Duge assigned Vito as the deputy attacker because he was worried that there might be other candidates on Dufei's merchant ship.
After all,
to some extent, Vito's skills could be considered on par with Wang San's.
Clearly, he had overthought it; the Rafe Family might have had candidates, but they were not on these two merchant ships.
The more than two hundred attribute improvements were enough to make him play the role of Superman among a group of sailors who only possessed superficial skills, skills that were even inferior to those of the weakest guards at the Feng Family's Mansion.
Slacking off in judgment and maintenance was obviously different, spreading two rumors had probably not even left Ryan's tavern, the waters not yet muddied, let alone catching any fish.
Simply relying on physical slacking to increase attributes was too slow.
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