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"..."
A slight tremble of his shoulder, and Roland fell silent.
Minerva's counterquestion struck at the heart of what could determine the success or failure of combat—the capacity of the mind and the speed of processing.
To dodge physical attacks, analyze protective spells and the circuitry of core activation spells, break down the entire spell sequence—all of these actions required a significant mental capacity. Even if it was a strategy-level spell with insufficient personnel, one still needed a mental capacity roughly equivalent to the opponent's to crack it.
Roland was indeed a rare genius, his computational ability and mental capacity far exceeded the standard of an average person, and he was also a rare expert at utilizing "Collapse." However, the idea of offsetting the mental capacity of dozens of people was still impossible.
