Coming back from his school, Christian hurriedly went to his room, unable to resist opening the system window any longer.
Today, after waking up early and surprising his sister when she found him already up, Christian ate the light breakfast she made as usual and then headed to school. However, unlike the usual days when he tried not to sleep too much in class, today he purposely tried to sleep as much as he could to pass the time. Being scolded by one teacher didn't bother him at all.
And though his classmates noticed he was acting strangely today, no one approached him since he didn't have any friends any way.
Closing the door of his room, with the episode of his reminiscing of what had happened today. Christian tossed his school bag aside, sat down in the chair, and rubbed his hands together to calm down. And finally, he summoned the Idle Practicing window.
[Trading - 9:16:23/24:00:00]
He didn't wait any longer and received the accumulation in the Idle slot.
[You have received 7 Experience]
[Your Level has increased]
[You have received 2 unassigned points]
[The Idle practicing slots have became 2]
[The skill Basic Trading had become Lv.2(28%)]
After digesting the new information, he then concentrated on the new system messages that appeared.
Christian couldn't help but shout, clenching his fist in excitement. With his level rising and gaining another slot for Idle Practicing, the feeling that his dream life was getting closer was a delightful event to him.
Thinking about his new Idle slot, Christian hesitated on what to use it for and opened his status window to take another look.
Host: Christian White
Skills: Basic Trading Lv.2(28%)
Idle practicing slots:(1/2)
Seeing the modest level of his Trading skill, he pondered for a moment before deciding to test if he could allocate Trading to the new slot, making it in the two slot together.
[The Idle Practice of Trading has started]
[Second Slot - Trading - 00:00:01/24:00:00]
Having succeeded in his experiment, Christian's mood was raised once again with joy. And after a bit more thought, he decided to also assign the two unassigned points to Comprehension.
After the little rush of excitement ended and finishing the tasks he needed to do, he threw himself onto his bed and opened his phone, searching for a new, interesting novel to read and pass the time.
Christian, who had just woken up and freshened up, sat at his chair as usual, after receiving the accumulated information. He then opened his status window.
Host: Christian White
Level: 3 (EXP: 15/100)
Skills: Basic Trading Lv.3(70%)
Idle practicing slots:(0/2)
While there was some progress, still nothing noteworthy stood out. Christian felt that his knowledge about trading had improved a lot, but he still wasn't ready to gamble his precious $2,500.
So, like usual, he spent his day either on his phone or playing games on his PC.
But as night fell and he found himself caught in the "just one more chapter" cycle while reading a novel, he kept pushing bedtime further.
At 2 AM, a new system message suddenly appeared.
[Due to the enthusiasm reading of a huge amount of books, the skill Passion Reader has been created]
[Passion Reader (Passive) Lv.-]
[The speed of your reading has been increased by 100%]
Reading the first message got Christian stirred, as he hadn't realized skills could be acquired this way, and it opened many new horizons for him.
Then, reading the description of the skill, he saw that it was a passive skill without levels, which gave him the feeling it has more of fantasy element than everything he'd had so far.
And while the effect of reading quickly could be considered useless other than when reading. But with his raising comprehension, it will have an amazing synergy, and will give the famous Chinese effect of 1+1=5. It was that amazing.
Coming back to the issue of acquiring skills, Christian pondered what steps he should take next. He considered the various methods and activities he could pursue to gain different skills and further expand his capabilities.
But after pondering on this dilemma for nearly ten minutes, he arrived at an astonishing fact.
He will not try to do anything!!
He finally had his ideal system and was ready to take off towards his dream. He imagined grand scenarios, from conquering the Earth from his room to ruling the universe from his enormous bathroom, all while surrounded by a harem of ten thousand members.
So why should he shatter his dream because of a skill, he could do without.
It was not necessary anyway. And the tag of Shut-in with Overpowered for his story was enough for him.
So, making his decision, he decided to go with the path of evolution! Is it not just a skill without level; he just had to read a lot more novels, till the skill itself grew tired and knelled in front of him, saying.
"Please have mercy, your majesty. I didn't know better."
And as he forgives it with his big heart, then it would eventually have a level, and Christian would raise it slowly.
Losing himself in his imagination of how many more skills it will evolve into, Christian fell asleep.
three more days passed.
After acquiring the Passion Reader skill, Christian felt its effect immediately. The Basic Trading skill, which had been progressing slowly like a turtle, began advancing at a normal pace like any human being. Even the experience points started to increase in amount, though not as significantly as the Trading skill.
But it was still enough to push his level to five by the beginning of the day. Unfortunately, he didn't gain another Idle Practicing slot though.
Still, in the end, the skill's performance had surpassed expectations and was accepted with flying colors.