Chapter VIII Principles of Statecraft

As soon as Madonis arrived at the Supreme Council, he received the news of the attack on the temple, and Otalys took Madonis to attend an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council and went down to the underground bomb shelter to take refuge.

It wasn't until the news that the temple had been destroyed, the relics had been stolen by the Fanged King, and the rest of the people were safe and sound, that Otalis and the others breathed a long sigh of relief, and everyone returned to the council hall together.

'Madonis, you are the last to leave the temple, do you have any special discoveries? Otalys turned to Madonis, who was sitting next to him, for the attack had come suddenly and by chance, and he suspected that the Fanged King was nearby.

'Your Excellency the Consul, I bid farewell to the Supreme Protector upon receipt of your message, and I have not found anything wrong along the way. Madonis thought about it and shared the memory with everyone present, who shook their heads to indicate that they had found nothing.

'Your Excellency, I suspect that the Fanged King has used some secret method to spy on us. One of the elders offered his opinion, "No, judging from the battle records that came back from the scene, it is impossible for the Fanged King to hide from His Excellency the Supreme Protector if he uses a secret method. Otalis dismissed this conjecture.

'Your Excellency, I suspect that the Fanged King has sent his men into our midst. Another elder offered his opinion, 'No, now that we have Kara connections, there's no way anyone can get in with us. Otalis dismissed this outdated conjecture.

'Your Excellency, I suspect that the Fanged King has absorbed the memories of one of the Councillors. An elder who had participated in the War of the Ages offered his opinion, "No, we are different now, with Kara's protection, it is impossible for the Fangs King to absorb our souls and memories. Otalis dismissed this overly concerned conjecture.

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'Your Excellency, I believe that the Fanged King used the legendary monitor. An elder who was engaged in the excavation of artifacts made a novel suggestion, 'Oh? Monitor? When Otalis heard about the monitor, he also found a description from his memory, "Most likely, now that the Star Spirit Empire has just been established and is in ruins, our technological level has not yet recovered to the level of the Great War, and if the Fang King once devoured the memories of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, it is not difficult to understand why he would use that ancient spaceship." ’

Otalys sighed slightly, "It's ridiculous that we've all forgotten about our old technology, and that our enemies have used our former pride to defeat us." ’

At this moment, Adelaide ran in from outside the door and reported to Otalis: 'Your Excellency, Lords, Legislators, the Arden Administrator has arrived. ’

'Please come in, Lord Arden. Otalys nodded to Adelaide, and soon Arden was led to the council hall by Adelaide, and Adelaide saluted after completing his mission, and Arden took his seat after greeting everyone present.

'Arden, you have come just in time, just now, Elder Karim reminded us that it is very likely that the Fanged King used the monitor from the Empire of Light to spy on us, and I hope you can remove this hidden danger as soon as possible. Otalis relayed the memories of the meeting to Arden and instructed him to send the Templars to find out the matter.

'In obedience to your commands, Your Excellency, the purpose of my visit is precisely for the sake of these ancient technological creations. Arden nodded and saluted, and then stated the purpose of the trip.

'The Fanged King's two surprise attacks, one destroying the Empire of Light and the other stealing the relics of Kedarin, have shown us that we must not be complacent, and that we cannot learn only one or the other, that our enemies will take advantage of any of our weaknesses and defeat us when we are weak. Arden transmitted the memories of his previous discussions with Lohana and Tardarin to the crowd, and proposed a policy of governing the country by synchronizing the practice of science and technology and walking on two legs.

'You're right, Arden, when we were technologically advanced and our cultivation was backward, the Fangs King used our powerful cultivation to defeat us, and when our cultivation was strong and our technology was backward, the Fangs King used the power of technology to escape, and all this was related to our pride and complacency. Not only must we practice technology and psionic powers, but we must also be cautious and humble at all times, and we must not allow the Star Spirit Empire to fall into darkness and evil again! After receiving Arden's memories, Otalys agreed with Arden's views and ideas.

In the ensuing discussion, the Star Spirit Empire confirmed the next path of statecraft, focusing on both cultivation and technology. Establish a Templar Archive to inspect and educate Templars in their practice and further improve the Kara Way; Establish the Imperial Academy of Engineering, co-opt those who love technology, give them the position of Kale, the same rank as the Templars, encourage scientific research, and even add a seat to the High Council.

After the latest directives from the Supreme Council, the entire Astral Empire began to operate, with the Templar Path for those who love combat and practice, and the Kalai Path for those who love engineering and technology, and the Astral Empire has taken its own unique steps with the support of two legs.

However, there is a small episode here, after the order was given, the Templar Archive raised the question of how to define the psionic level? This seems to be a very easy question to answer, but it is not very simple to study carefully.

Therefore, this question quickly became a huge controversy, some people said that the newborn of the Star Spirit clan was positioned as a level, but soon some people retorted that each newborn had a different level, and these arguments naturally attracted the attention of the Supreme Council, and after they asked the Supreme Keeper and did not get an accurate answer, this question caused a discussion in the whole society, and almost everyone believed that their opinion was correct, even if they had Kara, they could not solve this point.

In response to this simple but important question, the three Lohanna sisters prayed to Cass in the rebuilt temple, hoping to receive the revelation of the gods, and after receiving this message from his divine seat, Savasein was surprised to find that his cultivation seemed to have become stronger, and realized that the solution of this problem would affect his cultivation, and realized that it was not simple, and he found Al.

After understanding the cause and effect, Al also shook his head and smiled, this existence like the basic unit of weight in physics will of course affect Cass as the god of order, so Al personally condensed two Kedarin crystals that will never change and gave them to Lohana, and told them that the larger one can detect the psionic level of life, and the smaller one contains a first-level psionic energy.

According to the oracle, spiritual energy is divided into one to twelve levels, and above twelve are demigods, the so-called demigods, refers to half-step gods, or god preparation, demigods are already the strongest people that can be accommodated in the real universe, and they are only one step away from ascending, and the life that becomes a demigod will gradually immortalize their souls, even if the body dies, they can still survive in the world.

In this way, the division of psionic levels became clear and clear, and many people were eager to try to measure their psionic levels. The Imperial Academy of Sciences also took great interest in this testing mechanism, but due to the current level of science and technology, it was difficult to obtain any useful information, so it had to painstakingly study the nuclear physics reactions inherited from the Bright Empire.

After a national test carnival, the strongest people in the entire Star Spirit Empire are the three Lohana sisters who are the supreme preservers, all three of them have reached the seventh level of psionic energy, and Lohanna is even closer to the eighth level, and below them are Arden and Tardarin, both of whom have reached the sixth level of advanced level, and the elders of the Supreme Council are basically at the fifth level, and as the supreme prefect, Otalys is actually only level four, it is obvious that his busy work has affected his cultivation, and the average Templar has three to four psionic levelsSurprisingly, the Calles also have universal fourth-level psionic abilities, and it seems that the study of technology will not affect the cultivation of psionic abilities, which has once again attracted a wave of wavering star spirits to join Kalai's team.

In this way, testing the psionic level became part of the Astral Rite Rite of Passage, after which the young Astral Spirit would choose whether to become a Templar, a Kale, or a freelancer, noting that the artists and writers of the Astral Empire were also Templars, but were not good at hand-to-hand combat.

In the first year of the Kara calendar, the Star Spirit Empire was founded, and in the same year, the relics were stolen.

In the 20th year of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering developed a detection satellite and began a global search for the traces of the Fanged King, but to no avail.

In the 80th year of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering developed a manned rocket, which failed and crashed on the return, but the astronauts flashed away in time and were unharmed, but the manned spacecraft program was shelved.

In the 100 years of the Kara calendar, the average population of the empire reached level 6, and the highest reservers reached level 9.

In the 120th year of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering restarted the manned program and successfully landed on the El satellite Shalok, and the astronauts relied on their seventh-level psionic energy to freely explore the surface of the satellite, and found no trace of the Fanged King.

In the 140th year of the Kara calendar, Otalys elected Madonis as the consul and returned to his home to retreat, claiming that he would not break the ninth level and not leave the level.

In the 150th year of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering developed a nuclear-powered spaceship, and basically confirmed that the Fangs King launched a nuclear-powered spaceship that year, and speculated that the Fangs King's spacecraft should have crashed due to lack of energy, and searched the world again, but did not find any traces.

In the 200th year of the Kara calendar, the average population of the empire reached the psionic level of eight, and the highest preservators reached the psionic level of twelfth.

In the year 210 of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering perfected a nuclear-powered spacecraft, powered by fusion reactors, and able to fly to the rest of the planet, but it was temporarily shelved because the flight speed could not exceed the speed of light.

In the year 250 of the Kara calendar, the Imperial Academy of Engineering developed a faster-than-light engine to convert fusion energy into psionic energy, breaking through the limitations of time and space, but due to energy supply and conversion problems, it could only sail within the solar system, and in the same year, the Supreme Council approved the exploration and colonization plan; Shantila and Orana fail to break through the demigods for the first time.

In the 300th year of the Kara calendar, after the exploration of the solar system was completed, no trace of the Fanged King was found, the star spirits set their eyes on the endless starry sky, and in the same year, Shantila and Orana successfully broke through the demigods, and Arden and Tardarin reached the twelfth level of psionic energy.