Ainz - Blocks Telepathy

“Lupusregina, you’re talking differently from usual. What’s that about?”

Lupusregina gave him a blank look. “I’m talking strangely, my lord?”

The Lupusregina doppelgänger changed the way it spoke. This must have been the base speech pattern.

“Yeah, you don’t sound like she usually does.”

“With me, she always talked like that…”

The closer you were to a person, the harder it was to see through a doppelgänger transformed into them. Why? Because the doppelgänger would use mind control abilities to read the shallow thoughts of the person they were interacting with and the people nearby to gain information about the one they were impersonating and incorporate this into their act. At least, that’s what the monster description had said.

Pandora’s Actor said it was possible to use that ability in the reality of this world.

But it could only be used to glean the reactions a transformation’s source was likely to make, so it wouldn’t work for collecting intel by peeking into someone’s private thoughts.

And the ability was ultimately a type of psychic attack, so it wouldn’t work on undead like Ainz, nor would it be very difficult to resist unless there was a considerable level gap between the user and the target. So the doppelgänger had basically been exposed by failing to read Ainz’s mind.

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Volume 13, Chapter 5.2