The Author's POV

'”BOOOOOM!

"'”'”!"

The whole building shook, and all the furniture in the room fell onto the ground. Stumbling back a couple of steps, my eyes opened wide. 'What in the world just happened?' Without wasting time, dashing out of the room, I ran towards the entrance of the dorms.

Because the area had been sealed by Matthew and his two companions, there was no one in my area. It took a while for me to spot some people.

"What's going on?!"

"What happened?"

Turning right and walking into a corridor, startled guards appeared everywhere as they wondered about what had just happened. The confusion only grew deeper as more and more people came out

'Is the Monolith under seige?'

I wondered as I recalled the explosion that had just rung not long ago.

The force coming from the explosion was so strong that I knew that a big enemy had attacked the whole building.

The real question was, who attacked the Monolith? Was it perhaps the Union? Or was this due to some internal disputes inside of the Monolith?

Quite frankly, I wasn't sure.

There was a chance this was the work of the Union.

'If I don't remember incorrectly, they have an artifact that allows them to travel to the main headquarters of the Monolith'

This was something that I knew they had since it did not only teleport to the Monolith, but to other places as well. In the novel, they actually never used it to travel to the Monolith, but I knew all too well just how much the story had deviated from the original one.

The chances of this being the Union were not low.

'”BOOOOOM!

Disrupting me out of my thoughts, the building once again shook. This time, the explosion was even louder than before as the tremors intensified. Holding onto the side of the wall, I tried not to fall.

'”WHIIIIIII! '”WHIIIIIII!

[This is an emergency message, we're currently under attack. I repeat we're currently under attack. All personnel and members please make your way to the first level to aid the defense unit. I repeat, all personell...]

The blaring sound of the sirens rang out, and a warning echoed from the speakers around the building. Immediately after, almost everyone around me rushed towards the exit of the second level.

"Quick!"

"Everyone onto the first level!"

With almost everyone here being a guard, upon receiving the orders, everyone rushed towards the first level just like the alarm had told them to. Because of the chaos, no one particularly noticed me, as they all rushed downstairs.

"Might as well take advantage of the situation."

Lowering the cap on my head and putting my mask away, I decided to follow them downstairs.

Though I had the mask available to me, now that the whole place was in chaos, I could take advantage of it and escape through them.

This was for the best. With this, my mana which was quite low could be conserved. The mask did consume a lot of mana after all. Furthermore, amongst the chaos, the probability of someone actively looking for me through the cameras was low. They had probably forgotten about me by now.

'Perfect'

Joining the crowd and hiding my presence amongst the masses, I quickly headed for the first level.

Freedom had never been this close.

***

At the same time.

air as they coldly looked down below them. Their majestic mana

sky were wearing black-colored robes. Upon closer look, they all looked malnourished with sunken cheeks and red-blood eyes. Their bright red eyes swept the entire forest until finally, they paused on Monica, Tasos, and Amon who were all wearing skin masks

Had it been someone else and not them, their legs would involuntarily become limp under these violent gazes

"Hmph!"

the ground, the killing intent that was directed towards her vanished

me,"

were lower than hers, a seriousness that was difficult to mask

the Devlon brothers. You should be able to

had appeared in the sky. Just his expression

head with a faint smile on his face. Staring at the sky,

help you, or can you take care

do you think I am? I can at least take care

know that the three of them combined have a strength equivalent to rank." Amon chimed in. Even though he knew that she could

I finish them quickly, I don't really see a

Monica did not fall for the

both shrugged their shoulders before giving her the green light. "Alright, do whatever you

should deal with the small fries

holding her sword vertically, Monica's brow twitched. Opening her eyes, she glared at the two

you guys shut up?

we're sorry.

laughed before taking a step back and looking

been lured out of the headquarters. By directly exploiting one of the spies amongst the higher-ups,

an external factor that they did not account for meddled their plans, their plans of dealing a massive blow

must be looking for death." Surprised by Monica's power, one of the elders levitating in the air throatily laughed. His blood-red

that there was someone stupid enough to actually attack our main base?" Another

"I can't seem to be able

elders that were talking to each other glanced at each

fatal flaw,

artifact to mask their

"True."

over them before once again raising her sword. Slowly

talk

elders,

surged out explosively from the veins within her body. Finally, it became like

ground slowly lifted up as Monica's body raised into the air. Raising her

An instant later, the glow disappeared and an orange-colored armor materialized, covering her exquisite pretty

and childish, right now she looked like a war goddess

below, Amon showed

now see why those

due to her childish character, he had

since she could perform Mana-conglomeration, or more specifically, psyon-conglomeration which was the process in which someone whose control over psyons reached such levels of fine control that they could summon tangible mana in the air and form

case,

the strongest individuals could use it. For Monica, who was only 28 years

"T-that's mana-conglomeration."

expression of the elders standing not so far from her

eyes, a bright shine enveloped the area as Monica's voice rang out in

"Haaa!"

the way towards the tip of her sword where it converged together before releasing a terrifying orange

WHIIIIING!

"Get into formation!"

incoming attack, the three

got into a triangular formation and frantically

the appearance of this formation, three powerful mana signatures that were all dark green in