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

almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this, the

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes fluttered widely

body.

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening sound

began to 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 out from the sphere was so strong that it could've easily

"Hueeeek!

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

be said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat

how

out loud. The more people fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already

was the worst-case

Crack'”!

the barrier. A horrified look

back at him, Mo Jinhao's face

Crack'”!

sound rang out. Following this, more and more cracks started to

"Shit!"

started to flow down from

At this rate, the barrier won't

"...I know."

at the cracking barrier, seemingly having come up with a

gloomy expression flashed

that I would have to resort

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

energy suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the color red. Then, clenching his fists, the red glow contracted

OMMM'”!

air, he 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

barrier completely broke apart, and the remaining energy from the explosion

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

immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his

"Contract."

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

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

"Come."

Waving his staff, the small ball quickly flew into the sky up

'”Spurt!

mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao raised his hand to

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

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

"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, it felt as though the entire

like the apocalypse had

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

no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

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

recalled the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came

'”Spurt!

of his daze was the sound of blood splurting on the ground.

"Vice-leader."

Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked as though

you okay? Is

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

replied Mo Jinhao as he descended towards the

to sit down, but he promptly rejected. Turning around and staring at the scene, Mo Jinhao looked at Tasos

incurred from this ordeal, and..." Pausing, Mo Jinhao's face twisted savagely. "I want

spat those words, Tasos and the people

"U-understood"

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

of the Monolith were

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

was a tall middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them,

he politely bowed and

we have

"Thank you."

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

the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major part of our force.

speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo

loss

and

"I see..."

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

Tell me more

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

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