Friendly Match

"Nice work Emmy, hopefully you would be able to do the same in our upcoming match and in the tournament."

The Coach telling him this has already made it clear that he would be participating in both the friendly match and the tournament.

Emmy displayed a few more skills on that fateful Saturday making his teammates suspicious of him, they remembered very well of his arrival in the team which was just three days ago, at that time Emmy's skills was very poor, so how was he able to perform a different set of skills now like he's in a talent show.

Little did they know that each of the skills that was display by each of them on his first day in the team was all recorded by him and getting home, he was able to analyze them with the system pinpoint each flaw of each skill for him and thus creating a better result out of his teammates skill with the system.

With the system registering each of the skills he was able to perform successfully, he can use it any time he wants without so much stress, all of them were basic skills though, but what the system created for him was a better version of each skill.

After that display of skills, many came to him to be his friends but Emmy simply chase them away making his face as fierce as ever and cold like Antarctica ice wall.

And now, today as his second week in the team, Emmy has been chosen as a substitute in the friendly match they'll be playing in a few hours.

'Ridiculous, just ridiculous.'

Emmy thought as he sat alone in the bus thinking of his life, in the past, he wouldn't have dared to sit in a bus with this people but a few display of skill had changed his life. He felt that his life has changed ever since he got freedom from the system. Nobody can bully him and go scot free again except in school where he's trying to play low.

Even at that, everyone that bully him in school apart from John and a few people had met their fate in the last two weeks, Emmy had been busy dealing with them every night and gaining Attributes points and EXP, he's only ten EXP away from his next level. He had also increased his football attributes with the few AP he got.

The total number of AP he got is ten and thus, he spent them all on increasing his Technique Attribute and Attacking Attribute.

[{Technique} 2AP/C5

(Dribbling)> 5

(Ball Control)> 5

(Goal Sense)> 5]

He already had three points each in each stat under the 'Technique attribute' so he spent four AP on it taking them all to five.

[{Attacking} 2AP/C5

(Shooting)> 3

(Long Heading)> 3

(Flexibility)> 3]

He doesn't know if this little improvement will help him in the match, but at least, it's better than nothing.

His relationship with Miss Sofia has also gotten stronger, Miss Sofia converse with him like they're mate and also joke with him a lot. Most of his time in the Café was spent on chatting with Miss Sofia. In a week now, he would get his first payment and Miss Sofia asked him what he planned to do with his first payment.

His thought wandered for a few minutes before saying he would find an apartment to rent, he had already made it clear to her that he doesn't live with his parent anymore, making Miss Sofia jokingly called him a 'run away child.'

How and where he would get his apartment was discussed with Miss Sofia, she told him to get one in the estate which Emmy claimed that the price would be too expensive for him but she assured him not to worry.

'Oh yeah, she promised to get me a smart phone if I score a goal in this match and got registered into the tournament among the starting XI squad.'

With a great determination on his face, Emmy got up as the bus descended at the same time signaling that they've got to their destination.

They've got to Dominion FC field, the field is the same size as their field with the same setting, audience seats on each side of the field, the goal post is also the same. They descended from the bus and move straight to the field.

Dominion team have also set up standing on one side outside the field with their coach addressing them, they all had a brown jersey on while some of them wore red bib on their jersey. Seeing the approach, he went to welcome them with the rest of his students, the two coach exchange a few words before going to the other side of the field.

This is just a local friendly match, so there were no football officials, only a young man who wore black jersey and claimed to be the referee Dominion Coach had rented could be seen on the officials seat.

There are about ten to fifteen people on the audience seat, they came in support of Dominion FC.

Emmy's team United Squad have already set so they just sat and waited for the match to begin with the coach telling them a few things.

A few minutes later, the match begins with both teams standing opposite each other, after they shook one another's hand as the referee had requested, they scattered on the field with each of them taking their position. Dominion FC are going with 4-4-2 formation while United Squad went with the 4-3-3 formation with the two tallest boys in their team at the front taking the right forward and the left forward wing while the short boy who attacked Emmy with the other two from his school stayed at the middle of the two boys, he's their forwarding player.

The captain was at the midfield, attacking midfield with the two boys from Emmy's school as his supporters, four other boys stood gallantly at the back, each of them taking their respective position while the lone figure of the keeper could be seen in front of the goal post.

Emmy was in substitute so he had his team bib on with other players.

*Phweeew*

The ref's whistle sounded loud signaling for the match to begin.

Dominion FC were taking the first pass and wasting no time, the striker released the ball back to his teammates.

The United Squad three strikers charged forward chasing after the ball, the ball was in the court of Dominion FC midfielders so they pass among themselves in a triangular motion trapping the opponent striker in the middle while the two wingers, his supporters waited patiently in their wing for any loose ball.

The midfielders did the same for about five minutes but they didn't stay in one place among themselves, they were pushing forward, slowly entering the United Squad lane,

United Squad midfielders and defenders were coming out little by little doing their best to push them back and make sure that they didn't get past the midfield. Since the match begun, the ball hasn't left the court of Dominion FC players, they did their best to keep the ball away from United Squad players, not even their striker has managed to touch the ball.

In the 7th minutes since the match begin, the first goal happened from the United Squad side, a player from Dominion FC used an invisibility ability, a short brown haired boy, he disappeared with the ball appearing behind the keeper in front of the goalpost and tossed the ball into the net with no stress at all, opening the score sheet by scoring the first goal for his team.

In the 26th minutes, the same thing happened again with the boy doing the same trick but he was removed after his second goal for a reason that nobody knew.

After the boy was removed, the match continues with no goal from both sides only pressure and desperation could he felt on the field, United Squad players were putting pressure on their opponent in the hope of taking back their victory and at the same time, they were desperate.

Dominion players play like a professional team not allowing their opponent's desperate pressure to swallow them up but they were unable to go past their midfield.

First half ended with the same result, 2-0 with Dominion FC taking the lead and a five minutes rest was given to both team.

United Squad Coach put his palm together and applaud his players as they walk out of the field approaching him. Although, they are losing the match but he still applaud them.

"Well played guys, you all did well, The match hasn't ended so none of you should feel down, in short, the match has just started."

The Coach tried to encourage his players.

"But I never knew none of you would be able to infiltrate their defense, zero goal, zero shot on target, zero shot off target. Is that how tight their defense is?" The Coach asked.

And he has said the truth, none of the strikers has been able to move ball pass their defense lane, even their shot were being intercepted. The same could be said to their opponent apart from the boy who had used the invisibile ability.

The Captain, who his name turns out to be Kai stood up and bend down his head a little and said confidently.

"Hm Coach, you were the one that told us that Dominion FC are good in defense and most of their player's ability are defense related abilities, although we've been preparing for this for the past few weeks but it seems our training and ability isn't enough to infiltrate their defense."

"So, are suggesting that it's high time we got Emmy in as they've also used someone with a similar ability as him."

Kai nodded.

"But don't you think it's too early for him to enter, every ability user have their limit after all and you can see that their player used it no more than once before he was substituted because he used it in a roll and covered a long distance in his invisible form."

The Coach explained.

"Coach, we don't know what Emmy's limit is nor do we know how versatile his ability is. So I think he should be able to handle it."

They've already planned that Emmy would be substitute in during the second half but they never expected for their opponent to have someone with an invisible ability.

"Okay Emmy, you'll be playing in Kai's position while Kai will move forward substituting Joe at the front."

Their number 9 is Joe, the boy who attack Emmy and ran away when his mate got beaten up.

Emmy's heart beat faster at the mention of his name and at the same time, a system message pooped up.

[You have been deemed the trump card of your team]

[New Quest Received]

[Take your team out of the losing side]

[Reward: 50 Coins]