Prince of Tennis: A new Hextech Crafting System is refreshed every week.

"Huffing...huffing..."

Large beads of sweat dripped from his forehead onto the wooden floor.

After a near-unrelenting, all-out slashing attack, Sanada Genichiro knelt on one knee, his right hand supporting his bamboo sword. His chest heaved violently, but the resentment and sorrow in his eyes did not dissipate in the slightest.

Yukimura was the strongest among them. Under his leadership, Rikkai successfully won two consecutive championships and made great strides toward the great cause of Rikkai's three-peat.

Everything was going so smoothly.

But then...!

Sanada closed his eyes in pain, his lips pressed tightly together, and his body trembled slightly as he leaned on the bamboo sword.

Guillain-Barré syndrome...

An acute inflammatory peripheral neuropathy mediated by the immune system.

Specifically, it manifests as symmetrical limb weakness, limb numbness, and sensory loss symptoms resembling wearing gloves and socks.

The third day after winning the national championship.

After club activities ended, Yukimura suddenly fell ill and collapsed at the train station. His family contacted a doctor, and he was admitted to Kanai General Hospital that same day for examination. The test results confirmed Guillain-Barré syndrome. (The story is set in October, but has been moved forward for plot purposes.)

This disease has an extremely low incidence rate; only one in 100,000 people might get it. So why did Yukimura happen to be that one in 100,000?!

The practice field was completely deserted.

Sanada trembled as he stood up again, gripping the hilt of his sword tightly with both hands. He assumed a mid-stance, his eyes bloodshot, and roared as he slashed out with his bamboo sword once more.

"Tick-tock..."

Sweat was dripping from his chin.

......

This is the Kitahara family home, located at 3-1-2 Yamabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku.

Time passed by little by little.

The clock on the wall gradually moved closer to the top, and Kitahara Akira typed the last few words on the computer.

"...[Expand the arsenal]!"

After refining his own tennis system, Kitahara Akira began searching for live videos of higher-level tournaments, but the information dissemination capabilities of this era were far less advanced than in his previous life.

Furthermore, it is limited by the excessive time required to watch videos.

He still opted for the traditional combination of text and images.

By seeking information from professional tennis sports journals, tennis instruction books, and autobiographies of famous professional players, he attempted to explore the direction he should take next.

Too much time was wasted searching for information.

It took Kitahara Akira almost three hours to get this answer.

[Expand the arsenal].

It seems like a very simple conclusion that anyone could come up with.

In reality, Kitahara Akira summarized the development paths of sixteen professional players, read fifty-two tennis development planning papers from the past three years, and combined them with his own actual situation.

Finally, I found the development path that best suited me.

Kitahara Akira considered many options.

For example, with the [Specialization Development] option, since the Guinsoo's Rageblade has been permanently retained, he can use the Guinsoo's Rageblade's characteristics to maximize his "speed".

110%! 121%! 133%! ......

A shot as fast as the wind, as swift as lightning! A shot as powerful as thunder and lightning! A shot using truly extreme light particles! An unobservable quantum shot! ...

As long as he continues to improve, sooner or later, Kitahara Akira will be able to reach the limit of speed.

For example, "comprehensive foundation" means making up for the deficiencies in basic capabilities in all areas, so that all of them reach the level of "1".

Comprehensive development, leaving no blind spots.

Play the most perfect tennis with the most solid foundation.

......

While these solutions may suit him to some extent, they are not the optimal solutions.

Speed ​​tennis will be an important weapon for him for a long time, but with weekly Hextech upgrades, he cannot limit himself to speed play and give up other possibilities.

This is undoubtedly self-inflicted harm.

Moreover, based on the intelligence gathered, it seems difficult to reach the top in pure speed tennis in this world.

Improving the fundamentals is an inevitable path for Kitahara Akira, but for him who is currently in overclocking mode, spending time on improving the fundamentals would be a waste.

A week later, Kitahara Akira can still make up for those weak areas.

What he really needs to do now is...

He should be using his terrifying talent in an overclocked state to build a stronger tennis system that can handle more situations, and continue to evolve from the newly established "baseline attack style" to a "full-court style".

To complete this transformation, he needs to expand his arsenal and make other aspects equally threatening as his violent attacks.

And so it is done.

This will also help Kitahara Akira strengthen his team as quickly as possible for the upcoming Autumn Rookie Tournament.

Kitahara Akira has a very clear plan for his career.

Starting with this year's autumn rookie tournament, he needs to play his best in every official match. If he can be scouted by a professional club in advance, his professional career will be much smoother.

Determine the plan.

Kitahara Akira didn't delay; after lunch, he slung his racket over his shoulder and headed out.

Arriving at the tennis court.

The sun was blazing at this time, and no one came; the stadium was deserted.

Kitahara Akira took the key, opened the storage room, took out a cart of tennis balls left there by Morimura Ya, and pushed it onto the court.

"Let's start with flat serves."

The tennis ball is tossed up, and the person steps forward and bends their knees.

Kitahara Akira didn't hesitate and immediately locked onto the best time to hit the ball.

Push off the ground, rotate your hips, swing your arms, and snap your wrists!

The movement was fluid and seamless, the swing so fast that even the arm became blurry.

Bang!

A shockwave exploded from the point of impact, like a whirlwind, and the tennis ball instantly appeared on the opposite half of the court.

fast.

The ball speed far exceeded that of the match against Yukihiro Murata.

121%!

A shot as fast as the wind, as swift as a shadow!

"Wind - Swift as the Wind".

Kitahara Akira, in his overclocked state, showed no extra emotional fluctuations. To make it easier to remember, he named this serve.

He took another tennis ball from the cart, and next... it was a topspin serve.

A thought crossed my mind.

Orange-yellow flames suddenly surged from the handle of the racket—Ghost Rope's berserk tennis racket!

next second.

With a sudden swing of the racket, heat flows from the racket down the arm, shoulder, and torso, forming a kinetic chain.

The hitting motion for a topspin serve.

Suddenly, it incorporated a power-generating technique that boosted speed by 110%, and with the help of Guinsoo's Rageblade, it appeared perfectly in this world.

Bang!

The strong topspin causes the tennis ball to drop at an extremely high speed after crossing the net. As soon as it touches the ground in the service court, the ball bounces forward and upward like a compressed spring, reaching a height far exceeding that of normal.

This is a high-speed topspin shot that incorporates 110% power generation techniques.

Kitahara Akira's expression remained unchanged as he picked up another tennis ball.

He tossed the tennis ball up, served with topspin, and hit it with the same motion, but this time he was using an ordinary tennis racket.

Bang!

110%!

The racket swung down, and the tennis ball bounced dramatically on the other side in the next second.

Learn to serve at 110% high speed topspin.

Only once.