Space-time Traveler Chapter 23: Failed Psionic Ascension

Combat Command Room.

The words of the middle-aged nun made everyone's eyes turn to a young man in the corner. He looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, with blond hair and blue eyes, a tall nose, and a handsome appearance.

After learning that he had become the designated heir to the first throne, the young man didn't have the slightest joy on his face. On the contrary, his face turned white and his expression was a little flustered. He opened his mouth and wanted to refuse, but he was surrounded by him. A middle-aged man in's tucked his sleeve, then swallowed his words again.

The emperor of the empire is not so easy to be an emperor.

Once you inherit the throne, you are doomed to lose freedom, because only the emperor can connect to the empire’s psychic coordinating device, which is a stabilizer of the psychic restraint barrier. The initial function is actually to build a spiritual network and connect the legendary [virtual] It is transformed into a spiritual protection barrier after the psychic ascension fails. It can greatly strengthen the emperor’s psychic upper limit, but it also means that the emperor himself suffers from more serious spiritual whispers.

The members of the royal family are extremely sensitive in their minds, and if they connect to this device, they can only enter the dormant chamber regularly to recover.

He didn't want to be trapped in that lifeless golden palace all the time. Rather than succeeding to the throne, Prince William was more willing to be a salty fish who was free and doing nothing.

At least he can live like a normal person.

Unfortunately, no one cared about Prince William's attitude at all. After learning that Queen Isabella had appointed an heir, the others were obviously relieved.

The empire cannot live without an emperor.

The sequelae left by the failure of Psionic Ascension still affect everyone. Only the emperor can stabilize the spirit of the people of the empire and restore their rationality against the ubiquitous spiritual whispers.

Here must briefly talk about the virtual world.

It is an extremely mysterious subspace, a vast and boundless spiritual world.

It seems that it is also one of the sources of spiritual power.

When the idealism of a race reaches its full level and the psychic awakening begins to spread to everyone, they can choose to carry out a racial leapfrog civilization process [Psionic Ascension].

But the ascension of a race is not so easy.

Some lucky races can succeed, and some less fortunate people fall directly in the process of ascension, just like an empire.

The most important step of the empire’s psychic ascension plan is [Transcendence into the Holy], which literally means, awaken the deepest power of the soul, step into the realm named [Sage] [The Chosen], and listen A whisper from the void.

The first emperor of the empire, Edward I was the [Holy One].

And what he has to do is to gather the spiritual power of the entire race, form an extremely powerful spiritual body beyond the boundary of the material plane through special rituals, and enter a dimension composed of pure spiritual power. , This place is the legendary [Virtual World].

The virtual world is the plane that all races in the current universe must go through to choose the path of psionic ascension.

But the imaginary world is not a safe place, let alone a paradise where you can get gifts casually. In the imaginary world, in addition to a guide who has good intentions to guide people to ascend, a very powerful body of consciousness, similar to In addition to the existence of gods, there are many unknowable subspace life forms, some of them are terrifying evil gods, or some indescribable terrifying monsters.

Only by getting the correct guidance in the virtual world, can the entire race obtain higher-level psionic knowledge, and this kind of blessing can be extended to everyone.

Once it succeeds.

The entire race will form a qualitative leap, directly entering the realm of advanced civilization.

But if it fails, the result will be the same as the current empire. It is possible that a strong civilization will be destroyed in an instant.

The spiritual coordinating device in the deepest part of the imperial capital was originally used to connect the virtual world.

It can be understood as an artificial'alaya consciousness', that is, a collective of human pan-consciousness, which is dominated by the emperor's powerful spirit body, and finally formed a very powerful spirit body that can be in the imaginary world Free spirit body.

Of course.

For more than three thousand years, this device has never been fully activated again. It is now only a protective barrier.

The fall of the empire started when Edward I returned to the real world from the virtual world. No one knows what kind of existence Edward I signed a contract with in the virtual world.

But.

According to the rumors, there is also an obscure record inside the royal family, which is named 【Void Whispers】.

After Edward I returned from the imaginary world, ominous signs began to appear throughout the empire.

The nobles have become more and more degenerate. They are addicted to luxury and pleasure, regardless of the life and death of the people at the bottom. At the same time, a strange madness began to spread within the empire. No one cared at the beginning. Those who went mad just succumbed to their own desires and became slaves of desire, or bloodthirsty, or greed, or lust. , These characteristics were obvious to the nobles, and almost no one deliberately pursued anything.

Until a certain day.

When the gathering of negative desires began to intensively explode, even affecting the empire’s psychic coordinating device, an extremely terrible disaster came.

The Psychic Coordination Device is a shared device.

It can connect the spirit of the imperial people to a certain extent, and store the extra psychic energy in the Alaya consciousness body to form a stable virtual world spirit body.

In this state.

The emperor of the empire will have theoretically close to endless psionic value. Even if the psionic power level of the imperial emperor is only level 7, he can continue to output psionic energy in accordance with the standards of level 7 psionicists. In other words, the psionic value of the imperial emperor is unlimited.

He may not be able to use more advanced psionic spells, but as long as he can use them, they are endless.

As long as the spirit can bear it, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, ten million spells are not a problem.

So.

When one day, Edward I also contracted madness, a terrible disaster came.

This time.

The survivors of the empire realized the explosion of spiritual whispers. They found that strange whispers began to flow from the depths of their hearts, which made people shudder, and gradually went crazy and lost control.

The current coordinating center has been shut down by 90%.

Queen Isabella only acts as a barrier to stabilize the mind. The spirit bodies that the empire once converged in the imaginary world have long since disappeared. I don't know if it dissipated naturally or was swallowed by some monster.

Anyway, the original generation had long since died clean, and only the remains of an ancestor king still linger on this planet.

A failed psionic soaring.

It directly led to the fall of a powerful empire, and also created an extremely terrifying ancient abomination.

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