Dungeon Raider System-Chapter 442: A big mistake

Uriel woke up with renewed energies and a smile on his face after one of the best nights of sleep he ever had in his entire life. The bed on the abandoned apartment was comfortable and the place was cozy, even after decades. Even if hunters didn't need as much sleep as regular humans, it didn't mean they didn't benefit from resting.

His flux energy was up to the top, his body felt lighter but he also felt a strange warmth that gave him an odd feeling. He opened his eyes only to confirm his fear that the wild girl was lying besides him. His first instinct was to kick her out of his bed, but he decided against it when he noticed how innocent and frail she looked when sleeping.

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'Poor thing, she must have been alone most of her life since she doesn't even know how to speak.' He inwardly thought, just thinking of being alone all of his life made him shiver. Her will to survive all by herself in the middle of a POI laeft a huge impression on him.

He got up from bed, doing his best not to wake her up and went to the kitchen to grab a cup of water, completely forgetting the fact that there shouldn't be water pressure in an abandoned building. Thankfully, he was able to buy drinks and snacks from his souvenir shop. It was an awful breakfast, but it was way better than the synthetic food he had consumed most of his life.

He looked outside the window to a beautiful clear sky and no traces of a titan level cryptid to be found. The buildings were pretty much the same and even the trees were still standing, which was beyond strange considering the size of that creature. However, that was all Uriel needed in order to go back to Texas.

'Sorry, but it's too dangerous to take you with me.' Uriel thought as he directed one last gaze at the sleeping girl that didn't look so wild anymore. Now that she was clean, she was actually quite beautiful and unless she opened her mouth, no one could guess she grew up in the wilderness.

Uriel placed his hand on the door knob with a wry smile and opened the exit door with the softest clicking sound, but that was enough to wake her up, which Uriel took as his cue to ran outside the building as fast as he could before she could catch up to him.

All he needed was to get outside and summon his jaguar spirit since now he was capable of concealing his energy signature and she would never find him.

He was mid way across the hallway when a pitiful wail reached his ears, it was the saddest cry Uriel had ever heard. It brought back to him the memory of the newspaper article he found about the wild girl of Catahoula, where someone mentioned that bringing her back to civilization would be a 'most desireable benefaction' which meant that leaving her alone was the oppposite.

To show her that she wasn't alone in the world, that there were others like her and give her hope, only to take it away in the most cruel possible way. Without so much as a warning or a goodbye.

'Sure, if I take her with me she would most likely end up dead, but if I don't...' Uriel thought to himself trying to decide if he should go back for her or not, not realizing that he had already stopped running.

Unsurprisingly, the girl came running at him full speed and clung to him with tears on her eyes. Losing him didn't mean to just lose one person like in any normal circumstances, to her it was the same as losing all of humanity since Uriel was the only person she had ever seen.

Contrary to what most people thought, complex ideas can form in the minds of sentient creatures that don't possess a language. Up until that point, language had never been a problem for her since she had no one to communicate with, but now she wished she could convey all of her emotions to him.

Just like Uriel guessed before, she was the sole survivor of the lost city they were in. When the mist came, her mother instinctively placed her inside a refrigerator to keep her safe, but it also almost costed her her life. There was no air circulation inside that place, but that was also the only reason why she survived.

By the time she managed to get out, everyone was already dead. To say it was difficult for her to survive would be an understatement. The first couple weeks she managed with what was left in her apartment, but then she had to go out and scavenge. She was barely tall enough to reach the counters, let alone open any doors, but luckily for her, cryptids had yet to arrive at that city.

Had it been anybody else, maybe even an adult, they would have gone insane by the loneliness, but since she was so small she adapted easily to her new circumstances.

Scavenging and crying where her two favorite activites, but as she grew up she also grew curious of the city and began exploring. It wasn't until she headed inside the swamp that she encountered the birds that mimicked human speech.

The screams for help where beyond eerie, but in a sense they were also comforting. She spent as much time as she could playing with those birds, chasing them into the swamp, caring not to get lost.

As fate would have it, she just happened to be nearby when one of those birds fell prey to a snake cryptid and she was able to acquire her trait. Becoming a hunter was a life changing event for her since it allowed her to run away from dangerous situations.

Just like Uriel, spending time with cryptids from a young age was what allowed her to feel the flux energy around her and she possessed a mystical sense just like him, but how she learned how to conceal it was an entirely different story.

It was a few months after she aquired her trait, when she became overconfident in her ability to escape, that the fog came back. This time, though, it didn't come accompanied with a flood or any warning signs. The fog simply crept inside the city, catching most of the cryptids completely by surprise and feeding upon them with ease.

She was too young to remember the first time the fog came, but her mystical sense warned her that soemthing was wrong. She hid as best she could, but once the mist surrounded her she had no escape.

All the swamp things began forming creatures that resembled humans, formless creatures that possessed the souls of those who passed away. Only they didn't bring any confort to her nor did she acknowledge them as her same species, she knew something was off with them and tried to run away.

For days and nights she ran from the revenants of those who must have been dear to her one time, but had no actual meaning to her. Her mother, her father, her siblings, they all tried to speak to her and beckon her into their side, but she didn't fall for it. Tricking someone who didn't understand human speech with words was impossible.

The mist, or rather the cryptid that created it, was aware of her existence but since she was so weak it couldn't locate her. It took her years of pratice, but eventually she learned how to conceal her presence and was now able to hide whenever the fog came.

The problem was that she knew the titan wasn't happy that she got away and it would always return to seek for her. She knew she was being hunted by that cryptid, she knew she could never let her guard down and let out her eneregy signature, but when Uriel left she became desperate.

She wasn't thinking anymore and for a brief second, she stopped concealing her energy signature only now she wasn't a weakling anymore.

Now she was crying on Uriel's chest like the frail girl she was suppósed to be, but she was also desperate to let him know that after so many years of hiding she finally made a mistake. She so desperately wanted him to know that there was no place in the world where she could hide from that titan cryptid.

She wanted to let him know that she was the cause of their demise, that they both were as good as dead. She looked him in the eye, bitting her lips until they bled and hoping her thoughts would somehow reach him at the same time the eerie fog began forming right beneath their feet.

Uriel returned the gaze, he too noticed how she stopped concealing her energy signature, though he didn't look fazed by it. He didn't even seemed surprised that the fog began forming again.

"So, you're a holy rank hunter aren't you? What a hard life you must have had," He said as he patted her head and then continued speaking. "Don't worry, if that thing wants a piece of you it's going to have to make some cardio."

Next thing the girl knew, she was straddled on top of a huge flaming feline that carried them outside the city while the mist had yet to finish forming.