Daz agreed when he was given the second confirmation notification, and he immediately checked his status after the new stat had been purchased.

  "Oh? That's interesting. So class-related skills are all forced to the top, huh? Nice to know. Also, Limit Reached stays and is abbreviated for stats that are maxed, huh? Anyway, system, show me the details of Intelligence, Transparency, and Mana Sensitivity, please," Daz requested.

  "Hmm... Hey, system, is it possible to upgrade stats? Like, evolve them somehow?" Daz asked as he held his chin in serious thought.

  "Huh... That's good to know. I'm assuming stats that only cost 200 points to increase are normal, while ones that cost 2,000 are special," Daz speculated as he got up and cracked his neck. "System, what's the time?"

  "Okay. I think I've plenty hours to spare for one more dungeon sweep then work on Waterford before I need to be back at the keep to deal with the serious suggestions and complaints, right?" Daz asked no one in particular.

  As he was leaving his workshop, he muttered under his breath, "Woulda been nice if I had swapped out my stats after I'd done the first dungeon run. Oh well, I guess my instincts can't predict the future."

  It was at that moment that Daz suddenly got a quest which blocked his vision, resulting in him halting in his tracks.

  Daz was obviously going to do the quest seeing as how close to Nevada California was, as well as due to how good the rewards sounded.

  First though, Daz made sure to use his Secret Override on the quest notification. He'd been trying to make a point of using it on almost everything and filtering out the useless secrets from the useful ones, though the pointless secrets far outnumbered the helpful ones, it seemed.

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  "Oh, a useful secret for once. Well then, no time to waste. Crusher's out, and Maddy's sleeping... I guess I'll go grab Mu then leave," Daz decided verbally before he left his workshop and made his way to one of the few structures in the city that he'd instructed his clones not to destroy - Camp Waterford. Of course, only after he'd withdrawn his merit points from the bank first.

  As he made his way to Camp Waterford, Daz effectively spent his time by upgrading the skills that he and Madison had decided would be the most beneficial to him in the long-run.

  Naturally, the first one he upgraded was the pesky Grave of the Humans skill.

  Not a single thing had changed in the skill's ability descriptions, but it had only cost Daz 20,000 points to evolve, which was nothing considering that he had accumulated over 32,000,000 points overnight from his bank interest alone.

  The second skill he and Madison had agreed would be worth upgrading, was the skill that allowed him to create two clones, Death Energy Solidification.

  An extra clone was always nice, which was the main reason Daz spent the 3,000,000 points required to upgrade the skill. It was mildly alarming that the base price was 30,000,000 merit points, but thankfully, the underappreciated level system cut the price down by 90% since it had capped out at level 10.

  After that, came one of Daz's most-used skills, but almost most easily countered, Justice Chains.

  At last, Daz had a use for the mostly worthless Justice and Corruption stats he owned. With this improvement to the skill, he could lock down people like Larry Billard or anyone else in the future whom his instincts informed him would not be affected by the regular application of the chains.

  This skill has been the most expensive thus far though. Despite having a 90% reduction in price, it still demanded a sizeable 10,000,000 merit points to be upgraded, meaning its original price for an upgrade was 100,000,000.

  Daz didn't even want to think about the skill's original price when not buying it as an upgrade.

  Thankfully, the last skill he enhanced was incredibly cheap when compared to the last two.

  The new effect, was, in essence, giving words to the capabilities of the Death Beams, those of which Daz's clones already knew since they were the ones that used the skill so much. However, what made this particularly useful was that it had suddenly become a lot easier to keep track of these details.

  Daz was also aware that the beams struggled a lot when cutting steel before the upgrade from the reports his clones had given him after he had returned from Guishan Island yesterday evening, so that being made easier for the clones was certainly a nice bonus.

  Adding the 100,000 merit points that the skill had cost him to the total expenses mentally, Daz asked the system to show him his total merit points to confirm his new balance as he entered Camp Waterford.

  "It really is quite strange how my instincts keep screaming at me not to upgrade literally every single skill that I can afford and buy a bunch more. Waterford only has so many city points, so will I even be able to ever spend this much money?" Daz asked himself. "Maybe far better stuff is made available after the tests? Maybe I'll need to buy something important soon? Really, some times my instincts seem worthless, other times they seem damn-near prophetic..."

  Daz continued to ponder over this matter as he promptly found Mu, told him of the quest in Nevada, had him accept it when the system showed him its details, then the two made their way to Fort Sky to start their excursion to the northeast.

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