The First Store System

Chapter 516: The Countdown(12)

"Hey, system, I want the testing slab," Aakesh requested the system since he wanted to test his strength after a good eight years.

The next moment, a few hundred meters away from Aakesh, out of nowhere, light particles appeared, and they then started combining together. Not long after, the testing slab presented itself to Aakesh.

Aakesh took a step forward, and the space around him pushed him forward. After only three steps, Aakesh appeared in front of the testing slab.

Aakesh decided to test his raw power first. The next moment, he punched the slab.

As a result, the slab lightened up, and not long after, a numerical unit appeared on the screen, showing Aakesh's raw strength.

"2,631,783,984 Primal units," Aakesh muttered, the number shining on the slab.

Aakesh had no expression on his face, seeing the number since it wasn't a growth worth celebrating for Aakesh, who had tested it after around eight years.

After the raw strength, it was now time for Aakesh to test the full power of his ultimate attack.

The next moment, he raised his hands, with the palms facing the sky, and soon, energy started gathering.

In no time, the energy gathered to form a dark energy ball the size of a basketball, but it didn't stop, and the process continued.

The process finally came to a stop when the size of the energy ball had achieved an even larger size when compared with him.

Without waiting for even a moment, Aakesh pushed the skill on the slab.

The next moment, the slab lightened up. It seemed unfazed by Aakesh's attack as not long after, a numerical value showing the power of the Apocalyptic Blast appeared.

"3,417,983,618 Primal units," The testing slab showed.

Aakesh only tested the growth in his raw physical strength and the Apocalyptic Blast, so Aakesh requested the system to take back the testing slab.

The next moment, the reverse happened as light particles started moving away, resulting in the testing slab slowly dispersing. Not long after, nothing remained on the ground.

After his test, Aakesh appeared back on his chair. His eyes then fell on Lily. She was getting close to the end of his breakthrough with every passing moment.

"Hey, system, how much time is left before she wakes up from her breakthrough?" Aakesh questioned the system since it has become a tradition since the last more than one hundred and seventy years.

After his training came to an end, Aakesh would ask this question from the system every day without stopping.

[Host, around five years had left!]

The next moment, the system's mechanical and emotionless response rang inside Aakesh's head.

A gentle smile spread across Aakesh's face as he muttered, "The day is not very far when you'll become the second known member of my race."

***

"Hehe, you did the mission very quickly here," The stall owner complimented Carlos for fulfilling his requirement.

Carlos felt his blood boiling in anger as he heard the stall owner's voice. But when Carlos remembered that the stall owner could see the purity of his bloodline just at a glance, he took a deep breath to calm himself down before he attempted suicide by trying to harm the stall owner.

He couldn't help but shudder, remembering the scenes of the past few days.

When Carlos got the mission to bring the core, he thought that it was going to be simple, but when he reached there, he got the shock of his life, as the city's core had taken the appearance of his father.

At first, Carlos felt in a dilemma since he couldn't just give up something that looked like his father even though he knew it was fake. Even killing his real children was more convenient than handing over the core to the stall owner for him.

But since he knew if he stayed there, he wouldn't be able to leave this world. He continuously created illusions where he had conversations with his father, and his father told him to hand it over.

After making his mind and heart strong, Carlos grabbed the core in an attempt to hand it to the stall owner for the 2nd Gradient Peach.

That's when the real trouble began. The moment Carlos grabbed the core, he found himself in an illusion.

In the illusion, he and his father were standing in front of each other while blood came out of his father's mouth, and there was a look of pure horror on the father's face as Carlos had his bloodied hand coming out from the father's back.

That was not all. Carlos had an expression of enjoyment on his face as if there was nothing that could make him feel more joy than killing his father.

The rage Carlos had felt at that moment was unprecedented. There was no one in this world that he respected and loved more than his father, so when the illusion showed him enjoying the death of his father, it made Carlos mad.

At that time, he had vowed again to kill the stall owner. But this time, he had added torture to his vow. There was no torture in this world that could make him calm down after what he witnessed in the illusion, but he didn't want to kill the stall owner without making him feel like hell, so he vowed.

***

Carlos calmed himself down since he knew he needed to survive and grow stronger if Carlos wanted to fulfill his vow, so he only nodded in response to the stall owner's compliment.

Carlos then gestured to the stall owner to hand him the 2nd Gradient Peach.

The stall owner could sense the hatred Carlos had for him, but he seemed unfazed by it, so he casually picked up the 2nd Gradient Peach from the several materials in his stall and threw it at Carlos.

Carlos was taken aback by the casual response of the stall owner, but he didn't forget to catch the 2nd Gradient Peach.

He then carefully studied it.

Even though its name was 2nd Gradient Peach, it didn't look even close to a peach. Carlos couldn't even determine what it was since neither the shape nor the material used in its making was known to Carlos.

Carlos didn't know what to do with it since his heart said to eat it, but his intuition warned; that it would be a suicide.