Achievement: Rock Solid

As a plain, unglamorous, and boring Virgo man, Su Dong's thoughts were sometimes truly unreasonable.

Mendes thought Su Dong was a calm and rational man, but in reality, on certain issues, Su Dong was very irrational.

For example, leveling up.

As early as late October, Su Dong had already maxed out all four physical attributes.

A week later, he maxed out all four technical attributes as well.

As a forward, technical and physical attributes were the most crucial key attributes. After maxing out both categories, and with his defensive attributes already up to standard, Su Dong could actually have leveled up already.

For Su Dong, who trained against Rony, that cheat device, every day and farmed King of Football Points as easily as eating and drinking, the 250,000 King of Football Points needed to level up had long since stopped being a problem.

But he forced himself to hold back the urge to level up and began training defense hard in November.

After spending nearly half a month, he finally trained the last defensive attribute—and also the worst one, defensive positioning—to the maximum value of 99 points.

When Su Dong saw on the Personal Attribute Panel that this value had been maxed out, his whole face lit up with joy.

This was the obsession of a Virgo man.

He could not tolerate the slightest imperfection.

Especially when Su Dong knew clearly that after rising one more level, he would officially cross the threshold into professional football, so he wanted to do everything he could to build as solid a foundation as possible.

That was true for offense, and it was equally true for defense.

It was precisely this perfectionist streak that made Su Dong not only max out his attacking attributes, but his defense as well.

And he had spent a full three months training bitterly at the Ball Trunk level. To him, the process had been extremely long.

It was foreseeable that every level from here on would become harder and harder.

Starting from the professional player stage, there would definitely be no way to max out every attribute like he could now, but before that, laying as solid a foundation as possible was also one of Su Dong's fixations.

After seeing that all his attributes had been maxed out, Su Dong let out a heavy breath.

"Current Level: Ball Trunk. Next Level: Ball Three. Leveling up requires 250,000 King of Football Points. Level up?"

Su Dong chose [Yes] without the slightest hesitation.

"Leveling up. Please wait..."

Inside the Path to the King of Football system, the black-and-white football slowly began to spin once more.

Su Dong's mood turned along with it.

After rising from Ball Trunk to Ball Three, he would officially set foot on the path of a professional footballer. How would things develop from there?

Which team would he go to?

Every question was full of uncertainty, full of challenge.

But all of this would only further ignite Su Dong's fighting spirit and strengthen his resolve.

Because only he knew how much hardship beyond ordinary imagination he had endured to reach where he was today.

Even with the Path to the King of Football system.

"Congratulations. Level-up successful."

"Current Level: Ball Three. Next Level: Ball Work. Leveling up requires 1,250,000 King of Football Points."

When Su Dong saw the prompt, his entire mind went Spartan.

The next level was Ball Work?

What the hell was that?

Who on earth came up with these names?

They were so tacky and rustic they ought to be dragged out and shot.

And 1.25 million King of Football Points? Wasn't that way too outrageous?

Although he had Rony, that cheat device, farming this many King of Football Points would still be very difficult, especially in terms of time.

Who on earth had designed this system?

Su Dong had the urge to tear the designer apart with his bare hands.

But very quickly, he was drawn in by another message that came through.

"Congratulations. You have officially entered the ranks of professional footballers."

"Entering the ranks of professional footballers at peak maximum-value condition, with an incomparably solid foundation. Achievement earned: [Rock Solid]."

Rock Solid?

Su Dong froze, then immediately followed the system information and clicked into the achievement.

As soon as he entered and saw the contents clearly, Su Dong was so happy he almost burst out laughing.

He had struck it rich!

He had really struck it rich!

The so-called Rock Solid referred to Su Dong upgrading at his peak, with full values, while he was still at the non-professional player stage.

In other words, Su Dong had reached the very peak of a non-professional player, which made his foundation incomparably solid.

That was the origin of the achievement [Rock Solid].

But what truly sent Su Dong into wild delight was the benefit this achievement brought.

Rock Solid represented incomparably solid fundamentals, and the benefit it brought was that from now on, no matter what Su Dong learned, he would learn it a little faster—such as the speed and proficiency with which he mastered certain Star Ability Cards.

This one thing alone was already extremely worthwhile for Su Dong.

Not only that, after obtaining this achievement, the rate at which Su Dong's attribute abilities improved in his subsequent training would also increase somewhat, and the speed at which he obtained King of Football Points would likewise become faster.

In other words, from here on, the improvement speed of all of Su Dong's various abilities would accelerate along with it.

This was simply incredible!

How could Su Dong have imagined that what had originally been nothing more than his Virgo complex acting up—wanting to make his foundation a little more solid, which was why he had stubbornly trained every attribute to the maximum—would unexpectedly give him such an unexpected gain?

If that had been all, it would have been one thing.

When Su Dong entered the Personal Attribute Panel, he was shocked all over again.

He discovered that the various attributes which should originally have been greatly discounted had indeed been cut by more than half, but this time they were all actually above 40 points, and the highest, speed, had even reached 67 points.

One had to know that during his last upgrade, his attribute points had been directly chopped from the full pre-upgrade value of 99 points down to the twenties or thirties.

But this time, they were all above 40 points, and their potential was all above 60 points. It was clear that the effect brought by the achievement [Rock Solid] was truly delightful.

At that moment, Su Dong even secretly rejoiced a little. His previous decision to train all his attributes to the maximum had been such a wise one.

After the pleasant surprise, Su Dong also carefully looked over the upgraded Personal Attribute Panel.

He did not know whether it was affected by Su Dong's position, but after the upgrade, the system had focused on strengthening the goal-scoring attributes.

For example, Shooting had been subdivided into Shooting, Long Shot, and Heading.

In terms of the body, three major attributes had been added: agility, balance, and Jumping.

As the names suggested, agility was the body's degree of nimbleness, while balance was the ability to maintain bodily balance without falling to the ground. As for Jumping, that was even simpler—it was how high a player could jump.

The defensive category had gained two attributes, namely Interception and Clearance.

Judging from the values of his personal attributes, Su Dong's strongest point was still his speed, which had reached 67 points. His Explosive Power had also reached 66 points. From this, it could be seen that he was a speed-type player.

What was interesting, however, was that in the most recent physical examination, Su Dong's height had reached 1.90 meters.

This left both Su Dong and the people at Sporting Portugal feeling very puzzled. While he was constantly growing taller and his body was becoming stronger and stronger, he could still continue to maintain an increase in speed?

Wasn't it said that after a player grew taller and gained weight, his speed and agility would decline?

Yet this contradictory paradox seemed to have become reality in Su Dong.

Su Dong himself was also very curious about it. He was looking forward to what would happen in the future if he continued to grow taller.

On the system's personal interface, besides displaying Su Dong's height of 1.90 meters, his weight had also increased by five kilograms. This was clearly also thanks to his hard training over the past period of time, with his physical quality and strength in confrontations both improving noticeably.

But what caught Su Dong's attention was that after the upgrade, the system had added settings for the left and right foot.

As a right-footed player, Su Dong's right foot was naturally at the full value of 99 points, but his left foot had only 9 points.

According to the system's annotation, this was almost close to being crippled.

In other words, his left foot basically could not do anything, including dribbling.

This also reminded Su Dong of something: Rony had always been subconsciously training his left foot.

He had once said that Sporting Lisbon's technical director, Aurelio Pereira, had told him that two-footed players had more advantages than one-footed players, and were also more threatening.

Especially players who could train their weaker foot to be as strong as their dominant foot.

Looking at that 9 points on his left foot, Su Dong truly found it very glaring.

It was time to set aside some time and properly train this left foot.

After all, as a forward, if he could only shoot with his right foot, once his opponents saw through him, he would be very easy to defend against.

Of course, this was long-term work and could not be rushed.

After upgrading into [Ball Three], Su Dong temporarily could not even grasp the tail of the next level, [Ball Work], so he still put more of his focus on improving his own abilities, such as raising his potential values.

After advancing into Ball Three, for every point of potential value he raised, Su Dong needed to consume one thousand King of Football Points.

Without a doubt, this was quite a hefty consumption, especially after the upgrade, with the number of various attributes increasing.

To a certain extent, wanting to train all of his attributes to the maximum again seemed somewhat unrealistic.

Su Dong was very clear about where his potential and advantages lay, so he first maxed out speed, Explosive Power, and Shooting, which once again drained his King of Football Points completely.

However, the benefit was that next, he could focus wholeheartedly on burying his head in hard training.

But apart from this, Su Dong remembered that he still had one Star Ability Card he had not redeemed.

This Star Ability Card had already been with him for quite some time, but because he had not yet mastered Batty Goal before, and in the spirit of not biting off more than he could chew, he had not redeemed it at the first opportunity.

Now that he had advanced into Ball Three and had also practiced Batty Goal until he was familiar with it, he should hurry up and exchange it.

As the saying went, too many skills never weighed a person down. Having one more ability at his disposal would only benefit him.

With that thought, Su Dong entered the Star Ability Card shop in the marketplace.

As the system upgraded, more and more goods in the shop were unlocked. This time, the Star Ability Cards available for Su Dong to choose from were clearly far more abundant than last time, but along with that, Su Dong's choice became even more difficult.

As a player who had only just stepped across the threshold into the professional ranks, Su Dong was still relatively weak. In his eyes, almost every star player's Ability Card seemed extremely useful and would be a tremendous help.

For example, Van Basten's Shooting ability. That was absolutely a lethal weapon.

Everyone knew that the Dutch center forward was the most perfect scorer in history. He could send the ball into the net with almost any kind of shooting technique.

However, the more outstanding the Star Ability Card, the higher its requirements for each technical skill, and the less power Su Dong would be able to bring out from it. That clearly did not fit Su Dong's current needs.

He needed a Star Ability Card that could take effect at his present stage.

For example, the one his gaze had locked onto now.

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