The First Store System

Chapter 1654: The Store in the Primordial Dimension(5)

Chapter 1654: The Store in the Primordial Dimension(5)

Zorveth didn’t look very happy about the fact that he couldn’t help his friend or his race. Others thought he despised Myriaths, but that wasn’t the truth.

He was willing to aid the Myrathis, but only when his position was secure.

The Kingdom of Solmeryth had seven provinces, and even the smallest province contained seventy cities. Namaris was a valuable city, but its rank was in double digits, so the royal family would never try to make an exception for it.

"Hmm!"

Zorveth was surprised when he heard the voices coming out of the meeting room. The door was left open, and Myzara was also waiting outside. Zorveth exclaimed, as he seemed to be the main guest in the situation.

As Zorveth was about ot walk in, he heard Azareat sneering at Vaerith.

"Oh my, did I come at a wrong time?"

He immediately walked in and spoke with a light smile.

Everyone in the room looked at him with myriad expressions, but the majority was panic.

Zorveth was confused by the situation, so he looked at Vaerith and saw him smiling at him.

"3 MILLION PRIMORDIAL JADES!"

Zorveth let out a loud exclamation when he heard about the last agreement.

No one was surprised by that since almost everyone had the same reaction.

Even though one Primordial Jade was equal to one hundred Primordial Crystals, the former had rarely appeared in the history of Namaris since the energy contained in it was useful for cultivators above the Primordial Origin level.

No cultivator of that level existed in Namaris. Even in the Kingdom of Solmeryth, only the royal family had one member of that rank.

Zorveth’s eyes immediately lit up as he couldn’t help but imagine the scene where he was handing over such a sum to that ancestor and the rewards he would receive in response.

Cough!

Vaerith immediately brought Zorveth back to reality.

The latter looked at his friend with a questioning tone since he didn’t know what Vaerith expected from him.

"Namaris would like to hand over its annual taxes in the form of Primordial Jades, and we would like to hand over a thousand years of taxes."

Vaerith stated out loud.

"What do you want from me?"

Zorveth asked in a majestic tone as he now represented the royal family.

According to the rules, the taxes needed to be paid in the denomination stated by the kingdom, but in the world, rules were flexible. The kingdom wouldn’t take fragments for crystals, but they would gladly take jades for them and might even grant some discount.

"I want to extend my tenure to three thousand years."

A first grade of the Origin Flow stage of the Primordial Origin level had an average lifespan of ten thousand years, with an increase of one thousand years for every grade.

Vaerith was at the sixth grade, so he had a total lifespan of around 15,000 years, and he was already around 13,000 years old. So if he were to be given an extension of three thousand years, he would most probably die as a city lord.

Zorveth and others in the room were taken aback by Vaerith’s outrageous demand.

A city lord had a tenure of three hundred years, and they could continue further if the royal family permitted, but in the tens of thousands of years of history in Namaris, even the longest continued tenure by a city lord was 780 years. He should have ruled for 120 more years, but was executed because he tried to manipulate the taxation system.

"I cannot help you with that."

Zorveth replied after a long round of silence.

"I know. I want you to help me with that with the prince."

Vaerith had made that demand because Zorveth had told him a prince was coming. Only someone with that high authority could give him that permission.

As for the prince becoming greedy and stealing those Primordial Jades from Namaris, Vaerith didn’t fear.

The Kingdom of Solmeryth was just one of the many Kingdoms in the world, and above them stood Dravaks, the overlord of the world.

The exploitation rules were followed thoroughly by everyone. They couldn’t steal from someone who was already paying a large amount of wealth to them.

If the Seraphels didn’t want to keep ruling the kingdom, they could try to massacre every Myrathi, but that was clearly not possible since there were Myrathis present in other kingdoms as well, and some were even stronger than the Seraphel race of the Kingdom of Solmeryth.

"Okay, I will try to help you."

Zorveth promised, as not long ago Vaerith had sent him a mental message. If he succeeded, Vaerith would give him five Primordial Jades.

Being a city lord, he could decide his salary denomination, and since he earned five hundred Primordial crystals a year, he could replace them with five Primordial Jades.

As for using corruption to take a few jades from the treasury, he disdained such acts.

***

After an unknown amount of time, Aakesh, Lily, and Khaval appeared inside the building that had appeared in Namaris.

That was also the moment when the third agreement appeared on the paper.

Aakesh immediately checked on Lily and Khaval. Seeing that both were perfectly fine, he was in the mood to check the store.

[Host, you have a debt of three million three hundred Primordial Jades and seventy thousand Primordial crystals!]

But suddenly, the system’s mechanical voice, yet filled with emotion, rang in the store.

Aakesh stopped what he was doing and frowned.

"Why am I already in debt?"

The next moment, the system informed Aakesh of the three agreements between the store and the city, and as the store owner, Aakesh had to pay for that out of his own pocket. Since the system had already paid, Aakesh now needed to repay the system.

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A/N: For the Primordial dimension, we would move to a different kind of store system. It will not be like the one in the void or how it was in the Primal and Sacred dimensions.

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