Chapter 4: Work Hard! And You Shall Grow Stronger!

The first daily training task panel has been unlocked.

Task 1: In the aim training map, achieve two thousand bot kills. (0/1)

Task 2: In deathmatch mode, achieve five hundred kills. (0/1)

Daily tasks refresh at 8:00 a.m. local time. Completing one daily task grants Rise Points, with the amount rewarded determined by the host's improvement.

Once you choose the path of a professional player, you must learn to endure solitude and monotony. At least twenty-five daily training tasks must be completed within every thirty-day period, or the daily task panel will be revoked.

"This is basically giving myself a job!"

Still, he did not complain for long. Soon he was in CSGO's game interface, ready to begin the first task.

In truth, Su Zhe felt a sense of urgency. Even with the system's help, his foundation was far too weak, and with the countdown hanging over him, he could not help worrying whether he would still be able to keep the system after a year.

This might be the chance to change his fate, and he did not want it to slip through his fingers.

He let out a long breath and pushed the random thoughts in his head aside.

"First, two thousand bots..."

Su Zhe glanced at the time in the lower-right corner of the screen. It was 8:11 p.m.

"Hopefully I can finish today!"

He had in fact practiced things like crosshair placement, counter-strafing, and pre-aiming before, but he always felt they were of little use in real combat.

If his aim was feeling good, he could win the duel head-on and get the kill. If it was off, then he would spray wildly and get killed in return.

So, after failing to get any real feedback, he gradually lost enthusiasm for practice. Every day he would only shoot one or two hundred bots to warm up before his first match.

Now, whether it was useful or not, at the very least the awarded Rise Points could be exchanged for attribute upgrades. That was enough!

With that mindset, Su Zhe entered the classic aim-training map, Aim Botz. After adjusting the map settings to leave a single wall, he chose his favorite weapon, the AK-47.

Once he was ready to begin, blue text floated at the upper-right corner of his vision.

Daily Task 1: In the aim training map, achieve two thousand bot kills...

Task Progress: 0/2000

There was even a real-time counter, so he did not need to keep calling up the panel.

Silently giving the system a thumbs-up in his heart, Su Zhe moved his mouse to secure his first kill, then glanced at the system's displayed text.

Task Progress: 0/2000

Su Zhe: ?

What is this system, some kind of toy computer? Or is the connection just terrible?

Is the latency this high?

Then he killed two more bots in a row, only to find that the task progress was still zero.

"That doesn't make sense! Am I doing it wrong?"

Su Zhe recalled the tutorials he had once searched for online about aim training, then took a step to the left, counter-strafed, aimed, and fired.

Task Progress: 1/2000

He took a step to the right, counter-strafed, aimed, and fired.

Task Progress: 2/2000

Counter-strafe spray kill...

Task Progress: 3/2000

Su Zhe: ...

So that completely shuts down my idea of farming bots with the Negev!

Only a complete sequence of counter-strafe, aim, and fire would be counted as a valid kill by the counter. Everything else was void.

Although the process itself was not especially difficult, it took too much time. After moving and counter-strafing, the crosshair would also drift slightly, requiring a second, real-time adjustment.

If he only controlled the mouse and clicked heads, he could get seventy or eighty kills in a minute. But if he added counter-strafing, then at most he could manage forty or fifty.

But since he had already decided to take this path, then so be it!

Su Zhe steadied himself and fell into the rhythm: mouse for crosshair placement and firing, keyboard for left-right movement and counter-strafing.

At first, before he had killed five hundred bots, he still felt a trace of novelty. But after that point, the mechanical motions brought monotony crashing down on him, to the point where he even wanted to rest.

On top of that, his mouse control, or rather his aiming ability, was too poor to reliably land one-tap headshots. He needed repeated tiny adjustments before he could secure a kill, which only made him more and more irritable.

So this was the daily training of a professional player?

In Su Zhe's impression, professional players were always seen from their glamorous side: they played games all day, then relied on their talent to win the cheers of the audience on the professional stage.

He had never expected the reality behind it to be so dull. At last, he understood the system's warning.

Once you choose the path of a professional player, you must learn to endure solitude and monotony.

By sheer persistence, after nearly an hour, once the task progress reached two thousand bot kills, a heavenly sound rang in his ears.

Ding—Daily Training Task 1 complete. Based on completion efficiency and the host's improvement, Rise Points +179...

Awesome!

That was Su Zhe's only feeling at that moment. It was as if he had been walking through the desert for a long time and had suddenly stumbled upon an oasis; all the tedium of the process vanished without a trace.

Just completing one training task had earned him 179 points. If he kept at it for only three or four days, wouldn't he be able to exchange for an attribute point in the shop?

Of course, this was only Su Zhe's own guess, since the task description said the reward would be based on the host's own improvement.

As for whether the rewards would diminish afterward, or by how much, he could not say.

But after receiving that positive feedback, Su Zhe, who had just been feeling somewhat exhausted, immediately became full of energy!

Before, he had only treated CSGO as a game. Once he realized he had no exceptional talent and that S rank was far out of reach, he gradually lowered his expectations.

If not for the system's arrival, then if he still could not reach B rank after some time, he might have chosen to buy a P90 every round in the ladder and just treat it as a real game for his own amusement.

At this moment, however, he finally understood the system's greatest value.

As long as he worked hard, effort could become part of his own strength!

It was precisely this constant positive feedback that gave people the drive to keep fighting forward.

Filled with motivation, Su Zhe immediately began his next task and entered a deathmatch server for a free-for-all brawl.

After being killed countless times, Su Zhe also felt that his aiming had improved somewhat, and his feel with the mouse was getting better and better.

Sometimes, by muscle memory alone, the crosshair would whip over and land directly on the enemy's body.

Ding—Daily Training Task 2 complete. Based on completion efficiency and the host's improvement, Rise Points +197...

The two daily tasks took about two hours in total. The instant he shut down the computer, he felt as though the hand holding the mouse had nearly gone rigid, and a dull ache ran through his forearm.

But compared with the 376 Rise Points he had gained, physical fatigue was hardly worth mentioning.