Does Learning Skills Cost Time?

This is what separates this game's progression from a conventional RPG skill tree. Elsewhere, a skill point is free once earned. Here, converting a point into an ability can cost you the thing you were saving the time for.

Why this matters more than it sounds

• Your build and your route are the same problem. You cannot optimise one without the other.
• A power spike bought on day 6 may be worth more than the same spike on day 24 — or may cost you a character who died while you were training.
• Two builds with identical end states can have very different narrative outcomes depending on when the training was scheduled.

What a build actually costs you

One to two chunks per purchase is small until you multiply it. Ten purchases is ten to twenty chunks — between one and two and a half full phases of the run, spent standing at shrines. Thirty purchases is most of a week. That is the arithmetic behind the reviewer's remark that maxing a few skills ate a lot of in-game time, and it is why the Build Planner now reports a training band beside a build's point cost.