Card Master System - Chapter 33 Shopping Spree?

“Seriously!?” Leo shouted out in both anger and confusion. “Why do these skill books cost so much gold?” punching his fist into his hand, Leo tried to calm down. According to the screen, some of the first handful of skills which appeared were all over ten thousand gold coins!

“Wait a minute, it shows right here that I can sort these items. Let me see here…” clicking on the sorting tab on the screen, Leo finally found the cheapest skill book first button. Clicking the button, Leo secretly prayed that he would find something he could afford.

“That is still horrible, but at least I can afford something now!” a little more satisfied, Leo saw five different skill books that were only five hundred gold coins. They were all books that had a skill that the user could learn.

Scrolling down further, it seemed as if the more advanced skills continued to skyrocket in price. Of course, some of the most expensive skills in the city were over one hundred thousand gold coins. However, those skills were only learned by the heirs of each household within the city and were still incomplete according to the marketplace.

“For these skill books to be incomplete must mean that some of the households try to sell them in order to quickly raise funds? Either way, I am sure if I become strong enough, that the alliance will have no problem giving me some more skill books.” Pondered Leo as he finished his bath and started to brainstorm which skill he wanted to purchase.

“Well, if I can only afford one of theses five skill books for now, I should purchase this one that is a movement skill called Dragon Dash. Since I already have my bronze skin to help defend myself, what I need now is a movement type skill so that I can retreat or speed forward against my enemies!”

Clicking the purchase button for the “Dragon Dash” skill book, the screen started to beep once again.

“Beep! Beep! Beep!”

-Skill book can now be found in your inventory-

Excited to see how he can use this so-called skill book to learn a new skill, Leo quickly withdrew the book from his inventory. The book seemed rather ancient and not very well kept. This did not stop Leo as he quickly opened the book to its first page.

-Requirements to learn this skill are as follows: 10 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 8 Wisdom-

“No… no….. NO!” reading the contents of the page, Leo quickly tried to flip through the rest of the book, except, the rest of the pages were completely empty!

“Status!” Leo called out to look at his current attribute points that he used so that he could compare.

-Leo Lv.4. Job Title: None Strength: 15, Constitution: 8, Dexterity: 7, Intelligence: 7, Wisdom: 8, Luck: 7. Remaining Attribute Points:0. Passive Skills Learned: Bronze Skin Lv.2, Combat Skills learned: Rage Lv.1-

“Damn it! I need to add more points to my dexterity before I could even learn this skill? I just wasted most of my gold on something so useless for right now!” Leo started to feel some tears drip down from his face knowing that he was unable to quickly learn a new skill.

However, once Leo went back to the marketplace screen, he noticed that he could also sell to the marketplace as well. “Wait, Jack gave me both the potion I gave to him and the one he looted off Martin’s corpse when he killed him. I wonder how much this potion could sell for?” he thought as he clicked the sell to marketplace button on the screen.

-When in a city, you can exchange your items earned by defeating your opponents, completing quests, among other ways. Each item will have a set price amount dependent on the current value set within the city-

Quickly placing one of the potions into the exchange box, its gold coins value popped up right next to it on the screen as well as a sell now button. Leo started to feel extremely good from seeing the amount that a potion like that could sell for in this marketplace.

“After killing so many goblins, killing a monster, and defeating opponents, it took me this long to compile only seven hundred gold coins but this simple basic red potion sells for two thousand!?”

“I can understand if I was unable to earn that much due to my enemies being so weak. But to have a potion like this that sells at a ridiculously high price, why are the heavens shitting on me?” pondered Leo as he quickly sold the potion without hesitating in the slightest. He already had the other vial that Jack returned to him and what he wanted to do next, was to purchase some training methods.

Quickly looking over the training methods section of the marketplace, each method listed different descriptions that helped Leo identify which ones would help him increase a specific attribute. What Leo found was that many of the training methods only helped increase a single attribute, but if he spent all his gold, he could afford one that helps boost more than one attribute. In exchange for training many attributes at a single time, Leo needed to use the specific method he chose to train for a much longer period.

“Wait a minute, what is up with that inheritance tab?” before moving forward with a training method that fit his goal of increasing his strength and constitution attribute, Leo decided to click on another tab within the marketplace.

To his surprise, the inheritance tab showed a list of training methods that were much more formidable than what was shown to him in the other tab. What was even more shocking, was that this list of inheritances, was those of every household within the city and taught skills and techniques as well!

What was even more shocking to Leo, is that these inheritances costed nothing if he was affiliated with the household that each inheritance was given by. It could even be said that he might have the ability to learn each of the household’s inheritances of the alliance and even some of the families who supported the alliance!

“Oh wow, this seems like a little much. Either there is more to this, or the system itself is just a ridiculous hack that allows me to outmatch everyone around me.” Thought Leo as he chose to purchase the Mist household’s inheritance. He chose this inheritance because it had a movement skill and had an ability that allowed him to sense his opponent’s power.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

-You have purchased the Mist household Inheritance. Look in your inventory to use the item-

Taking out the inheritance, this was a book that gave information about training to increase different attributes, while also leaving information needed to learn several skills and techniques.

Upon reading this inheritance, it listed different requirements for Leo to increase his attribute points. Many of these requirements were basic exercises like push-ups, running a specific number of miles, among others. What was even more surprising, was that for Leo to increase his wisdom and intelligence stats, he needed to read a specific amount of literature!

“Well, I guess it is time to begin my training. If anyone wanted to kill me, they would have by now. I wonder how long I will be forced to remain here?” pondered Leo as he began doing some push-ups. Right now, he only needed to focus on becoming stronger because the threat of anyone attacking him was severely low now that he was not only in a city, but surrounded by guards!