West gate

"Why is Nika not coming?" Sam asked, seemingly dejected by her absence.

"I don't trust her one bit, besides, she would only make things more difficult for us by drawing too many cryptids. Even though she doesn't look like it, she's still a heavenly rank." Uriel shrugged as he entered the Cryptid hunting agency.

Sam was surprised to learn that Nika was actually a heavenly rank. She was beautiful and fit, which could be considered signs of a heavenly rank hunter, but she acted subservient to Uriel the whole time. Something like that didn't make any sense considering how Uriel was an evolved up until not too long ago and only recently became an ascended, but even an ascended was a full rank beneath a heavenly. He wanted to inquire about this, but they were already inside the agency and there was no time for such matters.