Keen perception was vital to an adventurer's journey.
But in most cases, if an adventurer possessed only an outstanding Perception Attribute, without at least average abilities in other areas, the help that attribute could offer was greatly diminished.
It was much like half-elves, whose bloodlines naturally blessed them with attractive looks, delicate features, tall figures, and fair skin. Their racial gifts made it easy for them to become excellent persuaders and diplomats, provided they put in a little effort and improved their abilities in the relevant fields.
But if they hoped to establish themselves on the Aifala Continent through good looks alone, brimming with ambition and unwilling to settle for mediocrity, yet too lazy to study or train...
They could only become sought-after merchandise for slave traders and the brothels of major towns and cities.
The same held true for adventurers. Outstanding perception alone, without the corresponding experience and knowledge, made it difficult to reach reasonably accurate conclusions from the subtle clues they discovered.
Xia Nan had experienced this firsthand.
He had also drawn up a clear plan to address it and followed through consistently.
Limited by the scarcity of attribute points and the constraints of his class progression, Xia Nan had never found an opportunity to allocate more points to Intelligence, even though he was willing to do so.
Under these circumstances, Xia Nan chose the most basic and effective method to make the best possible use of his Perception Attribute during adventures. Between missions, he invested enormous amounts of time and energy into learning anything about this world that he did not know but needed to understand. His sources included sitting in taverns and listening to adventurers at other tables boast, memorizing the Monster Bestiary through a rote-learning approach that was crude but undeniably effective, and spending points