Operational command room.

The middle-aged nun's words made everyone's eyes turn to a certain young man in the corner, who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with blond hair and 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's face was not the slightest joy, on the contrary, his face turned pale, his expression was slightly panicked, and he opened his mouth to refuse, but after being pulled by a middle-aged man next to him, he swallowed his words back.

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

Once he inherits the throne, he is destined to lose his freedom, because only the emperor can connect to the empire's psychic harmony device, which is a stabilizer of the psychic suppression barrier, and the original function is actually used to build a spiritual network and connect the legendary [Limpla], but after the failure of the psionic ascension, it was transformed into a psychic protection barrier, which can greatly strengthen the emperor's psionic energy ceiling, but it also means that the emperor himself is more severely affected by the psychic whispering.

The members of the royal family are already extremely sensitive, and if they connect this device again, 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, and Prince William preferred to be a salted fish who was free and idle to inherit the throne.

At the very least, he can live like an ordinary person.

But it is a pity that no one cares about Prince William's attitude at all, and after learning that Empress Isabella has appointed an heir, the others are obviously relieved.

The empire cannot do without an emperor now.

The aftermath of the failure of the psionic ascension still affects everyone, and only the Emperor can stabilize the spirit of the people of the Empire, allowing them to regain their rationality against the ubiquitous whispers of the mind.

Here we must briefly talk about the Void.

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

It also seems to be one of the sources of psionic energy.

When a race's idealistic ideology reaches the full level, and the spiritual awakening begins to spread to all people, they can choose to carry out a racial leapfrog civilization process - [Spiritual Ascension].

But the ascension of a race is not so easy.

Some of the lucky races can succeed, while some of the less fortunate ones fall directly in the process of ascension, just like the Empire.

The most important step of the Empire's psionic ascension plan is [Transcendent Sanctification], which literally means, awakening the deepest power of the heart, stepping into the realm called [Sage] [Chosen One], and then listening to the whispers from the void.

The first emperor of the empire, Edward I, was the Sage.

What he has to do is to gather the spiritual energy of the entire race, and through special rituals to form an extremely powerful spirit body that exceeds the boundaries of the material plane, and thus enter a dimension composed entirely of pure spiritual energy, this place is the legendary [Void Realm].

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

But the Void is not a safe place, let alone a paradise that can be given casually, in addition to the guides who have good intentions to guide people to ascend, an extremely powerful consciousness body, similar to the existence of gods, there are also many unknowable subspace life forms, some of them are terrible evil gods, or some indescribable horror monsters.

Only with the right guidance in the Void can the entire race gain access to higher-order psionic knowledge and spread this favor to all.

Once successful.

The entire race will form a qualitative leap and directly enter the realm of higher civilization.

However, if it fails, the result will be the same as the current empire, and a strong civilization may be destroyed in an instant.

The Spiritual Harmony Device in the deepest part of the Imperial Capital was originally used to connect the Void Realm.

It can be understood as an artificial 'alayya consciousness', that is, a collection of human pan-consciousness, dominated by the emperor's powerful spirit body, and eventually formed a very powerful spirit body, a spirit body that can move freely in the void.

Of course.

For more than 3,000 years, the device has never been fully activated, and it is now only a protective barrier.

The fall of the empire began with Edward I's return to the real world from the void, and no one knows what kind of existence Edward I signed a contract with in the void.

But.

It is rumored that there is another obscure record in the interior of the royal family, which is named [Whisper of the Void].

After Edward I returned from the Void, ominous signs began to appear throughout the Empire.

The aristocracy became more and more degenerate, indulging in luxury pleasures and pleasures, and did not care about the life or death of the people at the bottom. At the same time, a strange madness began to spread within the empire, and at first no one cared, and those who went mad simply succumbed to their own desires and became slaves to their desires, or bloodthirsty, or greedy, or lustful, these characteristics were already evident in the nobility, and almost no one deliberately pursued anything.

Until a certain day.

When the converging negative desires begin to explode in a concentrated manner, even affecting the Empire's psychic apparatus, an extremely terrible catastrophe befalls you.

The Psychic Harmony Device is a shared device.

It is able to connect the spirits of the Imperial people to a certain extent, and store the excess spiritual energy into the Alayya consciousness body, forming a stable void spirit body.

in this state.

The Emperor of the Empire will theoretically have a near-infinite psionic value, even if the Emperor's psionic level is only level 7, he can continue to output psionic energy without limit according to the standard of a level 7 psionic, which means that the Emperor's psionic value is unlimited.

He may not be able to use more advanced psionic spells, but as long as he can cast them, it's endless.

As long as the spirit can withstand it, 10,000, 100,000, 10 million spells are not a problem.

So.

One day, when Edward I also contracted madness, a terrible disaster struck.

This time.

The survivors of the empire realized the explosion of psychic whispering, and they found that the strange whispering began to gush out of their hearts, making people shudder, gradually going crazy, and losing control.

The current psychic attunement center has turned off 90% of its power.

Empress Isabella only serves as a stabilizing mental suppression barrier, and the spirits that the empire once gathered in the void have long since disappeared, and I don't know if it dissipated naturally or was devoured by some monster.

Anyway, the original generation has long since died cleanly, and only the remains of a former king are still hovering on this planet.

A failed psionic ascension.

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

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