080, Another Wave Rises

"Mind Pulse?" Rimuru suddenly sat upright, intrigued. "I remember that being an area-of-effect move, right?"

When it came to psychic abilities, most people probably thought of mind links and mind control—especially mind control. A ten-mana Priest card, paired with WoW, was simply brutal... But for Extraordinary beings, the most disgusting psychic abilities were the impossible-to-guard-against Mind Tear and psychic shock.

Unlike psychic shock, which was an external, defensible ordinary ability, psychic abilities were different.

Powerful mind controllers could directly seize control of someone's mind and order them to self-destruct, but weaker psychic ability users preferred establishing a mind link with you before pouring the impact directly into your sea of consciousness!

It was like suddenly hearing someone speak inside your head, except Mind Pulse was like having a psychic bomb shoved into your brain.

Impossible to guard against.

A powerful Mind Pulse could directly tear apart a person's consciousness and turn them into an idiot, while Mind Pulse was a famous psychic forbidden spell used to destroy and rip apart the consciousness of entire armies.

"It's a group attack, but Hive Mind civilizations almost all have methods for dealing with psychic abilities. According to the client, they seem able to gather all attacked consciousnesses onto a single individual—the maternal consciousness. That way, it becomes equivalent to one person bearing the combined force of the entire pulse."

"In other words, they need a consciousness capable of completely withstanding the amplified attack to block it for her, right?" Rimuru guessed why they had come to him and fell silent for a moment.

He was asking Great Sage whether he could do it.

"Yes. That's why this commission is beyond me—" Lilith spread her hands and elegantly picked up a cup of black tea. "As far as Mind Pulse alone is concerned, I