Dungeon Raider System-Chapter 583: Multiple reports

Miss Dragonfang's party returned to the Pegasus the next morning after spending the night at the haunted house which made them the last party to come back after their respective incursions.

Most members of the company thought they ran into trouble and Nika was starting to get worried, only to become angry when he saw them enter the ship eating cotton candy and wearing T shirts that read 'I spent the night at the haunted house and all I got was this lousy T-shirt'.

"What the f..." Nika lost her composure for a second and had to remind herself that she needed to be an example for the rest of the company.

"We finished our mission, ma'am. No cryptids were involved, it was just an attraction on an amusing park and the post was only a marketing strategy." Miss Dragonfang informed with her cheeks covered in the sticky substance she was eating.

"And you found that before or after buying all that stuff?"

"Before, but we still needed to make sure. It was our mission after all." Miss Dragonfang explained in her army voice after hurriedly wiping her face.

"About that, we put all the charges on the company card." Bella added with a smirk while eyeing Uriel to study his reaction. After squeezing Miss Dragonfang of everything she knew about Uriel she expected him to become angry, but nothing happened.

"That's fine." Uriel said in a yawn, then scratched the back of his head.

"Well then, it's time for you to write your incursion reports. Luna could use the information you gathered even if you didn't encounter any cryptid and they'll allow me to assess your performance."

Now that the last group had returned safely, there was no longer any need to remain on standby and everyone who participated on any incursion had to start working on their reports. It was a standard practice in any company, but given the special circumstances of theirs most of the members didn't have a clue on how to write a report. This especially applied to the Armstrong men.

They were a close knit group of hunters even before the company was founded, though they never did any active hunting and only provided support for defense. Besides, they were hired as miners, but now that their circumstances had changed they had to step in on more than one occasion.

This didn't come as a surprise to Nika who already expected some of the less experienced hunters to have issues writing their reports, what she didn't expect was finding Uriel and Luna sitting in front of blank pages with equally blank expressions on their faces.

"What's going on here? Did you guys forget how to write a report?" Nika tilted her head, fully expecting Uriel to rebuke and when he failed to do she was left in awe.

"I... uhm... didn't encounter any cryptids." Contrary to her inexpressive face, Luna was actually distraught. "I thought it would be a changeling, but..."

"Didn't you hear what Nika said? You still need to write a report." Medusa said in a soft, yet nagging tone.

"You're only saying that because you can't write." Luna's reply made Medusa chuckle.

"I'll do it anyway, just get me in front of a keyboard." Medusa said full of confidence that vanished once her report turned out to be just an unintelligible mix of random letters no one could decipher.

"I think I'll stick to Luna's report, you two went together after all." Nika said then started reading.

'We arrived at the POI long after our scheduled time due to Medusa's inability to sense moving cars and her insistence to walk on her own. We were invited in by a man before we even introduced ourselves, probably because of his male reproductive instincts.' Luna's report was filled with evidence that backed this theory and Nika had to skip what was left of the page.

In summary, the man didn't take his eyes from Medusa the entire time they were there. Then Nika continued reading in silence. 'Apart from the aforementioned, there was nothing of interest about that individual and we had to wait for the person who made the post.

It was a teenage girl that claimed her mother had been swapped by a cryptid, but after a thorough interrogation of everyone involved, it became evident that she was just trapped in an abusive relationship and we fixed the situation.'

"Luna, you gave too much pointless information, but when it came to the important part you simply skipped it. How did you fix the situation?"

"I removed the problematic factor of the equation, with my fists..." Medusa explained, proud of herself for beating a man that wasn't even a hunter an inch from death.

"And how did it solve anything?" By that point, Nika couldn't make sense of anything.

"The man was abusive towards the teen's mother and it caused a shift in her character. By taking the man out of their lives..."

"No, what you did was unnecessary. You may have fixed things for a short period, but you don't know how that can impact their lives. Maybe they relied economically on him or maybe he'll come back for revenge."

"I don't know about revenge, but we handed the woman some money to get back on her feet." Medusa explained.

"So, you're telling me you not only didn't get anything out of that incursion, but you also spent money?" Nika lifted an eyebrow, then turned to Uriel who didn't react. "Okay, what's up with you? Let me see your report, this is still empty!" Nika voiced out.

"Uh... I... I don't remember what happened." Uriel scratched the back of his head again

"Did you at least get to the location? What happened?"

"I was supposed to investigate a cursed mirror and I think I made it there, but then my memory becomes fuzzy. There was this weird guy, he was like high or something. I don't know." Uriel raked up his brain, but found no answers and only slight flashes of what happened crossed his mind though nothing was out of the ordinary.

"Did you see the mirror?" Nika's insistence seemed to put a heavy strain on Uriel's mind.

"I... huh... I think I did?"

"Are you asking or telling me?"

"Stop, you're hurting him!" Bella rushed in to embrace Uriel from behind making sure to press her voluptuous chest against him after sensing his flux energy was starting to dwindle. Much to her surprise and enjoyment, he didn't fight back or react negatively to her advance and instead closed his eyes to enjoy her warmth. "He's cold, really cold."

"Hmm... this is interesting." Luna muttered showing her excitement only through the unsettling glint in her eyes. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

"Do you know what did this to him?"

"No, that is what makes it interesting. There's plenty of lore about mirrors, but what Uriel is experiencing has never been mentioned in anything I've seen or heard of. If we go by his words, the owner of the mirror was suffering the same symptoms which means that we will most likely find a cryptid there."

"or a hunter with a trait, or an artifact, or witchcraft..." Bella started list other possibilities and as soon as witchcraft was mentioned Nika started crossing herself.

"Why are you doing that? I'm a witch, get over it." Bella glared at Nika.

"It's easy to forget when you're not wearing a pointy hat."

"What did you say?" Luna asked.

"The pointy hat?" Nika tilted her head for the umpteenth time that day.

"No, I meant her." Luna disliked Bella and refused to call her by her name, but also didn't insult her since it wasn't her place to decide who Uriel decided to associate with.

"There's a lot of things that could have this effect on people and since the source of this investigation is a mirror, I think it's safe to assume it's an artifact." Bella shrugged.

Luna turned to see Uriel, only this time she didn't expect him to react. He was like a husk of his former self and she now knew that pressuring him into saying anything else would only result in causing him more pain.

"The only way we can be certain is if we go check by ourselves, but we'll need to bring Uriel along." Luna declared.

"He's in no condition to go out, let alone fight."

"We can't wait because Uriel's condition may worsen, but I also need to keep checking him up. Also, the owner of the mirror knows him and perhaps he'll remember something." Luna explained her reasoning leaving no place to refute.

"I'll go too." Bella volunteered herself.

"Me too." Medusa said, a bit disgruntled that Bella beat her to it.

"Then I'll be the last member. Luna is a medic, Medusa an engineer, Bella's trait allows her to provide ranged support and I'm a combatant. With this team composition we won't have any issues protecting Uriel." Nika said with her usual mischievous smile.