Global Transmigration: Empire of the Stars

Chapter 33: Escalating into a Full-blown Fight

“Boom~”

The air vibrated violently, and psionic energy danced, causing fierce energy to scatter. If struck, even a body forged of steel would be torn apart.

Lin Zhichen, who was in pursuit, had to stop. With a casual wave, a psionic energy shield formed in front of him like a barrier.

Amidst the intense vibrations, the clash of their psionic energies generated fierce energy that shot out, tearing grooves into the solid alloy-cement ground.

Flying in the sky, Li Murong noticed that the battle had ended and quietly approached. She was astonished to find that between Lin Zhichen and Liu Manjun, a hundred-meter-long trench had appeared.

The ground was shattered and almost completely plowed, with the high-strength cement mixed with metal powder looking as soft as sand under their psionic bombardment.

“Brutes!” she couldn’t help but stick out her tongue.

At this moment, Liu Manjun had fully retracted her psionic energy, her beautiful eyes showing clear astonishment. “What is your psionic recovery rate?”

Although psionics were said to have unlimited energy and psionic power, each psionic had a limit to their recovery speed.

Once all of one’s power was unleashed in a short period, a temporary lull followed due to the imbalance. At this time, whoever had the faster psionic recovery rate would gain the advantage, and it could be an overwhelming one.

This answer couldn’t be found on the internet. Lin Zhichen hesitated for a moment before countering, “What’s yours?”

“30%,” Liu Manjun replied, giving him a deep look.

If her psionic limit was 100 points, she could recover 30 points per second.

“Mine is 29%,” Lin Zhichen replied without changing his expression.

“Hehe,” Liu Manjun chuckled twice.

“Wow~ Your talent is that good?” The scientist, who had been watching the battle, exclaimed, “According to the Galactic Psionic Association’s research, the limit for psionic recovery rate is 30%.

Over 80% of psionics had a recovery rate that didn’t exceed 10%. Only 0.1% of genius psionics can achieve over 20%.

A recovery rate above 25% was found in less than one in ten thousand psionics. With your talent, you would be considered a genius even in the entire galaxy!”

The Galactic Psionic Association was a pan-civilization organization that spanned the entire galaxy. Its aim was to promote the expansion of the psionic community, enhance their capabilities, and ensure their well-being.

Lin Zhichen faced Liu Manjun’s half-smiling gaze with a blank expression, but inwardly he was relieved.

It was only now that he realized psionics had a recovery rate for their psionic energy, rather than an instantaneous regeneration!

Indeed, his recovery rate was 100%!

What did this mean?

It meant he could completely ignore psionic energy consumption. As long as his psionic energy reserve limit was reached, he could almost endlessly unleash his power. This made him nearly invincible among psionics of the same level!

“Again!” Without any intention of stopping, Liu Manjun’s lightsaber clashed dozens of times in an instant, causing the air to tremble.

By now, Lin Zhichen had realized that Liu Manjun was teaching him some psionic techniques and lightsaber skills. Regardless of her intentions, she was genuinely helping him.

Suppressing his complex emotions, he swung his lightsaber, making the air hum.

Their figures moved like lightning, battling from the ground to the sky and back again within a single breath. In an instant, their lightsabers clashed hundreds of times, with the sky rumbling and the air churning.

In this intense confrontation, Lin Zhichen quickly adapted to the combat between psionics. The speed of his lightsaber counterattacks increased, while the range of his swings decreased. Simply by using psionic energy to release and constrain the plasma beam, the efficiency of his lightsaber thrusts underwent a qualitative change.

It was only then that he understood why psionic troops, despite being flesh and blood, could stand alongside mechanical war fortresses and bio-enhanced soldiers as part of the elite five-star army.

In some respects, compared to mechanical ascendants who abandoned their bodies to preserve their brains in jars, and gene ascendants who forsaken their humanity to become bizarre and varied, psionics, while maintaining their human form, were the most dangerous of the three types of evolvers.

At the beginning, Lin Zhichen was at an absolute disadvantage. But as he began to adapt, his “Heaven Rewards Diligence” talent came into play. Almost visibly, the speed and lethality of his lightsaber thrusts increased. His previously sluggish movements, accelerated by psionic energy, became ghostly swift. A gust of wind, and he was already gone.

The onlookers hidden in the buildings were astonished to find that they could now only see a red blur and a green blur flashing back and forth. In the blink of an eye, the two figures had circled several buildings, with continuous thunderous sounds and bursts of energy tearing through the air, leaving noticeable marks.

This scene was being recorded by Wei Chenglin, who planned to edit it after getting approval, intending to use it as a video to showcase the strength of the Meteor Mercenary Group.

Psionic combat was quite enduring, especially in a lightsaber duel, which consumed relatively little energy. The two fought for over three hours, until at one moment, Liu Manjun’s lightsaber deflected Lin Zhichen’s sword, and she lunged forward, colliding with his chest. It was then that he snapped out of the intricate swordplay.

To his surprise, he realized that over the past three hours, he had actually bested Liu Manjun in lightsaber techniques. In the end, his relentless sword pressure forced her into a desperate, mutually destructive move—if he hadn’t pulled back in time.

“Ugh! How shameless!” Li Murong, who had been watching, gritted her teeth. She saw that the scoundrel had taken the opportunity to give a sly caress, and the two of them ended up entangled, disappearing in a flash of light.

—Only she, with her keen psionic vision, saw the final truth: the two had fought their way into a high-rise villa, and the bright curtains were promptly drawn shut~

The next day, as daylight broke, Lin Zhichen lay in bed, holding a languid beauty in his arms, his emotions inexplicably contemplative.

“That was reckless. How did a fight turn into this?” he couldn’t help but lament inwardly. Needless to say, with this new layer of relationship, it would be even harder to disentangle himself in the future.

“I really am too young, unable to resist temptation!”

The advantages of being a psionic were evident; he felt no fatigue at all, but rather more at ease.

“What are you thinking about?” Liu Manjun traced circles on his chest.

“Thinking about the development of the mercenary group. What level is your Thorny Rose Mercenary Group?” Lin Zhichen asked casually. “How strong is it?”

“It’s a level 5 group, just one step away from completing the military’s advancement task to be promoted to a legion,” Liu Manjun replied lazily.

“Because we weren’t fully prepared, we’ve been putting it off for now.”