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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'”!

then that they both heard a subtle cracking sound coming from the core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black tangible energy began to spread outwards of the

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

"Brace yourselves!"

cried out as his

aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a deafening sound rang

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 reduced an ranked

"Hueeeek!

quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos

quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls of blood before

it, how fucking

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

was the

Crack'”!

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

Mo Jinhao's face became extremely

Crack'”!

more cracks started to appear on the surface

"Shit!"

blood started to flow down from his nostrils. Turning

we do? At this rate, the

"...I know."

with a decision, much

flashed

that I would have

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

dying the sky in the color red. Then, clenching his fists, the red glow contracted rapidly

OMMM'”!

seemingly simple tap, yet, the moment he tapped with the staff in the air,

completely broke apart, and the remaining energy from the explosion

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

like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched his hand

"Contract."

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

it was the size of a

"Come."

the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping from

'”Spurt!

mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

to make sure he was okay, Mo Jinhao

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the scene from below,

looked like the apocalypse

sky cleared up, and once again the warm

no one spoke as

"D-id we do it?"

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

the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came from it made him tremble in fear.

'”Spurt!

sound of blood splurting on the ground. Turning around,

"Vice-leader."

Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely

okay? Is

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

he descended towards the

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

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

was extremely weakened, and severely injured, as he spat

"U-understood"

to get an approximate idea of what had happened. They

the Monolith

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

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

he politely bowed and handed them

have

"Thank you."

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

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

speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo

the approximate loss

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

"I see..."

swept the area. After a while, Mo Jinhao's face stopped towards

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at the paper, swallowing a mouthful

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