"Listen. This is my divine decree to all humans and mutants."
"Over the long years, you have lost your way, abandoned the faith you should have upheld, forgotten the existence of gods, and built your self-important world upon a hollow civilization...
"And now I have returned, bearing the supreme will of the gods, to walk this earth once more."
"The towering buildings you take such pride in and the false temples you worship will crumble, along with your civilization and your faith."
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"The dawn of a new age will come, and you are powerless to stop it."
"I make this proclamation today only to tell all mutants that this world belongs to you."
"Humans should grovel at the feet of mutants!"
Once that belligerent declaration ended, the psychic voice resounding throughout the world abruptly vanished.
Du Mu raised an eyebrow.
What a textbook villain's opening speech. It sounded almost exactly like Sebastian's lines back then.
Obviously, the voice had been transmitted directly into everyone's mind through Telepathy.
Except it had never reached Du Mu's mind.
He wore the Dullard Ring, which granted immunity to Telepathy. Essentially, he had unplugged his brain's network cable.
No matter how powerful a telepath was, they could not invade his consciousness, so naturally he could not hear the voice appearing in everyone else's mind.
Fortunately, Psylocke stood beside him. Du Mu read her thoughts and heard the entire speech that way.
There was no need to guess. The voice obviously belonged to Apocalypse, the man who had abducted Charles. He had commandeered Charles's psychic network as a megaphone, spamming the entire server to announce his return to the world.
Du Mu casually checked the internet. Sure enough, it had exploded.
Billions of people around the globe had heard Apocalypse's arrogant declaration.
Apocalypse's actions had