[Congratulations! You have awakened a cheat]
[Cheat: Fast Travel (Level 1)]
[Type: Toggle]
[Description: Instantly teleport to any location you’ve previously visited. No distance limit. Cannot be blocked by barriers or interference. 24h cooldown between uses.]
Cipher studied the cheat description.
Finally, something new. And it was actually pretty good too.
The cooldown was a full 24 hours, but the cheat was still genuinely useful. His first thought was whether he could fast travel from an apocalypse world back to the main world. If that worked, he could always escape the apocalypse world the moment things went wrong.
Even if that wasn’t possible for some reason, he could still return to the safe zone instantly. As for the cooldown, it would probably decrease as he leveled it up. He’d been having quite a streak with duplicates lately, so he decided to reroll once more.
[Congratulations! You have awakened a cheat]
[Cheat: XP Multiplier (Level 1)]
[Type: Toggle]
[Description: Gain 2x experience from all sources.]
"It’s a dud," he thought.
On the surface, it seemed like a great cheat, but for him specifically, it wasn’t all that impressive.
XP multiplication meant leveling up twice as fast, which meant needing only half the monsters to level up - which also meant earning half the cheat points. Well... he supposed it wasn’t completely useless. It could prove useful in the later stages, especially in A rank where he’d need to kill over three hundred monsters just to advance.
Now for the final roll.
[Congratulations! You have awakened a cheat]
[Cheat: True Sight (Max Level)]
[Type: Toggle]
[Description: See through all illusions, disguises, invisibility, and stealth effects. Perceive the true nature of transformed beings and enchanted objects. Cannot be countered or blocked.]
Now that’s something, he thought.
It was like an upgraded version of his appraisal skill, but far more versatile.
He exhaled. The cheats were all valuable in their own ways, though he still felt a bit unsatisfied. Well, he’d get another chance to roll later. Now he turned his attention to the shop and immediately froze.
This is... Looking at the card section, there was actually a cheat available. This was the first time a cheat had appeared in the shop. The chance of a cheat spawning was even lower than the chance of skills appearing.
Not that it mattered much since he couldn’t afford it anyway.
[Cheat: Quick Save (Level 1)]
[Cost: 1,000,000 CP]
Looking at those numbers, Cipher could only sigh and move on to the rest of the shop listings.
The second card slot contained a soul card. He examined it briefly before moving on. The packs were a mega code pack and a mega mod pack. As for the vouchers...
...
[Voucher: Code DLC]
[Description: Expands the shop’s Code Card pool.]
"You can actually do this?" He hadn’t expected something like this.
The five code cards in the shop were already quite useful with great utility. He wondered what new functionality he would gain from additional cards. Since he had the points, he decided to buy it right away.
A thousand points was definitely worth it for new cards. After purchasing the voucher, he didn’t notice anything different. He decided to buy the mega code pack to see if he could get any of the new cards.
Inside the pack were: delete card, commit card, merge card, export card, and debug card.
The new cards were export and debug. Cipher immediately pulled up their descriptions.
The export card allowed him to export a skill into a skill book that he could give to someone, letting them instantly learn the skill. This was actually insane. The only downside was that he would lose the exported skill.
But this could be easily solved with a fork card.
If he combined this with a fork card, he could duplicate his modified skills and give them to people he trusted. Although he had regressed, Cipher understood that he couldn’t deal with the apocalypse by himself.
But he also knew that current humanity wasn’t ready for it - after all, they had failed once. Now that he had this ability, he could strengthen others while strengthening himself, creating an army far stronger than the one that faced the final apocalypse back then.
He would definitely look into this more.
For now though, he wouldn’t use it just yet. He still needed a team he trusted completely. Although his current party was quite good and he believed they were all decent people, they still needed to build more trust.
As for the other new card - the debug card - it allowed him to remove all randomized effects from a skill and hardcode it to max. For example, if a skill dealt 0 to 100 damage randomly, the debug card would remove the RNG and force it to always deal 100.
It was somewhat similar to the seed card, but they both had their differences and couldn’t be used in place of each other. The seed card needed a skill with probability features, while this one needed a skill with a random variable.
The debug card was definitely useful, but at the moment, he didn’t have any use for it, so he decided to pass on it. Instead, he selected the merge card and the new export card. Although he didn’t have plans to use it yet, it was still good to keep it on hand.
Who knows how many rerolls he’d need before it appeared again, especially now that he couldn’t use the mega code pack strategy to always hit the code card he needed - there were now more than five code cards after all.
Cipher closed his system as he entered a large room inside the cave.
Darkness filled most of the space with only faint light flickering in the corners. Rows of cages lined the walls, each one filled with people. They didn’t seem to be dead, but their condition wasn’t good either.
As he walked past the cages, the Heavenly Demon spoke up.
[That thing is strange,] she said.
He looked toward the front of the room.
There, suspended from the ceiling by thick chains, hung an upside-down statue. It was carved from dark stone that seemed to absorb what little light reached it. The figure depicted was feminine, arms spread wide, face serene despite its inverted position.
Cipher approached the statue, his eyes widening.
It looks just like Elaine, he thought.
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Author’s Corner
"Debug, Seed" : Do you guys get the difference?
If you don’t, ask and me clarify.