Herobrine turned to a Servant standing by the entrance to the training grounds, and the Servant walked over to them.
"This will be your first try," said Herobrine.
"Turn and face the Servant, concentrate and reach out your mind."
Nikita did as she was told, facing the Servant and focusing on it. She then reached out her mind and felt the Servant's consciousness. At first she wanted to retreat back into her own mind, but she didn't.
Instead she ventured further into the Servant's mind, catching glimpses of memories.
"Good." Said Herobrine beside her.
"Now see if you can see it's memories. Flip through them, tell me what you see."
Nikita did that, reaching out further with her mind and seeing full memories now.
"I see... a battle." Said Nikita.
"Mobs and Servants... they're fighting...people." She said.
"People in grey and white armor, riding horses. There are archers hidden on the hillsides, and there's a winged Servant... it has a sword and is killing the humans one by one, grabbing them off of horses and killing their mounts."
Nikita took a breath as the spectacle took place before her.
"The humans are losing. You're winning." Said Nikita to Herobrine.
Then the memory faded and she opened her eyes.
"What was that?" She asked, her voice quiet.
"It was the battle for the diamond mines to the north of Brimstone.
"The mountain city of Whitecap owned those mines. They saw us just outside of their mines and decided to attack. We fought back, and we win both the city and the valuable mines. That is where we get most of our weapons from." He said, looking her straight in the eyes, sending chills down her back.
"We will do that twice more, but with different Servants." Said Herobrine, summoning two more Servants to him.
"See their memories, and then see if you can read their thoughts."
She again faced the Servant in front of her, focusing on the Servant and nothing else. She saw memories of life in Shadowstone, which was pretty normal, more normal then Nikita had thought.
Then she saw me memories of preparing for battle, of long days of training, and finally getting ready for battle. She saw the battle itself, how the mobs and Servants battled it out on an open plain against an army of this time black armored humans.
She described it all again to Herobrine and then he instructed her to try and read the Servant's thoughts.
Nikita did, moving from memories to something that she couldn't see.
You learn quickly. Said the Servant, not audibly, but through its thoughts.
The single thought reverberated through Nikita's mind, filling it.
Thanks. She said back.
Then she broke contact with the Servant and looked at Herobrine.
"Good. Practice the skill, let it become second nature."
Nikita nodded, turning to face yet another Servant. This is what she for almost the rest of the day, practicing until she could do it almost without thinking, mastering the skill.
"Get some sleep now, and in the morning I will teach you how to use your mind as a weapon." Said Herobrine.
Nikita nodded wearily and made her way back to the Obsidian Fortress to eat and sleep, and to rest her mind for tomorrow's work.
She fell asleep almost immediately, collapsing onto the bed and laying there for a couple of minutes before dosing off.
In the morning she woke as always to the guard knocking on her door. Nikita got up, ate and went back out to the training grounds, which had practically become her home.
They went over all of the skills that she had previously learned and worked on her mind reading skills. Then they moved on to battling with her mind.
Nikita learned how to protect her own thoughts and memories. He told her to think of it as putting a wall up around her mind, blocking out any other thing that tried to get in.
Nikita focused and imagined putting an obsidian wall up around her thoughts and memories, and when she said that she was ready a Servant attacked her mind. She held the wall around her mind as the Servant's mind battered her own, trying to break through the wall.
After several minutes of this the Servant withdrew from her mind and stepped backwards, clearly exhausted.
"Good. Now, try and attack this Servant's mind with your own." Said Herobrine, motioning to the Servant next to him.
Nikita faced the Servant and readied herself, and then attacked the Servant with all of her strength, trying to break through the wall it had up around around its thoughts.
About a minute into the exercise Nikita felt the wall start to crack, slowly at first, but then bigger chunks fell away, revealing snatches of thoughts and memories. She then pushed harder and broke through the wall and into the Servant's mind.
In front of her the Servant collapsed as if in pain as she dug deeper into its mind.
Once she had seen several memories she withdrew from its mind.
"Very good." Said Herobrine, looking down at the Servant on the ground.
"You are more powerful then I had thought."
Nikita looked up at him, wondering what exactly he meant by 'more powerful'.
"Practice it more until you feel that it is easy to attack and subdue another's mind and then we shall see what you can do against me." He said, turning his white eyes to her.
Nikita's heart leapt.
Him?
She tried not to think about what would happen if she were to fight Herobrine as she practiced attacking another Servant, cracking through the wall pretty quickly now that she had the basics down.
When she had finished practicing Nikita went and took a breather on the netherbrick fence that enclosed the field. She knew that in order to stand a chance against the most powerful being in the world she would need all of her strength, and even then she knew that it wouldn't be enough.
She took several deep breaths and cleared her mind of any thought, letting it be completely empty.
"Are you ready?" Asked Herobrine, walking up to her.
"I'm ready." Said Nikita, standing up and facing him.
"Three... two... one." Herobrine counted down, his voice deathly quiet.
All of a sudden Nikita felt Herobrine's consciousness batter against her own, trying to break through.
It was unlike anything that Nikita had felt before, it was like getting her mind battered from all directions by a howling wind. It was tearing at the wall around her mind, threatening to break it, and it was that Nikita could do to keep the wall up and keep her mind protected.
Nikita, however, could feel the wall giving way little by little, and knew that she didn't have much time before it broke and Herobrine could be able to see every thought, every memory.
Nikita knew that she had to find some way to fight back.