The Place Where Everything Begins

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...

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[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'.

If he did just that, he would get those limited cheaper but essential skills while using this chance to erase those cheap skills from the list.

Then, those people who had been accumulating SP from the door could only grit their teeth and buy another cheap skill that Jeremy didn't need instead.

That strategy was only for skill numbers 100 to 139, though...

As for those expensive skills from no.140 onwards, whose starting prices were 4,500 SP or more?

That was nigh impossible to be bought by them...

Because those people would have to come out from the door's trial with 'flying scores', then they had to fight 'bloodily' with 2 or 3 more waves of outlanders before they could even afford to buy one of those expensive skills.

Those alone would require them at least 35 to 40 hours before they could buy a skill more expensive than no.140, of which that gap of time was enough for Jeremy to accumulate more SP to buy those higher than no.140 skills.

As a result...

If Jeremy wanted to buy those skills he really needed, he had to use that strategy to ensure that he got the cheaper skills first. Then he would accumulate more SP to buy the expensive skills later.

'Even if they don't have any use for me right now, I will just think of them as buying some mutual funds for my future then.'

*Sigh*

Jeremy sighed while shaking his head slightly; he then thought dismally to himself...

'At last, my greed gets the best of me.'

'It's been decided then... Let's take a look at the cheaper skills in the early 100s first...'

After standing there for five more minutes, Jeremy had finally decided to buy three skills, which were...

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[Would you like to buy Skill no.109, [Footwork] for 3,312 SP?]

[Would you like to buy Skill no.134, [Ambidextrous] for 4,126 SP?]

[Would you like to buy Skill no.138, [Disguise] for 4,357 SP?]

[Yes │ No]

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After focusing on the 'Yes' button, another light blue interface popped up in front of him...

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[A total of 11,795 SP have been deducted from your SP account]

[You have received the [Footwork] skill]

[You have received the [Ambidextrous] skill]

[You have received the [Disguise] skill]

[You currently have 957 SP remaining]

[There will be no explanation about how to upgrade the skills further; you have to explore and upgrade those skills by your own self. Good luck.]

[Congratulations. You have unlocked a new feature within your Status Window. Please check]

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'I'm broke again huh... It seems like I have to farm more SP.'

Jeremy shook his head, then thought about the three skills he had just bought a moment ago.

The descriptions of those three skills were as followed...

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Footwork (Basic - Passive Skill): Boost your footwork's comprehensive capability and familiarity by 9%.

Ambidextrous (Basic - Passive Skill): Boost your hands' synchronization's comprehensive capability and familiarity by 10%.

Disguise (Basic - Active Skill): Upon activating, you can change your face into any one of your own kind for 5 minutes. [Caution: If the difference in skull bones structure is too vast, you will feel excruciating pain.]