We carried on walking down the street side by side until we reached the large white building. I decided to open my mail so I could get my rewards from the achievement before, as I looked through the rewards I noticed that there was a police perimeter set up around the front of the building, on the front of the building the word 'STORE' was printed in giant navy blue letters. "At least it's another store that replaced Prim@rk hey, maybe this one has even better clothes." I joked with Rose who stood next to me with a bright smile on her face, "I sure hope so, why do you think they won't let us in?" she asked me, still staring at the large new store in front of her. "I dunno maybe they wanna take all the good stuff for themselves?" I hypothesised quietly. The burly man standing next to me had a different idea though he suddenly burst from the crowd and smashed into the barrier, breaking it apart. He continued running up the steps until he reached the top and entered the building.
I looked at the SWAT teams standing guard and wondered why they didn't fire on him. The I realised that none of them had any guns, they all held police batons or system weapons. "We can go up there If we want." I said in a quiet voice to Rose beside me, she nodded her head "I'll follow your lead." she whispered back.
I walked up to the nearest officer " I want to go up there with my companion, I advise you not to try and stop us or you will die." I said this as politely as I could considering I was threatening death upon a random stranger but surprisingly he stepped aside and let us through. A large group of people surged through the gap that was created to let us through but not a single one of the officers stopped them. "Come on let's go." I said while grabbing Rose's hand, I didn't notice that her face turned beet red yet again when I grabbed her hand without warning but she didn't have the time to complain as we marched up the steps towards the store.
Once we reached the store a red notice appeared in front of our faces,
'Upon first entry into any system owned stores you must deposit 50 vis towards the system. This will pay for your identification card which will be needed upon entrance to any and all system owned facilities. Identification cards can only be purchased after reaching level one. Pay by placing your hand on the barrier.'
I looked at my status to make sure I was indeed over level one,
Status Page
Player Name : Ezekiel Tyler
Alias : Whispering_Death
Level : 4 {EXP:430/500}
Death Count : 0
Title(s) : None
Badge(s) : {C'mon Bigboi} {PlayerKiller}
Skill(s) : - Physical
>Bladed Weapon Mastery(lvl1)
>Ranged Weapon Mastery(lvl1)
>Hidden Weapon Mastery(lvl1)
>Triple Burst(lvl1)
>Guided Throwing(lvl1)
>Stealth(lvl1)
>Stealthy Steps(lvl1)
>Ultimate Stealth(lvlMax)
>World Map(lvlMax)
>Appraisal(lvl1)
- Magical
>Dark Element Boost(lvl1)
>Self Heal(lvl1)
>Necromancy(lvl1)
Abilities : None
HP : 2000
MP : 500
Stats : STR - 10
AGI - 10 (+8)
VIT - 10 (+3)
INT - 10 (+3)
WIL - 10
ATK : 1000 (+950)
DEF : 500 (+450)
Affiliation(s) : None
Skill Points : 0
Stat Points : 4
Vis : 4000
I was nearly level 5 so I could definitely qualify I had quite a lot in terms of money as well so I could enter the building. I looked over to Rose and shouted to her over the noise "What level are you now?" she answered with two fingers held up on her hand. I nodded then pointed towards the red barrier. We both walked towards the barrier and simultaneously payed the fee. The force being pushed towards us from off of the barrier lessened and we were able to slide through. The numerous people around us looked infuriated that we could pass and they could not be we just ignored them and walked towards the door of the store.
We pushed open the door together and stood in awe at the sheer grandness of the hall we found ourselves in. We were met with a big blue notice board completely enveloping our vision it told us that we were in the System Store Site 0046, it also told us what was for sale and where.
There were five floors all together, three upper floors and two sub-basements. The lowest sub-basement was the private auction house, only those with high affiliations could go in there. The other sub-basement was the public auction house where anyone could walk in and buy the items on auction. The main bulk of the store was located on the ground floor, as soon as we walked in we saw multiple different stalls along the walls available for rent. There was also a large altar placed on the backside of the hall, this is where people could resurrect after they died. This came as a shock to us as we had no idea that we were now immortal, It was good to know. The second floor was where the real stores were, they were run by an advanced AI that would do anything from cooking and serving food to fixing your armour and weapons. Then finally on the top floor we're living quarters and teleport pads, anyone could rent a room on the top floor as it was a safe zone where death was not possible unless permitted by the system.
After I fully digested all of this information I looked at Rose who had finished reading and was quietly waiting for me to finish. I smiled and she smiled back, I suddenly felt that she was sad so I asked if she was okay "I'm fine," she replied "it's just my mom is probably still sat at home by herself, would it be okay if we just head over there for a minute?" she asked looking up at me. "Of course, you should have said something sooner. We'll head over right now, we can check all of this out later."
As we walked towards the door a *DING* suddenly sounded startling the both of us. A flash of white light impaired our vision and then disappeared leaving behind two ID Cards floating in the air before us, we grabbed them and looked at them intently before placing them in our pockets and walking out of the door.
[ID : WhisperingDeath
Level : 4
Affiliation(s) : None
Contact Number : None]
The ID said contact number on it but it wasn't for a phone it was for a ComLink device which could allow people to speak to each other anywhere in the world, even dungeons. They were way too expensive to spend money on right now so I pushed them to the back of my mind and followed Rose back up the way we came. We passed by the shop that we were in before and headed towards a side street that led up a hill "I live just up here," she said pointing up the hill, we carried on walking until we came to a block of apartments.
"You live here?" I stated in surprise looking up at the block of luxury apartments towering above my head. "Yeah, I live here." she said confused by the question "Why, what's wrong with it?". I looked at her in surprise as if she didn't notice the towering building in front of us. I decided to act cool, "Nothing it's just really nice." I said as we walked towards the front door.