He hadn’t even wiped his sweat yet when Yes immediately removed the John Wall star card.

　　His physical attributes changed once again.

　　Physical Attributes: Strength: 45/50 (50), Explosiveness: 66/60 (60), Speed: 67.1/61 (61), Lateral Movement: 60 (60), Agility: 60 (60), Vertical: 50 (50), Balance: 55 (55), Stamina: 55 (55), Overall Rating: D (Top Amateur)

　　“Even after removing the star card, the attribute points I trained for don’t disappear?”

　　“So that means…”

　　As long as I have enough star cards, even the lowest-tier ones, I can get stronger again?!

　　If Wall’s star card can boost both of my speed stats to 80, what about other star cards?!

　　Yes, who had been feeling lost lately, suddenly saw the fog lift!

　　“I need a lot of star cards right now!”

Chapter 0003: Facing the Wind, Zizizi

　　After obtaining the John Wall (High School) star card, Yes, who had been frustrated recently because he’d maxed out his potential and couldn’t make further progress, regained his full motivation.

　　As long as he could improve, he was happy every day—this had been his routine for the past eighteen years.

　　The three-star John Wall (High School) card could raise his explosiveness and speed potential to 80.

　　His current explosiveness and speed, not counting those Buff bonuses, were 60 and 61 respectively—still far from 80, enough to keep him working hard for a long time.

　　However, what gave Yes a bit of a headache was that he still hadn’t found a training method for explosiveness.

　　What is a training method?

　　Simply put, if you want to increase your system attributes, you must find the right training method. If the method is wrong, no matter how hard you work, it’s useless.

　　For example, last night he ran for two hours in minus two degrees Celsius, and in the end, his speed increased by 1 point.

　　Potential is the foundation for improvement, and running for two hours is the method.

　　To improve attributes, both potential and the correct training method are indispensable.

　　Running for two hours could increase speed by 1 point—this was the method he used before to raise his speed from 50 to 60.

　　For now, it seemed this method could still be used.

　　As for how long it would keep working, Yes didn’t know.

　　The method he previously used to train explosiveness—fifty-meter shuttle sprints—was now ineffective.

　　On the second day after getting the John Wall (High School) star card, Yes got up early, went to the basketball team’s training gym, and started practicing shuttle sprints.

　　He did shuttle sprints all morning, until his legs cramped up.

　　Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters, forty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters—he repeated them over and over, who knows how many times.

　　In the end, the result was that the explosiveness stat on his attribute panel was still 72/60 (80).

　　60 was his base explosiveness, his fundamental strength.

　　The 72 before the slash was his strength after Buffs were added, or you could say his real strength.

　　Currently, he had two Buffs: one was his physical Buff: Weightlessness.

　　Weightlessness meant his body weight hadn’t reached the ideal weight for his height.

　　In a weightless state, speed and explosiveness got a slight boost, but strength was reduced.

　　Since there was a weightless state, naturally there was also an overweight state.

　　In an overweight state, body weight exceeded the ideal for his height, strength got a slight boost, but speed and explosiveness decreased.

　　If his weight was just right, there would be neither a bonus nor a penalty.

　　Therefore, physical state was a very important thing.

　　Yes had tried many physical states and finally found that weightlessness suited him best.

　　Speed and explosiveness were already his highest strengths and potentials, and the weightless bonus gave him the biggest boost.

　　As for the loss of strength and physical confrontation, so be it.

　　If his overall strength improved in the future and he really became a superstar, he wouldn’t need the weightless state anymore—he’d deal with it then.

　　At least for now, in the short term, he still needed to control his diet and keep his weight low, which was actually quite tough.

　　Who doesn’t want to eat when they see delicious food, or drink when they see a beverage?

　　But there’s no choice—he needed to work hard and strive!

　　Besides the ‘weightlessness’ physical Buff, because he equipped the John Wall (High School) star card, he also had a Buff that came with the card.

　　A 10% boost to both speed and explosiveness.

　　All together, his Buffs gave him a 20% boost to speed and acceleration, so his base explosiveness of 60 became a real explosiveness stat of 72.

　　And the ‘(80)’ at the end meant his base explosiveness could be raised to a maximum of 80.

　　In other words, his potential could reach up to 80.

　　Finding training methods had always been a frustrating thing.

　　That was also why he did so many weird things as a kid.

　　All to find ways to improve his attributes!

　　Take that time when he was eight and peed into the wind, for example.

　　He was looking for a way to train strength.

　　He searched for a long time—push-ups, sit-ups, or any other strength training method, he tried them all.

　　In the end, he almost tried lifting a barbell and smashing the TV.