Dungeon Raider System-Chapter 369: Apprentice ranger

"Wow! I’ve never seen something like that before!" The man gasped in shock and amusement.

"I can do better!" Uriel hurriedly tried to defend himself, but the man wasn’t having it.

"Your aim is so bad you couldn’t hit a bull’s rum with a handful of banjos... but you’re in." The man let out a sigh.

"I am?"

"How could I reject you? Your aim can improve with practice, but you made a hole the size of a friggin possum in an alloy wall with that thing. To be honest, I’m jealous of your trait... mine is truesight which sounds cool but it’s only as good as the weapon I’m using. If I had a gun like yours..."

The man proceeded to take Uriel to receive a new ID card to the name ’Magnum’, though Uriel didn’t care what they called him as long as his true identity remained a secret. Then, he took him to the outpost where his training would begin.

The ranger course didn’t have a set duration and depended exclusively on the judgement of the instructor. In other times they could afford being more picky about their recruits, but after the massacre that took place in the outpost near the lost city the city was in dire need of new rangers.

Since Uriel had spent so much time with Charlie in the past, he knew the ins and outs of what being a ranger entailed. He aced the physical training and the flux energy test said he was on the higher side of the ascended rank, but his best sore was in the study of theory and law. After all, studying was always his strong suit.

Uriel’s results were the among the best ever seen and he might have been able to graduate as a ranger in record time if not for his aim that was so poor he became the laughing stock of his fellow rookie rangers. However, Uriel didn’t care much because he only joined the rangers to get his hands on a new ID card and he planned to quit after a week or so, just to avoid raising suspicions.

Whenever recruits were inside the city they had to act as officers of the law, which meant they had to put a lot of effort in studying it. But until they graduated from the training course they would be unable to exit the city freely, which was what Uriel wanted. It was a nuisance, but nothing that Uriel didn’t already know and that’s why he planned on quitting as soon as possible.

"Hey rookie, keep up the pace will you?" A short man with red hair whose nickname was Goblin, mocked Uriel for remaining at the back of the group thinking Uriel was tired. But that wasn’t the reason why he remained in the back, it was because he didn’t want to draw any attention towards himself.

"Look at this tracks. these are from an animal, but they look similar to the ones a tejuino might leave so don’t ever follow them. No matter how hungry you are, it’s not worth getting stung by one of those things."

"No kidding." Uriel rubbed his leg that still remembered the pain caused by its poison.

"Don’t tell me you’ve been stung before."

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"Shut up, will you? We’re here to learn from Truesight, not to listen to your bullshit stories." Goblin scoffed.

"Anyway, it’s time to go back to the city. Bear in mind that even though you’re on the ranger course, you’re not quite there yet. Don’t even think of abusing your authority or you’ll get executed, our government has a zero tolerance policy against rogue hunters but especially outlaw rangers." Truesight warned as they walked back to the city.

The training differed depending on who the instructor was and since Truesight’s duty was to guard the walls and patroll from outpost to outpost he took his apprentices with him whenever he could.

His job was tiresome, but easy. All he had to do was take a lap around the city, something that was extremely difficult for an evolved since the perimeter of the city was beyond huge. That was one of the reasons why Truesight only took ascended as his apprentices, but the other important reason why was because he was an ascended himself.

He considered training evolved hunters a waste of time, but he also didn’t like trainig heavenly rank hunters because they always acted superior.

Once they were back at the city, Uriel was finally free to do what he wanted. He walked the streets showing off his new shiny badge that marked him as an apprentice ranger. Cititzens feared hunters who belonged to the army because they waged war against cryptids outside city walls and whenever they were inside the city they believed themselves to be superior.

That didn’t apply to rangers, since their jobs were less violent and they also doubled as peace officers.

Now that he was an apprentice ranger, people in the streets noticed him and showed him respect. Kids waved at him at a distance and citizens would greet him, he even got a discount when buying a hotdog which got him thinking that maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea to join the rangers.

He alkes the streets nibbling on the hot dog he just bought, thinking on going back to the hotel, when a small child no older than ten years old ran towards him. The clothes the child was wearing showed that he was from a wealthy family, but he looked disheveled and in distress. Explore stories on novelbuddy

"Are you a ranger, Mister?" The kid asked.

"Huh, not yet," Uriel shrugged and continued walking, but people glared at him which reminded him that even if he was only an apprentice it was still his duty to protect the citizens. He threw what was left of his hot dog on the trash can and then turned back to the small child. "are you in danger or something?"

"I’m fine, but my cat... my cat is trapped. Can you rescue him?" The child looked at him with teary eyes that would have melted anyone’s heart, but Uriel wasn’t moved by him and the only thing he thought was how wasteful it was to throw away his hot dog.

"Fine."