Esper X Family – Chapter 222 – Maybe They’re Playing Dead to Trick Me

A total of 135,000 units of mental power.

The combined attack could potentially sink an entire island nation.

“Eleven targets, excluding the Countermeasures Bureau’s undercover agent, plus the three S-rank enemies that just appeared. The attack needs to be divided into thirteen parts.”

Ye Tong quickly calculated.

If divided equally, each person would receive an attack of 10,000 units.

According to the defense system of Espers…

An S-rank Esper who mastered mental power application can use their own mental power to offset incoming mental power attacks.

Pure mental power attacks would be significantly neutralized by the opponent’s mental power.

For S-rank Espers, a mental power defense of over 5,000 units can be considered basic.

An attack of 10,000 units would inflict about 5,000 units of damage at most.

Fortunately, humans aren’t video game monsters.

Their health points aren’t in the tens of thousands.

Using a numerical approach, an ordinary person might have only 10 health points, while an Esper could have around 100 health points.

The damage is, in a way, overkill.

But S-rank Espers have too many tricks up their sleeves. They might be able to redirect attacks or mitigate damage like Lou Wei.

They must be given special treatment!

At the same time, the Sanctuary personnel seemed to sense the aura of death in the midst of their battle.

It was as if they were being targeted by something terrifying.

Is there another expert!?

Fang Ze glanced at the sky amidst the chaos of battle.

Something horrifying seemed to be brewing up there.

Is it Ye Tong?

What is she planning?

To flatten the city?

That’s too much!

Surely not, right?

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That’s just too much!

Ye Tong had already finished her calculations.

The fissioned mental power attack was split into two.

The portion with over 60,000 units of energy were further divided into three.

And shaped into three giant swords of light.

Each sword contained over 20,000 units of mental power.

The remaining 60,000 units of energy were divided into ten giant swords.

Each sword carried an attack value close to 7,000.

“Taste my proudly crafted numbers! Even the Dayun Truck has to blow a few tires to tank this!”

Ye Tong locked onto her enemies, and her raised arm swiftly came down.

The solidified giant swords shot towards the enemies like beams.

The high-risk Sequence Espers who were about to transform into a demolition crew immediately sensed their impending death.

They wanted to rampage and go all out.

But before they could react, the giant swords descended from the sky, pinning them to the ground with unstoppable force.

Gu Wenxin quickly retreated after securing his kill steals.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom…!

The Sanctuary members who were engaged in combat with the Countermeasures Bureau’s S-rank Espers turned pale as the terrifying giant swords locked onto them.

Ye Tong wasn’t worried that the fissioned objects would grow too powerful to control.

Because she could effortlessly control fissioned objects.

Just like how she controlled Mu Luo’s Dark Erosion creations.

The fissioned objects were entirely within her grasp!

Pure mental power attacks had quite a few flaws.

They were convenient for crushing weaker opponents but could easily be neutralized by enemies of the same level.

But that was only when the numbers weren’t high enough.

For Ye Yao, there was no such thing as insufficient numbers!

“Just die obediently.”

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The giant swords struck the three S-rank Espers from the Sanctuary at a speed difficult for the naked eye to follow.

There was no resistance whatsoever.

With three loud explosions–

BOOM!

BOOM!!

BOOM!!!

Three unique, giant sword-shaped tombstones now stood tall in the city!

As the dust settled, the battlefield returned to silence.

“Are they dead?”

In the air, Ye Tong pondered for a moment.

“Maybe they’re playing dead to trick me.”

The girl raised her hand again.

Dozens of light spheres began to gather around her.

The number of fissioned objects increased explosively!

While Fang Ze and the other two S-rank Espers from the Countermeasures Bureau stared blankly in a daze, several more light swords descended from the sky.

Boom! Boom! Boom…!

The ground was soon littered with more sword-shaped tombstones.

“Hmm…”

Ye Tong touched her chin.

“Those guys might have regeneration abilities. Maybe they’re not dead. Let’s hit them again.”

Wu Mi’s ouroboros cycle activated once more.

Light spheres composed of mental power gathered around her recklessly.

Ye Tong became even more proficient, and the speed at which she gathered the light spheres became astonishingly fast.

Once again, a rain of swords fell from the sky.

“Enough!”

Fang Ze shouted, stopping Ye Tong’s attempt to desecrate corpses.

The sight of the massive light swords covering the ground filled him with dread.

Each giant sword contained an immense amount of mental power.

If they exploded, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Fortunately, the nature of mental power attacks could be controlled.

Whether it was a wide-range explosion or pure kinetic impact, the choice was hers.

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But for Espers, it wasn’t just a simple physical attack.

Once hit, the powerful mental power could invade their bodies, causing instant death.

It was equivalent to a secondary damage.

And considering the sheer scale of this attack, only someone like Lou Wei in his serious form could launch attacks of that level.

Those who were hit had no chance of survival.

Fang Ze’s expression was grave.

Ye Tong’s strength had far exceeded his expectations.

Compared to Ye Yao, who felt like an abstract concept, the current Ye Tong fit the description of a world destroyer!

The prophet must’ve been wrong!

Ye Yao isn’t the world destroyer!

Ye Tong is the world destroyer!

The girl in the air finally stopped.

“Hmm, not bad. Just couldn’t execute it with zero frame startup. If the enemy had spatial abilities, it might’ve been harder to land.”

This skill wasn’t too complex in terms of damage mechanics.

Its mechanism was pure numerical superiority.

Any hit would deliver heaven-defying damage.

It was just a pity that no one could withstand the full brunt of it.

Perhaps only a planet-sized target could let her unleash its full potential.

But attacking a stationary target was meaningless.

Discussing total damage with a perpetual skill was just too cheap.

She needed to develop a skill without any startup lag.

The Dayun Truck would never give her the chance to charge up.

【Successfully prevented a major disaster, saving countless citizens. Achievement ‘Home of Honor ¹ China gives out these plaques to active duty soldiers, veterans, and such. Basically you hang it on your home for others to see, and they will know that someone in your family served the military. ’ unlocked. Reward: 15 attribute points.】

【Your uncle has ‘seen you in a new light’ and has formed a new opinion of you. Reward: 2 attribute points.】

【Unallocated Attribute Points: 20】

Ye Tong slowly descended in front of Fang Ze, glancing at her uncle, whose wariness was evident in his eyes.

He was probably hissing after seeing numbers far beyond his comprehension.

One could only say that the heavier the sense of responsibility, the more likely one is to hiss toward an uncontrollable danger like her.

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“How do you think tonight’s battle went?”

Fang Ze remained silent for a few seconds before gradually calming down.

“It went better than expected. Almost no casualties, and the damage to the city’s structure is within acceptable limits.”

Mu Luo had evacuated the civilians beforehand.

Ye Tong’s mental power attacks were more akin to kinetic damage rather than explosive impact.

Thus, the city wasn’t flattened.

The Countermeasures Bureau had long trained a group of civil engineering Espers precisely to prevent such situations.

The level of destruction could be repaired within a month, allowing the city to function again at that time.

Eliminating high-risk Sequence Espers with such potential threats in one go, coupled with dealing such a heavy blow to the Sanctuary, could only be described as a net gain.

Ye Tong nodded in satisfaction.

“That’s good. Remember to compensate those who worked hard to buy their houses and cars with loans. If it’s not enough, you can use the money in my card for emergencies.”

Fang Ze: “?”

Her thinking is… somewhat childish.

“No need. Damage caused by Countermeasures Bureau operations already comes with substantial compensation.”

Ye Tong nodded and waved her hand.

The sword-shaped tombstones in the city vanished, unlike misfired artillery shells that needed to be detonated.

After all, they were fissioned creations. Once the fission was undone, they would disappear.

In bed.

Ye Yao’s proud voice reached Luo Jianhua’s ears.

“See~ I just had to lift a finger, and that was the limit of those bad guys.

Little Luo, am I not amazing?”

Author Note

Oh no! The chapter I scheduled failed the review! Could it be because of the author’s note expression pack? It’s clearly just Cheshire, but I had to change one

Text: What will you gain by bullying me