Chapter 439 – Request
I put the heavy money bag in my arms and headed to the request reception desk.
At the request reception desk, like the mercenary guild in Crea, sat a man with an unpleasant face.
‘Where do the pretty receptionists go, and are there only things like this… Rough mercenaries might get offended, I guess…’
I handed the request form to the receptionist.
“I want to receive this request.”
The request I took from the bulletin board was a request for an A-class escort. There are different grades of mercenaries who can be commissioned as escorts.
Usually, merchant escorts started from C level.
I knew that nobles had to be Class A mercenaries. And the higher the level of the request, the larger the reward amount.
Of course, since I was a knight who surpassed the level of a mercenary, there was no problem receiving a request for A-level escort.
First, what caught my attention was that the client was, unusually, an alchemist.
Alchemists are rare.
It is rarer than a wizard.
Just because it’s rare doesn’t mean it’s more valuable than a wizard.
Usually, wizards are also skilled in alchemy.
However, wizards are not called alchemists.
People who cannot use magic and are talented in alchemy are called alchemists.
To put it simply, I am just an ordinary person who knows some alchemy.
There are very few people who are not wizards but can do alchemy. That’s why alchemists are rarer than wizards.
I didn’t choose the client simply because he was unique.
The reason I fell in love with The Alchemist is because of Karen.
I asked Liliana how to get rid of Karen’s dark magic.
The word that comes from there is elixir.
To get rid of Karen’s dark magic, she says she needs to make an elixir… To make an elixir, you need knowledge of alchemy.
I don’t even know magic, but alchemy…
That is impossible for me.
In that case, I would have to ask someone who has that knowledge… But there are currently no wizards I know of in Pantera.
In my current situation, it is difficult to make such high-quality connections.
What caught my eye there was the alchemist’s request.
Posting such an expensive request on the bulletin board means that you have a lot of money. That means there is a high possibility that your skills are good.
By making this request, I was planning to see what kind of person the alchemist was and, if it seemed okay, ask him to make an elixir.
Well… Even if it wasn’t because of that, the pay was pretty good.
Since it was an A-level request, it had to be good, but it was the top among the A-level requests.
I also liked the phrase, “Preferential treatment for drivers.”
“Oh, I understand.”
The receptionist accepted my request without saying anything.
Originally, whether it was a mercenary squad or a knight squad, you would have had to lift it and show it. I think the receptionist saw the chaos a little while ago.
“The appointment location and time are written below. I believe you will not be late.”
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“What the fuck?!”
After accepting the request and leaving the mercenary guild, I opened the money bag given to me by a guy named Raiden, and a curse came out of me.
Even after looking at the food, I couldn’t see a single gold coin.
I also had a conscience.
I didn’t think that everything in the money bag would be gold coins. Still, not seeing any gold coins crossed the line.
I looked around.
I was wondering if he might stand out.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t see him.
Nothing was lost.
But somehow I feel like I was cheated.
I felt terrible.
I grabbed my sore stomach and headed to the dorm with Karen.
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The fight in the mercenary guild also reached the ears of Homan, the head of the Homan mercenary group.
“So, you got beaten up and even had your money stolen because you got into a fight with some kind of driver? Are you crazy? You got into a fight with a driver?!”
The behavior of the bald founder was absurd.
“Well, I had no idea he was a knight.”
The founder, whose face was swollen, complained of injustice.
“… You didn’t know?’
Knights are people who naturally enjoy looking at people with a mixture of envy and fear.
‘How can it be possible for them to be so arrogant that they don’t understand?’
Homan’s eyes turn to Raiden next to him.
“Well… At first glance, he was wearing equipment that was no different from ordinary mercenaries.”
Raiden noticed the meaning of Homan’s gaze and quickly explained it.
“Hmm… The knight… Looked like a mercenary?”
“Yes.”
Well-made heavy armor is like a symbol of a knight.
I don’t wear anything like leather armor.
They don’t even take off their armor very often.
It is a magic armor that does not cause much inconvenience even if you do not take it off.
So, when I become a knight, I buy something, even if it’s cheap, and wear it.
You walk around dressed like a mercenary wearing heavy armor?
It is not easy to do so.
Rather than thinking of it as a part, it was reasonable to think of it as something you couldn’t wear because you didn’t have it.
That also meant that it wasn’t such a great article.
I would have to do more research to find out, but it appeared to be a wandering free article.
He must be someone who can’t even use sword aura.
Otherwise, you wouldn’t be walking around like that.
When Homan realized that fact, he was worried.
Should I retaliate?
Or should I just pretend I was bitten by a mad dog and move on?
Retaliation is not that difficult.
Unless you were a senior engineer, you could have taken care of it without difficulty.
That’s because Homan was once a knight of the Trion Empire.
He ran away after being accused of murdering the daughter of the lord he served.
So, hiding his identity and name, he crawled into this rural city in a small kingdom on the outskirts.
Homan also felt unfair and had no intention of killing her.
Originally, I had a secret relationship with her.
The problem was that she had masochistic perverted tendencies.
She liked to strangle herself every time she mixed her body, and Homan only fucked her according to her perverted tendencies.
The murder of the noble daughter, which was once causing a stir in the empire, was an unfortunate incident that occurred during a secret relationship.
Of course, there was no way to resolve the misunderstanding, and Homan fled with great disgrace.
‘A once-promising knight is now the head of a rural mercenary unit…’ .’
It’s something an average knight wouldn’t be able to do for reasons of respect, but when he actually did it, it was pretty good.
Should I say that a snake’s head is more suitable than a dragon’s tail?
Sometimes I miss the soft, well-maintained skin of a noblewoman, but the women at the bottom who can be treated roughly without any problems also taste good in their own way.
Homan was inclined towards revenge.
Rather than revenge of the stupid founder.
‘It’s time to gradually increase the size of the mercenary group…’
Homan wanted to increase the size of the mercenary group. And she wanted to advance to a bigger city.
Homan, who was a knight, knows that fame carries considerable power.
A group of mercenaries who subdued a knight.
It’s a pretty good reputation.
With that alone, the status of the Homan mercenaries goes up one level.
Aside from the fact that he looked sloppy, the biggest thing was that he looked like a wandering knight with no affiliation.
If it were a knight from Ramona’s territory, he wouldn’t have dared to do it.
The annoying thing is that he has to take action himself.
Even though he is a shabby wandering knight… A knight is a knight.
He is a knight who knows how to use magical power to achieve superhuman strength.
His subordinates alone were not enough.
Homan made a decision.
“Send him to a duel in the name of the mercenary group.”
If he’s a knight, he won’t be able to tolerate it.
Knights are not beings that mercenaries can attack.
The guy who thought that would agree to a duel.
Homan was once a knight, so he knows how much knights pay attention to fame.
The more sloppy he is, the worse it is.
What if he runs away?
Still, it doesn’t matter.
Rumors will already be spreading widely in the city.
He was a knight who ran away because he was afraid of the mercenaries.
Even knights will laugh at this.
Homan’s mercenary group gained a reputation as a mercenary group that even knights feared.
Like a knight, Homan had no intention of engaging in 1:1 combat.
‘Because I am a mercenary.’
Victory and defeat were clear.
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Woke up early in the morning, Karen and I headed to the western gate of Ramona.
It was to request an alchemist escort.
‘I said it was next to the western gate, in front of the big stone…’
I saw two men and women who looked like mercenaries standing in front of a large stone that was probably 3 meters high.
The man was just about 170 cm tall and wore neat leather armor, a sword, and a small shield.
His face… Was just plain.
The female mercenary carries a two-handed sword on her back, and her face is a strong beauty with thick lines.
Solid muscles and scars were visible here and there on the exposed forearms.
He also looks a little shorter than me. It means over 180.
Compared to the man next to me, he seemed bigger.
I think the men and women have changed.
“Are you here as Louise’s escort?”
As I approached them, the female mercenary asked.
“Louise?”
When I thought about it carefully, it seemed like the client written in the request was Alchemist Louise.
“If Louise is an alchemist, that’s true.”
There was no saying that she was worthy of escorting us.
These two also seemed to be waiting for the alchemist, so they seem to be mercenaries who received the same escort request.
That means they are both Class A mercenaries.
Is it because you think it’s class A?
Looking at it again, unlike the mercenaries I usually see, the equipment is neater and the body looks well-trained.
