Sean was shocked the moment that he received that prompt. Initially, he had not anticipated that he was going to receive anything in return for the money that he had spent in the gym, not to mention the time.
But who would have thought that he was going to receive this prompt from the system, just after he completed the duration that he had paid for?
But that was not the most exciting part, considering that there was another prompt from the system immediately after the prompt about the money that he had spent.
[You have spent 54 minutes exercising. Investment detected. Rebate activated. You have received 540 minutes results of exercise. Would you like to claim the reward?]
This was something that made him excited. He had not anticipated something like this. But now that it had happened, it was clear that his idea was right.
It was not just money that was counted as investment, but time could also be counted as an investment. Initially, when he was trying this, he was not sure about this plan working.
And any possibility about this working, he had only thought about receiving something like money, or maybe a random reward. But who would have thought that he was going to receive 540 minutes of exercise results?
The most important part was the fact that he would not get tired when he received the reward. He would only receive the results of the exercise, implying the positivity, not the negative part of it.
From this, the moment that he would receive the reward, it would be as if he had been working out for at least 9 hours.
Sean could not help but think, what would happen if he actually spent an entire month working out, spending at least 6 hours a day in the gym. That would imply that he would spend a total of 180 hours working out.
And if the rebate was activated, he would end up receiving 1,800 hours of workout results. That was definitely over 2 months of working out continuously without rest or sleep.
What would the results be like? But of course, even though he thought of this, Sean did not really have the intention of spending over 6 hours in the gym. He could do things steadily, considering that the system was not going to disappear anytime soon.
Moreover, there were a lot of things that he needed to deal with, especially considering that he needed to build a foundation of his own. Just having money was not enough, he needed influence as well and power.
Who could say that he would not be targeted later on because he had some money? While it was true that beings doing enough to be able to deal with the situation by himself, it was worth it, but what about his family?
It was not as if he would just be with them all the time in order to protect them from all kinds of dangers that they might face due to him.
Sean shook his head and decided to focus on another thing. The additional reward that he received this time was also not related to him working out at all. Instead, it was about selected skill level advancement.
Just as he thought about this, information appeared in his mind about this additional reward. According to the information provided by the system, it was stated that no matter the level of the skill that he possessed, he could allow it to advance by one level.
The system had categorized skills in such a way that they started from basic level, intermediate, advanced, professional, and finally mastery.
For basic level skills, it would be as if a person had trained in that particular skill for two consecutive years without any sleep or rest. Intermediate level was 5 years, advanced was 10 years.
But the thing that shocked Sean was the fact that professional level was actually 100 years. Considering the current lifespan of humans, it was quite rare to be able to find that someone had lived for 100 years or more.
Most people ended up dying in their '70s, or '80s. If someone had reached their '90s, people would consider that as a miracle.
Just thinking about this, one could already imagine what would happen if a person actually trained 100 consecutive years, without any form of rest or sleep.
Not to mention that this was something impossible to happen in real life, considering the lifespan of a person and the need of the body to rest, who actually could start training a particular skill from the moment that they were born?
One could only imagine just how terrifying the professional level skill was. And thinking about this, John could not help but wonder, how would the system categorize the skill level of those people within this world that thought themselves to be professionals.
From the way that he was thinking, most of them would definitely be in the intermediate, and those would be the ones that have advanced in age. After all, while it was true that intermediate level skills meant that someone had experienced training that particular skill for 5 years, that was 5 years without any form of rest or sleep.
Converting that to hours, it was going to be at least 43,800 hours (Author's calculation). Just by estimation, even though Sean was not sure about the real figure, he doubted that the amount of hours that a person could spend doing a particular skill, following the 996 system, in 5 years, they would definitely spend less than 20,000 hours.
Regardless, it would be extremely difficult to find someone that possessed a skill that was categorized by the system as advanced.
But that was not the most shocking thing. The thing that Sean found to be ridiculous was the mastery level skill. The gap between professional and advanced level was quite big, rather, very big as compared to the one between advanced and intermediate. But the one between professional and mastery, there was no comparison.
In fact, Sean had to go through the information a few times in order to verify that the information that he had received was right. But even then, he had to ask the system again.
'System, is the information on the level of mastery of skills right? Is there no problem with the information?'
[The information that is provided to the host is completely valid. The calculation of the level of the skills is related to the universe, not this world.]
Sean could not help but take a deep breath upon hearing that. It seemed that the universe was way bigger than he had anticipated.
Mastery level, the number of years of continuous training was just ridiculous. It required a person to continuously train a particular skill for a thousand years!
It was already difficult, In fact, impossible for someone to be able to train for 100 years without any form of rest, not to mention a thousand years. Who in this world could live for a thousand years?
1,000 years was enough for several generations of humans to pass, leading to the changes in eras. So, how was it possible that there was going to be someone that was going to live for a thousand years?
But when Sean thought about it, according to the response from the system, it was clear that this was not from this world. Instead, this was the categorization of the system according to the universe.
'System, are there any other civilizations outside this world?' Sean could not help but ask, feeling a little nervous inside.
But even after a few seconds, Sean did not receive any response from the system. Sean could only sigh, considering that the system only responded randomly, and not all the questions that he asked would be answered.
But even without the system responding, Sean was pretty sure that there were definitely other civilizations out there. And, since it was possible for the system to categorize the skill levels according to the universe, it was the other there was someone that definitely possessed such a level of skill.
This implied that there were creatures out there that were capable of living more than a thousand years. In fact, they were capable of living at least a couple of thousand years, for them to be able to possess a skill level that would require a thousand years of continuous training.
It took quite a while for Sean to be able to digest the information that he had received, and come to accept it. And, thinking about the reward that he had received about the advancement of a skill level, he realized just how important this reward was.
Thinking much about it, Sean realized that it seemed that the additional reward was just random, and the value of each reward would differ from each other. He was not sure if there was anything that was needed to be considered in order to gain high level additional rewards. But so far, he understood that the value of the additional rewards seemed to be increasing.
"Hey kid, what's up with you?" A voice came from behind him, finally bringing Sean back to his senses.
He realized that he was still standing in front of the door that led to the locker room. The person who had spoken was the instructor that he had met last.
"Nothing's wrong. I was just thinking about something." Sean responded without immediately after that, he entered into the locker room, hurrying to clean up, as he was about to get laid for the appointment with the owner of the coffee shop.