I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Chapter 536 534. "Truth"

Just as Mann and Callett were engaged in a high-speed chase, Mann, who was initially the one fleeing, suddenly began to decelerate sharply, startling Callett and causing him to pause.

However, he immediately raised his longsword, attempting to slice Mann in two. Although Mann's deceleration and change of direction were unexpected and he was moving rapidly in the opposite direction, making it difficult for Callett to pinpoint his location, Callett quickly adjusted his trajectory in the air with his armor, crashing into Mann.

But he collided with an invisible iron wall.

Callett failed to catch his target. Mann easily brushed past him as if skimming the water, not because Callett wasn't fast enough, but because Mann had erected a wall of psychic energy.

Slightly dazed by the impact, Callett shook his head in the air, then raised his longsword and slashed at the invisible wall of psychic energy in front of him.

As he had anticipated, when the "Void Soul" blade struck the psychic wall, it sliced through it as easily as a sharp knife cutting through fat. At the same time, the psychic energy on both sides instinctively avoided the blade that could truly harm them, creating a wide path in front of him.

Although Mann's mind was not severely damaged, his strongest power could not directly approach, affect, or control this weapon. It was a weapon that greatly countered him.

Fortunately, Callett was wielding it.

If a soulless Titan affiliated with the Control Bureau wielded this weapon, they would become a walking soul annihilator, capable of erasing the souls of distant humans with a wave of their hand.

But in the hands of Callett or any other ordinary ability user without specific skills, this weapon became countless times weaker. The Overturning Sea Scepter that Mann possessed was the same. Perhaps no one but its creator could unleash its power to a level close to Mann's, and even half that would be difficult.

In fact, the value of most Tier V weapons to other ability users in the world was similar. They were all far inferior to ability users with their own consciousness, but for Mann of the Anomaly Control Bureau...

A Tier V weapon was essentially a Tier V ability user.

"This weapon is truly powerful," Mann said aloud, expressing his thoughts. "If it weren't in your hands, it might have had a chance to hurt me."

Seeing that Mann had no intention of running, Callett didn't immediately approach and scare him away. Instead, he hovered in place, watching Mann, who was "talking tough," and replied firmly:

"Then try and see if I can hurt you."

Mann said calmly:

"You don't realize that you've already lost since you followed me. Now that I'm away from them, I don't need to spread my power to other enemies. You do have a very strong weapon. If an ability user of my level were wielding it, I would surely die, but...

"You may be overestimating yourself."

Mann didn't have the habit of speaking his mind during combat, and his need to stall for time wasn't that great at the moment. In fact, it was Callett who should have been stalling, and his best course of action would have been to wait for the bio-weapons under his control to catch up and change the battle.

But he was still "stalling for time" because he didn't want the other Titans to realize how "insidious" he was, nor did he want them to know that he could actually kill Callett right now.

Callett chuckled:

"Very well, let me see you take this move."

As he said this, he positioned the longsword in front of him and prepared to attack Mann again. This time, Mann wouldn't be able to use a psychic wall to stop him.

Although Mann thought Callett should be stalling for time, Callett himself didn't think so. Callett had great confidence in his weapon and armor, or he wouldn't have chased after him.

As he began to charge, Mann's eyes narrowed severely, and the cold gaze made Callett aware that something was wrong, as if Mann had already secured his victory.

"You've wasted too much time," Mann uttered softly. "Dissolution."

Blankness.

Callett felt nothing for the first dozen meters he advanced toward Mann. What truly alerted him was the fact that he was slowing down, and when he looked down, he noticed...

Half of his leg had vanished. Bones, blood, muscles, armor, nothing remained, as if that part of his body and machinery had never existed in this world.

Callett looked at Mann again with confusion. His body, which had been rushing like a meteor, now seemed like a broken doll thrown high into the air, flying toward Mann.

The Titan, who had completely lost the sense of pain, numbly watched his body disintegrate. The organs exposed by the vanishing flesh hadn't even fallen out before Mann's psychic power crushed them again.

The disintegration slowed down only when it reached his right arm holding the longsword, but by then, Callett could no longer grip the "Void Soul" blade, and the Tier V weapon finally slipped from his grasp.

And Mann's Dissolution had nothing left to stop it.

Callett watched the longsword fall toward the city. At this moment, the fear in his heart dispelled the confusion, allowing him to truly realize what kind of fate he was facing.

How could this human be so strong...

But just as Callett's entire body had almost turned to dust, and he felt like he was about to die, the Dissolution that had spread to his neck suddenly stopped.

Mann reached out and held his remaining head in front of him.

When he was pulled close to Mann, Callett looked at Mann with some anger:

"What? Still not going to do it? How else do you want to humiliate me?"

"I don't plan to kill you," Mann said calmly, looking at him. "There's no need for you to be so angry. You were the ones who wanted to kill me for no reason, so you should endure even if I really want to humiliate you.

"The reason I didn't kill you isn't out of mercy. It's just that I can deal with you without killing you. I said...

"You overestimated yourself."

Callett looked at him with suspicion:

"You're not killing me? What are you plotting?"

Mann replied with a sincere expression:

"What do I want? I just want to leave here alive, it's that simple.

"I'm not bloodthirsty, and I don't want the Titans to see me that way, because I said from the beginning, you are my only way out of here."

Hearing this, Callett couldn't believe what he was hearing. From beginning to end, he hadn't thought Mann was really thinking that simply, but now Mann had no need to act.

That's right, Mann wasn't saying these words to him.