Chapter 650: Chapter 373, Alpha-class Psychic_2
He decisively spent those graced points.
After levelling up to LV9, even without the additions from subspace, his Spiritual Energy strength had already reached S grade under normal conditions.
This was the uppermost level one could normally achieve within the Psychic Cultivator’s Association, nearly powerful enough for one person to constitute an army. The thunder he summoned would be more terrifying than a barrage from ten thousand cannons, capable of repeatedly bombarding an entire battlefield into rubble; his Telekinesis could twist charging armored groups into twisted shapes; with the assistance of a full Mage Corps, he could amplify his power and affect areas over a hundred thousand kilometers away in the void of space, tearing apart the Void Shields of cruisers…
Gu Hang also had a trump card, once he tore open the veil of reality and let the power of the Storm God Kingdom seep into reality, his Spiritual Energy power would ascend another step, directly obtaining the strength of S+ grade.
Placed into subspace, lingering within the Storm God Kingdom, Gu Hang had already possessed strength equivalent to that of a Great Demon.
However, this was as high as he could go.
Gu Hang had previously thought that after reaching 9, it would be normal to have a 10.
It wouldn’t make sense for 9 to be the peak, right? Gu Hang had various events and characteristics boosting his abilities, allowing him to possess S grade Spiritual Energy strength at the level of LV9. As for his subordinates who had been normally activated as “heroes”, in terms of Spiritual Energy, even if they reached LV9, they’d probably be at A+ grade at most, or at best, a weak S grade.
But setting aside those myth-like records, just within the existing members of the Imperial Psychic Association, there were so-called S+ grade Psychics. This was a level of power Gu Hang couldn’t reach even with his special traits – he could only achieve such strength by cheating using subspace. Not to mention, within the ratings of the Psychic Cultivator’s Association, there was a level even higher than S grade, known as Alpha-class Psychics.
Psychics of this level, to put it extravagantly, could destroy a star with a mere thought—of course, this is under the premise that the ‘star’ has no protection.
Anyway, Gu Hang’s current Spiritual Energy strength, although barely top-tier, was obviously still a distance away from the ceiling. Yet, with the system, he had maxed out.
This situation reminded Gu Hang of a dream he had previously, where the person in the dream said it was a “pretty interesting little toy.”
Little toy, not fit for the big stage, is that what it means? Because it’s just a “little toy”, so there’s a ceiling?
This explanation seemed rather logical, but Gu Hang was not satisfied.
He had recently reviewed quite a lot of shared data from the Psychic Cultivator’s Association, even troubling Chairman Wang Yuyang of the Sector Psychic Association to make a special trip from Flying Wing Star to bring him data.
Combining this information with his own situation, especially his careful perception of the feeling when using Spiritual Energy and analyzing himself in depth, he had roughly formed a conjecture.
When Psychics use Spiritual Energy, they are essentially not using their own power. They are ‘holes’ in the real world, a conduit, with Spiritual Energy using the Psychic’s soul as an anchor to come into this world.
Theoretically, a high-grade Psychic would manifest Spiritual Energy strength even without any training, except that this strength would be uncontrollable, causing terrible destruction, or even become the beacon for subspace abominations to come into the real world, or even tear open a subspace rift.
A controlled Psychic, on the other hand, can use this power as per their innate talent.
In this sense, the amount of power a Psychic can wield is predestined, depending on whether their ‘hole’ is large or small. Later training improves control over Spiritual Energy. Yet most people will never hit that upper limit, with controllable Spiritual Energy being utilized; the uncontrollable Spiritual Energy is deliberately suppressed to avoid loss of control, which is the core of a Psychic’s training.
Up until now, the primary function of the system had been to provide Gu Hang with ‘spirit’ and ‘talent’, enabling him to better utilize and command Spiritual Energy. Without the system, his lifelong abilities in the realm of Spiritual Energy would have probably just been at C grade at best, then suppressing the Spiritual Energy he couldn’t control, never achieving manifestation.
But now, the system had raised his ability to control Spiritual Energy to an unsurpassable level, allowing him to fully grasp the ultimate power of a Psychic. The system’s interface of [Heroes], that was all it could enhance; it could not expand Gu Hang’s ‘hole’.
Furthermore, reaching the level of an Alpha-class Psychic, according to the research definitions of the Psychic Cultivator’s Association, had surpassed the upper limit of Spiritual Energy strength that a human individual could control.
Any being with this level of Psychic talent lacked the conventional meaning of ‘control’; the hole could not be mended, and the surging waves of Spiritual Energy from subspace would consume those of this talent grade. As they aged, a Psychic of this level would become unable to block the rampaging Spiritual Energy, warping into an existence that could endanger an entire planet, or cause an even wider calamity.
The Psychic Cultivator’s Association’s approach to Alpha-class Psychics was to capture and research them in specially made Anti-Psychic Prisons if they are discovered early, until the prisons could no longer contain them, at which point they’d be executed; if they were hard to capture, then direct execution was the method of choice.
Even if a very few Alpha-class Psychics could manage to control their power, according to the research of the Psychic Cultivator’s Association, this control was temporary and unsustainable, as the human brain would get fried, ultimately resulting in an inevitable distortion of the soul.