“It’s a completely different world, so it’d be almost impossible for you to adjust if I transported you just as you were before. This is another freebie from me. On top are the points you guys have to spend. They’re more or less the same for all of you. Some of you might have a different amount depending on your attributes and actions before you died, but it’s just differences like whether or not you worked out or studied hard. Effort will never betray you. Good advice!”
Hmm. I can’t tell if 150 Points is a lot or very little, since there seems to be no way to talk with my classmates to compare. My grades weren’t that bad. I wasn’t bad at sports either, but I had no idea if those mattered for the evil god’s criteria. I didn’t care about where I ranked relative to my classmates, but I would be happy if I had more points than the average person from our old world. Social welfare probably doesn’t exist, so I’ll need all the advantages I can get to survive in a completely new world.
“Hmm. Well, even the person who has the fewest points of anyone here has more than an average person from your old world, so I’m sure things will work out if you put your heart into it!”
Put our hearts into it, huh? We weren’t getting any cheat skills, so it would probably be impossible to live a chill and easy life. I should keep that in mind while deciding what skills to get.
“You want skills that aren’t in the list? Hmm, all right. Go ahead and tell me what you want. I’ll add them to the list if they’re reasonable. Plunder? Sure, I guess! Copy? Sure! A 2x EXP skill? I’ll add in a 4x and 10x variant as well! Skin Lightening? Really? Well, okay. Heroic Aptitude? What, do you want to become a hero?”
Well then, it seems like everyone’s just throwing out all kinds of requests without holding back at all. I was just about to request some safe and sensible skills, but I guess I lost my chance...
The evil god (at least, that was what he called himself) didn’t reject many of the requests, and a lot of new skills were added to the list in the interface window. The skills that seemed useful required a lot of points to obtain, and the ones that didn’t required very few. These skills look fair and balanced at first glance, but I wonder...
“Oh, yeah, one more thing—If you don’t have enough points to obtain a certain skill, then that skill won’t be displayed for you. If you don’t see the skill that you requested, then there’s your answer!”
Based on what he said just now, a lot of skills were added, and I’m assuming that a decent percentage of them require more than 150 Points. What I really need right now, though, is some sort of tutorial or help guide. The descriptions for these skills are too brief.
“Ah yeah, I guess not all of you are familiar with this process—especially girls who don’t play real video games. I’ll add a help guide.”
Oh, that’s convenient. Let’s see—20 Points required? Wait, what? Do I need to spend points to unlock the guide? Isn’t that also kind of expensive? Wait, is this a onetime thing?
“That should be all, right? Take your time and choose the skills you want. You have about an hour to choose. There are no cheat skills on this list, so choose carefully!”
The number of skills that were listed in my window had more than doubled as a result of all the skills that the boy added from my classmates’ requests. Are there really no cheat skills here? Some of these seem ridiculous. There are definitely some skills that seem like they could be overpowered if used properly. One skill that stands out to me is the Copy Skill, which requires 100 Points to get. Again, is this really balanced?
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All right, what skill should I get first? The Help Guide seems like a good choice.
The description for the Help Guide was this:
Detailed explanations and advice will be displayed. Cannot be removed after purchase.
Yeah, it makes sense that you can’t remove the Help Guide after obtaining it. The price would be pointless, since you could just get a refund after getting the information you wanted. Should I get this?
Yeah, of course. Sure, 20 Points is expensive, but it’s definitely worth the cost. I mean, it’s better than blindly grabbing skills without any advice or any foreknowledge of the world I’m getting transported to and then ending up with an awful, gimmicky character build.
It would be especially bad if I chose a race that was oppressed in the new world. I could also say the same for traits and skills that were easy targets for persecution. Common sense from the old world won’t apply here at all, so nobody’s going to save me even if I yell “Hey, that’s racist!” or “I’m being discriminated against!”
I told myself that this was a necessary expense to guarantee my own safety and obtained the Help Guide before I hesitated any further.
Oh, the display changed.
The skills that I no longer had enough points to buy disappeared, and more text was added to the description of the Help Guide. The new description text appeared within parentheses:
Detailed explanations and advice will be displayed. Cannot be removed after purchase.
(Some explanations and advice will remain accessible for browsing after transport.)
Oh, that’s convenient if I can still use this even after being transported. I guess this was a good deal after all. All right, next up is to pick my race. It looks like the Human race doesn’t require any points to choose.