Chapter 254: Punishment
"What!"
An exclamation rang in the store after Aakesh told the price of training in the Gods & Demons level training hour for the Overlord-grade weapon.
In response to the man's shock, Aakesh did not reply since he had already become accustomed to the reaction he received from customers after telling them the cost of training.
"Store owner, don't you think 1 million supreme Primal stones for just an hour of training is too much?" The man asked, seeing Aakesh not responding or attempting to lessen the price since he believed that Aakesh had mistakenly quoted the wrong price.
Aakesh stayed silent in response and only pointed at the rule board. The man followed the direction and read the rule about no bargaining.
The man looked at Aakesh and then the rule board for a few times before finally stopping and giving up. He couldn't help but heave a disappointed sigh, thinking about the cost.
"Fine, give me then," The man said since his primary purpose for coming here was the training.
"Give you what?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked in response, making the man dumbfounded for a moment.
He couldn't help but flare up, hearing Aakesh's response, but he controlled himself since he still remembered what had happened in the store a few hours earlier.
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The man's name was Gordon, and he was a late Tao Palace expert belonging to the Pocoso Empire. He had good relations with the prince, George, so he went to George to request a training session with him. It had been thousands of years since he had been stuck in the current cultivation.
The battle has always been one of the easiest and surest ways to gain an epiphany into Tao, so Gordon also wanted to try it and see if he could also gain an epiphany and then a long waiting breakthrough. When he went to George for help, he suggested the store and the Gods & Demons level training area.
Listening to George's suggestion, Gordon had come here.
At first, he didn't think that a single hour of training could be this magical, but when he appeared in front of the store, he began believing a little about the effects. Even though he was standing right at the door of the store, and the door was open, he couldn't see anything inside the store.
A hint of confidence emerged in his heart about the training as he took a step forward and entered inside. When he entered the store, the first thing he saw was a blue-skinned man relaxing in his chair.
Gordon belonged to an Empire and was a loyal citizen, so it would be a lie if he said he was comfortable with a non-human store owner. The non-human races were the most difficult challenge the Pocoso Empire faced when it came to becoming the strongest empire on the Anga continent. But being knowledgeable and a Tao Palace cultivator, he understood that humans weren't anything special when it came to the Primal dimension, let alone the Multiverse. So he hid the uncomfortable feeling in his heart right away and didn't dare to show it on his face.
Seeing the store owner entertaining no customer, he approached him. But before he could reach him, the store owner suddenly opened his eyes, and the aura surrounding him turned cold and suffocating.
His face turned pale from horror by feeling the sudden change. He wasn't the only one; all other customers inside the store sensed the same suffocating pressure. Fortunately for them, before it could turn threatening, a slight breeze appeared in the store and took the pressure released by the store owner.
Gordon, for a moment, seeing the sudden turn of events, thought that the store owner had seen through his feelings for him and had become angry due to that, but the next moment, he heaved a sigh of relief as well as saw the most incredulous scene of his life.
In front of him, an invisible hand dragged out a being out of the weapons room and stopped right before Aakesh.
The being that had gotten dragged had a face full of horror as he looked at the expressionless eyes of the store owner.
He wanted to apologize, but his voice got stuck in his throat, as the next moment, beings he was familiar with started crashing down like the rain. At least ten beings appeared out of nowhere and began falling.
But before their bodies could touch the ground, they scattered like sand. Every being that fell faced the same end.
Aakesh looked in the eyes of the being the system had captured, and the next moment, he fell into an illusion. The system then released the man, and with a thud sound, he crashed on the hardwood floor.
It wasn't the man's first visit to the store, and he had already purchased a few products. So Aakesh activated the skill, Watcher. He wanted to see who gave this man the guts to attempt stealing from his store.
Aakesh couldn't help but frown, seeing the past memory of the man. A man had attempted to forcefully bypass the restriction of teleportation and enter the store a few days back. In the end, he had died because of it.
That man and all the men that died today belonged to the same organization. The man in front of Aakesh was only a pawn for that organization, and he had no idea about who or what it was.
"It seems I've been too peaceful for the world," Aakesh mumbled. For him who thought nothing of others, someone eyeing his store was no less than humiliating him.
Several customers present in the store were high-level cultivators, so they also heard the mumble of Aakesh. They couldn't help but shudder, thinking about the result of those who had offended this man.
"This is the consequence of stealing the products and eyeing my store," Aakesh then decided to use these deaths as an example to those who may have the same thought in the future.
[Ding!]
After Aakesh's warning to the customers, the system suddenly established a quest.
Aakesh decided to check it after the closing time since there were still customers in the store. His eyes then fell on the man lying on the ground with lifeless eyes.
The men that tried to break the restriction of the system forcefully had a single punishment death, but for those who attempted stealing from the store, death was a luxury.
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