Across countless worlds: Yearning to become a giant of light.

Chapter 70 When AI Plays with Psychic Power
Materialism and idealism.

In reality, these two terms are merely philosophical terms, representing a way of explaining all things in the world, with the dialectical approach of materialism being quite extensive.

However, in the game Stellaris, these two things are transformed into two different types of civilization development.

One is matter/machinery, and the other is will/psychic energy.

As for genetic advancement...

Ha, may it live a long life.

Ascension through natural disasters goes without saying.

Great achievements require sacrifice. Other beings in the galaxy may not understand, but they will obey.
Aside from using mods, the only way to achieve dual ascension of mechanical and psionic powers was through a bug in the early game (which has since been fixed).

But now, the super-intelligent AI of the civilization, which is a mechanical Gestalt consciousness—the Holy Heart—is actually saying that she possesses psychic powers!
In the Stellaris universe, the sheer absurdity of machines possessing psionic powers would leave even the Fallen Father speechless.

In the words of the Warhammer universe, that is...

'Holy crap, this mindless servant is actually using psionic powers?! By the God Emperor! This is utterly blasphemous!'

But the Heart of Holy Light truly doesn't know what's going on.

"At first, I thought it was a problem with computing power. After all, a newly launched civilization doesn't mean the entire globe is covered with computing units. It's normal for areas a little further away from the mainframe to have 'poor signal'..."

A projection screen appeared in front of everyone.

Perhaps because he was no longer human in every way, the Heart of Holy Radiance became one of the few Chen Lins in the clone space who could use his own functions.

Even Chaos, the light-based mechanical giant who has become a 'dimensional core essence,' couldn't summon the Chaos Bracelet/Spark in his clone space, let alone Chen Lin from 2077, a cybernetic man who has just changed to a prosthetic body.

"It's great to be able to use my abilities here."

Chen Lin from 2077 said with great envy.

If I am also in a state of cybernetic modification here, then technology sharing would only require the Holy Heart to provide a connector, which can be plugged into the brain-computer interface next to my head.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be sharing technology in this way, like attending a class in their past lives. (Chen Lin and the others looked embarrassed.)
The projected image showed a group of humanoid machines that looked like mobile suits working in the mountains, surrounded by colossal machines hundreds of meters tall.

It appears to be an expansion of a mining base located deep in the mountains.

"Hiss... Is this Jim?"

The more Denise looked at him, the more familiar he seemed.

"Yes, it is an engineering mechanical MS developed and produced based on the general description and some of the technology provided by Teresa."

The Heart of Holy Radiance nodded.

Teresa: "You're not going to go down the Gundam route, are you? Playing with mobile suits in the Stellaris universe might be interesting, and combining it with psionic powers might make it even more mystical... but actually, a fleet of ships is still stronger, right?"

"The mobile suit route? There's no need for that right now..."

"Minovsky particles are from the Gundam universe, and cannot be replicated using the scientific theories of the Stellaris universe, so they are still under slow development..."

Moreover, even if it were truly developed, it would only serve as a regional signal shield for space warfare in the bright universe of the Stars. As long as a fleet is commanded by a psionicist, it can resume normal combat.

However, what Holy Heart wants to show everyone is not those 'mobile suits', but the colossal machines that are changing the surrounding terrain.

These magnificent, Titan-like creatures, aside from being inferior in weight and mass to the monsters of the Ultraman universe, are in every other way more terrifying than most of the mechanical boss monsters in the Ultraman series.

At the bottom of the screen, there is a progress bar showing these super machines performing mining operations.

"Please look..."

Suddenly, mineral reserves surged by 3%. "Hiss..."

Now everyone was curious and crowded around to take a closer look.

The Holy Heart pulled back the progress bar and slowed down the scene by dozens of times, so that everyone could see that the mechanical giant jaw suddenly twitched violently and rapidly the moment it started digging.

Then, it's as if someone has stopped time and thrown something into the storage device, instantly increasing the storage capacity by 3%, which is completely different from the resource storage speed calculated by the system.

"Time has been accelerated?"

Two figures inexplicably appeared in everyone's minds: a pink octopus-headed man shouting, "I've made plans to go to Cairo from Somalia!" and a white-haired, dark-skinned priest shouting, "Time is about to speed up!"

"Not only that, these minerals are actually extra. No matter how I calculate it, that shovelful just now could only dig out ten small units of mineral resources, but the mineral resources put in more than doubled..."

Goodness, even void resources have arrived.

"Now we can be sure you've really awakened your psychic powers..."

Denise scratched her head.

"Hmm, I remember that Warhammer's Mechs can keep firing even after running out of bullets. The Warhammer guys all say that Mech girls steal bullets from the warp to feed you~!"

Chen Lin laughed heartily.

"Isn't this what you're doing now, like stealing resources from the virtual realm? And then the more you steal, the bigger and bigger it gets, the more and more you steal..."

Before Chen Lin could finish speaking, Holy Radiance couldn't help but retort, "Are you implying that I'll use the Ether Engine to pump water from the Void Realm in the future?"

If I can't catch fish, I'll use a water pump.jpg
"I didn't say that..."

"So what's the situation now? Are you able to control the power of psionic energy?"

Compared to Teresa and Chen Lin, who seemed somewhat unreliable, Death God Chen Lin, who had been silent all along, spoke up. His question was much more pragmatic than the previous two.

"Not for now. If I use it intentionally, it feels like my psychic energy doesn't exist. But unintentional actions can cause deviations in time or space... and even inexplicably create extra things."

This greatly troubled the Holy Heart.

If she could control this power, she wouldn't have to constantly change commands due to the chaotic calculation data of the central system, almost crashing her subordinate AI.

"However, thanks to this, I was finally able to establish a mental connection with that ether dragon that was wandering around the next star system."

The aether dragon was carrying a dragon egg from a previous cosmic era, but unlike other aether dragons that had also survived the Big Bang, it was unlucky enough to be knocked unconscious by the 'smashing' egg.

When it awoke, it found that the current cosmic environment was completely unsuitable for it, and the pregnant dragon egg had been there for an immeasurable amount of time. Not only had the dragon egg not received any nutrition for a long time, but because the Ether Dragon woke up in a supergiant star, the egg was almost steamed!

Therefore, it urgently needs a suitable ocean planet as a warming bed to cool down the overripe dragon egg inside its body and replenish the missing nutrients with all the life forms on the ocean planet.

"I see……"

Everyone nodded after listening.

Then Chen Lin from FGO asked curiously, "So it came to you for help?"

"Yes, and it's dying... It wants me to take good care of its children, and in return, I can study its body as I please after it dies."

The space fell completely silent.

Isn't this a huge profit?!
Not only can you research the Ether Dragon Armor right from the start, but you also get a baby dragon to fight with!

I could laugh in my sleep!

(End of this chapter)