War

Bull looked at Will's resigned look and frowned. He understood the character of this kid well, he didn't seem to want to be entangled in this mess.

"Looks like I meed to dangle the carrot." Bull thought.

He took out a card and handed it to Will. "After the mission, contact this person and tell him that Bull sent you." Bull said emphatically.

Will took the card and stared at the name for a moment. "Jin Sola." He had never heard this person's name before, but he guessed it was whom Bull was saying survived despite having a broken Life Wheel.

Will quietly left the place and began walking home. At that moment, he had the slight feeling that he was being followed. He immediately head out to a bar to drink, while he secretly messaged Bull about being followed.

As he was having a drink in the rather quiet bar, a fight actually broke out. It was a fight between twelve apprentice warriors! Will acted shocked, just like the other customers and stared at the ensuing brutality with horror.

He clearly noticed that there were eight warriors of the Newman group who were fighting unknown assailants. The bartender sighed, murmuring under his breath. "The war between Newman Group and the Black Market actually broke out."

Not long after, a sudden shadow appeared behind the eight warriors who were locked into a struggle and the eight were all beheaded instantly. A whisper passed through Will's ear. "Good job lad, you discovered them tailing you. Plans have changed. We attack tonight."

When Will heard that, he paled. However, before he could even think, another whisper appeared. "Head to the alley behind Newman Group's headquarters. A woman will meet you there."

At this moment, several explosions were set off and violence erupted throughout the city. Will was stunned. A full scale war erupted just like that.

Will quickly paid the bartender and left through the back alley, walking through the shadows until he arrived at the alley where he was supposed to wait for Bull's contact.

After fifteen minutes of impatience and worry, Will finally saw a shadow approaching warily. It was the silhouette of a woman. However, when Will saw the woman he was stunned.

"You are... Ziana?" Will asked in shock.

The woman was shocked as well. "Will... I didn't expect you were actually a hacker for the black market..."

"And you are Bull's spy?" Will was surprised.

Ziana was Gary Newman's girlfriend since Will was in high school. She was a girl that had once fancied Will, but Will actually was in a relationship with Maya and rejected Ziana's advances.

Ziana sighed. "Come with me quickly, I will lead you to the main office area. From there, you are on your own."

Will was slightly wary of entering the Newman Headquarters. After all, it was the foremost defense technology company on Oa. It was not a light weight organization. After some thought, Will put on the disguise mask that Bull lent him and followed Ziana.

Surprisingly, with Ziana's help, the two actually went past most security checks without any scruples. The guards all saluted Ziana as the Young Master's girlfriend as they allowed the two to enter without much worry.

The attention on the guards was more focused on exterior threats. The war had broken out and the 1 star warriors of the Newman group had already been deployed. At the moment a terrifying battle was taking place on the rooftops of the city as powerful warriors were zipping across and colliding with terrifying impact.

Will shook his head as he heard the terrifying collisions. He wondered what the government was doing? Had it chosen to stay quiet and observe the fallout? However, these thoughts were soon put behind as the two had come to the main security area.

Ziana pointed towards a corridor. "That leads to the data center where all their classified information is stored. I must go this way." She said pointing towards a room which had the name plate attached to the door.

Gary Newman - Manager, H.R.

Will saw this and sighed. He then slid to the blind spot of the cameras as he began his work. His first job was to hack the local camera system and prevent any alarms while he infiltrated the data center.

After completing his goal, the cameras were looped to a minute of past recordings and then Will calmly walked into the data center. At this moment, there were still a few technicians who were manning the data center.

As Will entered the temperature controlled room, he was seen by the two technicians who were also in the room.

"Who are you?" A technician asked warily.

"I was sent by the young Boss. He wants you to explain something to his mistress." Will said arrogantly.

When the technician heard that his face turned bitter, like he understood what was going on. He shook his head as he began walking to the door. However, at that moment, he was suddenly blasted with an electric current that knocked him unconscious.

Will shrugged his shoulders and then shot the taser again at the second technician who was also shocked. He also dropped unconscious as the blast of electric current shocked his body in spasms.

Will didn't waste his time. He quickly began hacking into the mainframe controlling the data center and took out a portable crystallographic memory plate. This plate was made of glass crystals which could be used to store extremely large amounts of data in a compact physical space, however, they were very slow an inefficient when it came to processing, which was why most computers didn't use them.

Will activated his programs and quickly began transferring all the encrypted data into his memory plate. The process was excruciatingly slaw as he was dealing with what was potentially exabytes of data. As twenty minutes passed, Will was getting more and more worried about the situation. He was worried that each second longer it took was each second he was more likely to be caught.