Chapter 49

"11,800 Cosmic Coins and 3,280 chips found, would you like to collect them?" The roulette machine emitted a cold electronic voice.

"Yes!" Ban stared intently at the roulette machine, waiting for a miracle to happen.

The secret roulette machine collected the Cosmic Coins and chips on the ground. Ten items appeared in the blue area: a shrinking lamp, a subterranean submarine (new model), an enlarging lamp, 3,000 chips, an ESP training box, a set of 999 delicious items (choose your own), a penetration ring, 999 timed dummy bombs, a knife set (sharp kitchen knife, water-cutting knife, half-splitting knife), and 5,000 Cosmic Coins.

"Wow! This time you've really hit the jackpot. You must get that 'ESP training box'!" Cat Fairy looked at the various items on the roulette machine and shouted excitedly when she saw the 'ESP training box'.

"Oh?" Ban raised an eyebrow. His goal was the shrinking lamp or the enlarging lamp. Although ESP sounded powerful, he couldn't imagine how strong it could be.

"Aren't you planning to train? If you get that thing, the training will be incredibly terrifying," Cat Fairy said seriously.

"Alright!" Seeing Cat Fairy's rare seriousness, Ban didn't hesitate and pressed the start button. His Mangekyou Sharingan opened instantly and stared intently at the roulette machine.

"The roulette machine is starting, wishing you good luck!" The secret roulette machine emitted an electronic voice, and the large wheel began to spin, getting faster and faster.

Ban's Mangekyou Sharingan followed the machine as it spun faster. Seizing the right moment, he pressed the pause button.

The roulette machine slowed down instantly, rotating slowly. The pointer stopped at 3,000 chips. Ban held his breath, and indeed, the pointer skipped over 3,000 chips and stopped at the 'ESP training box'.

"Great!" Cat Fairy cheered, even more excited than Ban.

"Congratulations on obtaining the secret item 'ESP training box'. We look forward to your next visit!" The roulette machine burst into a white light, which disappeared after a few seconds.

In front of the machine appeared a small purple dome-shaped box, resembling a music box, with a ring of blue lights around it and a ring of red lights on the round lid.

"Here's the instruction mirror! Don't get too excited!" Cat Fairy saw Ban staring at the box and handed him a small mirror.

[ESP Training Box (ESP)]

Item Evaluation: This 'ESP training box' can cultivate three types of ESP: telekinesis, clairvoyance, and teleportation. To train to become a qualified ESP user, you need to train for three hours daily without interruption for three years.

Item Description: For love and justice, the task of maintaining world peace is entrusted to you.

"This thing!" Ban's pupils constricted, and his hand holding the instruction mirror trembled. This was the strongest secret item he had ever seen, without a doubt.

As Cat Fairy said, if the training is successful, even without the Rinnegan, he could be invincible.

These three abilities are equally powerful, but the strongest is telekinesis. If mastered deeply, it can make various objects float and manipulate them, move mountains and seas, and create force fields like the AT Field in Evangelion, blocking all attacks.

The simplest ability of telekinesis is flight, similar to the Phoenix in X-Men, which can stimulate heat molecules to create rapid shockwaves, incredibly powerful.

Telekinesis is even more terrifying if it extends to telepathy, like Professor X in X-Men, who can read others' thoughts and memories, control and manipulate their actions.

This is similar to the Sharingan, but the Sharingan requires eye contact to control thoughts and cannot read memories.

The other two abilities are simpler. Teleportation just requires thinking of a place, and you instantly move there. If you want to move people or objects, you can instantly teleport them to where you want, making it more practical than the Flying Thunder God technique, which requires no seals.

Clairvoyance reminded Ban of the Byakugan, one of the three great dōjutsu. He didn't know the range of this clairvoyance, but if it's 360 degrees without blind spots, he would never have to worry about being ambushed.

Clairvoyance is also stronger than the Byakugan, which has a limited range. If fully developed, it can see the heavens above and the depths below, and combined with teleportation, it can move freely wherever the eye can see, incredibly powerful.

Of course, these are just his speculations. ESP can be seen as the liberation of mental power, so while it doesn't consume physical energy, it does consume mental energy. Overuse can lead to brain death.

The size of objects controlled by telekinesis, the distance of teleportation, and the range of clairvoyance all depend on the amount of mental energy.

To achieve what he imagined, it would take more than a day or two. After all, human life is limited. The mental energy a normal person can accumulate in a lifetime is far from what he imagined.

"Hey, are you scared?" Cat Fairy saw Ban in a daze and laughed secretly.

"Thank you, Cat Fairy. Otherwise, I would have missed such a powerful item. Although I didn't underestimate secret items, I always thought they were external forces and couldn't make a person strong," Ban said with a bitter smile. Although he had seen Doraemon, he couldn't remember all 2,000 secret items.

"Hmph! Don't get too excited too soon. This item can indeed give you ESP, but the power depends on you. Otherwise, wouldn't everyone in the future be able to control the weather? And this item requires three years of hard training, needing strong willpower and talent. If your mental energy can't sustain three hours, you can't train at all. I've never seen anyone succeed in the future world," Cat Fairy said, trying to discourage Ban, but she was telling the truth.

"You underestimate me. I know my own potential and have no lack of willpower. Even if it takes thirty years, I will succeed. The people of the future are immersed in comfort. Although their technology is advanced, when it comes to a fight, they are far behind us natives," Ban said coldly, filled with disdain for the people of the future. They might have strong technology, but they are weak in themselves.

The most important thing for a strong person is a fearless heart, unafraid of any storm.

This is why Ban, even knowing he could have various powerful secret items in the future, still worked hard to improve his strength. No matter how strong a secret item is, it is still an external force. Without secret items, he would be nothing.

He was once a bird with broken wings. Now, with the power to resist, he would go all out, even if it meant death.

The strong should be respected, and heroes should dare to compete.

"How do I use this thing?" Ban asked Cat Fairy.

"If you want to train telekinesis, don't touch the box. Focus your mind and silently repeat, 'move, move.' Once the box floats, you've succeeded," Cat Fairy explained.

"Is teleportation and clairvoyance also about focusing the mind and silently repeating 'move' and 'see'?" Ban was surprised that such powerful abilities could be trained so simply and asked Cat Fairy.

"Yep!" Cat Fairy nodded, looking pleased.

"That's too simple!" Ban said helplessly.

"Hmph! Try it and see how long you can last," Cat Fairy said loudly, seeing Ban's relaxed expression.

Although she knew Ban had strong willpower, evident from his three years of tireless training in the deep forest, the ESP training box was much more difficult.

"We'll see!" Ban smiled, not saying more.

This suited his intentions. There's no free lunch in the world. No matter what power, it requires hard training. The reason the strong are strong is that they work harder than anyone else behind the scenes.