38 The Russians Gambit: Part 14 (1/2)
The personal skill tree, or skill trees for the Contractors. It basically what makes some of the contractors like Alpha could carry a hundred kilograms of equipment or contractor like Lima to take a hit from a .50 BMG. It supplied the contractors with an instant learning of combat skills such as CQC, Marksmanship, Destruction of Vital object, etc.
It also supplied them with a skill like riding a helicopter, bike, tank, car, APC, and jet. It had many features such as reducing a recoil of a gun by earning a certain skill, increasing resilience, increasing damage dealt by a gun, etc. Tango said that with the right skill, you could turn .22 to .50 BMG.
Aline went back to Lizeth's room. She was in a full combat loadout with a black and white medic patch on her left arm. She was using a Galil ACE. It had an ACOG sight and she used a grenade launcher.
Lizeth had opened the black container. It contained a new piece of rifle, POF P416, and new tactical gear. She had worn the new outfit which consists of black tactical clothing and ballistic vest with arms protector. She also had worn a new black balaclava with a new rifle grade helmet.
”Welcome back to the line of work,” Aline gave her a new cellphone which was a freaking 1000$ cellphone that she never thought of buying.
”Thanks, Aline,” she turned on the phone and opened the Armory System app. In the app, she searched for a personal skill tree and found it.
[Reputation: 25]
[Skill Points: 30] [Skill Points Can Be Obtained Through Completing Contracts]
'Damn, watch dogs skill tree feels very similar to this,' she said as she looked that she had 30 skill points left. She looked that his car and bike driving skill was already at the maximum level.
She saw that her marksmanship level was at level zero. It means that she didn't have any special qualities besides an ordinary person when she wielded a gun. She also saw that his CQC level was very low. That explained why she struggled against ordinary street thugs.
”Invest in focus skill. It should help your aim,” Aline said as Lizeth pressed the focus skill.
[Focus: Slows down time for a limited amount of duration. 5 seconds cooldown. 7 seconds duration.][1 Skill Points]
[Improved Focus: Slows down time even slower than regular focus. Increase duration of focus to 15 seconds. Reduce cool down time to 4.5 second.][9 Skill Points]
She looked around and noticed nothing different. She didn't know what the skill could do so she moved on to the CQC skill.
[Basic CQC: Ability to takedown street thugs effectively and reduced the struggle of taking down an ordinary security guard.] [3 Skill Points]
[Mediocre CQC: Ability to take down a regular soldier with ease. Reducing struggle for taking down regular SF.] [9 Skill Points]
Aline gave her a 26-inch baton, ”You're going to need this. You need to learn less-lethal takedown. Be careful, that baton cost me 800$,” it was a military-grade push-button baton. Lizeth put it in her belt right next to her knife.
The 26-inch baton was very long. She deployed that baton and was surprised at how long the baton was, ”This is a baton right? It is used to disable a person right?” She said as she waved that baton around.
”Mmm,” Aline thought for a second, ”Not really. Just don't aim for the head if you don't want to kill someone,” Lizeth put her baton back to her belt. She inspected her new weapon. Very vanilla weapon. It didn't have any attachment to it. No Sight. No Foregrip. No muzzle devices. All of those were really a reward from Aline's gratitude.
[Gunshop: Accessories]
[Eotech Sight + 3x Magnifier: 1500$]