The Author's POV

Chapter 359

Voooom—

"Haaa...haaa..."

Stumbling out of the portal, before I could even catch my breath, I forcibly raised my hand and pointed at the portal disc underneath the ground.

"...Quickly change the coordinates of the portal before they get here."

If we could enter the portal, so could they.

"On it."

Being the last one that stepped out of the portal, Waylan immediately bent down and twisted the bottom-half of the portal, changing its coordinates.

Click! Click! Click!

After twisting the bottom half of the portal three times, the mana in the air finally stopped gathering towards the portal. Only then did we relax.

"Shit..."

Waylan cursed as he slumped down on the ground. His already pale face paled even more, and his body trembled.

"You okay?"

I asked, leaning by the side of the wall.

"khhh..."

A groan suddenly escaped my mouth as a head-splitting pain coursed through my brain.

'W-What the-?!'

The pain was so strong that my mind blanked for a brief moment.

"Hey, Ren, are you okay?"

Waylan worriedly asked as he moved towards me, reaching his hand out in support.

"Don't touch me."

"Wha-?!"

Smacking Waylan's hand away, I weakly stood up.

'...It...hurts!'

"Khhh..."

A throbbing, constant, and unrelenting pain coursed through every area of my head as I had difficulty breathing.

The pain was so unbearable that for a split second I had thoughts of ending myself. Flashbacks of what happened back at the Monolith replayed inside of my head repeatedly, threatening to eat away at my sanity.

But before things got to that point, using the last shred of sanity within my body, I activated Monarch's Indifference.

Instantly, the moment I activated Monarch's Indifference, my emotions dulled. Although the pain remained, most of the negative thoughts disappeared from my mind.

***

"Ren...?"

Waylan carefully called out as he looked at Ren who was standing opposite of him.

Ever since reappearing from the portal, he had been acting weird. He looked to be in extreme pain, but that did not last for long, as he soon calmed down.

"Ren, are you okay?" Waylan carefully asked once more, his concern only increasing.

"I'm fine." Ren emotionlessly replied as he turned to face his direction.

"I see, I'm glad."

'He must be tired.'

Waylan didn't think too much of Ren's sudden switch in behavior.

They had just been through a lot. They had almost died, and Ultruk had lost his life...

Ultruk, Waylan

had not known him for long, but he still felt a little bit down

he wasn't sure what his death meant

looking at Ren, Waylan asked in a somber tone, "What do we

"Him?"

from the corner of his eyes, Ren shook

uses. His death

"...What?"

ears as he tried

what he said that Waylan stood up

"What do you—"

"Stop."

before he could vent his anger, a delicate white hand touched him

turning around, Waylan knew who

his head and glaring in her direction, Waylan coldly spoke, his voice forming a deep contrast with the burning rage

do you

pointed at Ren and calmly explained, "The demonic energy in his body has

his brows

Ren, it was only then that he noticed fine threads of demonic energy

with a troubled

'What do I do?'

in the right condition, the next and last part of the plan would be even

need to worry

her hand away

sounding baffled. He couldn't understand why

skill to mitigate the effects of the demonic energy, but it's only partially

hand forward, the threads of demonic energy lingering outside of Ren's body slowly moved towards her direction, connecting to the tip

exactly sure about what skill he's using, but, at least for now, he is

"I see."

worries. His brows relaxed, the frown disappearing from

suddenly started to get affected by the demonic energy? It has only been a

her fingertips, Angelica's brows furrowed as she fell

Angelica opened her mouth to

feeds on the negative thoughts a person has inside

Waylan muttered in a

wasn't stupid. Waylan knew exactly what Angelica

"Is Ren perhaps..."

of demonic energy revolving around Ren's

her hand and collected all of the

clean, but it's not to the point where the

Angelica as the small threads of demonic energy agglomerated towards

energy to corrupt someone quickly. It is when their mind is

Angelica turned her head.

Ren's head is not in the

see," replied Waylan with

were talking about, taking out a small communication device from his

Vrrr—! Vrrr—!

and a familiar voice

you guys done

done. I'll send you the

We'll start

device sounded relieved as it learned

the way, is everything alright?

Di—! Di—!

Douglas could even finish his sentence, Ren

was uncalled for,"

knew that Ren was currently in the right

them know that Ultruk had

is detrimental." Ren spoke while staring into Waylan's eyes, not a hint of remorse or emotion inside. It

reply, Ren turned

Clank—!

door behind him, Ren left

be harder than I

Angelica's previous words, Waylan would've

was making it very hard for him

***

Di—! Di—!

in

he could finish speaking. Especially not when he

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