Gamer Superstar - Chapter 107

Chapter 107: [Bonus Chapter] 107 – Watching
When I went on stage for the second time, it was like controlling a Mech.

My body still belonged to me, but the movements were so fluid and automatic that it didn’t even feel like it was my own body.

The interactions I had with the audience were so natural that I didn’t even notice a message popping up in the corner of my vision.

[Stage Presence Lv 8 -> 9].

When I started playing In The End, it was like my fingers were greased with butter and everything I played came out so naturally, but I didn’t even realize how that was changing.

[Guitar Lv 34 -> 35]

Before I took the microphone to play, I took a glass of whisky and drank the whole glass, so when I sang, my voice came out as sweet as I’d ever heard it.

[Sing Lv 33 -> 34]

I didn’t see any of these messages appearing in front of me, all I could focus on was continuing my show, continuing to give my all to the audience, and I could feel it, I didn’t need to analyze them, I could feel that they were enjoying it as much as I was.

After In The End I played a song from that world, followed by Numb, and the reaction from the audience was just as intense, if not more intense than the reaction to In The End.

But as I left the stage, watching Fedrick sing and looking out at the audience, I realized that even though I was doing my best, I still wasn’t winning them over as much as he was.

Everything I put so much effort into, Fedrick was doing like it was second nature to him.

I realized that he wasn’t in a special state like I was, but he was performing so well that it felt like he was!

Think, Noah… what can you do to improve this?! I said to myself as I looked at Fedrick, trying to analyze everything about him to understand where I could improve.

Until another message popped up in front of me.

[You have unlocked an Active Skill due to the host’s tireless and sincere efforts].

[Observe Lv 1

Effect: When you focus 100% of your attention on something, your body automatically channels the available mana to absorb as much knowledge as possible about the object or situation you are observing. This allows for an intuitive and in-depth understanding, improving your ability to learn and analyze accurately].

When I looked at the skill that appeared in front of me, I was shocked.

Not only had I achieved my first active skill, but for the first time since I came to this world, I had discovered that I actually had a use for mana!!!

Unfortunately, I had no further explanation of anything about the skill… I didn’t know how much mana it would consume, I didn’t know how much knowledge I would absorb.

But one thing was clear: using this skill would cause my improvement speed to skyrocket to an extremely high level.

My learning speed with the system was already so high that I couldn’t even imagine that it could get any better, but as it turned out, it really could!

Since I didn’t know how the skill worked, and only knew that one of the ways to activate it was to focus completely on something I wanted to learn, I focused all my attention on Fedrick, on how he acted, on how he played on stage, on how he interacted.

And pretty soon I started to feel like something was coming out of me, it wasn’t a bad feeling, but it was a different feeling…

When I started using the skill, Fedrick would interact with the audience, where he would interact for a few seconds before going back to playing another song.

The problem was that while he was halfway through the song, I started to feel dizzy.

At first I thought it was because of the drink, but I got confused about what it was and my concentration on Fedrick stopped, causing my body to stop using mana in the skill and I noticed how I looked.

My hands were drenched in sweat, while my body was much weaker than before.

Startled, I thought of a possibility that used to happen in the RPGs I played.

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| Character Status

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| Name: Noah Black

| Title: Endurance, Tuned Ear.

| Level: 01

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| HP: 150/150

| MP: 27/150

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Looking at the amount of mana on my status screen, I really found the reason why I was so weak… my body was running out of mana and it was exhausting me!

I remember seeing videos about Mana exhaustion on Youtube in my old world because of a game I was playing on my cell phone, and I was surprised at how accurate it really was.

It’s a good thing I stopped in time…’ I thought. I thought, surprised to imagine the possibility that I might actually use up my mana until it reached zero.

Luckily, that didn’t happen.

Despite my weakness, I was still well enough to play.

Out of curiosity, I opened my profile to see what changes I’d made in the meantime.

[Stage Presence Lv 9 -> 11]

[Singing Lv 34 -> 35]

[Guitar Lv 35 -> 37]

When I saw the change in my stats, I was shocked!

Not counting Stage Presence, which also increased by two levels, but what shocked me the most was that my Guitar level increased by two levels just by watching him play for a little over a minute!

With Guita above level 30, for every level he got, I gained 4 months of experience, so it was like gaining 8 months of guitar experience in less than 2 minutes!

Not to mention Stage Presence, which went from Lv 9 to Lv 10, giving me 3 months of experience, and then from Lv 10 to Lv 11, giving me another 2 months of experience!

I had just gone from someone with 9 months of experience to someone with 14 months! A 55% increase in how I acted on stage in just a few seconds of remarks to Frank!

Excited by this, I opened my status again to see how much mana I had recovered in those minutes to see if I could use the skill again, but I was disappointed…

Mana: 27/150

Even though I had spent so many minutes thinking about and exploring my new skills, I still hadn’t recovered a single point of mana, which meant… it would take me hours or even days to fully recover my mana…

But looking at how I had improved in that time, and looking at my new music… I was confident that my chances of beating Fedrick would be even greater now!