Retrieving Harrelson's iLac

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Job Sign-Up: Page 1, Post Number 22

-The Abandoned Cabin area, midnight-

Wearing her navy blue outfit with Glowstick in her left cargo pants pocket, Saint Sinner Valentine slung across her right shoulder, and SHG-IV Smart Glasses on her face, Diana stood about 100 meters from the namesake building of the region in a clearing with woods twenty meters away on both sides of her. The area's layout had changed since her last mission here, which was well over a year ago. Tonight's mission was a simple retrieval mission, but in a slight twist on the usual routine she was not rescuing a person, but an item.

A day ago an amateur explorer from Magnolia Town named Brian Harrelson had ventured here on a dare from a few of his friends and was tasked with entering the Abandoned Cabin and taking a "selfie" outside of it, then one inside of it. He had completed the dare but had unwittingly drawn the attention of the area's zombies. Lacking a weapon and having no experience with facing zombies, he was forced to flee to avoid being swarmed and bitten by the mass of undead. In his rush to escape he had left his iLac in the cabin and with it the proof he needed to prove he had completed the dare... now it was up to Diana to retrieve it and bring it back to him.

Diana walked to within 75 meters of the cabin and stopped to search for targets. Diana looked left, then looked right. By doing so a wave of target markers splashed across her Smart Glasses. She counted at least thirty zombies shambling around the cabin, but she had no idea how many were inside of it. She would find out once she had cleared out the undead outside the cabin and went to collect the dropped iLac.

The huntress set Saint Sinner Valentine on the ground next to her right foot, brought out Silent Hunter, and picked out her first target, which was a zombie in green hunter's garb with an empty quiver of arrows on his back and a large chunk bitten out of his right shoulder. She slowly and carefully aimed at his head, then fired a suppressed shot that punched through his forehead just as he turned to "face" her with milky white eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare. The former hunter fell to the ground and did not move again.

Diana picked out her next target, which was a female adventurer clad in chainmail who was missing their entire left arm and clutching a gleaming steel longsword in her right hand. Diana aimed for her forehead and fired, dropping her in a single shot. There were only twenty-eight more zombies to go before the immediate area was "safe" enough for her to approach the cabin. Diana lowered Silent Hunter and looked around her to make sure that she was not being stalked by zombies who were in the woods around her. Her Smart Glasses did not pick up any new threats, so the huntress resumed the task of clearing out the zombies in the immediate area so that there was a clear path to the cabin.

-Twenty minutes later-

The last of the zombies fell half a meter to the right of the Abandoned Cabin with a hole in its left temple. Diana's task had been delayed by the bad luck of some zombies shambling behind the cabin before she could shoot them, but since they were not smart enough to realize that they were being sniped from afar they broke cover after a minute as they shambled mindlessly towards the woods to the right. Diana waited a minute or two to see if any more zombies had shambled behind the cabin, but after a short wait she did not see any more of the, so she dispelled Silent Hunter, picked up Saint Sinner Valentine, and carefully walked the remaining 75 meters to the cabin.

-Ten minutes later, outside the Abandoned Cabin-

Diana approached the front door of the cabin and opened it carefully with her left hand while holding Saint Sinner Valentine in her right hand. Inside she found nine trapped zombies who must have gotten caught in the building when Brian fled for his life. They were oblivious to her presence, so she set down Saint Sinner Valentine just inside the door, brought out her Suppressed Handgun, and picked off the first zombie who shambled into sight, a man clad in woodland camo with an orange safety vest and a large chunk of the left side of his neck missing. Diana shot him once through the right temple and he fell to the ground.

-Inside the Abandoned Cabin-

Diana cleaned out the rest of the zombies in about two minutes with carefully aimed headshots. Once the last one was dead on the floor Diana began to search for an iLac on the floor. Diana carefully walked into the cabin and found an orange iLac lying on the floor in the cabin's top left corner. The blonde walked over to it and scooped it up with her left hand. She examined it for damage but did not find any; there was not even a sign that it had been dropped on the wooden floor. The only problem with the orange iLac was that its battery life was at 65%, but that was nothing a quick recharge could not fix.

The huntress flipped it over and on the back of it was two white stickers of the letters "B.H.", undoubtedly for Brian Harrelson. Diana put the iLac in her empty right side cargo pocket and grabbed Saint Sinner Valentine from its resting place in the corner close to the door before walking out of the cabin. The toughest part of the job was now finished. Now she needed to get to Magnolia Town and return the iLac to its owner before the job was truly complete.

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-The outskirts of Magnolia Town, eight hours later-

After eight hours of walking Diana reached Magnolia Town, a place she had visited quite often lately. She was here to return her client's iLac and collect her pay. But before she entered the town she took Saint Sinner Valentine off of her right shoulder, switched the ammunition type to the less-than-lethal rounds, switched the fire selector switch to Safe, and then slung the rifle back over her shoulder. Once that was done she dispelled the Suppressed Handgun she had been carrying in case she ran into trouble on her way out of the Abandoned Cabin region. Now that the only weapon she was carrying was loaded with less-than-lethal rounds and set to Safe Diana entered Magnolia Town to finish her mission.

-In Magnolia Town, outside the Harrelson residence-

Diana had asked around Magnolia Town and thanks to a helpful passerby was able to find the Harrelson residence, which was in the same neighborhood as the Smith residence. Diana walked up to the white front door of the home and rang the doorbell once, then stepped back. About a minute later a brown-haired young man in his early twenties wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans with brown sandals opened the door and paused at the sight of Diana. He was a mage with the power level of a C-Rank mage.

"Can I help you, Miss?" The young man asked.

"Yes. I am looking for a Brian Harrelson. I was hired to retrieve his iLac from the Abandoned Cabin. I have managed to retrieve it." Diana stated the nature of her business and pulled the orange iLac out of her right side cargo pocket as proof. The young man blinked.

"I'm Brian Harrelson. When I posted the job notice I didn't expect to get it back so quickly!" He said to her. Diana analyzed his body language and learned that he was telling the truth about his identity. She wordlessly handed it back to him and he accepted it with both hands.

"You are fortunate that it was not stepped on by the undead and ruined. The only problem with it is that its battery has run down some." Diana informed Brian of the device's condition. He was obviously grateful to hear that and a small smile formed on his lips as he checked the iLac for his two pictures. His smile widened when he saw that both of them were on the device.

"You're a lifesaver, lady! Both pictures of that cabin are on here, so now my friends at the tavern are gonna have to eat their words!" He said to her. He went back in the house and reappeared ten seconds later with a bag of Jewels that he handed to Diana.

"Here you go, lady! Getting my iLac back so quickly is worth every Jewel!" Brian said to her. Diana took the bag into both hands and put it in her now-empty right side cargo pocket.

"Thank you." Diana thanked Brian for the Jewels.

"No, thank you! Now my friends are gonna have to eat their words about me being a liar!" He said proudly. He looked at the time on his iLac and faced Diana.

"I've gotta go now. Thanks for getting my iLac back for me!" Brian thanked her. Diana waved goodbye and the door was closed. With her work now being officially complete, Diana turned away from the door and began to walk for the outskirts of Magnolia Town to begin her lengthy trip home. Once she got home she would only have a short time to rest before she would need to go out on another job to earn more money with which to try and buy off "Raven Squad" rather than fight them.

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