Magneto was utterly astonished by this. Professor X rarely refused him, especially over something this serious. Charles could not possibly have failed to realize that this would benefit Mutants as well, yet he had still refused.
After the two communicated remotely, Magneto learned that it was not that Professor X did not want to do it, but that he could not. Someone was protecting that patch of land in China.
Simply put, during that early twentieth-century disaster when demons ran rampant, the Chinese had suffered terribly from being lower on the ladder of life. Nearly every demon or ghost that could stir up even a little trouble there could read minds, and quite a few could read minds over a wide area.
The reason that disaster had become so severe was that humanity's initial resistance strategies had been completely exposed. Human intelligence was transparently visible, one-sidedly, to those higher life-form Demon Race and Monster Race creatures. Under such circumstances, no amount of wisdom or strength of will was of any use.
Not to mention that most demons specialized in bewitching people's hearts. Many problems could not be solved merely through strength of will. They opened with hard crowd control—how were you supposed to fight that?
So, ever since that era, the Chinese had been steadily developing technology against mind-reading and mind control, branching from science into magic. Technology like Magneto's Helmet was practically an antique from the World War II era.
The anti-mind-reading and mind-control technology China used now mainly came from Taoism and Han Chinese Buddhism, somewhat similar to Kamar-Taj's sanctuary system.
The difference was that Kamar-Taj had only a few sanctuaries worldwide, while Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries were countless throughout China. They had become energy nodes one after another, jointly forming a vast Web that resisted brainwave