Chapter 437: 411 This guy, his death is not a pity
"Is the spiritual domination complete now?"
Having witnessed Ophelit being dominated by Reiger’s magic, Antie was stunned there for a long while, almost unable to react.
Even Nipede stared at Reiger’s back, visibly lost in thought.
Spiritual domination was not an uncommon phenomenon.
In the continent of Akasha, similar spiritual magics existed, including those that could manipulate minds and memories.
Nipede himself had mastered several types of such magic, so the fact that Reiger could utilize spiritual domination was not surprising.
However, magics like the spiritual series, mind control series, and memory manipulation series were usually possessed by court magicians, not easily accessible to the commoner, and secondly, such magic might work well against ordinary people, but were typically less effective against nobles and individuals from powerful families.
Because these major forces have many secrets and confidential information that cannot be exposed lightly, they usually consider the possibility that internal members might reveal critical secrets when subject to spiritual domination or other manipulations, and thus take preventive measures.
For instance, in the Kingdom of Ginas, the royal family practiced the War King Sword Skill, which inherently stimulated spiritual power and improved resilience against spiritual domination.
Similarly, influential nobles had their means, some carrying magical artifacts that could ward off spiritual magics, others consuming magic potions from childhood to strengthen mental resistance or setting specific traps against mental magic on their persons. Some more radical forces would even employ malevolent spells on their members that, upon interference by spiritual, mind, or memory-based magic, would instantly trigger and destroy the individual’s brain to prevent the leakage of internal secrets.
Therefore, the more significant the individual’s status, usually, the more measures or resistance they possessed against such magic.
Ophelit, as the eldest son and heir of the Hadiete family, a scion of the Earl’s lineage, surely had means to resist such spiritual magic.
Even Nipede, facing such an Ophelit, would not confidently claim he could successfully dominate him spiritually - even court magicians specialized in interrogating major criminals would need to prepare, using ritual artifacts and other means to bolster their magic before they could achieve such an effect.
Yet, Reiger succeeded in an instant, causing Nipede, a grand magician renowned for his accomplishments in interference magic, to feel incredulous.
What Nipede did not know was that Reiger had also enhanced the effect of his magic before using it.
There existed a certain magical enhancement effect, known as magic resistance difficulty enhancement.
As the name suggests, this enhancement made the caster’s magic harder to resist, allowing their spells to break through an opponent’s defenses and take effect.
When employing such an enhancement, if the enemy did not possess greater ability than the caster, then even if they had some resistance to magic, it would be rendered ineffective.
For example, if someone had resistance to fire-type attacks and could mitigate damage from such attacks, if their abilities were not stronger than Reiger’s, then Reiger could use [Magic Resistance Difficulty Enhancement·Fireball] to inflict severe damage on them, breaking through their resistance.
This was why Reiger could quickly complete the spiritual domination of Ophelit.
His [Human Charm] had been applied with magic resistance difficulty enhancement, rendering ordinary countermeasures ineffective.
Therefore, Ophelit was dominated so swiftly.
Reiger approached Ophelit and began his questioning.
"I ask you, were those attackers associated with you?"
The answer came almost within a second.
"Yes."
Ophelit’s expression was dull, yet his tone was unusually relaxed and comfortable, as if chatting with a close friend.
However, his words changed the expressions of everyone around them.
Especially the knights bound by magic, who widened their eyes.
Reiger, on the other hand, was not surprised and continued his inquiries.
"Who are they?"
"I don’t know."
"...You don’t recognize them?"
"No, they were just helping me with tasks, who they are isn’t important to me."
"So, you employed them, but you don’t know their details, right?"
"Exactly."
"What about that attendant you mentioned, Jack?"
"He isn’t my attendant. Those people sent him to stay by my side, saying that I could make requests to Jack anytime as long as I was willing to offer a satisfying reward, and they would send someone to handle the tasks I assigned."
"Who are these people you speak of?"
"I don’t know. A few years ago, they suddenly sent Jack to contact me, and since then, Jack has been with me. I’ve only heard about the people behind him from Jack; it was those people who took an interest in me and specifically sent someone to collaborate with me, but who they are, I don’t really know."
The words of Ophelit made everyone present, including Reiger, exchange bewildered glances.