The Mind Stone's True Power

As a member of the Inhumans' royal family and Black Bolt's younger brother, Maximus's greatest abilities were his high intelligence and psychic manipulation.

The reason he had been able to enter S.H.I.E.L.D. as if it were unguarded territory was precisely because of this ability.

The guards who had originally gone to drive him away had suddenly opened the gates and welcomed him inside because he had used his psychic manipulation to control them.

Nick Fury had immediately agreed to cooperate with him because he, too, had been controlled by Maximus's Psychic Power.

As for why the eyes of the surrounding Avengers had suddenly become vacant, it was because he had used the power of the Mind Scepter to control them.

In truth, his primary purpose in coming to S.H.I.E.L.D. this time was not to find Daisy. Quake Daisy's abilities were indeed quite good.

But as one of the Inhumans, he had quite a few powerful subordinates, and he himself was an expert—an expert with formidable psychic manipulation abilities.

As long as he wished, he could invade another person's consciousness, read their memories, and turn them into puppets under his control.

However, psychic manipulation consumed a great deal of mental energy. Even he could not control others for long, at most maintaining it for a single day.

He had always been an ambitious man. He wanted to overthrow Black Bolt's rule and replace his brother as the king of the Inhumans.

To put it bluntly, Maximus was Loki 2.0, except he was even more cunning than Loki.

Ever since the Chitauri army had invaded Earth, he had been secretly observing how events unfolded.

As someone with psychic manipulation abilities, he had sensed the Mind Scepter in Loki's hand immediately.

For that reason, he had always wanted to obtain it, because the