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

didn't mind it. That's how much I

after a bit of thinking, I opted to buy my

necessarily a problem for

could easily make what I lost back with stocks again. With Smallsnake helping me, the repercussion of my actions wouldn't come

to pay back my parent's guild debt. However, their debt was probably the

wanted to shroud my organization with a veil of mystery. With this place being hidden, it added an element of mystery to those that want to find out

didn't want to create an organization that had a lot of

maximum of twenty elite members. Members that stood out from

Quality over quantity.

in the future that whenever one of our members

...

[Caïssa - Warehouse]

how do you like

asked for his

"hmm, well, why?"

words to say, Smallsnake

of nowhere,

organization Smallsnake had been to, even the worst one wasn't

his employer beside him, Smallsnake really

help but start doubting his

really need to answer. Was just asking out of politeness. Already bought the

I took a pile of papers from a

"Here"

"What's this?"

After flipping through them, he couldn't

"Why them?"

them and send them to me.

"...Okay"

his head, Smallsnake sighed before taking a better look at

description of a

a lot of names, but I needed to narrow it

as the likelihood of being able to

or not brave?

was different and that's

all extras. Although I wrote about them, I didn't know too much about

wanted to recruit them, I needed to be able to familiarize myself with them

the

"...hm?"

something, glancing towards Smallsnake,

three names in red, those are the top priority. Make sure you give me details about them. From their past and current

"Alright, let me see"

paused on the names of the three individuals I

His previous frown deepened.

'just what...'

reaction was understandable, there was a

wasn't because they were

to recruit considering what kind of circumstances I was in. Especially since recruiting people into

me

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

were all extremely talented individuals that would no doubt add value to

"huuu.."

the files, I looked at

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Name : Ava leafz

Age : 16

Picture : [Image]

Student,

Potential : Unranked

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novel was

small. She'd just appear on one chapter and then just disappear for twenty

A true extra.

that in the last volume of the novel, during the third

was about to suffer major losses. She with an

how strong her profession was. With an army of beasts, she would decimate and destroy multiple demons at