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'”!

a subtle cracking sound coming from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black tangible energy

if it was frozen in time. Following

"Brace yourselves!"

out as his robes fluttered widely in the

aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up, with Tasos's

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a deafening

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

"Hueeeek!

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

said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls

it, how fucking

he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already running

the worst-case

Crack'”!

Tasos heard a slight cracking sound coming from the barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he looked at

at him, Mo Jinhao's

Crack'”!

more cracks started to appear on the surface of

"Shit!"

started to flow down from

should we do? At this rate, the

"...I know."

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

expression flashed

think that I would have to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

his eyes, and raising both hands, terrifying energy suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the color red. Then, clenching his fists, the red

OMMM'”!

lightly tapped it in the 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 as a red glow enveloped the barrier surrounding the portal,

broke apart, and

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

an immortal, Mo

"Contract."

towards the surroundings, and the red barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped down from the

contracted until it was the size of a

"Come."

sky up above. Staring at the ball in the

'”Spurt!

mouthful of

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

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

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

another terrifying explosion rang out. Clouds and wind surged as the explosion occurred, completely enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the scene from below,

like the apocalypse

before the sky cleared up, and once

the sky from below, no one spoke as

"D-id we do it?"

Tasos who stared at the sky

had just occurred. The energy that came

'”Spurt!

his daze was the sound of blood splurting

"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

you okay?

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

Jinhao as he descended towards

but he promptly rejected. Turning around and staring

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

he spat those words, Tasos and the people around him

"U-understood"

around the Monolith to get an approximate idea of what had happened.

the Monolith were

already managed to calculate the losses they incurred as well as found out the identity of the individual responsible for

much weaker than the likes

before them, he politely bowed and handed

we have completed

"Thank you."

Mo Jinhao's cold eyes swept through the reports. As he was reading, the individual

losses are heavy. Almost half of the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major part of our force. The estimated damage is

the individual speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo

approximate loss of our

twenty-five A ranks, and over a hundred B

"I see..."

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

me more

the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the middle-aged man

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