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nJeremy finally decided...

n'Hmm... buy useful skills first then. Let's start with no.183, Stealth and no.186, Eagles Eyes...'

nAfter focusing on the Stealth and Eagle Eyes skills, another interface popped up...

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nWould you like to buy Skill no.183, Stealth for 5,563 SP?

nWould you like to buy Skill no.186, Eagles Eyes for 6,820 SP?

nYes │ No

n...

nRight before he bought the skills, Jeremy suddenly stopped...

nUpon blinking his eyes a few times, Jeremy finally focused his mind on the 'No' button.

nAfterward, the interface went back to the skills list page. At the same time, Jeremy was also frowning deeply at his sudden change of mind.

n*Sigh*

nHaving exhaled a long sigh out of his nose, Jeremy cursed himself...

n'My greed kicks in again, for f*ck sake!'

nIf you asked why Jeremy suddenly stopped his action of buying those two skills, there was only one crucial reason for that...

nThe 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.

nThe 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.

nThat 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...

nIf it were like that, he would get nothing from his strenuous efforts...

nTherefore, he didn't appreciate it at all...

nThat's why his greed had kicked in earlier to stop him from buying those two most expensive skills on the list.

nBecause...

nWithin Jeremy's deepest mind, he wanted all of them...

nEven though most skills were more or less useless to him, he still wanted every single one of them...

nBut he clearly knew that it was impossible to buy every **ing 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.

n'Alright, let's calm down and think first...' Jeremy thought while settling himself down.

nIn 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.

nDespite 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.

nOr 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.

nAs a result, from Jeremy's estimations, other people could also pass it...

nFor 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.

nAfterward, 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.

nJust like that, after reigning in his greed a little, Jeremy thought to himself a bit more rationally about the current general situations...

n'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.'

n'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.'

nAfterward, Jeremy decided to use another approach of buying those skills instead of aiming to buy those two expensive skills.

nThat was, he had a new strategy...

nThe 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'.

nIf 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.

nThen, 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.

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

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

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

nBecause 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.

nThose 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.

nAs a result...

nIf 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.

n'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.'

n*Sigh*

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

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

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

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

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nWould you like to buy Skill no.109, Footwork for 3,312 SP?

nWould you like to buy Skill no.134, Ambidextrous for 4,126 SP?

nWould you like to buy Skill no.138, Disguise for 4,357 SP?

nYes │ No

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

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nA total of 11,795 SP have been deducted from your SP account

nYou have received the Footwork skill

nYou have received the Ambidextrous skill

nYou have received the Disguise skill

nYou currently have 957 SP remaining

nThere 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.

nCongratulations. You have unlocked a new feature within your Status Window. Please check

n...

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

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

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

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

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

nDisguise (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.

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