"Come here..."
Realizing this, Lu Ran immediately stepped forward, pulled Kid to his side, and hugged her tightly. The distorted force field around him enveloped Kid and created a certain repulsion against the mental powers around them. It was like an umbrella shielding the tops of their heads, using his own ability to slightly ease the backlash of the mental powers on Kid.
Seeing this, Lu Ran understood an important problem.
Kid possessed both the deficiencies of the First Stage and the characteristics of the Third Stage.
The core element of the First Stage was stability.
The core element of the Third Stage was Mental Plague.
In other words, Mental Plague was actually the limitless expansion of mental power.
The system of ability users was different from the internal energy described in the martial arts novels they usually read for entertainment.
Ability users did not need to find every possible way to enhance their mental level. Once they reached the Third Stage, they could basically break through a limit, exert themselves fully to contaminate others, and gain a method of rapidly increasing their mental level.
When Lu Ran had seen this information earlier, he had wondered:
If it could expand without limit, why had no one ever done so?
Why did all ability users, and even Pollution Sources with self-awareness, still subconsciously control their mental levels?
The answer was actually simple:
The limit of consciousness.
Mental power was a burden. It could strengthen one's abilities, but it also placed a load on one's consciousness.
Once that limit was exceeded, the ability user would be crushed, and their consciousness erased.
In other words, they would lose control.
To some extent, this was the greatest difference between ability users, Pollution Sources, and Mental Monsters.
Neither ability users nor Mental Monsters that