At Tina's shout, an invisible ripple spread out around her. Most of the mercenaries at the edge of the attack range woke up in response.
The awakened mercenaries began clutching their heads and screaming within moments. Their heads hurt like hell—not a dull ache, but wave after wave of crushing pain that made them vaguely feel the torment between life and death.
Medicine claimed that childbirth was the highest level of pain, but that was merely physiological pain. Several kinds of pain ranked above it, one being pathological trigeminal neuralgia, and another being migraines. Those two kinds of pain could truly kill a person. Once they flared up, people would not think of anything else—they would just want to fucking die!
That was exactly how these mercenaries felt now, only magnified several times over! Tina's Mental Attack had targeted their Spiritual Consciousness, and to the Sea of Consciousness, that stimulation was like beating cotton against pain nerves!
Thus, these fellows, who normally would not make much noise even when bullets struck nonfatal parts of their bodies, were now howling miserably. Even if the most valuable treasures were placed before them, they would have felt no attraction at all. Their heads no longer felt like their own—how could they think about anything else?
The pain left these fellows unable to control themselves, and it was accompanied by bleeding. Blood streamed from the facial features of every awakened mercenary! Their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears were all bleeding, and it seemed impossible to stop. The nosebleeds in particular gushed out in enormous quantities.
"Ah...!"
"Damn it! Shoot me!"
Some mercenaries could no longer bear it and even wanted to put a bullet in themselves! Fortunately, Ability Users were watching nearby, so none of them succeeded.
"Medical aid! Hurry, give them medical aid!"