Akira was utterly stunned.
Could it be that her "Academic Ability A" talent not only manifested in academic performance but also worked in other aspects?
Then that talent is too amazing!
Indeed, intelligent people learn everything quickly, which truly inspires envy and jealousy.
As the saying goes, having many skills doesn't weigh you down. While learning more doesn't guarantee more benefits, it can increase opportunities for showing off and also provide more fallback options, giving a foundation for future development in any direction.
However, combined with the earlier analysis that the class president might have significant family pressure, perhaps these things weren't learned out of her own interest but were the result of an 'elite education.'
Akira understood how much effort it took to raise a skill's proficiency to the Lv1 level, enough to be recorded on the left hand.
Because it was only recently that Akira accidentally saw the words "Japanese Lv1" appear in his own left palm, with a tiny experience bar below it that had only advanced a little. That's when he discovered he actually possessed this peculiar ability.
In other words, this was proof of his effort, equivalent to a 'certificate,' obtained after spending nearly half a year, almost all his time, practicing this one language.
Lv1 represents entry-level, and what does entry-level mean?
It means having just begun to grasp the essentials and gained some insight.
To put it directly, it means having understood it.
The difference between talent and proficiency is that talent is innate and unchangeable, it's a gift, while proficiency can be accumulated through acquired effort, and even without relevant talent, one can slowly gain experience.
The reason Akira didn't discover this cheat immediately was because…
His right hand had no words.
Does this mean Akira is incompetent, a good-for-nothing?
Not necessarily; it just means he's the most ordinary of mortals.
People with talent are very rare. According to his observations during the summer vacation, perhaps only one in ten people possesses talent, and most of those are just thin talents of level E.
Someone like the class president, with A-level talent, can certainly be called a genius; she is truly one in a million.
However, this doesn't negate the class president's own efforts. She must have put in a lot of hard work to learn all these things.
It's just that her ability to raise a bunch of skills to an entry-level proficiency is an impossible task for ordinary people.
The things a person can try in a lifetime are limited, and only learned things can be recorded as proficiency. Therefore, people without talent accumulate far less proficiency than geniuses.
For example, if Akira had language-related talent, he might not have needed to spend half a year painstakingly practicing the local language. This time might have been shortened to three months, or even one month. Perhaps there are even geniuses who can learn a language in a week.
In other words, the essence of talent is an accelerator, a buff bonus to proficiency. The difference between having talent and not having it is like whether or not you've activated a double experience card; the leveling speed is vastly different.
And although he hadn't confirmed it yet, Akira felt that talent also determined another thing: the upper limit.
Some people, no matter how hard they try their whole lives, can't squeeze into the arena of monsters.
For example, in this world, the number of people who can run under ten seconds is just over a hundred, fewer than the number of astronauts who have been to space.
And among these monsters, the true monsters who can run under 9.6 seconds are only one in this world, though Akira doesn't know if it's the same in this world.