In such a short amount of time, after experiencing several matches, his overall stats had actually risen this much!?
From overall stats that had only just surpassed the level of the youth national team, he was now actually close to touching the level of the national team.
On the surface, both levels still seemed to fall within the range of the youth national team, but the difference between before and after could be described as heaven and earth. If the old Hank and the current Hank were to compete at the same time, there would not even be any need for the match to begin.
The gap in strength was simply too great.
"Right now, I have five volleyball techniques in total: jump float serve, multi-angle spike, adaptive blocking, left-handed spike, and front-row tip."
"Among these, I don't have too many requirements for offense. Instead, defense… or perhaps serving, is where I want to make a breakthrough."
After Hank finished looking at his current overall stats, he felt extremely pleased.
Next, he had to first solve the problem that was currently his own weak point.
And for him right now, his biggest shortcoming was defense.
After all, the current Hank did not lack ways to score. Compared with the aces he could encounter right now, he had already mastered quite a few techniques.
But what he was lacking the most now was defense. In other words, it was also Aoba Johsai High's weakness.
If he could improve his blocking ability, then he could reduce quite a bit of pressure on the back row.
After all, from what he could see right now, when Aoba Johsai High faced a super-level player like Wakatoshi Ushijima, quite a few problems would appear.
So for now, it was better to stabilize the defense first.
"Then I'll use the Skill Upgrade Card I just obtained on adaptive blocking. Improving my blocking will bring me a pretty big boost."
"…"
After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Hank quickly focused his attention on improving adaptive blocking.
Right now, for him, the first thing he had to do was improve his blocking. Against the opponents he would face next, adaptive blocking was already starting to become insufficient.
So now, he still had to strengthen his blocking.
Strengthen his blocking again and again!
"Ding-dong! Detected that the host has used the Skill Upgrade Card on adaptive blocking. Adaptive blocking has been upgraded into predictive blocking!"
"The host can predict the attacker's next movements by observing subtle details, then execute a block according to the specific situation!"
…
As the notification sounded in his ears once again, Hank immediately felt a large amount of information appear in his mind.
All of this information was about the ability displayed by predictive blocking.
To be honest, being able to reach this step already surpassed Satori Tendō's proudest blocking ability from before.
Tendō could only predict the opposing spiker.
But Hank could directly begin reacting through the opposing spiker's movements, then quickly block according to those reactions.
Combined with his own jumping talent, he could definitely enter the top tier of blockers now.
It could be said that the improvement was extremely obvious.
Hank naturally knew just how absurd the predictive blocking he had just obtained truly was.
The prediction alone was already worth the Skill Upgrade Card he had just used.
Moreover, his blocking ability could become even more terrifying thanks to his jumping talent.
It was indeed an extremely good ability.
(End of Chapter)
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