Chapter 167 The Last Year of High School 2
"If they have something that you know I'm doing wrong, please let me know before Fate, you know how precious my time is now."
[No, you did not do anything wrong, actually you did everything as it should be I accused you of stealing to win the marathon with my help and the stamina bar, but I do not think of it that way anymore, you really like to run and wants to win the medal with his own effort as well.]
That was true, Jake really loved running and wanted to win the medal honestly, so he wanted to represent the United States and be proud to win a gold medal for him and the country.
But Jake knew that this was impossible normally and so he wanted to take advantage of his physical statistics and the stamina bar to fulfill his dream, and after a few more years maybe win without the stamina bar.
[I'll explain better how it looks like you've forgotten, what's the main reason you're a basketball star at your age beyond your talent and training?]
"Because of you, Fate, it was thanks to the system that I got it."
[I mean, in addition, you've always had the system in this life and not even that you're the best in all sports because you're good at basketball specifically?]
Jake paused to think a little, long ago, after he met the system 6 years ago but after thinking he finally remembered and understood what he was doing wrong.
"The job, I forgot to ask for my third job."
[That's right, without your basketball player job I could help you very little in this, but now you develop your skills and statistics well and are improving a lot, even if you do not get new statistics with your third job, how it's related sports will have skills that can help you.]
[I wanted to say before that with your third job you could do the 50 km with your current resistance statistic, but after those months of intensive training you almost got through on your own, now with the third job and training that way you can get win at the end of the year, with the stamina bar clear.]
"How long do you think I need to train to win on my own?"
[Two years at least, if you could train like this it would always be possible in a little over a year, but since you have a lot of things to do I think it would be difficult to do in less than two years.]
Jake was pleased to know he could get it in 2 years, even though he would be cheating a bit with the system, but Jake did not care about it, he remembered the system saying that everyone is born with advantages in life, no one is equal to life is not fair.
In fact Jake had always watched the Olympics in his past life, even though he could not move his legs at times he dreamed of earning a medal in athletics, Jake knew he could win a gold medal in basketball in the future for the American team.
But he always thought that the individual medal had a lot more value than a collective medal if he won in basketball people would remember the American basketball team but if he won by running alone if he would still represent the United States and still have his name remembered too.
Thinking about it Jake remembered that once he read in a book that men always struggle for power, money, women, and recognition, Jake thought that was true, after almost dying once being a stranger he wanted to put his name on history once.
"Fate, I want my third job to be Runner."
[Well done, here are your new stats.]
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[Name: Jake Smith]
[Age: 16 years]
[Job: Runner]
[Height: 1.87 m]
[Weight: 85 Kg]
[Force 31]
[Agility 31]
[Resistance 34]
[Intelligence 58]
[Luck 99]
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Techniques
[Second Lung D]
[Iron Body C]
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Jake was very happy to get his third job, in fact, he had thought of it, but even though second job skills were very useful and even fraudulent he thought he would not have any useful skills for athletics, but now he saw that he thought very little about it.
[You have only two techniques in this third job, but these two techniques would be very important to you, just as in basketball these two techniques are passive, so you will always be using them when running, but this time the system will be helping your develop and improve your body.]
[Second Lung is a technique that works as the name says, it will be like you have a second lung, you will have much more energy in the races and you will not tire as fast as now if you reach the maximum rank of this skill, you had a second lung.]
[All marathon runners have a similar technique, they learn over time how to control their breathing well and also how to keep pace to run longer than others is a kind of talent.]
[Iron Body is similar to what you have in basketball, is a technique that prevents you from having an injury of any kind as you almost had to run another day, so your body will handle much more exercise than before and will get stronger fast.]
[I do not think normal marathon athletes have a technique like this, but with the result of training for many years they do not have muscle injuries just for running for long distances.]
[Just like I said with these two skills you can easily run 50 km without having any risk of having an injury and even without any training, but with the training you did you could get a lot more.]
After hearing the explanation of the system Jake really understood how these skills could be useful to him in any race in athletics, he could use all the capacity of the muscles in his body without fear of getting any injury.
When his speed increased much more he could even try to run a 100-meter race and use his top speed to win, after all, he would have no problem with his muscles.
So Jake went to bed happy because his biggest problem was solved and he could run without getting hurt and had no more to take those ice baths.
The other day he returned to the race course again, he decided to start with 10 km in 50 minutes and would try for the first time to do 50 km, after just over 4 hours he managed to do the 50 km, do 50 km in 250 minutes already made him very happy.
But he still felt very tired and with some pains in his legs, Jake knew that while he did not reach the maximum rank of the skill he would not really have an Iron Body and could still feel pain or suffer an injury.
But he did not need to worry too much about it anymore because he would not try to run more than 50 km anyway, so he did not have to be so worried about it, besides, he knew that the higher his stamina statistic was the better these skills.
As Jake did not want to overload his body, he spent the rest of the seven days running at that same intensity, after 7 days of racing he did not even feel very tired at this distance, so he started running 10km in 45 minutes.
After 50 km he was exhausted again and with some pains in his legs, this was normal after all he slowed his time in 25 minutes and made the 50 km in 225 minutes, it was already a much bigger load on his body, with that he felt that still could improve.
That made Jake very happy, it seemed that with the third job he saved months of training that would take him to reach that level, of course, it was far from enough for him to win a marathon, but he knew it was a matter of time.
After another week of training, he could already do the 50 km in 225 minutes without feeling too tired, but he could not continue training because he had to see if his mother needed anything in the restaurant.
Even so in just over 3 months with 2 months of training, he had achieved what many could take years to do and Jake still did not have his body fully developed which harmed him to run, if he was 19 he could do in time competition already.
So Jake understood why the system said he needed two more years, it was his training in those two years and also his final stage of growth before he became an adult, then he could really improve a lot.
This was already the month that the vacation had begun Jake always made perfect grades in class and so did not have to worry about studying for the exams after the final grades came out Jake and Joseph was ready for his final year in high school.
After the holidays Jake still vacationed his things normally, but all his classmates would have great changes in their schedules, even Joseph and Liza who had the best grades in their classes would have to stop meeting so much to have more time to study for the vestibular.
When Jake remembered that this time was coming he was scared for a while and then calmed down with the help of the system, after all, it was at the time of the tests to enter the universities that Jake ended up suffering his first accident that almost ended his life.
If he had gone back to the past without the system he would probably be locked up in these months of trial for fear of suffering this accident again, but the system ensured that this was impossible to happen again, it was easier for 3 meteors to fall on the ground at the same time for Jake to suffer this accident again.