anovelconsole Chapter 3: Crazy Skill Point Allocation!
Chapter 3: Crazy Skill Point Allocation!
After Li Jing clicked "Claim," the system interface did not pop up the training simulation as usual.
Instead, it flashed and a document-style window popped up.
[Player Ability Assessment Report]
[Player: Li Jing]
[Evaluation Standards: Standards for professional players in Europe's top five leagues]
[Comprehensive Ranking System: Amateur → Semi-Professional → Professional → Elite → Intercontinental → World-Class → Legendary]
The six major ability categories are neatly arranged on the interface, with four subcategories under each category, totaling twenty-four data points.
—Ball feel skills: First touch (professional minimum), dribbling control (professional), short pass accuracy (professional), long pass vision (professional)
—Speed-related: Maximum speed (professional), Acceleration burst (professional), Ball handling speed (professional), Reaction speed (professional)
—Strength-related: Combat intensity (professional), Jump height (professional), Stamina reserves (professional), Core stability (professional)
—Tactical skills: Off-ball movement (elite minimum), positional awareness (professional), game reading (professional), transition offense and defense (professional)
—Shooting skills: Shooting power (professional), Shooting accuracy (professional), Heading ability (professional), Long-range shooting technique (professional)
—Defensive skills: One-on-one defense (professional), interception and anticipation (professional), tackling timing (professional), aerial duels (professional)
Li Jing stared at the report, his expression gradually freezing.
This is when the standard rating first appeared, probably after all his attributes were assigned to a profession.
The overall rating is divided into six categories—all of which are "professional".
Of the twenty-four sub-categories, the highest is off-the-ball movement, barely reaching the threshold of "elite." The lowest is first touch, marked with the words "Professional minimum," followed by a smaller line of text:
[Only 0.3 assessment units away from being downgraded to "semi-professional," upgrading is recommended as a priority.]
Li Jing: "..."
Good guy.
He and Neymar were considered the twin stars of Santos, though they were like the sun and the earth. But were they really that bad?
Is there such a big gap between South American football and the top five European leagues?
He took a closer look at the ranking system; "profession" ranked third in this seven-level system.
Above that are Elite, Intercontinental, World-class, and Legendary.
His first touch on the ball almost cost him his professional status.
Li Jing took a deep breath and scrolled down the report.
There is a line of explanation at the bottom:
[Experience Sharing Mechanism: Within the same major category, if any sub-category reaches the "Legendary" level, the other three automatically rise to the "Intercontinental" level. If any sub-category reaches the "World-Class" level, the other three automatically rise to the "Elite" level. This process continues downwards, sharing experience at each level.]
He read it three times.
This means that he doesn't need to practice all twenty-four subcategories. If he masters one of the major categories, the other three will naturally follow.
If the goal is to maximize efficiency, then obviously the best approach is to upgrade one of each of the six options.
Six major categories, six key breakthroughs.
More than 102,000 hours.
The time flow rate of the simulator is 1000:1.
Previously, there were only 2000 hours, which wasn't important, but if it were 100,000 hours...
And this was all done under such tight time constraints.
Then we have no choice but to accept it.
Li Jing did some mental calculations.
My flight to Madrid is in a week.
He'll spend a day packing, getting ready, and going through customs. Raiola will handle the visa and work permits; he doesn't need to worry about that.
Six days left.
Each day is divided in half; let's say it's ten hours a day, with minimal sleeping, eating, and bathroom breaks.
However, simulator training does not require physical activity; it only requires mental concentration to activate.
He can compress his sleep to only six hours a day, eat whatever is convenient, and stretch his training time to a full fourteen hours.
Six days, fourteen hours a day, for a total of eighty-four hours in reality.
However, one hour in the simulator is equivalent to 3.6 seconds in reality.
Completing 100,000 hours of gameplay in a simulator would roughly equate to the amount of mental concentration required in real-world scenarios—
Never mind, never mind.
It's enough anyway.
Li Jing closed the evaluation report and opened the training module.
Get to work.
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[Simulation Training Launched]
[Currently available training hours: 102347]
[Priority training item selected: Ball control - First touch]
[On Day 1, once you discover that your skill level has reached above professional standards, you've gained access to a higher level of training technology! You are now at the world's largest single-skill training base, the Sakura Blue Prison Training Base, currently in a 360° ball-serving machine training area: you will be catching balls from various angles, developing muscle memory.]
[On Day 1, you trained for 8 hours—ground ball, 30% power. You completed 247 touches, with a success rate of 41%. System evaluation: How did you get into Blue Prison with this level of skill?]
However! Even a slow bird can fly early, and diligence can make up for lack of talent. With 8 hours of training every day for 12.5 days, focusing solely on this one skill, you've become adept. As long as your teammates don't pass the ball, you can control it from any position on your body with your first touch!
[One day! You were knocked off a spotlight at the base! You realized this was a reminder to improve. The angle of the incoming ball has expanded to ±45°, and the power has increased to 50%. You've completed 12400 touches, increasing your success rate to 58%. System evaluation: You're starting to look human.]
[Day 25 later: You've grown tired of the monotonous practice, so you introduce a competitive element—a simulated defender is applying pressure from behind. Your success rate plummets to 33%. You swear. The system records this, deducting 20 training hours!]
[Day 50: Your touch success rate in challenging situations has rebounded to 61%. You're beginning to understand that the core of "first touch" isn't technique, but anticipation. You should know where the ball is going before it even reaches your feet. System evaluation: Congratulations on discovering something every youth coach should have told you when you were twelve.]
[Day 100: First touch breaks through the "elite" minimum standard.]
[200th hour: The first touch of the ball reaches the "intercontinental" level.]
The ball speed decay after contact is controlled within 7%, and the success rate of the first touch on a ball from any angle is 89%.
System evaluation: Your ball handling is starting to get interesting. What's the feeling? It's kind of like Aguero's style!
Day 625: First Touch Breakthrough to "World-Class". Your hard work and dedication have finally moved God, and you have successfully reached the highest limit of your efforts: 680 days! That's a total of about 5000 hours! The marginal effect of your efforts has been reached, and you need to choose the direction to continue your progress with your first touch.
1. Ronaldinho's approach: Combining the art of touch with feints, his touches are full of creativity and deception, seemingly effortless yet possessing the magic of simplifying complexity. [0/????]
2. Dennis Bergkamp's approach: The focus is on precise control and instantaneous changes of direction, creating incredible space for himself after the first touch of the ball.
【0/????】
3. Juan Roman Riquelme's approach: The classic attacking midfielder's essential skill is to turn the ball back when at a speed disadvantage, gaining time by converting the first touch into a pass.
【0/????】
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[Shared experience triggers – dribbling control, short pass accuracy, and long pass visibility are automatically upgraded to "Elite" level.]
Li Jing felt a strange sensation.
The time and memory in the simulator are compressed, and the specific training footage will not be retained after exiting, but muscle memory and technical understanding will be fully preserved.
Five thousand five hundred hours is equivalent to him spending his time in an endless training field, doing nothing but practicing one move—catching the ball.
Receiving the ball under various angles, speeds, spins, and physical contact conditions.
Five thousand five hundred repetitions? No, it's hundreds of thousands of times.
He didn't continue to hone his ball control skills to the point of becoming a legend.
Being world-class is enough. It seems that to reach legendary status, one needs to choose a direction and then complete more specialized training.
So even though the three legendary options seemed very tempting, he didn't rush to choose them.
The sharing of experience has brought the other three aspects to the elite.
The most cost-effective approach is to jump to the next major category.
[Current remaining training hours: 96500]
Having used up the entire 5500, and still having so much left, Li Jing suddenly felt a little uneasy about how extravagant he had been.
[Training item switched to: Speed category - Extreme speed]
You've finally realized that your biggest problem is that you're still as slow as a snail!
So don't hesitate any longer, start running!
[On the first day of speed training, you find running really tiring; what you need to experience is the thrill of the strong wind!]
[First, you completed a basic sprint training test. Your maximum speed is 33.8 km/h. System evaluation: In the top five leagues, this speed can be caught by most full-backs. In La Liga, you might even be caught by some center-backs.]
[Day 100: Top speed increased to 35.1 km/h, reaching "Elite" level. You have begun to learn to maintain a stable center of gravity during acceleration.]
[Day 200: Top speed reached "Intercontinental" level, 36.4 km/h. System evaluation: You are now faster than 90% of La Liga strikers. The remaining 10%? Don't even think about it, that's talent.]
[Day 1000: Breakthrough "World-Class" Speed: 37.2 km/h. Shared Experience Triggered—Acceleration, dribbling speed, and reaction speed automatically upgraded to "Elite" level. Your current 100-meter sprint time is 10.74 seconds. This is the limit of what you can achieve! System Evaluation: Congratulations on reaching a speed threshold that most professional players can never reach in their entire careers. But remember to tell your team doctor about your knee. Remember not to let him see your knee backwards!]
Li Jing did not stop.
[Current remaining hours: 90500 hours!]
The training time required for maximum speed is much longer than that for the first touch of the ball, but it's more than enough, absolutely more than enough!
[Training item switched to: Strength - Resistance Intensity]
Let's have a clash of men!
On your first day, you arrived at the training ground and engaged in 4300 physical collisions with a system-generated "standard La Liga center-back" during scrimmage. In the first 2000 collisions, you were knocked flying 1847 times. System evaluation: You're like an autumn leaf. You begin to question, "Do I really need to go to the gym? Can I really train like this just by bumping into things? Is this how I'll improve?"
[1500 Days Later: You've fallen in love with collisions, especially with collisions with men!]
[Confrontational intensity surpasses "world-class". You can withstand a lateral charge from an 85kg defender while running at full speed and maintain possession. Shared experience triggers – jumping height, stamina reserves, and core stability automatically increase to "elite" level.]
[Current remaining training hours: 78500 hours]
Next comes the shot.
[Training item switched to: Shooting - Shooting Accuracy]
[Day 500: You practiced 14,000 shots on goal. You scored 6,300. System evaluation: Congratulations, you can finally kick the ball towards the goal instead of the corner flag when you exert force inside the penalty area.]
[Day 1000: Shooting accuracy surpasses "World-Class". 91% accuracy on target from any angle on three-quarters of the field, 76% hitting the effective area of the goal. Shared experience triggered—shooting power, heading ability, and long-range shooting technique upgraded to "Elite" level.]
[Current remaining hours: 78500 hours]
Then comes defense.
This is the category that Li Jing is most hesitant about.
He is a winger; defense is not his primary task.
But Simeone's system is different.
Atletico Madrid's forwards must participate in high pressing and tracking back; forwards with poor defensive abilities won't last more than two games under Simeone.
But 100,000 hours is not unlimited.
He has to make a choice.
Li Jing decided to stop training defensive skills once he reached the "Elite" level.
Put all the time saved into tactical games.
Because there's a sub-category in the tactics category that he cares about most—off-the-ball movement.
That was the only project in his evaluation report that immediately reached the "elite" level. This indicates that he has a natural talent in this area, and the return on investment will be even higher.
[Training mode switched to: Defense - 1v1 Defense]
[Day 438: Defensive Training. One-on-one defending reached "Elite" level. Shared experience triggered—interception anticipation, tackle timing, and aerial duels improved to "Pro+" level.]
[System notification: Your return on investment in defensive items is lower than the other five. It is recommended to reduce investment in these areas.]
Li Jing withdrew from defensive training.
The last major category.
Tactics.
Current remaining training hours: 75000 hours!
[Training item switched to: Tactics - Off-the-ball movement]
[Day 1: Compared to everything else, your brain seems to be much better than your body. I've finally seen that you have something to do with the word 'genius'.]
Tactical training begins.
Your off-the-ball movement starting point is "Elite Lower Limit". The system has loaded tactical videos of all the La Liga, Premier League, Serie A, and Bundesliga champions from the past ten years as training material.
You realize that this type of tactical training is very simple: just watch videos repeatedly and then figure it out! Believe it! Repetition always produces miracles.
On the 500th day, you watched videos for eight hours almost every day and gained new insights every day, but you didn't feel a qualitative change. Finally, on this day, you began to understand the essential difference between "positioning" and "movement".
Positioning is about finding space; moving is about creating space.
When you learn to use your movement to draw away two or more defenders, you're no longer just a runner, but a space designer. System evaluation: You've definitely improved.
[Day 500: Off-the-ball movement breaks through to the "continental" level. Your perception of the game space upgrades from two-dimensional to three-dimensional—you begin to calculate the speed and direction of the defensive line's movement, not just its position.]
[Day 1000: Actually, you didn't feel enlightened after this, but you definitely improved! Your off-the-ball movement reached "world-class".]
At the same time, you also face an opportunity to become a legend.
Based on your apparent talent for off-the-ball movement, this time, the path to legend doesn't seem so far away.
[1. Karim Benzema's direction: Combining sudden bursts and feints, if you can understand Benzema's off-the-ball movement and realize his essence is support play, you might understand why Benzema is always the scapegoat. Although it consumes energy, Benzema will always tirelessly use sudden bursts and feints. If the opponent marks him, his teammates will be very comfortable; if no one marks him, he will become a Benzema Tyrannosaurus Rex, appearing in a deadly position!]
[0/55000 hours!]
[2. Thomas Müller's style: His talent is like water. If there's a genius among geniuses when it comes to off-the-ball movement, Müller is the genius of geniuses. Müller's movement doesn't even have a fixed pattern; it's entirely based on instantly interpreting the opponent's changing formation and then appearing in the most vulnerable position. This is why Müller is often called the "bottle opener of massacres"—once his weakness is found, the opponent will repeatedly suffer defeat.]
[0/55000]
When Li Jing saw this, he almost made the choice immediately. When Müller appeared on the off-the-ball movement, he almost made the choice right away.
But then he saw the next item.
[3. Asata's direction, oh damn guy, but if you aspire to be an all-around player, then perhaps Lionel Messi's direction would be perfect for you. Asata's specialty is receiving the ball in the "wasteland" areas of the defense. For Messi, he can dribble the ball from those wastelands to the most dangerous areas, so he's a sewer rat!!!]
In the end, Li Jing still chose Messi's path.
This caused Li Jing immense pain, but he also gained a legendary ability!
[Off-the-ball movement breaks through to "Legendary" level. Shared experience triggers—positional awareness, game reading, and transition offense and defense automatically upgrade to "Continental" level.]
[Current remaining training hours: 20000]
[Final Competency Assessment]
[Ball control: World-class (first touch world-class, others elite+)]
[Speed Category: World-Class (World-class extreme speed, intercontinental acceleration burst, and other elite categories)]
[Strength Category: World-Class (World-class combat intensity, the rest are elite)]
[Tactical Category: Legends (Legends in off-the-ball movement, other continental categories)]
[Shooting Category: World-class (world-class shooting accuracy, continental shooting power, and other elite skills)]
[Defense Class: Elite (One-on-one defense against elites, other classes +)]
Overall Rating: InterContinental+ (Close to the lower limit of world-class)
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Li Jing opened his eyes.
My head felt like it had been stuffed with a ball of red-hot wire, and my temples throbbed. I collapsed onto the sofa, my underwear soaked through and clinging to my back, feeling chilly.
The ceiling is spinning.
It took him about twenty seconds to remember where he was.
Apartment. Brazil. São Paulo.
He reached for his phone on the coffee table, and squinted when the screen lit up.
37 missed calls.
It's all Raiola.
There were also a dozen or so text messages, the most recent one sent twenty minutes ago:
Call me if you're still alive.
Li Jing sensed something was wrong and then pressed the call-back button.
I answered it after it rang once.
"You fucking—" Raiola's voice exploded, "Three days! Three days! Is your phone just for show?!"
"Three days?"
"Are you deaf? It's Thursday! I've been calling you since Monday night!"
Li Jing glanced at the date on her phone.
It really is Thursday.
He started the simulation on Monday afternoon.
"I...I'm sick," Li Jing said. "I have a high fever and I fainted."
"You picked a good time to get sick!" Raiola showed absolutely no concern. "Atletico Madrid changed the reporting date; they need you in Madrid the day after tomorrow!"
"the day after tomorrow?"
"The day after tomorrow! Saturday! Simeone wants to see you in training on Sunday, not next week, but this Sunday. They just lost to Real Sociedad in the first half, and then two more players got injured during the halftime break. They need to adjust their formation, and he wants to see if you can fill in."
"Didn't you say a week later?"
"I spoke with their sporting director a week later. Simeone changed the date himself. I told him, that guy is a madman."
Raiola paused for a moment, then softened his tone slightly.
"I've changed your ticket. It's a 7:30 AM flight tomorrow, from São Paulo to Madrid, with a layover in Lisbon. I've already processed your visa and work permit expedited. Someone will pick you up at Madrid airport."
"OK."
"Hurry up and pack anything else you need. The apartment club over there has arranged it; it's not big, but it'll be enough for you."
"OK."
"And—" Raiola paused for a second, "call me when you get there. Every day. Don't disappear again."
"OK."
"So all you can say is 'okay'?"
"OK."
Raiola hung up the phone.
Li Jing put down her phone and tried to sit up from the sofa.
My head still hurts, but not as badly as before.
He glanced down at his panel: 20347 hours.
It seems I should keep it for now, but for now, this is his current template.
Doesn't he look a bit like a 1.8-meter-tall Messi?
……