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'”!

below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black

if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy rapidly compressed together into the core before, deathly silence permeated

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes

hands on the barrier in front of him, a majestic aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up,

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a deafening sound rang

began to spread out from the core at unprecedented speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding

"Hueeeek!

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

the others, nothing needed to be said as they quickly dropped like flies

how

fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao

the

Crack'”!

from the barrier. A horrified look appeared on his

Mo Jinhao's

Crack'”!

cracking sound rang out. Following this, more and more

"Shit!"

started to flow down from his nostrils. Turning towards Mo Jinhao, he cried

rate, the barrier won't hold out for

"...I know."

cracking barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise, Mo

expression flashed

I would

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

the color red.

OMMM'”!

air. It was a seemingly simple tap, yet, the moment he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it started to collapse

completely broke apart, and the remaining energy from

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

immortal, Mo

"Contract."

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

contracted until it was the size of a football. Inside of it,

"Come."

small ball quickly flew into the sky up above. Staring

'”Spurt!

spat out a mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

approach him to make sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao raised his hand

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

blood, Mo Jinhao weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could no

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

terrifying explosion rang out. Clouds and wind surged as the explosion occurred, completely enveloping the sky in flames. The

like the

ten minutes before the sky cleared

below, no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

silence was Tasos who stared at

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

'”Spurt!

of blood splurting on the ground. Turning

"Vice-leader."

to Mo Jinhao and supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help,

okay? Is everything

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

replied Mo Jinhao as he descended

Jinhao to sit down, but he promptly rejected. Turning around and

ask someone to report to me the losses that we've incurred from this ordeal, and..." Pausing, Mo Jinhao's face twisted savagely. "I want you to tell me

as he spat those words, Tasos and the people around him couldn't

"U-understood"

and started roaming around the Monolith to get an approximate idea of what had happened. They also checked the

the Monolith

to calculate the losses they incurred as well as

Tasos, was a tall middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker

he politely bowed and

have

"Thank you."

swept through the reports. As he was reading, the individual that handed him the reports started

the losses are heavy. Almost half of the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major

looking through the file, Mo

the approximate loss

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

"I see..."

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

me more about

mouthful of saliva,

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