The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills-Chapter 122 - 48: Swing Pass! Ronaldo’s Successor! The Entire Bundesliga Wants to Sign Him

Chapter 122: Chapter 48: Swing Pass! Ronaldo’s Successor! The Entire Bundesliga Wants to Sign Him

It had been a long time since March, and November was just around the corner.

Wang Shuo spent nearly every day immersed in the Ball God System, studying it.

But the deeper he delved, the more he discovered the profound mysteries and secrets it held.

It was like the human body—impossible to completely understand or predict.

Breathing was the first Passive Skill Wang Shuo acquired.

Its description read: "Enhances stamina and endurance by regulating breathing."

At first, Wang Shuo thought, ’Wow, this will directly boost my running ability!’

It was badass!

But as he grew more familiar with this Passive Skill, especially after using it for a long time, he discovered there was much more to it.

Regulating his breathing kept Wang Shuo’s mental state consistently excellent.

Most importantly, it affected him when he slept at night.

Take, for example, the time before last season’s 2nd Bundesliga match against Cologne. Subotic couldn’t sleep all night. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

The pressure was immense.

He went to see the team doctor, only to find a large group of his teammates already there asking for sleeping pills.

Without the pills, they simply couldn’t get to sleep.

If they couldn’t sleep, how were they supposed to play the next day?

What’s more, the match was scheduled for noon.

But what about Wang Shuo?

As soon as he lay down and regulated his breathing, he would fall asleep in no time.

And the quality of his sleep was exceptionally high.

At first, Wang Shuo didn’t even realize his sleep quality was improving.

It wasn’t until one day, when Subotic and Schürrle casually mentioned how envious they were of how easily Wang Shuo fell asleep and the incredible quality of his sleep.

Only then did Wang Shuo realize with a start, ’When did it become so easy for me to fall asleep?’

That was when he discovered another benefit of Breathing.

And being able to get a good night’s sleep without medication—how many professional players dreamed of such a blessing?

But was that all?

No, it wasn’t that simple.

Wang Shuo initially thought that Breathing continuously improved his running ability on the pitch.

Simply put, the higher its level, the better his running ability became.

But the problem was, many players could run tirelessly for a single game.

Beckham’s personal best was running 16 kilometers in a single match.

Wang Shuo was still a long way from that.

And with so many explosive sprints and back-and-forth runs in a game, how much had the intensity increased from the 2nd Bundesliga to the Bundesliga?

Everyone knew that the higher the intensity and the faster the pace of a match, the more stamina it consumed.

More recently, Wang Shuo had discovered something incredible.

Many players on the Mainz team were starting to show signs of fatigue.

Especially after the start of October.

But him?

He couldn’t say he wasn’t tired at all, but his overall condition was still excellent, and on top of that, he was young and resilient.

That’s when Wang Shuo truly realized that Breathing had another incredibly important, yet consistently overlooked, badass quality.

Endurance!

The league was a marathon, lasting for months.

The stamina boost from Breathing made his running ability stronger and stronger.

Endurance, on the other hand, was what allowed him to sustain that running ability over the long haul.

If this had been the old him, Wang Shuo wouldn’t have dared to imagine he could maintain his current level of physical output with such a high rate of play.

He would have burned out long ago!

And was Breathing the only skill with these hidden depths?

No!

Swift was supposed to increase agility and quicken the execution of his techniques.

But in reality, its effect on Wang Shuo was also comprehensive, improving not just his agility and technique execution, but also his speed.

To put it bluntly, it was as if every single one of Wang Shuo’s movements had been accelerated to 1.1x speed.

If his physical movements sped up, didn’t his vision, hearing, and even things like muscle contraction have to keep pace?

And wouldn’t his brain’s processing power and reaction time have to speed up to control it all?

It was truly incredible!

Currently, the physical Passive Skills Wang Shuo had mastered were Damage Reduction, Breathing, and Swift, so that was the extent of his understanding.

As for the match-related Passive Skills—Ball Sense, Insight, First Move, and Spiritual Light—their effects were also comprehensive. Their more profound applications lay in the synergistic effects produced by combining two or more skills, where one plus one was greater than two.

This led to a tremendously obvious improvement in Wang Shuo’s on-field performance!

But ever since entering the Bundesliga, Wang Shuo had been facing a huge weakness.

His physicality.

Wang Shuo had no idea if any of the five remaining Passive Skills addressed this area.

Just as he was now, standing in the Ball God System before the giant football, seven of its twelve pentagonal faces were lit up.

The remaining five were dim, as if shrouded in a dark, mysterious fog.

Wang Shuo had now accumulated 61 Passive Value, enough to redeem another Passive Skill Card.

He could use it to draw a new Passive Skill, or to upgrade the other five Passive Skills besides Breathing and Damage Reduction.

Damage Reduction was a special Passive Skill that was already max level the moment it was drawn.

The reason he couldn’t upgrade Breathing was that he didn’t have enough points.

The upgrade interface for Breathing had a reminder: to upgrade it from National Level to Intercontinental Level, he would need to spend 100 Passive Value to redeem an Intercontinental Level Passive Skill Card.

That was a full two times the previous cost.

Wang Shuo now felt like he was playing World of Warcraft.

Easy to learn, difficult to master.

It hooks you in, gets you addicted, and after you finally struggle your way to level 60, you find that if you want good gear, you have to grind raids like your life depends on it.

However, based on Wang Shuo’s understanding of the Ball God System, if it dared to demand 100 Passive Value, then the resulting improvement was bound to be even greater.