Football System: Penalty Zone Hero

Author's note: Bonus chapter #3 60/60 power stones. 

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"A strong body, perseverance, talent, and a strong heart. These are the basic qualities of being a hero, and none of them can be missing. Do you still think it's easy to be a hero?"

Yesenin looked at Chen Yingxiong and asked.

Chen Yingxiong's answer once again surprised Yesenin, or rather, it did not surprise him that much, because this was Chen Yingxiong's style. He said, "How do you know if you don't try?"

Yesenin laughed.

He really didn't know where this kid got his confidence from.

"To become a hero, it is not enough to have these innate factors but also acquired factors. And I am the acquired factors." Yesenin pointed at himself.

"You?" Chen Yingxiong asked.

Yesenin did not respond to Chen Yingxiong's question, but turned back to his room and took out a laptop.

He placed his laptop on the dining table, opened the browser, clicked on a web page directly from the browser's favourites, and then showed Chen Yingxiong the screen.

"Look at this."

Chen Yingxiong put his face close to the screen and read word by word. "World of Warcraft Warrior Talent Simulator? What is this?"

Yesenin quickly snatched back the laptop, closed the browser, and opened another website. He confirmed it himself before pushing it to Chen Yingxiong. "Wrong one, wrong one. This one is right..."

Chen Yingxiong took it and looked at it - "Isn't this still a talent simulator!"

Yesenin pointed to the computer screen and said, "Take another look."

Chen Yingxiong continued to move closer to look, and then he screamed. "What is this?!"

Yesenin smiled.

"...Strength Talent Tree: The path chosen by a strong striker. Use a strong body and indestructible strength to knock down the opponent and score a goal...Air Tyrant: The heading goal rate increases by 50%, and at the same time, the header goal rate in difficult situations and irregular postures increases by 20%...Aerial Trapeze, bracket three...Increases jumping ability by 5/10/15%. At the same time, it increases the ability to stay in the air by 3/6/9%...What are these?!"

Chen Yingxiong didn't finish reading it all, he raised his head impatiently and stared at Yesenin who was sitting opposite him with wide eyes.

"As you can see, it's a talent tree. But it's different from the World of Warcraft you're familiar with. This is your talent skill as a striker."

Yesenin explained to Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong opened his mouth wide in surprise. 

"The number in the brackets indicates the level of this talent skill. If it is 3, it means there are three levels in total, and if it is 5, it means there are five levels in total... The percentage behind it means that every time you grow one level, the skill bonus effect brought by your talent skill increases by a percentage. For example..." Yesenin began to explain to Chen Yingxiong in detail. "Take this 'Flying Man' for example. The 3 in the brackets means that this talent skill can be upgraded three times, and the percentages behind it are the effects when you upgrade to; level one, two, and three. When you upgrade to level one, your jumping ability increases by 5%, and your air-staying ability increases by 3%. When you upgrade to level two, your jumping ability increases by 10%, and your air-staying ability increases by 6%. When you upgrade to level three, your jumping ability increases by 15%, and your air-staying ability increases by 9%. When you upgrade to level three, it is fully upgraded, and this talent cannot be further expanded.

Chen Yingxiong was an expert at playing World of Warcraft. After Yesenin explained it, he understood."It's the talent tree setting of World of Warcraft..."

Yesenin nodded: "You can say that."

After Chen Yingxiong understood the basic principle, he continued to read. As he read, he suddenly laughed. "Haha! Interesting! 'I protect the ball like the emperor'! Haha, look at this talent - the success rate of using the body to protect the ball increases by 5%, 10%, and 15% at each level!! This name is so funny!"

"Huh? There are other talent trees... What is this? Agility talent? Strength, Agility, and this... Technical Awareness..."

Seeing these talents, Chen Yingxiong felt very nostalgic - he hadn't played World of Warcraft for several months...

"You know I love playing World of Warcraft, so you made this for me to comfort me?"

Yesenin curled his lips. "This is not a joke, these are real talents and skills... The talents you choose will enhance your abilities in this area."

"It sounds like Viagra..."

Yesenin choked.

Chen Yingxiong continued to browse the page like a curious baby.

"Huh? What are these? Why are some of them grey and some of them colourful?"

Yesenin explained. "Gray means that you can't click it yet. It's locked and needs to be unlocked. Coloured means you can click it..."

At this point, he heard two "clicks"...

"Damn, you can really order it!" Then came Chen Yingxiong's surprised voice.

Yesenin was startled. "What did you do?" He suddenly turned the laptop over and searched the page quickly.

Then he saw that in the first level of agility talents, there was a number "2" in the lower right corner of the talent icon named "Wind and Lightning".

"You...you took it?" Yesenin raised his head and looked at Chen Yingxiong in surprise.

"I don't know... I just wanted to try and see if I could order it, and I ended up ordering it... What happened?"

"Didn't I just tell you? These are all real talents and skills. The talents you choose will enhance your abilities in this area! The effect will be immediate!"

Chen Yingxiong was stunned for a moment, then shouted. "No way? Why didn't you say so earlier... Can I reset my points? Just like in World of Warcraft, I can spend some money to reset my talent points, and then add them again..."

Yesenin said seriously, "That's a game, this is reality. You can save the game, but can you save it in real life? Once you learn this skill, you have this ability, how can you forget it?"

Chen Yingxiong was speechless after being asked this question. After a while, he murmured, "I really wish I could save the file..."

Then he suddenly realized and asked Yesenin. "What talent did I choose?"

"Wind and lightning."

"What is that?"

"Increase your speed by 1%, 2%, 4%. You clicked twice, which means you have upgraded two levels. Congratulations, your speed is now 2% faster than before..."

Chen Yingxiong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

What's the point of increasing the speed by 2%? His speed was not too slow to begin with. When he entered the Zenit test, his best result was 11.78 seconds. For a big guy who was 1.92 meters tall, this speed is amazing.

What does a 2% improvement mean? That is, it increased by 0.2356 seconds... His current top 100-meter speed is 11.54, but what good is this small increase?

He felt that this was a completely useless talent.

However, Yesenin did not think so. "It is still necessary to improve speed. None of the talents here are useless. Especially for big players like you... Although the agility system should have been the path chosen by fast and flexible forwards, if you improve your speed, it means that you will be more difficult to defend - when your teammates pass the ball to you, you can rely on a faster speed to catch the ball before the defender..."

Hearing him say this, Chen Yingxiong's worry turned into joy. "So, my unintentional order was correct?"

Unexpectedly, Yesenin immediately poured cold water on him. "But this talent can't change your current situation... Is your problem now that you don't run fast enough?"

Yesenin pointed to the Strength Talent Tree and the Technical Awareness Talent Tree on the webpage and said to him, "You can look for a solution in these, but it has nothing to do with the Agility Talent Tree."

Chen Yingxiong pressed the mouse hard, but there was no response - except for the icon he clicked, all other talent icons turned grey and could not be clicked.

He threw away the mouse and leaned back in his chair. "Damn! These were the only two talent points I had?"

Yesenin shook his head. "To be exact, you now have three talent points." 

He pointed at "Sky Overlord" and "Wind and Lightning", "You used them all on these two talents. Sky Overlord is a gift from me to you, and Wind and Lightning is something you just selected yourself."

Chen Yingxiong noticed the icon of the air master. "So the reason why I suddenly became so good at heading is because of this talent?"

Yesenin nodded. "Yes, you feel the power of this thing, right?"

Chen Yingxiong recalled the exhilaration he felt when he first competed with the Zenit youth team. This thing seemed to be really powerful...

When he thought of this, he regretted his impulsiveness even more - impulse is the devil!

"Now you realize how stupid you were, don't you?"

Chen Yingxiong held his head in his hands. "Stop talking..."

However, he quickly grasped the crux of the problem. "Wait... You said that you gave me the Sky Overlord talent, so where did the other two talent points come from?" Chen Yingxiong raised his head again and asked Yesenin.

"It's from the level up."

"Level up? There is still an upgrade?"

Yesenin looked at him strangely. "Where do you think these talent points come from? You can get one talent point every time you level up."

"How do I level up?"

"Gain experience."

"How do I gain experience?"

"Training, scoring goals, assists, and receiving honorary awards will all earn you experience. In addition, completing tasks is also a major way to gain experience."

"Mission? There are missions?"

"Of course, there are all kinds of tasks, main tasks and side tasks. Main tasks are tasks that you must complete. If you don't complete them, you can't move forward on the road to becoming a football hero. Side tasks don't have so many restrictions, they are all optional tasks. You can do them or not. If you do them, you will gain more experience, and if you don't do them, there is no loss. If you want to level up faster, you can choose to do some side tasks. But if some side tasks conflict with main tasks, you need to weigh the pros and cons carefully."

Chen Yingxiong was stunned - this was the World of Warcraft version of football! Killing monsters to complete tasks here had become scoring goals to complete tasks, and in the end, you gain experience, level up and then use talent points to strengthen yourself.

When playing World of Warcraft, what Chen Yingxiong looked forward to most was the golden light after upgrading. He would get some distributable talent points, and then add them to the talents he had long been optimistic about, becoming even more powerful...

Unexpectedly, all this was realized in the real world...

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Author's note

Bonus Chapter #4 - 80 Power stones

Bonus Chapter #5 - 100 Power stones