My Servant System

Chapter 1156: Chapter 1155: System Based Improvements (2)

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Switching to the 1k chapters now, so when the new batch of locked chapters come up for November, don't purchase them and save your coins.

[See? Isn't it amazing to see what I can provide to you should you take a moment to utilize the services I am obligated to give you? Who would have thought that utilizing the System Shop would give such great benefits that would make your life easier? Such a novel idea, that...]

'Oh hush you... no need to get so sassy with me; just be grateful that I'm deciding to make use of this now, alright?'

[Hmm... no, I won't be quiet. You should have been making use of this many months - if not years ago, and yet you haven't! Better late than never I suppose, but that only means you have a lot of rushing to do to catch yourself up to where you should be!]

I held back a snort, though my lips curled into a small smile as I rolled my eyes and asked 'And how am I meant to rush? Are you offering to loan me an abundance of Shop Points to begin my shopping spree, or am I meant to go rush through a million and one quests to get rich?'

Browsing through some of the techniques, I selected a few more before rolling my eyes again as the System said [Go do some more quests you useless puppy! Surely you can see how rewarding they are considering you're already so rich!], adding those techniques to my cart and making that total rise slowly but surely.

Each thing I added was yet another manual or scroll about the fundamentals of a certain topic, and specifically I kept each of them geared towards things I was already good at but not perfect with just yet, like enchanting or raw mana control.

My skill level in them was high, yes, but I was always welcoming to the idea of shoring up the foundations for those skills in any way possible, especially if they were rather cheap and offered a small discount on the techniques that were above them.

They also seemed to unlock new things that I hadn't seen quite yet in the shop, so that meant that this wasn't entirely a waste either, so I decided to reward myself for my accidental ingenuity by acquiring two intriguing books.

[Friede's Manual of Intermediate Ice Enchantments (42,500 SP): A collection of various spells painstakingly perfected for those with an Ice attunement alongside the potential location to source materials to improve the potency of those spells]

[Friede's Manual of 'Frost Laced Canoness' (55,000 SP): A fighting style created by Canoness Friede that utilizes Ice Magic, Scythes, Gladius' and Daggers to create a blizzard of both Ice and Steel]

It was seemingly a set of manuals purveyed by the same woman, and considering each of their price tags I was rather hopeful about the contents within, so I added them to the list before spending a slew of points all at the same time, draining my wallet back down to 400,000 SP.

I wanted to keep a cushion of around 100,000 SP at all times, where I would be able to purchase a few [Vitrea Ward Rings] safely should we find ourselves in a perilous situation; the remaining 300,000 SP was being saved because I wanted to purchase some more accessories for us sometime soon, and they were all pretty expensive.

As soon as I purchased that many manuals though, my thoughts were jumbled around before my mind went blank as a large amount of knowledge was loaded directly into my head, and each second stretched out to feel like hours as I studied over things that I shouldn't be able to know just yet.

Spells I hadn't come up with or managed to get into a workable state were suddenly known to me, the footwork I required to fight more effectively was taught to me instantly, the vast array of various ways to go about casting or enchanting spells was now stuffed inside my head...

All of it happened at the same time, and while there was a moment where I felt my brain throbbing hard as all that knowledge required a large amount of energy to imprint, it was a surprisingly painless process that only left me feeling a bit drained mentally; not tired but certainly not ready to do anything that required an immense amount of thought.

Each manual I had purchased was now securely lodged within my brain, and they only improved my abilities as they settled onto the shelves of my mental library nearby all of the other things I had learned over the years, finding their spot and getting cozy with everything else.

It felt like I had known these things forever, and that was a fascinatingly scary thing to realize as I combed over these memories, wondering if there was a possibility of one of these books having a 'virus' or something similar written into its pages.

[As happy as I am that you are finally realizing that kind of 'security risk' to yourself, please rest assured that there is nothing in here that would alter your mentality or personality in drastic ways. I cannot promise that you won't feel different afterwards since some of these books hold potent knowledge, but I can guarantee there isn't some latent soul lingering within the pages waiting for your guard to drop.]

'Because that's reassuring coming from the librarian..?'

We shared a chuckle at that, though again I took the System at its word since so far there had been no reason for it to attempt something like that, and with the confirmation that there were Gods and Goddesses that existed in this world - or this reality - I wasn't really going to demand answers from someone who had gifted me this second lease on life.

[The idea of a 'corrupt' System is rather cliche, no? You were already betrayed in your first life, so the idea is already soured; besides, what's the fun in that, right? Who wants to read a story where the main character is betrayed by the very thing that made them the main character? It's shocking, yes, but almost never done in a satisfying way... at least not in a way that isn't comparable in terms of satisfaction when compared to a 'normal' story...]