Chapter 651: Chapter 373, Alpha-class Psychic_3
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Unless… there are exceptions. Those very rare individuals must be studied separately; but generally speaking, it is believed that such cases are related to The Emperor, the greatest existence in history, far surpassing an Alpha-class Psychic in strength. Like the legendary Archangels and Sages, these two Interstellar Warriors known for their demi-godlike spiritual energy prowess.
Now the situation is clear, under normal circumstances, Gu Hang’s spiritual energy has indeed plateaued. He cannot ascend any further.
However, he thought of another path.
If it is believed that Grade S represents the highest level of spiritual energy that humanity can wield, and anything higher is beyond what one can grasp as a human, then I won’t become… Oh, of course, I can’t stop being human.
But Gu Hang does have a unique advantage, which is his grasp of the subspace essence of the Subspace Inferior God.
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To break the limits of humanity and wield Alpha-level spiritual energy, even to a greater extent, relying on “loopholes” alone won’t cut it. One must possess the essence of subspace and become “one of their own” in subspace.
If he is now in subspace, possessing the power to defeat the Great Demon head-on, then he has already achieved the strength of an Alpha-class Psychic. What he needs to do next is to assimilate the subspace essence as closely as possible, even embrace this essence, so that he gradually acquires this level of strength in the real world.
But Gu Hang still has reservations.
Over-embracing the essence of the Storm God Kingdom’s subspace—wouldn’t that mean… no longer being human?
Currently, he is still a psychic, and even if a grand Judge from the Tribunal were to stand before him, he’d still be a legitimate Imperial psychic. But if combined with the storm essence, then it wouldn’t work.
About this, Gu Hang also harbors doubts.
Fortunately, this isn’t a decision that needs to be made right away.
His current LV9, similar to a Grade S+ level spiritual energy, is already sufficient. If there is a big issue, Gu Hang can exploit a loophole and temporarily obtain Alpha-level power, so there’s nothing unsatisfactory.
As for the future path to touch the ceiling, there’s still plenty of time to explore.
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Gu Hang has many points of grace at his disposal. After the victory of that great battle, he directly received 1.3 million points, and at the time, he even felt like he could never spend all these points.
Later on, he found out that this was an illusion.
The loyalty training for forty thousand administrative officers cost four hundred thousand points; his own leveling up cost two hundred thousand points.
Almost half were gone.
But having spent so much, these forty thousand people can only be considered a stopgap solution at best; administrative officers were still lacking.
Furthermore, he had to reserve a large amount of grace points for military training. He intended to enforce military control in all the Nest Capitals of Korolya, clear out the Bottom Nest Districts and Lower Nest Districts, and need long-term fortification. The current 150 million Planetary Defense Force troops were far from enough, and Gu Hang didn’t even see the value in ordinary Planetary Defense Forces. He aimed to eventually reform Korolya’s entire military under the “Salvation Army” system.
Talking about expanding the military, even the training for these 100 million existing troops would cost a million grace points, how could he afford that?
If he truly wanted to expand to his ideal size of around 300 to 400 million troops, that would be even more unfeasible.
Looking at it this way, there truly weren’t enough grace points to go around.
And the significant increase in monthly grace point income Gu Hang was expecting from Korolya after system recognition, also fell through.
Korolya was indeed recognized by the system, which Gu Hang could now see on his panel.
However, the inclusion of forty billion people into the Union did not result in a growth of monthly income, but rather a decrease!
Previously, Gu Hang had reached a scale of seven thousand monthly income. But the moment Korolya was acknowledged by the system, it plummeted to four thousand, back to the level from four years ago.
Good grief, so Korolya was a burden, huh?
Gu Hang complained inwardly.
This situation was somewhat beyond his estimates.
Originally, he did not expect Korolya to provide a particularly high grace point income immediately, not even with its forty billion people. Gu Hang’s worst-case scenario was merely a lower income, but he had not anticipated a deficit.
Yet in his heart, Gu Hang wasn’t the least bit panicked.
At the time, he knew it was only temporary. Suddenly adding hundreds of billions of people with low living standards, low productivity, and poor control was expected to cause such an issue. As the various real problems on Korolya were resolved, this situation would quickly improve.
And indeed, it did.
In the months since Korolya’s system recognition, over a hundred million people have been relocated to the Union Twin Stars.
This even caught the attention of Lois, who was returning to the Star Domain Government to assume her position as the Minister of Internal Affairs shortly.
Massive population changes in a short period invariably lead to issues.
She would question how Korolya could afford the taxes six years later if it continued exporting its population at this rate?
Gu Hang also had doubts. With the rapid growth in the population of the Union Twin Stars achieved through migration, how would taxation be handled? They couldn’t consider Korolya with its forty billion people and then count the Twin Stars with the increased population—wouldn’t that be taxing me twice?
After this communication, Ms. Lois in principle agreed that future Union taxes would be calculated as an entirety, amounting to an annual tax of 40.5 billion Tax Currency.
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