Second Chances: Indonesian Football Player
Chapter 37's
"DING"
A new system notification popped up after I selected the receive button.
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* Dungeon Virtual Training
2 new messages
-> You have spent 2 EXP points to activate the dungeon for one hour.
-> Dungeon Virtual Training will be active in two minutes. Please find a comfortable place and position to prepare yourself for this procedure.
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I first locked the door of my room, then closed the curtains before sitting on my bed with a leaning position on the wall and legs cross-legged. I calmed my mind and patiently waited for two minutes to pass.
When the countdown was complete, new words began to fill in the user interface positioned at an oblique angle right in front of my face.
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Dungeon Virtual Training activated
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Connecting System Neural Interface
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ACTIVATION IS SUCCESSFUL
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Suddenly I was covered in a very bright light that made me close my eyes quickly while raising both my hands to cover my face. After a few seconds I felt my body drift a little like a fall before I gently felt a fall on something quite soft. When I felt no more glare, slowly I opened my eyes, it turned out that I was no longer in my room or sitting on my bed. Instead, he was in a dark room with only a bluish system interface shining before my eyes.
"DING"
The system notification reads as new words fill the interface. I blinked as my eyes adjusted to the screen lighting.
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*Dungeon Virtual Training
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Mental conditioning begins...
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The Miracle Shoot Lionel Messi training package: Set Piece loading...
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Choose the type of surface area to begin practicing the skills
a) Synthetic grass
b) natural grass
c) GrassMasters
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I naturally chose GrassMaster grass because it is the most common type of field surface in Brussels. It was a hybrid field surface achieved by combining natural grass with synthetic reinforcing fibers. Even in a virtual dungeon, I want to train on a field that I already know to master The Miracle Shoot of Lionel Messi quickly.
As soon as my right finger left the system interface, a perfect green football field began to form under my feet. It spread out and covered more ground in the previously dark virtual space.
The system Dungeon did not give me a single second to adjust to my surroundings. Not long after the ground finished forming, I felt the ground under my shoes move, giving me the feeling of being in a travelator. He quickly crossed the field and arrived in front of the box 18 yards away from the empty field.
Suddenly, my head was presented with pictures of Messi while he was taking Free Kick. A lot of information came in about how Lionel Messi's Set Piece Technique was in my head, so it made my head a little dizzy. After a few minutes my belly was gone. And I look up. Back. But now in front of me there is a system screen that shows something.
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CHOOSE TRAINING LEVEL
-EXPERT SET PIECE TRAINING (Human Calf Fence with Goalkeeper)
-ADVANCED SET PIECE TRAINING (Human calf fence with Goalkeeper and Original Atmosphere of the Match.)
Choose one of the
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With consideration after a few minutes I chose Expert Set Piece Training. Actually I want to choose Advanced level. However since this was my first Exercise for Set Piece I chose the intermediate level, neither too easy nor too difficult.
After clicking on the level I wanted, suddenly there were some people who appeared and formed a posse. There are also people who seem to be goalkeepers towards goal.
Suddenly my body moved on its own and put the ball to the ground and took a position to kick the ball. I felt myself taking seven steps behind the five new balls that appeared along with the simulated players in this dungeon. I analysed the situation of the pitch, the wall, the goalkeeper's position and the distance of one of the balls from the goalposts.
After a slow but steady approach, I felt myself setting my right foot before taking the final one-and-a-half meter leap towards the ball. I then put my left foot right next to the ball, tilted my right foot backward, and kicked the ball with the side of my big toe. I fired a curling shot into the back of the goal.
My body, which I still couldn't control, kept firing the other four balls. I only regained control of my body after I kicked the last ball.
I've experienced how Messi feels, feels around, and controls my body every time I score from a free kick. I knew that the system was slowly infusing reflexes, body movements, and other relevant knowledge necessary to learn The Miracle Shoot of Lionel Messi into me. With only five balls that I kicked into the net, I had already begun to understand his skills.
I only need to continue firing free kicks within this Virtual Dungeon to increase my skill mastery. Therefore, I continued to practice setpiece for an hour until the system removed me from the dungeon.
But I've made great progress. In just one hour, I managed to do 30 free kicks with the guidance from the system. I could also feel my knowledge of setpieces growing by leaps and bounds. And all of this made me lose 2 very few EXP points.
I opened the Mastery Skill system menu to check the progress of my skills.
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-> Mastery Skills: 3
(i) Vision Andres Iniesta
(Level 1: Progress: 62.021%)
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(ii) Deadly Shoot
(Level 2: Progress: 1.02%)
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(iii) The Miracle Shoot of Lionel Messi
(Level 1: Progress: 0.03%)
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-> Dungeon Virtual Training System (DVS)
Enable Disable
(Activation charges 2 EXP Points per hour)
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My mood was lifted when I realized that my Messi skill set had improved by 0.03%. I know firsthand how difficult it is to achieve complete initial mastery of Mastery skills. I only made 62% progress to master Andres Iniesta's level 1 Vision even after one year of training.
However, DVS has helped me to grow by 0.03% after shooting just 30 balls in one night. It was music in my ears.
‘I wonder if I can use DVS to practice other skills.’ I'm musing.
I have activated DVS at a cost of 2 exp points once again. I want to test if DVS can help me practice my other Mastery skills. However, only Deadly Shot and Messi free kick skills are available under the simulator menu.
‘So, that's why I was able to master Andres Iniesta's Vision before getting access to simulator.’ I thought consciously
I can understand why I can start mastering Iniesta's Vision without using DVS. The system only incorporated match experience and tactical knowledge to improve my game intelligence before using skills. Due to my high spatial awareness stat, I did not face any obstacles in understanding and mastering this technique.
However, the requirements for Deadly Shot and free kick skills are different. I had to master perfect posture and body movements to execute the technique perfectly. Even a slight change in its balance can make the ball deviate from its intended path. The only way for the system to incorporate skills into my muscle memory is through this DVS feature.
I activated DVS three more times that night, continuing my mental conditioning for The Miracle Shoot Messi. I managed to shoot 120 balls at the setpiece and increased the progress of the skill by 0.12%. I slept at half-time 2am, feeling successful in my Exercises in DVS today.
