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"Onmyoji."

"Practitioners of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, originating from the Chinese concept of the Yin-Yang Master, this is a cultivation profession gradually formed from the ideas of the Yin-Yang philosophy and the Five Elements Theory. During the Tang Dynasty, the ideas of the Yin-Yang Masters and others were introduced to Japan, and Onmyoji began to emerge as state-exclusive Divination Masters. They combined with Japan's existing Curse Forbidden Dao and Shintoism to develop the Yin Yang Dao, reaching its peak during the Heian Era."

"It has been detected that the player has met the requirements to transfer to the Onmyoji profession. Do you want to choose Onmyoji as your primary profession?"

Below were the options of yes or no, which made Gu Mo a bit perplexed for a moment.

Fortunately, he keenly noticed a small question mark icon appearing at the very bottom right corner. When he focused his attention on it, a hidden sub-tab page popped up with basic explanations and descriptions of the occupation system.

——The damn system finally did something useful!

Gu Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and looked carefully. According to the system's annotations, Professional Level is distinct from Life Level. The latter is a series of refinements and sublimations of life essence; the former is a direct reflection of the mastery, understanding, and proficiency in a particular knowledge and skill system.

However, Professional Level can also increase basic attributes, but it's not like rewardable allocable points that can be freely distributed according to one's ideas. Instead, it directly adds a point to the attribute influenced by the profession's characteristics upon leveling up.

Perhaps this is because Life Level represents the direction chosen by life itself, whereas Professional Level directly reflects the adherence to a specific knowledge and skill system and is necessarily influenced by its style characteristics.

After all, if a person disregards the influence of professional factors, he can choose to train either physical strength or mental strength according to his own ideas, without any restrictions.

——However, if it's an athlete or a worker, the outcome of their training will manifest in their physical body; if it's a lawyer or a designer engaged in mental work, which has low physical intensity but keeps nerves often highly tense, the training will obviously focus on mental strength only.

It's impossible to suddenly have a muscular brain for those who work out daily, or a strong body for those who engage in mental exercise every day… The results plainly don't match the subject, much like the unbelievably absurd idea of "consistent working out making barbells stronger."

Just like this, Professional Level also increases basic attributes, but it's also one point per level. It's just that it cannot be freely allocated, as the key attribute influenced is already determined when choosing this profession, and it cannot be easily changed afterward.

Of course, there seems to be a way, because the differences between Professional Level and Life Level are quite apparent. A person only has one life, but can have many professions… The damn system also explains that multi-classing is allowed. This means that if you multi-class several different professions, you can correspond each attribute to the six basic attributes one by one…

Just as these enthusiastic ideas emerged in his mind, Gu Mo's dreams were ruthlessly shattered by the contents of the next hidden tab page, much like the previous illusion realm — the system explains that the total Professional Level is considered an entirety, and the more professions you multi-class, the more severe the experience penalty you will suffer.

He sighed; indeed, there's no such easy loophole to exploit.

Continuing to browse the contents afterward, he slightly frowned, falling into contemplation. Choosing a profession is simply an additional way to enhance invaluable basic attributes. Moreover, it makes learning the skills of the corresponding profession easier, and using related professional skills more efficient in accumulating experience…

That's pretty much it, without any additional bonuses. At least there is no mention of this in the rare detailed annotations from the damn system.

The profession corresponding attribute for Onmyoji is "Spirit," which seems to be a good choice. After all, Gu Mo is now studying Yin Yang Techniques and desperately needs to increase his magic power; choosing this profession to add one point, plus another allocable point, makes it directly 12 points, and his Curse Talisman would definitely be much more powerful than before.

At least his production capability could be raised, no longer constrained to squeezing out only three to five Curse Talismans a day, since the lack of energy naturally limits output capability.

However, the choice of profession seems to be a serious matter, and the penalty for multi-classing is exceptionally severe, leaving him unable to make a choice lightly… He softly sighed, his attention already drifted past the content of the last hidden sub-tab page, and then he paused, followed by a relieved exhale.

Luckily, there's no rush to make a choice.

Even without choosing a profession, Professional Level will still increase—it seems to be the case indeed, recalling that the neighborhood security uncle appeared to be a Level 2 Commoner, who didn't stop leveling up just because he had no special profession—based on the experience-acquiring behaviors before leveling up, new profession options might be unlocked, and it would also determine which attribute to enhance in the next level up…

Perhaps the Commoners path is a type of gameplay too; could it even allow the largest downside of being unable to freely allocate attributes to become manageable?

The thought briefly flashed through his mind, and Gu Mo immediately shook his head, dismissing the idea himself. Based on his experiences during this period, this is not feasible.

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