After receiving the System's mission, Raven had noticed Kouta Kazuraba being called away from the street outside the shop by the Team Gaim members. He figured they must have run into trouble with Team Baron again.
Wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity?
He just needed them to summon a A-Class Inves, let that Inves consume one of their Lockseeds, and it would then grow gigantic. Once that happened, the System mission would be complete. He felt this mission was ridiculously easy.
At this moment, Kaito Kumon was thoroughly enraged by Raven's words.
"What idiotic thing are you saying!"
Baron immediately charged at Delta. Raven didn't even bother to dodge, standing his ground and taking the full force of the blow. He was completely unfazed.
"Huh?" Kaito froze, surprised that his attack had no effect.
Seeing this, Raven retaliated with a punch to Baron, sending him flying. The Delta Driver was the most balanced belt in the Faiz world. Its defense and attack power were equivalent to the enhanced forms of other Riders. A regular-form Baron was naturally no match for Delta.
"His Driver looks different. Is he an Armored Rider too?" The onlookers were stunned. Kouta and the others were also standing frozen in disbelief.
Even DJ Sagara, who was observing the battle remotely, felt something was strange. He immediately suspected that the interloping Raven might not be from this world. His ability to sense this so keenly stemmed from his true identity as the embodiment of Helheim itself in the Gaim world, having groomed Kouta Kazuraba as one of the contenders for the Golden Fruit from the very beginning.
"It looks like I have no choice."
Kaito realized this suddenly-appearing Rider was trouble. To avoid being attacked on two fronts, he quickly used the Lockseed in his hand to summon an Inves.
As a dimensional zipper opened in the sky, an A-Class Inves appeared before the crowd.
"Roar!"
The Inves aggressively charged, following Kaito's instruction to attack Raven.
"Not enough."
Raven's goal was to defeat a gigantic Inves. With a few easy moves, he sent the current Inves flying. It crashed directly into Baron's body, and the Mango Lockseed in Baron's hand fell to the ground.
Having lost Kaito's control, the Inves gained its own thought process. It reached out for the Mango Lockseed on the ground and swallowed it in a few bites.
"Gah—!"
Its body quickly swelled up, finally transforming into a giant, red bull-like monster.
"No! Everyone run!" Seeing this, Kouta's first reaction was to shout at the onlookers to flee. A berserk Inves was extremely difficult to handle. Last time, he had barely managed to defeat such a huge monster after a tough fight and by switching to his Pineapple Lockseed.
"Ah, run!" The surrounding bystanders were terrified and scattered like startled birds, taking cover far away.
It was at that moment that Raven looked excited.
Without rushing, he assembled the Delta Phone and Mover on his waist into the Blaster Mode, aiming it at the gigantic monster.
"Exceed Charge!"
The silver Photon Blood surged into the Blaster, finally firing a triangular light cone that locked onto the Inves. Raven then leapt forward, executing the Lucifer's Hammer.
Boom!
The attack directly pierced the monster's gigantic body! The Inves's body burst into red flames and was reduced to sand. Any enemy killed by Delta would experience the death phenomenon specific only to Orphnochs.
At this moment, everyone, from Team Baron to Team Gaim, was utterly shocked.
He's too powerful.
He finished off such a huge monster with just one move?
After eliminating the monster, Raven didn't linger. He calmly got back on the Junglaider and rode away from the scene, as if everything else had nothing to do with him.
He came quickly and left just as fast.
"Who was that black-and-white Rider? He was so cool..." Mai stared at Raven's retreating figure, deeply captivated.
That black-and-white Rider had effortlessly suppressed Baron and easily destroyed the gigantic monster that Kouta had struggled against before. If their team had a strong person like him, they wouldn't have to worry about the threat of Baron.
Nearby, Mitsuzane Kureshima, who had canceled his transformation, felt a pang of jealousy seeing his crush, Mai, seemingly captivated by the black-and-white Rider. He wondered if his company had developed some new type of Driver. But the opponent didn't seem to be using the power of a Lockseed.
"Who was that guy, ruining our fun?" Team Baron members complained from afar. Team Baron had truly been having a run of bad luck lately; first, they had their stage crashed by a strange man, and now they were thoroughly humiliated by an Armored Rider from out of nowhere.
Kaito Kumon, whose condition was poor after the earlier fight, had no choice but to temporarily call a truce. But as he left, he spoke to Kouta in the distance: "Kazuraba, I'll be waiting for you right here in three days!"
Kouta knew he couldn't avoid the fight now. If he didn't show up, today's events would just happen again. For the sake of the Team Gaim members, he had to fight.
"Yes, I understand." Kouta replied.
"That's great, Kouta-aniki!" The Team Gaim members jumped up in cheer. Only Mitsuzane seemed somewhat distracted.
....
Upon returning to the café, Raven headed to the backyard to claim his reward.
Ding!
[Congratulations, Host, for completing the mission.]
[Reward has been sent. Please check the inventory.]
Immediately, a Sengoku Driver and the Apple Lockseed appeared in the System space. Raven took them out and examined them closely. He then checked the description through the System.
The so-called Forbidden Apple Lockseed was actually a flawed product with severe side effects, developed by Ryoma Sengoku of the Yggdrasill Corporation. It possessed the power of an Over Lord, capable of controlling the space rifts to Helheim. However, an ordinary person using it would die from the unbearable power of the Lockseed. That was why its development had been halted.
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