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 core below them. The fluctuations ran even more wildly, and a thick black tangible energy began to spread

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

"Brace yourselves!"

as his robes fluttered widely in the

on the barrier in front of him, a majestic aura sprang out from his body. Following him, multiple different auras

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a deafening sound

began to spread out from 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

"Hueeeek!

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

as they quickly

it, how

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

the

Crack'”!

barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he

at him, Mo Jinhao's face became

Crack'”!

this, more and more cracks started to appear

"Shit!"

from his nostrils.

this rate, the

"...I know."

staring at the cracking barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise, Mo Jinhao

expression flashed across

think that I would have to

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

the color red. Then, clenching

OMMM'”!

yet, the moment he tapped with the staff in the air, the space around it started to collapse as a red glow enveloped the barrier surrounding the portal, before contracting fully creating

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

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

the sky like an immortal, Mo Jinhao suddenly clenched

"Contract."

red barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped

until it was the size of a football. Inside of it,

"Come."

staff, the small ball quickly flew into the sky up above. Staring at the ball in the sky, blood started dripping from Mo Jinhao's eyes as

'”Spurt!

he spat out a mouthful of blood startling everyone near

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

air. Once he could no longer see the ball in

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

completely enveloping the sky in flames. The ground trembled uncontrollably, and staring at the scene from below, it felt as though the entire

looked like the apocalypse had

ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and once again the warm sunlight came pouring

from below, no one spoke as absolute

"D-id we do it?"

Tasos who stared at

spine as she recalled the explosion that had just occurred. The energy that came from it made him tremble in fear. It

'”Spurt!

of his daze was the sound of blood splurting

"Vice-leader."

help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely

okay?

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

as he descended towards the

offered Mo Jinhao to sit down, but he promptly rejected. Turning around and staring at the scene, Mo Jinhao looked at Tasos and

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

weakened, and severely injured, as he spat those

"U-understood"

started roaming around the Monolith to get an approximate idea of what had happened. They also checked the cameras and surveillance

members of the Monolith were

losses they incurred as well as found out the identity of the individual responsible

Mo Jinhao and Tasos, was a tall middle-aged man. Although he was much weaker than the likes of them,

before them, he politely bowed and handed

we have

"Thank you."

the individual's hands, Mo Jinhao's cold eyes swept through the reports. As

half of the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major part of our force. The estimated damage is around 10 billion

whilst looking through the file, Mo Jinhao

loss of

ranks, and over

"I see..."

stopped towards a certain file. Glancing at

me

mouthful of saliva, the

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