With a deep wound in his stomach, part of his face disfigured, a certain person had been running through the halls inside the arena.
He quickly went down a hallway with his back against the wall as he heard several footsteps running toward him.
“F*ck me!” Raven said. “Fighting one of their Zodiacs or whatever it was, they were a lot harder than I thought. In fact, every single one of these guys in the One Gang is tough.”
“The caliber of the gang members here is nothing like that of the Phoenix Gang. I guess I was a bit stupid to put them on the same level just because both of them were Kings.”
“Hey, let’s check this way as well. Stanley said anyone who captures him will get a big reward!” a voice shouted.
Raven quickly looked above him and could see a vent. He stretched out his hand, and it transformed into that of a hydra’s head.
It broke through the vent ceiling and hung onto the edge. Then, retracting its long neck, it lifted Raven up easily, allowing him to go inside.
Right after, Raven carefully placed the vent back as he could see the large group of One Gang members enter the hallway looking for him.
They searched up and down for a while but were unable to find anything.
‘Crap, what do I do now?’ Raven thought. ‘The Howlers' powers have grown, and so has that damned Gary! I just wanted to get some f*cking justice for my brother.’
‘Back then, no one would have dared to touch any of my family, and this damned green-haired kid came out of nowhere. Now I have no choice but to use the power of these gangs to try and get them to fight each other…’
‘But… the One Gang, they tried to kill me! Harvor tried to kill me, I can’t just forgive that.’
For a while now, there seemed to be no one running up and down the hallways, so he jumped down from his position, back onto the floor, and continued to run.
‘I want to deal with the Howlers for messing with my family, but the One Gang messed with me personally, which is a different matter!’
Finally, after running around for a while, Raven found himself going through a connecting hall that led to the large car park area attached to the arena.
He continued to run and found himself in a large multi-level car park.
‘During my younger days, I managed to take a few vehicles for myself. I can take one of these and get out of this place.’
Raven continued to go from car to car. He tried the door handles and a number of other techniques, but there was a large issue with his plan.
‘Damn it, all these new cars, I don’t even know how to get into them. The door handles aren’t even sticking out!’
He had the urge to just smash the cars due to the large frustration building up. At that moment, as the anger was somewhat overcoming his body, he could feel something crawling across his eye. It was a sudden itch, several points clinging as it dragged across his retina.
“Stop it! Stop it!” Raven shouted as he clung to his eye. He could tell part of it was turning black, something was digging into his mind.
It had happened before, during the attack on the Howlers.
‘Why is it acting up now, just because I showed a little bit of anger?’
But he could feel that whatever was in his body was pulling him, moving him in a different direction. While in the multi-story car park, Raven found his body moving by itself.
He followed it up the staircase, continuing to climb floor after floor. Eventually, the pain in his eye stopped, and he was in full control again, but he could still feel his body pulling him toward something.
‘This feeling all started when I took that strange Altered serum. What was that… that Sin gave me?’ Raven thought.
He was in two minds—whether to continue following where his body was taking him or just head back, leave the place, get in a car, and drive as far away as possible.
Exiting from the staircase door, he saw the elevator and pressed the button, but it didn’t light up.
“What, out of order, on a big day like today?” Raven thought as he pressed the other button, but there was no response again.
“What is this, how can all the elevators be broken? What kind of crap show is Harvor running, and why was the button cold?”
Regardless, Raven went back to the staircase, ready to head back down, but the pulling feeling was annoying him.
Deciding to go ahead and follow it, he continued up the stairs, which eventually led him to the top floor—the roof parking.
As he opened the door slightly ajar and stared out, he could hear the sound of several vehicles parking.
“What are cars doing arriving at this time?” Raven said to himself. “The main event would have started by now. I doubt they would even be allowed in so late.”
Opening the door more, Raven wanted a better look, and that’s when he could see certain individuals exiting from the cars.
Some of them were roughly dressed and looked like your typical gang members, carrying weapons. The thing was, Raven recognized some of them.
Some high-ranking gang members from tier 2 cities, but they were from different cities, all from different places.
‘Why would so many strong gangs gather in one area, who the heck is behind this?’
That was when the final man exited from the car, wearing a white lab coat.
“Wait, I know that person. Aren’t they one of the three founders of NIRV? That’s Rumper Karn, what is he doing here?”