Chapter 327: Chapter 77: Leader Wang Shuo! The Bundesliga’s Great Shake-up! The Strongest Passive Skill: Foundation! Dortmund’s New Captain

When you’re at the top of your game, of course every team is after you.

But once you start to decline, then sorry, Tony and Van Nistelrooy are prime examples of what happens.

The message Wang Shuo gleaned from this news was that the Bundesliga was becoming more and more intense.

And the most direct sign of this was the increasing physicality of the matches.

Following his rise last season, many teams facing Dortmund this season basically used the same old tactics when defending against Wang Shuo.

Aggressive man-marking and decisive fouls!

Thinking of this, Wang Shuo closed his eyes again and entered the Ball God System.

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Through accumulation from his recent matches, Wang Shuo had saved up a total of 107 Passive Value.

On top of that, for tying Gerd Müller’s half-season goal record of 20 goals—a record that had stood for over forty years—the system awarded him 50 points.

He now had a total of 157 Passive Value.

Following his recent strategy, he would use a portion for draws and a portion for upgrades.

Entering the Ball God System, he stood before the giant football and saw that out of the 12 pentagonal faces, only the last one remained dim and unlit.

To be honest, he was feeling rather apprehensive.

’I wonder if this final Passive Skill will have anything to do with strengthening my physical power and resilience?’

After some time exploring it, he’d found that [Breathing] was primarily focused on recovery, wellness, and anti-aging.

Wang Shuo felt that with [Breathing] combined with [Damage Reduction], plus [Breathing], he should have no problem handling the high-intensity running and physical contests of an entire season.

He not only needed to upgrade his existing Passive Skills to continue strengthening himself, but he also had to explore further upward and break through his ceiling.

Specifically, the Domain Skills that unlocked after advancing from Intercontinental Level to World-level.

That would be a huge breakthrough!

The only obstacle was the 500 Passive Value required.

Not to mention the Legendary Level above that, which cost 1,000 points for a single upgrade. It was insane!

Wang Shuo even began to wonder where he was supposed to get that much Passive Value.

Fortunately, he was only 19 years old. He had plenty of time, so he could take it slow.

With that thought, Wang Shuo invested 50 Passive Value, and the giant football began to slowly rotate.

’There’s only one pentagon left, but it still has to be so ceremonial.’

’Totally the style of a stuffy old bureaucrat!’

Wang Shuo complained inwardly.

Finally, the football stopped, and the last pentagon lit up instantly.

"Congratulations. You have used 50 Passive Value to draw the Professional Level Passive Skill: [Foundation]."

"Foundation?"

’What the hell is that?’

"[Foundation]: Increases muscle density, optimizes neural recruitment, and strengthens connective tissue."

"Doesn’t it increase muscle mass?"

When Wang Shuo saw this message, he couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

He had been hoping to draw a Passive Skill that would instantly transform him from a skinny young guy into a brawny stud whose chiseled physique would make women drool.

But now, it was clear this wasn’t it.

’Also, why are the Passive Skills in this Ball God System using more and more professional jargon? They’re getting harder and harder to understand.’

’Is it trying to be rigorous? Or just trying to fool me?’

Wang Shuo thought about the previous skill, [Breathing].

After discreetly asking Oliver Bartlett and Professor Andreas Schrenberg about it over this period, the conclusion he came to was that it was fucking incredible!

Never mind its effect on physical recovery, and let’s not even mention optimizing cellular metabolism.

Just the part about "slowing the rate of telomere shortening" was absolutely heaven-defying!

But it was precisely this technical term that Wang Shuo couldn’t understand at all at first.

And now, [Foundation] was pulling the same stunt!

Increasing muscle density was the easiest part to understand.

For the same volume of muscle, a higher density meant the muscle was more solid.

The benefits of more solid muscle were also obvious.

An increase in strength.

’Wait, isn’t this exactly what I wanted—an increase in strength and resilience?’

Wang Shuo wasn’t an expert, but he understood this much common sense.

This one aspect alone, while not directly increasing muscle mass and turning him into a muscle stud, did indeed improve his strength, resilience, and jumping ability.

As Wang Shuo thought about this, he immediately realized another huge benefit.

Right, agility!

Everyone knows that for a football player, strength and agility are inversely proportional.

In other words, the stronger you are, the less agile you’ll inevitably be.

Take Real Madrid’s Ronaldo for example. Back when he was at Manchester United, he rapidly improved his physical strength to adapt to the Premier League.

And what was the price?

Ronaldo went from being the flashy, flamboyant "Little Ro" to the concise and direct player he is today.

Many of the technical moves he used to excel at, his delicate footwork and Ball Sense, were now gone.

Why?

Because bulking up inevitably slows you down and affects your agility.

[Foundation] increases muscle density.

’Doesn’t that mean I could achieve the same results as someone who bulked up, without needing all that muscle mass?’

’If that’s the case, wouldn’t my speed and agility be preserved?’

’Isn’t this what countless professional players dream of—increasing strength and resilience without sacrificing agility?’

More importantly, his muscles would be better proportioned and his physique more streamlined. For Wang Shuo, who was quite conscious of his own looks and planned to make a living off his face when he got old, this was truly excellent!

Don’t believe me?

Go take a look at the thighs of those professional players.