The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’

And after his manhood was ripped off, the immense pain freed the male cultist from the [mental suggestion].

This demonstrated that intense pain or other external stimuli could break mental control.

When the other cultists entered the room, he seized the chaos to issue mental suggestions to the other two non-Evil Spirit Cult members, making them believe they were lovers. They fell for it easily, likely because they did not possess any gear to resist mental attacks, which was extremely rare.

Next, Zhou Yuan anticipated that the Evil Spirit Cult members would use an AOE skill. This would allow them to crudely and directly locate the enemy’s position and also stop their mad teammates, but the cost was that all teammates would suffer mental damage and become idiots.

But they were all in a temporary team; there was no deep bond. In the Extraordinary World, people ate each other, and it was even worse in the Dark World. One moment you were shaking hands with a smile, and the next, you could be stabbed eighteen times in the back.

So Zhou Yuan used Teleportation to move 500 meters away, and only after their skill ended did he switch back, solving the problem with one shot.

"Mental psychokinesis is really a cheat, silently making teammates turn on each other and become enemies. Without high-quality gear, you wouldn’t even know how you died. No wonder so many people stay away from mental magicians."

Zhou Yuan understood through practice just how terrifying mental magicians were. If he encountered a similar enemy in the future, he had to eliminate them at the first opportunity. Those bizarre and intangible attacks would be a huge headache.

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After destroying the bodies, Zhou Yuan spent some time inventorying his loot and sold off items he didn’t need.