Chapter 427: Chapter 427
[ Ball playing keeper ]
[ Attribute points required: 15 ]
[ Attribute points: 07 ]
'Judging by how slowly I'm getting each attribute point, it's going to take ages before I'll be able to unlock that attribute.'
'Hey, that's not helping.'
It was a free day for all the players, and even though Dave planned to sleep in that morning, he got up early and couldn't find any reason to go back to his bed, so he decided to run a few laps around the house, and after that, he picked up a ball and went into his practice pitch.
Right now, he was sitting on the floor going through a couple of things in his system. It had been a while since he had seriously looked at anything there.
'I know shot-stopper will focus only on my strength as I level it and sweeper keeper on dexterity, what's ball playing going to do?'
'I know, I wasn't asking you, I was just pondering in my mind. It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with endurance so it's definitely not that, I think it's more dexterity-inclined more than anything but still, I have a feeling that isn't right either, I have this feeling that it's going to be something completely unexpected.
Maybe that's why I really want to unlock it despite the fact that I don't really need it with everything I already have, whatever it may be.'
'What do you expect me to do when you refuse to give me answers to questions ? Anyway, I'm just going to take a look at this other stuff.'
[ Name: Dave Richards ]
[ Position: Goalkeeper ]
[ Goalkeeping Skills ]
[ Thrust: level(05) ]
[ Ball magnet: level(03) ]
[ Focus: level (04) ]
[ Double stamina: level (02) ]
[ Goalkeeping attributes ]
[ Shot stopper: level(02) ]
[ Unused stat points: 37 ]
[ Skill upgrade points: 151 ]
[ Attribute points: 7 ]
[ Name: Dave Richards ]
[ Position: Goalkeeper ]
[ Strong foot: right ]
[ Developed qualities: Shot stopper ]
[ Developing qualities: Sweeper Keeper, ball playing keeper. ]
[ Current Team: Unique FC ]
[ Market value: €1.5M ]
[ Matches played: 104 ]
[ Goals conceded: 93 ]
[ Penalties faced: 31 ]
[ Penalties saved: 07 ]
[ Career average rating: 7.6 ]
[ Man of the Match awards: 10 ]
[ Minor trophies: ×1 Bilbeth Charity cup ]
[ Major trophies: 0 ]
[ Records set/broken ]
[ Bilbeth Premier League record: First goalkeeper to score from 42 yards ]
[ Only goalkeeper to score twice and assist in a season ]
[ Goalkeeper with the most consecutive clean sheets (06) ]
[ First goalkeeper to ever score and assist in the same match ]
[ First goalkeeper to directly contribute to three goals in a match ]
'I should really make use of all those skill upgrade points.'
'I wonder how much pain focus will spare me if I level it up further.'
[ -45 Skill upgrade points ]
[ Focus is now at level 05 ]
[ Skill upgrade points: 106 ]
'This skill upgrade points always look plenty until you start to use them, let me just get it to six.'
[ -60 skill upgrade points ]
[ Focus is now at level six ]
'I guess it's time to find out what changed.' He said subconsciously.
After going through the process of leveling his most painful skill to use, he got up from the floor and began to make his way to the gym to drag out his ball blaster which he hardly ever uses these days because there was no longer any challenge in doing so.
After dragging out the ball blaster to the pitch with the balls that fitted into it, he filled it up with all sixteen balls and set it up in front of the goalpost.
"Alright, let's see how this works." He muttered as he slid his hands into his gloves.
After that, he pushed the start button on the blaster and quickly made his way to his goal line.
His surrounding suddenly went dark as the blaster began to fire the balls toward him.
Keeping out the balls from one to fifteen was super easy for him, and right at the sixteenth one when he expected the dark surrounding to clear, it remained there until he saved the sixteenth shot, and it was after that did the dark surrounding clear.
'Okay, time for the pain.'
That thought was all it took to trigger the pain, but this time, he put quite an effort into trying to endure it as he placed his right hand on his forehead before placing his left hand on the post.
It took three minutes for the pain to completely disappear so there wasn't really any improvement there.
'Oh, the pain is still just as intense and the pain duration didn't even get any improvements, what did leveling this skill up really do?'
'If you're talking about the focus duration getting extended a bit, I don't really see that as an improvement, all I wanted was for the pain to get less intense or at least reduce the duration, three minutes is way too long for someone to keep his mind void especially in the heat of a match.'
'That was five seconds? It would have been better to deduct five seconds from the drawback time instead, it will be pretty negligible but it's something.' He ranted subconsciously. 'I love this skill but the drawback mechanics is just something else.'
'If you say that with certainty then maybe I'll believe you, that maybe at the start is a big turn-off.' He replied before crashing down to the floor.
'Yeah, I know, that's the whole idea behind this skill I know, I'm starting to get used to the pain a little I guess, but I still don't like it.'
There was a little moment of silence both inside and outside of his mind as he slowly looked around the area.
'Thrust would have been such a neat skill to spam but then it has fifteen minutes of cool down between each usage which is sort of sad.'
'Alright, then, can you give me a straightforward answer for once as my guide?'
'Hmmm. Will leveling up thrust reduce its cooldown?'
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