"You want me to take care of Juliana for you these two days, that's it..."
As the two people left Arete's room after listening to the story, Yin Lisabai, who was stopped by Yang Tianyi, raised her eyebrows slightly after learning the former's true purpose of inviting her, and unexpectedly agreed to his request.
When the two returned to the suite they had just left not long ago, they were surprised to find a rich purple light shining in the meditation room. Taking a closer look, it turned out that Juliana had successfully entered a meditative state that the virtual realm instructor said was difficult for ordinary submerses to achieve.
And the weak psychic energy floating outside her body, as if it could dissipate at any time, is the best proof of little Julie's excellent talent.
"No wonder before we left, Master Aret mentioned Juliana's psychic talent to me again. It seems that he had already sensed that little Julie entered a meditative state at that time."
Yin Lisabai nodded when she heard this, looking at Juliana without much envy in her eyes. Because she knew that with her equally extraordinary talent, it was only a matter of time before she would awaken as a psyker.
For most lurkers, the key to becoming a powerful psyker is not the initial awakening, but the subsequent choice of spiritual path.
Especially after Arete finished telling the legend of the four gods of the virtual realm and the mysterious fifth god, this psyker from the Destiny Empire said that in addition to the five major factions and the virtual realm contractors, there are also people with faith as the source of power. Holy Word psionicist.
Moreover, the master himself has wavered between the prophecy system and the Holy Word system. After all, the successive God-Emperors of the Yondarim Empire are typical examples for Holy Word psykers to refer to.
According to Arete, the connection between the virtual realm and the real universe is far closer than ordinary people imagine. Many existences in the real universe will produce corresponding mapping entities in the virtual realm, and many gods believed in within the Idealistic Empire are among them. one.
For example, the Meteorite Sect, the state religion of the Kingdom of Yondarim, uses the successive god emperors as the incarnation and spokesperson of the Meteorite God in the mortal world. After the death of the God-Emperor, his spirit body will ascend to the virtual realm and merge with the spirits of the God-Emperors of the past to become an important part of the God of Meteor.
For a long time, although the God of Meteor Star still cannot be compared with those ancient gods of the original virtual realm, after the first generation of the emperor of the empire ascended to the virtual realm and established a bridge of communication between the monks of the sect and the gods, at least the objects of belief of the Meteor Star Sect From the beginning of nothingness, it became a tangible entity.
The biggest difference between Holy Word psykers and contractors is this. The former is equivalent to believing in their ancestors, while the latter is trading with the greedy natives of the Void Realm.
To put it simply, the power of the Holy Word psykers is provided free of charge by their own people, while the power of the contractors is provided by outsiders for a fee, so the two states of practice and combat are naturally not comparable.
But after much hesitation, Master Arete, who was still a young man at the time, finally chose the more difficult prophecy system as his major faction, and joined the Void Walker City-State to avoid being involved in the power arising from faith within the Destiny Empire. strife.
As for whether Arete regretted not staying in the Meteor Sect and serving the country with many psychic warlocks during the decades he was away from his hometown, only he himself knows the answer to this question.
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In the low-Earth orbit of Aurora 2, there are dozens of spacecraft docking ports and space stations belonging to different forces. As the actual owner of Aurora 2, the United Earth Council conducts inspections of these space stations from time to time to prevent those with evil intentions from stationing more troops than the quota in the space station.
But among the many space stations and spaceships of civilized empires, there is a special spaceship that is outside the Earth Alliance inspection system. In its decades of hovering, it has never been subject to any boarding inspection, not even routine inquiries. All very few.
There is no other reason than that this huge spaceship, which is eight kilometers high and as majestic as a platinum mountain, belongs to the most powerful force in the galaxy, the fallen empire that calls itself the "Guardian of the Holy Land."
Due to the seclusion policy pursued by the five fallen empires, there is almost no valuable information in the databases of the major civilized empires in the galaxy regarding these existences that have absolute advantages in military power and technology.
The only things that have been recorded are the races and diplomatic concepts of the five fallen empires. In order not to offend these proud guys, various sovereign countries in the galaxy have struck hard at the Star Ocean Community, but when they interact with the fallen empires, they are submissive and hesitant. .
However, compared to the "military isolationists" who are the most difficult to deal with and often talk about genocide and genocide, the behavior of the diplomats of the Holy Guard Empire in the Star Sea Community is relatively mild.
Unless some country with no eyesight puts its mind to the holy land of Gaia with a pleasant environment, the diplomats of the Holy Guard generally will not bully others. Instead, they often issue missions with generous rewards to some weak idealistic empires. Help them take another step forward in pursuing the guidance of the virtual world.
Since the Fallen Empire also has a subtle relationship of checks and balances, the Holy Guard did not choose to send troops to occupy the mysterious Sea of Consciousness on Aurora 2 when they discovered it, but only sent a battlecruiser full of psychic sacrifices. , causing it to dock in the orbit of the planet to demonstrate the supreme authority of the Holy Guard.
Shortly after the United Fleet arrived at Aurora 2, in a room located in the core area of the battlecruiser that could isolate psychic prying eyes in one direction, two psychic priests from the Holy Guard Empire were sitting across the table from each other. There is an ivory chessboard passed down from the human world. The black and white chess pieces on the chessboard have stars flashing on them from time to time. They are of extraordinary quality.
Suddenly, one of the priests stroked the soft long beard on his face, frowned slightly and said: "Those so-called mentors in the Void Walker City-State are using the cracks deep in the Sea of Consciousness to help people awaken their spiritual powers. This is already the case. Is this the fourth time in the month?"
"Oh, these little guys have got into Qian's eyes and can't get out." The priest who was playing chess with him laughed contemptuously and said: "So frequently opening and closing the rifts in the virtual realm, abusing the power of spiritual energy without knowing it, this Isn’t this what our civilization often does when we are young? Don’t worry, young people will always wake up after falling a few times, so don’t pay too much attention.”
"Yeah, that's true."
As soon as the long-bearded priest finished speaking, he picked up a black stone from the chess pot and dropped it on the chessboard. The sudden reversal of the situation immediately made his opponent's eyes wide open, and he concentrated on finding the opponent's loopholes.
After another round of fierce fighting, the long-bearded priest dropped a piece on the chessboard, and then said in surprise: "Five pieces in a row! Haha, I won again!"
"Well, he is indeed a prophet. Even if he doesn't use his precognitive ability, he still has intuition far beyond that of ordinary psychics." The losing priest sighed and threw the white piece back into the chess jar, obviously not intending to play another game. It's a losing game.
The next second, the runes used to enhance perception in the center of their broad foreheads lit up slightly, and the long-bearded priest obviously had a premonition of something. So the two of them looked at each other and quickly walked out of the room, looking at the location of the Sky Eye Order's floating temple on Aurora 2.
"Have you felt it? The flow of spiritual energy near the rift has changed. But the sea of consciousness has always been very docile. This is the first time that it has been so restless."
Facing the questions from his colleagues, the long-bearded priest closed his eyes slightly, and his eyelids that beat rapidly due to the use of his prophecy ability quickly returned to calm.
Looking at the still foggy eyes of his colleagues, he said solemnly: "I have seen many different directions in the fog leading to the future, but there are a few pictures that I can't get rid of."
"What picture?"
The long-bearded priest shook his head when he heard this, saying that he couldn't explain clearly. But one thing is certain, there are some high-level forces approaching deep in the void rift of Aurora 2, otherwise the always docile Sea of Consciousness will never change along with it.
As for the source of this power, it is possible whether it is an ancient Void Realm creature that has survived for thousands of years and is looking for flesh and blood prey, or a Void Realm god who was born in chaos and happened to pass by this place.
But no matter what, they cannot let this power continue to accumulate, otherwise if something happens, the entire Aurora 2 will become a virtual wasteland with no grass and only energy life can survive.
"Activate the weapon system of the Seeker, descend to a safe height, and notify all crew members to enter a state of combat readiness. If there are virtual creatures trying to break into the material world, our Holy Guard should be the wall blocking the front."
As the long-bearded priest issued the order, the tail of the battlecruiser carrying thousands of psykers and hundreds of thousands of domesticated slaves suddenly spurted out blue energy shots.
The surging power of the dark matter thruster is enough to accelerate this war beast weighing hundreds of millions of tons to 99% of the speed of light in a few minutes, but the current situation obviously does not require it to work at full capacity.
Not long after the "Seeker" descended in altitude, the gravity sensor that kept sending out alarms due to large changes in data immediately attracted the attention of all low-orbit space stations.
After discovering that the warships of the Fallen Empire were launched, most of the civilized space stations and spaceships wisely stayed where they were. Only a few patrol ships of the Earth Alliance followed them and connected to the signals sent by the other party. communication channel.
"This is the Earth United Nations Navy destroyer 'Strange'. Why did you suddenly move the battleship? I must warn you that if the height of your battleship continues to decrease, the gravity of Aurora 2 will be affected."
Facing that magnificent warship that could easily destroy an entire fleet, the officers and soldiers of the Earth Alliance navy who had already begun to enter the interception position showed extraordinary courage. At this moment, all the ground alliance battleships stationed in the orbit of Aurora 2 entered a state of combat readiness. No ship left its post without permission or disobeyed orders.
Perhaps he was amazed by the courage of this young civilization. The long-bearded priest changed his previous arrogant attitude when negotiating with the ground alliance personnel, but gently explained through a translator: "I am the 'Seeker' battleship Captain of the cruiser, don’t be so nervous, we will stop the descent at a safe altitude.”
"In addition, if you don't want Dilian to lose the geomantic treasure land of Aurora 2 forever, I suggest you aim your weapons at the direction of the temple of the Sharp Eyes Order. There is a powerful force gathering there that even I can't see through. "
After the priest finished explaining, he didn't care whether the navy of the Earth Alliance believed him or not. He just stood in the bridge, his eyes still fixed on Aurora 2, which was slowly fading away from its purple-red clothes and turning into a blue planet.
In the Sea of Consciousness, which covers 90% of the entire planet's surface, there live countless microorganisms that emit purple-red fluorescence at all times. These microorganisms together form the brain, or consciousness, of the Sea of Consciousness. It can be said that they are an indispensable part of Aurora 2.
Without these microorganisms that are always contaminated with the breath of the virtual world, the miracle of the sea of consciousness will no longer exist.
Now under the pressure of that force, whether intentional or unintentional, microorganisms all over the world are following the wave as far away from the cracks in the virtual world as possible under the instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. This has led to this planetary level. The spectacle of "low tide" appears before everyone's eyes.
