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 a thick black tangible energy began to spread outwards

that was being emitted from the core stopped mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this,

"Brace yourselves!"

out as his robes fluttered widely

of him, a majestic aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up, with Tasos's energy being the

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening sound

speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding it. The energy that was spreading out from the sphere was so strong

"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 mana

as they quickly dropped like flies and spat

how

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

the

Crack'”!

sound coming from the barrier. A horrified

Mo

Crack'”!

this, more and more cracks started to appear on the surface of the

"Shit!"

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

should we do? At this rate, the barrier won't hold out for

"...I know."

barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision, much

gloomy expression flashed

think that I would have to resort

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

body, completely dying the sky in the color

OMMM'”!

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

and the remaining energy from the

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

like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly

"Contract."

Sweat dripped

the size of a football. Inside of

"Come."

arrived before Mo Jinhao. Waving his staff, the small ball quickly flew into the sky up

'”Spurt!

he spat out a mouthful of blood startling everyone

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

as the others were about to approach him to make sure

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

head in the air. Once he could no longer see the ball

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the scene from below, it felt

the apocalypse had

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

below, no one spoke as absolute

"D-id we do it?"

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

that had just occurred. The

'”Spurt!

Tasos out of his daze was the sound of blood splurting on the ground. Turning

"Vice-leader."

with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked

you okay? Is

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

replied Mo Jinhao as he descended towards

the ground, Tasos offered Mo Jinhao to sit down, but he promptly rejected.

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

Mo Jinhao was extremely weakened, and severely injured, as he spat those words, Tasos and the people around him couldn't

"U-understood"

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

members of the Monolith

managed to calculate the losses they incurred as well as found out the identity of

he was much weaker than

he politely bowed and handed them

we have completed

"Thank you."

the reports. As he was reading, the individual that handed

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

looking

approximate loss

ranks, and over a hundred

"I see..."

swept the area. After a while, Mo Jinhao's face stopped towards a

me more about

at the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the

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