Dungeon Raider System

Chapter 119 San Fernando cathedral Part 1

After entering the cathedral through the empty double door frame in the front, the group of hunters fell into despair. What they expected to be be a church made of sturdy materials, a place with fortifications worthy of making a last stand, was nothing but a square building with two small towers on the sides and a wrecked interior.

The benches were completely destroyed and everything inside was weathered and moldy. As if that wasn't enough, the whole place was trashed and it looked as though it would crumble any minute now.

"You have got to be kidding me! We're doomed!" Mary cried.

"Bastard! You brought us here on purpose to die!" Said Mark while holding Uriel by the collar and lifting him up in the air menacingly. "You even took my weapon, now we're sitting ducks!"

Medusa, who didn't stand seeing Uriel being mistreated like that, was getting ready to kick Mark straight on the face but, as much as Uriel would have loved to see that, he knew it was a bad idea as Mark was as strong as he looked and a direct confrontation would be too risky for everyone.

"No one asked you to come." Uriel muttered while discretely signalling Medusa to stay out of it.

"What did you say!? huh!? You're asking to get your ass kicked now."

"Mark, please!" Tina begged, but just as usual she did nothing to help Uriel and stood idly by while Mark was bullying him.

"I said, no one asked you to come. You're still welcome to go outside if you don't like this place. About your weapon, you lost and you should be grateful I let you keep your pants, besides, Sam is making good use of it."

"They're here." Sam, who up to that point remained by the door frame pointing his rifle outward, said and he quickly started firing his new coil rifle. Every shot he fired landed right on an enemy's face and, even though weapons couldn't kill those cryptids, they took a long time recovering from headshots. His incredible accuracy only furthered Uriel's point and everyone glared at Mark.

Left with no choice, he put Uriel back on the ground, but not before making sure everyone knew how displeased he was by spitting on the ground.

"You're all idiots, we're going to die just like the others." Mark's words reminded everyone just how heavy the losses they suffered were and for a second everyone seemed sad, safe for Uriel who only felt the anger inside him growing after being toyed by Mark.

"Hey, you seem experienced and knowledgeable. Why are you sticking around that group of losers. If you join our party we can pay you well and you'll get to hang out with people more worthy of your company." Mark asked as he walked towards Luna. Despite the huge difference in stature she didn't react in the slightest.

"Uhm... no." Was all she replied and she walked towards her friends.

After making sure no vampire would enter the church, everyone followed Luna's advice and explored the building. Though since they had limited lanterns every member of Uriel's party was paired with people from Tina's group.

"There's a lot of damage but it looks old, It seems they used this place as some sort of refuge when the cryptids took over the city." Tina, who had been silently following Uriel said out loud.

"Yes, people usually hide behind religious beliefs when they think their life is in danger." Uriel remembered having read something like that in many anthropology books. "Fear is one of the most common reasons why people turn to religion."

"Wow, you seem to know a lot about those things. I never took you for a religious person." Tina commented, though her mind was elsewhere. She just wanted to make conversation to avoid thinking about the fact that many people died, people she knew.

The creepy sounds coming from outside had also been bothering her for a while now and she needed to take her mind off from the cryptids loitering around the church.

"Not really, I just know a lot about churches because of my studies."

"Do you know anything about this church?" Read exclusive chapters at empire

"I don't even know what city this is, the government really loves their secrets and modern history isn't my specialty." Uriel shrugged but then he leaned closer to a marble slab that read:

'Here lies the remains of Travis.Crockett.Bowie and other Alamo heroes...'

"This is can't be... This is... San Fernando Cathedral!" Uriel let out in surprise then, he fell silent as he thought he heard someone calling his name in the distance in a voice that seemed to come from beyond the grave.