Strongest Superhuman System

Chapter 330: This Was Done By A Superhuman?

"It doesn't look natural. Is there any way you can track where it came from? Maybe a path of destruction it followed to get here or even an aircraft that might have dropped it from above?"

On the other side of the phone, Pat frowned while looking through the satellite images on his system.

[Nothing. The anima suddenly appeared from inside a building in that area. There are no sewers or underground tunnels where it could have followed out of sight, and it wasn't dropped off by any aircraft. Honestly, this looks like the work of some sort of teleportation skill. That's the only way that thing could've appeared in the middle of the city suddenly without anyone noticing.]

Mark frowned. Teleportation?

"Then, wouldn't that mean a superhuman dropped this thing off here?"

[Yeah, that's the most likely scenario. A superhuman dropped that thing there using their blessing. I don't know who or why, but it's probably not anything good.]

Mark tightened his gloves while thinking about who could have done this. The only two things that came to his mind at that moment were Salazar and the Syndicate. Did Salazar drop this thing off here? But why? And what in the world even is this thing?

"Alright. Let me just finish this thing off. We'll figure out what happened once I'm done."

Mark cut off the call once he was done talking.

Tina was already using her lightning to isolate the anima from the surrounding buildings and civilians. From how well the anima was holding up against her lightning, Mark could tell that it was definitely a high-level calamity.

"I think 20% should be enough. What do you think?"

Mark suddenly spoke to his system, and the system's monotonous voice responded.

[The system does not possess control over the amount of power released by the user.]

"Yeah, yeah, you said that already. Just answer me. What do you think?"

Mark knew that his system was sentient - it wouldn't be able to respond the way it was responding if it didn't have knowledge of its own existence. That means his system should also have an opinion on how best Mark can utilize his strength.

Although Mark releases power based on his own analysis of the enemy, he doesn't mind getting inputs from the system since it knows his body almost better than he does.

The system was silent for a few seconds before finally responding.

[...The system agrees that this level of power will be sufficient.]

Mark grinned and crouched into a running stance while aiming his body straight at the anima. His eyes flashed with lightning as he tensed his legs and suddenly blasted off the building!

KA-BOOM!

Mark's movement released a sonic boom that echoed around the area, drawing everyone's attention to him! Tina noticed that Mark was already coming and she immediately stopped sending her attacks and flew off as she knew that Mark's attack would be enough to disorient her if she remained anywhere near it!

Whoom!

Mark was moving so fast that he got to the anima in less than two seconds! Just as he was right in front of the anima, he slammed his feet into the ground and suddenly transferred all of his momentum into his legs, through his back, and finally into his arm.

[Critical Hit]!

[Sonic Impact]!

BOOOOMM!!!

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[Nature Academy]

Rumble~ Rumble~

A small tremor traveled through the entire school and most of the students exclaimed in awe as they watched Mark's attack on their phone screens.

"Hello. Do you mind if we talk?"

Arit looked up from the news channel broadcasting the video of Mark's fight against the anima and she was surprised to see Turner standing beside her seat. He had on a kind, disarming smile as he looked at her and she wondered what he was doing right now.

"You… want to talk to me?"

Turner nodded at Arit's question and Arit furrowed her brow as she gave the phone one last glance. From what she had seen, the anima that Mark was fighting didn't even stand a chance against him, so she could spare a few moments for Turner. Arit dropped her phone and gave Turner a nod while asking him what he wanted to talk about.

Turner looked around the class and noticed all of the students who were discreetly stealing glances at him and her.

"Well, I don't think it is possible for us to talk here since it is so crowded. Shall we go somewhere else? Somewhere more private?"

Arit was immediately on guard and Turner could sense the change in her demeanor. But even though he knew she was now more guarded, he did not back down and he waited patiently for her to give him an answer.

Finally, after a few seconds, Arit nodded and stood from her seat. Turner smiled before turning around and walking out of the class with her following behind him.

The both of them left the class under the curious gazes of some of the students. They moved towards a room in the administrative section of the school and Turner opened the door and beckoned Arit to enter. Arit was still cautious as she stepped into the room. The room was an office with a single table and two chairs in the center.

There was a couch pressed up against the wall on the right side of the room and Arit saw a pack of chips and a can of coke on it.

Turner sighed as he entered the room and went to take the pack and can to the waste bin.

"Sorry about that. Tina can be a messy eater. Please take a seat over there."

Arit went and sat down on one side of the table and Turner also came to sit down when he was done taking care of the mess. He stapled his hands together and gave Arit an easygoing smile.

"You seem tense. You don't need to be tense. I know this looks serious, but it's just procedure. The school brought us in for an investigation about what happened before and I was tasked with questioning most of the students."

Arit's face was still blank as she looked around the room. No matter how easygoing Turner was being, Arit couldn't get rid of the tense feeling in her body. She knew what this was. It was an interrogation. Turner was already suspicious about her and he was using Mark's absence as an avenue to investigate her. This could be problematic.

"Is there something you want to say?"

Turner asked Arit a question to try and make her relax, but he did not expect Arit to suddenly speak up harshly.

"It's very convenient to interview me at the same time that Mark is busy with an attack. Is that why you didn't go along with Mark and Tina? You were waiting for me to be alone?"

Turner shrugged. He wasn't going to deny it.

"Mark is undeniably powerful. It's obvious that I wouldn't be able to get a private interview with you unless he was busy with something else. Don't think that I am doing this just because I'm trying to catch you off guard or anything like that. I'm just trying to make sure all the interviews are as unbiased as possible."

"Of course. I wasn't insinuating anything. What do you want to know?"