I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Ivana immediately sensed what Mann was doing based on her years of combat experience. There must be some reason she hadn't realized yet for him to trap himself in the mental world. She absolutely couldn't just wait.

Mann obviously had no intention of explaining to her:

"Don't worry, I won't kill you."

This "comfort" didn't ease Ivana's fighting spirit:

"Don't bother trying, you can't shake my mind. I told you I've had professional training."

Repeatedly emphasizing this point was also to build a defense. The Church would teach prospective Judges how to deal with attacks from wizards and telepaths from a young age, and train them in the mental and spiritual domains so that when they encountered such attacks, they could fight back in a way that was relatively easy to understand.

Recalling past training, Ivana closed her eyes and focused her attention on her non-existent breathing, imagining that she was tightly holding the sword of faith representing the will of the Returnees in her hands, turning her devout faith into armor that could resist mental attacks.

When she reopened her eyes, the burning sword of faith in her hand was already aimed at Mann.

But the surrounding scenery was no longer the coast just now.

What appeared before her was the training ground from her childhood, and Mann's figure suddenly became a few points taller. Then she realized that it wasn't Mann who had changed, but that she had returned to the age when she was still training here.

The moment Ivana blinked was much longer than she imagined.

Mann looked down at the little girl holding the miniature sword of faith and said:

"Are you going to use that toy sword to hit me?"

Facing the bully who was bullying the child, the girl didn't show the slightest fear, and gripped the sword of faith in her hand with a serious expression:

"Fiend, you can't scare me."

She knew that Mann's purpose in saying this was to weaken her will, which was why he brought herself back to this weak memory, but he could pull herself back here so easily because it wasn't difficult to do so.

Because the young her's will wasn't much weaker, and might even be stronger in some aspects.

Mann wasn't surprised by this. The will of these Church believers couldn't be viewed from a normal perspective, and although he could influence her mind in the mental realm, he couldn't eliminate their body's resistance to mental attacks out of thin air.

"Child, your God can't protect you here." Mann then deliberately showed a fierce expression in an attempt to suppress her tenacious will brought about by her devout faith.

But the girl didn't waver in the slightest:

"I know He is here."

Mann revealed an evil smile:

"Is that so? Take another look at where this is?"

As soon as he said these words, the surrounding houses began to collapse from the inside out, and then tumbling flames gushed out. Then flames also began to appear on the ground, and scalding lava flowed out, and the man standing in front of her was no longer there.

A black demon with six wings on its back and flames spewing from its eyes was looking down at her.

He doesn't exist in hell.

But the girl's face showed a trust that surpassed piety:

"No, I'm not talking about Him."

The demon who was scaring the child slightly raised his head and looked outside the fence of the playground...

There stood a delicate-looking little boy.

The girl looked at the demon with a calm expression and said:

"Do you see it..."

"He has always been behind me."

When the boy's figure appeared, the girl's will also rose to its peak.

Before Mann could think of a way to deal with it, the girl, who saw that she was at a disadvantage, suddenly took a heavy half-step towards the demon in front of her, and then, according to muscle memory, horizontally raised her long sword and fiercely swung it at him.

Although Ivana's swordsmanship wasn't as exquisite as it was outside, it was still steady amidst the swiftness, forcing the strong and tall demon to retreat again and again, dodging the girl's fierce slashes in a clumsy posture, and even almost scratched Mann several times.

Realizing that he might not have that much attention here, Ivana immediately put all her energy into the sword in her hand, wanting to take the opportunity to drive Mann, who had sneaked into her mind, out, and then cooperate with the body that should have gained the upper hand to completely defeat him.

Mann, who was being chased and beaten by her, didn't seem to have expected that she could still build an effective counterattack, and his movements became flustered. His suppression of Ivana's mind also became lax, which made her strength and speed significantly improved.

"Die, fiend!" The girl roared and pushed her arms forward, erupting with several times the strength, and then used her exquisite swordsmanship engraved in her bones to insert the sword of faith into the demon's left chest...

Directly into the heart.

The demon slowly raised his head, looked at the woman who had returned to her original appearance with a blank expression, and then slowly raised his trembling left hand and gently placed it on the sword, saying in a tired voice:

"Your will is really strong."

Ivana gripped the long sword tightly with both hands and praised:

"You are also an excellent opponent."

As soon as she finished speaking, the mental illusion in front of her began to slowly dissipate, and the hellish scene quickly faded away. They returned to the vast coast again, and the black demon standing in front of her gradually turned into Mann's appearance, and his right hand was still holding the Saint Slayer Spear...

But his left hand was still on the long sword inserted into his heart,

The scene in front of her instantly made Ivana's pupils shrink. Her instinctive reaction was that her body had won under the control of divine magic, but just as she was about to express her regret and sorrow for the death of this opponent...

She couldn't open her mouth.

Mann grabbed the long sword inserted in his chest with force, and smiled at the woman in front of him who was covered in blood:

"It's hard to tell the difference between reality and illusion, right?

"Don't worry, I told you nothing would happen to you.

"I sold a flaw to your body. If your will was in control, you would definitely be keenly aware that it was a trap, but we all know that it only has mechanized reactions and can't understand real tactics.

"And it can't tell the difference between reality and illusion, and can't realize that all your thoughts and impulses are running inside your mind, so when you tell it to draw the sword at that flaw, it naturally believes that this move is enough to determine victory.

"Therefore, it won't consider what price it will pay."

Pfft.

Mann staggered back a few steps, pulled out the still burning sword from his body, and also pulled out the spear that was also inserted into Ivana's left chest, and immediately used it as a crutch to support the ground, so that he didn't fall immediately.

His pierced heart had only barely stopped bleeding at this time. Now even a gust of wind could blow him away.

But Mann still raised the spear:

"The outcome has been decided."

Give me some~