My Computer Leads to Chapter 28: Solidifying Abilities

Chapter 28: Chapter 28: Solidifying Abilities

A dialog box appeared on Fang Zhen’s screen, displaying a wall of text.

"The abilities and traits you acquired in the ’Dark Path’ are as follows:

Battle Rage (Allows you to unleash furious energy at critical monts, granting greater strength than usual while reducing pain and fear. However, you will be weakened by excessive emotional and physical exhaustion after the battle.)

Solidify: 30 rit Points

Combat Intuition (A stroke of genius in battle. Your subconscious generates premonitions, predictions, and sudden flashes of combat inspiration.)

Solidify: 30 rit Points

Combat Focus (Allows you to throw yourself into battle with single-minded focus, helping to improve your combat effectiveness and your ability to learn other skills.)

Solidify: 30 rit Points

Basic Spearmanship (Thrust) (A basic spear technique that improves attack stability and slightly increases attack power.)

Solidify: 15 rit Points

Stealth (Allows you to move lightly and discreetly, muffling your footsteps and reducing the attention you draw.)

Solidify: 15 rit Points

Basic Bladework (Slash) (A basic blade technique that improves attack stability and slightly increases attack power.)

Solidify: 15 rit Points"

The traits you acquired:

Courage (A ntal trait that helps offset fear, allowing you to maintain your fighting spirit when facing enemies and challenges stronger than yourself.)

Solidify: 50 rit Points

Goblin Star (Acquired from battling nurous goblins, this trait grants an instinctual understanding of their behavior patterns. You beco calr and more composed when facing them, naturally exuding an intimidating aura. Goblins can sense this and will be ntally suppressed and intimidated to a degree.)

Solidify: 50 rit Points

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Staring at the dialog box that filled the screen, Fang Zhen looked slightly surprised.

His eyes widened as he scanned the contents, reading every single word with ticulous care.

After a good seven or eight minutes, Fang Zhen let out a soft breath.

’Just a mont ago, I was thinking about how valuable rit Points must be,’ he thought. ’I cleared the instance and got a great performance review, but all that only got

85 rit Points. They must be really precious.’

’According to the help files, rit Points can be used for a lot of things, but I never imagined they could be used to solidify the abilities and traits I learned in the instance.’

’This is incredible.’

Fang Zhen felt a surge of excitent.

Battle Rage, Combat Intuition, Combat Focus, Basic Spearmanship, Basic Bladework, Stealth, Courage, Goblin Star... He had felt and experienced every single one of these in the instance.

’Does this an that only abilities I personally experienced and learned can be solidified on the results screen?’

Fang Zhen thought for a mont. ’That must be it.’

’Battle Rage must have co from that ti in the goblin stronghold. I was almost stabbed, which sent

into a rage. I went berserk and wiped out every goblin there.’

’I can also recall when Combat Intuition kicked in—killing that goblin by the stream, and a few tis after that, when I swung my spear with wide, powerful movents, taking out several goblins with pinpoint accuracy.’

’Combat Focus was like entering a flow state.’

’As for Basic Spearmanship, Basic Bladework, and Stealth, I must have learned those from fighting and pulling off those stealth kills in the instance.’

’It seems that any experience and insight gained inside an instance can be detected and quantified as a skill or ability.’

’And the two traits, Courage and Goblin Star, were the results of my ntal and cognitive processes during battle.’

’I was brave enough to charge the goblin nest, and during the fight, I learned to recognize their skills and behaviors. That must be how I got those two traits.’

Thinking back, he realized he could trace every single skill, ability, and trait back to a specific experience inside the instance.

’Only abilities and traits learned in an instance seem to count; real-world ones apparently don’t.’

’I have plenty of skills in real life—singing, dancing, rapping, basketball—but none of them showed up on this interface.’

Once he understood this, he didn’t take the option to solidify abilities lightly in the slightest.

It seed Fang Zhen had already learned all these abilities in the instance. But there was a huge difference between pulling sothing off once and being able to do it consistently and reliably every single ti.

A one-ti fluke is not the sa as a genuine skill.

Fang Zhen knew that even a total amateur or a casual enthusiast could have a stunning performance once in a while.

Take ball sports, for example. A pool enthusiast might occasionally make an incredible shot. When they’re in the zone and feeling lucky, they might sink four or five balls in a row, and so even manage to clear the table once in a blue moon.

Anyone who plays soccer often will eventually have a mont where they kick a perfect ball, a curving shot that lands right in the corner of the net.

And in basketball, there are tis when your hands are hot, and every shot you take—whether it’s a mid-range jumper or a three-pointer—just swishes through the net.

In those monts, when they’re feeling it and luck is on their side, even a casual player can perform brilliantly.

However, that’s a far cry from it becoming an actual skill.

’What is a skill?’

’A skill ans your level of consistency and your baseline performance are far beyond those of a player who just gets lucky.’

’A player who relies on luck might have a sudden burst of greatness, but the next ti they try to recapture that feeling, it’s gone. They’re right back to their usual self.’

A skilled player won’t have that problem.

Developing a skill, especially a physical one, ans the neural pathways in your brain have been reinforced. Your muscles develop mory, your performance becos stable, and it becos an ability you can rely on.

In other words, it’s what you call being a "professional."

Fang Zhen had seen so entertainnt shows where professionals would go up against the "kings of the street." The show would get pros, like professional table tennis or pool players, to dress up in disguise as amateurs and then challenge the best local non-professionals.

The result was always the sa. Those so-called "kings of the street"—who were seen as gods and masters by ordinary people and were, admittedly, very good—were no better than total newbs in front of the professionals. They’d get absolutely decimated.

Watching that show made Fang Zhen understand: amateurs should never be compared to professionals.

They’re not even in the sa league.

From that day on, Fang Zhen had held a deep respect for true professionals.

This option to solidify abilities and traits, provided by the ga, would probably be dismissed by anyone who didn’t know better. ’I can already do it, so why would I need to solidify it?’ they might think.

But they would have no idea just how valuable this option truly was.

As Fang Zhen saw it, solidifying an ability ant permanently acquiring it as a skill, locking in the peak performance he had experienced, and ensuring consistent, reliable output.

And it would never degrade!

This was tantamount to instantly turning Fang Zhen into a professional.

’If that’s really the case, then this is a massive win!’

Having thought it through, Fang Zhen was suddenly buzzing with excitent.

Solidifying one skill was like saving himself countless years of painstaking work in the real world.

It ant skipping countless hours, days, nights, and years of arduous, even painful, training to beco an instant master.

It also prevented skill degradation.

One of the most frustrating things about the real world was that if you didn’t use a skill, it would fade.

Use it or lose it—that principle applied to everything.

Think about all those office workers ten or twenty years after their college entrance exams. If their jobs didn’t require the knowledge they learned in school, hadn’t they returned all that knowledge to their teachers?

He didn’t know about others, but Fang Zhen himself had forgotten almost all of his math.

He guessed that if he used his rit Points on these solidification options, the abilities would be locked in at their current level and would never degrade.

’Solidifying a skill is like a mont of enlightennt that’s worth ten years of hard practice.’

He was visibly excited.

But he only had 85 rit Points. To solidify all of the available abilities and traits, he would need a total of 235 rit Points.

"I don’t have enough rit Points."

Fang Zhen shook his head slightly and let out a soft sigh.

’Being able to solidify abilities and traits is a wonderful thing. It lets you bypass all the hard work and keep what you’ve learned. It’s a blessing.’

’But now, I have too many blessings to choose from. I’m being forced to pick and choose my happiness.’

Battle Rage, Combat Focus, Combat Intuition.

Stealth, Basic Spearmanship (Thrust), Basic Bladework (Slash).

Courage, Goblin Star.

"How in the world am I supposed to choose?" Fang Zhen mused, raising an eyebrow and stroking his chin.