Seventeen days ago, after killing "Rotten Vulture" Geli and the Murloc Priest in the battle at Wildberry Cliff, Xia Nan had gained another point of proficiency through his practical use of combat skills, raising [Heavy Tide]'s upgrade progress to (32/100).
But now, on the Attribute Panel, that number—which had still seemed quite far from an upgrade—had undergone an almost outrageous change.
—[Heavy Tide] lv2: (72/100)!
That was a full forty-point increase in proficiency!
No one in this world understood the value of that number better than Xia Nan.
The Attribute Panel's Golden Finger allowed him to observe the progress of every combat skill in quantified data.
He could clearly see how much he had improved and how far he remained from raising a combat skill's proficiency level.
But for the other adventurers of this world, what they endured was painful training day after day, with no visible progress and no end in sight.
Perhaps their actual proficiency did improve through training, but throughout the entire stretch from "0" to "99" on the progress bar, they could hardly feel it at all.
This led to another issue that every adventurer in this world had experienced—and feared.
When combat skills were not the sort of counterfeit junk one could buy by the basketful for a few Copper Coins at a General Store, how could one confirm one's training progress? How could one determine whether a combat skill suited them? And how could one choose between sunk costs?
Take [Gravity Control], which Xia Nan currently possessed, for example.
He had acquired this combat skill quite some time ago.
After hundreds of days and nights of grueling training, its proficiency level was still only lv1.
Yet Xia Nan had never slackened. He had maintained his daily training without fail.
Why?
On one hand, it