The Author's POV

Chapter 270

The moment I stepped into the flames, I could feel the heat from the fire brush past my skin.

Waving my hand forward and channeling the wind psyons in the air, a protective sphere formed around me, redirecting the flames away from me.

With the sphere around me, I moved forward. Towards the sea of flames.

"Khhh..."

A couple of steps into the fire, a small groan escaped from my lips.

Despite the fact that I was diverting the fire away from me, the heat from the fire was no joke. The evidence of this was my skin which was slowly turning red.

"kh..."

Gritting my teeth, and ignoring the pain, I continued moving forward.

"Haaa!"

"Hue!"

Because of the raging flames blocking my vision, I couldn't see where I was going. Even then, I could still hear the agonizing shouts coming from the guards that were being burnt alive.

Focusing on the screams coming from the guards, I quickly headed in their direction.

They were my goal.

"Khh...khhh..help"

Before long, following the nearest scream, I arrived before a guard. Well, what remained of the guard.

With the air barrier revolving around me, arriving before him, I was able to get a quick glimpse of his condition.

The moment my eyes laid on him, all I saw was a charred body. With his hand raised towards my direction, in a groggy, almost inaudible voice, he begged.

"Help...me...ahh'”!"

"Sure."

Lowering my body, I raised my hand and smacked his head, directly killing him in one hit. At this point, even someone came to his aid, he was too far injured to be saved.

"huuu."

Exhaling, my eyes paused towards what seemed to be the hand of the guard. On it, was a small golden ring.

Taking the ring from the guard's hand, I closed my eyes and channeled my mana.

'Great, everything is here.'

Looking through the ring and seeing that everything was still in there, I smiled in satisfaction.

Taking out the ring that was on my finger and replacing it with the one I took from the guard, I put away my old ring.

Once I put the ring on my finger, staring at the corpse of the guard next to me, I moved back, and once again let it be engulfed by the flames.

Turning around, I moved a couple of meters away from the body and sat down.

"huuu."

Taking a deep breath, I knew that I didn't have much time. Closing my eyes, I decreased the radius of the air shield that was revolving around me.

"khh.."

Burn marks started to appear all over my body, but I didn't care. I had to save as much mana as possible.

The flames around me continued to rage wildly around me for the next ten minutes or so, and just when I was about to run out of mana, the flames finally started showing signs of decreasing.

"Over here."

"There is an injured person over here"

Before long I could hear the sound of the rescue team in the distance. Waving my hand, the air shield around me dissipated, and once it disappeared, the flames instantly enveloped my entire body.

Closing my eyes, using the last mana inside of my body, I muttered.

"Monarch's indifference."

***

Inside of a large room lit by a dim lamp, multiple figures sat around a large oval wooden table. At the moment, a heavy atmosphere shrouded the room as everyone's eyes looked towards a man sitting at the head of the table.

Objectively speaking, he was a handsome man. He had sharp, well-defined facial features that shone beautifully under the dim light.

displeased expression was the reason for the

that

his head, and staring towards a certain individual sitting

also telling me that a commander like you is incapable of taking care of a single individual

breathing became rough, and sweat trickled down the

"..."

Luther wordlessly

burn mark that spread

table, Luther

"I acknowledge my mistake."

fist,

gritting his teeth, and suddenly standing up. "Please give

'”Bang!

his fist on the table and startling the people around him, Luther

you that I will grab that fucker and kill him with my

out of

and humiliation surged within him whenever he thought about the incident that happened not too long ago. Such disgrace was something he had never experienced

starting at Luther, Xavier

you will take responsibility for your

"Yes."

Luther firmly replied.

"...I see, alright."

"Really?"

the flames of hatred that were flashing across his eyes

not

"mhm...but, there's one condition."

"One condition?"

excitement died down, and what

no free lunch in

no such things as favors in the Monolith. There were only deals, and Xavier was just about to

"What's the condition?"

it's nothing too

together, Xavier casually said. "In the process of hunting down 876,

"A couple of recruits?"

their potential. Let

"...Is that all?"

"What,

no,

"Good."

attention away from

topic. Long story short, we're

"What!? Monica Jeffrey?"

"ah?!"

"The sunset witch?"

murmurs and whispers

room knew

the next SS ranked hero, a prodigy that

hands that were interlocked together, Xavier calmly explained. "The reason why I'm telling

Xavier ordered. "In the meantime, once the higher-ups leave to take care of that pest, it will be your job to ensure everyone's safety. If there is

everyone drew a

then the war between the Monolith and

no longer

atmosphere became extremely

what everyone was thinking, Xavier sharply looked at

everyone understand

each other for a brief moment, standing up, everyone unanimously

"Yes!"

the meeting

up from his seat, Xavier

after him, were the rest of the people that had attended the meeting.

***

of time,

much time had passed, but eventually, regaining control

I opened my eyes, I was met with an

and my vision was

Or

boundary between reality and

body ached and many questions emerged inside of my mind as memories started flooding inside

'Right, the fire.'

I started remembering what had happened to me moments prior. The pain that was coursing

"Ah."

from head to toe with bandages, I found

people in a

"Oh, you're up?"

called

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