The First Store System

Chapter 1657: First Day in the Primordial Dimension(1)

Chapter 1657: First Day in the Primordial Dimension(1)

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Two hours of night, three hours of dark night, and the remaining hour of night passed in no time, and a new day began for the residents of Namaris.

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[Host, a new day is about begun for the store! Please open the store on time!]

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Fifteen minutes earlier, the system’s voice woke Aakesh up from his meditation. He stood up and summoned his room.

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When he returned, he had changed into a different set of clothes, but the same color.

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He then walked to the door and opened it as the first ray of sunlight pierced through the cover of darkness and brought light into the lives of the residents of Namaris.

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The scenes outside the store were different from what Aakesh had been seeing over a long period of time.

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There was not a single soul waiting outside the store. Aakesh left the door open and walked inside, sitting on his chair.

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He switched to a comfortable position as it was a reclining chair. He crossed his legs upon the left leg of the table, used his left hand as a pillow, and his right hand as an eye mask.

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The floor inside the store was polished wood that seemed to glow as the day progressed. It wasn’t a blinding light but a stunning feature.

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Aakesh simply relaxed there, waiting for his first customer to enter.

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He was a professional person, so even though there was no customer appearing, he still didn’t meditate and simply lay there on his comfortable chair.

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Aakesh suddenly jerked up and asked the system for a blackboard. Even though the store has set no rules for the store, he decided to set some rules as the store owner.

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The rules he decided on were very simple.

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The first rule was that there was no bargaining inside the store. The price quoted by the store owner was the final price. Trying to bargain might cause ouster from the store.

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The second rule prohibited fighting and also laid down the consequences for breaching that rule. It was only one character: ’death’.

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The third rule was the rule about payment only being made in the denomination as quoted by the system.

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The fourth rule was about the store owner’s words being the final word. Any argument against it would force the store to oust them, or even permanently ban them in rare situations.

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Aakesh placed the ruleboard near the entrance where anyone would see the board first after writing down the rules.

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Even though these were basic rules only, he still wrote them to make even idiots aware of the consequences of their actions.

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He then returned to his lying-down posture, waiting for the first customer to appear.

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Edrin was born in a small colony on the outskirts of a prosperous Veyr city. He belonged to the Val race, a small race with only a few thousand members in total.

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Val was a race with humanoid features. All the members of this race had a proportional physique with gray skin. They had circular ears, while their pupils were dark red with a golden ring circling around them.

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Edrin was an unusually tall member of the Val race, with his height being ten feet.

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He belonged to an ordinary family even in the ordinary race called Val. His father repaired farming equipment and household tools, while his mother operated a small food stall.

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Neither possessed any cultivation talent, and both of their cultivation levels remained stuck at the first grade of the Seed Awakening stage of Primordial Seed level, the cultivation level they were born with. If they weren’t born with any cultivation level, they might not have any cultivation either.

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They also didn’t have any connection with any powerful member of their race or any other race members. They could be called the most ordinary citizens of the Primordial dimension.

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Edrin received the same level of talent from his parents. He started cultivating at a young age, but his progress was very slow. He was stuck at the first grade of the Seed Awakening stage of Primordial Seed level. That level of cultivation had a lifespan of 300 years, and Edrin had already lived through one third of it, but still seemed quite a distance away from the second grade.

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As for his parents, they had almost reached the end of their lifespan, so they had no hope of reaching the next level and extending their lifespan by one hundred years.

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Due to his low talent, he didn’t become a known cultivator, nor could he join any organization to gain resources. He even failed to get into the city defense force. In the end, he decided to become a travelling merchant, transporting not only ordinary cultivation resources, but also household necessities, basic medicinal ingredients, and other basic items between settlements.

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He had started with cultivation resources only, but there were countless merchants dealing with those kinds of resources, making Edrin’s gains not worth the effort.

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He seemed to have some talent in business, as he saw a business in items such as household necessities. These were products that had very low margins, but there were countless small settlements in the Kingdom of Solmeryth, let alone other territories.

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He could make up for it with quantity, and his idea seemed to have worked, as after adding those products to his list, he started earning enough to provide himself a comfortable living.

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He still couldn’t create enough wealth for himself to earn sufficient cultivation resources for himself or his parents, but what it did was that he could now leave resources to his children, unlike his parents, who lived day to day and didn’t have any savings. That was the sole reason that his parents had no children before or after him. Even Edrin was born late, as they only had him when they had built an ordinary life for themselves and could provide sustenance to their kid.

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Due to that behaviour of his parents, he had a great amount of respect for them, and he also felt somewhat guilty about not being able to do anything for them.

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