Dungeon Raider System-Chapter 515: Join the army Part 1

After a short conversation with Amy, Uriel found out that it wasn't Silvermane's fault but the highest ranking officer present, though she didn't know his identity since she was a new 'recruit'.

Unfortunately, finding someone in the current chaos caused by the migration was already difficult, but finding someone who they didn't now anything about besides the fact that he was a colonel was impossible to say the least.

"Who recruited you?" Uriel asked after finally giving up on finding Silvermane.

"I don't know their names, but they're in the first world with another batch of refugees." Amy replied awkwardly. While she wasn't interested on joining the army, she also didn't want Uriel to get in trouble because of her.

"I'll give them a piece of my mind." Uriel said as he rolled up his sleeves. Uriel wasn't bothered by he army recruiting people, but he knew full well that the only reason why the army didn't forcefully draft people was because they were nothing but a liability. However, due to the current circumstances it could lead to a power imbalance between the army, the rangers and independent hunters.

Needless to say, he also couldn't stand them messing with people he knew, like Amy who was just an innocent second year student in college. Usually, he wouldn't meddle in the affairs of the military, but now he was a lieutenant he figured fixing it should be easy as pie. Unsurprisingly, though, things didn't turn out how Uriel first expected.

As soon as he crossed to the first world and appeared on the poplar tree, he was reminded of the reason why he hated the first world so much. It was dark, damp and filled with all sorts of insects. They weren't cryptids and not even the nastiest of the bugs was able to pierce his heavenly rank skin, but that didn't make them any less gross.

Every step came accompanied by an unsettling cracking sound and not long after, Uriel realized someone was following him.

"What are you doing here?" Uriel asked in complete darkness.

"I couldn't let you go all by yourself. Those guys are tough and they have no qualms on ganging up on people." Amy replied.

Thanks to her trait, Amy was able to shapeshift her body to become feline-like but even though she was supposed to become able to see some shades of blue and yellow in the darkness like any cat could, the place was so dark she couldn't see a thing until Uriel turned on his gas lantern.

"Stay close, this place is safe, but if we get lost we could end up in a less friendly location." Uriel warned and she replied by shamelessly griping on his hand.

"This is just for safety reasons, the hunter manual..." Amy fumbled some words to herself, though Uriel paid no mind to it and continued walking until they were at what Uriel considered was a safe distance from the tree and turned off his lantern. It wasn't the first time they held hands and at least now she wasn't wearing a skirt but her army uniform which made things less awkward than back then.

But that only applied to Uriel. To Amy, being alone in the dark with a man while holding hands was the closest she had ever came to having a boyfriend. Her heart raced and her palms became sweaty, she didn't know what to say or do to make the moment less awkward, but when she finally made up her mind and breathed in to speak, Uriel forcefully covered her mouth with a hand.

"Quiet, they're coming." Uriel whispered, leaving Amy wondering how did he manage to hear the soldiers before her in spites of her enhanced feline hearing. Eventually, she too was able to hear the small group heading towards the poplar tree that acted as the entrance to the second world. She could hear them speak to each other, though she couldn't understand their words.

There were five soldiers, each carrying a gas lantern, circling around a group of ten to fifteen people. Most of them looked like citizens, but Uriel was able to tell there were a couple evolved hunters in the middle.

"Alright, this is as far as we're taking you. If you want to enter the second world, then you have to either pay a fee or join the army." A bulky man said with his arms crossed, prompting the civilians to murmur in between them, until one of the evolved responded.

"And why should we do that?"

"Why you ask? It's because we saved your lives, but if you want to enter our territory you need to cough up the money."

'So it was about money after all...' Uriel inwardly cursed for not coming up with the idea of asking for an entrance fee, but since he lead everyone to evacuate the city and head towards the Alamo dungeon it would have left him with a guilty conscience.

"We also came in a Mapple corp. zeppelin, I'd rather join them." The evolved hunter replied, receiving a powerful fist to the stomach that left him speechless.

"That's it, figure the way out yourself!" The soldier spat on the fallen hunter in a sign of utter disrespect.

"That's not very nice of people who are supposedly in charge of saving the civilians." Uriel casually spoke from behind the soldier, causing the soldier to flinch and fall on his own butt.

"Who's there!?" The soldier shouted in anxiety. Needless to say, it wasn't Uriel's tone of voice or even his sudden appearance what startled the soldier. It was the fact that he managed to get behind him without emitting a single sound.

Since Uriel didn't want any trouble, he meekly turned on his lantern, allowing everyone o see him and Amy by his side.

"Sergeant Tate, it's the bitch that rejected you!" A man wearing a corporal's uniform shouted, though now Uriel doubted he was actually a soldier. He couldn't fathom people like him being recruited in the army as not even Ethan allowed such behavior in the army ranks, which was saying a lot considering how much of

scumbag Colonel Windfire ended up being.

"Mind your own business, no one likes a nosy bastard." Sergeant Tate scoffed at Uriel.

"No one likes a corrupt soldier either." Uriel replied with confidence, knowing that a Sergeant was bound to be at most of the ascended rank and his energy signature didn't stood out from the group.

"Sage..." Amy tried to warn him, but it was too late as the sergeant had already thrown his punch which Uriel didn't bother dodging.

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As a heavenly rank, Uriel wasn't worried and took the full hit to make a point, only instead of graciously withstanding the gut punch, his lungs violently emptied forcing him to bend forward, then Uriel was swiftly apprehended by the corporals.

"Now you''re not even a civilian, you're a criminal" Tate grinned while Uriel still tried to understand what happened. "And you too, corporal Amy. Conspiring with a civilian against your superior is treason. In the name of the flag I'll execute justice upon this criminals..."

"Please, just let him go. He didn't mean to disrespect you." Amy sobbed, uncaring of what happened to her. Her only worry was that Uriel didn't get in trouble because of her, but he didn't seem to realize.

"Oh, I absolutely meant it!" Uriel said with a smirk when he realized they used regular rope to tie him instead of alloy wire which gave him the possibility to break free at any time he wanted, though he didn't expect what followed.

"I'm not a corrupt soldier. A man must take on the role bestowed upon them by society, everyone needs to contribute or it will fall into chaos. I guess you have no clue about what's going on...

That's the only reason why I'm willing to forgive you, but that's only if you join the army." Tate's tone was firm, but it felt as though he wasn't happy about forcefully drafting people or threatening them to join.

"Then I'll join." Uriel shrugged, much to Amy's surprise.

"You will? I thought you came in here to get me out of the army, not to join them."

"Why not? He said it himself, we all need to play our role." Uriel replied, omitting the fact that not only he was already considered as part of the army, but that his rank was superior to the man supposedly recruiting him.

"I see you're not as dumb as you look," Tate laughed. "But don't think for a second that you won't be punished for your disrespect."

Uriel wasn't too thrilled by the threat, but he wanted to find out what did Tate meant when he said Uriel had no clue about what's going on. As the one who sent the broadcast that led people to begin the exodus and as the one who informed the higher ups about what happened to the holy rank hunters Uriel thought he was in the know about everything.

But during the cataclysmic event on their city caused mostly by Sam, the army had little to no participation and Uriel was starting to suspect there might be something he missed.