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.
expression was the reason
me that you
Turning his head, and staring towards a
you're also telling me that a commander like you is incapable of taking care of a single individual despite the fact that you
Every single individual's breathing became rough,
"..."
Luther wordlessly raised his
light shone on his face, a massive burn mark that spread across half of his face became visible for everyone in
the table, Luther did not rebuke and
"I acknowledge my mistake."
table and resting his cheek on his fist, the handsome man indifferently asked.
gritting his teeth, and suddenly standing up. "Please give me
'”Bang!
and startling the people around him, Luther raised his
I will grab that fucker and kill
out of his mouth was
he thought about the incident that
at
you will take responsibility for
"Yes."
Luther firmly replied.
"...I see, alright."
"Really?"
eyes lit up as the flames of hatred that were flashing
will not
"mhm...but, there's one condition."
"One condition?"
and what replaced it was
expected, there's no free lunch
there were no such things as favors in the Monolith. There were only deals, and Xavier was just about
"What's the condition?"
worry, it's nothing too
elbow on the table and interlocking his fingers together, Xavier casually said. "In the process of hunting down 876, I want you to bring a couple of recruits with
"A couple of recruits?"
fairly young, but I believe in their potential. Let this be
"...Is that all?"
he teased. "What, you
no, no, I
"Good."
away from
a different topic. Long story short, we're planning on ambushing
"What!? Monica Jeffrey?"
"ah?!"
"The sunset witch?"
each other, murmurs and whispers instantly swept the
the room knew
prodigy that had never been
together, Xavier calmly explained. "The reason why I'm telling
ordered. "In the meantime, once the higher-ups leave to take care of that pest, it will be your job to ensure
Xavier's words, everyone
the war between the Monolith and
that would no longer be hidden in
this, the atmosphere became
thinking, Xavier
understand what
other for a brief moment, standing up, everyone
"Yes!"
meeting is
his hands together and standing up from his seat, Xavier turned around and made his
left the room, following after him, were the rest of the people that had
***
amount of
but eventually, regaining control
I was
mind felt hazy and my vision
Or
reality
body ached and many questions emerged inside of my
'Right, the fire.'
remembering what had happened to me moments prior. The
"Ah."
my head, a small audible gasp escaped from my lips. Covered from head to toe with bandages, I found myself inside of what seemed to be a
people in a similar state to
"Oh, you're up?"
voice called
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