Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 252 The Great Awakening

The girl, draped in an ancient robe, stared at the wreckage before her. After a long while, her lips moved as if she were speaking to someone, before her body vanished into the vast expanse of space.

……

The year is 19873 in the Galactic Calendar.

In a secluded room within the circular world, a psionicist is meditating quietly.

Psychic power is an ancient ability discovered 20,000 years ago, yet humanity's understanding of it remains incomplete. Many scholars are deeply interested in psychic power, racking their brains to develop a series of related disciplines.

According to scholars, psychic energy is a special power that exists only in humans. This power is not a product of the material world, such as the voltage emitted by the brain, but a wondrous thing beyond eleven dimensions. It is elusive, formless, and intangible, yet it truly exists.

Almost all humans possess latent psychic abilities, but only a very small minority are able to harness them. Through psychic powers, these psionicists can acquire abilities such as telepathy, mind reading, matter manipulation, psychic perception, and precognition.

Of course, these capabilities are of little use in this interstellar era where planet-destroying weapons have become commonplace.

Even the mind-reading and mind control abilities that psionicists excel at are rendered useless against the powerful energy shield that can withstand neutron star pulses; psionic energy simply cannot penetrate such high-intensity, dense energy. In fact, these abilities aren't even necessary. Humans, with their highly complex and optimized brains resulting from multiple genetic modifications, are generally capable of resisting a certain degree of mind control.

However, among these numerous psychics, occasionally some extremely powerful individuals emerge, the most famous of whom is that emperor…

Eight thousand galactic years ago, at the end of a six-thousand-year war, a little boy was born on a human planet that had fallen back to the age of cold weapons.

When the little boy was born, he was treated as a god because he possessed incredible psychic powers. His psychic powers were so strong that he could twist any metal at will, and the army on that planet was simply no match for the little boy's power.

After conquering his own planet, he entered the interstellar battlefield, constantly trying to expand and develop his psionic powers. Eventually, his psionic powers could easily warp a spaceship.

In some legends, he even destroyed an entire planet using his psychic powers.

He was the emperor of the First Empire, a figure shrouded in countless legends.

After this emperor's death, the First Empire quickly collapsed, giving rise to the Second Republic. Following this emperor, countless psionicists attempted to reach the same heights he had attained.

As for how to enhance psychic power, scholars have researched many methods, but the core approach is still the same.

Meditation, Zen sitting, quiet contemplation, visualization...

Regardless of what this method is called, by tapping into one's own consciousness, psychics can indeed increase their psychic power. And right now, this psychic named "Paparoch" is doing just that.

The mind of a psychic is filled with countless thoughts and ideas. Psychics are often more intelligent and quick-witted than ordinary people, and their thoughts are far more complex and perceptive. This keen insight allows psychics to perceive the thoughts of other life forms more clearly, as if they have an extra eye called "heart".

Compared to ordinary people, psionicists possess an additional perceptual ability called "psychic perception."

Ordinary people's "mind's eye" is closed, and they are in a daze, so they cannot see other people's thoughts. But the mind's eye of a psychic is open, just like an ordinary person who opens their eyes to see the world in a world full of blind people.

But this ability also brings danger.

We need ears to hear sounds and eyes to see colors.

Only those with ears can be so shaken by loud noises that they feel unbearable pain, and can be startled by the faint sounds of the night; only those with eyes can be stimulated by bright light, and can be dizzy by rapidly spinning images; while the deaf and blind certainly cannot.

Psionicists with "mind's eye" are more likely to sense the thoughts of other beings and manipulate their minds, but they are also extremely susceptible to the influence of these thoughts.

Psionicists often possess empathy that is dozens or even hundreds of times greater than that of ordinary people. They feel sadness when they see others' sadness and joy when they see others' joy. This makes psionicists tend to be kinder.

However, if psionicists go to extremes, their evil will far surpass that of any human.

Therefore, in the training methods of psionicists, it is very important to maintain a clear, tranquil, and detached state of mind.

In this tranquility, Paparoch carefully sensed every subtle change in his own heart.

The calm mind is as peaceful as flowing water, but beneath that tranquility lie countless subtle thoughts that rise and fall. These subtle thoughts flash by in an instant, three thousand thoughts passing through in a single moment. These thoughts may be benevolent or malevolent, and even the owner of the thoughts is unaware of them, but the psychic can perceive them.

By constantly experiencing these subtle thoughts, one can gain a deeper understanding of oneself and ultimately transcend the mundane.

The slightly trembling mind gradually spread outwards, eventually breaking free from the constraints of the physical body, and gently expanding outwards like ripples on water. As it spread, Paparoch could even sense several other different mental fluctuations spreading nearby.

They were nearby psionicists. "..."

"..."

In this intertwining of hearts, all communication is so swift, as if a century has passed in the blink of an eye.

Several psionicists quietly sensed all of this, feeling a tranquility that seemed to last until the very end of the universe. But what must end will eventually end.

"It's time to bring our hearts back."

A certain thought in my mind said so.

Allowing one's mind to linger outside the physical body for an extended period is extremely dangerous. Only in this era, within this psychic habitat specially designed by the Second Republic, do psychics dare to so confidently and boldly expand their minds.

There are far too many psionicists in the entire galaxy who, due to excessive relaxation, have suffered mental breakdowns as a result of unexpected stimulation.

Paparoch agreed with this.

Just as the psionicists were slowly withdrawing their minds, suddenly, as if stimulated by some invisible force, Paparoch suddenly felt that he could no longer control his mind, and his mind, which was shrinking, suddenly expanded.

In any of his previous mental expansions, Paparoch had consciously reserved some reserves as a means of coping with unforeseen events. But this time, Paparoch felt that he had completely lost control of his mind.

It spread outwards freely and endlessly, as if it wanted to reach the ends of the universe...

"not good……"

A thought instinctively surfaced, but the next instant, he was lost in its grandeur...

From all directions, in every space that the expanding mind can perceive, countless minds are erupting violently, generating endless ripples of emotion.

100 meters? 1,000 meters? 100,000 meters? Or perhaps 100,000 kilometers?

do not know.

Paparoch's mind was expanding at an unprecedented speed, but no matter how far his mind expanded, within all the space he could perceive, there was an endless explosion of minds.

It was as if we had returned to the Big Bang of the universe, in which billions of stars were born. However, while the Big Bang of the universe existed in the material world, this Big Bang existed in the mental world, and each star was a once-unconscious consciousness.

Now, these once-ignorant consciousnesses have opened their "inner eyes"...

Unprecedented emotional fluctuations merged together, forming a vast ocean of the soul.

At this moment, billions upon billions of humans in the ring world have converged into a massive consciousness. This nascent consciousness is so powerful that it seems as if the universe itself is merely a thin membrane that would shatter upon the touch of this newborn infant.

The "baby" slowly opened its eyes and saw the fragile universe; billions of humans also "saw" it, and they saw the strange world faintly visible behind the fragile "membrane" of the universe.

then……

The "baby" opened its curious eyes wide, stretched out its finger, and gently touched the thin membrane.

"..."

A faint sound seemed to emerge, and an indescribable hole appeared in the membrane called "outer space." Humanity had finally touched the world that had been deliberately hidden.

……

"On the circular world where countless humans have gathered, in the subtle psionic resonance brought about by the mental power of a large number of psionic beings, an event known as the 'Great Awakening' was born."

"Almost overnight, in every corner of the galaxy, all of humanity awakened the latent psychic powers within them. Telepathy, precognition, matter warping, teleportation... all these abilities were no longer just a dream. And through this power, humanity finally became aware of a world we had never known before—the warp."

"In that absurd and bizarre world, there are no physical rules as we know them. The speed of light is no longer a limitation that binds humanity. Through the subspace, humanity has built a network of subspace routes, connecting every human world in the galaxy."

"The glorious age of mankind has arrived!"

(End of this chapter)