I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

The truth unfolded before Mann with stark clarity.

Viktor had found the Federation and was cooperating with them, which meant the Federation thought they had figured out how to defeat Slaanesh—or at least, they thought they did.

This was likely the reason the Federation reneged on their agreement after initially agreeing to the trade, and it was likely also why Viktor had prevented his subsequent transactions with the Federation.

Although Viktor and Walter, the Titan Kings who now led the underground world, were cooperating with him, according to the notes from the last era that he had found, the former Titan leader was the missing Tenth King—who was also the husband of the Ninth King, Zhasna.

Back then, Walter and Viktor were nothing more than rebel parties in the Titan world.

Moreover, the Tenth King was portrayed quite positively in the notes, appearing to be quite capable, even preparing to talk and cooperate with the Federation and the Divine Firmament, clearly far more impressive than the other Titan Kings.

The other content in the notes also revealed his extraordinary demeanor and ambition, and combined with Walter and Viktor's past attitudes toward destroying humanity, it was not difficult to deduce that the Tenth King should have stood in opposition to them.

At least in Mann's view, the methods that Viktor and Walter had once wanted to adopt were not decisions that the most capable person would make, but rather concealed a certain cowardice and timidity.

They wanted to destroy humanity and the gods together because they didn't have the courage to face the gods.

The temperament that the Tenth King displayed in those few words was unlike Walter and Viktor; it was very likely that he wanted to challenge the gods together with humanity, which also aligned with the content of the notes.

And as the image of the Tenth King became more and more positive, it further highlighted that Viktor and Walter seemed to have not been positive characters in the past.

This was even without considering the various problems that Viktor and the others had shown when contacting and cooperating with him, such as the various restrictions on providing weapons during cooperation, and various subtle probing.

And if Viktor realized the truth that he was "deceiving" them, realizing that he was just an intermediary profiting from both sides, he would definitely feel that he had been dumped.

Although the real situation was that he had played a crucial role in defeating Slaanesh, and much of the assistance provided by the Titans was either strengthened by his abilities or even had some negative effects.

But whether it was Viktor or the Federation at this moment, they would definitely think that the weapons provided by the Titan civilization were the most important, and they couldn't possibly know that these weapons had been reassembled by Mann using the Control Bureau.

And this would lead them to have an illusion.

Dealing with the gods wasn't as difficult as they imagined.

Interestingly, according to Titan rules, Viktor shouldn't have come to the surface.

He and Walter might also have some disagreements.

Combining these conditions, he could deduce that the resistance he encountered mainly came from Viktor, but even if this resistance didn't come entirely from Viktor, it didn't matter.

Because he had already thought of a solution.

Shadow was right about this, directly confronting the Federation was not a wise decision. This terrifying behemoth was quite slow and bloated, but it also possessed terrifying brute force that surpassed all things.

Directly standing in front of it would result in anyone being crushed into mincemeat.

But it wasn't dangerous either, because even though it had the divine power to destroy all things, it was so bloated that it looked like a mountain piled up with countless corpses, connected by nearly rotten, bright red blood sausages.

The tottering mountain was almost unable to notice anything minuscule.

Just maintaining its forward posture had already strained all of its intestinal ropes.

It wouldn't notice the little bugs going around behind it.