Free Web NovelChapter 5: The Eternal Night Heaven
"The Shop!"
After reading the notification, a strange light flashed within Riosโs eyes. He immediately opened his status panel and examined it carefully.
The panel remained exactly the same as before, with only one change.
A Shop icon had appeared at the bottom of the screen.
Rios focused on the new icon for a moment, and soon the shop interface appeared before him.
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[Welcome, Host, to The Eternal Night Heaven. Here, you can find everything you need.]
[Entry Cost: 1,000,000 Points]
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"O-One... One million points?!"
Riosโs tongue nearly tied itself into knots from the sheer shock of seeing such an absurd number.
He had spent an entire week hunting monsters just to earn fifty points.
And now the system was telling him he needed to pay one million points just to enter this damn Heaven of Nonsense.
Not to buy anything.
Not to receive special privileges.
Just to enter!
How many years would it take him to gather a million points at his current pace?
Rios didnโt even want to think about it.
If anything, it gave him another reason to become stronger as quickly as possible.
However, what occupied his thoughts at this moment was something else entirely.
"System, what exactly is The Eternal Night Heaven, and what does it contain?"
This was the question he wanted answered the most.
What kind of place was worth an entrance fee of one million points?
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[The Eternal Night Heaven is a special world created by The Immortal Queen of the Eternal Night, Nyx, using the cosmic law of Night and the major law of Dreams as its foundation, along with numerous other laws as support.
This world is primarily devoted to commerce. It is also the gathering place of universes and worlds, as well as the supreme controller of the universeโs economy.
Since the dawn of history, it has been recognized as the number one marketplace.
There are billions of shops within it, and trillions of visitors enter every day.
As long as the item you seek exists somewhere in the universe, there is a high chance you will find it within The Eternal Night Heaven.]
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Riosโs eyes widened as he stared at the screen in disbelief. freewัbnเซฆฮฝeษญ.com
The number one marketplace in history!
Billions of shops!
Trillions of visitors every day!
A gathering place for universes and worlds!
It was simply too much.
Far too much for Riosโs mind to process easily.
Truthfully, when the system announced that the Shop feature had been unlocked, Rios had assumed it would be a conventional system shop like those found in gaming, magic, and system novels.
A simple shop divided into categories such as weapons, skills, spells, and similar things.
But this...
This far exceeded every expectation.
The system hadnโt given him an ordinary shop.
It had granted him access to something vastly greater.
And what caught Riosโs attention the most were the terms Immortal Queen and Laws.
What exactly were those?
Some kind of power?
How were they obtained?
Countless questions filled his mind, but he didnโt ask them.
He knew perfectly well that the system wouldnโt answer.
But wait a second...!
"System, you said there are trillions of visitors every day, right?"
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[The Host is correct.]
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"And the one million points required to enter... is that a permanent entrance ticket or just a one-time entry?"
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[Every time the Host wishes to enter The Eternal Night Heaven through the system, the Host must pay one million points.
1,000,000 points = One Entry.]
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"System, I have one question, and I want an honest answer."
"Do all those trillions of visitors who enter The Eternal Night Heaven every day have to pay this ridiculous amount every single time they want to enter?"
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[No.
If someone enters The Eternal Night Heaven through ordinary methods, they only need to pay one ten-thousandth of the amount required from the Host.]
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After reading that message, Rios stood frozen for several moments.
Then he ground his teeth in anger and spoke in a cold voice.
"If everyone only pays that tiny amount, then why the hell are you charging me ten thousand times the original price?!"
One ten-thousandth of the price was only one hundred points.
That was equivalent to a hundred percent-progress Master (2) monster cores!
As for one million points...
Rios had no idea what level of creature was worth that much.
But he knew one thing for certain.
If he wanted to gather such a sum, he would need to kill more than a hundred thousand monsters like the Jumping Monkey he had just slain.
During the entire previous week, Rios had only hunted ten Master (1) monsters.
Most of them had progress ranging from twenty to fifty percent.
Even then, he had barely managed to gather fifty points.
There were two reasons for this.
First, this region of the forest simply didnโt contain many monsters.
Most creatures here were ordinary animals at the Mortal level.
Only a few had reached Master (1).
And so far, he hadnโt encountered a single Master (2) monster.
Second, Rios didnโt want to venture too deeply into the forest.
Until he became stronger and gained enough confidence to roam freely, he had no intention of leaving this area unless absolutely necessary.
Weakness was a sin that demanded caution.
But weakness combined with recklessness became a sin punishable by death.
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[Regardless of the fact that neither the Host nor this world possesses any method of entering The Eternal Night Heaven, the small amount that the Host envies applies only to ordinary methods.
The systemโs method possesses numerous special advantages that no being in the universe possesses and that even the supervisors of The Eternal Night Heaven cannot detect.
The Host will naturally come to understand these advantages upon entering The Eternal Night Heaven.
If the Host feels wronged or dissatisfied, the Host may attempt to search for one of the ordinary methods of entering The Eternal Night Heaven instead.]
The system replied coldly.
Clearly, it had not appreciated Riosโs question.
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"Alright, alright, man. No need to get so worked up. I was just joking."
Rios attempted to ease the atmosphere before asking another question.
"But how exactly do I enter The Eternal Night Heaven through ordinary methods?"
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"There you go again. Canโt you finish the favor properly?"
Rios complained when the system refused to answer.
It had been like this throughout the entire past week.
The system only told him what it believed he needed to know.
Everything else was simply ignored.
