The Author's POV

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Mercenary corp name : Caïssa

Grade : [▼I] [II] [III] [IV] [V]

Members : 1

Founder : Ren Dover

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I stood under the blazing sun and the blue sky, enjoying the clear and warm Ashton city weather.

Exiting an enormous building, I glanced at an azure-colored card in my hand.

The card was made out of metal, and on its back was a large roman [I] engraved on it. This signified the rank of the mercenary group.

Since this world likes to rank everything, mercenary corps too were ranked. They went from one to five, with five being the best.

Anyhow, ranks aside, because Smallsnake had still not officially joined the guild yet, the members count on the card was one. Me.

When he joins the card will change accordingly.

One of the things that I was a bit hesitant about when creating the corp was whether I should use an alias or my name for the founder section of the card.

Ideally, my goal was to make this one of the strongest mercenary groups in the human domain.

I wasn't sure if making my name known would be ideal or not, but...

...In the end, I decided to use my name.

There was no reason for me to hide my identity. After all, I did create this as an affiliate with Galxicus. Even if I tried to hide it, people would easily be able to deduce who I was.

"Alright, now that I successfully established the mercenary corp, it is time for the next task"

Putting the card back into my pocket, I checked my watch.

6:45 P.M.

Seeing the time, I moved towards my next location.

I had made an appointment to meet with someone for a possible place that I could use for the headquarters for Caïssa

I had checked many places through my phone, but I thought that the one I was currently heading to, fit my ideal for the headquarters the best.

...

"Welcome"

Arriving inside of a large warehouse, a fat middle-aged man wearing a wrinkled black suit came to greet me. Taking out a white handkerchief from his pocket, he wiped the sweat that had accumulated on his forehead.

"...so?"

Staring at me with anticipation, the fat middle-aged man fiddled with his hands. It was evident from his demenour that he wanted to get rid of the place at all cost.

Glancing at the space, I nodded.

The warehouse, although empty, was extremely large. It was located quite a distance away from the main city, and apart from a couple of roads and greenery there really wasn't anything around it.

This was precisely why I liked it.

Plain and boring.

Perfect place to hide the location of the headquarters.

"Alright, I'll buy it"

Checking my account balance, and confirming that I had just about 6 million U in my bank. I decided to directly buy the warehouse with most of the money I had.

In total, the warehouse cost me 4,200,000 U

expensive, I didn't mind it. That's how much I liked

bit of thinking, I opted to buy my own space so that I could

necessarily a problem for

of my actions wouldn't come back and bite me as no one would

guild debt. However, their debt was probably the least

organization with a veil of mystery. With this place being hidden,

want to create an organization

to maximum of twenty elite members.

Quality over quantity.

wanted to reach a point in the future that whenever one of our members

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[Caïssa - Warehouse]

do you

for his opinion as I showed him the warehouse

"hmm, well, why?"

words to say, Smallsnake

in the middle of nowhere, and

to, even the worst one wasn't as bad

his employer beside him, Smallsnake really couldn't understand what was

couldn't help but start doubting his

answer. Was just asking out of politeness. Already bought the place

I took a pile of papers from a folder I had on me

"Here"

"What's this?"

through them, he

"Why them?"

find information about them and send them to

"...Okay"

before taking a better look at the lists

I just handed Smallsnake was a brief description of a few individuals

given him contained a lot

take their characters into consideration, as well as the likelihood of being

arrogant? Brave or

was different and that's why I needed

I wrote about them, I didn't know too much

be able to familiarize myself with them better

the

"...hm?"

something, glancing towards Smallsnake, I

give me

"Alright, let me see"

on the names of

His previous frown deepened.

'just what...'

his reaction was understandable, there was a reason why

because they were

considering what kind of circumstances I was in.

get me

because they were easier to recruit wasn't the only reason I highlighted

extremely talented individuals that would no doubt add value to the members of

"huuu.."

the files, I looked at the first highlighted

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Name : Ava leafz

Age : 16

Picture : [Image]

Student, Lock

Potential : Unranked

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the novel was a

her roles always tended to be small. She'd just appear on one chapter and then just disappear for twenty more to once again appear for one chapter

A true extra.

volume of the novel, during the third cataclysm, she was supposed to make

She with an army of beasts would join the alliance and give them some breathing space and increase their

show the world how strong her profession was. With an army of beasts, she would decimate