By 8:30 am the next morning, Rexville is already up and ready for the day, he had his breakfast speedily and rushed to the P.P.F (Phantom Playing Field) with a clear set of mind and body and the determination to succeed this obstacle.
As he entered the high-tech centre
MARIA: Welcome, young master Princeton. Are you ready for today's session
Of course, I am 'Replied Rex
And so MARIA proceeded to activate the entire field, and it made some configurations to ensure smooth operation of the P.P.F.
Immediately, the ball came to his feet he activated for the first time the skill "SpatialAwareness"
Spatial Awareness: The user receives a 360-degree view of the area expandable to 300 metres and everything moving in it for a duration of 1 minute and 30 seconds
Cool down: 3 hrs
Uses: ♾️
Instantly, his bright red eyes had a vivid purple glow, his vision and senses widened to the whole field. As he moved to dribble through the pitch, Rex could feel electricity crackle some milliseconds before the electrocuting, holograms appeared, and a huge smile popped up on his face because of it.
For the first time since he started the P.P.F., he successfully dribbled past a hologram, then he did it again and then a third time due to his accelerated awareness. By the time he got himself he was already outside the 18 yard box, then he decided to shoot, he hit the ball hard and his face lit up as the ball slowly curved from the left side of outside the BOX 18 where he shot the spinning ball aiming for the top right corner, but he was disappointed as the humanoid goalkeeper saved his shot, which shocked him.
MARIA: PHANTOM PLAYING FIELD completion rate 47%, this is a new record from the previous record of 14%, congratulations 🎊 young master Princeton for the leap in progress.
You call that progress!!, I couldn't even score,' said Rexville;
And so he continued a few more times, most of the time he escaped being electrocuted, but as he increased the number of holograms from 3 to 4 then to 6 and on to 10 he started to lag behind more, getting electrocuted at certain intervals.
After 8 hours of gruelling training without scoring past the humanoid and increasing his progress level to just 59%, Rex was bummed out and lay there on the floor, panting heavily
"Who knew aiming to be the best in the world was so hard, (breathes heavily), well, this ain't shaking my resolve, I'll rest for a bit, then continue,"
'Rexville thought.
A system prompt appeared in front of him,
"THE SYSTEM DETECTS MULTIPLE SMALL CHARGES OF ELECTRICITY THROUGHOUT THE HOST'S"
DO YOU WISH FOR THE SYSTEM TO COLLECT THESE CHARGES AND DISTRIBUTE THEM THROUGH THE BRAIN SYNAPSES TO INCREASE THE HOST'S OVERALL STATS [ YES [] NO ]".
With a surprised 😮 look Rexville chose the obvious option, 'hell yeah he screamed and chose YES, then immediately he felt surges of electricity all over his body gathering to his head then some seconds later he felt a burst of energy from his head down to his toes and then he saw that his stats had increased.
VERADIS SYSTEM
LEVEL: 34 RACE: Human
POSITION: Left Winger (ATTCK)
AGI: 42 DRI: 44
STR: 42 PHY: 45
SPD: 45 SHO: 42
DEF: 28 STM: 44
FLX: 42 G.IQ: 149
SKILL
Spatial Awareness: The user receives a 360-degree view of the area expandable to 300 metres and everything moving in it for a duration of 1 minute and 30 seconds
Cool down: 3 hrs
Uses: ♾️
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With a new burst of energy and all his fatigue gone and an increase in both levels and stats, Rex was overjoyed and attempted to conquer the PHANTOM PLAYING FIELD once more.
In under 45 minutes, Rexville increased his progress, to 82% after successfully dribbling past the maximum 12 holographic obstacles, but he still failed to get past the goalkeeper. But he didn't flinch as he was already in the flow zone, and he decided to go for a knuckleball, shot from the outside of his foot.
1st attempt he missed woefully as the ball went way over the crossbar
2nd attempt same thing happened.
.....43rd attempt he made decent contact with the ball, but he shot too close to the goal after getting past the holograms and the humanoid saved it but with some difficulty, at that moment MARIA announced that he had reached 90% progress in the P.P.F.
"That's all the motivation I need. 'Rexville said.
47th attempt, after deciding to go past 11 out of the 12 electrocuting holograms before shooting to add more space for the shot, Rex finally, with slick finesse, shot the ball with the outside of his right boot a little away from the middle of the 18-yard box.
The ball curved left from his point outward and upwards, then curved sharply inwards into the topmost right corner of the goal, and the goalkeeper couldn't stop the power curve shot.
MARIA: Congratulations, young master Princeton, your completion rate of the PHANTOM PLAYING FIELD is 97%
Rex, who was screaming for joy like he just won a lottery, didn't pay much attention to MARIA'S announcement.
Rexville: "I've finally done it, I finally scored a goal in this hellhole.
After a few more attempts, he scored 4 more times and finally completed the P.P.F. with a 100% completion rate.
It was already way past 10 pm when Rex entered the main house. He met Leah waiting for him.
Leah: (with a slight bow), I have already prepared the medicinal bath for you to soak in and a light dinner to quench your hunger since it's already late to eat anything heavy.
Young master, you need to pay more attention to your health.
You trained for almost 15 hours today. The Madam was really worried about you, but the patriarch held her back and made her go to sleep early.
I was tasked to receive you properly.
How was training today? I hope you made considerable progress.
Rexville: Oh! Yes, I did, infact I have completed my training, and I've reached my target, I'm so happye, honestly, I feel like I could achieve anything right now, but I'm also very tired, thanks Leah for your work and waiting for me, I do really appreciate it, and I'll apologise to mom tomorrow, I hope she doesn't scold me too much.
Rexville rushed straight to his room, had his bath, ate and went straight to bed.