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'”!

that they both heard a subtle cracking sound coming from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even

was frozen in time. Following this, the energy rapidly compressed together into the core

"Brace yourselves!"

his robes

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

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening

that was surrounding it. The energy that was spreading out from the sphere was so strong that it could've easily reduced an

"Hueeeek!

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

needed to be said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat

it, how

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

was the

Crack'”!

barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he looked

him, Mo

Crack'”!

Following this, more and more cracks started to appear on the surface of

"Shit!"

cursed as blood started to flow down from

this rate, the barrier won't

"...I know."

with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise, Mo Jinhao suddenly closed his

flashed across

that I would have

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

both hands, terrifying energy suddenly erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the color red. Then,

OMMM'”!

the staff in the air, the space around it started to collapse as

and the remaining energy from the explosion flushed towards

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

from the sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched

"Contract."

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

was the size of a football.

"Come."

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

'”Spurt!

out a mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

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

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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

the apocalypse

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

sky from below, no one spoke as absolute silence

"D-id we do it?"

was Tasos who stared at the

she recalled the explosion that had just occurred. The

'”Spurt!

of blood splurting on the ground.

"Vice-leader."

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

are you okay? Is

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

he descended towards the ground

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

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

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

"U-understood"

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

the Monolith

managed to calculate the losses they incurred as well as found out the identity of the individual responsible for

middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes

before them, he politely bowed and handed them a

have completed the

"Thank you."

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

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

whilst looking

loss

S ranks, twenty-five A ranks, and over

"I see..."

Jinhao's face stopped towards a certain file.

Tell me

swallowing a mouthful

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