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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'”!

from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black tangible energy began to spread outwards of

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

"Brace yourselves!"

Jinhao cried out as his robes fluttered widely in

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

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a

tremble and an incomparably vicious aura began to spread out from the core at unprecedented speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding it. The energy that was spreading

"Hueeeek!

body quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos was not

nothing needed to be said as they quickly dropped like

it, how

the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao

was the worst-case

Crack'”!

the barrier. A horrified look appeared on

back at him, Mo Jinhao's face

Crack'”!

rang out. Following this, more and more cracks started

"Shit!"

down from his nostrils. Turning

should we do? At this rate,

"...I know."

a

expression flashed across

would have to resort to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

from his body, completely dying the sky in the color red. Then, clenching his

OMMM'”!

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

the new barrier formed, the previous barrier completely broke apart, and the remaining energy from the explosion flushed towards the red

the energy from the explosion, the red barrier was able

Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his hand and

"Contract."

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

the size of a

"Come."

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

'”Spurt!

out a mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

others were about to approach him to make sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao raised his

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

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

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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

like the apocalypse had

before the sky cleared up, and once again the warm sunlight came

the sky from below, no one spoke as absolute

"D-id we do it?"

Tasos who stared at

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

'”Spurt!

sound of blood splurting on the ground. Turning around,

"Vice-leader."

supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked as though he had aged

you okay? Is everything

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

he descended

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

you 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 you to tell me who

he spat those words, Tasos and the people around him

"U-understood"

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

members of the

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

much

bowed and handed them a

we have

"Thank you."

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

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

to the individual speaking whilst looking through

the approximate loss of

twenty-five A ranks, and over

"I see..."

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

Tell me

mouthful of saliva, the middle-aged

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