Alexia

Okay, since I have three thousand six hundred and ninety-eight points to spend, and I need to spend three thousand of them on the Anti-Magic Barrier skill…

I purse my lips for a second before eventually just searching through the store for a bit. But after not finding anything better than the Anti-Magic Barrier skill, I go ahead and purchase the thing without any hesitation.

[*New General Skill* – Anti-Magic Barrier: Passively creates an anti-magic barrier directly over the user’s body that will absorb twenty percent of the magical damage the user takes until the barrier is fully saturated. The barrier will then take ten minutes before it is replaced with a brand new barrier. Skill is automatically slotted due to free open slots.]

Right after getting the skill, I notice a very thin layer of energy covering my body thanks to Quantum Attunement. And the barrier is made out of pure energy, not any sort of elemental energy like I’m used to seeing.

Very strange.

If I had to guess, that’s probably the same type of energy I will need to condense into bullets to get that Anti-Magic Bullet skill as well.

I study the barrier for several seconds, briefly pondering over how much magical damage it can take before it becomes oversaturated, then I focus on the store again.

Okay, I have six hundred and ninety-eight points left to spend. So what should I spend it all on…

I look around for a moment for somewhere to sit as I peruse the store, only to find a chair suddenly appearing right behind me.

Convenient.

After sitting down on the chair, I refocus my attention on the store screen that has moved in front of me, over my legs. Then I begin browsing.

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It takes me about an hour of browsing before I make my final decision for my purchase.

First up, a Tier 3 item called a Portable Home. It costs about three hundred points and takes the form of a ring that I can use to summon either the default house or a house I have stored in the ring. The ring also automatically transforms the land to be able to contain it before reverting the land back after the house is recalled.

Something I’m gonna need if I’m planning on leaving our island. Actually, something I need for our island as well, considering the… house… I have in the clearing. No offense to their work.

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The default house in this ring is absolutely going to still be better though. It’s a Tier 3 item after all.

And in addition to the house, I also get a Tier 3 item called an Energizer Ring. Something that increases the regeneration rate of the holder. Mostly because it has a note mentioning that it works for users with soul instead of health and mana as well.

With that ring costing three hundred and seventy points, I’m left with a total of twenty-eight points remaining. All of which I go ahead and spend on random tools I might need at some point or clothes. Because I need more than just a single set of armor to wear around everywhere. And it’s not likely that I’ll be able to get more normal clothes for a while.

I also buy just a little bit of daily necessities just in case Astrid forgets or runs out.

Then I lean back in my chair and close out of the Shop window, having already put everything in my storage ring. Except the two rings I bought which I put on my fingers instead.

There weren’t any other skills in the store that really interested me beyond a couple other Unique ones, which I couldn’t get thanks to buying the Anti-Magic Barrier skill. None of the skills there were the ones suggested to me by the System’s Creator either, so items were more important to buy here.

I would’ve bought a better weapon, but there wasn’t one offered. At least, there wasn’t an elemental weapon that let me use my quantum element offered. And the same with armor.

A rather unfortunate side effect of me being the only quantum element user in the System most likely.

Because there aren’t any other quantum beings registered as users in the System. At least, from what was available to the public before the Reset.

Quantum beings have no interest in the System from what I’ve heard. And while I didn’t know why that was before, I do now that I know about our ability to directly manipulate energy.

Meaning a quantum being should be able to do what the System does without it.

Although part of it is also just because the quantum beings are known to dislike the normal realm and rarely ever leave the quantum realm.

Makes me wonder if I’ll ever meet any quantum beings myself.

I frown at the thought of possibly meeting the System Creator’s parents. Because that would be rather awkward.

Not like I can explain away to a distraught parent that his or her son took control of my body and killed himself with it. I know that logically I hold no blame, but a parent isn’t likely to be logical from what I’ve heard.

Although I don’t remember the last time I had a parent worrying about me, with the exception of Gramps. But he is more like a grandfather than a parent.

Last time I saw Mom was when Astrid and I were just about four or so years old. Sixteen years ago. And that was when she left to go on a job as an adventurer and never came back.

I summon my polearm before placing the bottom of it on the ground and just using it to keep my hands busy as I think, just moving it around or examining the markings on the staff part of it.

My mind returns to the System’s Creator mentioning that my parents were both Ascendants. But if that was truly the case, then did my mother really die on a job? One meant originally for a Tier 5?

And something I didn’t question at the time was that he said ‘are’ both Ascendants.

He didn’t say were, or that they were Ascendants when they were alive.

He said are.

Meaning they are likely still alive somewhere.