Dungeon Raider System

Chapter 226 A new beginning

*Beep beep* *Beep beep*

"Not again." Uriel said grumpily. He didn't need to even open his eyes to know he was at a hospital. The chemical scent and the annoying beeping sounds were all the confirmation he needed, but taking into consideraion how ill he felt before passing out, it didn't come as a surprise.@@@@

However, as soon as he opened his eyes he realized the beeping sound was actually coming from his cellphone. The notifications didn't stop coming one after the other, though they were most likely news that had been clogged up due to how much time he spent on the dungeon. The rapid influx of information was too much for his sleepy brain and he opted for asking any of his friends in person.

This time, he wasn't hooked to any medical device as the doctors assumed he fainted due to exhaustion, there weren't any nurses on sight either and none of his friends were picking up the phone.

He stumbled upon a water dispenser in the hallway and greedily drank directly from it, he didn't remember being so thirsty ever before. 'Just what's going on?' He wondered, but curiosity soon gave way to fear as he realized that even the nurse station was empty, something absolutely unthinkable in the usually busy and crowded hospital.

Just when he was about to panic, an ominous sensation of something crawling up from behind invaded him.

"You're finally awake!" Nika patted him on the back.

"How is Medusa doing?" Uriel had so many questions inside of his mind, but he knew the right thing was to ask about his friend first.

"They're keeping her in a comma so her body focuses solely on healing but they say she's fine."

"Why is there no one else in here?"

"That's because I rented the whole floor to keep everything about our incursion a secret. We don't want people asking questions. It's actually pretty much a standard procedure for companies like ours, though I didn't know it was so expensive."

The good news is that we acquired all the necessary tools and machinery to start the extraction process."

"Ahhh! Why would I care about that, I'm married to a lovely woman and we couldn't even spend our wedding night together." Sam placed his elbows on the table and hid his head between his arms.

"Ew, that's gross. You can't be in love with a cryptid, that's disgusting."

"I don't care, she's the love of my life!"

"I was almost burnt to death, lost all my hair and you're here whining about your monster girlfriend!"

"I... I lost Mister Wabbit." Luna added with a blank face, though her eyes showed how deeply hurt she was about losing her stuffed animal. At the time, she was too focused on Medusa to realize she dropped it right at the exit of the dungeon, but now it was all she could think of.

She had asked Uriel time and time again for a replacement, but he had refused because he simply didn't have any credits to spare.

"I don't get it, why are we even here? We should be outside hunting and making money!" Uriel wanted to slam his hand on the table, but he didn't want to risk breaking it because he didn't have any credits to spare.

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"Hunting? We can't do that anymore, the Mapple corp. and the army are already putting together mining teams."

"So? You said it already, we have the equipment."

"It's not going to magically grow legs and go to the dungeon and even if it did, we still need employees to operate it. I can't go to the dungeon because I need to keep pretending I'm the CEO, Medusa won't be able to go because she's currently hiding. We need employees to make credits and we need credits to get employees, in other words, we need people to invest in our company..."