[Megumi Aiko [4]: Special case, yeah! I'll just smash them with my fist if they dare to make trouble with me!
High School Student [2]: Should we say that we're lucky or unlucky to meet with this special case so soon? By the way, no. 10 should be able to get involved too, so there might be a series of cases later. Whoo hoo, I'm somewhat excited.
Internationally Wanted Criminal [3]: I just hope their abilities will be auxiliary like me. If they're all combat related abilities, we're basically doomed.
University Student [6]: Since it'll be related to Winery, shall I assume that no. 1 and no. 7 would probably have to stand on our opposite side? We can't really expect them to release water so blatantly.
Undercover Agent from Metropolitan Public Security [7]: Indeed. I won't be able to reject the order from the superiors in the Winery, so I'll have to apologize in advance.
Corrupted FBI [8]: If you're afraid, you shouldn't have chosen to participate.
Doctor [9]: Don't worry, if you're injured, just go to the hospital. As long as you still have a breath remaining, I can pull you from the brink of death.
Artist [11]: I want to cheer from the side and if it's really necessary, I'll escape through becoming a cat!
Journalist [12]: Ah… I don't really want to participate, but 50 skill points sound really fragrant. After all, I have many things I want to raise from my skills set.
Megumi Aiko [4]: That's right! Let me tell you, I can only get skill points if I solve the cases on my own and my abilities are limited! I didn't even get 1000 skill points in total after three years working like a dog in the Metropolitan Police Department!
High School Student [2]: Wow, so difficult. Then again, I also only get skill points if the mission I participated in succeeded back then and the amount of skill points will depend on my contribution. At the lowest, I have once obtained only 1 skill point because my teammates are too awesome…
Internationally Wanted Criminal [3]: …I obtained 0 skill points before I seek death.
Corrupted FBI [8]: Rubbish
Megumi Aiko [4]: Huh? Are you looking for a fight, no. 8? I'll gladly accept your challenge.
Public Security Officer [5]: From the way it looks like, no. 8 should have obtained a lot of skill points. I myself also obtained quite a considerable amount after three years of working. Otherwise, I would not be able to raise some skills to 100.
Undercover Agent from Metropolitan Public Security [7]: You need 165 skill points to raise a skill from 0 to 100. I noticed that you can still raise your skills above 100, but you will need 10 points each, so I never did.
Doctor [9]: It's really expensive and obtaining skill points is not that easy. Unless you can complete your missions so quickly.
Artist [11]: Huh, your words make me remember someone.
Journalist [12]: There are several people who managed to have a high second mission completion, right? All 6 people who survived until the end did it.
Doctor [9]: But my situation is similar to no. 4 and it's not like you can face cases every day. Moreover, the amount of skill points will also depend on your contribution. The lowest is 1 and the highest is only 20. Most of the time, I can't even get 5 points and only between 1-4 points per case.
[High School Student [2]: So stingy… just 1 point?
Internationally Wanted Criminal [3]: … better than 0
University Student [6]: I only got skill points once during a prologue mission and even with the double bonus, it's only 20 skill points.
Public Security Officer [5]: Treasure those skill points. It's getting harder and harder to get them after you reach a certain point. Otherwise, I would want to increase more of my skills.
Megumi Aiko [4]: I don't believe you haven't filled out most of the skills.
Public Security Officer [5]: (smile.jpg)
High School Student [2]: My skills that I raised during the prologue period are still retained. But I'm a support member, ah. Don't expect me to have any fighting skills. I didn't have a chance to get that many skill points back then. I died a bit too fast. And to truly become an expert, there are too many branches of skills that one has to train. The game is not giving us any loophole to take advantage of.
Public Security Officer [5]: You can train some skills yourself. The advancement is definitely slower than adding points directly, but it's better than nothing.
Megumi Aiko [4]: Forget it, it's not that easy to learn new skills or something like that.
University Student [6]: Just say that you're lazy, no. 4.
Megumi Aiko [4]: Ugh, I'm not a model student, alright?
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: I think that you might have guessed it, so I might as well just say it. The maximum skill points are 120 points. From 100 to 110, you need 10 points each. Above 110, you need 20 skill points each. In other words, you will need a total of 465 skill points to truly reach the maximum skill ceiling if you start from zero.
Megumi Aiko [4]: …
High School Student [2]: ….
Internationally Wanted Criminal [3]: … Do we really need that high?
University Student [6]: No. 1, you're truly a monster. Do you perhaps increase your physical skills to the ceiling?
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: I won't tell you what I raised to the ceiling.
Public Security Officer [5]: You make me want to poach you even more, no. 1.
Undercover Agent from Metropolitan Public Security [7]: …How did you get so many skill points in the first place? I don't get that many skill points even if I complete the mission from the Black Organization. Sometimes, I don't even get any skill points if I don't make any contribution.
ICPO Undercover Agent in Winery[1]: Let's just say I worked too hard.]
Yes, she worked so hard that she saved too many people.
Just thinking about it, Kurokawa Saki wanted to sigh deeply.
The mission only required her to save 1000 people, but she had a strange impulse to save more people and simply took over countless missions that should have been done by others. In this way, she caught many lower ranked members and also saved more people.
For three full years, she worked like a dog.
Kurokawa Saki really didn't want to remember those desperate days anymore.
After all, she was not really doing it for the sake of saving others but also because she wanted to earn skill points from the game system.
Kurokawa Saki has some guesses that she could earn a lot of skill points because her lower limit was extremely low. From the chat, she had seen that no. 2 and no. 5 might be in some related background, allowing them to have much higher base skill points at the beginning.
Though, the game will still limit her at a certain point.
The game system might have been fed up with her later on and reduced the number of skill points given, but she still earned above 40,000 skill points in those three years. Naturally, she had allocated all of her skill points and focused on the most essential.
Since they couldn't exactly raise their physical strength, she had to train by herself and it took her a long time to be able to raise her strength, stamina, and so on. Her intelligence remained the same but it was not that surprising.
Physical skills are not what she needed the most.
So while she has a few skills such as karate, mixed martial arts and some other martial arts related skills at 100 points, she didn't really increase them again. Some of them were raised a few points but none of them reached the maximum because it was too expensive.
Kurokawa Saki herself didn't have great interest in close combat battles.
The combination of these skills are more than enough to defeat most of her opponents.
The rest depends on her experience… Which she gained through defeating some people.
Anyway, what she actually raised to 120 points are actually her tracking and anti tracking ability along with her observation. There were also some other skills that she had raised to the limit and honestly, paying for these skills pained her heart.
It was so freaking expensive.
But it was worth it.
Seeing through Vermouth's disguise was still possible at observation 100, but it was definitely more difficult. After raising her observation to 120, she was able to notice various details that she had never noticed before. A whole load of information came into her brain at any moment.
To be honest, Kurokawa Saki once felt a bit overwhelmed.
But she had adapted by now.
It was just that she never dared to show off this observation ability and because her observation ability was so freaking strong, she didn't really need the reasoning skills.
So her skill points could be saved.
As for the tracking and anti tracking, after she filled it, she became much more sensitive to bugs and people's gaze. She could even perceive their emotions when they looked in her direction.
It was another whole load of information entering her brain.
Sometimes, Kurokawa Saki really wanted to just shut up her perception so that she would not sense so much. But she also didn't dare to do so or she might be in danger when facing others, especially those people from the Winery.
The others were because she wanted to learn faster and spend less skill points because many things were really expensive. She also raised branch related skills such as mental calculations and mental images to the maximum. She has to say though, that after raising those skills, she has a memory ability that was close to photographic memory.
It has become somewhat like talent.
After all, their branches were a lot and Kurokawa Saki was speechless when she saw it.
The game really didn't make it easy for her.
In this way, these 10 skills alone nearly cost her 5000 skill points to fill up. And if she added their branches that she filled in, they cost her almost 10,000 skill points or so.
It was expensive.
But it was worth it for her.
Most of them were indeed passive skills, but Kurokawa Saki felt that it was more valuable.
Some other skills stopped at 110 or 100 because she didn't have any points.
The game required her to raise many branches to truly master a specific skill. Thankfully, raising the main one will give her general information in her head and most of the time, the number of these branches would not start from 0.
In this way, she could save up some skill points.
There were also other skills that she didn't really need that were only raised to between 70 to 90 points. Above it was simply too expensive for her back then.
The bomb making skill was included among these.
Her skill panel was really luxurious.
But it was also very burdensome.
Because the knowledge was basically force fed on her, making her feel like dying many times. Otherwise, she wouldn't end up still having to digest some knowledge even after months after the start of the mainline.