Crazy Shopping

[Animagus] (A+ Rank): Can transform into any animal you have petted within the past 7 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-gifted talents. No cooldown. Each use consumes 50 mana points.

There were quite a few restrictions, but it was very practical. And that last condition—[cannot use any skills other than god-gifted talents]—was simply marvelous. This skill had been made for her!

3,000 gold. Bought!

[Shadow Manipulation] (A+ Rank): 2,500 gold! It could control shadows and 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. It was absolutely a god-tier skill for ambushing people! Bought!

[Fountain of Light] (A+ Rank): Creates a well that lasts for 3 minutes. The spring water that flows from it restores health. Each ml of spring water restores 1 health point. Skill cooldown: 30 minutes. Each use consumes 1% mana.

A lifesaving item. Not only could it save herself, but with this skill, as long as she fought in a party, she would not be easily discarded. Even the male and female leads would not readily make a move against her. 3,000 gold. Bought.

[Ice Flower Seal] (C Rank): Creates a snowflake that flies toward the target. Within 3 seconds of touching the target, it freezes them in ice. The freezing effect is affected by the caster's Intelligence. (Chanting time: 2 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds. Each use consumes 50 mana points.)

An ice-type control skill. It could be countered by fire magic, but there was nothing to be done about that. Most skills restrained each other anyway, and it was only 103 gold. Bought.

[Magic Missile] (C Rank): Guides a magic missile toward the target. No chanting time. No cooldown. Consumes 10 mana points per second.

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

[God of Food's Drool 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!

[Persi's Cat Toy] (F Rank): It has no special effects, but cats go crazy for it. It attracts cats.

It was perfect to use alongside her Meow Meow Inn, and it was cheap too—just 17 gold. Bought.

[Compass] (E Rank): It can help you detect unclaimed treasures within 1 kilometer nearby and guide you to them.

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

[Magician's Dentures] (B Rank): Contains 1 cubic meter of space and requires occupying one of your tooth sockets. It can hide anything you do not want others to know about. (Equipment or items placed inside cannot be detected by any skills or items, but they also cannot be used.)

A must-have for the wealthy! 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 to raise your potion by one rank.

[Alchemy Notes]: While reading, there is a chance to comprehend an alchemy formula you have not learned. (The formula's rank can be at most 1 rank higher than your Alchemy rank.) (Only takes effect once every 30 natural days.)

[Engineering Notes]: While reading, there is a chance to comprehend an engineering formula you have not learned. (The formula's rank can be at most 1 rank higher than your Engineering rank.) (Only takes effect once every 30 natural days.)

The Alchemy Set was cheap, only 50 gold. The latter two sets of notes together cost 2,000 gold.

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

She also found [Cooking Notes], which were much cheaper, at only 350 gold.

She bought them all.

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

The 20,000 gold she had exchanged from the goblin, plus the 3,116 gold left over from that morning, came to 23,116 gold in total. After buying all that, she had only 220 gold left.

After the game invasion, most skills obtained from dungeons were C Rank. Since she could buy skills, she naturally bought those she had no way of obtaining herself. So she only bought two C-rank spells, one for control and one for offense. That was enough.

She focused on top-tier skills she had never encountered even until her death in her previous life, as well as items with unique uses.

Shopping time truly flew by.

After collecting her packages and clicking to learn all the skills, Yu Xunge left the auction house still wanting more.

12:42

There were 18 minutes left before the closed beta ended.

She ran to the herb shop and did not leave until she had filled more than thirty inventory slots with herbs.

12:47

Yu Xunge stood some distance away from the Undead Palace, looking at it. Ever since she had stolen the Undead City Lord's god-gifted talent last time, the number of guards outside the palace had increased several hundredfold. Those undead soldiers were practically one step away from joining hands and encircling the palace.

But it did not matter. Maintaining her goblin appearance, Yu Xunge walked to the teleportation array in Undead City and used her last 5 gold coins to teleport, arriving in Bloodmoon City—one of the main elven cities.

12:57

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

At that moment, Yu Xunge's mind nearly went blank. Almost at the instant that little person's name turned red, she did not hesitate. She immediately used [Thief God's Theft, or Bandit's Theft].

[Wagering the name of the Thief God, you attempt to steal Bloodmoon City's Captain of the Guard Elfara's god-gifted talent.]

[Theft successful.]

[You have died.]

The screen went black.

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

There were two choices in the upper right corner: either find her own corpse to revive in a weakened state, or wait for automatic resurrection. The resurrection countdown read 47:57:36.

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

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

She looked at her hands. Good—she had not become a ghost. Even though she had long known that one could not truly die during the closed beta, seeing her character turn into a ghost had still given her a momentary fright.

The first thing Yu Xunge did after relaxing was alter her status panel, hiding the newly obtained god-gifted talent. Then she stuffed the packages into the inner pocket of her clothes and drank an invisibility potion. The skills she had learned surfaced in her mind—the incantations, gestures, and techniques for circulating and manipulating her magic all seemed engraved in her brain.

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

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