The Author's POV Chapter 462 - Crack in the sky [1]

"Alright, I get the gist of the situation."

It was only after he read through the information a couple of more times that Kevin finally put the tablet away and turned his attention back toward the recruits.

With a solemn look on his face, he looked at everyone present.

"I'm not exactly sure why the heads of the department chose to hand this mission to us, but from the l—Hm?"

In the midst of his speech, Kevin's eyes suddenly shrunk as the whole room suddenly started to shake uncontrollably.

Rumble— Rumble—

"Huh?!"

"What's going on?"

"An earthquake?"

At the exact moment the trembling happened, everyone inside of the room became alarmed as they grabbed onto something to keep themselves steady.

Grabbing the side of the portal, Kevin also wondered what happened. Channeling the mana inside of his body, he kept his body upright and looked around the room in wonder.

However, before he could even have time to process everything, a low chime suddenly rang inside of his head as multiple red labels materialized in front of him, startling him completely.

"What the..."

Di— Di—

[Warning.] [Warning.] [Warning.]

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[Demon king ascension] : 5 years : 8 months : 2 days : 57 seconds.

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Staring at the system interface in front of him, Kevin's mouth hung open as his mind blanked completely.

"W...what's going on!?"

Everything happened so fast and unexpectantly that it took time for him to understand what the message meant, and when he did, his eyes opened widely and a curse escaped from his mouth.

"s.h.i.+t..."

It was at that moment that Kevin understood that something terrible must've happened.

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"Bye Nola."

"Bye Brother."

Dropping Nola at school, I bid her goodbye with a smile on my face.

Having spent the last couple of days with her and my family I felt much more relaxed.

Because I had been away from her and my parents for a very long time, there was a lot I had to catch up with them. During the days that I returned, I spent most of my time at home catching up with them. From there, I was able to learn a lot of new things such as the fact that Nola was now in kindergarten and that my parents were now no longer in any debt.

In fact, with the world now knowing of my ident.i.ty, they received multiple sponsors.h.i.+p deals from large conglomerates, in hopes of trying to get on their goods sides.

I originally thought that this was a good deal for them, however, it appeared as though the two of them were satisfied with what they had and refused all of the offers that came their way.

Despite me telling them that it was okay for them to accept the offers, they adamantly refused, and so, shrugging my shoulders, I could only accept their decision.

"...I should probably get going."

It was only after I watched Nola's figure disappear in the school that I finally left the school premise.

Clank—!

Heading for my car, the moment I arrived a couple of meters away from it, the car door slowly rose in an upward manner.

Following this, I quickly entered the car and stepped onto the accelerator. My next destination was the group headquarters.

It had been a while since I had met the others, and it was time that I started making preparations for the future.

That, and the fact that I needed to take care of a couple of problems. Primarily, Everblood and Aaron's parents.

Now that I was back in the human domain, I decided to quickly eliminate all possible threats before they got to me.

Rather than wait for them to come at me, the best decision was to go at them before they even had the chance to come at me.

There was also the Monolith, but they weren't an organization I could simply touch as I wished. I was still far too weak to handle them.

"Hm?"

Coming to a stop in front of a traffic light, my brows suddenly furrowed. Staring toward the sky, I suddenly saw a horde of birds flying in the air in a weird manner. To make things even weirder, I suddenly felt a weird fluctuation in the mana in the air.

Twisting the keys of my car, I turned off the engine of the car and stepped out of the car. Placing my hand on the top of the car, I looked at my surroundings. Everything felt normal, yet different at the same time.

It was hard to explain, but...it felt as though this was the calm before the storm.

Ba...thump. Ba...thump.

Unknowingly my heart started to speed up.

Rumble—

Before I could make heads or tails of the feeling that I was feeling, the ground started to shake and startled screams rang everywhere.

"s.h.i.+t."

A curse escaped from my mouth as I channeled the mana inside of my body and kept my feet planted on the ground.

Rumble— Rumble—

As seconds pa.s.sed the ground started to shake even more fiercely and people started to fall over. Their panicked screams rang throughout every corner of the city, and the cars around me started to beep uncontrollably.

Cra...Crack.

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, my ears twitched as I heard the sound of something tearing apart.

Slowly lifting my head, my pupils instantly dilated as I watched the sky tear apart and a huge tear appeared in the sky.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, I opened and closed my mouth repeatedly.

"It can't be, this event..."

Before I could even finish my sentence, the crack in the sky opened up even more widely, and suddenly, the mana in the air thickened up considerably.

Instantly the pores of my body opened up and my body started to greedily absorb the mana in the air. My strength which had been growing at a steady pace increased by a notch or two.

Normally I would've been happy about this development, however, I was anything but happy. Rather, a heavy solemness enshrouded my body as I quickly got back into my car and turned on the engine.

Pressing onto the gas peddle, I quickly turned back and headed back to the kindergarten.

As I sped through the streets, I couldn't help but repeatedly curse aloud.

"f.u.c.k, f.u.c.k, f.u.c.k..."

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