Necessary Investment

Before Knife-Fighting, everything was fake except strength.

And in Lu PingAn's eyes, it was not just his own tier that needed improving. He was even considering how to open the way for his companions. What needed to improve now was their overall combat power.

"...Too expensive, but there's no other way." Gritting his teeth, Lu PingAn knew he had to make a choice.

And so, the total Life Points he had only just managed to set right fell into the negatives again.

Over the course of his journey, Lu PingAn had accumulated many cards. Some were the result of talent shares, while others could be considered gifts from fate.

He had gained far too much from the Scholar, Gardener, Runner, Soldier, and other paths.

It was no longer merely a matter of having too many cards to play. After obtaining many of them, he had not even properly examined them before tossing them straight into storage.

"I have too many cards. Let me read their descriptions before deciding which one to play."

"There are too many skill trees. I don't know which one I should climb."

"Uh, I leveled up too quickly. Before I could train my core profession abilities to level up, I skipped straight into the next stage without learning or awakening many of the auxiliary and secondary profession abilities. I missed a lot of useful profession abilities from Tier 1 Runner, Tier 1 Gardener, and Tier 1 Soldier."

In a sense, this was a problem he fundamentally could not share—unless Lu PingAn wanted people to spit in his face while the onlookers cheered.

But from his perspective, he was genuinely a little innocent.

It had only been four or five months since he had gone from an ordinary person to where he was now. For normal people,