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'”!

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

frozen in time. Following this,

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes fluttered widely in

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

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a deafening sound rang

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!

his body quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos was not doing much better as his mana was depleting

the others, nothing needed to be said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls of

how

Tasos couldn't help but curse out loud. The more people fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already

was the

Crack'”!

from the barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he

him, Mo Jinhao's

Crack'”!

more and more cracks started to appear on the surface of

"Shit!"

blood started to flow down from his

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

"...I know."

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

expression flashed across

think that I would have to resort to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

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 glow contracted rapidly until

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

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

absorb a lot of the energy from the explosion, the

an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his hand and

"Contract."

contracted. Sweat dripped down from the side of

the size of a football. Inside of

"Come."

quickly flew into the sky up

'”Spurt!

mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

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

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at

looked like the apocalypse had

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

from below, no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

break the silence was Tasos who stared

the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came from it made

'”Spurt!

daze was the sound of blood splurting on the

"Vice-leader."

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

are you okay? Is

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

as he descended

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

want you to ask someone to report to me the losses that we've incurred from this ordeal, and..."

Jinhao was extremely weakened, and severely injured, as he spat those

"U-understood"

everyone got to 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

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

much weaker than the likes of them, he had the aura of an

politely bowed and handed them a

we have completed

"Thank you."

through the reports. As

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

whilst looking through the

the approximate loss

S ranks, twenty-five A ranks, and

"I see..."

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

Tell me more

glancing at the paper, swallowing a mouthful

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