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...

about Ultruk, Waylan

had not known him for long, but he still felt a little bit down about his death. If not for him, they would've all been dead

fact, he wasn't sure what his death meant for the

and looking at Ren, Waylan asked in a somber tone, "What do we do now, Ren? Now that Ultruk is dead, do we have

"Him?"

corner of his eyes, Ren

served his uses. His death was

"...What?"

Waylan's ears as he tried his best to process what

only after he realized what he said that Waylan stood up

"What do you—"

"Stop."

vent his anger, a delicate white hand

around, Waylan knew who the

spoke, his voice forming a deep contrast with the burning rage

you mean,

at Ren and calmly explained, "The demonic energy in his body has started corroding his brain... I

brows

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

Waylan said with a

'What do I do?'

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

to

her hand away from Waylan's

baffled. He couldn't understand why Angelica

the effects of the

demonic energy lingering outside of Ren's body slowly moved towards her direction, connecting

not exactly sure about what skill he's using, but, at least for now,

"I see."

some of Waylan's worries. His brows relaxed, the

get affected by the demonic

her fingertips, Angelica's brows

her

the negative thoughts a person has inside of their mind. The darker someone's

muttered in a stunned

wasn't stupid. Waylan knew exactly

"Is Ren perhaps..."

hand, the threads of demonic energy

and collected all of the demonic energy

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

from Angelica as the small threads of demonic energy agglomerated

corrupt someone quickly. It is when their mind is unstable. Prior to coming here,

Angelica turned her head.

Ren's head is

Waylan with a

talking about, taking out a small communication device

Vrrr—! Vrrr—!

stopped vibrating and a familiar voice rang out

you guys

I'll send you the coordinates

We'll

sounded relieved as

is everything alright? No one died,

Di—! Di—!

could even finish his sentence, Ren switched off the communication

uncalled for,"

Ren was currently in the right state of mind, Douglas was asking

had to let them

morale to fall. Answering his question is detrimental." Ren spoke while staring into Waylan's eyes, not a hint

a chance to reply, Ren turned around and

Clank—!

door behind him,

to be harder than I

words, Waylan

making it very hard for

***

Di—! Di—!

the communication device in his

before he could finish speaking. Especially not when he was with the representatives

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