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 core below them. The fluctuations ran even more

core stopped mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy

"Brace yourselves!"

out as his robes fluttered widely in

front of him, a majestic aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up,

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a deafening sound

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

"Hueeeek!

paled rapidly as the mana inside of his body quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos

quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls of

how

people fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao

the

Crack'”!

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

him, Mo Jinhao's face became extremely

Crack'”!

sound rang out. Following this, more and more cracks started to appear on the surface of

"Shit!"

down from his nostrils.

At this rate, the barrier won't

"...I know."

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

flashed

that I would have

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in 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 as a red glow enveloped the barrier surrounding the portal, before contracting fully creating another

the previous barrier completely broke apart, and the remaining energy

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

sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao

"Contract."

the surroundings, and the red barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped down from the side of his face, as his

seconds, the barrier contracted until it was the size of a football.

"Come."

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

'”Spurt!

mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

to approach him to make sure he was okay,

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

in the air. Once he could no longer see

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

wind surged as the explosion occurred, completely enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably,

like the apocalypse

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

one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

was Tasos who

had just occurred. The

'”Spurt!

Tasos out of his daze was the sound of blood splurting

"Vice-leader."

help, Mo Jinhao looked

you okay? Is everything

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

as he descended towards the

he promptly rejected. Turning around

to 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

as he spat those words, Tasos

"U-understood"

work and started 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 of what

members of the Monolith

hour, they had already managed to calculate the losses they incurred as well as found out the

Jinhao and Tasos, was a tall middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them, he had the aura of an

he politely bowed and handed

have completed

"Thank you."

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

the building is destroyed, and we've lost a

whilst looking through the file, Mo Jinhao

the approximate loss of our

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

"I see..."

stopped

me more

mouthful of saliva, the middle-aged

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