Chapter 396: Chapter 87: Record-Breaking Four-Goal Haul! Upgrading Passive Skills! A Poacher? I’m Not Worthy! Ronaldo Incarnate

Passive Value!

This was the most he had ever received in three seasons!

This alone showed just how outrageous Benfica’s fouls against him had been during the match.

And just how lenient the head referee’s officiating was.

It could even be called condoning!

In post-match reports from media outlets like Bild and Kicker Magazine, Wang Shuo saw that some were blaming Platini.

Since taking office, the UEFA president had been a strong supporter of leagues and teams from smaller nations.

This often resulted in teams from the four major leagues facing severe home-field bias from referees when playing away games in Europe.

At the very least, the Passive Value calculated by the Ball God System didn’t lie.

With these extra 14 points, Wang Shuo’s accumulated Passive Value now stood at 137.

Standing before the giant football, Wang Shuo first looked at [Breathing].

He was eager to upgrade [Breathing] to World-level and unlock his Domain Skills.

But for now, his priority was to improve his overall abilities.

His current Passive Skills levels were as follows.

Intercontinental Level: [Breathing], [Ball Sense], and [Swift].

National Level: [Inverted Foot] and [Foundation].

Regional Level: [Insight], [First Move], [Spiritual Light], [Coordination], and [Eagle Eye].

Professional Level: [Breathing].

Special Skills: [Damage Reduction].

After some time getting used to his skills, Wang Shuo felt that [Breathing] wasn’t urgently needed, so he had held off on upgrading this passive skill.

Perhaps after he turned 25, this passive skill would become immensely useful.

Right now, he wanted to upgrade his Regional Level passive skills.

All five passive skills were very useful and effective, but some were more urgent than others.

Wang Shuo quickly made his choice.

"Use 50 Passive Value to upgrade the passive skill [Coordination] from Regional Level to National Level?"

"Yes!"

"Use 50 Passive Value to upgrade the passive skill [First Move] from Regional Level to National Level?"

"Yes!"

The remaining three passive skills were also excellent.

[Insight] and [Eagle Eye], needless to say, were like having his own personal LiDAR and HD camera on the field, helping him capture more information.

The [Spiritual Light] passive skill was also incredibly useful.

Especially when making decisions, Wang Shuo would occasionally get a brilliant flash of inspiration.

But that was only one aspect of it.

The other, more important function of [Spiritual Light] was to seize fleeting opportunities!

Wang Shuo even felt that with this skill alone, once upgraded to a high enough level, he could make a name for himself in the European Football Scene.

The perfect skill for a poacher!

But at the current Dortmund, Wang Shuo still had to rely on himself most of all.

Be a poacher?

’Waaaah, I’m not worthy of that yet, am I?’

His next step was to accumulate more Passive Value through matches and raise his overall abilities as quickly as possible.

Benfica?

David Luis?

Harvey Garcia?

Luisao?

’When we get back to Westfalen Stadium, you’ll all be sorry!’

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To accumulate Passive Value faster, Wang Shuo went straight to Klopp’s office after returning to Dortmund.

"Let me play in the home game against Werder Bremen this weekend!"

Klopp was visibly surprised by Wang Shuo’s request.

The Werder Bremen match was scheduled between the two legs against Benfica.

With the first leg away ending in a 2-2 draw and Dortmund holding a nine-point lead in the league, the obvious strategy was to rotate the squad, conserve energy, and prepare for the second leg against Benfica.

To put it bluntly, losing to Werder Bremen wouldn’t have much of an impact.

But losing to Benfica meant they would be eliminated immediately.

"I promise, I’ll be in peak condition for the Benfica match!" Wang Shuo’s desire to play was palpable.

Having just upgraded [Coordination] and [First Move], he desperately needed a match to get accustomed to the two enhanced passive skills.

Klopp could see that.

Although he didn’t understand why Wang Shuo was so desperate to play, he agreed.

"But I have one condition: you have to take it easy against Werder Bremen!"

Of course, Wang Shuo agreed.

Dortmund had been plagued by injuries all season long.

From De De to Tinga to Kael, a closer look revealed that many of the players who had excelled at the start of the season had since been replaced.

In their place were younger, more robust players like Schmelzer and Sven Bender.

Even right-back Owomoyela had been outshone by Schmelzer in the second half of the season.

Klopp rotated the squad for Dortmund’s home game against Werder Bremen.

But just as Wang Shuo had predicted, when Dortmund’s system was running smoothly, few Bundesliga teams had a good answer for it.

When they focused on containing Wang Shuo, he would drag their entire defense out of position.

In the 8th minute, Wang Shuo delivered a brilliant pass.

Grosskreutz made a late run into the box to score the team’s opening goal.

1-0!

In the 22nd minute, Wang Shuo linked up with Owomoyela and Kuba in the final third before drawing a foul, winning a free kick.

Subotic scored with a header.

2-0!

However, despite being two goals up, Sven Bender reported a problem with his right foot during the halftime break.

Klopp quickly substituted him off.

With both Kael and Tinga injured, Sven Bender was their only remaining defensive midfielder.

The young man had been performing impressively all season, showing immense improvement.