Primordial Dimensions

After Shane finished configuring his shop, he left everything to the AI and decided to sleep, as it must already be early in the morning on Igra.

He had been tense the whole night and only now could he truly relax as he laid down on the shabby bed that smelled a little bit.

`Ugh...Tomorrow I'll look for another hotel..` He could only lament as his mind entered a deep slumber with Umbra still coiled around his left hand.

Hours later Shane was woken up by a sudden sense of hunger transmitted into his mind, while a faint hissing sound next to him told Shane that Umbra was hungry.

He didn't even open his eyes because he was still exhausted. He entered the spatial ring to take out some fried rice cakes which appeared inside a small container.

After food appeared in front of it, Umbra simply ignored Shane, who turned around to sleep some more. However, the sodden bed reeked of a foul smell that caused Shane to jump up, all drowsiness to be driven out of his eyes.

"I slept here??" Shane mumbled to himself. He felt disgusted to smell the moldy air within the small wooden room.

Annoyed, Shane put on his shoes and his robes, before he grabbed Umbra who gobbled down the rice cakes.

Umbra seemed displeased, but even the snake didn't like the smell inside the room, as such, it was better to leave than to stay inside the hotel.

Before Shane walked out of the hotel, he downloaded the shelter's map on the system and searched for a better hotel nearby.

He found one but thinking that it rained almost all the time inside the Soul-Onyx-Jungle Dimension, Shane only wanted to leave the dimension.

There was only one important piece of information he had to know. He searched for the kind vendor woman who could still be at the same place, resting on the bench or maybe asleep.

He finally found her asleep near her food stall and walked up to her. Before Shane could even wake her up, she opened her eyes and saw him, which caused her to smile gently while she waved his hand at him.

"Hello, how are you? It hasn't been that long, right?" She asked and Shane felt a strange yet warm feeling in his heart.

This woman was really nice and Shane greeted her back with a radiant smile.

He ordered another batch of food, which would stay hot in his spatial ring, and get bad rather slowly.

While he waited, Umbra was back to eating and it seemed like he grew slightly. This was not that difficult, considering that he was a youngling, but two things changed, causing Shane to be enlightened.

The Upgrade-mission changed from 0% to 1%, which meant the growth process included maturing.

"Yes!" he mumbled. Figuring out that Umbra's growth was included in his Innate-skill upgrade mission, Shane was extremely pleased. In addition to that, Umbra´s loyalty had increased by another 2% during the last few hours.

While eating, Shane asked the vendor how long the night was. She told him that it was nighttime for 38 hours to which he only nodded his head.

This meant there were 2 and a half days left until it would be daytime and five and a half days before the next night.

Maybe he would come back in five days, but Shane was still unsure about that.

Now, the most important thing for him was to leave this annoying rainy dimension.

He completely disregarded the thought of staying there for another day as his primary goal had been achieved.

There was no way he would descend the valley right after he had kidnapped Umbra and stirring the other shadow snakes and pythons was probably not the best idea.

As such, Shane walked towards the Dimension Portal and selected another dimension with denser mana in its surrounding.

The Primordial Dimension that Shane had selected was the Deep Mountain-river dimension which had a large mountain range and a vast river streaming through it.

Shane paid two silver for the transportation fee which was double the normal amount for Basic-Dimensions. He knew that his expenses would only increase, with the increase in the number of beasts.

But he was still smiling, as he saw his Finances when the two silver coins were deducted.

[12 Gold coins and 25 Silver coins]

This caused him to smile brightly, as he knew that all of his Nightshade flowers had been sold, but before he could look at the Shop log about the sold Nightshade flowers, he entered the Deep Mountain shelter.

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As Shane stepped through the Dimensional Portal, he was blinded by sunlight, and Umbra who was coiled around his hand hissed in fear when it noticed bright sunlight falling on its black scales.

Shadow snakes weren't fond of sunlight, and would normally hate a sudden bright light that appeared out of nowhere. It was the case with the prismarine-luminous crystal from before when Shane was on a run after he had kidnapped Umbra.

Both Shane and Umbra had to slowly adjust themselves to the feeling of bright sunlight. Shane found it rather pleasing as he had hated the last hours getting drenched in the Soul-Onyx Jungle dimension. On the other hand, Umbra had some problems, which caused it to hide inside Shane´s robe.

Shane smiled lightly as he whispered "Just adjust yourself slowly.. You'll have to...otherwise, the future will be troublesome for both of us." The meaning behind his words was not lost on Umbra causing him to hiss.

He could sense that he would have to enter some annoying Primordial Dimension with Shane, which was frustrating.

If Shane was honest, rather than strolling inside the Primordial Dimension, he wanted to return to Igra and cultivate there. Unfortunately, the federations were still gathering the resources and funds to purchase and awaken a symbiotic mana heart to fuse with Igra.

Once they could awaken mana on Igra, everything would change.

Even the youths below 16 could cultivate to a certain extent and learn more martial art techniques. They could refine their bodies with mana until they awoke their system and purchase, learn and use Primordial skills and technique.

Shane was already an exceptional case with his physique of a 4th Mortal stage at the age of 16 without having a special trait or the usage of mana. But once Igra would awake its mana, the newer generation would become more powerful.

Right now, humanity was scattered across many Primordial Dimensions and less than half of their population lived on Igra.

They had been doing everything that was possible to awaken the mana and gather more funds to keep their native planet safe.

Additionally, the imminent threat from the nearby stellar system caused humanity to feel extremely insecure about their future on Igra.

On the human forums, not a single day passed without thousands of desperate humans cursing about the fact that they had to hunt, not only to keep themselves alive but also their entire race.

It could be said that nobody with the slightest combat prowess was poor, because even mortal stages could earn enough from killing Wild beasts.

Thus, they could earn a decent living but this didn't mean that everyone was doing fine.

The strong preyed on the weak and his father couldn't protect everyone.

Why else would there be guards patrolling through the streets of all human shelters?

That wasn't just because of the threat from the foreign races, but also to maintain harmony within the shelter.

Shane was also aware of a few organizations that hated his father, saying he is a monarch suppressing humanity's potential by doing nothing against the imminent threat from the outside.

This frustrated Shane a lot because he knew that his father would give up everything for humanity, probably even his own son.

But, these voices only began to emerge out of the darkness, after humanity made a treaty with the forest elves and mountain dwarves as a few unknown organizations rose to the top of humanity.

They were partially supported by dark ice elves that weren't included in the treaty which caused them contempt.

Shane never understood the hate between the different elven races but apparently, the dark ice elven and some other elven races hated the forest elven.

This was probably because they were neutral when the chaotic battles between the dark ice elves and the high-elves ensued.

His father didn't know about the bad blood between these races in the beginning. It had been a secret for a long time, and as such, he had dragged humanity into a perilous situation.

But fortunately, the treaty was only to facilitate trade and a truce, not an agreement for supporting each other during warfares.

Otherwise, Shane wouldn't be surprised to see his father overthrown from his presidency.

Ignoring these thoughts in his mind, he opened his shop's log and was greeted with a pleasant surprise. Not only had everything been purchased within a short amount of time, but it had been a single customer to buy all the items sold by him.

[113xNightshade flowers(81xTrash/32xCommon) have been purchased by [Yangdra Ugri] for 1177 silver coins +[10% Transfer commission]+[15% Foreign race]]

Shane´s eyes widened when he saw the complete message. He knew that there was a 10% transfer commission but he had never heard about the 15% foreign race extra charge, which caused him to sweat slightly.

In the end, Yangdra Ugri who bought the Nightshade flowers seemed to have paid almost 1450 silver coins which shocked him a little bit.

But that was not everything, as there seemed to be a notification sent to his shop.

[Mysterious NoPainNoGain shop owner, I'm terribly sorry to bother Sir, but my name is Yangdra Ugri and I am an esteemed merchant from the Corvi race.

The Nightshade flowers from Sir´s shop were excellent and perfect for our purpose, but unfortunately not enough from its quantity.

I hope that Sir can provide me with his contact details and we can make a deal outside the Shop regulations if more flowers are available.

Sir will definitely benefit from this trade more than trading via the Shop.

Please contact my assistant |Yulgre Luor| if Sir is interested!!]

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