Chapter 38
The disappointed expression on Maria's face increased when Aakesh didn't reference Ben asking about her liking Aakesh. She then focused her mind on the space rings as she could see him telling her to leave in a while.
With ease, she unlocked the three rings in the space ring. She wasn't surprised when she didn't find much inside them since the owners were weaklings, and they were followers, so they weren't also from affluent families. She found about 44 inferior Primal stones in total from them. They were even poorer than her. She then tried to open the expensive rings, but she couldn't break the protection and couldn't force her sense inside it.
"Owner, I can't open these rings. I think you should take them," She told Aakesh since they would be wasteful with her.
Aakesh, in response, extended his right hand. All four space rings went up to him. He then closed his hand and crushed them. Maria looked stunned, seeing this scene.
"Why did-"
She wanted to complain when she suddenly shut her mouth as things started emerging out of nowhere in the store. These were the contents of the rings.
Aakesh then waved his hands, and all the newly appeared contents went up to Maria. "Is your cultivation level even higher than Void Forging?" She asked with a shocked expression.
Aakesh only smiled in response. She got her answer in that smile. "Why are you acting as a store owner when you are so powerful?" She asked him, ignoring all the shining stones in front of her.
"Because I want to," He responded expressionlessly.
The answer left Maria dumbstruck. She didn't know what to say in response, so she focused all her attention on the contents of the space ring lying in front of her. She counted all the stones and was shocked by the quantity in the end.
She found 4864 inferior Primal stones and around 20 ordinary Primal stones. She also got some beneficial pills that could assist her in breakthrough to Nascent Soul and beyond. If she converted everything into Primal stones, the total number would be around 10,000 inferior Primal stones. She also found many gold and platinum coins but didn't count them right away since it would take too much time.
She then looked at Aakesh to see his response to giving her contents of such an enormous value but was disappointed when she saw him talking with Lily, ignoring her and the valuable stones.
"Do you want to buy the pills using these Primal stones?" He suddenly asked while she was staring at him. Her face turned red by the sudden situation.
She subconsciously nodded and said, "I'll buy three first-grade inferior dantian healing pills."
"You can only buy two. The maximum number of pills anybody can buy is three, and you've already bought one earlier in the morning," Aakesh responded. His expression turned expressionless, the usual expression with which he converses with customers.
"Than I'll buy two," She responded.
"Anything more," He asked while looking at the large quantity of the Primal stones. Maria was dumbfounded by his reaction. He didn't want the space rings containing such wealth, but he wanted her to buy as much as possible using these stones.
"I'll buy all the pills," She smilingly responded. If it makes her get closer to Aakesh, then she would buy everything.
"Great!" He exclaimed. He then went up to the shelves and took out three body and mental healing pills and two dantian healing, respectively.
"Here, You've to pay 250 inferior Primal stones."
Maria nodded and handed over the required amount to him, and he handed her the pills. "Good business, you can leave now," He told her right away to leave after concluding the trade.
A wry smile appeared on her face as she was expecting him to tell her to leave. She nodded and put all the contents lying on the ground in her space ring. Afterward, she turned around and left the store. Aakesh didn't pay her attention. He was focused on something else instead.
[Mission objective: Sell products to ten customers,
Requirement: You need to have multiple customers if you want to have a famous store. Sell ten products to your customers in a week,
Number of products left to sell: 10/10,
Mission reward: A new product and addition in the pill varieties,
Failure punishment: Sales commission will be reduced to 0.5% of the product's price.]
Right after Maria left, Aakesh called out the quest window to check up on it. He had already sold eight pills, which meant he only had to sell two more pills, and the mission would be over. But when the window appeared, his excitement dimmed down after seeing he still had to sell ten products.
"Hey, system, what's this? I have already sold eight products. Why do I still have to sell ten more products?" He irritatingly asked the system.
[Host, it was you who paid for the pills, not the buyer.]
The system responded straight away in its emotionless, mechanical voice.
"What do you mean she paid for it. I just gifted her the space rings without knowing what's inside them," Aakesh retorted. How could he give up when he gave such a large wealth to someone, and he didn't even get anything in return.
The system didn't even respond to Aakesh this time. He called out once more, but he still didn't get any response. Lily laughed, seeing him arguing with the system. At last, he gave up when the system stopped responding to his complaint.
"Let's close the store, Lily," Aakesh vented his frustration by closing the store way early before it was time for the sun to set.
Two hours after Aakesh closed the store, Pento came to the store to meet Aakesh after he didn't get a call from Ben after he entered the store. He was stunned when he saw the door closed. He knocked on the door of the store many times, but there wasn't any response from the inside.. Since Ben's father was the prime minister of the Bisan Kingdom, he couldn't afford to offend him currently when his position for the throne wasn't comfortable enough.