Death glares.

"There was no party that violated the contract and it wasn't as if they got anything from the facility that could be converted to gold. Equivalent exchange." Blake ignored the look on Brian's face.

"You know sometimes you should learn how to just go with the flow." Brian said.

"The reward isn't that bad. With the 50k points, we are now a rank C adventurer party. Meaning we would be getting higher-paid commissions." Castiel pointed out.

"Come to think of it, aren't we growing too fast? Normally it takes a long while for a D rank party to advance to C rank but we did it in only 2 missions." Blake paused for a moment.

"Are we cursed in some way?" Blake's question made Castiel and Brian turn to him.

"In some way yes. From the berserk wyvern to the research facility, these are things that wouldn't normally happen to people." After putting some thought into it, Castiel had to agree with Blake.