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There was once a saying.
So-called success consisted of 99% effort plus 1% talent.
Judging from that saying, for a person who wanted to accomplish something, effort was undoubtedly the most important thing.
Thus came the saying, "The stupid bird flies first."
But if the clever bird had exerted itself from the very beginning, could the stupid bird still catch up?
The answer was naturally no.
And so, some people said—
Although 99% effort was important, that 1% talent was even more important than the 99% effort.
If success were compared to 100%, then no matter how small a proportion talent occupied, without it, even after putting in 99% effort, lacking that 1%, one could never achieve success.
This saying fit Climb perfectly.
Climb himself knew that better than anyone.
Although he was the attendant of the current princess, Climb's strength was not particularly outstanding. At most, he was only somewhat stronger than ordinary warriors and soldiers.
By adventurer standards, Climb was roughly equivalent to a Gold-Ranked Adventurer.
By YGGDRASIL standards, Climb was around level 10.
At that level of strength, let alone compared to Gazef, the kingdom's strongest warrior, or Lakyus and her group of Adamantite-Ranked Adventurers, he was weaker than countless other adventurers by an unknown margin.
Originally, with strength at Climb's level, it should have been impossible for him to become the attendant of such a renowned princess.
The reason Climb had become the princess's attendant was entirely because, when he had been on the verge of death as a child, the princess had happened to find him and take him in.
Therefore, Climb had become the princess's