The Author's POV

As predicted, when the countdown reached zero, the world descended into chaos as dungeons began to overload and monsters entered the human world.

The Monolith then turned on the mana compressor, which caused the tear in the sky to grow and sucked in the incoming mana, turning it into demonic energy, and making the monsters go even wilder.

Domick square, Ashton city.

"Will you be fine?"

I asked while looking at Angelica, who was facing the other way from me.

At that moment, we were perched on the roof of a structure, and we gazed off into the not-too-distant horizon, where a massive portal was located.

While we were talking, thousands upon thousands of monsters poured out of the portal, wreaking havoc on everything that was in their immediate vicinity.

To everyone's relief, there were already multiple heroes stationed near the portal, and things seemed to be holding steady for the time being.

Having said that, we required that portal right now in order to get Angelica back into the demon realm.

"No problem."

Angelica responded while calmly looking at the portal in the distance.

"If you manage to distract everyone for a moment, I will have no trouble entering the portal."

"Well, okay…"

I shrugged my shoulders.

"If that's what you want, I can easily do that for you."

Distracting everyone was as easy as me lifting my hand, literally.

Plus, with the cameras shut off thanks to Ryan, I didn't need to worry about the others seeing the full scale of my strength.

It wasn't time just yet.

"So are you ready?"

"I am."

Angelica nodded solemnly and gazed into the distance with a complicated look.

"You can start."

"Okay."

I did not waste any time and immediately thrust my hand downward after raising it into the air. The ground began to tremble almost instantly as a result of my actions, and the area around the portal also began to shake.

The area around the portal began to fill with cracks, and suddenly hundreds of sword energies appeared out of nowhere.

Then, as if rain had fallen upon the land, the sword energies shot toward the beasts that were rampaging next to the portal at alarming rates.

The wails of the monsters could be heard throughout the entirety of the city as blood spilled into the air and the city fell into an eerie state of silence.

In that moment, all eyes gathered on me, and I gently mumbled.

"Go."

Angelica vanished from the spot beside me, and I clenched my hand into a fist.

The rain of sword energies shot toward the ground at a faster rate, and at the same time, a large cloud of dust began to diffuse in the air, which obscured everyone's vision.

members of the alliance becoming frantic as they scrambled to find cover all

clear of them at all

portal. I will

my ears, and a faint curl spread across my

you aren't back by then, I'll make

[Yes.]

virtually the last thing I heard from Angelica before I was no longer able to communicate

stopped channeling my mana

guess my job

***

"What did you say?"

looked at Emma, who was standing in front of him with an expression that was very similar to

She repeated.

received reports of someone appearing out of nowhere and killing most of the monsters emerging from one of the main dungeons in Domick square. No one has been hurt and there is no camera footage

know. It's definitely

set a few documents to the side and

"I…should've seen this coming."

simple on the outside, but they

that Ren probably had something to do and that he had a good reason for doing what he did,

an outsider to be a direct challenge to

the portal was

of another organization, and Kevin could already tell that he would soon enough get a bunch of messages from the other alliance members expressing their dissatisfaction

"Ugh."

about it, the

it

***

Outskirts of Dromeda city.

gaze of Mo Jinhao continued to fixate

the city was covered by a translucent holographic

dome served as a defensive structure for the entire city, covering it entirely and preventing any wild animals from entering the area. It wasn't only

entire city, the place would've long crumbled under all of

are the preparations

and two figures appeared behind him within an

them were concealed behind large

were obscured, it was still

carried themselves was extremely disciplined, and they looked no different from

versions of the super soldier plan that the Monolith had

behind the dome is more secure than originally anticipated. It is as if someone already knew what we were planning beforehand and made the proper arrangements. Original tasks cannot be carried out. Chance of failure is estimated to be above

one of the two figures speak, Mo Jinhao's expression took a

prior to the end of the truce, things had gone

spies, to what happened with Evervlood,

watching their every move, and predicting everything that they

had made beforehand, this

a quarter of the

I will have

manner, so he decided to

—Is there something wrong?

connected shortly after and Mo

quickly reported his findings

their little organization is called, has arrived prepared and has already

indeed sound a little

replied in

spite of the news he received, he didn't seem to be that

the tone of his voice, Mo Jinhao had a sneaking suspicion that he

perhaps overthinking