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A few minutes later, Kyle and Carmen are leaving the shooting range, and heading to the Living Room, where they get a call from the loudspeaker from their leader of Team 4. Kyle and Carmen are getting into the elevator, where Kyle, very familiar with this place, presses the ground floor option, and waits for the elevator to come.
"What does he want from us?"
"What day is it?" asks Kyle, a bit worried.
" It is nineteen October." responds Carmen, checking the date on her phone, which presents no service.
"Thought it was something far more serious.", breaths Kyle a fresh air of relief.
"What is it?" asks Carmen, concerned.
" It is Report day," says Kyle, looking at the elevator, which reached the first floor speed. "Since you are also in the team, you might be mentioned today."
"Mentioned? What do you mean?"
"You'll see."
The elevator arrives at the floor. Carmen and Kyle are leaving the transportation mode created by humans and adapted to the Hunters' agencies to make their lives also easier to function. They walked toward the living room, where everyone had gathered on the couches and sofas. Carmen and Kyle are going to the only empty couch, they sit there, both of them almost too close to each other, almost contacting their hands. Carmen felt a little weird and a bit sweaty.
"Hello!" says Navy to his five "workers" who are all in their seats and waiting for the announcement. "Today is the same day of the month, where we are all getting the overall statistics of the day, and we also got the report on the missions you all have done this month. Now remember, whoever did the most missions gets the bonus."
"Yes, sir," says all the members of the room. Not all share one emotion.
Alexia, Lucian, Kyle, and Louis are feeling bored by this, while Carmen is feeling a little bit excited because this is her first meeting of the entire team, and the first time she will probably be shown in a report, even though she has been in this team for barely two weeks.
The leader takes in his hand a clipboard, he puts a lighted cigarette in his mouth, then he looks at it. He feels a bit surprised by this result as he was checking the missions results and statistics of the missions, then he tells the people that are on his team.
"Alexia."
"Yeap?" asks Alexia, looking at Navy, who is looking at her page.
"You have done only six missions this month, which is understandable in your case. Good job."
"Thank you," said Alexia, not feeling so satisfied.
"Louis."
"Yes, sir," says Louis to the Navy, who checked his file.
"You've done only twenty missions this month. It doesn't compare with the twenty-nine you've done."
"I've run nine short missions, sir."
"If you say so, but next time, be more productive if you ever get a mission."
"Yes, sir." responded Louis, feeling normal.
"Now, now, Lucian. You've done only thirty-three missions. Good job so far."
"Thank you." responded Lucian.
"Carmen," says Navy, making her feel already nervous. "Since you are at the beginning of the leader, trainer, you have done so far only two missions."
"Two missions?" asks Louis, surprised. "I thought the alien hunting was one."
"No," says Navy' to Louis. "It was also the Cyclops ghost' since she was registered in the members' missions. Then he and Lucian flawlessly finished the mission." Then the man looks at Carmen. 2Well done, but you need at least thirty missions to become Newbie rank."
"I understand," responds Carmen. "Hope I can achieve this soon."
"Don't try your luck too soon," the Navy responded to Carmen. "You still have almost a week until the virus manifests and we have to find a way to control him."
"I will try until then to control it. For now, things seem to work well."
"She is not lying." says Lucian to Navy, making almost everyone in this room, besides Navy – who knows what the ghost was meaning by that line – but he takes out the other file. "Now, Kyle."
"Yes, sir." responds Kyle to Navy.
"You've done… Thirty-five missions successfully and a failed one."
"Failed one?" asks Carmen to Kyle. "What was that one?"
"I-It was the…" he looks around, then he says to Carmen. "A goblin who entered the sewers and killed homeless people, then he ran away from our zone."
"I see…" says Carmen. "Still, thirty-five. It is a great account, right?"
"Yes. And I've also won the bonus." says Kyle, trying to make a positive reaction while everyone is looking a bit relieved by this.
"Now, Kyle," says Navy. "You are awarded a bonus that consists of five thousand pounds," at that moment, Carmen's jaw dropped when she heard the bonus consisted of five thousand pounds, which is about five thousand eight hundred American dollars "and the promotion to a new grade, Newbie Grade 1."
"Congratulations!" says most of the team members clapping for Kyle. Only Lucian couldn't clap but he mimicked the clapping sounds to show his support to Kyle.
"Newbie Grade 1? Means you are good?" asks Carmen, who still didn't learned about the ranking system.
"It says I am good, but not on the same level as everyone else." says Kyle, and he takes out his watch, he turns on the hologram monitor and it shows the ranking system of Carmen. "You see, there you are," he points to the Trainee rank, that is the below of the list "that is your rank." he points then at the Newbie Grade 4 and Newbie Grade 1 "And this is the grade of beginners, where I am now." he points to the Advanced Grade 5 to Advanced Grade 1. "Now this is a rank that only Alexia and Louis are possessing by now." he points at the Master Grade 7 to Master Grade 1. "And into this rank is Navy."
"Now comes mine." says Lucian, coming to the two teenagers, and he tries to point to the Legend Grade 7 to Legend Grade 1. "Here I am."
"How?" asks Carmen, confused about how a ghost is greater than everyone, including the leader.
"Immortality." says Lucian to Carmen. "It gave me a huge "boost", as you teenagers say."
Carmen observes there are two more ranks, where none of her teammates are in. She looks at Kyle, who immediately responds.
"Now, the other two ranks. Are not classified by the number of missions. For example, you need to do thirty missions to be thrown into the Newbie Grade, while I need almost three hundred more to become Advanced Grade 5, and that task might take longer than I thought."
"How many missions have you done?" asked Carmen.
"Almost two hundred," says Kyle.
"Oh my God!" says Carmen, surprised by this.
"Anyway," says Navy to Carmen. "The other two ranks are Hero Grade and Champion Grade. And these cannot be accomplished so easily. Even Lucian, with his immortality, would have immense trouble achieving them."
"D-Do you think someone from our team will reach it?" asks Carmen.
The whole team laughs at this question, not because it is dumb, but because it is hilarious. They, a group of two "adults", a ghost, an invisible man, and two teenagers, are never going to reach Hero rank, leaving aside the Legend Grade, which is impossible to about 99.99% for members of Team Hunters from around the world.
The navy did explain to Carmen that this was an objective so far to reach and very unlikely to see the from the entire zone of the United Kingdom to reach it.
After a few more minutes of discussing, where the Leader stated more boring information about the report, he hands a credit card to Kyle, who is putting in his pocket, and he asks the Leader if he can go home to rest, which the Navy let him go freely. Before Carmen also asks the Navy if she can leave, Navy looks at her, and he tells her.
"Can you come to my office? We have to discuss something."