Chapter 14 - Ch 14 : New Skills

'Jackpot'

If this water was one of the potion's materials, then it should be sold pretty well.

However, after some thought, Ray shook his head. Even though this water might be a potion material, no one in this world has the potion recipe.

Thus this thing would be useless even if sold cheaply in the market, except...

" System, tell me. Could I get the potion recipe in the shop?"

[ DING!!! Confirmative host. Not only gaining the recipe, you could also make your own potion after learning it.]

' Yoshhhh'

Just as expected, this system was Ray's biggest benefactor. With this alone, Ray was confident that he could save the orphanage or even make it bigger than ever.

' Hehe, calm down, Ray. You still have many things left behind in this room.'

Thus, Ray continued his exploration in his own dungeon and appraised every item he got from the mission.

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- 20 minutes later -

Ray was back in the room with the dungeon core with a smile on his face. His last exploration really gives him some insight into this dungeon.

Like the spirit ore mine for the example. This spirit ore mine functioned to produce spirit ore that was used to upgrade the facilities or create a new facility. It could be said that it worked like stone or woods in some kingdom-building game.

From what Ray has seen, the cost to upgrade the room to make it bigger or make a new room was 20 spirit ores, and Ray's current spirit ore could produce about five spirit ores each day. That means Ray could either upgrade his current room or make a new room every five days.

Next is the storage room. When Ray entered the storage room, he was surprised that all the loots he gained from the last plane were stored there. It seems the storage room also functioned as the dungeon inventory, and Ray could draw the item from there anywhere through the system interface. The current storage room was 5x5 big, and there was also a choice to upgrade the storage room with a cost of 60 spirit ores.

' Hmm, it is pretty expensive, but I should be able to manage it later.'

Now Ray's current priority was to check the shop and find how he could upgrade the dungeon level. From his last exploration, Ray also learned that all the items in this dungeon were upgradeable, and the only thing preventing Ray from doing so was his low level.

' System, open the shop for me.'

[ DING!!! Opening the system shop.]

In front of Ray, a big panel of shops with almost every type of thing was displayed, and Ray was a bit overwhelmed with the situation.

Ray was trying to look for some useful items, but eventually, he gave up and choose to ask the system for some advice.

' System, what should I choose to buy first?'

[ DING!!! The host's current balance of DM currency was 6130, with 5130 from the mission and rewards the host has done before and 1000 as the initial balance. The DM currency has an exchange rate of 1 DM currency for $30 at level 1.]

[ At the host current stage, it is recommended to exchange some useful skills for combat as the host current combat capability is still far too weak.]

What the system said brought Ray back to his sense. At first, his idea was to purchase some monsters to protect the dungeon, as a dungeon would need monsters to protect them.

However, after considering what the system said, Ray decided following the system's advice was better. He still has a one-month protection period for the dungeon. Thus his current priority was to strengthen himself.

' Then, do you have a recommendation for the skill that I should purchase?'

[ DING!!! It is advised for the host to make his own choice regarding this. The system was only here for your guide and not as a babysitter.]

'*Sigh* I should have known it already.'

Ray was a bit depressed with the system's direct refusal. Even so, it only took him a moment to regain back his composure.

He started to filter out the useful skill that could be purchased by his current Bp, and eventually, the result was....

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[ 1x Contracted beast summoning (F-Rank, evolvable) - 5000 DMC]

[ 1x Hawkeye (F-Rank, evolvable) - 300 DMC ]

[ 1x Skill Camouflage (F-Rank, evolvable) - 500 DMC]

[ Do you confirm to purchase the following item? Y/N]

' Yes'

[ DING!!! Congratulation for your purchase. The skill will immediately be transferred into your body.]

Along with the notification, a surge of skills came into Ray's body, and he could feel his vision getting better from the hawkeye skill.

' Hehe, this hawkeye skill passive is pretty good. Now let's check the summoning skill.'

Ray focused his mind and then Freed suddenly appeared in front of Ray.

' Sucess!!! But to think that summoning Freed will take 50% of my energy, it seems I must start to grind my level.'

On the other hand, Freed, who was summoned here without his knowledge, was looking at Ray with some confusion at his face.

" Aoo?"

" Hehe, don't mind me, Freed. I'm just checking up on a new skill."

Ray then told Freed about the skills, and Freed was also pretty excited about it. With this skill, Ray could summon Freed everywhere, even during his dungeon exploration and it surely will make Ray's battle power increase significantly.

" Then I will depend on you from now on, partner."

" Aoo!"

Actually, this skill was a pretty big bargain that Ray got. The actual name and price for this skill were.

[ Summon and Contract (F-Rank,Evolvable) - 50,000 DMC]

But since Ray already has Freed as his contracted Boss-Monster, Ray only needed the later part of the skill, and after some haggling with the system, he gets it at the price of 5000 DMC.

Now the last skill left was the camouflage skill. This skill was one of the most useless skills if it was awakened by other awakeners, but For Ray, this work like miracles.

This skill could hide the skill with the same or lower rank than it, and since his only skill that was E-rank or higher was appraisal, other people with appraisal skill would only see Appraisal at Ray's skill list.