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

that you still

room. Turning his head, and staring towards a certain individual sitting on the

taking care of a single individual despite the fact that you

room. Every single individual's breathing became rough, and sweat trickled down

"..."

Luther wordlessly raised his

the light shone on his face, a massive burn mark that spread across half of his face became

table, Luther did not rebuke

"I acknowledge my mistake."

on his fist, the handsome man indifferently asked. "Is that all you have to

his head, before gritting his teeth, and suddenly standing up.

'”Bang!

on the table and startling the people around him, Luther

will grab that fucker and

and every single word that came out of his mouth was

incident that happened not too long ago. Such disgrace was something he had never

at

that you will take responsibility for

"Yes."

Luther firmly replied.

"...I see, alright."

"Really?"

lit up as the flames of hatred that

will not disappoint

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

"One condition?"

down, and what replaced it was

expected, there's no free lunch in

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

"What's the condition?"

worry, it's nothing

together, Xavier casually said. "In the process of

"A couple of recruits?"

they're fairly young, but I believe in their potential.

"...Is that all?"

Smiling, he teased. "What, you were

no,

"Good."

his attention away from Luther, Xavier switched

different topic. Long story short, we're planning on

"What!? Monica Jeffrey?"

"ah?!"

"The sunset witch?"

murmurs and

room

the next SS ranked hero, a prodigy that had never been seen before, and

on his hands that were interlocked together, Xavier calmly explained. "The reason

the higher-ups leave to take care of that pest, it will be your job to ensure

to Xavier's words, everyone drew a cold

killing Monica Jeffrey, then the war between the Monolith and the Union would escalate even further and reach points

no longer be hidden

this, the atmosphere

was thinking, Xavier sharply looked at everyone

repeat, did everyone understand what

at each other for a brief moment, standing up,

"Yes!"

the meeting is

up from his seat, Xavier turned around and

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

***

unknown amount of time, darkness enveloped my

time had passed, but eventually, regaining control of my body, I opened my

my eyes, I was met

felt hazy and

I succeed? Or did I

between reality and

inside of my mind as memories started flooding

'Right, the fire.'

then that slowly I started remembering what had happened to me moments prior. The pain that was coursing through my body

"Ah."

lips. Covered from head to toe with bandages, I found myself inside of what seemed to be a

other people in a

"Oh, you're up?"

soft voice called out for

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