1162 (3) The Sixth Product(16)
Chapter 1162: The Sixth Product(16)
Aakesh opened his eyes and turned in that direction, finding another of the many new customers entering the store for the day.
It was a male customer who belonged to the Thorron race. Martin had a smile on his face as he stepped inside the store.
Martin was the son of the current army chief of Thorr City. He had been outside the city for the past century. He only returned to the city that morning.
Martin was an adventurer who liked to travel and see the world, so he had plans to leave the city the next day, but he heard about the store from his mother.
The world inside Panagea sounded like an adventure without the fear of death, so Martin decided to check it out for himself before making any decision on whether to go on an adventure or stay in the city.
“Hello, store owner. I am Martin,” Martin nonchalantly greeted Aakesh.
“I am Aakesh,” Aakesh replied with his usual response to an introduction.
“Store owner, tell me more about Panagea,” Martin asked. His mother had repeatedly told him how to act in front of the store owner and how the store owner acted, so he didn’t try to speak bluntly like he usually did and kept his questions straight to the topic.
“The Panagea is a virtual world with its own set of rules and power levels…” Aakesh then explained Panagea in detail to Martin.
Martin heard the same things he had heard from his mother, so his belief in them grew. The thought that his mother only told him such things to stop him from leaving disappeared.
“Store owner, I want to enter Panagea,” Martin said, taking out the price required to enter for 3x stay.
“You can’t; all the spots are filled.”
The next moment, Aakesh broke Martin’s hopes by informing him about the lack of spots to enter Panagea.
***
Martin left the store since he didn’t like any other product other than Panagea before trying it. He left after deciding to come early the next morning to secure his spot since the day was far from over, and all the spots for the day had already been filled.
Martin’s entry and exit were like a drop in the ocean; it only made a slight movement, and then things returned to normal without it having any effect.
Aakesh was relaxing in his chair when he heard the sound of footsteps approaching him. He opened his eyes and turned in that direction.
It was Winston who was coming toward Aakesh with a page in his hands while his face was filled with excitement.
“Store owner, I want this cultivation art,” Winston requested. Excitement and joy couldn’t be hidden in his voice.
The cultivation art chosen by him was the one he and the other main family of the Dried-Spotted Demons originally used. At first, he was taken aback by it being there inside the store. For a moment, he thought that someone had betrayed the Dried-Spotted Demons and sold the art to the store, but he later found that he was entirely mistaken. By a wide margin, the store’s version was superior to the original. It was as if comparing rocks and sapphires.
The price of the cultivation art was higher than the range he had in mind, but seeing the improvement, he decided to push himself for the sale, and in the end, his mind was made.
***
Aakesh took the page from Winston’s hands and glanced at it. The next moment, all of its details appeared in his head.
“You need to pay six hundred seventy higher Sacred stones,” Aakesh expressionlessly informed Winston.
Winston nodded and then began to take out the required sum from his space ring. It was more than ninety percent of the total wealth Winston had brought with him, so after the amount was taken out, the space inside the ring had almost become empty.
Aakesh waved his hands, and the stones disappeared from the store’s hall.
The next moment, an alert informing Aakesh that the amount was correct rang in his head.
“The cultivation art is yours from now on,” Aakesh informed Winston as the page disappeared while a physical book started to materialize out of nowhere.
“You can’t use the cultivation art to earn any kind of monetary gain,” Aakesh then warned after the book had entirely appeared.
Winston felt chills running down his spine when he heard the warning. Even though Aakesh was only at peak Divine Transformation while he was peak Divine Lord, Winston still felt as if Aakesh was a beast while he was someone back against the wall with no way to escape.
***
[Ding!]
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[The “Mission Reward: The Sixth Product” will be given after the store’s closing!]
Aakesh couldn’t help but smile when he heard the sound of alerts ringing in his ears.
“Why are you smiling so widely?” Katrina was looking around when she noticed Aakesh smiling.
Aakesh rarely showed emotions on his face inside the store, but here he was smiling, so it meant something great had happened.
“The products will be getting upgraded tonight, and there will be a new product to choose from tomorrow,” Aakesh didn’t hide from Katrina and told her.
Katrina nodded when she heard Aakesh. Aakesh only smiled when it was related to Lily, Khaval, or the store, so she had expected something like this.
“What will be the sixth product?” Katrina asked as she became curious.
“You will know tomorrow,” Aakesh answered with a smile, and then his face returned to his usual indifference as if smiling cost him money.
“I hope the sixth product is an item that can heal the injuries of the heart,” Katrina scoffingly joked, then stopped asking.
Time flew by, and it had been twenty hours since the store opened for the day.
Aakesh wanted the four hours to pass instantly so as to see what new product he would get after the store’s closing.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Aakesh then heard the sound of footsteps coming from outside the store, so he stopped thinking about what would happen after the store’s closing and focused on what was ahead of him.