Outside the passage, Viscount Eres suddenly felt an extremely powerful surge of psychic energy. If the passage had seemed like a bottomless well moments ago, now it was as if it had suddenly turned into boiling magma. As an experienced astrologer, he knew, of course, that the clash between powerful high-ranking psychics had begun.
Of course, you didn't need psychic abilities to know that. The ordinary Imperial soldiers near the passage entrance had already noticed the temperature rise by four or five degrees. They could even smell a faint trace of sulfur through their helmets' air filters.
Several Lazakan engineers were trembling so badly that their limbs seemed to have gone crooked. It took them more than three times as long as usual to set up a monitoring device and a reconnaissance drone terminal. Then they scrambled back, as if a natural predator were on their heels.
But as an experienced astrologer himself, Eres knew without any surveillance that inside the passage, the only possible opponent Count Baolai could be facing was Natalia Ailinko.
She was a young psychic. Yes, by the standards of the average Saint, she was extremely young. It was said that she had crossed the six-ring threshold that held most psychics back when she was just twenty-four.
Of course, that had been ten years ago. No one could say for certain what level she had reached since then. But the whole Galactic Empire knew that the mad woman from Earth, despite having received the strictest training and esoteric education, was a genuine genius forged on the battlefield.
She honed her skills and advanced her realm through blood and fire. Compared to this "Red Asura," the Starrealm Knights could pass for harmless academics.
Count Baolai was certainly an experienced, courageous, and resourceful veteran of a hundred battles.