Empire Building With Infinite Warehouse-Chapter 84: Trading Power for Life

Julien sat quietly in the hospital room and kept his eyes closed so he could focus entirely on the screens floating in his mind.

He was deep inside the brand new Tier 3 Inventory menu, looking at a specific tab labelled [Healing Arts].

He had never seen anything like this before because the regular shop only sold physical items like health potions, and the second tier added contracts for beasts.

This new section sold pure knowledge, and the options were honestly insane.

The system offered three completely different kinds of healing magic, and each one seemed to come from a different dimension entirely.

The first option was a strange technological skill that used microscopic robots to stitch torn flesh back together, but it warned that the process was incredibly painful.

The second option was a nature spell that pulled life force from nearby plants to regrow bones, which was clearly meant for some kind of fantasy realm.

And the third option was an ancient martial arts technique focused strictly on restoring ruined energy pathways and cleaning cursed blood.

Julien looked closely at the third option since Chris’s hands were ruined by the magical backlash of the Ruined Knight sword, meaning it was not just regular physical damage.

A basic healing potion would never fix that kind of curse, so he needed something that could completely cleanse corrupted mana from the inside out.

But then his eyes drifted down to the bottom of the scroll, and his stomach instantly sank.

The price tag for the martial arts technique was exactly 100,000 merchant credits.

Julien let out a heavy sigh and opened his personal account balance, only to see he had exactly 1,000 credits left to his name.

He had spent everything he owned on survival gear and stamina potions during the boss fight just to keep his team alive, and to make matters even worse, the system had not even fined him yet for cancelling his beast contract right in the middle of the battle.

He was probably going to be in massive debt very soon, so buying a high-tier skill was completely impossible.

’This is totally hopeless,’ Julien thought to himself, feeling a huge wave of exhaustion hit him.

’I have the perfect cure right in front of me, but I am completely broke.’

He dropped his head into his good hand and rubbed his tired eyes.

"Tch," Julien muttered under his breath, feeling totally frustrated.

"I just wish I could sell my own skills at this point."

It was supposed to be a completely sarcastic joke.

But the system took his words entirely literally.

A brand new blue notification box popped up right in the centre of his vision, glowing much brighter than the rest of the shop menu.

[Notice: The Infinite Warehouse buys skills, too.]

[Previous users have sold their useless skills to get credits.]

[Analysing your current skills...]

Julien froze in his chair, his eyes going wide as he read the floating text.

He had no idea his class could actually do this, and it proved the system treated literally everything as a product, including the magic hardwired into his own brain.

A few seconds later, a neat list of his current abilities appeared on the screen, along with a bright green price tag next to each one.

[Phantom Step (A-Rank)] - 50,000 Credits

[Spatial Lock (A-Rank)] - 50,000 Credits

[Appraisal Eye (A-Rank)] - 50,000 Credits

[Mana Sonar (A-Rank)] - 50,000 Credits

[Kinetic Displacement (A-Rank)] - 50,000 Credits

Julien just stared at the numbers.

Every single A-rank skill he had managed to learn or copy over the last few days was sitting right there, priced at exactly 50,000 credits each.

If he sold them, he would lose his best defensive moves.

He would not be able to run away from SSS-rank hunters like Kane or the fake Gina.

But then he looked over at the hospital bed where Chris was lying with ruined hands because he took the final swing to save them all.

A few mobility skills meant absolutely nothing compared to his friend’s life.

Julien reached out with his mind and selected two skills from the list.

He chose Mana Sonar and Appraisal eye and hit the confirm button to sell them back to the system.

[Transaction Successful.]

[100,000 Merchant Credits added to your account.]

The exact second the blue text confirmed the sale, a horrible wave of weakness crashed over Julien’s entire body.

He gasped and slumped forward in his chair because it felt like someone had reached directly into his chest and ripped out a piece of his soul.

His muscles cramped up painfully, and he could literally feel his internal mana draining away as if getting pulled into something dark and empty.

He was officially weaker now.

The system had permanently removed his ability to use those skills, leaving a strange, hollow feeling in his mind where the magic used to be.

It was the system’s way of forcing him to be a real merchant instead of a warrior.

But he had the money.

Julien ignored the sick feeling in his stomach and quickly navigated back to the Tier 3 Healing Arts menu. He selected the martial arts technique and slammed the purchase button before the pain could distract him.

[100,000 Merchant Credits deducted.]

[Purchase Successful. Commencing knowledge transfer.]

A bright golden scroll unrolled itself inside his mind, and a block of ancient-looking text appeared right in front of his eyes to explain the history of the magic he just bought.

[In the Tang Dynasty, when people suffered from an unknown disease, Master Yin found a technique to keep people sane. It clears corrupted blood and restores shattered pathways.]

Before Julien could even finish reading the description, the actual knowledge about the technique went through Julien’s body like a massive electrical shock.

"Gah!" Julien yelled out loud, grabbing the sides of his head as a blinding pain spiked right behind his eyes.

The amount of information was completely overwhelming because he suddenly knew exactly how to channel his mana, how to locate broken energy pathways, and how to force corrupted magic out of a human body.

The system did not just give him a simple spell; it dumped years of medical and magical experience into his head all at once.