The Author's POV

Chapter 277

Amidst the chaos, glancing at my watch, I ran towards a certain section of the first level. From what I've observed, the people that had infiltrated the Monolith were targeting the general portals.

The ones that everyone used.

On a good note, those were not the portals that I was aiming for. On a bad note, I could more or less tell that they were planning on blowing up this place. The plan was fairly obvious, I was sure that the Monolith had understood this as well.

'Damn it, I don't have much time at my disposal.'

Ignoring all of the chaos around me, following the map on my phone, I quickly made my way towards the area where the private portal was. Time was not on my side. If they were truly hell-bent on blowing up the portals, then I really had to hurry.

"As expected, there are only a few people here."

Arriving before the designated location, glancing left and right, I noticed that the security was fairly lax.

My original plan was to pretend to be the commander using the mask to then directly enter the portal. The problem regarding his build wasn't actually a problem, I still had a few gigantifying potions from Immorra.

The only reason I had not used them back then, was because I wanted Luther to actually notice me.

Risky, but it paid off.

Either way, that plan was now no longer viable. With the Monolith under attack, everything changed.

Hiding behind a wall, and peeking right, I looked up and glanced at the cameras in the distance.

After that, I looked below them.

'Good, there are only two guards.'

Guarding an enormous metal door were two guards whose strength was about the same as mine, around the rank range. Under normal circumstances, there would've been stronger guards guarding the place, but these weren't normal circumstances.

The stronger guards had probably left their post in order to aid the people guarding the general gate.

Though this made them look sloppy, in reality, this wasn't a real problem. Without the special pass, even if the invaders tried to brute force the way into the room that led to the portal, they wouldn't be able to get in. The materials used to make the doors were something that even ranked would have difficulty breaking.

Thus, the decision to leave those two weaker guards to guard the place was the right decision given the circumstances.

And this perfectly aligned with my plans.

"huuu..."

Closing my eyes, and exhaling, with the aid of the chip inside of my head, my brain started processing all of the information that I had just observed.

'The distance between me and the guards is more than ten meters, this I can't use the third movement. This is a bit of a problem since I don't want to alert the others of my presence...there's also another problem I need to take care of."

Because I specialized in sneak attacks, as long as my opponent wasn't way stronger than me or reacted faster than my swords, killing them wouldn't really pose a problem for me.

There was only one problem though.

Peeking right, I glanced at the cameras that were above the two guards.

The cameras.

The biggest problem at the moment was the cameras. If I wanted to use the Keiki style, I had to make sure that I removed all evidence of it.

By now, everyone knew that Ren Dover was the inheritor of the Keiki style. This was without a doubt something that everyone knew as it had been broadcasted to the whole world during the tournament. What they also knew was that I was dead.

If the Monolith suddenly spotted 876 using the Keiki style, then finding out about my real identity wouldn't really be a problem. If that were to truly happen, all hell would break loose for me.

'I can't let that happen.'

Just imagining the consequences of such revelation, caused the back of my hair to raise. Taking a deep breath, a look of resolution flashed across my eyes.

'Even if this removes the element of surprise and makes things harder for me, I don't want to leave anything that would come back and bite me in the future.'

Grabbing a couple of sharp objects from my dimensional space, squinting, and aiming for the cameras in the distance, I flicked my fingers, and the objects shot towards the cameras in the distance like bullets.

'”WHIIIIIZ!

The moment I flicked my fingers, stomping my foot on the ground, I quickly dashed towards the two guards in the distance.

"Hey!"

"Intruders!"

Raising their weapons, they tried to call for backup, but before they could get to it, I had already arrived before them

"Khuek!"

flashed for a split second and one of the guards flew towards

Bam'”!

against the

of surprise, the guard was able to block my attack, and thus didn't die

"Haaa!"

rang by my ear, as the other guard slashed their halberd down. Coldly glancing at the incoming

as I grabbed the shaft of the

Bam'”!

the halbert hit the ground at full force and a small crater appeared. Fine miniature crevices extended from the

"What!?"

what had just happened,

'”Click!

clicking sound rang out and his body

"That's one dow'”"

'”Di! '”Di!

a silent ringing

towards the guard that I had injured previously, I instantly became alarmed. With a black box in his hand, I watched as the guard who I was unable to kill before, brought

"No, you don't."

the built-up tension in the core of my body and threw the sword in his direction. Splitting the air, the sword disappeared from my hand and reappeared in front of

"Rep'”Huek!"

him in the heart. The black box in his

Hello? Is anybody

to the radio transmitter, I grabbed

wanted to know about the current situation

a brief moment, the voice on

only called

could be felt from

of what is happening. The other guards who have left have also not told us anything, and I was wondering

Stay there and keep watch of the portal. Do you understand? This

the person on the other side of the speaker listened to

your post and if anybody comes, kill them on sight.

"Affirmative."

'”Good.

my hand, I turned around and looked at

black card that I took from Luther, I placed it on

unlocked, and I entered the room. Upon entering the room a massive gate appeared in front of me. At the moment, the gate was completely hollow since it wasn't activated, but even then,

pulsated white light. Knowing what it was, without a second thought, I walked up

「Please select location」

▶ [Ashton City]

▷ [Dromeda City]

▷ [Park City]

.

.

the orb, a small window appeared in front of me. On it was the different locations I could teleport to. Without giving it a second thought, I

selected, teleportation activation

orb lit up, and a humming sound rang out in the room. After that, a robotic voice echoed as visible tangible threads of mana appeared out of thin air, converging towards the portal. Slowly but surely, the threads of

"...this is it."

activating, I nervously bit my lips. Finally, after more than eight months in this

waiting for the portal to open up, I looked

about it, I spent

The irony.

extremely powerful poison to deal with him, the fact that it took me less time to deal with him than

"How much time left..."

orb, I couldn't hide my nervousness as I repeatedly

[5:07]

minutes, come

BOOOM'”!

sound of the building crumbling down. Rushing out of the room, I realized that apart from the room where the gate was, a major part of the building had been destroyed allowing

moment I looked up and stared

pressure, that orange-colored

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