Chapter Eleven: Skills

ELEVEN

Roan found the tab needed to give away his money, watching it disappear while he ground his teeth. Sending the other hundred-thirty credits on top of it made it hurt even worse. After the money flooded out of his account he was stuck with staring at his now depleted account of only four-hundred-thirty-five credits.

His stomach growled and he dropped another fifty credits on another inferior-grade meal which he managed to choke down. It tasted just as nasty the second time as it did the first, but he managed to get it down. All of that took about ten minutes and left him sitting around waiting for them to come back.

“This sucks. I want to get back and keep farming.” Roan knew the thought was wrong, the desire to go out and keep pushing himself was self-destructive. He needed to sit and rest, recover as much as he could before he went back out again. Pushed against the trunk of the tree, he opened the market up and began to explore.

Keeping the market open he started to look through the skills with an eye out for anything that would compound. Roan locked his lips as he looked over the long line of skills and began to read them. Many of them were mundane, others helpful, some strange, and others made him scratch his head.

FILTER WATER

TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

CLEAN AND FILTER LIQUID INTO DRINKING WATER

HARDEN

TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

ABILITY TO HARDEN THINGS

SKELETON HAND

TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

TURN YOUR HAND SKELETAL

Roan laughed as he read over the skeleton hand skill, wondering how useful that would be. Or if it was reversible at all. He focused on the skill to see if he would gather more information on it and was rewarded as the skill was singled out and more information appeared for him.

SKELETON HAND

TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

TURN YOUR HAND SKELETAL

POTENTIAL GRADE: TIER 3

LEARNING MANUAL: N/A

The learning manual paused him as he exited the screen and looked back at another skill to see if he could find one available.

FILTER WATER

TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

CLEAN AND FILTER LIQUID INTO DRINKING WATER

POTENTIAL: TIER 5

LEARNING MANUAL: 1,000 CREDITS

There was no more information on what the learning manual was. Just the one-tenth cost of it. Roan pursed his lips and had to shelve the questions about potential and the tier system as he continued his search for a goal skill to start saving to. Turning on the filters he started searching for unique skills. Immediately he could see they were themed.

STRIP FLESH

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TIER 1 SKILL

10,000 CREDITS

STRIP FLESH FROM LIVING CREATURES

POTENTIAL: TIER 7

LEARNING MANUAL: 1,000 CREDITS

FLOOR 1 UNIQUE SKILL: 5,000/5,000

A hint of greed entered his heart as he worked the filters. They were intuitive to use as he added more filters to just unique. He narrowed it down to tower only and with as few available as possible.

UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR

TIER 1 SKILL

100,000 CREDITS

TRANSLATE AND SPEAK ANY KNOWN LANGUAGE IN THE UNIVERSE

POTENTIAL: TIER 1 SKILL

TOWER UNIQUE SKILL: 364/500

TIME WARP

TIER 1 SKILL

1,000,000 CREDITS

COMPRESS OR EXPAND TIME IN A LOCALIZED REGION