Chapter 69: Another Advanced Level Skill

Watching videos was efficient as always.

Usually, it would take almost 3 days for him to be able to advance a skill from the beginner level, to the intermediate level.

But, this time was shortened, as after waking up the following morning, Michael watched the videos, and by the time that he was about to take breakfast, he received a prompt from the system.

[Experience full. Level up. Cyber security and information assurance skills upgraded to intermediate level. +10 SP.]

In actual sense, he could have managed to advance the skills to the intermediate level on the same day, yesterday.

But, John and the others came to visit, so, he could not continue watching the videos. Otherwise, within less than half a day, he would have succeeded in getting a skill at the intermediate level.

As the information was being integrated in his mind, Michael was excited. If he used this method, as long as he could advance a skill to the advanced level, would that not imply that he would be able to easily acquire 1,000 SP?

Previously, when he realized that he could watch videos to advance skills, he had only taken a total of 13 days in order to advance the driving skills to the advanced level.

Out of the 13 days, 7 days were spent reading, and in the next 6 days, part of it was also for reading, but not much.

Now that the skill had already advanced to the intermediate level, it was time for the advanced level.

At the Advanced Level of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, an individual would have become a strategist, mastering penetration testing, exploit analysis, and malware reverse engineering.

They would have handled complex networks, performed digital forensics, and strengthened defenses across cloud, IoT, and virtual systems.

They would have led teams, designed secure cryptography, and anticipated attacks, becoming a cyber tactician capable of shaping digital battles.

This time, there were not that many videos that he could watch, to advance the cyber security skill to the advanced level.

So, Michael could only watch the videos that he could find, then resort to reading PDFs. There was no any other choice, as after all, he had to advance the skills anyway.

Despite the increased efficiency of reading that was brought about by the enhancements from the unarmed combat skill, it would still take quite a while.

So, for over a week, Michael simply concentrated on reading, with nothing eventful happening.

During this one week, John once again paid Michael a visit, bringing Rebecca with him.

Apart from this, there was nothing that was noteworthy.

At the moment, the progress bar had already reached 79%. He was not that far away from reaching completion.

’By next week, I should be able to gain another advanced level skill.’ Michael thought to himself while lying on the couch in the living room of his apartment.

….

“Any results?” Inside the CEO’s office in the headquarters of Sky Technologies, Martin looked at his personal assistant and asked.

With a puzzled expression on her face, Clara responded, “No results. This person, it’s as though any information on him has been restricted.

Apart from the information that we received about him in the email on his acquisition of shares, there’s nothing else.

I have tried using different channels that I could, but unfortunately, it’s almost as though this person doesn’t even exist.”

Martin frowned when he heard those words. What kind of situation were they experiencing here?

“Okay, let it be. Don’t dig any further than this. It seems that this person’s background is not simple.

If you keep searching for the info on them, it might have some consequences that we might not be able to handle.” Martin shook his head as he said those words.

He was currently filled with many questions, but he could not get any answers to them.

“Okay.” Clara responded.

After that, she left the office, to continue with other things.

Remaining behind, Martin was left with his mind still wondering to the possibilities of this person’s identity. And apart from the identity of this person, he was also wondering about their reason for acquiring the shares of the company.

’No need to think too much about it. After all, at the end of the day, I am not a shareholder. Let these things be worried about by the shareholders.’ Finding no answers, Martin decided not to think much about this.

Since the chairperson had approved the other party to acquire the shares of the company, then the chairperson might have their reason.

Moreover, since the acquisition of the shares, this person did not show up, as though they only cared about the dividends.

’We are about to succeed. At that time, the value of the company will be raised, allowing us to be able to dominate more market share.’ Martin thought about the current research that wasn’t going in the research and development Department.

As long as there was going to be a breakthrough in the research, then, they would be able to accomplish many things. And at that time, he would not need to continue worrying about things like what had just recently happened.

He himself had already called the chairperson to inquire about this matter, but was only told that he should not ask.

It was exactly for this reason that he decided to stop Clara from looking for more information. After all, they could not find the information, even if they continued wasting time searching.

…

Michael of course was completely unaware of the things that he had caused by acquiring the shares of Sky Technologies.

As for the big profit that he was going to earn in the following time, he wasn’t clueless about it.

During the time that Adrian had searched for the information on Sky Technologies, he had also found that they were about to have a breakthrough in the research and development department.

This was also another thing that encouraged Michael to invest. After all, as long as they succeeded, he would reap some benefit.

At the moment, Michael was anticipating the progress bar reaching 100%. He had already stopped watching videos, and was more focused on reading.

Due to the improved efficiency of reading, it would no longer take him about 3 weeks to be able to acquire advanced level skills.

Instead, it was usually just about 2 weeks in total, and right now, it was already the 12th day since he began advancing the cyber security skills to the advanced level.

[Experience full. Level up. Cyber Security and Information Assurance skills upgraded to advanced level. +1,000 SP.]

Michael let out a deep breath of relief after he received the notification from the system.

It was just that, this time, he did not experience the same feeling that he had gotten the previous two times.

Previously, when he advanced the unarmed combat skill and driving skills to the advanced level, he would be immersed, allowing him to experience the journey.

But this time, only the information was dumped into his mind, and caused a slight headache.

After that, the information was processed, allowing Michael to be able to advance his skills.

Even though he was not able to experience the same thing as the previous two times, Michael was not disappointed.

After all, at this point, his cyber security skills had advanced to another level.

While his level of skills were not comparable to what Adrian possessed, but still, he was only a single level away from him.

One thing that Michael had noticed was that, each and every time that Adrian acquired a skill in a particular field, it would definitely be at the expert level.

Simply put, Adrian was able to acquire all the information related to a particular field, making him the number one expert in that particular field.

Since he was able to do this, Michael assumed that his skill level had already reached the expert level.

It was for this reason that this time, Michael decided to push the Cyber Security skill to the expert level.

At that time, not to mention anything related to firewalls, viruses and antiviruses, hacking and so on, he would be top notch.

As for the possibility of someone with the same level of skills as him, apart from Adrian, existing, Michael doubted.

While the information about something might be available, the application might not necessarily be easy.

So, this time, Michael did not directly download the information that he could use to advance his cyber security skill to the expert level.

Instead, he called Adrian over.

“Michael, is there something that you would like me to do for you?” Adrian asked as soon as he arrived.

“Could you possibly help me in compiling the information on cyber security and information assurance? I only want the advanced information, not the beginner level.” Michael asked.

“Sure. I can do that. Give me about 2 hours, I will have it completed.” Adrian responded without hesitation.

“Okay then. For the time being, I will go out. I have not gone out for quite a while now, so, let me take a walk around the city.” Michael stood up and spoke while stretching.

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