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Chapter 126 - 111: Bottleneck, Bootlicker Shi San (Additional - 2 for Alliance Leader ’Brilliance of the Night’)

Chapter 126: Chapter 111: Bottleneck, Bootlicker Shi San (Additional Chapter 2 for Alliance Leader ’Brilliance of the Night’)

Gift Energy +50, Gluttony.

After completing the obsession gift of Glutton Pier, Brian had two choices.

One was the pure Gift Energy, a full fifty points, equivalent to the obsession gifts of eight or nine ordinary people.

The other was a small amount of Gift Energy + a talent for Gluttony.

Thinking of Pier’s ghastly appearance, Brian shook his head.

He couldn’t imagine himself becoming a several hundred pounds sphere, drooling every day with the desire to eat.

"Directly take the energy! It’s the perfect time to undergo another Enhancement. I wonder if this time I can break through the human limit and step into a new level."

Full of anticipation,

Brian drove off and after returning to the city, he went straight into a fast-food restaurant and feasted.

Half an hour later,

Brian forcibly swallowed the cola that filled his throat, threw away the contact information the waitress had given him into the trash bin, and returned to his car.

"Enhance!"

He closed his eyes, waiting for the effects of this Enhancement.

A great surge of warmth surged throughout Brian’s body, so comfortable that he squinted his eyes.

The Enhancement from the Gift Energy was actually quite perverse.

Whole-body, no dead angles Enhancement.

Every 0.1 increase wasn’t just a percentage-level increase but an exponential improvement that could easily overpower three or four of his former selves.

If this time’s physical Enhancement could reach 1.3, Brian suspected he could achieve a physique comparable to fierce beasts, officially stepping into the non-human.

This time, the Enhancement took noticeably longer.

After more than a dozen seconds, the warmth gradually faded.

Brian immediately checked his status.

Hm?

Seeing the status data formed by Supercomputer Perception,

Brian furrowed his brow.

After Enhancements with a full fifty units of Gift Energy, his physique, to his astonishment, showed not the slightest change.

What the hell?

Not believing in evil, Brian got out of the car, found a spot without surveillance, and started testing his physical condition.

After multiple tests,

Brian was quite disappointed.

There was some improvement, but not much.

For example, his normal state 100-meter dash was around nine seconds, close to ten seconds; now it was about eight seconds, almost similar to the speed under adrenaline effects.

Strength too was the same, some improvement, but not much.

As for endurance...

Brian suddenly realized something was odd.

His endurance seemed somewhat abnormal.

The 100-meter test actually drained a lot of stamina.

His endurance wasn’t poor, but after so many repetitions, he would typically feel a bit breathless.

Yet now, he still felt full of energy.

Brian thought of a possibility: could it be that between a 1.2 and a 1.3 physique, there’s a boundary similar to those he’d read about in the martial arts novels of his previous life, which required breaking through a limit?

With this in mind,

Brian looked at the remaining 21 points of Gift Energy he had saved up, gritted his teeth, and once again expended fifteen units to enhance his body.

This time, the Enhancement was substantially less noticeable.

If it weren’t for the comparison with the feeling of warmth,

He would even doubt whether the Enhancement had started at all.

"It seems there is indeed a bottleneck between a 1.2 and a 1.3 physique."

Brian confirmed this fact somewhat dejectedly.

Sixty-five units of Gift Energy had gone, yet the strength did not show the significant feedback as before, which was somewhat disappointing.

...

With a feeling of vexation, Brian returned to his apartment.

"Woof~ (Big Dog!)"

Shi San, who had a hangover, had already woken up. Seeing Brian come back, she excitedly leapt from the sofa, covering a distance of four or five meters, and landed precisely in Brian’s arms.

The enthusiastic Shi San made Brian’s gloomy mood dissipate a lot.

He picked up Shi San, "Are you hungry?"

"Woof~ (Not hungry.)

Woof woof woof! (Big dog, you smell so good!)"

Shi San struggled, trying to pounce into Brian’s arms again, but ended up being held by the scruff of his neck, flailing his little short legs in mid-air.

Brian was somewhat baffled by the message conveyed by Shi San.

He sniffed himself and found that, aside from a strong odor of sweat, there wasn’t any pleasant smell.

Suddenly Brian thought of his recent enhancements, and his eyes brightened as he lifted Shi San to his face, "Are you sure I smell good?"

Taking the opportunity, Shi San stuck out his tongue and gave Brian’s face a thorough lick.

"Ew~", Brian disdainfully tossed Shi San onto the sofa, "So young yet not learning good things, learning to be a lickspittle from others instead, now answer my question."

"Woof (So fragrant!)"

Shi San, having been thrown away, was not giving up and charged over again.

After a few attempts.

Brian finally understood.

This dimwit dog, Shi San, although sentient and with the intelligence comparable to that of a child about ten years old, lacked culture. He couldn’t precisely express his senses and only knew how to say "so fragrant".

It was quite helpless.

"Shi San, from today on, you’re going to start taking online classes!"

"Woof?"

"It means learning stuff, and you’ll have tests, and if you score low, you’ll get a beating!"

"Woof??"

...

The afternoon.

After continuous testing.

Brian finally knew where he had changed.

Vitality!

To be precise, the vitality of his cells!

His cells were now incredibly vigorous.

For example, for a small cut made by a knife that previously took about two to three minutes to completely stop bleeding, it now takes a bit over a minute for the blood to cease flowing from the wound.

As for healing.

In order to test.

Brian deliberately fractured his own shin with a baseball bat and then used the Gift Energy to heal it.

The unit for Gift Energy was based on the energy consumed to heal a leg fracture at one time.

Under normal circumstances.

This healing would consume one unit of Gift Energy.

But this time, it was different.

He only used up 0.6 units of Gift Energy.

In other words, after the body enhancement with 65 units of Gift Energy, Brian’s physical feedback might seem insignificant, but in reality, his life vitality had increased by about 40%.

Based on this, Brian speculated that the main difference between a 1.3 physique and a 1.2 physique was in this life vitality.

As for what good this thing does.

Brian wasn’t clear yet.

"Forget it, I won’t think about it anymore. In just over a month, I’ve grown to this level. Even if I slow down for a while, it’s not going to greatly affect my current situation."

After clearing these thoughts.

Brian couldn’t be bothered to dwell on this any longer.

Today was unusually free of cases, and it was Halloween.

He planned to take Shi San to buy a fluorescent jacket so they could go out at night and scare people.

...

While buying festival outfits, Brian overheard a few young girls chatting and learned that there would be magic and circus performances tonight at Maria Beach.

He quite liked to watch these things.

He decided on the spot to spend the night at Maria Beach.

After buying the festival clothes.

Brian drove over thirty kilometers to Maria Beach, booked a hotel nearby, grabbed something to eat, then wearing just beach shorts, he took Shi San to the beach to enjoy the harmonious beauty of nature and humanity.