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
me that you still can't
head, and staring towards a certain individual
of taking care of a single individual despite the fact that you
the room. Every single individual's breathing became
"..."
Luther wordlessly raised
light shone on his face, a massive burn mark that spread
his fists underneath the table, Luther did not
"I acknowledge my mistake."
cheek on his fist, the handsome man
his teeth, and suddenly standing up. "Please give me another chance,
'”Bang!
and startling the people around him, Luther raised his
that I will grab that fucker and kill him with my
every single word that came out of his mouth was coated with unimaginable amounts
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
starting at Luther, Xavier
you're saying that you will take responsibility
"Yes."
Luther firmly replied.
"...I see, alright."
"Really?"
flames of hatred
will not
"mhm...but, there's one condition."
"One condition?"
and what replaced it
free lunch
the Monolith operated, Luther knew that there were no such things as favors in
"What's the condition?"
it's nothing too
Xavier casually said. "In the process of hunting down 876, I want you to bring a couple of recruits
"A couple of recruits?"
their potential. Let this be a good experience for
"...Is that all?"
Smiling, he teased. "What, you were expecting
no, no, I
"Good."
away from Luther,
topic. Long story short, we're planning on ambushing Monica
"What!? Monica Jeffrey?"
"ah?!"
"The sunset witch?"
each other, murmurs and whispers instantly swept
the room knew
that had never been seen before, and
his hands that were interlocked together, Xavier calmly explained. "The reason why I'm telling you this is because the higher-ups are planning on ambushing
pest, it will be your job to ensure everyone's safety. If there is anything big that
Xavier's words, everyone
then the war between the Monolith and the Union would escalate even further
no longer be hidden in the
this, the atmosphere
was thinking, Xavier sharply looked at
everyone understand
at each other for a brief moment,
"Yes!"
meeting is
Xavier turned around and made his way out of
after him, were the rest of the people that had
***
unknown amount of time, darkness enveloped
had passed, but eventually, regaining control of my body, I
my eyes, I was met with
hazy and my vision was
succeed? Or did I
boundary between reality and dreams
of my mind as memories started
'Right, the fire.'
what had happened to me moments prior. The pain that was coursing through my body was what really reminded me of
"Ah."
my lips. Covered from head to toe
other people in a similar
"Oh, you're up?"
soft voice called out for
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