Escape

The wind howled through the night.

"Why are you unharmed?"

Loki's faint smile slightly faded. His yellow-glowing eyes looked toward He-El, revealing a rather shocked expression as he asked in confusion.

He was wielding the Mind Scepter and had unleashed a Mind Blast.

Ordinary living beings had no chance of surviving it.

This was no joke.

In terms of physical energy, although the Mind Scepter's beams and shields were immensely powerful and troublesome for human technology, they were not impossible to deal with.

He-El had already tested that antimatter energy could directly tear through the Mind Scepter's shield.

The Mind Scepter's true power was the control and destruction of the mind. It was utterly devastating, entirely different from those mere energy beams and defenses.

For living beings with thought, spirit, consciousness, ideas, will, intelligence... the Mind Scepter was their absolute nemesis. Manipulating or destroying their consciousness was effortless.

Wielding the Mind Scepter to use mental energy was its true application.

Although controlling Loki to unleash the Mind Blast could only exert part of its power and could not compare to his real body, no living creature should have been able to withstand it.

The fact that He-El remained intact greatly shocked him.

"You used it terribly. Just as terribly as Loki."

He-El spoke calmly. His left arm bent backward at the elbow, and the hand clutching the Cosmic Cube reached behind him.

The thick plating on his back opened, revealing gleaming machinery. Tiny mechanical tentacles extended out and firmly secured the Cosmic Cube to the back of He-El's Atomic Armor No. 2.

He-El had designed his mental defenses based on the level he had once reached as a stellar-class powerhouse.

His mental power had once reached the level of using his mind to interfere with matter and create things from