Chapter 10: Attribute Enhancement and Skill Exchange

  "Epiphany: Special Skill. Those who acquire this skill, after a match or training, through reflection on their performance, have a certain chance to gain insight into the mysteries of football and receive a certain reward. The intensity of the match, the level of training, and the quality of performance will determine the success rate of epiphany and the final reward. This skill cannot be upgraded."

  Seeing this line of words, Chu Jiang couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

  Special skill, cannot be upgraded. This seems to be telling Chu Jiang that this skill is not an ordinary skill. From the description of the skill content, it seems that this skill itself has no direct effect on Chu Jiang.

  Whether this skill is a waste or a top-notch item depends entirely on the final reward. However, as for the content of the reward, the system didn't have a clear description...

  Chu Jiang was somewhat perplexed and pondered for a long time, but still had no clue. It wasn't until later when the skill successfully triggered that he could try to determine whether this skill was useful or not.

  "We'll talk about it later!"

  Chu Jiang let out a soft breath and refocused his gaze on the light screen. Below the system prompt box, one of the originally gray buttons lit up, with the word "Skills" written on it.

  His gaze paused on this button for a moment, and Chu Jiang's attention immediately focused on another unexplored button.

  "Training!"

  The screen flickered lightly and a picture of a football training ground appeared. Soon, lines of text began to emerge in the center of the screen, and the electronic female voice sounded again.

  "Training reinforcement target search... confirmed as user, Chu Jiang, confirmation complete!"

  "Training reinforcement object's contextual environment detection..."

  "League: None! Level: None!"

  "Current Cup: None! Level: None!"

  "Venue for warm-up match: Jianghai City International Milan Football School campus competition! Level: Fifth-grade intermediate!"

  "Current Training: Jianghai City International Milan Football School Intra-School Warm-up Match! Level: Fifth Grade Lower Division!"

  "Strongly Suggested: The environment and level of the object being strengthened do not match, severely affecting the experience value acquisition of the object being strengthened! It is recommended to switch to a higher-level competition and training environment!"

  "Warning: If you continue to stay in the current realm, 30 days later, the experience points obtained from training and competition will be reduced by half! 60 days later, it will not be possible to obtain any experience through training or competition!"

  "Hmm... Are you suggesting I go pro? But, good opportunities are scarce now. And there's still 30 days before the training experience decreases, let's wait and see!"

  Chu Jiang didn't heed the system's suggestion and continued reading downwards. The subtitles on the screen were still ongoing...

  "Environment initialization...... Initialization completed! Entering detailed calculation...... Calculation completed!"

  "Chu Jiang, now available experience value: 310."

  "Experience acquisition method: Five-level medium warm-up match, each match can get experience value: 5, outstanding performance can get double reward!"

  "Level 5 low-level training, complete training can get experience value: 1!"

  "300 experience points can be exchanged for 1 low-level attribute enhancement point. Using a low-level attribute enhancement point can increase the value of one's own single attribute by one point. Note that using a low-level attribute enhancement point can cause the attribute to grow up to 6 at most!"

  "8,000 experience points can be exchanged for 1 intermediate attribute enhancement point. Using an intermediate attribute enhancement point increases the value of a single attribute by one point. Note that using an intermediate attribute enhancement point can increase the growth of this attribute to a maximum of 12!"

  "50,000 experience points can be exchanged for 1 advanced attribute enhancement point. Using an advanced attribute enhancement point increases the value of a single attribute by one point. Note that using an advanced attribute enhancement point can increase the growth of this attribute to a maximum of 18!"

  At this point, Chu Jiang couldn't help but be shocked.

  As long as there is sufficient experience value, using this training reinforcement system can make all of one's attributes grow to 18!

  What is this concept?

  This means that if Chu Jiang is a defender, he can be compared to super defenders like Carlos and Cannavaro; if he is a midfielder, he can be compared to super midfielders like Matthaus and Platini; if he is a forward, he can challenge the likes of Pele and Maradona! As a goalkeeper, Chu Jiang will not lose out to legendary goalkeepers like Zoff and Yashin.

  Such a system is too powerful and can be said to be a super star manufacturing arsenal!

  But when Chu Jiang saw the experience value required for each high-level attribute enhancement point, his beautiful dream woke up instantly.

  One attribute point requires 50,000 experience points! Chu Jiang currently has a total of only 310 experience points.

  50,000 vs 300, this gap is too big!

  In the school, the intramural tournament is usually held once every six days. Even if Chu Jiang performs perfectly, he can only get 10 experience points each time. Even if he doesn't rest every day and trains every day except for matches, he can only get a maximum of 15 experience points every six days. To get 50,000 experience points, Chu Jiang needs to train non-stop for 3,333 weeks, which is equivalent to 20,000 days or 54 years!

  54 years of hard work without a holiday, just to get an advanced attribute enhancement point, isn't this a scam?! By then, Chu Jiang will be 71 years old! Play soccer? One kick and his bones might shatter, can he still play soccer? Are you kidding me?!

  What's more, 30 days later, Chu Jiang can only get 8 points of experience every 6 days; 60 days later, there is not even a bit of experience!

  "The system seems to have hinted that only high-level leagues will have higher experience. It looks like if you want to become a superstar through this system, it's impossible not to go to a high-level league. I wonder how much experience playing in Serie A would be?"

  Thinking of this, Chu Jiang couldn't help but think of Colso. I wonder if through his introduction, there will be any A-League clubs interested in Chu Jiang.

  "Not to mention the top-tier teams, even if it's second or third tier, as long as they can play high-level football, I'd be willing to go! It's just that, I don't know if there will be an opportunity, sigh!"

  Fate can't be controlled by oneself, so there will always be all sorts of helplessness!

  Chu Jiang shook his head and sighed, continuing to look down, the message on the light screen had not ended.

  "Skill Exchange Rules."

  "Skills are divided into ordinary skills and special skills. Special skills cannot be upgraded, while ordinary skills are divided into primary, intermediate, and advanced levels."

  "Exchanging skills requires skill points, and upgrading skills also requires skill points. Different skills require different amounts of skill points, and the more skill points a skill requires, the more obvious its effect."

  "Exchanging skill points requires experience values. The first time you exchange skill points, the required experience value is the lowest. From the second time onwards, the experience value required to exchange skill points will increase greatly."

  "First skill point, experience required: 370!"

  370? It seems that the current experience value of 310 is already very close. Chu Jiang calculated in his heart, on average, every 6 days, if he performed well, he could get at most 15 points of experience value. In 24 days, maybe he could gain 60 points of experience value, adding to the original experience, it should be 360 points of experience value.

  On the 25th day, there will be a match against an opponent, and if I get 10 more points, it will be exactly 370 points, just enough to exchange for my first skill point!

  However, this algorithm has a prerequisite, that is, every time the intramural competition must be perfect, only in this way can we get 10 points of experience value for each game. If you don't meet the requirement of full score, the experience value obtained from training will be halved after 30 days, and it's unknown when the experience value requirement of 370 points can be reached!

  If not accumulating experience to exchange skill points, the current experience value is enough to exchange a low-level attribute enhancement point. A low-level attribute enhancement point requires 300 experience points, and Chu Jiang has just met the requirement with the system's reward experience.

  "Should we exchange for a low-level attribute strengthening point first?"

  Chu Jiang temporarily closed the training interface and began to check all his attribute values.

  "Talent: 1, off-the-ball movement: 3, heading: 1, out-of-bounds ball: 1, dribbling: 2…… Don't worry about these for now. Anyway, I just need to do a good job as a goalkeeper, I'm not Campos, I don't need to work as a part-time forward."

  "Strike: 5, Hand Throw: 2, Batting Tendency: 5, Dribbling: 0. These can be used to strengthen low-level attributes..."

  "But these attributes seem to add a little, and there won't be any obvious changes. Outbreak: 5 and Outbreak: 6, what's the difference? The penalty point changed from 0 to 1, still a penalty blind..."

  "If I accumulate experience points to exchange for skills, I wonder what kind of skills they will be. Moreover, what's the use of skills anyway? It's not clear now either. If it's all like 'Epiphany', it seems like there's no point in having them... This is so frustrating..."

  "After all, it's still because of the lack of experience points. If there were more experience points, I could exchange attribute strengthening points if I wanted to; I could exchange skill points if I wanted to... how great would that be! Sigh..."

  After hesitating for half a day, Chu Jiang finally decided not to rush into exchanging low-level attribute enhancement points and leave the experience value alone for now. If that skill called "Epiphany" is not powerful enough, it's not too late to exchange attribute enhancement points later. Although adding a little attribute doesn't make much difference at present; however, the Great Wall was also built brick by brick. Accumulating small amounts can lead to big changes, and quantitative change will eventually lead to qualitative change!

  In the following days, Chu Jiang went to school for training as usual every day. Although each training session only earned 1 point of experience, a mosquito's leg was still meat, no matter how small it was.

  Having experience in training is always better than wasting time. Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared! Chu Jiang comforted himself like this.

  Whether in training or in matches, Chu Jiang's performance was significantly better than all his classmates, with every free kick scoring a goal, and he was the undisputed best player in every game. This also made his reputation in school higher and higher day by day, and the title of "Number One Genius of Jianghai City" spread rapidly.

  Whenever he trains or competes, a large crowd of junior students gather to watch. Due to his good skills and appearance, even dozens of young girls secretly formed the "Jiang Sifan Fan Club" to cheer him on, never missing a game, regardless of wind or rain. After each competition or training session, members of the fan club would rush up, scaring Chu Jiang away...

  After each day's training, Chu Jiang would spend a considerable amount of time reflecting on the gains of the day. This approach indeed brought significant benefits to Chu Jiang, helping him get rid of some bad habits in kicking the ball; however, unfortunately, it never triggered that "epiphany" skill.

  However, this situation changed after the 19th round of matches.

  No chance to go online at night, so I'll update this much for now. Written tonight and will be sent out tomorrow morning.