Chapter 423
Chapter 423: A New Day!
Aakesh opened the door, and as usual, a large crowd was waiting outside for the store to open.
The number of virtual portals had gotten a severalfold increase and was sufficient for even twice the number of customers at the same time, the customers still arrived and waited early in the morning as it had become a habit of them since they have been doing it for the past month.
All the customers couldn’t help but get shocked seeing Aakesh. He looked taller, bulkier, his skin tone darker. If previously Aakesh felt mysterious and powerful to the customers, he now looked like a silent prehistoric beast waiting to pounce at any minute on them, despite just standing there with no emotions on his face.
Maria was also part of the crowd waiting for the store to open. Seeing Aakesh made her face red as she remembered the past emotions she had for him. She wanted to hide her face, remembering those feelings.
She now had complete reverence for Aakesh in her heart, just like a deity. It was also the reason behind her naming the organization, Skylord since it was the meaning of Aakesh’s name.
Aakesh ignored the surprised looks of the customers, turned around, and took a step forward toward his chair.
The customers finally woke up from their shocks and began entering the store one by one. There was no hurry since there were more than enough virtual portals for every one of them to enter Panagea in the first group.
“How did you change this much overnight?” Evelyn casually asked Aakesh after entering the store.
From the day of her entry into the store, she had always been casual with Aakesh. George, her boyfriend, on the other hand, used to be nonchalant earlier, but his tone had changed after the events.
Evelyn didn’t change her tone since she could see the look of insignificance in Aakesh’s eyes for every customer, irrespective of their status. She knew that he never minded the tone of the customer, just like a human doesn’t care for what an ant does unless it attempts to bite the human.
“I had a breakthrough,” Aakesh responded with his expressionless face.
“What level have you reached now?” Evelyn smilingly asked with curiosity evident on her face. Earlier, she could see Aakesh’s level, and it was always Void Forging. She knew it was fake, but still, she could sense it, but now she couldn’t even sense the cultivation of Aakesh.
Aakesh previously used the skill Chameleon Level since he was equivalent to Tao Palace and had no interest in someone seeing through his cultivation level. But now that he had reached the peak of cultivation in the Primal dimension, he had no interest in continuing to use the skill since no one was able enough to see his cultivation now, including the Void beasts.
Aakesh didn’t answer the question but instead told her to move away as there were customers waiting to pay for their entry into Panagea.
A wry smile appeared on Evelyn’s face, but she didn’t stand around and moved away. The customers waiting in the queue behind Evelyn paid for their six-hour stay in Panagea and went to the portal room.
Several seconds later, the store was silent, with only Aakesh sitting on the chair.
The silence didn’t continue for long, as a round of teleportations ensued not long after.
It was Veenesh and the other members of the Esh clan. As usual, they first bought all the pills each of them could buy, and then the members left.
All the clan members hadn’t returned to their clan, and still, there were around four thousand members left.
There were around eighteen hundred portals out of twenty-six hundred still vacant since the day had only just started, and many customers hadn’t arrived yet.
Veenes and all the clan elders were also part of the group. Since they had cards, they didn’t need to ask for permission, so Veenesh, the clan elders, the hundred apprentices, and the remaining regular members became part of the first group of 1800 customers to enter the portal.
The remaining members left sat down to meditate since there were six hours left before their turn would come.
Aakesh expressionlessly looked at everything happening inside the store. When the first group of spots for Panagea had gotten completely filled, Aakesh closed his eyes, initiating the first relaxation session of several today.
Time flew by, and around a minute had passed.
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
Suddenly, the silence inside the store got broken, as two consecutive teleportations happened.
It was Trihan, and his master Xotak, who had teleported to the store for Panagea since they both liked it.
Both of them stood at the peak of the Primal dimension, so the next stop for them was ascending to the Sacred dimension, but Panagea changed it all.
In Panagea, they would start from mortality again, but with so abundant opportunities that it would put the Primal dimension to shame. Just after entering, they witnessed a figure belonging to the third dimension, and they were only there to welcome them.
“Eh!”
“Eh!”
The duo of teacher and student simultaneously exclaimed in shock after their eyes fell on Aakesh relaxing on his chair. They then looked toward each other and could feel the tremble of their soul and fear in their heart.
Just like the moment when their souls and bloodline had trembled, seeing the feather made of the divine swan used in the chair, a similar thing happened today when they looked at Aakesh.
The tremble from the previous situation wasn’t even worthy enough to be compared with the current situation.
Previously, it was them who had controlled themselves, but today, it was an invisible power that had done it and made their hearts relax, or the feeling of absolute destruction that had risen in their hearts would’ve devoured them.
It was the system that had acted. Aakesh’s bloodline had made the duo terrified. It didn’t happen with others as Xotak and Trihan, both had somehow been able to tap into their bloodline that came from the top-level creatures, so they were more sensitive than others toward such strong bloodlines.
‘Just what bloodline is this?’ Both of them thought the same question when their hearts had calmed down.
They knew it was someone else that had calmed down. They didn’t feel afraid as the duo believed a higher power to be present in the store, and for it to do something like this wasn’t a big deal.