403 Overdrawing Headache (1/2)

[ Task List:

- 'Merging of Techniques' - 7897 SSP ]

After seeing a price that surpassed the fullness of my current 'wallet' appear, I immediately thought it might be actually good this way. After all, in half of the times you try something you are uncertain about, being stopped early turns out to be actually dodging a bullet…

Besides, no matter how much I steeled my resolve it wouldn't make points pop out of nowhere, so I might as well put the points into buying more of the few things that caught my eyes as well as things that I might require in the future.

However, the notif that followed turned this particular line of thinking of mine upside down!

[ A special discount for first-time use of the 'Knowledge Processing Center' has been applied! Tasklist updated! ]

[ Task List:

- 'Merging of Techniques' - 6318 SSP ]

'This kind of situation…'

The 'Knowledge Processing Center' didn't mention anything about a first-time discount before even though it kept stressing on the point that this was the very first task it had, yet it only pulled out the 20% discount after making me almost give up a plan of mine and made it possible once more…

'Is it the case of another playful AI?'

Since it didn't seem like I could directly communicate with this so-called 'Knowledge Processing Center', or at least it didn't seem like it wanted to communicate for the time being, I could only put the speculations I had aside, since it only seemed like a child playing the 'devil's temptation'.

The reason I even thought about it from that angle was only because I experienced Long's obvious desire for more stat points, which made it sense that the second 'shy' AI could just be using this simple trick to make it very reasonable for me to use over 80% of my points by revealing a fake unreachable price at the beginning.

Of course, whether that was the truth or the AI was just lagging didn't really matter, others may be affected by such psychological plays, but I obviously wasn't, I planned on giving this plan of mine a try as long as I had enough points to cover the cost anyway, otherwise, I wouldn't even spend a single one no matter how many 'temptations' were played…

[ Would you like to confirm and commence the task? ]

Hearing the timely notif, I didn't transmit anything as I stayed silent for a second before opening my mouth…