'Fuck it! I'll just have to find someone else!'
With that she bolted out towards the city to look for a person to take over their body... Even though there were other people inside the mansion. * Retarded move if you ask me...*
Correction, she intended to bolt out towards the city, unfortunately though, as soon as she reached the window, she was faced with some sort of barrier that forced her back and forbade her advances; curtsy of the curtain setup by the main character.
Faced with another setback, Raven felt distressed, as she sensed death looming on from the main character's side. Frantically looking around, she ultimately found the source of the curtain, a rune drawn om one side of the room.
Focusing on it, shecammanded with her will for the rune to break, in hopes of destroying it, only for her will to be resisted equally.
'This bastard!! How much has he prepared?!'
No matter, she was now trapped inside the room and had to devise other means of escape; ultimately leading her back to her fundamentals.
'If I can't go to the Chaos, I'll have no choice but to draw the Chaos to me!
With that, she spread her Influence over chaos, drawing all her kin towards her in the process.
. . .
Back at the city, the mania gas that had been infused into the crazed ones, both dead and alive, was drawn out. It was obvious that there was an external force at play as the mania conglomerated into a single point, the size of a pill, before flying in some random direction.
This phenomena was seen in all three of the attacked sites causing those who were present to be frozen in shock. What they didn't know though, was that there was a fourth place that had bore witness to the same phenomena.
In a underground lair, several crazed fell on their knees with their eyes rolled back and purple smoke rising from their bodies. Once all the mania was drained from them, they collapsed, weak and unconscious.
Eerily enough, there were several of them that had been kept in cages, while some were in patient chairs with their hands, legs and head firmly bound, making them look like the test subjects of some mad scientist.
Aside from the mania found with in the crazed, there were also mania grenades stocked on shelves that exploded before the mania gas contained within was drawn into that single point.
Raven, sensing the amount of chaos she harvested just from this one site, felt extremely satisfied. The best part was that she could still feel more chaos hidden away deep inside that facility. Feeling that power she spread her Influence over it, commanding it to join into the chaos bead she had been constructing.
Imagine her shock when she felt resistance, one that seemed to stem from a power that was the same as hers. Shocked yet unyielding, she was just about to further engage with the resistance when she felt something eerie coil around her; restricting her mobility by a great extent.
The sensation was strange, it felt tangible like a touch, yet seemed like a gaze; a familiar one she had come across multiple times before, it's coldness something she had never experienced before. It held neither killing intent nor ill will, yet it still made one shrivel up with a taste of solitude, one that was enough to split your sanity.
If what she had felt under the main character's gaze be utter defeat, as if her life was forfeit, that there was no possible way for one to escape or hide. This gaze made her feel as if she was being looked at as if she were a grain of sand in an endless desert; a fallen leaf in an eternal forest; utterly insignificant! It also made one feel solitude in a way no one would speak about.
Feeling as though she was slowly losing her mind, drifting into eternal nothingness, she was unknowingly rescued by the main character who had just finished setting up his array.
Having activated it, the array formed a completer 360 barrier around Raven, causing her to be locked off and isolated from the rest of the universe. That had unknowingly caused her to be pulled back into her fragmentef body, thankful to have escaped that terrifying gaze.
Of course, she was by no means safer in her current situation, one ([Author]) might even say she was actually in more danger right now. Since the array separated her off from the universe, essentially making her an independent anomaly rather than a fragmented divinity consciousness, one could say she was experiencing what she had felt when inside that underground facility. Extreme solitude.
Not wanting to sustain the arry himself, the main character grafted the array onto her back, before backing away and proceeding to draw another array formation.
Although she was overwhelmed with pain, she reasoned her way through the thought that she couldn't even sense her main body at all!!
'What did this bastard do to me!!!'
Feeling the itching pain on her back, she was shocked at how the main character had actually grafted a whole, complex, array formation onto her back without a single ounce of remorse.
"Don't you know what you've done?!!! I am Raven of the Order of Chaos, do you not think my main body would sense what has happened?! Do you think I wouldn't report this to my Master?"
The main character didn't seem the slightest bit phased as he continued forming the array with the pressure that pinned her down persisting. His non-verbal attitude only worked to further motivate Raven to dish out threats and insults.
When faced with the unending barrage of threats, the main character simply increased the pressure that affected her by a few folds, shutting her up for good as even the act of breathing had become monumentally difficult.
Thankfully the array was finished in under a minute... a minute that seemed longer that entire weeks. Controlling the array to stand over head, the main character manipulated it to fall down onto them. The parts that made contact with it, slowly disappearing in through the array.
Simultaneously, in another location in the After Realm, that same array appeared out of thin air before slowly descending down to the ground before disappearing, the main character and Raven appearing from within, piece by price, during the array's descent.
The area they were at was a bit shaded, as in front of them stood a statue of a pale white tree whose branches spread across the sky like tributed to a large river, as if it was the king of the forest.
That and the fact that there was a face etched onto the stem of thr tree made it seemed extremely special. Sensing their presence, the wise old tree opened it's eye. Pitch black scalars that resembled a bottomless pit, and dreamy silver eyes that gleamed like the stars.
Parting its lips, its old and wise sounding voice said, "Who dares trespass onto my realm?!" Its eyes peering through both the main character and Raven. Unexpectedly, the main character responded with laughter as he said, "Your realm??? I don't know where you got that silly little idea from but this and all that has ever been is mine and mine alone!"
Although the wise old tree felt that the voice was threatening, what had caught him off guard was the fact that the presence the main character gave off was quite simple and unappealing, almost even ordinary, with that said though, why did it feel as though it was in the presence of a calamity?