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'”!

The fluctuations ran even

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

majestic aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras sprang up, with Tasos's energy being the

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening sound

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

"Hueeeek!

mana inside of his body quickly depleted

nothing needed to be said as they quickly dropped like flies and spat mouthfuls of blood before

how

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

the worst-case

Crack'”!

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

him, Mo

Crack'”!

Following this, more and more cracks

"Shit!"

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

we do? At this rate,

"...I know."

a

flashed across his

would

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

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

OMMM'”!

simple tap, yet, the moment he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it started to collapse as

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

the energy

from the sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao

"Contract."

barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped

until it was the size of a football. Inside of

"Come."

the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping from Mo Jinhao's eyes as his complexion

'”Spurt!

out a mouthful of blood

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

of blood, Mo Jinhao weakly raised his head in the air. Once he could

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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

the

cleared up, and once again the warm sunlight came pouring

no one spoke as absolute silence

"D-id we do it?"

first one to break the silence was Tasos who stared at

cold chill passed his spine as she recalled the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came

'”Spurt!

Tasos out of his daze was the sound of blood splurting on

"Vice-leader."

appeared next to Mo Jinhao and supported him with his body. Accepting Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it looked as though he had aged

are you okay?

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

he descended towards the ground with

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

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

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

"U-understood"

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

members of the Monolith

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

tall middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them, he had the aura

before them, he politely bowed and

we have completed the

"Thank you."

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

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

whilst looking through the file,

loss

A ranks, and over a hundred

"I see..."

swept the area. After a while, Mo Jinhao's face stopped towards a certain file. Glancing at the individual,

me

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

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