With a faint chime, the small gold counter in the top right of the Terminal"s display jumped up 2500 gold while the small icon of his broken axe vanished from the inventory screen.Now that he had some gold to work with, he could start looking in the shop and see what he could purchase with his new-found wealth. Maybe a magic item or two, and some other supplies. At this point, anything was better than nothing.
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Opening the shop interface in the Terminal, he was immediately greeted with an unfamiliar window that popped up in the middle of the screen. The advertis.e.m.e.nt flickered and shimmered, proclaiming in shining gold letters "Super Item Lottery Extravaganza! Win Rare and Unique Prizes!"
Directly below the proclamation was a small marquee that showed four levels of lottery ticket available- Copper, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Copper tickets were 100 gold apiece, and each rank increased by 10 times the previous value so that Platinum tickets were valued at an eye-watering 10,000 gold.
The advert triggered two immediate reactions in Jack"s head almost simultaneously. The first was a near overwhelming desire to play it. The second that followed immediately after was the near PTSD-level trauma of every Gatcha game he"d ever wasted endless money on trying to randomly obtain the item or character he really wanted. After this last "waifu collector" he"d gotten addicted to to the point of not being able to afford food, he"d sworn off "loot boxes" entirely.
Not letting himself be tempted by the gambling trigger, he closed the pop-up. Maybe he"d allow himself a Copper Ticket after he"d spent the rest of his gold. Maybe.
Now, what to spend his money on?
He needed to focus on what was most important first. Nothing fancy. Just the most essential things. That was probably going to be hard for him.
The first thing it occurred to him to get were some potions. He"d neglected getting them up to this point, largely out of a combination of ego and ignorance, even with all of his years of chugging health potion after health potion in MMOs and tabletops. He wasn"t about to make that same mistake again.
Opening the Alchemical Goods section of the shop, he selected the two available health potions and added them to his purchase list. They were the second lowest tier, and cost 100 gold apiece. While they probably wouldn"t mend bones or other serious injuries, they"d definitely patch all of the lesser wounds he suffered, and that would probably be enough. He also also bought the single available Potion of Vigor for 100 gold as well. Based on the description, it would restore physical energy drained by fatigue, exhaustion, or magic use. Considering he expected to be in combat for a while, the ability to be able to elongate his effectiveness and increase his magic usage would be ideal.
Looking through the potions list, he considered the rest of the available stock, but ultimately pa.s.sed on them. The ability to temporarily buff his attributes would helpful, but even the cheapest one ran for several hundred gold and only promised a duration of a few minutes. The others would grant him unique single-use abilities like flight or fire breath, but these were even more expensive still. While he had 2200 gold left, that wasn"t much, relatively speaking. He had to be careful with how he spent it if he was going to get the most value out of it.
The only one he hesitated on was the Potion of Fire Immunity. But after a moment of wrestling himself out of fantasyland, he pa.s.sed on that as well. He could come back to after he was a successful hero, not before.
Next, he navigated to the magic items list, and began perusing what was available. As expected, even with 2200 gold, a lot of what was available sat out of his price range. However, when he reached one item priced at 1000 gold, he froze in place, and without a second though spent the gold and added it to his list.