Damian turned to the admin and called out," Mr Admin, I want to buy something from the store ", everyone looked at him horrified expecting a cruel reply from the admin but instead," of course, sir. You can shop all you want ", they saw a respectable answer from the admin which made them dumbfounded.
The admin floated in front of Damian and opened the shop window.
[ Refined Iron Sword (D), Price : 800 Gold Coins ]
[ Ring of Recovery (D), Price : 1000 coins ]
[ Pendant of Nature (D), Price : 1500 coins ]
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' nope, not these ones. I'm looking forward skills ', Damian thought and asked," can I buy skills? ", the admin looked at him and opened the skill section.
Damian scrolled and saw the skills he needed. Although low ranked combining them will give him an amazing skill and more over. He will get a useful skill after buying more than 5 skills from the shop for buying the skills first. He immediately said the required skills as he already knew their prices.
" Give me the skills : Basic Necromancy, Soul Harvest, Blood Sucking, Soul Furnance*2, soul storage, Basic Dark Magic, Alchemy, poison resistance, curse resistance, fatigue resistance and Discerning Eye. Also the fire ball skill and mana blade ", the admin looked dumbfounded.
They're all low level skills. Almost ignored by everyone. The customer can buy a more powerful skill but he didn't. The only valuable skill he asked among them is Alchemy which is complete unlike others. And Alchemy alone costs more than 3000 gold coins. But Damian after exterminating whole goblin forest thoroughly, got this many coins.
[ Gold Coins : 15,207 ]
He didn't leave a single one of them. From level 1 to level 5, he killed every goblin he can find in the tutorial.
The admin stumbled but compiled nonetheless. He isn't in a position to deny anything anyway.
[ Achievement : First Customer on server has been unlocked ]
[ Title : Customer One has been given ]
[ You'll receive 20% discount from the shop for being the first to access and buy from the tower shop ]
[ As a privilege, your purchases will be kept as a secret by the tower from anyone ]
[ Achievement : First skill holder has been unlocked ]
[ Title : Independent Awakener has been given ]
[ Similar skills have been detected ]
[ Combing skills ]
[ Soul furnace has been enhanced ]
[ Achievement : First Skill Combination in Earth Server ]
[ As a privilege, you'll receive the Innate skill : Synthesis (unranked) from the tower ]
[ +3000 Gold coins have been awarded for all your achievements ]
[ Some constellations are aghast at your achievements ]
[ Few constellations are showing unwavering interest in you ]
[ Few constellations are growing as your purchases are concealed by the tower ]
[ Few constellations are showing extreme intrest in you ]
[ Few constellations are frowning at your achievements ]
' no doubt you'll frown. You may have chosen your apostles already. That means you're weak constellations ', Damian thought reading the messages.
Only weak constellations will choose apostles this early. Granting a boost at the start thinking they will achieve Good innate skill with their performance but his appearance must have deviated their plans. Even then, a constellation can gain apostle at this point but it's forbidden from revealing anything in the tutorial by the tower.
It's already a balance breaker to have apostles this early in the server as it'll have significant increase in their innate skill rank. Still, it also creates a clear shift of power. Apostles will grow strong since the beginning under the guidance of a constellation and will get more faith for them. A simple trade, but only he knew the loophole here.
Once you became an apostle, unless your constellation let you go, you can never leave their faction or else you'll face their wrath. Even tower won't intervene in this process. Players will know what kind of mistake they made in later stages when high level constellations chose their apostles. And during the war between factions of multiple constellations.
It'll become a headache, one huge headache since they will forced to fight a war and if their constellation lost, they will perish with them or used as nutrient for the winning party or worse became a slave to the other side. So yeah, that's a big red flag. If you have to choose, you need choose abstract constellations. Those more ancient than gods and embody a particular concept.
They're said to be true gods and are omnipotent in their domain aspect, and also far more powerful compared to normal gods. They're literally older than the tower itself and had no restrictions on them. And gaining favour from such beings will be at least on the level of torturous difficulty.
Though benefits also are huge. For example, if you can gain the favour of constellation, eternal night sky, you'll have the literal domain of night under you. And abstract constellations won't easily go to war since their concept can become chaotic and endanger everything.
There are many abstract constellations from other mythologies. But they rarely get involve with players and tower. If they did, then it's only for one purpose, fun. Yep, these bloody constellations see their struggle for survival as fun.
And the constellation he had his eyes on, is a huge one. Literally the embodiment of luck and destiny, Fortuna. A very nuetral and fun loving constellation. Most constellations didn't even dare to oppose her, luck and destiny are pretty scary concepts afterall. Now he is needs to combine multiple skills together. He got his signature skills to get afterall.
He activated the innate skill : synthesis. He selected multiple skills at once.
[ Do you wish to combine the skills? ]
[ Warning : Incompatibility may lead to downgrade in resultant skill ]
[ Do you still wish to proceed? ]
[ Yes / No ]
Damian clicked on yes. In synthesis, there is no failure just downgrade or disappointment. But the good thing is that, when hidden synergies are detected in skills, they will receive massive leap in the ranks. Just like now.
[ Hidden synergies are discovered ]
[ A New Skill never seen in the tower is being created ]
[ Astral Alchemy (Unique) has been created ]
A grin broke on his face. His signature skill that helped him create heaven defying things that were never seen in tower. The skill itself generated by synthesis are unique, they only exists with the creator and won't be passed down to anyone unless they know the order and the exact skills he combined.
With this his step towards revenge is Succesful. Now he just needs to make sure his other skills are also developed.
" Also give me life drain*2 and another blood sucking. A blood storage skill, and mainly the mana circuit and mana resistance skill. Hmm, you know what, also the corruption resistance skill, calm mind skill, coldblood skill, stone heart skill, iron will, purification skill and finally give me the mana drain*2 too. Also the five senses enhancements please. That's all for now thanks ", Damian spoke.
The admin looked at him so weirdly. But he compiled once again nonetheless. He got almost 20000 gold coins just from one customer. A high trade in history of tutorial. And also one that many constellations set their sights on.
[ Achievement : Prodigal has been unlocked ]
It may look like this. But this is one of the condition to gain luck stat and discard that drop rate mechanism. Also a major step to attract the attention of Fortuna. The luck stat is a unique one only few players possessed in his previous life.