“A strong physique, persistence, talent, and a strong heart. These are the basic qualities for becoming a hero, and all four are indispensable. Do you still think it's easy to be a hero now?"

Yesenin looked at Chen Hero and asked.

Chen Hero's answer once again surprised Yesenin, or rather, it didn't surprise him so much anymore, because that's just Chen Hero's style. He said, "How would I know if I don't try?"

Yesenin laughed.

This kid, I really don't know where he gets his confidence from.

"To become a hero, it's not enough to just have these innate factors, you also need acquired factors. And I am the acquired factor." Yesenin pointed to himself.

"You?" Chen Hero asked.

Yesenin didn't respond to Chen Hero's question, but turned around and went back to his room, then brought out a laptop from inside.

He put the laptop on the dining table, opened the IE browser, directly clicked on a web page from the browser's favorites, and then pushed it towards Chen Hero.

"Take a look at this."

Chen Hero brought his face close to the screen and read word by word: "World of Warcraft Warrior Talent Simulator? What is this?"

Yesenin quickly snatched the laptop back, closed the browser, and then reopened a website. After confirming it himself, he pushed it to Chen Hero: "Wrong one, wrong one, this one is right..."

Chen Hero took it and looked at it—"Isn't this still a talent simulator!"

Yesenin pointed to the computer screen: "Look again."

Chen Hero continued to look closer, and then he exclaimed, "What is this?!"

Yesenin smiled.

"...Strength-based Talent Skills: The path chosen by a strong and sturdy striker. Knock down opponents with a strong body and indestructible strength to score goals... Air Dominance: Increases heading goal rate by 50%, while also increasing heading goal rate in difficult situations and unorthodox postures by 20%... Aerial Ace, (3)... Increases jumping ability by 5/10/15%. Also increases hang time by 3/6/9%... What are these?!"

Chen Hero didn't finish reading, but couldn't wait to look up and stare at Yesenin sitting across from him with wide eyes.

"As you can see, they are talent skills. But unlike the World of Warcraft you are familiar with, these are your talent skills as a striker."

Yesenin explained to Chen Hero.

Chen Hero opened his mouth wide, as if listening to a heavenly book.

"The numbers in parentheses indicate the level of this talent skill, 3 means there are three levels in total, 5 means there are five levels in total... The percentages behind it are the percentage increase in the skill bonus effect brought by this talent skill each time you grow a level. For example, this..." Yesenin began to explain to Chen Hero in detail. "Take this 'Aerial Ace' as an example, the 3 in parentheses means that this talent skill can be upgraded three times, and the percentages behind it are the effects when you level up one, two, or three times respectively. When you level up once, your jumping ability increases by 5 percent, and your hang time increases by 3 percent. When you level up twice, your jumping ability increases by 10 percent, and your hang time increases by 6 percent. When you level up three times, your jumping ability increases by 15 percent, and your hang time increases by 9 percent. When you level up to level three, you are full, and this talent skill will no longer be able to continue to rise."

Chen Hero is a master at playing World of Warcraft, so he understood as soon as Yesenin explained it: "It's just the talent tree setting of World of Warcraft..."

Yesenin nodded: "You can also say that."

After Chen Hero understood the basic principle, he continued to look down. As he looked at it, he suddenly laughed: "Haha! Interesting! 'My ball protection is like the Emperor'! Haha, look at this talent—the success rate of using the body to protect the ball increases by 5%, 10%, and 15% per level!! This name is so funny!"

"Huh? There are other talent trees... What is this? Agility talent? Are you sure this isn't a pirated version of World of Warcraft? Strength, Agility, and this... Technical Awareness... Weapons, Fury, and Defense!"

Seeing these talents, Chen Hero felt especially familiar—he hadn't played World of Warcraft for several months...

"You know I really like playing World of Warcraft, so you put this together to comfort me?"

Yesenin curled his lips: "This is not for fun, these are real talent skills... Whichever talents you choose, you can enhance your abilities in that area."

"Sounds like Viagra..."

Yesenin choked.

Chen Hero continued to browse the page, like a curious baby.

"Huh? What is this? Why are some gray and some are colored?"

Yesenin explained: "Gray means it can't be clicked yet, it's in a locked state and needs to be unlocked. Colored means it can be clicked..."

Speaking of this, he heard two "click" sounds...

"Damn, you can really click it!" Then Chen Hero's surprised voice followed.

Yesenin was shocked: "What did you do?" He suddenly turned the laptop around and quickly searched the page.

Then he saw that in the first layer of the Agility talent tree, there was a number "2" in the lower right corner of the talent icon named "Wind and Thunder."

"You... you clicked it?" Yesenin looked up at Chen Hero in surprise.

"I don't know... I just wanted to try if I could click it, and then I clicked it... What's wrong?"

"Didn't I just tell you? These are real talent skills. Whichever talents you choose, you can enhance your abilities in that area! Instant results!"

Chen Hero was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "No way? Why didn't you say so earlier... Can you respec? Just like in World of Warcraft, spend some money to wash away the talent points and add them again..."

Yesenin looked serious: "That's a game, this is reality. You can save the game, can you save life? You've learned this skill, you've got this ability, how can you wash it away?"

Chen Hero was speechless. After a long time, he muttered: "I really wish I could save..."

Then he suddenly reacted and asked Yesenin: "What talent did I click?"

"Wind and Thunder."

"What is that?"

"Increases your speed by 1%, 2%, 4%. You clicked two points, which means you have leveled up twice. Congratulations, your current speed is 2% faster than before..."

Chen Hero didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

What's the point of increasing speed by 2%? His speed wasn't too slow to begin with. When he entered Zenit for testing, his best result was 11.78 seconds. As a big guy with a height of 1.92 meters, this speed is great.

What is the concept of increasing by 2%? That is, it has increased by 0.2356 seconds on this basis... His current top 100-meter speed has become 11.54, which has only increased by so little, what's the use?

He felt that this was a completely useless talent.

But Yesenin didn't think so: "It is still very necessary to increase speed, there is no useless talent here. Especially for a big player like you... Although the Agility talent tree should have been the path chosen by forwards who are fast and agile, if you improve your speed, it means you will be more difficult to defend—when your teammates pass you a direct pass, you can rely on your faster speed to receive the ball before the defender..."

Hearing what he said, Chen Hero turned from worry to joy: "So, I accidentally clicked the right one?"

Who would have thought that Yesenin would immediately pour cold water on him: "But this talent cannot change your current situation... Is your problem now that you are not running fast enough?"

Yesenin pointed to the Strength talent tree and the Technical Awareness talent tree on the web page and said to him: "You can find it in these, but it has nothing to do with the Agility talent tree."

Chen Hero clicked the mouse hard, but there was no response—except for the icon he had clicked, the other talent icons turned gray and could not be clicked.

He threw away the mouse and leaned back in his chair: "Damn! I only have these two talent points?"

Yesenin shook his head: "To be precise, you now have three talent points." He pointed to "Air Dominance" and "Wind and Thunder," "They are all used in these two talents, of which Air Dominance is a gift from me, and Wind and Thunder is what you just clicked yourself."

Chen Hero noticed the icon of Air Dominance: "So, I suddenly became very good at heading because of this talent?"

Yesenin nodded. "Yes, you feel the power of this thing, right?"

Chen Hero recalled the feeling of refreshment when he first competed with Zenit's youth team. This thing seems to be really powerful...

Thinking of this, he regretted his impulsiveness just now even more—impulsiveness is the devil!

"Now you know how stupid you were just now, right?"

Chen Hero held his head in his hands: "Don't say it..."

But he quickly grasped the key to the problem: "Wait... you said that the Air Dominance talent was a gift from you, so where did the other two talent points come from?" Chen Hero looked up again and asked Yesenin.

"From leveling up."

"Leveling up? There's leveling up too?"

Yesenin looked at him strangely: "Otherwise, where do you think these talent points come from? You get one talent point for each level you level up."

"How to level up?"

"Accumulate experience."

"How to accumulate experience?"

"Training, scoring goals, assists, and winning awards will all gain experience. In addition, doing quests is also a major way to increase experience."

"Quests? There are quests too?"

"Of course, all kinds of quests, main quests, side quests. The main quest is the quest you must complete. If you don't complete it, you won't be able to continue on the road to becoming a football hero. Side quests don't have so many restrictions, they are all optional quests. You can do it or not, doing it will increase experience, and not doing it will not cause any loss. If you want to level up faster, you can choose to do some side quests. But if some side quests conflict with the main quest, you need to carefully weigh the pros and cons."

Chen Hero was stunned—this is World of Warcraft-style football! Killing monsters and doing quests here becomes scoring goals and doing quests, and in the end, they all gain experience to level up, and then use talent points to strengthen themselves.

When playing World of Warcraft, Chen Hero's greatest expectation was that after a golden light of leveling up, he would get a distributable talent point, and then add it to the talent he had already chosen, and become even more powerful...

Unexpectedly, all of this has been realized in the real world...