Chapter 45 - The Sages Greed (1/2)
Jeremy finally decided...
'Hmm... buy useful skills first then. Let's start with no.183, [Stealth] and no.186, [Eagles Eyes]...'
After focusing on the [Stealth] and [Eagle Eyes] skills, another interface popped up...
...
[Would you like to buy Skill no.183, [Stealth] for 5,563 SP?]
[Would you like to buy Skill no.186, [Eagles Eyes] for 6,820 SP?]
[Yes │ No]
...
Right before he bought the skills, Jeremy suddenly stopped...
Upon blinking his eyes a few times, Jeremy finally focused his mind on the 'No' button.
Afterward, the interface went back to the skills list page. At the same time, Jeremy was also frowning deeply at his sudden change of mind.
*Sigh*
Having exhaled a long sigh out of his nose, Jeremy cursed himself...
'My greed kicks in again, for f*ck sake!'
If you asked why Jeremy suddenly stopped his action of buying those two skills, there was only one crucial reason for that...
The reason was that starting from skill number 100 onwards, and there was only 'one chance' to buy those skills. As a result, after those skills ranging from number 100 to 186 were bought by someone, they would disappear forever.
The word 'one chance' also included those other 9,900 or so people from other chambers. After all, they were from the same zone, number 82,364.
That also meant, if anyone from those 9,900 people decided to buy a skill that could only be purchased once before Jeremy, he would eat the dust...
If it were like that, he would get nothing from his strenuous efforts...
Therefore, he didn't appreciate it at all...
That's why his greed had kicked in earlier to stop him from buying those two most expensive skills on the list.
Because...
Within Jeremy's deepest mind, he wanted all of them...
Even though most skills were more or less useless to him, he still wanted every single one of them...
But he clearly knew that it was impossible to buy every fucking thing on the skills list, for them could only be purchased by using SP, which had to be accumulated by killing outlanders and doing missions.
'Alright, let's calm down and think first...' Jeremy thought while settling himself down.
In Jeremy's past life, even when he was injured so severely with one deep wound before going into the 'door', he could still somehow pass the easy difficulty door with only one low-numbered passive skill he had bought from the shop.
Despite that time, Jeremy had relied heavily on luck instead of his own capabilities; it was still possible for other people to somehow pass it by luck like him.
Or worse, there might even be someone else who could pass the door with their own capabilities and got a massive windfall from behind the door.
As a result, from Jeremy's estimations, other people could also pass it...
For those people who had somehow managed to pass the door's trial, after they reported the missions to the Crystal, they would get at least 2,500 SP for that.
Afterward, if they came out of the door and chose not to be teleported out after finishing one of the Tutorial Missions, but instead decided to help out other people fight with some waves of monsters. If so, they might even be able to buy at least one limited skill from the list.
Just like that, after reigning in his greed a little, Jeremy thought to himself a bit more rationally about the current general situations...
'Hmm... The skills from no.100 onwards start with the price of 3,000 SP, causing them to be 'almost' impossible to be bought without a person going through one of the doors. Also, those people don't have a map inside their minds like me. So, they should take one day at the very least before finally finding the exit.'
'That means... I had around 17 hours left before one of those limited skills would be bought by them. Still... even if one of them is bought successfully, it should be those with the price of no more than 3,500 SP or so.'
Afterward, Jeremy decided to use another approach of buying those skills instead of aiming to buy those two expensive skills.
That was, he had a new strategy...
The strategy that Jeremy was thinking of was, 'even if they are not of immediate use now, just buy the cheaper skills that might be helpful for him, in the long run, no matter what'.