I took a moment to assess my strategy moving forward. What’s most important is where I’ll go from here. I knew what my overall goal was - To take down the three organizations - the problem was how I would do it.

I sat, contemplating for a while. I ran over all skill users I knew of, as well as the skills that I owned. Then, it dawned on me.

[Transfer]. The very heart of the Gyeong organization, my prior captors. The user of the skill is supposed to be top-secret. But my raid members were loud-mouthed idiots, and they had boasted about all the times when they got new skills.

I had garnered quite a bit of information from them with just simple eavesdropping, including information on the user of [Transfer].

“Man, I really hate that bitch. We work our asses off for the organization and she gets to live in her fancy little penthouse with her 5 bodyguards. It’s absolute horse-shit! And all because she got a good skill by chance! It’s just not fair, damnit!”

Those guys always were annoying, spiteful bastards. I suppose it’s good luck though, since these incessant bickerings led me to know the approximate location of the user’s estate. Of course, the main problem is not the difficulty of finding her, it’s the 5 bodyguards that watch her like clockwork. It would be an impossible task to get past them for almost anyone.

I glanced back at my skill book, eyeing the page for [Warden] with a smirk.

For me, 5 bodyguards wouldn’t be much of a problem though, would it? Not when all I have to do is touch them to make them stand aside.

My smirk grew into a cackle of laughter. It was almost too easy! 

Of course, by making a different rule, I’d basically be exposing my identity that I’d worked so hard to keep secret, but hell, I could make the Gyeong-jin organization's power stagnate with one simple move!

However, I can’t get ahead of myself. If it was just the guards, then it would be done and dusted. But sadly, that wasn’t the only protective measure they had in place. I remembered another conversation I had distinctly imprinted in my memory.

“Man, I wasted my whole Sunday getting my next skill.”

“Ah, you got your next skill? Good for yo-“

“Hell no, it’s not a good thing! Every single time I have to get another skill, they take like 5 hours of prep-time! They always make like 20 phone calls in order to reach the guy with [Lock]!”

And there’s the kicker: [Lock]. I hadn’t known what it was at the time, but I looked into it after the fact. [Lock] was a skill that let you completely secure objects, rooms, or houses and allow only certain people to interact with them. The user, Jarek Gradz, has an entire website for his ability, in which he sells its usage. And the cost is absolutely insane. Just for one object, it can run you up to half a million dollars a month. It’s a reasonable ask, since his skill has a limit to its usage; But it’s far more than I’d ever pay, even if I had the money.

But the Gyeong-jin organization, they rely on the skill heavily. They locked at least 5 rooms - the rooms surrounding the user of transfer - and it basically drains the majority of their funding. 

For a good reason, though. The locks ensure that there’s no way for anyone to reach the user of transfer, and not even high ranking members of the group can enter freely. Only Gyeong-jin himself and the bodyguards have permanent permission to go in, and when anyone else wants to, they have to have the permissions changed specifically for them. It’s like the world’s safest deposit box.

In short: The skill was heavily secured, under literal lock and key. 

But that’s no reason to let it stop me, right? With my cheat-tier skill, I can do anything. All I need to do is find a way to get past the locks, and I’ll be able to make world history.

And so, I set my next goal. First, I would get stronger, and find a way to negate the locks… and then, I would steal one of the most important skills in existence: [Transfer].

Skills stolen (4)

 [Radar] [Illusion Paper]

[Barrier] [Warden]