily to be part of any quest," Aakesh expressionlessly asked for an explanation. Before he had let Lily enter Panagea, he had told the system in clear terms as she wouldn't be an adventurer.

Her only purpose in going to Panagea was to enjoy her life without any consequence, but now she is part of the main quest. His reward depended on the success of the mission, so he knew that it would be a complex mission.

[Host, the beings created in the world have their own thinkings, and the wolf king thought of creating super wolves after sensing the bloodline of Lily as she went closer to their camp, so the system had no part in this.]

The system responded in its emotionless and mechanical voice. Aakesh stayed silent in response as he couldn't say anything. He knew it was Lily's curiosity and the wolf king intellect that created this problem, but as the family member of Lily, he still had issues with the quest. He then took a deep breath and stopped thinking about it as he had already told Lily what to do in the wolf's camp. Now, he only needs to create strategies to defeat the wolf king.

While thinking about strategies and walking, he didn't know when he arrived at the market. He could see a sense of excitement present in the market today, which wasn't present on previous occasions.

It didn't take long for him to find the reason for excitement in the market as he found a giant banner above the sports arena in Wolfden about an auction.

He had no interest in the auction, so he ignored it and started moving away, but the next moment, his feet froze as he heard the discussion between a group that had just passed away.

"Did you hear about the meditation art in the auction?" One lady asked her male friend.

"Hmph! Today's special is a bow of rare grade that has a protection skill!" The man scoffed and proudly explained.

Aakesh's feet stopped after hearing about the meditation art, as there were only two ways for an adventurer to increase their level in Panagea, either by completing the quests or obtaining a meditation art.

Growing by doing quests was easy, but it was slow, whereas growing in level by finding a meditation art was tough but fast.

"What about the meditation art in the auction?" Aakesh asked as he tapped on the shoulder of the girl who talked about it.

The group stopped in their steps and turned around. While listening to their conversation, the man stopped them in their track, and they wanted to yell at him. However, when they realized who the man was, they instead smiled.

"Adventurer!" The girl exclaimed, seeing the identity of the man.

Aakesh had an expressionless face as he stared at the girl for her answer. The girl took a deep breath as her face turned red from embarrassment for acting like this. "Adventurer, there is going to be a meditation art up to Level 10 for sale in the auction. It has been several years since art had appeared in the auction, so everybody is talking about it," She told Aakesh.

Aakesh nodded and turned around to leave when the girl stopped her and suggested, "Adventurer, if you want, you can come with us to the auction. We have a VIP room reserved for us."

"Okay!" Aakesh nodded and agreed to join them in their group since he had no invitation to the auction and the group had a VIP room, so he would be away from the crowd of people even if he got an invitation.

"Good, let's go!" The girl said with a smile, and the group then proceeded toward the auction area.

While in the way, the group tried to ask many questions to Aakesh, but he didn't speak and proceeded silently.

When they reached the gate of the arena, the guard tried to stop them for checking, despite them having a VIP pass as the town-head himself was going to participate in the auction, but when they saw Aakesh in the group, they let the group go without any checking.

"Hey, system, why do they act like this around the adventurers?" He asked the system while proceeding toward the VIP room.

Host, because adventurers can resurrect as many times as they die without any issues, which even Emperors could not accomplish. They had the imperishable traits, but they still couldn't revive themselves after they sealed Vritrasura with their life seal. So the low-level beings of the Panagea treat adventurers respectfully.]

Aakesh noted the low-level part, but he didn't ask anything to the system about it as he knew they would've their own pride. How could they treat an ant respectfully even though it had the ability to never die?

Since this could become too much for the adventures to always be seen by the people in the Panagea, so the system had acted. Only when the adventurer would be in direct contact with the inhabitants of Panagea would they treat him respectfully.

The group reached the VIP room they had booked and sat on the comfortable chairs allotted to them. The room had a glass cover from where the participants could see the auction and bid for the product they wanted to buy, but since the auction hadn't begun, so the glass was currently dark.

The auction was still thirty minutes away from starting time. "Adventurer, if you don't have enough money, you can ask us," One of the men in the group announced as he raised his chest.

The others in the group also added the same thing as they knew Aakesh wanted to buy the meditation art, and it would get sold for millions of low soul stones.

"How much is the meditation art's starting price?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked the group.

"600,000 low soul stones!" The girl who suggested to bring him here responded.

"Oh, I only have 100,000 low soul stones," The next moment, Aakesh responded, making everyone present in the room speechless.

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Chapter 93: Auction(1)

"Oh, I only have 100,000 low soul stones in my hand," Aakesh expressionlessly commented after hearing that the art's starting bid would be 600,000 low soul stones.

Everybody present in the room turned speechless, hearing Aakesh. Now that they had promised to help him buy the meditation art, they can't take their words back.

The girl who had suggested Aakesh to come with her coughed to clear the awkwardness present in the room. "Don't worry, Adventurer, I would help you buy the meditation art," she said with a smile on her face.

"You don't need to worry about that!" Aakesh refused her help as he had already decided to make a deal with the buyer of the meditation art.

"Okay!" The girl responded with a little bit of disappointment in her voice. Her father was the chief of guards of the Wolfden.

If he learned that she helped the adventurer, he would increase her pocket money as well as feel proud of her, but now that Aakesh had refused to take her help, she couldn't do anything. But suddenly, an idea emerged in her head as a smile spread across her face.

Time flew by, and thirty minutes passed. The glass covering the VIP room turned transparent from inside. They could see the outside, but the outside people couldn't see what was going on inside the room.

The sports arena had a capacity of around 120,000 seated people without VIP rooms, and every seat was filled before the start of the auction.

There was a platform prepared in the center of the field where the auctioneer would conduct the auction. Right when the time for the auction arrived, firecrackers started erupting in the air as a man appeared on the platform.

Everybody in the crown and many in VIP rooms stood up when they saw the man standing on the platform and exclaimed, "Town-head!"

In the VIP room, Aakesh was seated; Everybody stood up in respect of the town-head except Aakesh. The group didn't mind him sitting as they knew even the town-head wouldn't care.

"Sit down!" The man on the platform said in a gentle voice, and everybody standing sat back on their seats.

"So, that's a Level 50 being," Aakesh whispered while looking at the town-head.

The man sitting next to Aakesh heard his whisper and proudly commented, "Yes, even the wolf king couldn't defeat him!"

"Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Mark, the town-head of Wolfden. It would be my honor to host this auction," The man on the platform introduced himself. Everyone in the crowd started clapping for him.

Mark then raised his hands, and the clapping stopped. "First, let me announce the rules of the auction!" He commented.

"First rule, no one is allowed to threaten their opponent to win the bid. The second rule is that you may bid as much as you like as long as you pay the auction price when the auction ends. Otherwise, you will be put in prison for six months. The third rule, enjoy the auction!" He added with a smile on his face.

"Let the auction begin!" He announced, and another round of firecrackers erupted in the area.

"Our first item for a bid today is a skill book. Its name is Combat-Body. It allows the user to create an exact clone of themselves for three seconds in a battle."

"I don't have to tell you the value of those three seconds in a life-and-death battle."

"The starting price for the bid will be 25,000 low soul stones. Every increase in the bid shouldn't be less than 500 low soul stones. Let the bids begin!" Mark announced with a smile.

"27,000 low soul stones!" Mark had just stopped talking when the first bid came.

"27,500 low soul stones!"

"28,000 low soul stones!"

In no time, the bid reached 35,000 low soul stones. After a few seconds, the skill was finally sold for a price of 37,500 low soul stones.

After that, a lady came with a red box in her hands and carefully handed it over to Mark.

"For the second item of today's auction, we have…" Mark paused for a moment to increase the suspense, and as he expected everybody had their breaths stopped as they looked at the box in Mark's hand, waiting for the item to reveal.

"A pair of rare healing pills!" Mark announced and started laughing out loud, seeing the disappointed expressions on the faces of the crowd. Since the Level (25-50) could buy rare-grade healing pills from the stores in the cities, there wasn't much interest in the pills.

"The starting price would be 15,000 low soul stones, and every increase in the bid should be at least 100 low soul stones," Mark announced.

"15,100 low soul stones!" The moment, Mark stopped, a bid came.

"15,200 low soul stones!"

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"16,800 low soul stones!"

The bids stopped coming after this, so the pair of the pills were sold for 16,800 low soul stones.

Time flew by, and two hours passed. So far, several items have been auctioned off, but no one from any of the VIP rooms has bid yet.

Suddenly, a group of people came carrying a giant black box to the platform. Mark casually took the box from them and put it on the platform.

"Now, for the eleventh item of today's auction, we have the weapon you've been waiting for," Mark announced as he opened the giant black box.

It was the same bow Aakesh had upgraded at the price of one million low soul stones. Everybody in the VIP room that had been laying low until now finally turned serious as it was the reason for many of them coming here.

"It's a rare-grade bow with a skill of protection embedded in it. The owner hasn't put any name to the bow, so whoever buys it would get to name it," Mark announced while pointing at the bow.

If he wasn't a sword user, he would've bought the bow for himself. He took a deep breath as this bidding war was going to be intense, and several beings had come from other towns to buy the bow.

"The starting price of the bow would be 500,000 low soul stones, with every increase in the bid of 10,000 low soul stones. Let the bidding war begin!" Mark declared.

"One million low soul stones!" the first bid came right away, and it was double the starting amount.

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Chapter 94: Auction(End)

"One million low soul stones!" The first bid came right after Mark announced the start of the bidding. It was the first bid from any VIP room.

"1.5 million low soul stones!" The shock of the crowd hadn't subsided when another outrageous bid came.

"1.6 million low soul stones!"

"1.7 million low soul stones!"

"1.8 million low soul stones!"

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With every bid, the bidding war became intense. While the crowd had a dumbfounded expression, seeing in no time the starting bid of 500,000 low soul stones turning into 2.3 million low soul stones.

While in the crowd, the manager of the weapon store had a shocked and excited expression on his face after seeing the price rise so rapidly. Although the auction house received 5% of the selling fee, he had already made a profit of over a million dollars.

"2.5 million low soul stones!" The bid came to a sudden halt as the bidders started thinking about their budget.

"You won't find a weapon of this caliber easily," Mark said, seeing the bid coming to a sudden halt.

"Three million low soul stones!" The bid came from the VIP room where Aakesh was seated. It was one of the men in the group, his sole purpose of coming to this auction was to buy the bow.

"Three million, one!"

"Three million, two!"

"Three million, three!" Mark announced the end of the bid.

"Yes!" While the group in the VIP room cheered after their bid was the winning bid.

Since he won't get the bow until the end of the auction, a hurried expression appeared on his face.

The next item for the auction was the egg of a Level 30 Wolf, and it was finally sold at the bid of 1.7 million low soul stones. It was the daughter of the guard-chief that bought the wolf egg.

"It's finally the time for the last item for today's auction," Mark announced with a smile as he waved his hand, and an animal skin appeared in his hand. He had been carrying this item with him from the start.

"It's a meditation art that could help a person to reach up to Level 10. To know more about it, you've to buy it," He said with a smile as he didn't introduce any information about the meditation art.

"The starting bid would be 600,000 low soul stones, with every increase in the bid at least 50,000," Mark announced the start of the bidding.

"650,000 low soul stones!"

"700,000 low soul stones!"

Aakesh only looked at the bidding war as he didn't have enough money to bid. Since the meditation art wasn't a one-time use, he was confident that he could make a deal with the winner of the bid to give him the knowledge of the meditation art.

Several minutes passed, and the bidding war was still going on. The bid currently stood at 1.95 million low soul stones.

"2 million low soul stones!"

"2.05 million low soul stones!"

"3 million low soul stones!" every bid was going on with an increase of 50,000 low soul stones when suddenly someone directly bid 3 million low soul stones.

While in one of the VIP rooms,

"It seems someone wants the meditation art very badly," A man muttered while licking his lips.

"Young master, do you want to buy the meditation art!" A woman standing behind the man like a guard asked the man.

"No, but wouldn't it be fun if we increase the price of the product," The man smilingly said.

"4 million low soul stones!" The man bid right away.

Even Mark was taken aback by the sudden outrageous bid. He never expected the price to cross three million, but now the bid stood at four million.

"4.1 million low soul stones!" The next moment, another bid came from one of the VIP rooms.

The entire sports arena was silent and waited if another outrageous bid would come, but after waiting for a few seconds, no one exceeded the bid.

"4.1 million, one!"

"4.1 million, two!"

"4.1 million, three!" Mark announced the end of the bid with a smile on his face. He was the one who provided the meditation art for the auction as he had already found a better version for his guards.

The winner of the bid was the daughter of the chief of the guards. She had decided to buy the meditation art so that she could help the adventurer and gain favor from him, which in turn would make her father proud of her.

The final bid cost him at least a million more than she wanted, but she didn't care as money was the last of concern for her. Her father was not only the chief of the guards of Wolfden, only second to the town-head both in power and authority. He was also the head of the second richest family of Wolfden.

"Thank you for coming!" Mark then announced as the auction came to an end. The auction had gone better than he expected, as he earned a windfall from the meditation art alone.

Everybody started leaving the arena, while only those who had won the bids waited to get their winning items.

"Adventurer, you can have the meditation art," The girl smilingly told Aakesh.

"What do you want in return?" He expressionlessly asked as no one would spend 4 million on a product for nothing.

"A favor!" She responded right away.

"Okay!" Aakesh agreed to the proposal.

"Adventurer, I am Elsie," The girl then extended her hand for a handshake and introduced herself.

"I am Aakesh," Aakesh nodded and told her his name, but he didn't shake her hands.

Elsie awkwardly took her hands back while Aakesh felt a glare from one of the men in the group. He turned around to look at the man, but he looked away, seeing Aakesh finding out.

After a few minutes, a group came into their VIP room with the things they had bought. The man took the bow, Elsie took the egg and the meditation art after paying for the goods. Elsie then gave the meditation art to Aakesh.. He nodded and left the group after telling her to contact him when she needed the favor.

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Chapter 95: Breakthrough

After taking the meditation art from Elsie, Aakesh left the group on their own and proceeded toward the jungle.

After he reached the jungle, he found a comfortable place to sit down. After finding a good spot, he sat down and opened the rolled animal skin.

The name of the meditation art was 'Ordinary Meditation Art'. It had a pretty basic approach to energy leveling. The book followed the primary way of promoting the physical body to increase your level. According to the art, as the body grows, the person's level would automatically increase.

Aakesh couldn't help but sigh disappointedly, seeing the name of the meditation art and then the introduction regarding it. He finally knew why the town-head acted mysteriously around it in the auction.

If only he had announced the name of the art in the auction, it wouldn't have even gained half of the bidding price.

Whatever was written in the animal skin was already known to Aakesh. He knew way more than that, but the system had plainly told him, without getting the same information in the virtual world, he couldn't use the knowledge of the actual world to help him in the breakthrough.

Since Aakesh had already bought the meditation art by granting a favor, he couldn't waste it. The next moment, he stood up and started making the exact postures shown in the art.

It wasn't hard for Aakesh, so he did 108 postures in around a minute. Time flew by, and he continued making the same posture for around 1111 times.

Right after he completed the 1111th posture, a sudden blue light engulfed him, and the next moment it disappeared. Aakesh knew he was now a Level 2 instead of Level 1.

The next moment, he thought of his status screen, and a blue window containing all his details appeared in front of him.

Personal Status:

Name: Aakesh,

Race: ,

Gender: Male,

Class: None,

Level: Level 2,

HP: 110/110,

Energy: 110/110,

Physical attributes:

Strength: 10,

Agility: 10,

Intelligence: -0-,

Endurance: -0-,

Comprehensions: Hand fighting (100%), Archery (100%), Swordsmanship (100%)...

Skills: Wolfbane, Ability-Learning.

Aakesh nodded after seeing his details. His hp and energy have both expanded by ten points, whereas his strength and agility remained the same, without any increase.

"Hey, system, what would be my level if I compared my stats with others?" He asked as the status screen disappeared.

[Host, you've stats of Level 10, but you can defeat up to Level 15 with ease considering the experience in the combat you have.]

The system responded in its emotionless and mechanical voice. Aakesh nodded and didn't ask another question.

Time flew by, and hours passed. Aakesh didn't stop standing in postures after a single breakthrough. He continued the same process again, only to stop when the system informed him that a new day had come, and it was time to open his store in the real world.

Still, his hard work was not without any result. He was Level 6 at the time of stopping. He decided to check his status last time before exiting Panagea.

The next moment, a blue window containing all his details of Panagea appeared in front of him.

Level: Level 6,

HP: 150/110,

Energy: 150/110,

Physical attributes:

Strength: 16 (6),

Agility: 16 (6),

Aakesh nodded after seeing the all-around improvement and waved his hands. The next moment, the status screen disappeared.

He then disappeared from the jungle and appeared in the store. He decided to take a bath first and then open the door of the store.

After he took his bath and wore his regular clothes, he came down and opened the door. A group of familiar people was already standing at the door when Aakesh opened the store.

"Senior, you got late today!" Mark smilingly responded as Aakesh was some minutes late from his usual opening time.

In response, Aakesh only nodded, walked around to his comfortable chair, and sat down. The group then entered the store. The group had four members, and they were Bislo, Bisal, Mark, and Pento.

"Hello, senior!" Pento respectfully greeted after entering the store.

"Senior, six hours for all of us!" Bislo said. When he had left Panagea yesterday, the group was in a favorable position, so he was confident that they could successfully complete the quest today.

Bislo then handed 800 inferior Primal stones to Aakesh after taking their share from each member. Aakesh nodded, and the next moment, the mountain of Primal stones disappeared from the store.

They then made their way to the portal room while thinking about the success of their quest, but they had no idea what they were going to find when they entered Panagea.

Only ten minutes had passed when Mark and Bisal spawned in the store.

"Damn it! How could this happen?" They cursed right after spawning. Only a few seconds had passed when Bislo too appeared with a pale face. Only Pento was left in panagea fighting the metal wolves.

"Damn him!" Bislo cursed Pento after spawning, as he couldn't curse him in front of him.

"That bastard had ruined our quest after the Kingdom!" Bisal too cursed the prince.

"Senior, what's the cost of failure of the first quest?" Bislo ignored the ramblings of his son as completing the quest was now a foregone conclusion for them.

When they appeared in Gandoline, they saw a sea of wolves fighting a number of Elves. Seeing the situation, it doesn't look like they would be able to handle the onslaught of the wolves for even a day now.

"Nothing! You would get a new quest, and that would be several times more difficult than the previous," Aakesh expressionlessly answered. He didn't stop and continued, "if you failed that one too, you would get one last quest. If you failed in completing that quest, you would lose the ability to cultivate energy in Panagea. Instead, new classes will awaken for you, like blacksmiths, alchemists, etc."

"We can learn alchemy in Panagea?" Bisal excitedly asked before Bislo could say something.

"Yes, you can do anything in Panagea that you can do in the actual world. You can even become a God in Panagea and then in the real world as long as you can afford the price for entering," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

After learning that they could learn alchemy in Panagea, the group of the three decided to quit the quest right away and instead attempt to start learning alchemy right away.

Aakesh also told them that they could grow in levels by doing alchemy quests, but the only side effect was that they would always be weaker than other counterparts of the same level as them. Since they didn't gain the energy from the world by completing the first quest, but instead, they would get that ability by their class, so they would always be weaker than those who completed their first quest.

The group had no problem with staying weaker than others as they could never die in Panagea.

"You can become an alchemist even after completing the quest," Aakesh expressionlessly suggested to them before they could enter the Panagea and quit the quests.

He didn't care whether they completed the quest or not. He only suggested this because a new mode would activate in the Panagea when an adventurer would activate other classes. He didn't want the mode to activate currently, as he didn't have enough customers and portals.

Wry smiles appeared on the group's faces hearing Aakesh. They couldn't complete the quest even if they wanted to. The horde of metal wolves had already grown dangerous enough to threaten the entire town of Gandoline.

"Aren't you growing stronger by fighting them, and there's no risk of death, so why are you afraid of the quest?" Aakesh expressionlessly said, seeing their expressions.

"Senior-"

Bislo was going to respond when his voice got stuck in his throat as the next moment, Pento spawned in the store.

"What're you doing here?" He angrily asked the group with a hint of killing intent.

In reality, Pento was an arrogant and cruel man. He only acted subserviently in the store because of the fear of Aakesh. He started taking it seriously since he got the confirmation that becoming a king in Panagea for him was possible. After becoming the king, he could use the gain of Panagea to become a king in the actual world, but dying alone due to the group not coming back for minutes made him erupt in anger despite him being in the presence of Aakesh.

"Young Prince, we were talking to senior about alchem-"

"I don't care! Let's go. After us, my guards would enter Panagea and fight the metal wolves," Pento cut Bislo off and said with a commanding tone.

Bislo wanted to respond, but words got stuck in his throat when he found Pento glaring at him. He may be stronger when compared with Pento in power, but his authority was nowhere near him. He couldn't even land a finger on Pento, but Pento only had to say it, and no one would know what happened with him.

Bislo stopped speaking and made his way toward the portal room after seeing the actual nature of Pento. Bisal and Mark followed Bislo while looking down. They didn't even dare to look into Pento's eyes, as they've heard enough of the stories of actions of Pento. Pento also followed after them.

A/N: Happy Deepavali to all the Indian and the world readers across the globe. May this festival bring light into this dark world of ours!

Thank you for supporting the book until now! I'm very grateful.

Happy Deepavali once again _

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Chapter 96: The Battle in Gandoline

Time flew by, and hours passed. The group of Pento, Bislo, Bisal, and Mark would spawn every twenty-thirty minutes. The group had frustrated faces whenever they spawned, but they would directly enter the Panagea without waiting for even a moment.

The group left after their six hours duration in Panagea ended. Only a few minutes had passed after they left when the group of Pento's ten guards came to the store for their play.

Since they were the personal guards of Pento, and he didn't come here with them so they couldn't stay here for long without his presence.

As the group only had six hours of free time, they decided to enter the Panagea in the same manner as yesterday. They separated into the same group Pento had separated them into yesterday.

The group then paid 1250 inferior Primal stones to Aakesh for their entry into Panagea for three hours each. Aakesh nodded and took it.

The first group then entered Panagea, while the second group sat down in a meditative pose to prepare themselves for what's to come in Panagea after the first group exited the store.

Since Aakesh had nothing to do, he decided to watch what was going on in Gandoline. The next moment, a screen only he could see appeared in front of him, showing everything that was happening.

There was a sea of metal wolves attacking the Elven guards, while the guards that had just entered the town, looked like a drop in the sea of wolves.

"Cover the left!" One Elf shouted, seeing the number of the Elves on the left flank dwindling down.

Since the guards were closest to the left flank, they accepted the order and rushed toward it.

One of the wolves seeing its chance rushed at one of the guards and tried to rip the guard in half, but the guard was cautious, so he moved out of the way and kicked the wolf.

The kick didn't harm the wolf much, but it gave sufficient time to the guards to prepare a combined attack to kill it. One of the guards punched the wolf in its gut before it could stand up. Several strikes came at the same area simultaneously, resulting in a hole in the wolf's gut.

The guards then left the wolf lying there howling in pain as they had to reach the left flank to support the Elves. Since they were the guards of Pento, they were practiced in different kinds of combat, but they were specifically trained in weapons like spears or shafts to let the damage stay far from the prince. But in Panagea, they'd have to fight by their hands which were making the killing tough for them.

They reached the left flank and helped an Elf soldier to move away from the battlefield as the soldier had severe injuries. They then joined the Elves and fought against the wolves, giving the Elves enough time to breathe.

With the passing of time, the number of wolves fighting the guards increased, but since their techniques and coordination were getting better with every fight, they were able to somehow handle the pressure of the outrageous number of wolves.

Suddenly the air in the area turned cold for the group, as they saw a wolf half the size of average wolves in the horde emotionlessly staring at them. That stare sent chills down their spine. They've just blinked their eyes when the group noticed the strange wolf disappearing from there and reappearing in the same position the next moment.

But, this time, the wolf's mouth was filled with blood as it spat a human head the next moment. The group seeing the head turned to their right subconsciously and saw one of the members of the group standing there without his head. Their face lost all color seeing their headless friend when another one of the guards lost its head.

The wolf was attempting to make its move for the third time when suddenly a white flash passed and split it into two. Suddenly, the remaining guards heard a voice: "What are you so afraid of? Even if you die, you'll revive again."

The next moment, several white flashes passed in the horde of wolves, and tens of such wolves died by splitting in two. The remaining guards took a deep breath to calm themself down as they could never die. Only a few moments had passed when their other two group members spawned bak in Panagea.

The battle then continued as usual. They didn't see such strange wolves for their remaining three hours in Panagea.

After three hours ended, the system forced the group of five out of Panagea into the store, while the other group meditating in the store stood up for their entry.

Since they've already paid their fee, they entered their respective portals without waiting for a second as they could see the grim faces on the guard's faces.

While in the store, seeing the faces of the guards, Aakesh suggested to them, "You can buy mental healing pills to lessen your trauma of Panagea."

The guards nodded and asked for a pill each for five of them. Aakesh nodded, stood up from his chair, went to the counter, and took the pill out.

"125 inferior Primal stones!" He told them the price as he handed the pills to the guards.

The guards nodded and handed him the required amount by separating the cost of each guard. They then put the pill in their mouth.

The pill melted into a liquid right away in their mouth. The tension on the guard's faces relaxed as the pill started working. The guards then asked for another pill as they felt the need for one more pill.

Aakesh nodded and handed them the pill. Blissful smiles erupted on the guard's faces as their traumas disappeared.

"If we ate this pill and then went to battle, it would've helped us more," One of the guards commented, seeing the effect of the pill.

Time flew by, and the remaining three hours passed. The second group spawned twice during their stay of three hours as the number of strange wolves increased in the battle.

After the first group told them about the effect of the mental healing pill, the second group decided to use it and then enter into Panagea. As expected by the first group, the second group's fighting got better several folds due to their clear mind.

The group of guards left after their free time ended. For the next two hours, Aakesh didn't get any new customers.

His empty store finally had a new customer when Maria arrived in his store with four people following her.

"Hello, senior!" She greeted Aakesh with a slight bow right after entering the store. Aakesh nodded in response to her bow.

"Senior, these are the people working in the construction in my store. I wanted to reward them for their hard work, so I brought them here to enjoy Panagea," Maria smilingly responded.

She then took out the required inferior Primal stones and smilingly said, "Senior, six hours for each of us!"

"You can only have an entry for one hour since there is only one hour left in the closing time," Aakesh expressionlessly responded as he stopped her from pushing the Primal stones toward him.

A disappointing expression appeared on Maria's face when she heard Aakesh. While the construction workers behind her had an awed expression on their faces when they saw the mountain of the Primal stones, Maria had taken out to pay. It was enough for them to spend their lives comfortably for years without working.

Then with a disappointed sigh, Maria paid Aakesh the amount required for an hour since she had no other option following what Aakesh said.

Aakesh nodded and took the Primal stones. The group of five then entered the portal, whereas Aakesh thought of the quest screen after the group entered Panagea.

[Mission Objective: Have twenty players enter the virtual portal,

Requirement: Since the first player has already joined the world of Panagea, it's time for you to make other players enter the world. Twenty players would be the start for countless players coming in the store to use the virtual portal,

Number of customers left: 03/20,

Days required: 5 days,

Mission reward: Ten more virtual portals,

Failure punishment: Decrease in the number of virtual portals by one.]

"Three new customers in four days!" Aakesh murmured after seeing the quest screen as the day had already come to an end.

He was thinking of ways to end the quest since he already had enough customers to keep him busy for 15 hours in Panagea when a new customer arrived in the store.

It was Mark's wife that arrived in the store. She glared at Aakesh right after entering the store, as she still remembered the way Aakesh pushed her out of the store yesterday.

"One hour in Panagea!" She said while taking out 75 inferior Primal stones when she suddenly stopped as Aakesh stopped her.

"The portal room is already full, so you can't enter Panagea," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.

"Damn it!" The lady cursed in anger and left the store as there was no point in continuing to stay.

She decided to come here early the morning the next day even if she had to take a leave from her work.

Time flew by, and the group of Maria and the construction workers left the store with frustrated faces as an hour wasn't enough for them.

While after the group left, Aakesh closed the store and appeared in the selection ground.

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