400 Knowledge Processing Center (1/2)

[ You have managed to obtain over 5,000 SSP! A new branch function of the system shop has been unlocked! ]

'Hmmm?'

Even though I did try to be objective towards the value of SSP, it was still human nature to find smaller numbers less satisfying, so I unintentionally lowered my expectations by impulse.

However, this notif proved these expectations wrong while also proving my original doubt of the change in base value.

Just judging from it being a criteria to a whole new branch of the system shop being unlocked, the total value of the SSP I gained shouldn't be lower in value to the amount of FSP that I received back then, and that was only when taking the possibility of the stage number being a more important criteria into consideration.

Without having the need to continue just guessing blindly, I started to check the normal shop lists that I was familiar with to establish a more accurate value, which wasn't exactly that hard of a task.

Although half the shop list was made out of new items while having lost half of the items that could be found in it before just like what happened in the last stage, some items were still identically there.

For example, the 'spatial ring' line of items was still there in the same sizes, with the price being changed, of course, immediately giving me a window of comparison to reach an approximate value of an SSP…

'So it's about 5 to 1, huh?'

One of the least pricey items, the '10 cubic meters spatial ring' was priced at 55 SSP, which was much cheaper in comparison to the last price of 250 FSP, making an obvious conversion range that was almost 5:1.

Though it made no sense for such random decrease and increase to take place, I gave up on thinking too deeply about it as the system's weird acts as a whole didn't make sense most of the time, but it did remind me of the stat integration process...

Of course, other than just checking the prices, I looked around the list and checked most of the new items in search of stuff that would benefit me specifically or anything that caught my interest, but most of them were simply unreachable.

Especially...

[ System Shop:

1. Skills:

....

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2. Items:

...

'Dragon Blood Essence' (Random) - 10K SSP

'Dragon Blood Essence Extract' (Random) - 25K SSP

'Roc Blood Essence' (Random) - 9.5k SSP

... ]

Although getting dragon blood essence was supposed to be a top priority of mine, not to mention the extract which had even spare energy for domain travel, I could only stare at them and do nothing.

Not only were most of these new items pricey, but most of them seemed to have the (Random) condition added to them, pointing out the risk of overlapping in case I even had the points to buy an item like the dragon blood essence.

Browsing the normal shop lists didn't show anything different, so it seemed like it was in a completely different panel that needed to be called out.