Chapter 144: System Shop! Help!

The panel to the System Shop immediately opened in front of me as soon as I thought about it. Just like before, there was a long list of items inside it, with costs ranging from fifteen shop coins to fifteen billion shop coins. Since I already have more than seven billion shop coins, I knew that I could buy anything, assuming that it wouldn’t cost me that much.

Hopefully, those potions that could nullify the effects of the Scorch Poison and Deep Freeze Poison would be affordable. Because if they were available in the shop but they were so expensive that I can buy them then I would’ve been better off not knowing that they existed.

It would be like when someone throws you a rope while you’re on the edge of a cliff… but then the rope was too brittle that it gave in on your weight. And then, you fall to your death.

My consciousness began slipping away the more I scrolled down the marketplace. From a distance, I could hear Shen Rong’s panicked voice shouting at everyone to stop the match but I raised my hand to stop them. They cannot do anything to save me from this poison so removing me off the arena would just deem me the loser of the semi-finals match. But, on an off-chance that I could recover from this poison, then I’ll take it and win this match.

The scrolling continued.

My surroundings became quiet.

And finally, I reached the potion section in my System. I immediately bought a couple of high-grade health potions, each costing thirty shop coins. After drinking them, I felt a bit better… but the unbearable pain was still so overwhelming that I couldn’t really stand up. And as for the potions, there were only the health potion, mana potion, and fatigue potion. There aren’t any signs of Burn Heal or Ice Heal Potion that would get rid of the poisons in my body.

Since it has come to this, there isn’t anything I could do except to use everything in my arsenal. And that means, using all my skills.

A series of notifications rang in my head as most of my active skills activated. Once again, my Strong Will Skill managed to succeed and I went into controlled berserk mode. My body ballooned up in size and my eyes turned red as well. I could barely hear the other people assuming that my body was reacting to the poison but such wasn’t the case. Ignoring their murmurs, I continued trying to fight the virus out of my system.

While all these were happening, I also continued scrolling through the System Shop in hopes that I could find a temporary cure to my dying self. Needless to say, I’m going to die soon and my adrenaline is the only thing that’s keeping me alive. After a minute of scrolling, I finally arrived at the most expensive items, weapons, and armor in the shop. They were all at the price of fifteen billion minus one shop coin as if it was some sort of a bargaining shop.

I was ready to close my eyes… I got too overconfident in myself that I took the poison head-on. I should’ve dodged but I didn’t. It was a stupid thing to do but I did it anyway.

I heaved a sigh of relief as regret filled my mind. Finally, I got to the last item in the shop and I prepared to leave this world.

…

<Ti-ring!>

<Congratulations! You’ve reached level 20!>

<You’ve reached the required level!>

<Locked items in the shop will be unlocked!>

<Ti-ring!>

<Congratulations! You’ve reached level 25!>

<You’ve reached the required level!>

<Locked items in the shop will be unlocked!>

<Ti-ring!>

<Congratulations! You’ve reached level 30!>

<<You’ve reached the requ >

<…..>

<System Shop Level Up>

<Congratulations! Your System Shop is now Level 2>

A series of notifications rang in my head as the scroll button for the System Shop became even smaller. A few buttons were added in the shop as well. Before, there were only Potions, Armors, and Weapons.

But now, there were two additional buttons Elements and Skills.

If my eyes could open wide right now, they would’ve done so already as I saw the additional products in the System Shop. I felt a smile form on my face as I went to the Element and Skills Section.

First, there were a few Elements in the shop… no, let me change that. Apparently, every discovered Element was there in the System Shop… and that includes the poison element.

A sliver of hope! There’s a chance that I can get out of this mess. If I were to buy the Poison Element, there’s a huge chance that I’ll be immune to a majority of poisons including the Scorch Poison and Deep Freeze Poison. But that’s just an assumption. Maybe those two poisons would work on someone with the poison element as well so there’s also a chance that it wouldn’t work.

But I’m willing to take the chance.

Pause.

My breathing stopped short, not because I’m already dead, but because the prize for an Element is Eight Billion Shop Coins! I was lacking at least a billion shop coins which is a lot, considering I only saved up Seven Billion after all these days.

Dejected, I moved to the Skills Section in hopes that I would find the right skill to counter the poison. There were two sections in the Skills Section which read ‘Passive’ and ‘Active’. It probably refers to skills that could be activated and skills that automatically activate when certain conditions are met. Well, everyone knows that… why am I thinking about that?

“Hui-ying, did you know about this?” I asked as my eyes skimmed through every Skill available. Compared to the Elements Section, every skill here only costs a hundred million, which is very affordable. First, there were the physical Skills, then the elemental Skills starting from the Fire Element. I didn’t bother checking everything since I know which section I should be skimming through.

In just a few seconds, I finally reached the part where all skills related to the Poison Element are listed.

And there it was! As if by some sort of miracl no, call it divine intervention, the first Skill listed in the Poison Element Section was the one I’m looking for.

[Skill: Poison Nullification (Passive)

Description: Automatically nullifies any and all poisons]

[Skill: Healthy Body (Passive)

Description: Removes all toxic and wastes on the body. Grants the user a healthy body. This skill is based on another System, courtesy of the System.]

[Skill: Hundred Poison (Passive)

Description: Grants you the knowledge of a hundred high-grade poison. Gaining this ability will also grant you the knowledge of their antidotes.]

[Skill: Thousand Poison (Passive)

Description: Please purchase the Hundred Poison Skill to unlock this Skill]

After seeing the first four skills related to the Poison Element, I knew that I need all of them so I didn’t think twice about purchasing them.

<Would you like to buy these skills?>

<Yes/No>

“Yes,” I said out loud.

Suddenly, I felt a drastic change all over my body as I obtained these four skills. I may have lost four hundred million shop coins but they were worth it. In just a split of a second, my body reverted back to its former state no, perhaps better than that. And adding to that, the knowledge of a Thousand Poison invaded my mind as if that knowledge was some sort of downloadable data being installed in my brain.

Of course, the Scorch Poison and Deep Freeze Poison were included there as well. My mind was also filled with information regarding the antidotes for all those Poisons.

This is a cheat right?! No matter how I look at it, these are all cheat. But then again, I did work hard to get all those shop coins so I basically earned these skills… I mean, I literally earned these skills.

However, I don’t think I really needed the last three skills. Once I got the Poison Nullification Skill, my boy immediately got rid of the poison inflicted upon me. The other three skills just complemented the first skill. In any case, I bought all four of these skills just to be on the safe side… and I guess I could say all of them worked satisfactorily. In fact, they exceeded my expectations. I never would’ve thought that the System would just hand me a skill just like that. I did have to spend shop coins but that’s basically from the System as well.

A series of gasped entered my ears as I immediately stood up and wore a smirk in front of Zeng Meihui. However, my expression changed in a split second upon realizing that she was bawling her eyes out in front of me. She was right there, kneeling while wiping her tears. Even when she stopped crying, she was still sniffling.

Unlike her haughty and arrogant appearance before, right now she was like a young lady who got her guard down. Compared to her appearance before, she was now a hundre no, two hundred percent more attractive than before. I extended my hand. “It’s fine, I’m okay.” I grinned as I helped her up.

“You’re okay.” She smiled as she wiped another tear that streamed down her cheeks.

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