Borrowing a Hand from the Fox

After learning about the Star Realm Library from Inari, Su Tianqing discovered that a new page had opened in the Codex—[Library loans].

By spending a certain number of Divine Codex Stones, she could access the Star Realm Library's collection directly through the Codex. Cheap and economical, it let this fox enjoy those library books without ever leaving home.

Su Tianqing felt this was most likely one of the Codex's schemes for reclaiming Divine Codex Stones, but that did nothing to diminish its usefulness.

With the knowledge provided by those books, Su Tianqing grew increasingly comfortable with magical theory, while also gaining a whole new understanding of the "psychic abilities" she had previously understood only in part.

At first, she had thought "magic" was an ingenious bag of tricks for manipulating magic power, something only magical girls with specific talents could freely master, and even closely tied to the saying, "Your believing heart is your magic."

In actual combat, something like this might happen: this fox would ambitiously assemble an incredibly flashy combining mecha, ready for a grand battle against Hyacinth and the others, only for them to charge in howling about friendship and bonds, then smash her painstakingly crafted, spectacular mecha to pieces.

Meanwhile, the "psychic abilities" possessed by the Hero Association's heroes were thoroughly researched powers. Their study had already reached a fairly mature stage, and could even be used to develop a whole range of new, practical patents.

For instance, the large electrical substation that [Electromagnetic] Qi Yun had helped build could regulate the power supply for all of Rongcheng. No amount of peak demand could overwhelm it.

...But after reading The Connection Between Magic Power and Psychic Abilities, Su Tianqing suddenly realized she had made an enormous mistake.

In fact, magic had been studied across the entire