Psychic Overlord

"This boy is dangerous," Sadistic Flame stated with solemnity.

"We should not easily make an enemy of him," Crystal Ice agreed, her cold expression slightly thawing due to worry.

Sadistic Flame seemed dissatisfied with this. "You can’t be serious? You want us to give up on the reward just for that? It’s a whole vial of Ancestor’s Blood! Even if we don’t use it ourselves, selling it would be enough to ensure we never need to take on jobs for the rest of our lives."

Crystal Ice was moved by this. "It’s hard to give it up. Then what do you suggest?"

Sadistic Flame smirked. "Those idiots have given us insight into his abilities. Besides, even if he is S-rank, we are two powerful A-ranks. Even if we can’t defeat him, we can still force a stalemate and negotiate terms with him on the distribution of spoils."

Crystal Ice glanced over at the other group with three injured. "What about them?"

Sadistic Flame sneered as she folded her arms underneath her chest. "They are lucky to be alive. They bear no value in the upcoming division of spoils."

Crystal Ice nodded. "We’ll begin when you’re ready."

Meanwhile, as the two beauties were chatting on one side, Kaizer raised his eyes from his fist, glancing at his waylaid foes with a placid expression. He forked a finger over, causing the telepath who was cradling the voluptuous woman to be brought flying before Kaizer.

The guy was completely unable to resist and could only be pulled over and held aloft unwillingly, his teeth gritted with hatred. "You bastard, you will pay for what you did to my team!"

Kaizer raised an eyebrow, glancing over at Barnes and Lyle. Without even saying anything, the two fellows could tell that Kaizer was asking them why it was that the grey-haired telepath’s team seemed to care about each other while theirs was heartless and callous.

Barnes and Lyle did not even know how to defend themselves.

Kaizer did not waste time and made eye contact with the telepath, initiating a mental battle. He had been training his telepathy in secret, using meditation to try and uncover his own mindscape in order to understand himself, but it was as hard as ascending to heaven.

If Kaizer were to explain, he would say that entering his own mindscape was like trying to look into one’s own body after cutting themselves open without using mirrors or any form of tool.

A telepath was good at invading and controlling other minds, not usually good at controlling their own. In this case, Kaizer was trying to verify this by invading the mind of the first telepath he had ever met, but he was surprised that despite his mental superiority, it was like using a saloon car to crash into a castle wall in order to break in.

His mind was resilient, locked up even better than he expected. You have to know, Kaizer normally didn’t use force since he wanted to hide his telepathic abilities, so it was either he could read your mind because you had no defenses, or he would refrain from pushing hard if you had defenses.

However, the nature of the defenses intrigued him. For Rina, Anir put up a wall of death energy controlled by the little psychic power they inherited from the covenant with him to block his mental prying, which was like trying to walk through a poisonous mist.

The Dean also had defenses, but Kaizer was not sure what they were like since he never actively probed. He treated the dean the same way he did his parents and his aunt: he simply did not extend his telepathic abilities their way at all.

Rather, this method of using a visualized wall to block intrusion was similar to Dennis, the instructor with the B-rank Super Brain esper ability. Kaizer had not pushed the instructor back then, fearing that he would alert the man, but with this guy who had boldly outed him as a telepath, he had no such qualms. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Kaizer thoroughly practiced with him, using his ’saloon car’ to continuously ram the wall at full power, realizing better methods of invasion.

In terms of mindscape, you could picture it like this: The castle walls were initially being rammed by a speeding saloon car, which soon upgraded to an SUV, then to a truck, then to a tank, before finally becoming a speeding train.

As for the gray-haired telepath, his face was initially locked in amusement, then shock, then fear, and finally to panic and strain. His mental defenses could not hold on under the ramming of the train and would soon open up, and the moment that happened, he would be finished!

At this moment, Kaizer frowned and raised a hand to block the sudden attack of the military guy. The fellow was bleeding all over, with many cuts and bruises all over his body from the crash as well as his completely ruined right arm, but he still charged out and punched with his left.

"Let go of Carl, you fucking dumbass kid!" David, the military guy, cursed as he raised his leg to kick.

The blow struck a barrier that Kaizer put up, not even causing a single dent in it, though there was the wind of a collision that blew through the sewer area here. Meanwhile, Kaizer twisted his arm, breaking the left arm of this guy and shattering the bones within.

"ARRGGHH!!" David howled in agony that chilled everyone else here.

Kaizer’s eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty as he planned to kill this guy once and for all, but he was surprised to see that Hei Ya, the blindfolded guy, had somehow stopped the bleeding of his stump and appeared behind him at some point.

He struck out with a normal kick that had normal human strength behind it. Kaizer was not arrogant, also using a barrier to block this just in case it possessed a special trait like ’bone breaking’ or something.

However, the moment he was distracted by this, the spear he seized from Hei Ya twisted in his hand and aimed for his throat, piercing forward like a snake during a pounce, moving insidiously.

Kaizer was not caught off guard, not because he expected this, but because with his Telesthesia, it was almost impossible to achieve this unless something really took up the entirety of his attention.

The spear froze in place, and Kaizer finally had an idea of what the powers of this group were.

The woman, Seline, had an ability that allowed her to extend her tongue like a whip, like some Venom knockoff mixed with a frog.

The David guy seemed to have a similar body enhancement ability to Barnes, but David’s was far superior as it gave him strength without affecting his mind nor his human figure.

This Hei Ya who was blindfolded initially confused Kaizer, but he realized that his power had to do with some form of weapon control. He had faintly sensed a mind in the spear, which was why he claimed it, but after that attack, he detected that the mind residing in the spear shared the same frequency as the man himself.

Finally, this Carl, the gray-haired guy, was a telepath who was adept at reading the minds of others and defending his own mind while protecting the minds of those allied with him.

What an interesting lineup. It was similar to Leo’s own team, with Leo being the leader who had an auxiliary ability for teleportation, Barnes being the strength-based fighter, Carla being the agility-based fighter, and Lyle being the controller who had a Hypnosis ability.

"Huh?" Kaizer was surprised when he saw that the four uninjured B-rank espers, including the African American guy, suddenly charged over and attacked him as well.

The African American guy was the fastest, possessing some form of super speed as he reached Kaizer’s side immediately and dragged David back to safety. Another young man in his team, who was of Latino descent, inhaled deeply and then blasted out a spray of water that was like a jet.

Kaizer frowned and diverted the water using his barrier, his forehead creased because the high water pressure was a sustained attack that was actually giving him some trouble. He redirected the water jet towards Hei Ya, whose face showed surprise as his chest was destroyed, a hole being created within.

He then snapped a finger and pointed downward, the water-spraying esper being crushed downward into a sack of flesh, akin to an anvil falling on a cartoon character, only that this was reality and the outcome was far more gruesome.

Kaizer turned his head to face Carl, who had used this chance to slip out of his grip and retreat with the other two B-rank espers, all of whom seemed subservient to him.

Kaizer’s eyes narrowed as he understood the long and short of it, detecting a brainwave similar to Carl’s meeting from the three remaining B-rank espers, meaning that he had used his Telepathy to mind control them!