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'”!

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

black tangible energy that was being emitted from the core stopped mid-air, almost as if it was frozen in

"Brace yourselves!"

his

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

Then, the explosion happened.

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

a thunderclap, a deafening sound rang

vicious aura 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!

the mana inside of his body quickly depleted itself. Next to him, Tasos was not

be said as they quickly dropped like flies

it, how

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

the worst-case

Crack'”!

a slight cracking sound coming from the barrier. A horrified look appeared on his face as he

him, Mo

Crack'”!

rang out. Following this, more and more cracks started to appear on

"Shit!"

to flow down from his nostrils. Turning towards Mo Jinhao,

this rate, the

"...I know."

the cracking barrier, seemingly having come up with a decision, much to Tasos's surprise, Mo Jinhao suddenly closed his

flashed across his

that I would have

Mo Jinhao inhaled deeply.

the color red. Then, clenching his fists,

OMMM'”!

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

completely broke apart, and the remaining energy from the

lot of the energy from the explosion, the red

Mo Jinhao

"Contract."

barrier rapidly contracted. Sweat dripped down from the side of his

until it was the size

"Come."

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

'”Spurt!

spat out a mouthful

"Vice-Leader!"

"Don't come..."

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

"I'm f'”Huaak!!"

the air. Once he could no longer see the ball in the sky, he softly

"Release."

BOOOOOOOOM'”!

flames. The

looked like the

the next ten minutes before the sky cleared up, and

sky from below, no one spoke as absolute silence enveloped

"D-id we do it?"

the silence was Tasos who stared at the sky with utter

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."

Tasos's help, Mo Jinhao looked extremely frail, as it

okay?

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

replied Mo Jinhao as he descended towards the ground

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

to ask 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

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

"U-understood"

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

the Monolith were

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

he was much weaker

bowed and handed

we have

"Thank you."

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

the losses are heavy. Almost half of the building is destroyed, and we've lost a major part of

the individual speaking whilst looking through the file, Mo Jinhao

the approximate loss of our

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

"I see..."

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

me

at the paper, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the middle-aged

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