Chapter 2: Ch2 Selling and a plan to change places

Silence rang inside the store.

Only after Pan drew his sword saw he a twenty something year old man standing behind the desk smiling at him as if he was his long lost friend.

What was wrong with that? Everything, he knew about their whole caravan and what they needed. 

"Who are you?! Which family did have the balls to something this stupid as a trap?"

Captain Pan didn't buy it that this wasn't a trap. No way in hell was this a normal store.

"Dear customers, if I said anything you didn't understand, I would like to apologize! My name is Tal and I run this little store of mine! As I said before, if you need something, you can buy anything! The prices are on the board just beside me!"

Captain Pan still didn't buy it. The only person who moved was Steve, he took some steps forward to see the pricelist better and was astonished.

"Mortal Realm items, a small talk? Middle Realm items , depending? Upper Realm items, depending? Disclaimer, the shop owner can choose not to sell items? What the hell should this be?!"

Captain Pan was surprised of what he heard. He took a glance to Steve and back to the man behind the counter. The problem was that nobody was there. As if to tell him to not look any further the voice of the man came from the spot where his young master was.

"Young boy, you can read. What is so hard to understand? Mortal items can be bought by talking to me. As for everything from the higher realms it depends on what you want! For example that girl over there. Her mind is in the process of being possesed by a demon, that would cost you a story about your life to be solved!"

A short sword tried to pierce the throat of Tal but stopped just a breath away from his skin. Steve and Pan were shocked to see Flavia with a menancing face trying to kill the store owner. 

Tal clicked his tongue and said in a stern voice.

"You didn't really think that would work little demon? Even your ancestor would find it hard to hurt me let alone kill me. You know what? This is on the house."

Tal waved his hand above Flavias head and a blinding light bound her on the spot. A shrill scream sounded from her mouth not belonging to her.

"Why is someone of your realm here playing around! Damn you!" Steve and Pan were confused from what was happening. Only after the light faded and Flavia fell to the ground did Pan sheathe his sword and ran up to check on her.

Steve confronted Tal to what he has done to her.

"First you can read but don't understand the meaning and now you say you can understand what I said but don't get the meaning. Little boy your mental trauma is rather strong."

Pan on the side heaved a sigh of relief after knowing that Flavia was not hurt and only unconscious. He stood up and walked beside Dteve and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Young master, Flavia is fine. She is just asleep for the moment." He turned and bowed to Tal.

"I don't know what exactly happend but if she really was possesed by a demon, I would thank your excellency for your grace."

"Like I said, this was on the house. I can't remember when the last time was that someone tried to sneak attack me. So what do you want to buy?"

Steve wanted to interrupt Pan but the other just waved his hand.

"Young master, if this person wanted to harm us we would already be dead. Can I ask fo the price for...all the things you have offered us?"

Steve may not know much about cultivation since he just started his journey but Pan had much more life experience. Even if it was a trick, to be able to produce light was already in the reaml of Sages. Why would someone on that level play with them or heed someones order?

Tal thought for a moment. "Well you are my first customers, so I will make a discount for you. One mental demon pill, three low level healing pills, food and water for your whole caravan for 5 days and a poison relief pill. That would make your bill.... 15 years of memories."

Pan was puzzled, pills? Like those made by legendary alchemists? And the pay was really, memories? How can one even pay with memories?

Steve jumped in befer Pan could ask his questions.

"Do you really have pills!? Why would a store which has pills be in a desert like this! And how would one pay with memories?"

Pan was thankfull that his young master at least asked one important question which he had.

"I have most things that exist, whats so weird about some low level pills? For the right price I can even sell you god grade pills. It's rather simple. I will just soul search you, no worries though. It won't have any after effects. I just need some normal peoples social skills at the moment. I would say thats a good bargain. As for why a desert? In 300 years I already had my first customer, thats a good start I would say!"

Steve's and Pan's head were dizzy after hearing the owner talk. It seemed like..he either was crazy or didn't have one clue about how things work! 300 years and the first customer? Mortals couldn't lige that long even Sages would have a hard time to.

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As for god grade pills? What should that be? Steves mind spun and had a sudden thought, if this shop really wasn't a scam. Maybe his dream could come true!

"We will buy! Can I ask if you have something which can make strong and let me ascend?!?"

"Young master! What do you mean! Your mother told you not to!"

"Quiet Pan! I know that mother doesn't want me to go and look for her but those bastards, I will make them pay! So store owner, do you have something which can let me fight a sect of the middle realm?"

Tal pondered for a moment, it seemed like there was more than the eye could see to this little boy.

"Do you want a cultivation art or an artifact? Better said, do you want personal strenght or borrowed one?"

He had many things, he could even give out divine souls. It would just be a pointless thing. As soon as somebody saw through it he would be chopped up and his soul forccefully stolen.

"I want personal strenght!" Steve didn't have to think long. Artifacts could be stolen but cultivation base can only be crippled.

"You don't have any strong connection to a law or element. Bidy is just a normal one. Your mind is a little stronger. I could sell you the Mindless Art but you don't have enough to pay me for that. If you want I can loan you the spirit crystals and you can pay me back. Hows that sound?"

Steve was happy but his mind was on the word spirit crystals. What was that?

Pan on the side saw the emotions on Steve faces and interrupted.

"Madam once told me that spirit crystals are the currency in the upper realms. They are used for almost everything. An energy source for arrays, faster cultivation and so on."

"Yes but they also have their own rating. I'm talking about pure spirit crystals. 1 million of them, to be clear, a furst rate sect in the middle realm would have only half-pure spirit crystals. You would have to go in the Upper Realm to get them. So boy, deal or no deal?"

Pan once again interrupted before Steve could answer. "Can we make our other purchase first? It's not like I don't believe in you your excellency but somethings you daid are hard to swallow."

Tal nodded "Sure, here are your pills and food. The space ring is a little extra. I will take my side of the deal now."

He waved a hand and a ring flew to Pan. Before it even could be grasped by his hands a sudden twitch ran through his body. As if he had a cold shudder.

"Hmm, so thats what family is like. No wonder Jenny always told me to bound with her. She wanted to have a lineage. Silly girl thought I was easy prey,eh"

Steve had a question mark over his head, what just happend?

Pan on the other hand began to sweat, he didn't know much about the upper realms and their cultivation means but to do what the man before him did. He felt lucky to not have made him their enemy.

"Young master, you can trust this person. I will leave with Flavia first and feed the pill to master."

Pan bowed to what he thought was a senior of the upper realm, picked up Flavia and the space ring and left. The sooner the master woke up the sooner he could stop young master from doing foolish things.

Steve just watched Pan leave with even more questions. Wasn't he the first to suspect the owner of this shop?

"Boy, do you want it now or not? I have the urge to leave this place after seeing the some memories of little Pan here. Who would have thought that living a life with normal means could be this thrilling!"

Steve didn't react to it. The daily dose of getting shock and puzzled was already at its limit.

"Yes sir but how should I ever pay back my debt? I only want to go to the middle realm and visit my mother! Also if you leave, how should I find you?"

"Ohh that's no problem, the Mindless Art is cultivated by one of the twelve monks Sovereigns. I won it in a duel after he challenged me. You can easily reach the King realm without much effort. As for the payment, if you don't find me or have the necessary means to pay me back within 4000 years I will come and look for you."

Did Steve say his daily dose of shock and being puzzled was at it's limit? It seems he was wrong. King realm? 4000 years? Why does it sound like some story from a book!

"I forgot you are just a mere mortal in the lower realm.. well I will input the art. Some things will be clear to you after that."

Tal waved his hand and a silver light entered Steves body. As if the strings were cut his body fell to the ground and a vortex was slowly coming into existence above him.

"Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to make him understand the Mindless Art without having a cultivation base. Well whatever, not my problem."

With that said did Tal walk behind the counter and took out the book he was reading. It would take some time for the little boy to wake up.

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