Operations command room.
The middle-aged nun's words made everyone's eyes turn to a certain young man in the corner. He looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with blond hair, blue eyes, a high nose, and a handsome appearance.
After learning that he had become the designated first heir to the throne, the young man showed no joy at all. On the contrary, his face turned pale and his expression was slightly flustered. He opened his mouth to refuse, but was stopped by a man next to him. The middle-aged man tugged on his sleeves and then swallowed his words again.
The emperor of the empire is not that easy to be.
Once you inherit the throne, you are destined to lose your freedom, because only the emperor can connect to the empire's psychic attunement device, which is a stabilizer of the psychic suppression barrier. Its original function is actually to build a spiritual network to connect to the legendary [virtual realm] , but after the psychic ascension failed, it was transformed into a psychic protection barrier. It can greatly strengthen the emperor's psychic limit, but it also means that the emperor himself is subject to more serious psychic whispers.
Members of the royal family have extremely sensitive minds. If they are connected to this device, they can only enter the hibernation chamber periodically to recover.
He didn't want to be trapped in that lifeless golden palace forever. Rather than inherit the throne, Prince William would rather be a free and idle saltfish.
At least he can live like an ordinary person.
But unfortunately, no one cared about Prince William's attitude at all. After learning that Queen Isabella had designated an heir, others were obviously relieved.
The empire cannot live without an emperor yet.
The sequelae left by the failed psychic ascension are still affecting everyone. Only the emperor can stabilize the spirit of the people of the empire and restore their rationality to fight against the ubiquitous whispers of the soul.
Here we must briefly talk about the virtual realm.
It is an extremely mysterious subspace, a vast and boundless spiritual world.
It also seems to be one of the sources of psychic power.
When the idealism of a race reaches the full level and spiritual awakening begins to spread to everyone, they can choose to carry out a racial leap-forward civilization process - [Psychic Ascension].
But the ascension of a race is not that easy.
Some lucky races succeed, while some less fortunate ones, like the Empire, fall directly in the process of ascension.
The most important step in the empire’s spiritual ascension plan is [Transcendence to Sainthood], which literally means awakening the deepest power in the soul, stepping into the realm called [Saint] and [Chosen One], and then listening to the voices from the void. of whispers.
The first emperor of the empire, Edward I, was the [Saint].
What he has to do is to gather the spiritual power of the entire race and use special rituals to form an extremely powerful spiritual body that transcends the boundaries of the material plane, thereby entering a dimension completely composed of pure spiritual power. This place It is the legendary [virtual world].
The virtual world is the plane that all races in the current universe must go through if they choose the spiritual ascension route.
But the virtual world is not a safe place, nor is it a paradise where gifts can be obtained casually. In the virtual world, in addition to guides with good intentions to guide people to ascend, there is an extremely powerful consciousness, similar to the spirit of the gods. In addition to existence, there are many unknown subspace life forms, some of which are terrifying evil gods or some unspeakable terrifying monsters.
Only by obtaining the correct guidance in the virtual world can the entire race obtain higher spiritual knowledge and extend this blessing to everyone.
Once successful.
The entire race will make a qualitative leap and directly enter the realm of advanced civilization.
But if it fails, the result will be the same as the current empire. A powerful civilization may be destroyed in an instant.
The innermost psychic attunement device in the Imperial Capital was originally used to connect to the virtual world.
It can be understood as an artificial 'Alaya Consciousness Body', which is a collection of human pan-consciousness, led by the emperor's powerful spiritual body, and eventually formed a very powerful spiritual body that can move freely in the virtual world. Spiritual body.
certainly.
For more than three thousand years, the device has never been fully activated again, and is now merely a protective barrier.
The fall of the empire began 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 rumors, there is an obscure record within the royal family, which is named - [Whisper of the Void].
After Edward I returned from the virtual world, ominous signs began to appear throughout the empire.
The nobles became more and more degenerate. They were addicted to luxury and enjoyment and did not care about 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 paid attention to it at first. Those who went mad just succumbed to their own desires and became slaves of desire, whether they were bloodthirsty, greedy, or lustful , these characteristics are already obvious in the nobles, and almost no one deliberately pursues them.
Until one day.
When the gathered negative desires began to explode in a concentrated manner, even affecting the empire's psychic attunement device, an extremely terrible disaster struck.
The Psychic Attunement Device is a shared device.
It can connect the spirits of the people of the Empire to a certain extent, and store excess spiritual energy into Alaya's consciousness to form a stable virtual world spirit body.
in this state.
The emperor of the empire will have theoretically close to infinite psychic energy. Even if the emperor's psychic level is only level 7, he can continue to output psychic energy without limit according to the standards of a level 7 psychic. That is to say The Emperor's psychic power is unlimited.
He may not be able to use more advanced psychic spells, but as long as he can cast them, there is no end to them.
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 struck.
at this time.
Only then did the survivors of the empire realize the outbreak of spiritual whispers. They found that the strange whispers began to pour out from deep within themselves, making people shudder and gradually go crazy and lose control.
The current psychic attunement center has shut down 90% of its power.
Queen Isabella only played a role in stabilizing the mind-suppressing barrier. The spirit bodies that the empire once gathered in the virtual world have long since disappeared. It is unknown whether they dissipated naturally or were swallowed by some monster.
Anyway, the original generation had all died long ago, leaving only the remains of the previous king still lingering on this planet.
A failed psychic ascension.
It directly led to the fall of a powerful empire and created an extremely terrifying ancient abomination.
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I usually sit for too long, and the chrysanthemums can't bear it.
I went to the hospital for a checkup today. The doctor said it was not serious. I would take some anti-inflammatory medicine first, but to cure it, I would need a minor operation. I would probably have to stay in the hospital for half a month.
I definitely don’t have time now. Maybe I’ll have the surgery after finishing this book.
Ying Ying Ying.
I'm so pitiful, I don't know what to say, please give me a hug.
(End of chapter)