Chapter 26: Playing Basketball

By school, Max read 30,000 words. Holding Isabella's hand, which was looking fiercer than usual, Max thought she was those days and thought it best to remain silent while reading his book.

'That idiot who only knows how to read books... hasn't he noticed the uproar his appearance is making?' Isabella sighed again and felt tired. She felt like she had run a marathon.

When they arrived in the classroom, Isabella sprawled on the table.

She glanced sideways at Max's handsome profile. 'Max, why do you have to look so handsome? Can't you see how worried that makes me?'

After a simple analysis, Max found that he read 3,000 words a minute thanks to Aura of Genius.

Although his intelligence increased to an absurd amount, the intelligence of learning something or unraveling, calculating, etc., was not fully affected. It was more like an RPG with high intelligence, he had more magic power in his body. If he were to use for example: Control Lightning – LV2. It will be more powerful than before.

'System, log in.'

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'I completely forgot about it.' Max sighed regretfully.

Science teacher starts writing:

[It is common for photographers to take color photos in environments lit by fluorescent lights, which contain a strong composition of green light. The consequence of this fact in photography is that all light objects, especially white ones, will appear greenish. To balance the colors, you must use green that reaches the camera sensors. When choosing this filter, knowledge of the composition of the primary light colors is used: red, green, and blue; and of the secondary light colors: yellow = red + green, cyan = green + magenta = red + blue.

In the situation described, what filter should be used so that the photograph presents the natural colors of the objects?]

The teacher looked at all students until his eyes rested on Max. He realized that Max was not reading book on the subject taught, was totally uninterested in what he was talking about. Angrily he said, "Student Max Smith, can you answer this question?"

"The correct answer is: Magenta," Max replied indifferently.

Not waiting for the professor to give him options to choose from, Max responded quickly, taking the professor by surprise.

The truth is that the book that everyone is reading, Max has already read it through and remembers everything that is written in it, and there was no reason to read it again since he would not earn reading points.

"...That's correct... You can sit down now." The professor felt shaken, at the same time ecstatic. He didn't know Max was so smart.

"Wow!"

"As expected, Max is so smart."

"Yeah, and look, he's so gallant reading~"

"I want to have a child with him."

"Stop dreaming, silly girls." A boy couldn't take it anymore and said: "Don't you know he has a very beautiful older girlfriend and also the flower of our school Isabella as a girlfriend?"

This was like a bucket of cold water thrown at them.

It was true, although Max is a good catch, he already had two beautiful girlfriends.

For the next 3 hours, Max read what amounts to: 540,000 reads and $10,800.

*

In the fifth class, it was physical education class, today he was playing basketball.

'It will be the first time I play basketball since I got pro Basketball LV5.' Max reflected.

"Max, you're on my team." Nick wrapped his hand around his neck and gave him a yellow vest.

"Oh." Max didn't think too much and accepted the vest and put it on. The opposing team wore a blue vest.

"Max, we have to win, that bastard Breno, he said he can beat me with his hands tied behind his back, he thinks he's just because he's on the basketball team. Damn, I want to beat him!" Nick said frustrated.

"Well... The chances of us losing in the game are almost 0." Max with a mysterious smile.

"Serious? Weren't you more or less in basketball before?" Nick didn't believe it.

"Have you ever seen me play for real?" Max countered.

"Mm... I don't know, it seemed to me like you were always taking it seriously." Nick said.

"But I wasn't." Max stopped talking.

Nick kept talking but was ignored until he was quiet too.

The PE teacher wore red sweatpants and a jacket and with a whistle, he said, "I'm going to throw the ball up and when I blow the whistle, let the game start."

Max stayed in the front zone, when the ball was thrown up and the whistle echoed, he jumped.

"Bang!"

The ball was grabbed by Max.

The other player from the other team stared at Max, who was a few inches taller and confident in stealing the ball.

Max starts bouncing the ball on the ground. "bouncing… bouncing…" The players on the other team were all keeping an eye on him, while some of the same team yelled for the ball.

Suddenly Max jumps, then throws.

"..."

"bouncing… .bouncing… bouncing…"

After a few seconds of silence, someone shouted excitedly: "It's a basket! 3-point basket!"

The game started again, the other team starts with the ball, they keep exchanging passes and getting closer, until Max stirred. He moved like a cheetah, in seconds he was in front of the boy holding the basketball, and before the boy was able to understand, Max had already stolen the ball and bouncing the ball towards the crossbar.

"Block him!"

Max jumps very high while he was still in the air, the others who jumped together were already falling. And with a "Bang!" it went through the basketball in the hoop.

"The yellow team scores two more points!"

"Max, I didn't know you played so well," Nick said with a weird smile.

"I didn't know you're hooking up with the woman from the canteen either, that's not why I keep commenting." Max laughed.

"That, how did you find out?" Nick ended up giving himself away.

"Haha, before I had doubts, now I'm sure." Max laughed even harder.

"Damn it." Nick felt foolish.

"Rejoice, didn't you want to win? Look, it's already 5 to 0." Max smiled.

"But you're practically playing alone, we didn't do anything," Nick said.

"Is that so? All right, I'll stop being hungry then." Max said.

Knowing Max was on the opposite team, and seeing his abilities, the blue team was even more cautious with him.

They put 4 to score Max.

As before, the other team goes out making quick passes, afraid of staying too long with the ball and having the ball stolen. However, they underestimated Max's speed. Max easily lost the 4 four that was marking him.

Max intercepted a pass and caught the ball.

Then he didn't move forward but passed the ball to Nick.

Nick turned red with happiness and started bouncing the ball towards the basket, but the ball was stolen, however, they weren't happy for a long time. Max appeared and picked up the ball again and threw it to Nick.

"Damn, just throw it toward the hoop," Max said.

"Oh, okay." Nick nodded and threw.

It hit the rim, but it didn't enter. Nick was disappointed.

The blue team jumps to get the ball, but guess who shows up?

Yes, Max already predicted that Nick could miss and ran to the hoop, he jumped and managed to steal the ball and once again threw it towards Nick.

"Go try again."

"O-Okay." Nick was even more nervous.

He threw and missed again.

"..."

Nick flushed with embarrassment.

Max sighed as he caught the ball and tossed the ball to Nick. He was determined to keep going until Nick scored 1 point.

After 5 attempts. I said 5 tries. Nick scored.

Worst of all that no one celebrated.

Nick felt crestfallen, but knowing he made a 3-pointer he was happier.

Because of Nick, they missed the whole first time.

"Max, let me make the basket next time."

"No, let me."

"Shut up, I won't fall for it anymore!" Max yelled and they fell silent with their heads bowed.

"Okay, if I'm in a good mood, I'll pass the ball to one of you to make the basket, but if I get it wrong, it's not my problem," Max said.

"Thanks." They thanked me.

Once again the ball was thrown into the air, Max caught it as expected.

Then he passed to someone from the yellow team and advanced forward, the boy with the ball tries to pass it back to Max but makes a wrong pass.

Max sighs, and like a cheetah, Max intercepts and catches the ball. From there in the middle of the court, he jumps and shoots.

The sound of the hoop net swaying echoed.

"It's a basket!" Someone yelled.

The blue team was already discouraged. Having Max on their team is no different than cheating.

"Max is so handsome !"

"Max is amazing!"

"Max! Max! Max!"

Whether it's girls or boys, they were all screaming his name, what he was doing wasn't playing basketball anymore, he was putting on a show that made everyone's heart race with excitement.

The PE teacher wanted to tell the girls to go back to playing volleyball, and the other kids who were playing soccer, go back to playing soccer, but it was no use, they wanted to see Max on the basketball court.

Even the professor was fascinated, and he thought he couldn't blame them for that.

After that, Max became a basket-making machine. When the game ended. The final score was: Yellow Team: 121 - Blue Team: 0.

Isabella with a bottle of water and a towel in her hand entered the court when the game was over. She first gave him the water bottle and started wiping the sweat off his forehead.

The boys who saw this scene started to turn green with envy.

"Did you have fun?" Isabella asked with a smile.

"Yeah, it was a little fun." Max smiled.

"Then okay." Isabella kissed his face without caring that a short time ago he was sweaty.

"That was the last class. We should go straight home, the moving truck should be arriving." Max said.

"Yes, I'm excited to renovate our kitchen." Isabella said and added: "By the way, what do we do with our old things?"

"Put it for donation on the internet. There may be someone who is in need." Max said.

"Good idea." Isabella smiled.