The Author's POV

Chapter 281

"Haaa...haaa...khaaa!"

Slumping on the ground, I greedily breathed in the oxygen in the air. Blood dripped on the ground as I bled from all of the orifices on my face.

'Damn it, that was no joke'

An ranked individual's pressure was no joke. For a brief moment of time, I thought that I was going to die just from his stare alone.

Fortunately for me, he was too far from where I was. By the time he had arrived, I was already long gone.

Still, just the recollection of the pressure he emitted made me tremble in fear.

It was scary.

"Khh"

Groaning, I lifted my head and looked around.

"Haaa, guess things worked out."

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Once I looked up, I realized that this was the same room as before, the private portal room. Thanks to the Monolith ring that I had taken from Luther, I was able to teleport to this room.

The room was still the same as I had left it, as the portal was ready to go.

'Thank god, things worked out.'

Although I could've used this portal to create an explosion, had I done so, I wouldn't have been able to escape.

Supporting myself with the aid of the wall, I weakly stood up. Staring at the portal, my heart was surprisingly calm.

I was just one step away from freedom, something that I had been wishing for the past eight months. Yet, at the crucial moment, just when I was about to take a step towards freedom, to my surprise, rather than feeling excited or happy, I felt extremely calm.

Perhaps it was because of all of that happened during the past eight months, or because of the scare I just got, but I wasn't particularly excited about my escape.

It felt as though this was the outcome that was supposed to happen.

"hmm?"

Disrupting me out of my calm was a sudden fluctuation. The fluctuation was so strong that the ground started to shake.

"Shit, the core is about to explode."

Realizing the urgency of the situation, I decided to hurry up.

I wasn't necessarily worried about someone coming to get me since by now the others were busy trying to contain the explosion, but even then, judging from the ripple just now, the portal was about to explode any minute now.

For my own good, it was better to leave before it exploded.

"Huuu..."

Moving towards the portal, I took a deep breath. Turning back, and staring in the direction of where the general portals were, I raised my hand and flipped my middle finger.

As I did, I swore out loud.

"The explosion is only a little taste of what will come in the future you fuckers!"

For what they've done to me these pasts eight months, I swore to myself that I would do anything within my power to destroy them.

That was a promise.

Glancing in the direction of where the energy was coming from for the last time, I turned around and stepped into the portal.

Once again, a strange feeling hit me, and my body slowly disappeared.

SHUUUUA'”!

Finally, I was free.

***

At the same time.

"Damn it."

Standing in the sky, Mo Jinhao cursed out loud. His ashen grey colored eyes coldly stared at the portal in front of him. In the middle of it was a core that emitted tremendous ripples of energy that spread throughout the distance, dying the sky in the color black.

Kacha'”!

Suddenly, black lightning bolts crackled around the core, as the fluctuations started to intensify. As the fluctuations intensified, Mo Jinhao's face couldn't help but change as even he felt threatened by the energy that was being emitted by the core.

Lowering his head, he looked at Tasos next to him.

"Tasos, inject more mana."

"I'm trying."

Tasos replied back as the hue revolving around his body intensified.

Crack'”!

The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black

if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy

"Brace yourselves!"

Jinhao cried out as his robes fluttered

both hands on the barrier in front of him, a majestic aura sprang out from his body.

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a deafening

began to tremble and an incomparably vicious aura began to spread out from the core at unprecedented speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding it. The energy that was spreading out from the sphere was so strong that it could've easily reduced an ranked individual

"Hueeeek!

paled rapidly as the mana inside of his body quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos was not doing much

nothing needed to be said as they quickly dropped like

how fucking

bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already running low on mana due to the

the

Crack'”!

from the barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he looked at Mo

Mo Jinhao's

Crack'”!

more cracks

"Shit!"

cursed as blood started to flow down from his nostrils. Turning towards Mo

we do? At this rate, the barrier won't

"...I know."

seemingly having come up with a decision, much to

expression flashed

I would have to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

and raising both hands, terrifying energy suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the color

OMMM'”!

he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it started to

broke apart, and the

barrier managing to absorb a lot of the energy from the explosion, the red barrier was able to

immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his

"Contract."

red barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat

until it was the size of a football.

"Come."

ball quickly flew into the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping

'”Spurt!

he spat out a mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

were about to approach him to make sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

air.

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the

like the apocalypse had

for the next ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and

at the sky from below, no one spoke as absolute silence

"D-id we do it?"

to break the silence was Tasos who stared at the sky with utter

just occurred. The energy that came from it made

'”Spurt!

his daze was the sound of blood splurting on the ground. Turning around,

"Vice-leader."

he appeared next to Mo Jinhao and supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked as though he had

you okay? Is everything

"I'm...cough...cough...fine."

as he descended towards the ground

he promptly

and..." Pausing, Mo Jinhao's face twisted savagely. "I want you to tell me who the

injured, as he spat those words, Tasos

"U-understood"

approximate idea of what had happened. They also

the Monolith were

the losses they incurred as well as found out the identity of the individual responsible for

middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the

politely bowed and handed them

have completed

"Thank you."

the reports. As he was

destroyed, and we've lost a major

looking through the

approximate loss of our

twenty-five A ranks, and over a

"I see..."

Jinhao's face stopped towards a certain file. Glancing at the individual, he

me more about

at the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva,

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