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.

the reason for the heavy

that you still

his head, and

me that a commander like you is incapable of taking care of a single individual despite the fact that you had

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

"..."

wordlessly raised his

light shone on his face, a massive burn mark that

table, Luther did not rebuke and

"I acknowledge my mistake."

on his fist, the handsome

head, before gritting his teeth, and

'”Bang!

table and startling the people around him, Luther raised

you that I will grab that fucker

that came out of his mouth was coated with unimaginable

he did not get any serious injury, fury 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 before, it

at Luther, Xavier

will take

"Yes."

Luther firmly replied.

"...I see, alright."

"Really?"

the flames of hatred that were flashing across his eyes burned even

will not

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

"One condition?"

died down, and what replaced it

no free lunch in this

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

"What's the condition?"

worry, it's

elbow on the table and interlocking his fingers together, Xavier casually said. "In the process of hunting down 876, I want you to

"A couple of recruits?"

I believe in their potential.

"...Is that all?"

teased. "What, you

no,

"Good."

away from Luther, Xavier switched the

onto a different topic. Long story short, we're

"What!? Monica Jeffrey?"

"ah?!"

"The sunset witch?"

and whispers instantly

in the room knew who

hero, a prodigy that

together, Xavier calmly explained. "The reason why I'm telling you this is because the higher-ups are

at everyone present in the room, Xavier ordered. "In the meantime, once the higher-ups leave to take care of that pest, it will be your

everyone drew

Xavier said was true, and the higher-ups actually succeeded in killing Monica Jeffrey, then the war between the Monolith and the Union would escalate even further and reach points where they would start an

no longer be hidden

the atmosphere

everyone was thinking, Xavier sharply looked at everyone

everyone understand what I

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

"Yes!"

the meeting

together and standing up from his seat, Xavier turned around and made his way

after him, were the rest of the people

***

amount of time, darkness enveloped

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

I opened my eyes, I was met with

and my

Or

boundary between reality

emerged inside of

'Right, the fire.'

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

"Ah."

Covered from head to toe with bandages,

other people in a similar state

"Oh, you're up?"

soft voice called out

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