The First Store System

Chapter 1551: Ancient Glorious City(22)

Aakesh stood before a space jump portal. The next part of the challenge awaited him on the other side of the device.

The leader who had given him the task was standing not far from him with a smile. The smile contained dangerous intent if Aakesh tried to escape. The task was too significant for the man to let others know and live to tell the tale.

Aakesh ignored the man and placed the Sacred stones in their sockets. The next moment, the portal turned active, and a spatial energy engulfed it.

Aakesh didn't waste any time and walked inside. The next moment, the Sacred stones in the sockets turned to dust as the space jump drained every bit of their energy, and the portal turned dark once again.

The leader didn't leave but sat down in meditation, waiting for Aakesh. He hoped in his heart for a successful task.

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Aakesh looked around the dead city, trying to find the stone. The leader gave him the task of finding the stone and bringing it out.

The leader didn't tell Aakesh what the purpose of the stone was but only informed him of its appearance. Aakesh, who had more knowledge than the leader could ever have, immediately understood the intention behind the leader's actions.

The city around him was dead with corpses littered around, and even their skeletons had started to decompose. It usually took tens of billions of years for the corpse of a Supreme God to start decomposing, so from that, the destruction time of the city could be seen.

As Aakesh delved deeper into the city, the power level of the corpses grew, with the Sacred King's corpses becoming the norm. His face turned further solemn since the deeper into the city he went, the more intense the danger would prove to be.

The sword was his reward for defeating the chimera, and it didn't disappoint him. Despite it only being of intermediate-higher grade, it easily cut through a peak True God level creature.

After the creature disappeared, a small piece of stone was left on the ground. Aakesh bent down to pick it up and couldn't help but become surprised since it was the one-thousandth part of the Grestoriac Stone.

Aakesh then stored it in the system space and immediately sat down to absorb Sacred stones. The attack had taken fifty percent of his energy reserves since Aakesh wanted to end the battle as soon as possible.

Aakesh had no issues with continuous absorption since the energy was extremely warm and traveled to his inner world without causing any trouble.

After absorbing thirty purer ordinary Sacred stones, Aakesh's energy reserve was full, so he stopped mediation and proceeded forward. Since the stone was broken into fragments, Aakesh had to prepare for numerous battles.

A few minutes later, Aakesh stood face-to-face with another opponent. It was no longer a peak True God but an early True God level beast.

Aakesh didn't even need to use the skill and slashed his sword. The next moment, the creature was divided into two clean pieces, resulting in Aakesh's victory.

When Aakesh picked up the stone fragments, he found them to be one part of ten thousand parts. The weaker the opponent, the smaller the stone fragments.

But even that tiny fragment contained an endless amount of energy. If Aakesh were to stand and face the explosion of that energy, he would get instantly turned into ashes.

The two stone fragments combined when they came into contact with each other.

Time flew by, and around an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Aakesh had faced several battles over that duration, but neither of his opponents had challenged him like the chimera, making the situation more manageable than he had anticipated. He had won one fight after another and had succeeded in forming one-fifth of the stone.