Eryndor looked at everyone with a serious expression.
"I know all of you are powerful, but can we deal with a senior? He is a proper Mage, the profession which never fights without preparation, and also has the ability of mind control."
Eryndor could try to attack with his telekinesis but if Rodrick had a strong enough shield he wouldn't be able to deal with it no matter how sharp or heavy the object he controlled was.
He couldn't hold Rodrick through telekinesis high up in the sky and then drop him, expecting him to turn into a at paste.
He had already experinted with the infected animals.
It took an extrely high amount of energy of Consciousness to control sothing with consciousness.
And it only increased if the person or beast in question was powerful. Controlling Rodrick who was a genuine mage was nearly impossible.
Considering his Telekinesis was at Active grade which had a high probability of being level 3, he had an inkling that he might need to nearly drain himself dry to control Rodrick to that extent.
No one answered him. Even Drakarion kept quiet when he heard that Rodrick was actually a learned mage.
Eryndor was partly confused when he saw Drakarion's reaction, shouldn't he express so intent to fight? Was he the rational kind of battle maniac?
Drakarion smiled wryly when he saw Eryndor looking at him weirdly. With an awkward laugh he explained.
"My dad is a Mage."
Everyone raised their eyebrows at that, no wonder having assud that his dad would be a Martial Artist given how Drakarion was trained so professionally from childhood.
If his dad was a Mage, it made sense why Drakarion would take Mages seriously.
Although it was surprising, everyone's attention soon returned to the matter at hand.
"Wait wait."
Paulina raised a finger with a frown, then spoke with a confident tone.
"Both the boxes actually have the sa property.
"The one which is used to store the Mystical Artifacts and the one which is used to contain the anomalies are made the sa way. Let's call the forr box 1 and the latter box 2 for convenience.
"There are also two sensors, both of which can sense anomalies all the sa. The only difference is one is connected to box 1. Let's call this one sensor 1. Sensor 1 also has the function to unlock box 1 after sensing an anomaly.
"The other sensor in professor lissa's hand is a standalone sensor, an individual piece basically. Let's call it sensor 2.
"If that is the case, he could have simply given us box 2 and sensor 2. By giving us box 2 and sensor 1, there is a small doubt here.
"Look at the thick rope—" Paulina pointed at the thick rope with wires inside connected to the sensor in her hand and continued.
"It poses a question, why do we have a sensor of this type if there isn't even a box connected to it?
"Wouldn't it have been better if he kept box 1 and sensor 1 for himself without cutting them apart like this and give us box 2 and sensor 2 for a more plausible framing?"
As her speech reached this point, Paulina jumped from her seat, excitent visible on her face as her speech hurried but maintained clarity.
"Look, look. To any kind of official which apprehends us, for the sensor which we have, Rodrick or in fact anyone else can simply claim that the Outer Domain which sent us had stolen this sensor from another team of the Human Federation.
"Or you know, literally any kind of explanation would work since there isn't much of a difference between sensor 1 and sensor 2 except the forr can activate the box.
"Literally no one would care about the properties of a sensor, the Outer Domain which sent us could have gotten it anyhow they wanted.
"But but but—" Paulina raised her finger, her face an epito of concentration as she continued.
"This could be a big thing for us. A very small but extrely important clue."
Paulina pointed at Eryndor and continued.
"According to Eryndor, Rodrick might have an anomaly under his control.
"Which ans even if he did keep box 1 and sensor 1 with him without cutting apart the wire connecting them, he can still open them by mind controlling his anomaly to approach the sensor 1, which will then unlock the box after sensing an anomaly nearby.
"But he didn't do so. Why?"
The gears in Eryndor's brain turned as his pupils widened briefly. He answered with hesitation.
"He doesn't have complete control over the Anomaly."
"Exactly." Paulina pointed at Eryndor and hopped. Her excitent was palpable.
"It is very likely that the Anomaly is resisting control. Or his mind control is not always guaranteed to work on it. This is the only reason why he wouldn't take risks using the sensor connected box.
"As to why he didn't give it to us?
"It's obvious—no first aid kit cos with a built-in thermoter, especially one that looks like a child made it. How could a kid create a thermoter-integrated first aid kit that looks like a factory-produced item?
"Anyway, keeping that aside. The Anomaly is most probably not completely submissive yet.
"And mind controllers use a very common technique when they encounter such situations of resistance.
"Classical conditioning.
"Use a hand gesture or any unique signal, fiercely use mind control ability to dominate the mind for a short period of ti such that any resistance is futile, then give it a reward.
"Over ti, the resistance of the mind decreases after the hand gesture, as it associates it to a reward."
Paulina once again extended her hand in Eryndor's direction before continuing.
"According to him, Rodrick used his anomaly to kill the opposition of the Mayor. And all anomalies have a compulsory need for killing living beings.
"Those opposition party leaders were the rewards.
"Are things coming together for everyone?
"We just need one chance. Just one chance to witness the hand gesture.
"As long as we know the hand gesture, we can perform it and do sothing else. Like hit the Anomaly or sothing. Anything which invokes resistance from it.
"It will break the psychological conditioning. It will break or, worse, reset Rodrick's mind control over the Anomaly.
"We can tell this to professor lissa.
"As long as Rodrick performs any kind of weird mont, following which a new Anomaly attacks or things start going south, professor lissa would know it was Rodrick's work.
"It is already proof enough, plus using this she can also disrupt Rodrick's control on Anomaly, making it free. This will only cent the proof.
"Since Anomalies are chaotic beings, there is a chance that they might fight among themselves rather than teaming up, which ans the team could be saved."
"This will put Rodrick in deep shit."
Paulina panted heavily as she stopped talking.
Everyone looked at her speechlessly before Eryndor spoke out their collective feelings.
"You are fucking brilliant, Paulina."
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