Chapter 508: Apology (1/2)

The rest of the matches went on as usual. None of the participants revealed their actual identity and instead preferred to wear masks.

The entertainment brought by the Battle Arena was good, in fact Raven ended up betting to some contestants as well. Since the bets were made before the contestants were revealed, betting became more challenging since it depends on pure luck. However, this hardly was a problem for someone like Raven who could peer through walls.

It was also helpful to know that the match was staged, and because of Raven's trained eye and good judgement, he managed to earn a decent sum of Merit Points.

He earned a total of 30,000, which made Jason incredibly jealous. Nonetheless, this was still within the accepted amount for Raven not to be noticed by the managers of this place. He even lost on purpose just to make sure they won't be suspicious of him.

Raven knows how gambling works, he also knows how to profit while remaining low-profiled. This amount should be just enough for him to not get noticed. After that, they went back to the base with…well, it should've been both of them but Jason wanted to get his shit wet so he stayed behind.

He made efforts to stop him, after all he's a guy too. Only, he's loyal to his wife and will never dare to be unfaithful. But he did understand the needs, in fact he too missed it a lot. Unfortunately, he had to endure for a little while.

Upon getting back to the base, Raven went to his room. He ate a hearty meal and slept soundly. His actions might be lax and some people might even call him lazy but they had no way knowing that he's actually working very hard…well, his Avatars were.

'I have a total of 36,620 Merit Points.' Raven thought to himself, 'Not enough though. I need a total of 70,000 and above Merit Points to purchase all materials to cultivate the 5th stage of Myriad Incarnations Scripture. The fifth stage gives me 54 Avatars.'

54 Avatars, adding the 27 he already has he'll have a total of 75 Avatars, what kind of concept was this? That's 75 minds working together! Worse comes to worst, each Avatar could display a good chunk on Raven's original power. That's just insane. No wonder this technique was preserved! It was so heaven-defying!

'That'd be nice.' Raven thought whilst drowsy. 'Let's take it slow though. I don't want to alert the sect. It's not wise to expose my secrets just yet.'

Then again, so long as his training as a Cleanser was finished, he'll be able to earn more merit points. By that time, maybe he could start saving up for his real targets. For now, it's in his best interest to be careful. He still hadn't established a good foothold on the sect, he had to play nice for now so that they won't shut him down early.

With these thoughts in his head, Raven eventually fell asleep…

***

”P-please forgive us!”

Inside one of the private rooms within the base, Raven could be find sitting on chair. In front of him, were identical twins bowing down so much that their foreheads we're almost touching the table.

Needless to say, this was the Crawford Twins apologizing in front of him.

The expeditions team of Unit-17 had arrived two days ago and successfully cleared the mission. According to Floyd, they've met with some difficulties maneuvering since the visibility within the Devil's Cradle turned for the worse. Additionally, Floyd limited himself from joining the battle too much. He'll only interfere when it's needed. Those who fought the most were the weaker ones, which brought in good results for the team.

The following days after that, the twins consistently avoided Raven. Meanwhile, him on the other hand was counting as the days passed. He already warned Pyra, and she could tell that he's serious which he is. He won't hesitate to really escalate this matter to Henry.

But then, here they are now.

Raven swept his eyes in front of the twins, arms crossed and his gaze was cold. The piercing coldness of his gaze was clear and obvious, he made no attempts to conceal it. And it caused the twins to inwardly panic.

Their panic is visible in Raven's eyes through his ocular technique. Needless to say, he was purposefully intimidating them.

”Sorry…” it was Mira who spoke this time, not even bothering to raise her head. ”I treated you unfairly, I was rash, reckless and blinded by hatred. Please forgive us.”

”Please forgive us.” Pyra repeated.

Raven continued to remain silent, there's no changes to his attitude at all. His gaze was still cold and he's still exuding an intimidating aura.

This caused the twins to feel like they were doused in cold water. They could tell that he wasn't moved. Not in the slightest. They don't know what to do. They invited him here and had made up their minds to ask for his forgiveness, they were sincere and really wanted to make-up with him but now…it's seems that they truly stepped over the line.