The First Store System

Chapter 787: Departure of the Sun(2)

"Senior, can I take a holiday for a few weeks?" Jonnah respectfully asked, as only he, Aakesh, and Lily were currently present in the store.

"Hmph, you have not even worked here for a thousand years, and you already want another vacation of a few weeks."

A scoffing childlike voice rang in response to the request made by Jonnah.

Jonnah felt his furs rising in fright as he heard Lily.

Earlier in his job, he had a good relationship with Lily due to his young children.

Whenever Lily would be free when she was in the Primal dimension, she would go to Jonnah's house and play with Lily.

This relationship where Lily didn't critique him or didn't like him continued until one day a few centuries before.

The sun was at its peak, and there were still several hours before the departure of the sun. Lily would always return to the store when there was only around an hour left before the sunset and the store's closing.

But for some reason unknown to Jonnah, Lily returned to the store that day while the sun was at its peak.

Lily returning wasn't the issue, but the scene she saw in the store was the trouble.

There was a large queue of people in front of Aakesh as that day somehow reignited the cultivation arts for the store.

But to help solve the burden of customers on Aakesh, Jonnah wasn't there. He was instead adventuring in Panagea.

Aakesh was quite liberal with Jonnah. If there were no customers in the store to tend to, Aakesh would allow Jonnah to enter Panagea, ignoring the future situation where there might be many customers.

Lily wasn't like Aakesh. Since she had come this early for whatever reason, she wanted to have some time with Aakesh. But due to the extreme workload and Jonnah's adventuring in Panagea, Lily couldn't. Lily had to see Aakesh busily working till the moment Jonnah finally exited Panagea.

From that day on, the situation between Lily and Jonnah became entirely different. She even stopped playing with his children, marking him as an enemy.

If Aakesh wasn't there to control the vengeful personality of Lily, Jonnah didn't even dare to imagine what would happen to him.

Aakesh gently patted Lily, who was seated comfortably on his head and glaring at Jonnah.

"Why do you need a vacation?" Aakesh asked Jonnah as he continued to pat Lily.

"Senior, my wife wants to see the entire Bisan Empire with her family," Jonnah honestly told Aakesh.

Lying in this situation could be harmful to him and his family, so he didn't dare to make some reason and truthfully stated the reason.

Lily only scoffed and then closed her eyes since she had no longer any interest in the conversation. Aakesh wasn't going to let her do something drastic, so there was no point in her wasting her time over the matter.

After hearing the reason, Aakesh didn't respond right away but only looked at Jonnah.

Jonnah suddenly felt a pressure descending on him as he matched his eyes with Aakesh's eyes.

Jonnah didn't dare to look anymore and moved his eyes to the ground.

"You can take the vacation, but this would be your last vacation," Aakesh finally spoke and responded.

Aakesh understood that not everyone had the same mental capability as him, so going on vacation wasn't a bad idea for Jonnah.

At the same time, he also didn't like the idea of vacation as it would return the burden of managing the store by himself even though he hired an assistant and was paying from his pocket.

It was already the tenth or the eleventh time Jonnah had asked for a long vacation, so Aakesh decided this to be the last vacation for Jonnah.

(A/N: Reality and fiction have nothing to do with each other.)

Jonnah nodded as even he understood he had asked for quite a lot of vacations when he was already getting so many benefits from the store. He would also enter Panagea every day, so he wasn't even working the entire day every day.

"Thank you, senior," Jonnah respectfully bowed. He then turned around and left the store.

Today had been good for him since he also finally had his level increased in Panagea and the store owner also accepted his vacation request.

He couldn't help but mumble a tone as he left the store and returned to the house next to the store.

The house would close its door after sunset, and only Jonnah could enter after that since he could only leave the store after the store turned empty.

***

"You allowed another vacation," Lily unhappily said as Jonnah left the store.

"Let him enjoy it. He won't be able to after this one. When we leave for the Sacred dimension, he will be responsible for managing the entire store. He won't get any time after that," Aakesh nonchalantly said as he proceeded toward the store's entrance.

As he reached the door, Aakesh took a look at the dark sky after the departure of the sun. He then closed the sky, bringing an end to another fruitful day for the store in its millennia.

***

While the store closed its door for the day, a party was currently going on in the royal palace of the Bisan Empire.

The royal palace was entirely different from what it looked like in the past.

After the Kingdom became an Empire, the land rates grew overnight, and many citizens in the newly established Empire became rich by selling those lands.

There was a single owner that bought those pieces of land, and it was none other than the royal family.

If the last royal palace was like a hut, then the current one was like an enormous villa.

The palace, made of red stones, spanned over three million miles as it was no less than a city.

The cost required to make the palace alone would have bankrupted many top Kingdoms. When the cost of the arrays was added, it reached such an outrageous number that even many Empires wouldn't be able to take that sum out.

The biggest moneymaker for the Empire wasn't taxing from different organizations setting their bases here or from natural resources. But it was the tower won by Brinda in the first annual event that brought the most amount of Primal stones to the Empire.