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'”!

from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and

mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy rapidly compressed together

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes fluttered widely in

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

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a

from the core at unprecedented speeds, spreading throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding it. The energy that

"Hueeeek!

quickly depleted itself.

as they quickly dropped like

it, how fucking

people fainted the bigger the burden he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already running low

was the worst-case

Crack'”!

A horrified look appeared on

him, Mo Jinhao's face

Crack'”!

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

"Shit!"

as blood started to flow down from his nostrils. Turning towards

rate, the barrier won't hold

"...I know."

barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision,

gloomy expression flashed

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

OMMM'”!

staff in the 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

new barrier formed, the previous barrier completely broke apart, and the

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

Mo Jinhao suddenly

"Contract."

eternal voice spread towards the surroundings, and the red barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped down from the side of his

the size of a football.

"Come."

hand, the football-sized barrier quickly arrived before Mo Jinhao. Waving his staff, the small ball quickly flew into the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping from Mo Jinhao's eyes as his complexion

'”Spurt!

a mouthful of

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could no longer

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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

looked like the apocalypse

the next ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and once

below, no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

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

just occurred. The energy that came from it made

'”Spurt!

out of his daze was the sound of blood splurting on the ground. Turning around, he

"Vice-leader."

and supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked

okay? Is

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

as he descended towards the ground

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

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

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

"U-understood"

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

of the Monolith were

had already managed to calculate the losses they incurred as

much weaker than the likes of them, he had

bowed and handed them a

have completed the

"Thank you."

through the reports. As he was reading, the

is destroyed, and we've lost a

individual speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo

the approximate loss of our

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

"I see..."

stopped

Tell me more about

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

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