Rise of a Football God-Chapter 309: A scandal [3]
Few hours earlier…
Last night, at the building where Sam was held, he could not sleep as he paced around, worrying about a lot of things.
Of course, he worried about his career but that was more or less a distant worry. His immediate worry was related to his system.
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[Active Daily Quest: Mentality Monster!]
[Task 1: 100 push-ups]
[Progress: 0/100 push-ups done]
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[Task 2: 100 squats]
[Progress: 0/100 squats done]
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[Task 3: 100 sit-ups]
[Progress: 0/100 sit-ups done]
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[Task 4: Run 10 kilometers]
[Progress: 0/10 kilometers run]
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[WARNING: If the daily quest is not completed, penalties will be given accordingly.]
[Remark: With great power comes great responsibilities.]
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[Time Remaining: 00:23]
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Sam was worried.
Would his system still trigger the penalty for failing to complete the daily system quest?
Did the system not understand his current situation?
Agonizingly, Sam could only wait for his fate in 20+ minutes even as he was under the gaze of the guards who were assigned to watch over him.
In the end, it was not like when he got injured for one month back in England when the system made an exception.
This time, the system showed no mercy. Explore hidden tales at novelbuddy
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[Host has failed to meet the daily system quests on time!]
[You have triggered penalty: Dehydration]
[Duration: 4 hours]
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The system didn’t just stop at giving the penalty though, in a rare moment of accountability, the system gave an adage to explain its decision.
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[In English Language, there is what they call mobility of Adverbials.]
[Mobility of Adverbials refers to the ability of adverbs to function from different positions in the same sentence.]
[E.g; "Fearfully" is an adverb.]
[a. The boy kicked the ball fearfully.]
[…take the adverb to the front.]
[b. Fearfully, the boy kicked the ball.]
[…now put the adverb in the middle.]
[c. The boy fearfully kicked the ball.]
[Take Home: At every position, the word remains functional and the sentence doesn’t lose meaning.]
[Host Samuel Moses, you’re no longer a novice that needs to be pampered, you’re a veteran of the Ultimate Football System.]
[From this point on in your career, be an adverbial!]
[No matter the position life puts you, remain functional!]
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Sam was facing potentially the greatest crisis of his football career.
But that explanation from his system opened his eyes, making him forget his current situation and to focus on the big picture.
That was why that mid-night, while every other person was already asleep, dehydrated, Sam overworked the guards that were tasked to watch over him as he started working out that night.
Ha! Ha!
Panting heavily due to how dehydrated he was, Sam pushed on, doing sit ups, pushups, and squats even as his guards watched with incredulous expressions on their faces.
’He still has the will to train even in this situation?’
After completing the other tasks, Sam finally faced the jogging. This room was not big enough for him to jog 10 kilometers, and so he substituted for it by jogging in one place.
Thankfully, his system accepted it.
By the time Sam jogged 10 kilometers, due to how dehydrated he was, his lungs were left burning like they were singed by fire.
Sam was facing adversity but for some reason, he felt that he gained from it. ’My stamina… seemed to have improved’.
Completing the daily system quest while being extremely dehydrated seemed to push his body beyond normal. Even as his lungs burned, he still subtly felt that their capacity seemed to have increased.
Even after completing the daily system quest, he still had to live through the 4 hours’ penalty of being dehydrated.
It contributed to his lack of sleep and hence why Kayla saw him like that with big eyebags.
After working out, as his body calmed down, he started worrying again but that hug with his girlfriend later in the day eased his heart.
After eating, Sam slept like a baby.
Kayla took charge.
…
"Where are you?" Ian asked.
"Barcelona". Kayla answered.
"Let’s meet up," Ian said. "I just arrived".
Kayla was not the only one who moved for Sam. As soon as the news blew up, while Kayla moved from the Netherlands, Ian also moved from England as he responded to his best friend’s adversity.
Smith Rowe would have moved also if he didn’t have contract obligations with Fulham to fulfill.
He tried calling Sam but his contact was unreachable for the moment.
Kayla met up with Ian at the VIP floor of a restaurant right there in Barcelona, away from the spying eyes of others.
There, she finally asked. "Do you know the girl?"
"Amaka?"
Kayla nodded.
Ian sighed. "Yeah, I know her, we were secondary school classmates".
"Good," Kayla nodded, satisfied.
"Sam took this hard," she looked at Ian. "So I could not ask him. Tell me, who is this Amaka to him and what exactly happened that day?"
Ian looked at Kayla, then he sighed again and leaned back on his chair. "I never thought I’d be the one to tell you about someone like her". He chuckled mirthfully.
"Well, Amaka was Sam’s secondary school crush".
Ian paid attention to Kayla’s facial expression. Not noticing any negative change, he cleared his throat and continued.
"Nigerian girls…, most of them can be silly when it comes to love".
"Sam was always attracted to Amaka, and she knew. During our second year in senior secondary school, Sam finally confessed his love to her but despite all that, she kept leading him on".
"Behind, there were rumors of her publicly saying she cannot love a boy like Sam but before Sam’s face, she kept saying he meant the whole world to her. She kept on feeding him, teasing him, keeping him close but never dating him".
"She led Sam on".
"She would tell Sam to wait for her that she’s not ready to date yet, but go around flirting with other guys".
Ian shook his head. "It was a dark period for my friend, Sam was a shadow of himself. He was dying slowly".
"He told her multiple times but she kept leading him on, telling him to wait for her if he truly loved her".
"That continued until our 3rd and last year in senior secondary school, also the year when the dinner party happened".
Thinking of that night, Ian grimaced. "That night…, a part of Sam was murdered".
"They never dated but like usual, Sam loved Amaka and wanted to be close to her during the dinner party".
"You know Sam, he never drinks but that night…," Ian sighed.
"Amaka was the one who proposed that he escort her to the restroom. There, she told him to go back and call another of our classmates, the most popular boy in class then, Bryan".
"Being the innocent him, Sam called Bryan, led him to the restroom, left both of them in there and waited outside to have their conversation".
"After waiting for some time, curious, he decided to go inside and peek," Ian’s face darkened. "There, the slut was having it with Bryan".
"Before I got wind of what happened, Sam already got drunk".
"I took him home that night".
Ian sighed sadly. "That was one of the lowest moments I’ve ever seen Sam in," he clenched his fists angrily. "To think Amaka would dare use it against him now!"
He looked at Kayla again. "After that night, Sam never spoke with her and Amaka never deemed it fit to apologize. After that night, he developed a hatred for women until he met you in England".
Ian leaned on his chair. "That is what happened that night".
Kayla nodded, clasping her arms together as her eyes flickered. "So, this is a blackmail, right?"
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"Definitely!" Ian nodded.
The English girl smirked. "I already found an inconsistency in the video," her eyes gleamed. "The video only conveniently showed parts that can incriminate Sam".
She looked at Ian. "But you said Sam went back to lead that Bryan there, why was that part not in the video?"
"Why was the part where Sam waited outside the restroom not in the video?"
Ian’s eyes widened. "This…"
At that moment, Kayla’s iPhone rang with a new notification sound.
Ding!
Picking up her phone, she looked at it and then her eyes darkened.
Amaka Glimz uploaded a new video.
