Markets and Multiverses (A Serial Transmigration LitRPG) Chapter 322: Skill Center (2)

As I read the sign in front of the skill center, I thought about what we needed.

Removing Skills had potential, but also ca at a cost. Removing an ability or part of an ability would weaken us. However, it would also free up more room for other abilities or Keyword abilities that we needed. It was also likely much cheaper than buying stats to create more glut. In addition, this downside wasn't as severe as it first appeared to be. After all, there were parts of so Abilities that I had no use for.

For example, I was pretty happy with most of {Endless Hunger of the Ocean}. However, it had an ability that let collect Achievent from an enemy as if I had killed it whenever I drove that enemy mad. That ability… had yet to co up even once in two entire lifetis. That was a pretty good indicator that I had little use for it. At no point had I even found a good way to drive enemies mad - and I had no real intention of finding one in the future, either. Right now, I was happy supporting our group with Extinguish, healing, spatial manipulation, and scouting. I would be more than happy to remove this part of {Endless Hunger of the Ocean}, especially if it gave another Keyword slot and more Glut.

Similarly, {Echoes of the Deep} had a few parts of the ability that didn’t feel that useful to . The ability to embody ‘life’ or ‘death,’ for example. Embodying death gave several abilities, but the only one I actually made use of was empowering my Extinguishes. Embodying ‘life’ was nice… but I only used it when I wanted more [Fortitude]. It only gave one Grade of Fortitude, which was nice... but I doubted it justified the coast of the ability. Especially since I had lost a rather useful-looking keyword ability last life. At the ti, I hadn’t had enough keyword slots to take both abilities that I wanted. If I could free up a keyword, then I could get a much stronger replacent in the future. Not to ntion, I had noticed last world that it was very difficult to get my Alteration ability to upgrade. Running into bottlenecks and problems while I was trying to research new abilities and grow had felt frustrating. Perhaps it would be easier to keep growing and improving if I had my abilities customized? If I could find a few useful non-keyword abilities, that would also be incredible. I had gained six more Glut after pushing [Absorption] and [Perception] to Grade 3. If I removed my Swordsmanship Ability as well, that would give at least 11 Glut to work with. In addition, I would get an unknown amount of extra Glut from removing parts of my keyword abilities. Surely I could find sothing useful to do with all of that extra Glut.

I was sure that my friends would also find the Skill Center very useful. Market Abilities were powerful, but they also felt like lists of random, useful skills and magic effects tossed together. Having a more optimized, focused build would pave the way for a better future. We could always grab a few niche utility skills from non-keyword abilities if needed. We didn't need those random, minor useful effects to take up our precious keyword slots.

Then, I snapped out of my thoughts. I was hopeful that we could dramatically improve our future progression here… but we still needed to get in, use the facility, and leave with our lives. I needed to stop daydreaming about all of the things we could get out of the Skill Center. That could wait until we succeeded.

I glanced around, and started using my soul sight and spatial sight. I didn’t see any of the spiders in the area, but it was hard to see inside of the building. The walls seed to have so sort of material that stopped my spatial sight and soul sight. I sighed. Hopefully the spiders were inside, so that we could finish what we'd started.

said Sallia, after a few monts of hesitation.

said Felix. I said, frowning. said Felix. said Anise. She sounded worried.