Maru stopped abruptly before the realm's entrance. “We’ve arrived late enough that we should be past the worst of it, but be prepared for any ambushes when we enter.” The man’s voice was surprisingly high-pitched. “Most of the time, hunting monsters isn’t the most lucrative thing you can do in the voidling realm.”“You speak like you’ve been here before,” Iris said.“I’ve been in quite a few hidden realms,” Maru answered. “Haru and I both. For the most part, the competitive ecosystem within them tends to be the same. That and I’ve purchased the memories of a man who’s been here before.”“Really,” Arthur said, raising an eyebrow. “Is that something you can just do?” Haru answered for his brother, his voice as deep as his twin's was high. Arthur suspected they were varying their tones so much for their benefit. “You can find almost anything on the System store, even memories, though you need the mind affinity to make use of them. Preparing memories for normal people to use is prohibitively expensive and fraught with risk. Take them from someone more powerful than you, for example, and you risk ego death.”“So what else can you two do?” Arthur asked. It was a little rude to ask people about their magic, but they were going to be working together. That and he'd always been a little worried about what mind mages could do to him.Maru chuckled. “It’s nothing like what you’re thinking.”Arthur gasped, “So you can read my mind then?"“Nothing of the sort, Mr Ward. It's just your facial expressions that are easy to read”“Call me Arthur. No one calls me Mr Ward.”“Okay, Mr… Arthur, sorry, it’ll take me some time to get used to it. On my homeworld, we rarely call each other by our first names. The two of us are an exception. We’d confuse everyone a lot more if we had the same name.“To answer your question, mind mages don’t make for the greatest combatants, at least head-on. Reading someone’s mind (...)