The courtyard.
Lillie and Gladion noticed Indeedee standing at the edge of the training field, looking straight up at the sky.
│ "Indeedee? Did you see Mr. Bai?" Lillie asked as the two walked over.
│ "Fuu~"
Indeedee pointed upward.
Lillie and Gladion looked up.
Nothing.
│ "Did Mr. Bai go flying with Nergigante? Hmm… no, that's impossible, I just saw Nergigante on the rooftop."
Of all Bai Chen's partners, only Nergigante could fly.
Just as confusion spread between them, a black silhouette dropped from the sky at terrifying speed.
│ "That's—? Mr. Bai!?"
Bai Chen was plummeting.
│ "He's going to hit the ground!"
Lillie rushed forward, even stretching out her arms as if she could catch him.
BOOM—!!
He stopped just ten centimeters above her.
The falling wind blew Lillie's hair wild.
Bai Chen stared at her helplessly.
│ "You're not afraid of dying, are you?"
Lillie opened her eyes—
Bai Chen floated above her, suspended in midair.
Her face lit up.
│ "Mr. Bai, you can fly!?"
He adjusted his angle, hovering a bit more smoothly.
│ "Yeah. I developed my mental power a little, and now I can use psychic power to fly."
│ "That's amazing!" Lillie said, genuinely happy for him.
Gladion's jaw nearly dislocated.
How… how was she so calm about this!?
"Develop my mental power a little → can fly."
What kind of monster said things like that?
Bai Chen landed and asked:
│ "Why were you two looking for me? Something wrong?"
Lillie remembered her purpose.
│ "I'm returning to school today. I wanted to tell you."
She hadn't gone to school the whole month she stayed at the Foundation.
With the whole faba incident, she wouldn't be working for a while.
She missed her classmates, too.
│ "I see. I'm busy right now—Nergigante can accompany you."
Lillie had recovered her memories yesterday.
She still wasn't fully over her trauma,
but at least she no longer froze the moment she touched a Pokémon.
And Nergigante—Lillie never stiffened around her.
│ "No need to trouble her—"
│ "Special circumstances. As your bodyguard, I need to take this seriously."
He summoned Nergigante, handing Lillie's safety over temporarily.
Nergigante hopped onto Lillie's shoulder, chirping confidently.
Once the two left, Bai Chen returned to testing his Psychic.
At the expert level, his Psychic had grown immensely.
He could comfortably lift around 200 kg, enough for steady flight.
But after careful observation, Bai Chen discovered:
Psychic greatly boosted sustain,
not raw output.
He had spent an hour flying at full speed.
He was merely slightly tired.
Mental Source Stream constantly refilled his mental stamina.
He lifted the Hidden Pair Blade—111 kg.
Heavy, but manageable.
Bai Chen attempted to swing the Hidden Blade using his psychic power.
Good news:
The sword could be swung.
Bad news:
It swung very slowly.
When he struck a training dummy—
CLANG.
A shallow cut—barely 1–2 cm deep.
│ "A rarity-5 blade only making a scratch… this power is too low."
He analyzed.
Weak output = Psychic strength insufficient.
There were three solutions:
The first and simplest was to have the Tinkatuff reduce the weight of the katana to achieve greater power.
The second method was to level up, increasing his own base stats.
A move isn't necessarily better the higher its proficiency. Even if you are Level 1 and possess a Champion-level or even higher proficiency move, you still won't be able to defeat a Level 50 opponent with only a beginner-level move.
The reason is simple: moves are like multiplication.
For example, a beginner-level move might multiply a certain stat by two, but a Champion-level move might multiply your stat by ten.
When your base stat is only 10, a Champion-level move will naturally provide a massive attribute increase.
However, when comparing someone with a stat of 10 and a Champion-level move to someone with a stat of 100 and a beginner-level move, the one with the higher base stat will naturally be more powerful.
High proficiency moves give Bai Chen the ability to defeat enemies above his level, but they can't make him invincible. Everything still depends on level and base stats.
It's like the spar with Nergigante before: Bai Chen's move proficiency wasn't lower than hers, and his level wasn't lower either, but he still couldn't beat her.
He checked his level.
Lv. 39.
If he leveled up, he might indeed gain a higher level of psychic power, but that path required a lot of time spent grinding.
"Then there's only the third method left: directly using move proficiency points."
Raising Psychic to Master tier would require 17,500 skill points.
He had 90,000+ total…
But spending that much still hurts.
He hesitated.
Then—
│ "Psychic skills never go to waste."
Take the Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo, who is proficient in Psychic abilities.
Its psychic power is extreme, powerful enough to lift skyscrapers, and it can also form psychic barriers to protect itself.
If Bai Chen could raise the proficiency of his psychic power, he would surely be able to generate psychic barriers to protect himself in the future, just like Mewtwo.
If Bai Chen could reach even a fraction of that…
Decision made.
[Super Psychic – Expert → Master]
Just like Nature Force, reaching Master level allowed mental power to take new forms.
He immediately learned the psychic barrier technique—
thin, not enough for dragon charging attacks,
but durable enough to block bullets or SMGs.
│ "But the main point is—this."
He raised the Hidden Blade again.
Slashed.
SHING—!!
The training dummy split cleanly in half.
A crisp, perfect cut.
Bai Chen grinned.
│ "Wielding the Blade with Telekenesis had succeeded halfway!!"
If you want to read more, join my Patreon/kazama677
I will drop 1 bonus chapter for every 30 Power Stones.