Grand Duke Horton's words appealed to both emotion and reason, painting him as a noble, upright man devoted to his country and its people. They were genuinely persuasive on both counts.
Yet Nie Yun detected something unusual.
Wasn't that little speech... a bit too effective?
He probed carefully and soon detected faint, almost imperceptible ripples of mental power drifting through the air...
At first, Nie Yun thought the Psychic Brutus had brought was trying something underhanded. But after examining those ripples closely, he discovered that their source was someone else entirely!
That person was none other than... the duke who had just delivered that eloquent speech!
Wait... Grand Duke Horton was a Psychic too?
The unexpected discovery left Nie Yun somewhat stunned.
No one had ever reported that Grand Duke Horton possessed psychic abilities. Had this fellow... kept them hidden that well?
Nie Yun carefully examined the traces of mental power.
Judging by its intensity, Grand Duke Horton was no powerful Psychic. In fact, he was so weak that Nie Yun, a master of mental power, had simply ignored its effects. But the nature of his ability felt familiar.
Come to think of it... didn't it feel a little like the Enchantment Technique the Second Prince had used before?
Although Grand Duke Horton's mental power was far weaker than the Second Prince's, its effects seemed remarkably similar to his Enchantment Technique.
Both used psychic interference to influence other people's thoughts, making the user's words more convincing.
If he had to give this ability a name, it would probably be...
Lesser Enchantment Technique?
Naturally, its charisma boost fell short of the Second Prince's absurd, maxed-out hundred points, which made followers fall to their knees in worship the moment he spoke. Still, it was probably worth seventy or eighty points, enough to