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'”!

subtle cracking sound coming from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black tangible energy began to

black tangible energy that was being emitted from the core stopped mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in time. Following this, the energy rapidly compressed together into the core before, deathly silence

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes fluttered widely in the

body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up, with Tasos's

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening sound

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 reduced an ranked

"Hueeeek!

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

be said as they quickly dropped like flies

it, how

burden he and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was already running low on mana due to the

the

Crack'”!

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

back at him, Mo Jinhao's face

Crack'”!

this, more and more

"Shit!"

flow down from his nostrils. Turning towards Mo Jinhao, he cried

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

"...I know."

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

expression flashed

would have

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

eyes, and raising both hands, terrifying energy suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the

OMMM'”!

tapped with the staff in the air, the space around

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

energy from the

sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his hand and

"Contract."

contracted. Sweat dripped down from the

the barrier contracted until it was the size of

"Come."

into the sky up above. Staring

'”Spurt!

a mouthful of blood

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

others were about to approach him to make sure

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could no longer see the ball in the sky, he

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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

the apocalypse had

cleared up, and

from below, no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped the

"D-id we do it?"

was Tasos who stared at the sky

occurred.

'”Spurt!

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

"Vice-leader."

to Mo Jinhao and supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it

you okay? Is everything

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

he descended towards the ground

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

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

was extremely weakened, and severely injured, as he spat those words, Tasos and the

"U-understood"

roaming around the Monolith to get an approximate idea of what had happened. They

the

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

man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them, he had the aura

them, he politely bowed and handed them

we have completed

"Thank you."

the report from the individual's hands, Mo Jinhao's cold eyes swept through the

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

the individual speaking whilst looking through the file,

the approximate loss of our

and over a hundred

"I see..."

stopped towards a certain file. Glancing

Tell me

glancing at the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the middle-aged

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