Chapter 81: Opening Doors

• Zane nearly felt his legs give out as soon as he walked into the Arena. The rooms scale nearly blew his mind! All his life he had been living on the other side of the river and seeing just this room alone and the multitudes of people gather within, told him how little he really understood of what the world was like around him. Sure, he had been in abandoned factories and warehouses before, but seeing this place so full and alive was a mind changing experience.
• On top of this, everyone here had come to simply just watch others fight for sport and to make unimaginably expensive bets on them. The fights he had been through to be in the strongest gang in town started to feel petty. Like all his efforts seemed in vain and fruitless. There was still much for him to learn it seemed.
• "You alright?" McMathers asked seeing that Zane had stopped.