Chapter 22: Shopping Time

' ': speaking to himself

" ": regular talks

[ ] : status and store related sections

<Fireball> :silent activation

<Fireball !!> : voiced activation

*...* : action

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After the lecture Helen gave him, she called Ashena and together they entered Arthur's soul space through the tattoos created by their contract that located on Arthur's chest.

Surprisingly they can actually able converse with each other through Arthur's Gamer ability. Both Helen and Ashena are recognized by < The Gamer > abilities interface as Arthur's subordinates.

With Helen's guidance, Arthur opened up the store page and start looking for a way to assemble the rest of the elemental magics and some other magic systems that he can get cheaply and would be helpful to him shortly after their actşvations.

He first gathered the earth and water magics, lightning spells were more expansive but he still able to cover that section relatively cheap too.

He already had spells like <lightning bolt> and <sparks>, and he got < B-rank / Lightning armor > from the zombie boss as part of his loot but after buying seven other spell to create lightning magic Arthur realized that jutsu was a more of a specialized technique just like his < Ironflesh > spell and couldn't be used to create lightning magic, so he added another spell to his list of cheap but relatively reliable lightning spells to complete the rest of the set.

After other elemental magics, he bought poison magic and a couple of other supportive spells to match up various situations. He also bought the mana manipulation skill book itself and some theory books about it as an extra to read in his free time.

He searched through the body forging techniques to increase his physical stats passively. After a couple of minutes of searching, he found a fairly good one with a not so expansive price, <Demon Bone Forging Technique > for 18,000 coins.

After that, he also upgraded his mana practice skill... In truth, ıt wasn't really an upgrade. The skill he had before was called <Mana Gathering Technique ( basic)>. He bought this skill nearly a month ago for 5000 coins, this time he bought the intermediate and the advanced versions of the same skill.

For regular mages, these two techniques can only be practiced after mastering the former one but with his special ability as long as he meets the stat requirements of the skills Arthur could use all three skills at the same time.

While he was browsing through the pages Helen guided him from the back and told him some possible skills that can be useful to him in the future or some skills that might have combined effects beneficial to him.

Buying spells was easy, even before reading the description of the skill you can understand what it does from the name of the spell and you can choose to look it up if the spell sounds like something useful to you but the part he had trouble was which aura skill he should buy. As a start Aura in other ways, the techniques about the life energy < Qi > come with 2 basic variables. Internal Qi skills that you slowly built up your foundation start a small spark inside of your heart or External Qi skills that form a Qi core in your body and you would absorb outside energy into your body to enlarge your core.

Each has its own advantages, Internal skills are more stable and they more leaned towards self-preservation, they grant various abilities depend on the technique but all of them have another common point. Longevity, which is the effect had a big influence on Arthur's decision.

As for the External skill they lean towards more direct, pure power. They grant vast energy reserves that can be used to boost physical stats actively and can be increased in a short time depending on the energy reserves around the practitioner. That's a big problem for the current Arthur. since there is no mana or another type of external energy resource in the One Piece world. He thinks that situation might change in the instant dungeons he created but that is a big if for taking a decision that would affect the rest of your life.

Once he chooses and starts practicing either of the external or the internal techniques and If he ends up doesn't like this type of Qi technique he chose, Arthur can't just turn change back to the other way.

Since Arthur doesn't plan to stay in the One-piece world, the external Qi practicing part might be more effective in the long run but in his old world, he read some novels that entities stronger than external Qi practitioners themself can just shatter their core and destroy their power base in a single strike or somehow poisoning the energy they absorb to criple or kill them.

Imagining the aftereffects of such weakness Arthur decided to ask Helen about this before choosing a technique. After confirming this possibility, Arthur directly closed the store sections containing the external Qi skills.

Although Helen warned him about if he ever met a hostile entity so powerful that can shatter his Qi core in a single strike it doesn't matter if he used either of the techniques he would be at mercy of that entity anyway but Arthur still choosed to go with the internal Qi way.

After a short while, he found a skill book called < Wrath of Blazing Hellhound > that cost 29000 coins. With this skill, he can both utilize his innate fire affinity and the darkness affinity comes with his summons. He also looked for a skill that also adds the lightning affinity but the cheapest skill that combining all three of them still costs way over his current budget but also lacks the overall quality to spend extra time to practice it when he got the coin to buy it. Also, this technique was a temporary one until he can afford a better one for long term practice.

After buying the Qi technique Arthur started to look around store pages to assemble a price list for magic types like sand, ice, lava, and other combination types of the basic elements but before losing himself on those pages Helen interrupts him.

"Arthur before spending all your money don't forget to buy skills for the illusion magic, at the start it possibly won't affect the people with a strong will but still it can give you an edge with small distractions and the zombies you currently fighting in the dungeons have no resistance against this type of attacks."

With Helen's advice, Arthur starts searching for illusion spells but instead of looking out randomly, He directly opened up the Jutsu section of the Naruto World,

He thought that instead of spending ten or maybe fifteen thousand coins for just some iterations for invisibility or nightmare type spells that he can't really utilize at low levels, Arthur chose to buy some cheap D and C rank genjutsus to create illusion magic.