Chapter 40: Earth's Mightiest Human

"Dawn, adjust the satellite's observation lens to focus on His Majesty. I want to admire His Majesty's heroic appearance." Jupiter returns to her personal office, her face expressionless, as she issues orders to Morning.

"Jupiter, you're quite hypocritical... Hehe," Dawn chuckles seemingly innocently and, following Jupiter's command, adjusts the satellite's lens to focus on H'el's psychic energy form, starting the broadcast of this battle.

"Dawn, show me His Majesty's location."

"Dawn, I want to watch His Majesty's battle."

"Dawn, play His Majesty's footage."

"Dawn, who's attacking His Majesty?"

The mayors of cities like New York, London, Paris, Toronto, Milan, São Paulo, Mexico City, Chicago, and most members of the Human Self-Defense Heroes have the authority to access Dawn satellite surveillance. They know that Edward will take action against H'el, and they all instinctively command Dawn to activate satellite surveillance to watch this battle.

The Human Psychological Team had long dissected H'el's psyche.

They knew they'd been discovered long ago.

Yet, they weren't killed directly.

Apart from their stellar city management, there was also the Emperor's desire to broadcast superpowers and use human ingenuity and inspiration to create more superpowers and applications.

He collected data on superpowers, utilizing Earth as an experimental playground, using humans.

The Emperor and the upper echelons of the H'el Empire had reached an unspoken understanding.

This understanding was maintained by humanity.

"Edward Jorton, you truly are the most outstanding human on Earth!"

H'el sighed in his heart, then expressed his admiration with satisfaction.

He spent three months lying in the International Space Station, during which he continuously researched the applications of psychic powers. In those three months, his brain was capable of reading all published medical books in under five minutes, mastering knowledge that would take an average person ten years to learn.

Regarding psychology books on human behavior, thoughts, and ideas on Earth, he meticulously read them all, applying them to his psychic abilities, developing every possible application of psychic powers.

H'el had never considered the notion of leaping into the hearts and minds of humans, thereby generating a massive psychic tide.

Why hadn't he considered it?

Because only the weak need a springboard.

Those who can't arrive directly through psychic means need to hop from one person's psyche to another, arriving before their target, facing their target.

H'el still praised Edward for having such thoughts.

It's these diverse perspectives, wisdom, and flashes of inspiration that make H'el feel radiant and joyful.

The psychic power drawn and manipulated by Edward, surpassing hundreds of millions, seemed to merge with the swirling sandstorm, slightly revealing Edward's face.

"All the cheers, praises, worship, envy, curses, insults, desires... Everything directed at you from the hearts of over five billion people, forming a psychic tide spanning a quarter of the Earth, will bury you in this sea of sand!" Edward became an arrowhead, leading the colossal psychic tide, akin to a tsunami, rushing towards H'el.

All the cheers, praises, worship, envy, curses, insults, and desires, like particles in an overdrive particle flood, carrying complex emotions regarding H'el, were led here by Edward, crashing towards H'el.

H'el stood tall on the palace, feeling the immense psychic tide like a colossal tsunami, with each particle shimmering and radiating emotions related to him.

It was truly a breathtaking spectacle.

"You truly are the master of human psychology!" H'el exclaimed, unable to contain his admiration, floating above the palace to welcome the incoming psychic tide.

This was a battle in the realm of the mind, unrelated to the physical world.

H'el's psychic abilities were stronger and more finely controlled than anyone else's.

Psychic combat should be a battle of exceptional skills, so H'el didn't engage head-on but instead danced within the psychic tide. In an instant, he learned Edward's technique of using psychic jumping boards, elegantly dancing amid this massive, emotional maelstrom.

H'el learned all of this with a single glance.

The difference was that Edward's psychic tide still required commonality of thought among people, using shared objectives to create the psychic tide. In contrast, H'el, as a singular individual, could create a psychic tide by himself, and it didn't require commonality; he could make others' minds into points of psychic ripples within the tide, arranged seamlessly and penetrably.

In a blink, he improved the psychic jumping board and the application of the psychic tide, making them more perfect and powerful.

This was the brilliance of human wisdom and inspiration.

There would always be room for improvement.

"In the realm of the mind, no human can stand against you," Edward sincerely sighed.

"I can say the same thing to you." H'el also genuinely praised, "Your ideas are impressive; I look forward to the next encounter."

Transmission of information through the mind took almost no time. Edward's assault had not ended; he attacked while transmitting information through his mind.

"There won't be a next time."

"In the realm of the mind, you are unrivaled; in the realm of the physical, your body is invulnerable. But even with the power of a god, you're still just a person. In a corner you didn't notice, you've already lost!"

"The psychic tide was merely the beginning, luring you into the trap. The psychic tide points surrounding you from all sides were constructed for your demise."

"Between the realms of the mind and the physical, there's another dimension of false reality!"

"It's something you never noticed, a dimension of tangible reality!"

"The dimension of dreams!"

"You've fallen into it. The first layer is ten times the external time flow."

"The second layer is a hundred times the external time flow."

"The third layer is a thousand times the external time flow."

"The fourth layer is ten thousand times the external time flow."

"The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth... You'll disappear in the tenth layer, in a time span longer than the universe itself!"

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