Chapter 374: Alpha-Class Psychic
Gu Hang never dared to underestimate the state religion. Although they did not have nominal military power, their greatest weapon was influence. But this thing was inherently terrifying.
If the Pope of the state religion, or a particularly influential cardinal, were to really get angry and declare a person or place to be a heretic, or make claims on an area occupied by aliens or chaos cults, then it would very likely lead to the start of a holy war.
The Bishop's subordinates may not have conventional armed forces outside the Sisters, but they can call on all the governors and imperial military forces of several star regions in the name of "holy war".
And when they wanted to do so, they often succeeded. There are many examples of this in the history of the empire.
This is not power, order or compulsion, but the appeal brought by influence.
But it is precisely this influence and appeal that makes governments at all levels in the empire, from the central to the local, quite vigilant.
My goodness, after the state religion caused political turmoil that affected the entire empire, they had layer upon layer of tight hoops put on their heads, but now they still have such a strong influence.
Who isn't afraid of this?
In places where the state religion is strong, leaving aside those government officials who have the faith in their heads, officials under normal circumstances will impose restrictions on this.
Of course, this will lead to contradictions and even conflicts, which will depend on personal means and local conditions.
There was no trouble on Korojia, which made Gu Hang feel much more at ease.
The core reason was that the last war had just ended not long ago, and Gu Hang had gained great prestige and military power, and he was still the commander of the war zone. Bishop Zhao Qinghong was not a particularly strong person. Although he had a good mass base, he was not satisfied with the cancellation of the privileges, but he weighed the compensation given by Gu Hang, such as the promise to support missionary work and the special funding from the Union Government; and then weighed the consequences of the riot, especially the riot without the support of the nuns...
Forget it, let's leave it at that.
As for finding a higher-level organizational structure of the National Education Organization to file a complaint, Zhao Qinghong actually did so.
But it was useless, he knew it. The goal of the complaint was essentially to cry and talk about how difficult it was for him, and the archbishop above comforted him, and that was it.
The higher-level national religious organizations had no intention of taking any action in this regard.
The key point here is that Gu Hang did not touch upon the core interest that the state religion values most: influence.
The state religion can still continue to preach without any restrictions, and the federal government even provides some conveniences.
As long as the number of registered believers does not decrease, it will be fine.
Even as the management system becomes more efficient and clearer, the number of registered believers may increase dramatically.
So what's the big fuss about this?
As for not allowing them to touch politics and not allowing them to have economic privileges - what does it have to do with the higher-level state religious organizations?
The state religion has no plans to control the Pegasus region through influence, nor will it fight for the economic privileges of lower-level sects: they don't give me any money, and they applaud when corrupt elements are eliminated.
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After discussing the state religion, all matters concerning Koroja were on track. All that was left was for time to develop.
Gu Hang needs to wait for Mingyan City to advance step by step according to the planned pace to the level where it can form an internal circulation.
And he himself had some free time.
But this so-called "leisure" is only relative. How can he get real leisure time when he is in this position?
Now that he no longer needs to focus all his time and energy on government affairs, he naturally has other things to do.
He first took a tour of the Storm Kingdom. The warp essence of the Great Unclean One Govaga was still on the high tower of the Kingdom, suffering the baptism and torture of the storm.
Several months had passed, and the subspace essence of Govaga had been almost eliminated. Gu Hang could no longer see the fangs and claws of the little unclean being, only a ball of yellow-green mist remained.
Instead, the country of the Storm God was filled with thunder and lightning.
In the dense thunderclouds, a stronger new life is being nurtured.
The size of the entire Storm Kingdom has almost doubled in recent months.
The essence of Govaga's subspace was decomposed and then devoured, which made the power of the Storm Kingdom even more powerful. After having a greater "subspace authority", the power that the entire Storm Kingdom could call upon also increased significantly.
According to Gu Hang's own estimation, with the current strength of the Storm God Kingdom, if he faced a demon of the same level as Govaja again and dared to invade alone, he would not need to rely on the right time and place, but would have to squeeze the opponent into the crack of the reality curtain and rely on the blows of the real world to destroy the opponent's body and soul.
Now, relying solely on the power of the Storm God Kingdom, we should be able to defeat the opponent.
Even if the Great Demon did not invade alone, but came with his millions of demon troops, the Storm God Kingdom was capable of fighting head-on.
This is not only the result of a significant increase in the power of the Storm God Kingdom, but also the result of Gu Hang's own strengthening.
After defeating Govaga, he had accumulated enough experience to level up.
Although the number of gift points required to upgrade to LV9 reached a terrifying 200,000 points, after many personal experiences, Gu Hang clearly understood that in this universe, the army was important, and a strong top combat force was equally important.
He spent this gift point decisively.
After reaching LV9, his psychic strength has reached S-level under normal conditions, not counting the bonus from the subspace.
This is the highest level that can be achieved in the psychic order, almost one person can form an army. The thunder he summons will be more terrifying than the simultaneous firing of thousands of cannons, and can repeatedly bombard an entire position into pieces; his telekinesis can twist the charging armored cluster into a dough stick; he can use the assistance of an entire psychic mage group to amplify his power, and in the void environment of space, he can affect places more than 100,000 kilometers away and tear apart the cruiser-level void shield...
Gu Hang also has a trump card. Once he tears open the curtain of reality and allows the power of the Storm Kingdom to leak into reality, his psychic power will be taken to the next level and directly reach the S+ level of strength.
In the subspace, Gu Hang, who stayed in the Storm God Country, already possessed the strength equivalent to that of a great demon.
However, this rises to the top.
Gu Hang used to think that it was normal to have 10 above 9.
It doesn't make sense that 9 is the top level, right? Gu Hang still has various events and characteristics to bless him, so he can have S-level psychic strength at LV9. If the psychic strength of his heroes who are activated normally is raised to LV9, it is estimated that it is about A+, at most weak S-level.
However, let's not talk about those records that are a bit like myths and legends. Among the existing people in the Imperial Psionic Order, there are so-called S+-level psionicists. This is a level that Gu Hang cannot reach by relying on his characteristics, and can only achieve by cheating in the subspace. Not to mention, in the classification of the Psionic Order, there are also Alpha-level psionicists who are one level higher than S-level.
A psychic of this level, to put it in an exaggerated way, can shatter a star with a single thought - of course, the premise is that this 'star' has no protection.
In any case, Gu Hang's current psychic power strength, although it can be considered top-notch, is obviously still far from the ceiling. However, in the system, it has reached its limit.
This situation reminded Gu Hang of the dream he had before. The person in the dream said that this was a "very interesting little toy."
A small toy, not presentable, is this what you mean? Because it is just a 'small toy', so there is a ceiling?
This explanation seemed reasonable, but Gu Hang was not satisfied.
He has recently been reading a lot of data collections shared by psychic orders, and even bothered the president of the star zone order, Wang Yuyang, to make a special trip from Feiyi Star to give him the information.
Combining it with his own situation, especially his careful perception of the feelings when he used psychic powers, and self-analysis and research, he had a rough guess.
When psychics use psychic powers, they are not actually using their own powers. They are essentially a "loophole" in the real world, a channel through which psychic powers come into this world with the psychic's soul as an anchor.
Theoretically, a high-level psychic will display psychic powers even without any training, but this power is uncontrollable and can cause terrible damage, and may even become a punctuation mark for evil creatures from the subspace to come into the real world or even tear open a subspace gap.
The controlled psychic can use this power and apply it according to his own talents.
In this sense, the amount of power a psychic can control is predetermined, depending on how big or small his "loophole" is. Acquired training improves the control of psychic power. However, most people cannot reach that upper limit. The psychic power that can be controlled is used; the psychic power that cannot be controlled is intentionally suppressed to avoid losing control. This is the core of psychic training.
The function of the system has always been to provide Gu Hang with "spirituality" and "talent" so that he can better apply and master psychic energy. Without the system, his ability in psychic energy would probably only be around C-level strength, and he would suppress the psychic energy that he could not control and would never be able to show it.
But now, the system has improved his ability to control psychic energy to the point where it cannot be improved any further, allowing him to fully master the ultimate power of a psychic. The system can only improve this much on the [Hero] interface, and it cannot expand Gu Hang's "loophole".
Going further up, to the Alpha level psychics, according to the research definition of the Order of Psychic Powers, that has already exceeded the upper limit of psychic power intensity that a human individual can control.
All beings with this level of psychic talent have no conventional sense of "control", and the loopholes cannot be filled. The surging psychic waves in the subspace will engulf people at this level of talent. As they grow older, psychics at this level will be unable to stop the reckless psychic power, and thus distort into beings that are enough to endanger an entire planet or even cause a larger-scale disaster.
The way the Psionic Order deals with Alpha-level psionicists is to capture them if they can be discovered in the early stages, and then control them in a specially made anti-psionic prison for research, until the anti-psionic prison can no longer control them, and then execute them; if they are difficult to capture, they will be executed directly.
Even if there are a few Alpha-level psychics who can control their power, according to the research of the Psionic Order, this kind of control is only temporary and unsustainable. The human brain will be burned, and the soul will eventually become uncontrollably distorted.
Unless...some people are born with extraordinary talents. That is a very special case and needs to be studied, but it is generally believed that this is related to the Emperor, the most powerful great being in history, who is far stronger than Alpha-class psykers. For example, the legendary Holy Angel and Sage, two demigods among the Space Marines who are famous for their psychic powers.
Now the situation is very clear. Under normal circumstances, Gu Hang's spiritual power has indeed reached its limit and cannot be increased any further.
However, he thought of another way.
Since you think that S-level is the most powerful level of psychic power that humans can normally master, and the level above that cannot be mastered by humans, then I won’t be a... Oh, I definitely cannot stop being a human.
However, Gu Hang also has a unique advantage, which is the essence of the lesser god of the subspace that he masters.
If one wants to break through human limits and master Alpha-level psychic powers, or even reach a stronger level, it is not enough to rely on "loopholes" alone. One must possess the essence of the subspace and become "one of our own" in the subspace.
If he were in the subspace now and had the power to defeat the Great Demon head-on, he would have actually reached the strength of an Alpha-level psychic. Next, he would try to make the essence of the subspace closer to himself, or even embrace it, so that he would gradually have the corresponding strength in the real world.
But Gu Hang still has doubts about this.
If we over-embrace the subspatial nature of the Kingdom of Storms, wouldn’t that be the same as... not being a human being?
Now, he was still a psyker, even if the Grand Inquisitor of the Inquisition stood before him, he was still a legal imperial psyker. But if he combined the essence of the storm, that would no longer work.
Gu Hang also had some doubts about this.
But fortunately, this is not something that needs to be decided immediately.
The current LV9 psychic power, which is equivalent to S+ level strength, is enough. If something serious happens, Gu Hang can use a cheat to temporarily gain Alpha level power, which is not unsatisfactory.
There is still plenty of time to explore ways to touch the ceiling in the future.
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Gu Hang had a lot of gift points on hand. He had directly received 1.3 million gift points after winning the previous battle. At that time, he even felt that he had endless gift points to spend.
Later I found out that it was a complete illusion.
The loyalty training of 40,000 administrative officials cost 400,000 points; his personal upgrade cost 200,000 points.
Almost half gone.
But even though so much money has been spent, these 40,000 people can only be considered an emergency measure at best, and there are still not enough administrative officials.
Later, he would have to keep a large amount of gift points for training the army. He wanted to implement military control in all the hives of Koroja, clean up all the bottom nests and lower nests, and need to guard them for a long time. The current 150 million planetary defense forces are not enough, and Gu Hang does not look down on ordinary planetary defense forces. He wants to eventually transform the entire Koroja army into the "Salvation Army" system.
Let alone expanding the army, just training the existing 100 million troops would cost one million grace points. How could we afford that?
If he really wants to expand his army to his ideal size of 300-400 million, it will be even more impossible.
From this perspective, the gift points are still far from enough.
Gu Hang's expectation that Korojia would be able to significantly increase his monthly income of grace points after being recognized by the system also fell through.
Korojia has indeed been recognized by the system, and Gu Hang can now see it in the panel.
However, the joining of 40 billion people into the alliance not only did not bring about an increase in monthly income, but it actually fell!
Before, Gu Hang's monthly income had reached 7,000 yuan. But the moment Korojia was recognized by the system, this figure dropped to 4,000 yuan, which was only the level of four years ago.
Goodness, Koroja turns out to be a burden, huh?
Gu Hang was complaining in his heart.
This situation was indeed a little beyond his expectations.
Originally, he didn't expect Koroja to provide him with a particularly high income in gift points, even though there were 40 billion people here. But the worst case scenario that Gu Hang had thought of before was nothing more than a relatively low income, and he had never expected it to be a negative number.
But Gu Hang was not panicked at all.
He knew at that time that it was only temporary. It was normal for tens of billions of people with low quality of life, low productivity, and low control to increase in an instant. As various practical problems on Koroja were solved, this situation would soon be improved.
This is indeed the case.
From the time Koroja was recognized by the system to now, in the past few months, Koroja has already migrated hundreds of millions of people to the Alliance's binary stars.
This matter also attracted the attention of Lao Yisi, who had returned to the Star Domain Government and was about to take up the position of Minister of the Interior.
Huge changes in population in a short period of time will certainly cause problems.
She would question, if Koroja continues to export population like this, what will happen when taxes are paid in six years?
At the same time, Gu Hang also had a question. The rapid population growth of the Alliance Twins was achieved through population migration, so how to calculate the tax issue? You can't calculate Koroja based on 40 billion people, and then calculate the Alliance Twins based on the increased population. Isn't that calculating the tax for me twice?
After this communication, Ms. Laois agreed in principle that the alliance would pay taxes as a whole, that is, 4.05 billion tax coins per year.
Korojia has been transformed into a war zone, with a reduction of 4 billion. In the past six years, you only need to pay the Black Arrow Star and the Wrathful Owl Star every year.
However, there will be a follow-up to this matter. The Empire will recalculate the tax rate for each world every ten years, and the next calculation period will be in a year.
At that time, the administrative officials of the star region government will conduct a detailed investigation of the situation of the three planets of the alliance, and finally calculate the individual tax amount and report it to the star region. According to the situation in previous years, the population of Koroja is too difficult to calculate clearly, and I am afraid that it will still be calculated at 40 billion in the end; but the binary star is easier to calculate, and the estimated number of people will be used to calculate it.
The Empire doesn't care whether the population migrates or not. There is no precedent for this. If Gu Hang wants to avoid being taxed twice, if he can manage Korojia in an orderly manner and do a good job of population statistics, and can withstand the on-site inspection of the star district government and the review of the star region government, then wouldn't that be the end of it?
Demographics are clear, and population migration within the alliance will not affect tax calculations - unless the overall development coefficient of the alliance is adjusted upwards.
For example, Feiyixing also has to pay 4 billion tax coins every year, the same as Korojia, but it only has 8 billion people. This highly developed garden world has a development coefficient of level 5, which means that one population corresponds to 0.5 tax coins.
It's simply jaw-dropping.
But at the moment, the alliance should not be adjusted upward.
It’s hard to say what will happen after the next ten years.
Gu Hang was still a little helpless about this result.
Even though he was optimistic, he was still a little unsure that the rule over Koroja could be adjusted to the point where a complete population census could be carried out within a year.
Maybe you will still be unlucky when the time comes.
However, even so, we should not give up because of fear. Population migration should be carried out continuously, even if it means losses.
In fact, this has already worked.
The population relocated to Black Arrow Star and Angry Owl Star has no debuffs and can actually start production immediately.
On the Angry Owl Star, there is still a lot of land that can be reclaimed in the Northern Qinggu area; the Southern Qinggu area can also be reclaimed. The Qinggu Group Army, which has always been organized, has been ordered to move south to clear out the mutant monsters there. A large amount of jungle has been cut down - not all of it, but in a planned way - and the land has been reclaimed.
According to estimates, at least 200 million workers will be needed to develop all the farmland in Qinggu area.
Not to mention, the industrial center of Weixing City is still expanding its production capacity and has a large demand for industrial workers.
According to the calculations of the Alliance Government, it would be very difficult for Angry Owl Star to restore its splendor of a hundred years ago, and the natural conditions would not support it. However, it would not be a problem to carry three billion people.
This is still the premise of not developing into a hive world. In fact, the Wrathful Owl Star can develop one or two industrial hives, which can double the population.
Black Arrow, which has better natural conditions, but has a large ocean area and a small land area, can also accommodate more than three billion people.
If a large-scale migration is carried out according to this goal, the population of Koroja will be reduced by 15%-20%, and the pressure of survival will be much less.
With a large population replenishment, the Black Arrow Star and the Angry Owl Star will develop rapidly.
At the same time, reforms within Koroja, especially in Mingyan City, have begun to show results.
Up to now, Gu Hang's monthly gift point income has returned to more than 7,000 points.
Up to now, it has been eight months since the end of the defense of Mingyan City, and Gu Hang has received more than 30,000 yuan in monthly income alone.
Adding the income from some small-scale battles to suppress the rebellion, Gu Hang now has a total of 750,000 gifts on hand.
Most of it, of course, had to be kept for subsequent preparations. He also had to expand the army and train administrative officials.
However, it is not impossible to take out a part of it and extract some technology.
In the 10,000 yuan range, let’s try out ten consecutive draws first.
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