Had Cain finished Catherine off with a single blow?
Why?
While Brad was still imrsed in shock, not knowing what to do, Cain extended his left hand and gently patted him on the shoulder.
Brad trembled from head to toe and imdiately knelt on one knee, shouting, "Boss! I didn't do anything to betray you! Please, forgive !"
Both of them had psychic seeds planted in their minds. If Cain wanted to take their lives, he could do so at practically any mont with just a thought, and they would not even be able to generate the slightest intention to resist.
Just as if Cain were to order Brad to commit suicide right now, he would only be able to obey and take his own life.
Then, if Cain could dispose of Catherine in such a simple way, why would he need to do it personally?
That was why Brad had actually not seen clearly what Cain had done.
Seeing Brad kneeling on the ground asking for forgiveness, Cain smiled and shook his head, then grabbed him and pulled him up from the ground in one motion.
"Take a good look at Catherine's condition," he said, with a hint of resignation in his voice.
It was then that Brad noticed Catherine's chest rising and falling evenly, her breathing steady; everything clearly indicated that she was still alive and in perfect condition.
Cain shook his head again.
"If I wanted to kill her, do you think I would need to do it with my own hands?"
An expression of sha appeared on Brad's face. He knew that this ti he had jumped to conclusions. If Cain had given her Pokémon and allowed her to strengthen her power, that proved that he still valued her quite a lot.
"Keep looking," Cain said, gesturing with his chin for Brad to look lower.
The two remained silent in the sa place for several minutes; the ti dragged on even longer than Cain had expected.
Just when he was about to check what was happening, Catherine's closed eyelids trembled slightly and slowly opened. At the instant she opened her eyes, a strange and lively light passed through her gaze.
"Is this...?" Brad widened his eyes, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Cain's brows, which had gradually been furrowing, finally relaxed, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. This ti, he himself had acted as an alarm clock!
The so-called alarm clock was nothing more than a special term among psychics. For example, when Sabrina had accidentally helped Cain awaken his psychic powers in the past, she could be considered Cain's alarm clock. And now, Cain had beco Catherine's alarm clock!
That's right—starting from this mont, Catherine had beco an honorable psychic. Although, for now, she was at the lowest possible level and could not even be considered a beginner-level psychic. Even so, compared with Cain's psychic talent, hers was much stronger.
At the very least, reaching the beginner level would not take seventy or eighty years; within her lifeti, it was entirely possible.
"Ps... psychic power..." Brad murmured, still stunned. He had never imagined that Catherine would have the talent to beco a psychic.
"Psychic power?" Catherine asked, having just awakened and heard Brad's words.
Although she did not know why Cain had knocked her unconscious, at that mont she felt no discomfort at all. On the contrary, she felt better than ever.
Could it be... that she had beco a psychic?
Catherine looked at her own hands, not quite knowing what to do.
Cain spoke directly: "That's right. From now on, you are a psychic. But at this mont you haven't even reached the beginner level. If you want to use it in real combat, at the very least you will have to reach the beginner level."
"For now, awakening your psychic powers will only make your mind a bit more agile; in daily life it won't give you too much help. But, after all, a bit of help is still help, isn't it?"
For Catherine, becoming a beginner-level psychic was still sothing with real possibilities, very different from the situation Cain had been in back then.
"This is the basic manual for psychics. It was given to by the person who awakened my powers in the past, and now it is of no use to anymore. I hope it will be of help to you. And I also hope that, if in the future you help others awaken psychic powers, you can give them so support. Consider this a kind of special transmission," Cain said.
"Transmission...?" Catherine received the manual from Cain's hands, still sowhat dazed.
In fact, when Cain implanted the psychic seed in Catherine's mind, he had already discovered her peculiarity and knew that she possessed the talent to beco a psychic. It was simply that at the ti he did not have the ti to do it, and moreover, all of Cain's ntal energy was focused on his plan.
But today, at last, all the pressure he had been carrying had disappeared. Cain also wanted to see his subordinates beco stronger and stronger. Since Catherine had psychic talent, helping her awaken it was not especially difficult.
Cain's thods were much gentler than those Sabrina had used on him in the past. That was why Catherine now felt extrely well, without the slightest discomfort.
Compared with the unbearable pain Cain had suffered back then, this was far more tolerable.
"Thank you very much, sir!" the excitent was clearly visible on Catherine's face.
Both she and Brad, although they deeply despised the people of the Sacred Church and detested their thods, in their hearts sincerely envied the psychic powers of its mbers and wished that one day they too could beco psychics.
And they had not expected that this day would actually arrive today!
Clutching the psychic manual tightly in her hands, Catherine felt that ever since she had begun following Cain, her gains had always been extraordinary.
And now, moreover, she had beco the psychic she had always dread of being. She could not feel better.
Catherine's contained satisfaction, Brad's silent envy... all of it was observed by Cain, though he did not express anything about it.
"Let's go. Now it's finally ti to help them resolve their most important matter. And, by the way, I also want to see what the true secret hidden on this continent really is," Cain's face returned to calm, but in his eyes shone overflowing curiosity and a desire impossible to conceal.
With a casual wave of his hand, the three of them, together with Slowking, disappeared from the place.
...
Three days later, Cain and the other two appeared in a terrain filled with scattered rocks.
By then, Cain had already changed back into the attire of a mber of the Sacred Church. Brad and Catherine were dressed the sa way. Although they clearly did not look like genuine mbers of the Sacred Church, at least it served as a bit of disguise.
In just three days, the three of them had successfully gone from being prey to becoming hunters.
In only three days, and with Cain as an "inside ally," they managed to eliminate two more mbers of the Sacred Church and took all of their belongings.
It was then that Cain realized that, in fact, the greatest source of resources and benefits on the continent was no longer the continent's own resources, but the mbers of the Sacred Church themselves.
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