The First Store System

Chapter 698: A New Day with New Customers(5)

As Charles entered the store, a familiar feeling struck him. It took him a while to understand the source of the sense, but he finally did. When he understood it, it made him drop his jaw almost and look around the store in surprise.

No matter in what corner of the store he looked, he got the sensation that he was standing in the Sacred dimension and not the Primal dimension.

'Am I seeing going through an illusion?' Charles couldn't help but think in his heart. The introduction of the store made him awestruck of it, but at the same time, he didn't expect to get such a surprise here, right after entering.

Charles's eyes then fell on the crowded queue and the mysterious store owner accomplishing the sale. Charles didn't attempt to look into Aakesh's secret or his unknown bloodline. The intel organization had warned him that the blue-skinned man had a mysterious past and strength none knows. They were only confident of one thing about the store owner, and that was there was no being stronger than him in the Primal dimension.

If it were the Charles of the Sacred dimension, he would have even given a try to peer through Aakesh's bloodline. But he was only an intermediate Immortal for the moment. It wouldn't be anything less than suicide for him to offend the store owner when even peak Immortal of the Primal dimension didn't dare to attack him.

At the same time, a question arose in Charles's heart about the mysterious store owner. Since the intel organization failed to give Charles any information at all about the blue-skinned man, Charles believed him only to be the store manager, especially after the feeling he had gotten from the store.

There was another reason that made him confident in his conjecture. Charles could sense not even a tiny bit of Sacred energy from the blue-skinned man, so he became even more sure that Aakesh wasn't from the Sacred dimension, but he was only maintaining this mysterious store on someone's order.

Charles wasn't wrong in his conjecture since what he thought was correct about the store. Aakesh was only maintaining the store while the system was the actual owner of the store.

As for why others couldn't sense anything like this from the store, despite the fact that some customers were initially from the higher dimensions; instead, it had to do with Charles's epiphany.

Charles wasn't aware that it wasn't his intuition that got him into that illusion of him sitting on the throne. But it was a treasure he had mistakenly bought. That item was the source of everything in that illusion, and also him sensing the Sacred energy that had permeated the store's every corner.

(A/N: The treasure will be explained in the future since the item is related to the store. It's time to enter the story hasn't arrived yet.)

Charles didn't find it weird as the item mentally made him feel that there was nothing wrong with it.

Charles then stopped thinking about it and joined the queue.

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"How could you be the store owner? The store contains Sacred energy at every corner. You who don't have even an ounce of that divine energy, the master of this store? Don't joke with me," Charles scoffed after finding out that the blue-skinned man was the store owner.

Aakesh had an expressionless face as he only stared at the customer.

For some reason, Charles felt like being stared at by a beast while he was standing naked with no weapon or armor for protection. His entire back turned wet with sweat. In no time, his whole body became wet. Whenever a drop was about to fall on the floor, an invisible pressure would appear and crush that drop into nothingness.

"Forgive me for my impudence," Charles subconsciously uttered those words. The next moment, his face turned pale from horror as his body acted on its own and started bending its knee.

Charles looked at the blue-skinned man in horror, only to see indifference in his eyes. Charles wasn't aware for now that this moment would become a stepping stone for him. It would motivate him further in the future. At the same time, it would also make him so much fearful of Aakesh that his body would subconsciously bend down in his presence.

These events were of the future, so let them be in the future. But for the current Charles, the moment was no less than suicide. He was an Emperor before ascending and had never knelt to anyone.

When Charles's knees were about to touch the floor, an invisible pressure suddenly appeared and made him stand back on his feet.

The horror turned into surprise as Aakesh was the source of the pressure. Charles thought that it was Aakesh who was punishing him for doubting his strength. But in fact, Aakesh had done nothing. He hadn't leaked even a bit of his pressure as it would be powerful enough to crush the current Charles into a pulp.

Charles found out only now that his body made subconscious actions based on the feeling he got from those eyes.

When Charles remembered the scene of those eyes and the pure indifference in them, the feeling to kneel appeared again in his heart, he controlled himself this time as he bit his tongue and didn't make a fool of himself.

"Thank you for forgiving me and helping me. I will never forget your favor. I will never repeat my words again," The next moment, Charles bowed and thanked Aakesh, unaware of what was stored in the future for him.

When Charles thanked Aakesh, it was sincere. If it were him in place of Aakesh, he would have killed the person in the position of Charles. Getting scoffed over their strength was one of the worst humiliations that a cultivator could go through. So Aakesh forgiving Charles for doubting Aakesh being unable to be the owner of the store made him heave a sigh of relief.

Aakesh only nodded in response as he wasn't that petty to take action over such things. At the same time, he was the store manager in the true sense. It was just the system that gave him the title of the store owner, and hence he was continuing with it.