Shopping Spree

Animagus (A+ rank): Can transform into any animal you have petted within the past seven natural days. Cannot be seen through by skills or items below A-rank. The skill is interrupted upon taking any damage. While transformed, you cannot use any skills other than God-Bestowed Talents. No cooldown. Each use consumes 50 Mana.

There were quite a few restrictions, but it was incredibly practical. And that final restriction—being unable to use skills other than God-Bestowed Talents—was simply wonderful. This skill had been made for her!

3,000 gold. Bought!

Shadow Control (A+ rank), 2,500 gold! It could control a shadow and let it move freely. The shadow could use all of the original body's skills, but all its attributes were only 20% of the original body's. An absolutely perfect skill for setting people up! Bought!

Fountain of Light (A+ rank): Creates a well that lasts for three minutes. The spring water that gushes forth restores HP. Every ml of spring water restores 1 HP. Skill Cooldown Time: 30 minutes. Each use consumes 1% Mana.

A lifesaving thing. Not only could it save her own life, but with this skill, as long as she joined a team battle, she would not be casually abandoned. Even the male and female leads would not easily make a move against her. 3,000 gold. Bought.

Ice Flower Seal (C-rank): Creates a snowflake that flies toward the target. Within three seconds of touching the target, it freezes them solid. The freezing effect is affected by the caster's Intelligence Value. (Chanting time: 2 seconds. Cooldown time: 30 seconds. Each use consumes 50 Mana.)

An ice-element control skill. Though it could be countered by fire-element spells, that could not be helped. Most skills restrained one another anyway, and it was only 103 gold. Bought!

Magic Missile (C-rank): Guides a magic missile toward the target. No chanting time. No cooldown time. Consumes 10 Mana per second.

An instant spell that required no chanting. 97 gold. Bought!

God of Cookery's Bib (B-rank): When you eat while wearing this item, all beneficial effects provided by food are doubled.

An item she could use for the rest of her life. 700 gold. Bought!

Percy's Cat Toy (F-rank): It had no special effects, but cats went crazy for it and it attracted cats.

It would pair perfectly with her Meow Meow Hostel, and it was cheap too—only 17 gold. Bought.

Compass (E-rank): It could help you detect unclaimed treasure within one kilometer and guide you to it.

One kilometer was a little short, but for 80 gold, she took it.

Magician's Denture (B-rank): Contains one cubic meter of space and occupies one tooth socket. It can hide anything you do not want others to know about. (Equipment or items placed inside cannot be detected by any skill or item, but cannot be used either.)

A must-have for the rich! Yu Xunge considered herself to have far too many good things. 999 gold was acceptable.

Alchemy Set (E-rank): Increases your alchemy success rate and has a 1% chance of raising your potion by one rank.

Alchemy Notes: While reading, you have a chance to comprehend an alchemy formula you have not learned. (The formula can be at most one rank higher than your Alchemy skill level.) (Only takes effect once every 30 natural days.)

Engineering Notes: While reading, you have a chance to comprehend an engineering formula you have not learned. (The formula can be at most one rank higher than your Engineering skill level.) (Only takes effect once every 30 natural days.)

The Alchemy Set was not expensive, only 50 gold. The latter two notes came to 2,000 gold together.

But 2,000 gold was not expensive. Her Alchemy and Engineering were both Advanced now, so reading these notes gave her a chance to comprehend Master-rank alchemy formulas. They were practically a treasure vault she could carry around. Even if she could only comprehend something once a month, they were worth it!

She also found Cooking Notes. These were much cheaper, only 350 gold.

She bought them all.

Money only had meaning when exchanged for resources. Otherwise, it was all just waste paper.

The 20,000 gold she had exchanged from the goblin, plus the 3,116 gold she had not spent when she arrived that morning, came to a total of gold. After buying all this, she only had 220 gold left.

Most skills obtainable from dungeons after the Game Invasion were C-rank. Since she could buy them, she naturally chose things she could not obtain herself. Thus, she only bought two C-rank spells: one for control and one for attack. Enough was enough.

She focused on top-tier skills she had never come into contact with even by the time she died in her previous life, as well as items with unusual uses.

Shopping time really flew by.

After claiming her packages and clicking to learn all the skills, Yu Xunge reluctantly left the Auction House.

12:42

There were still eighteen minutes until the closed beta ended.

She ran to the Herb Shop and did not leave until she had filled more than thirty backpack slots with herbs.

12:47

Yu Xunge stood some distance from the Undead Palace, looking at it. Ever since she had stolen the Undead City Lord's God-Bestowed Talent last time, the guards outside the palace had increased several hundredfold. Those undead soldiers were only one step short of joining hands to surround the palace.

But it did not matter. Maintaining her goblin skin, Yu Xunge walked to the Teleportation Array in Undead City and used the last 5 gold on her to teleport, arriving in Blood Moon City, one of the main cities of the elves.

12:57

Yu Xunge stood before the elven main city and told the elven captain of the guard, who carried an ornate bow on his back, that there was a problem with her anchor point and she needed to see the city lord. The other party drew his bow and aimed it at her.

At that moment, Yu Xunge's mind nearly went blank. Almost the instant that little person's name turned red, she did not hesitate. She immediately used the Thief God's Steal—or perhaps, the robber's steal.

Betting on the Thief God's name, you attempt to steal the God-Bestowed Talent of Elphara, captain of the Blood Moon City guard.

Steal successful.

You have died.

The screen went dark.

It soon lit up again. This time, the only thing on the screen was a goblin in ghost form standing in a graveyard.

There were two options in the upper-right corner. She could either find her own corpse and revive in a weakened state, or wait for automatic revival. Revival countdown: 47:57:36.

Yu Xunge held her phone without moving, waiting quietly until the time reached 13:06.

Her phone turned into black smoke, leaving only two packages on the ground.

She looked at her hands. Good. She had not turned into a ghost. Even though she had long known that she would not truly die during the closed beta, seeing her character become a ghost had still startled her for a moment.

The first thing Yu Xunge did after relaxing was alter the information on her panel and hide the newly acquired God-Bestowed Talent. Then she tucked the packages into an inner pocket of her clothes and drank an Invisibility Potion. The skills she had learned surfaced in her mind—the incantations, hand gestures, and techniques for circulating and drawing upon her magic all seemed etched into her brain.

She could sense a small area centered on herself, but most of it seemed shrouded in a thin mist. Only one portion was exceptionally clear, and that small portion twisted and turned like the route displayed by a running app.

As long as she wanted to, she could immediately use magic to move to those locations within that area. Clearly, they were places she had once set foot in.