Chapter 19 - Unexpected
While we were all gushing about all the new and shiny additions to the store that we could now buy we had yet to notice the price tags that came along with said new things. We were all picking through different pages seeing what was new and checking the price came only later.
"What the HELL!" I heard someone say.
We all looked around to find the reason for alarm but found nothing.
"What's with the shouting, there's nothing around." Granddad said.
"Look how expensive everything is." Mark elaborated.
After being prompted to we all looked at the associated price tags of the new additions and couldn't help but gasp. They were expensive. The wall was the most expensive purchase we had made so far and that was 5,000 points and that would be tied for the cheapest option on this new list.
The introductions to all the different professions had different levels of pricing and the cheapest was 5,000. The most expensive was closer to 10,000 and those were the more magically inclined professions like alchemist and enchanter. We still didn't even know if the information packets even gave you the profession. It was assumed that it would but we had no confirmation.
It felt like that information would be included in the introduction to the multiverse information packet but that was the most expensive. It was an egregious 20,000 points. It felt like a rip-off to cost so much just for information and like it was deliberate.
It dangled answers in front of our faces but locked them behind a huge paywall that we couldn't afford. Some game devs were probably jealous of how ruthless it was.
We only had just over 4,000 points to spend after the pitiful upgrade wave and that couldn't buy anything in the information section and we wouldn't be able to get much for a while.
After the next wave, we would be able to buy two of the 5,000-point ones but then there was the choice of which. It would be a waste for everyone to get the same profession and we would need to diversify but that meant we needed to purchase more profession manuals and that meant points spent on that instead of defenses.
Since we were so close to being able to afford one, we decided to all contribute some extra points to see what we were dealing with. The only problem now was to decide on which. Some were immediately eliminated based on price like enchanter and others based on function like farmer and gardener. They were probably fine professions, they just weren't helpful now.