Psionic Path

Walking up the narrow wooden stairs and pushing open the attic door, Gallo forced himself to calm down.

Looking at his sister who came to greet him, Gallo set down the groceries he had bought from the market and hugged Lily as she bumped into him.

He then stuffed a ten Copper Nil banknote into Lily's hand.

Amidst her surprise, Gallo said, "The fabric dolls all sold out, and that extra one Copper Nil is pocket money for you."

"Gallo, you're the best!" Lily looked at the ten Copper Nil note in her hand, silently calculating what daily necessities and food she could buy next.

"I also bought some fruit today, including citrus and East Rus Apple." Gallo told Lily to go look at the things he had brought back, mentioning that she would have to handle dinner tonight—it could be simple, as he had a client's job to work on.

"You work at a bookstore, what kind of work would a client have for you? Gallo." In front of Aisha's bed, Lily was peeling a citrus for Aisha and asked curiously.

Gallo explained with a pre-prepared excuse, "Because my handwriting is very good, a client asked me to help organize a document with neat script. The pay is two Copper Nil, and I can finish it in about two nights."

"That much!" Lily and Aisha said in unison.

Gallo sat at his small desk and sighed inwardly; if he told them the real pay was fifty Nalang, and that he had already received a twenty Nalang deposit, he didn't know what their expressions would be.

"I'm going to start working now; just call me when dinner is ready." Gallo pulled the plain white curtain in the middle of the room shut. Once hidden, he pulled out the clothing box from under his bed and tucked all the money in his pockets inside, including the twenty Nalang bank draft.

After doing this, he sat back down at his desk and took out the notebook, along with that pitch-black, greasy Divination Coin.

"At the beginning, someone was tailing me in the shadows. Was it because I had read the research materials regarding the Askia Dynasty of the Southern Continent that Professor Vanason had given me?"

The Divination Coin was tossed into the air and landed; the result was still the number-side facing up.

At this moment, Gallo had basically figured it all out. From the time he first met Professor Vanason, the man had mentioned that his friend, Professor Jeffrey, would soon be returning from an expedition in the Southern Continent. Later, after Gallo read the research materials on Jeffrey that Vanason brought over...

He deduced that Jeffrey was trapped in a delusion invisible to outsiders, and later, through Vanason's oral account of Jeffrey's mental state.

Moreover, Gallo had previously performed a divination on Jeffrey's safety, receiving an answer that the man was in danger.

Today, he hadn't even seen Professor Vanason, which was very abnormal. The man would go to Moonlight to have a cup of coffee every morning before work; even before Gallo came to Lubo Lane, Vanason had maintained this habit for over a decade.

He thought of Sacia Taylor, who had handed him this notebook, and then tossed the coin again: "Sacia Taylor is one of the student members who went with Jeffrey to the Southern Continent for the expedition."

The number-side faced up.

"Hoo~" Gallo took a deep breath, holding the Divination Coin in his hand, and performed another divination toss.

"After I finish the translation and analysis of this notebook... will that group of people bring me danger?"

"Clap!" The coin slipped from the back of Gallo's hand. This time, Gallo didn't catch it in time, but the coin landed on the desk with the reverse side facing up. However, immediately afterward, without any other physical interference...

The coin began to vibrate violently, constantly switching between heads and tails, until it finally settled with the number-side facing up.

"This..." The scene before him was something Gallo had not anticipated. This coin was clearly no longer an ordinary object, but what made Gallo feel even more panicked was that after he finished this job requested by Sacia Taylor, the other party might very well want to dispose of him.

It might even implicate Lily and Aisha.

"Damn it!" He had been so satisfied with his current situation. As a transmigrator, he was able to earn money in this strange new world and was full of longing for his future life, yet he had inexplicably fallen into a dangerous trap.

No, from the very beginning, when he displayed his abilities in Lubo Lane, he attracted Vanason, and then later read Jeffrey's research materials...

Everything was like small pieces of magnets attracting each other, finally colliding together.

Gallo bit his fingernails, thinking about whether there was any way to resolve the current predicament.

He heard his sister humming a happy tune in the balcony kitchen while preparing lunch, and his mother's coughing had improved a lot; she was leaning against the bed making fabric dolls.

Gallo clenched his hands, and the system panel appeared before him.

[Available Points: 2]

[Available Paths: Psionic, Physical]

[Unlocked Wisdom: Learning (lv3), Memory (lv2), Knowledge (lv1)]

Even if he used the remaining two available points on Wisdom, it wouldn't change the situation.

Gallo's only hope lay in the other two paths: Psionic and Physical.

Having already obtained some knowledge regarding the Subspace, Gallo set his target on the Psionic path.

"Unlock Psionic path!"

[Psionic path sub-options:]

[Inspiration]

[Spirituality]

[Remaining available attribute points: 2.]

The Psionic path only had two sub-options, which was completely different from the number of sub-options in the Wisdom path.

Originally, Gallo had assumed that every path would have three sub-options.

Because he had allocated an attribute point to Knowledge in the Wisdom path, he had passively acquired a vast amount of knowledge regarding the existence of the Subspace. This content was like a person mastering three thousand words; these words were merely stored in the memory of his mind and would not be reviewed at every moment.

Only when he saw these words in real life would his brain naturally retrieve the meaning associated with them.

At this moment, when Gallo saw that the Psionic path was divided into "Inspiration" and "Spirituality," he immediately retrieved their meanings from his memory.

"Whether it is Inspiration or Spirituality, as long as I unlock either one, I will become a... Psionic who is deeply connected to the Subspace!"

"High Inspiration means a higher perception of Subspace entities. Psionics with high Inspiration can learn to use abilities like Remote Viewing, Causal Precognition, and Fluctuation Perception."

"And Psionics with high Spirituality have a greater impact on the physical world, able to mobilize their own spiritual power to influence others, or even use means that defy common sense and appear as magic in the eyes of others."

After thinking it over, Gallo finally decided to use one attribute point on "Inspiration" in the Psionic path.

His current situation was like being locked in a dangerous, dark basement; increasing his Inspiration was like obtaining a candle, allowing him to see what dangers existed in this basement and whether he could find a way out.