Dungeon Raider System

Chapter 113 : Rush into the night Part 2

"Over there!" Sam pointed towards what seemed a random direction. Even though no one but him was able to see in the dark, they trusted him and followed as stealthily as they could. The perils of the lost city were no joke even during daytime, but at night all sorts of cryptids crowded the streets and even veteran hunters were reluctant on performing night incursions.

By the time the group reached the location Sam had pointed out, it was already too late. There was what seemed to be a body on the floor and a person laying on top of it as if mourning the passing of a close friend.

Uriel directed the light of his lantern towards the person and tried to communicate with him, but the man ignored his attempt and kept bobbing up and down like he was sobbing.

"Are you ok? Are you hurt somewhere?" Medusa asked, but she also didn't receive an answer.

The man kept silently mourning the passing of his friend and the party took the chance to look around and find potential threats. They were at what used to be an intersection, there was an old burnt car without doors or windows, a couple of broken street lamps in the ground and all the buildings in the corners were damaged.

The place looked as if it was bombed at some point in time, but it must have been years ago, probably when the city fell.

Uriel leaned closer to the man, thinking that maybe he was deaf or something of the sorts. Something must have been wrong with him, because a person wouldn't call for help and then ignore people if they showed up, but when he tried to tap on the man's shoulder he finally reacted by turning around and standing up slowly.

He was skinny, his complexion was sickly pale as a sheet of paper, he had deep eyes and black hair, but what stood out the most about him was the blood dripping from his mouth.

Usually, Luna would have been thrilled at the sight of a new cryptid and she would have butted in with a theory on how to defeat such a creature, but she was paralyzed. All she did was cower behind the destroyed car and watch the scene unfold in front of her eyes with a terrified expression none of her companions thought possible.

Sam finally stepped in with a steel pipe he found laying in the street thanks to his all seeing trait and he impaled the cryptid on the chest pinning it to the ground but despite the gruesome wound, the creature kept waving its arms ferociously.

"What should we do?" He asked amidst panting.

"I don't know. What got into Luna? We need her!" Uriel said, covering his face as he could already feel his wounds closing. It wasn't that he wanted to keep his regeneration a secret from his party, but he wanted to make sense of this strange ability before disclosing any information.

"I have an idea, but you need to keep it still." Medusa said.

Sam tightened the grip on the steel pipe and did his best to keep the cryptid out of reach while Medusa took a stance.

The young huntress lowered her center of gravity while she retracted her fists, she let out a sigh trying to clear her mind and then she spun in the air in a whirlwind kick that effectively decapitated the creature. The severed head rolled on the ground, but it still took a full minute until the body stopped moving.

Before they could even ask Luna for an explanation about her unusual behavior, the group heard a strange noise coming from a nearby building. It was footsteps, a lot of them. Just when Uriel was about to fire blindly in the dark, Sam stopped him and a group of about ten people came out. They all looked young, about their same age, but they had high tech weapons and medium or light armor.

They also looked tired, some of them were even wounded, and all of them were evidently scared of being in the open. But now that there weren't any cryptids around they were able to turn on their electric flashlights and pointed them towards Uriel's party temporarily blinding everyone but Sam.