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'”!

heard a subtle cracking sound coming from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and

energy that was being emitted from the core stopped mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy rapidly compressed together into the core before,

"Brace yourselves!"

out as his robes fluttered widely

aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up,

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a deafening

an incomparably vicious aura began to spread out from the core at unprecedented speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that

"Hueeeek!

hands on the sphere, Mo Jinhao's face paled rapidly as the mana inside of his body quickly depleted itself. Next to him,

be said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls of

it, how

curse out loud. The more people fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao

was the worst-case

Crack'”!

A horrified look appeared on his face

at him, Mo Jinhao's face became

Crack'”!

Following this, more and more cracks started

"Shit!"

as blood started to flow down from his

rate, the barrier

"...I know."

having come up with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise, Mo Jinhao suddenly closed

flashed across his

I would have to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

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

OMMM'”!

tap, yet, the moment he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it started to collapse as a red glow enveloped the barrier surrounding the portal, before contracting fully

apart, and the remaining energy from the explosion flushed towards the

lot of the energy from the explosion, the red

sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his hand

"Contract."

contracted. Sweat dripped down from the side of his face,

barrier contracted until it was the size of a

"Come."

into the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping from Mo Jinhao's

'”Spurt!

a mouthful of blood startling everyone

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

him to make sure he was

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could no longer see the

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

and wind surged as the explosion occurred, completely enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the scene from below, it felt as though

like the

continued for the next ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and once again

below, no one spoke

"D-id we do it?"

the silence was Tasos who stared at the sky with

she recalled the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came from it made him tremble in fear. It was

'”Spurt!

the sound of

"Vice-leader."

body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked as though he

are you okay?

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

as he descended towards the ground with

he promptly rejected. Turning around and staring

losses that we've incurred from this ordeal, and..." Pausing, Mo Jinhao's face

severely injured, as he spat those words, Tasos and the people around him couldn't help but

"U-understood"

roaming around the Monolith to get an approximate idea of what had happened. They also checked the cameras and surveillance system to get a better idea

the Monolith were

incurred as well

middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them, he had the

before them, he politely bowed and handed them a

we have

"Thank you."

from the individual's hands, Mo Jinhao's cold eyes swept through the reports. As he was reading, the individual that handed him the reports started

the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major part of our force. The estimated damage is around 10

individual speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo Jinhao

loss

S ranks, twenty-five A ranks, and over a hundred B ranks and

"I see..."

a while, Mo Jinhao's face stopped towards a certain file.

me more about

mouthful of

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