Chapter 13: Shop!
Chapter 13: Shop!
[Primordial Shop]
The Primordial shop was not only an online platform to purchase and sell items but could be said to be a neutral Primordial Dimension, everyone could enter without being discriminated against or attacked, because killing or hurting each other was strictly forbidden by the system and would cause the perpetrators to be heavily punished.
One could either enter the Primordial shop through the system to make a fast purchase or sale, or enter it via the Dimensional portals to stroll around.
It was possible to rent or purchase a shop, where one could exhibit items and products to all kinds of races.
There was only a small problem. Renting a shop was extremely expensive, as rented shops would be open for all races while purchased shops were much cheaper but only open for the native race.
If one didn’t purchase an extension for other races, they wouldn’t be able to visit your shop.
This was probably so, that the System could either gain more income or slim down the possible gains of other races due to the wide range of connections they would either lose or gain by renting or purchasing a shop.
Everything had its own advantages and disadvantages and each added race would increase the price of the shop.
Increasing the rank of a shop would also cause the price to increase exceptionally.
The cheapest shop was a [Lowest-Basic Shop] without a single race extension and it included 3 vacancies to exhibit items, with a price of 10 gold coins.
But compared to renting shop access able by all races, it was nothing as it would cost at least 10.000 gold coins for the same rank.
One couldn’t even remotely understand how vast the universe and number of races that existed was, as such many humans made deep researches about all kinds of races they found so far.
But even on the forums, there were tens of thousand races, and figuring out how strong all of them were, was more than devastating for the proud human race.
It seemed as if they were on the bottom of the food chain even after 200 years of utmost efforts to soar into higher realms.
From their research, humans found out that the Dimension Portals apparently appeared hundreds of thousands of years ago on other planets, causing the inhabiting civilizations to either rise or fall and cease to exist.
Thinking about that, Shane frowned and he decided to think about his own situation, rather than about something else.
As such he entered the [Primordial Shop] from his System instead of the Dimensional Portal and went to the section where he could rent or purchase a shop.
Selecting [Purchase] Shane choose the cheapest Shop [Lowest-Basic Shop].
After a system message appeared, asking Shane for permission to purchase the Lowest-Basic shop for 10 gold coins, he gritted his teeth and accepted.
[Host purchased a (Lowest-Basic) shop for 10 Gold coins. Please select a name for your shop]
The Sound of the familiar mechanical voice resounded in his head as an empty shop appeared in front of him, on a holographic screen with a wooden sign hanging down.
From the outer appearance, it looked like a commonly seen small one-story convenience store, Shane often saw on earth.
He estimated that its size was probably 40 Sq meters with a small wooden counter in the corner where a holographic screen could be seen smiling at Shane.
“Hello, Master! How may I help you today!”
It felt as if he played a game right now and he was astonished about the graphics, causing him to smile lightly.
Thinking was enough to order the system, as such he opened the Shops-statistics, after selecting a name, he really liked as it was some sort of motto from his old life on earth he transported to his current life.
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Name:[NoPainNoGain]
Rank: [Lowest-Basic]
Vacancies:[3]
[Empty] [Empty] [Empty]
Entry permission: [Human] (+)
<Locked> Upgrade
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Everything was as expected and Shane ordered the system to transfer all his Nightshade flowers to the Shop-AI, which was done within seconds.
Shane had not sold all of his Nightshade flowers because the system scammed him in his opinion and thanks to the large space of 1 cubic meter inside his Spatial ring, he could store quite a lot Nightshade flowers, as long as no Shadow-snake corpse wasted any of its space.
[113xNightshade flowers (81xTrash/32xCommon) has been transferred]
This message caused Shane to smile brightly and he divided both flowers into two of his three shop’s vacancies before selecting a price for them.
Shane knew, that he could roughly receive 4 silver for Nightshade flowers with (Trash) quality and approximately 7 silver for (Common) ones.
But this didn’t matter to Shane as he selected a different price.
9 silver for the trash-quality Nightshade flowers and 14 silver for the common-quality Nightshade flowers, before turning his attention somewhere else.
Shane never really understood why so few people tried to gain money, the same way he was doing right now but maybe their knowledge about the races was shallow or they simply didn’t mind losing out on a huge fortune.
In the end, he didn’t really care about that and clicked on the race extension field.
Before adding a race, Shane reassured himself that he wasn’t doing anything wrong as he skimmed through a few dozen threads after adding a few filters to ease his research.
After being confident about his choice, he selected a race, and on his [Entry permission] appeared another name while his fortune was now almost completely deducted due to the costs of 2 gold coins.
He had only 51 silver left from his whole fortune but Shane was still extremely happy as he opened his store to the public.
The race Shane selected was a rather unknown race from humanity’s perspective, even though they clashed against each other once or twice in a small Primordial Dimension and they were called [Corvi]
With their bipedal body, they resemble humans, elves, and other races but that was the only thing that was similar to humans,
The [Corvi] race could be said to be humanlike raven and crows, with long claws instead of hands, blue to black plumage covering their whole body, and large wings grew on their back, allowing them to fly through the sky.
Even though they had an innate darkness affinity that was powerful, they had to rely on the darkness transmuted mana in their surroundings to stay alive and keep getting stronger.
Without the constant support of darkness mana, their combat prowess would decrease by a huge margin, and without a single inch of darkness mana, they cannot produce offsprings, which was why Shane decided to sell his Nightshade flowers for such a high price, compared to what other humans would pay him.
There were many rumors spreading throughout the System´s forum that the Avia’s race, a winged humanlike race was repressed from a few planets they inhabited.
Avias didn’t like darkness mana, as such their planet didn´t have much darkness transmuted mana on it.
But, why was this so important for Shane!?
The Corvi and Arvia race were already in a war for hundreds of years and Shane gambled that the Coriv race conquered some of the Arvia´s race planets.
To stay alive, the Corvi race was dependent on items that could transmute mana into darkness mana, and one of the cheapest ways to do that was using plants, like the Nightshade flower!.
It didn´t matter, if the Corvi race was only besieging on the Arvia’s planets or if they wanted to Inhabitat it completely, in the end, they would need his Nightshade flowers or other items that transmuted mana with into darkness mana either way, and there weren’t many Primordial Dimensions that had such plants and items to transmute mana.
If there was such a dimension, they were mostly either safeguarded by beasts or other races and the Coriv race had to search for a different way.
The systems items for certain herbs and magical ingredients were horrifying expensive with a single Nightshade flower being priced at 50 silver with Trash quality, while other items were priced more fairly.
His price was neither too expensive nor too cheap, as some other races also decided to sell Nightshade flowers for 20 silver to the Corvi race, which they however didn’t purchase until now.
As such Shane was confident in gaining some profit.