I Want Purgatory

In the virtual space, His Majesty Rusty looked utterly bewildered.

What did it mean for an Eighth Order Technological Civilization to have leaped several levels ahead in the field of Dark Energy?

That was practically a grammatical mistake!

Still, it was no wonder His Majesty Rusty was confused. According to the universe's standard classification, a Ninth Order Civilization had two defining characteristics.

The first was the transition from spatial technology to Dark Energy technology, meaning it had initially opened the door to the field of Dark Energy.

The most representative sign of this was that its warships could employ some simple, single-purpose Dark Energy Attack methods.

The second standard concerned the evolution of individuals. Fundamentally speaking, Dark Energy, one of the universe's foundational energies, was something every living being in the universe could utilize.

But the prerequisite was—

One had to complete a leap in one's life level, becoming an S-Class Dark Energy Manipulator under the Federation's Dark Energy rating system.

It had been said before that below S-Class, one could not actually mobilize and use Dark Energy without a Dark Energy Assisted Calculation Device. Only after completing a leap in life level and reaching S-Class Dark Energy Manipulator could one be considered a true Dark Energy User, equivalent to an Eighth Order Dark Energy User in the universal classification.

Therefore, what Lin Fan had said was not wrong. If classified according to the universe's standard ranks, humanity had neither fully mastered the initial application of Dark Energy—after all, the Dauntless Fleet capable of using Dark Energy Attacks had been obtained by Lin Fan from the system rather than built by the Federation itself—nor did it possess any Ninth Order Dark Energy Users.

Naturally—

It was still an Eighth Order Technological Civilization.

Of course, with the help of humanity's unique