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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'”!

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

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,

"Brace yourselves!"

Jinhao cried out as his robes fluttered widely in the

his body. Following him, multiple different

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

thunderclap, a deafening sound

throughout the whole barrier that was surrounding it. The energy that was spreading out from the

"Hueeeek!

depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos was not

as they quickly dropped like flies and spat

how

and Mo Jinhao bore. To make matters worse, he was

was the worst-case

Crack'”!

A

at him, Mo Jinhao's face

Crack'”!

more cracks started to appear on the surface of the

"Shit!"

down from

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

"...I know."

barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise,

flashed across his

would have to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

erupted from his body, completely dying the sky in the color red. Then, clenching his fists, the red glow contracted rapidly until a large red staff appeared in his

OMMM'”!

moment he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it

completely broke apart, and the remaining energy

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 his

"Contract."

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

it was the size

"Come."

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

'”Spurt!

out a mouthful of

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

in the air. Once he

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

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 scene from below, it felt

the

ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and once

at the sky from below, no one spoke as absolute silence

"D-id we do it?"

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

occurred. The energy

'”Spurt!

daze was the sound of blood splurting on

"Vice-leader."

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

are you okay? Is everything

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

Jinhao as he descended towards the ground with

promptly rejected. Turning around and staring at the scene, Mo Jinhao looked at

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

injured, as he spat those words, Tasos

"U-understood"

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

the Monolith

had already managed to calculate the losses they incurred as

much

he politely bowed and handed them a

have completed

"Thank you."

Mo Jinhao's cold eyes swept through the

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

looking through

the approximate loss of our

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

"I see..."

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

Tell me

at the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the

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