Lord of the Karmic Fate

Unknown how it worked, but the moment Raven wished to activate the Realm Gate Detector he was able to feel how something within his body got depleted a bit and got poured into the circular item in his hold which immediately reacted almost as if an old iron machine suddenly getting charcoal as a source of energy!

Whoosh!

With a gentle breeze that caused Raven's hair and coat to flutter slightly, the small paper began to soar a few inches above his hand before it slowly began to spin in one place.

However, this sight only lasted for a few seconds before the small piece of paper fell gently back into the hands of Raven, no longer moving or spinning.

"Nothing?" was what Raven mumbled but soon his eyes turned resolute and activated the item once again, but this time instead of 10 points of Mystique he used one entire unit which was equal to 100 points!

Whoosh!

Once again, the small item quickly floated a few inches above his palm and began to spin, but this time instead of falling back the words on it began to emit black light which slowly formed an arrow, pointing toward a specific direction.

Old Dan and Raven looked at each other when they saw this, and both of them saw the disbelief in each other's gaze.

"...Should we... Go and check it out?" Raven was the first to break the silence which immediately snapped Old Dan out of his daze and after excusing himself for a second quickly ran out of the room.

Raven was confused but it was not even a minute before Old Dan emerged at the corner of the door, now wearing a completely different set of clothes than before.

"Aren't those..."

"Yeah, these are Thomas' clothes. But this is not what matters right now. Instead, we should go and see where that thing takes us." Old Dan said with a straight face, without any shame that he was wearing Thomas' suit which on his body looked rather tight because he was just too bulky.

Raven was speechless and didn't know whether he should laugh or cry, but seeing that Old Dan has already vanished from his line of sight he had no choice but to go after him.

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Old Dan, also known as Daniel Wright, was a preposterously rich individual, being the seventh richest person on the whole surface of Earth.

He was the founder of the Zeusbridge, a device which although being just a prototype at the moment was already capable of transporting smaller inanimate objects from any point of the Earth to another in less than 2 seconds!

Furthermore, he also had various companies under his supervision that not only developed technologies that made the lives of every human easier but also much safer!

Also, he had numerous connections with various influential people throughout the world, including the current president of the United World League who was a rather close friend of his.

And for these reasons, it was not a huge shock to know that Old Dan's daily income was simply so astronomical that he could and was possessing multiple lands, each as large as a smaller sized city!

"Are you sure this is the right way?"

Walking through a dense forest just about three hours before dusk, Old Dan walked beside Raven as he examined his surroundings.

The whole forest was his, so while he snapped his head from one side to another almost every five seconds his eyes held no fear as he knew they won't encounter a wild beast all of a sudden.

Upon hearing Old Dan's question, Raven looked at the old man on his side with a slightly raised left brow.

Like, couldn't he see the huge floating arrow above his palm that pointed toward a specific direction? What other obvious indication did he need to know they were going the right way?

"Come on, don't look at me like that. I was just kidding, I know this is the right direction. I just thought we could chat a little after walking in silence for so long." Old Dan laughed awkwardly.

"You still suck at starting conversations," Raven responded to that statement with an indifferent face.

"That was... Pretty harsh."

"But that is the truth." Raven said before pondering for a second or two and adding, "Though, at least the effort was there."

After that, the two kept walking for several tens of meters in silence before Raven decided to break the silence.

"So... what kind of "game" had you been forced to play?"

Old Dan understood Raven was referring to the Realm Game in which he had to participate, thus quickly started to speak.

Raven listened calmly to Old Dan's story, but the more he listened the more he felt surprised in his heart.

According to Old Dan, just like how Felix has once mentioned, after getting teleported into the Empty World outside of his will where he had to create his Avatar and choose an Artifact, Old Dan together with 9 other people was forced to play a Realm Game known as Jungle Tug.

The game was rather similar to the game tug of war but here instead of trying to pull the rope away from another team consisting of other individuals, the ten of them had to fight against a black panther whose size was thrice as large as a lion!

Furthermore, the "game" transpired above a massive ravine that was so deep that the only thing visible at its seemingly bottom was eternal darkness!

If one fell into that, the only thing one could pray for was a fast and painless death!

Luckily, however, among the ten individuals except for Old Dan, six invested their points mostly into Strength which helped them to beat the beast in the end.

"Though, while I say it was easy, it was not. We have struggled for almost 40 minutes straight." Old Dan said before adding, "In fact, if it would have not been for a young little girl who used her Artifact and tied our bodies with vines to the trees behind our backs, we would have been pulled into the ravine by that beast at the very first second the Realm Game started!"

Raven was speechless hearing this and secretly thanked the little girl in his heart for helping his father.

"And what about you?" after a small while later Old Dan glanced at Raven, curious about his story, but as he knew his insanely high bad fortune he had a hunch Raven's Realm Game was even worse than his and perhaps he...

Raven wished to reply to that and narrate the events that happened with him in the forest, but just as he could have started to speak suddenly the arrow above his palm vanished and the small piece of paper fell into his hold, no longer spinning.

"It seems we have... arrived?" Raven raised his head to look around, but except for trees, he saw nothing out of ordinary.

Old Dan was confused too, but suddenly his eyes narrowed and pointed forward, "Watch! Something is happening over there!"

"Huh?" Raven quickly followed Old Dan's finger, and indeed about fifty meters away from the two of them a white light materialized in mid-air out of nowhere which slowly began to expand in size!

Whoosh!

Both Raven and Old Dan took a step behind unconsciously and watched how the previously fist-sized white light expanded and took on the shape of a tall white gate with a curved top!

Just under a single second, a massive gate with a height of at least forty meters appeared before the two, making them look like ants before a real giant!

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