Chapter 43

Behengeru

Thank you for the sponsored chapter by Nirandorn Neville Jr .

Since Behengeru was a close city to Genavis, it was the first city that most otherworlders came after being summoned . Therefore, Behengeru was a big and modern city . It was the first place the otherworlders had to get prepared for survival in this world, Eria .

‘Guild . ’ That was basically a direction that otherworlders went towards to survive . Merchants went to merchant guilds . Blacksmiths went to blacksmith guild's . There were many guilds, but the mercenary guild was the one that most people went to .

There weren’t that hard of a requirement to get in, and becoming a mercenary meant food and living for a while .

Therefore, the door's opening of a guild could not be said to be a unique thing . Even if it was a small kid who was dirty, it was a common thing .

The mercenaries near the door spoke some words to him .

“Hey, kid . Can you work for your food?”

“Maybe it your face was better, I don’t know . You look like even a mouse won’t eat you . ”

“Go get some food from your mom . You probably don’t have one though . ”

The mercariences laughed . Sungmin didn’t say anything and closed the door . Like most mercenary guilds, the 1 floor was used as a bar for mercenaries . There were many drunk people even in daylight, but most mercenaries were like that .

They used their money to live life day by day . There was no saving . Getting money required risking your life everyday .

They risked their life and survived . They did all they could . They wouldn’t know they were going to die . So they would use money now . Live now .

Sungmin knew the life from experience . The beer drinking and the partying . They all reacted the same way for newcomers . If the newcomer was nothing important, it was good . If the newcomer was a skilled person, they would be jealous . Humans were like that .

Sungmin walked across the hall . The beer smell increased as he went inside . There were a few mercenaries that were naturally touching girl’s breasts . They moved their hands rapidly, and the girls moaned as to make the men happy .

Sungmin didn’t give them any glances . When he stopped, he was at the bar table . There were a few mercenaries that looked pretty formal . But they didn’t care about Sungmin . They only talked to themselves .

The bartender was the same . Sungmin knew who he was . He did come here a year later, but the bartender’s face was the same .

“I want to be a mercenary . ”

Sungmin opened his mouth . To that, the bartender looked at him .

“Did you get a invitation?”

The bartender was a clean middle aged man . He didn’t have a shadowy figure, but his eyes were narrow and sharp . Sungmin shook his head to the question, and the bartender nodded as he knew the answer .

“Go to the 2nd floor . They take requests there . ”

Sungmin knew that as well . The reason why he talked to him was to make an impression to the bartender .

Baron .

That was his name . He was also the guild master of the Behengeru branch . He was a great magician .

“Excuse me . ”

Sungmin put his hand out . He took hold of a fork on the table . The fork’s owner looked at Sungmin but didn’t say anything .

Huuuuu .

Sungmin's fork turned purple . Sungmin showed the fork with a nonchalant face, and Baron’s face changed .

“Ah . I must have underestimated you because you were a kid . ”

The owner of the fork said . Sungmin knew who he was . He was a free mercenary . He wasn’t a martial artist, but he was an S rank with similar skill .

“ . . . Martial artist . ”

Baron sighed and muttered . He put down his glass . The mercenaries muttered to themselves . Sungmin put an aura around the fork and that meant that he was a apex master that knew how to use his powers well .

“Sit here . ”

Baron pointed to a chair . Sungmin put the fork down and sat down . Baron looked at him

“Age?”

“18 . ”

“18 and a master . A genius . ”

Lude who was sitting close by laughed . It was a natural reaction . A person with a master skill before their 20s was usually a genius . Sungmin felt slightly bitter because he knew he wasn’t .

“How long has it been since you were summoned?”

“About 4 years?”

“4… why did you not become a mercenary . Did you come straight away?”

“No, I left 3 years ago . I travelled for years . ”

“Yes?”

Baron nodded . Guilds shard information . If he wanted to, he could find what Sungmin did in Genavis .

“Why do you want to be a mercenary?”

“It’s easy to be and has a lot of freedom . ”

“True . Mercenaries are free . Especially with high ranks . ”

Baron answered . Low ranked mercenaries had to take missions to survive, but high ranked didn’t have to . Guilds gave them money and high ranked missions gave a lot of money so high ranked mercenaries didn’t have a hard time living .

“I forgot to ask your name . ”

“Lee Sungmin . ”

“You must be a martial artist?”

“I’m a No Class . ”

Sungmin said truthfully . He didn’t want to cause any suspicious by telling lies .

“No Class?”

Baron was surprised . Not just him, but everyone in the table was surprised .

“A No Class got a skill of a master in just 4 years . . . . What a genius… . ”

Lude muttered like he couldn’t believe it . Sungmin didn’t react . Baron spoke .

“ . . . we usually have a test, but we don’t need one for masters . ”

Baron muttered and gave a paper .

“First… let’s put a contract . You’re mostly an S rank if you’re a master, but we need to test your skill . ”

“Yes . ”

Sungmin signed the contract . Baron looked at the unquestioning Sungmin . He was slightly surprised at the fact that Sungmin wasn’t asking anything .

There was no reason to . Sungmin knew what mercenaries did . Sungmin sighed and gave back the contract .

“ . . . If you want, we can contact you with a leader of a squadron of mercenaries .

A legion of mercenaries was a squad . A strong squad had that much power that they could first pick some good missions .

“No, it’s fine . ”

He refused . There wasn’t just positives in that . Usually the mercenaries in the squad took their commissions out of the missions . That wasn’t a bad thing . If the squad could do more positives, commissions wasn’t that big of a deal .

Just, there was no reason for Sungmin to be in a squad . It was better to be a free mercenary instead of being stuck in a squad .

“Yes, that’s better . There’s no stupid fights either . ”

Lude laughed . Baron didn’t ask anymore .

“Did you get a hotel?”

“No . ”

“Then use the empty room on the 4th floor . And we will give you your test tomorrow . ”

Do you want to drink? Baron asked . Sungmin shook his head .

“I’m too young . ”

“Funny answer . ”

BAron laughed . Sungmin ignored the glances and moved up tot eh 4th floor . It was the high ranked mercenaries room, so Sungmin had never been here before .

It was a complete different place . Sungmin looked for an empty room . There was a room with the keys on the door, and Sungmin picked a close door to him .

He went inside and looked at the place . It was large . There was a bathroom and a shower . Hot water existed . The living room wasn’t hot or cold . Temperature magic probably existed . There were so many things .

Sungmin closed the door .

He would get a missions . He didn’t know, but Sungmin would become an S rank if he succeeded .

“Neville . ”

Sungmin called him . And then, out of his shadows, Neville came out .

“Did you call?”

Neville bowed .

“I heard that you have missions as well . ”

“We may give missions to customer in the mercenary guilds . Do you need one?”

“No, not yet . Is there missions for an s rank?”

“Of course . There are many mercenary customers . S rank is the lowest rank we can find for you . ”

It should be . To become a member, people had to have requirement . If it weren’t for Mush, Sungmin wouldn’t have been a member . Therefore, all the members were S rank or higher .

‘SS or SSS . Monsters…’

The limit was mostly an SS . An SSS ranked mercenary were for people who had completely surpassed the limit .

He had only heard of 3 SSS rank mercenary . Was it possible to get there?

“Thank you . ”

“Of course . Call me whenever . ”

Neville disappeared . Sungmin fell in deep thought . This was the reason why he didn’t want to be in a squad . He could also get high ranked missions through the mediator guild .

‘Half a year . ’

Sungmin was going to work hard as a mercenary . He was going to successfully finish his test tomorrow and then do high ranked missions . He might be able to get to SS rank like that .

But before then .

He would have to get the barding from the black magician’s dungeon .