Volume 3 Chapter 3 Monster Mercenaries
The word mercenary was not too unfamiliar to Shi Leiyin. Whether it was in the Pan Continent before or on the Polar Continent where he is now, Shi Leiyin still has some contact with the mercenaries of this world.
In this world, because of the existence of a huge number of monsters, monsters, and powerful creatures like Gu Wulong. In terms of implementation, the state power cannot fully guarantee the safety of the lives and property of ordinary people within the territory. As a result, most gifted people learn martial arts or magic to protect their families and fortunes in their own right. Of course, not all of them are willing to use their own strength to protect what they already have. Thus, the mercenary profession, which relied on the betrayal of its own force, was born.
The mercenaries of this world can be said to be as long as they pay a sufficient price, as small as finding a lost house cat, or as large as subverting an empire. According to Shi Leiyin's understanding, like the Demon Wolf Van Lier Mercenary Group on the Pan Continent and the Wang Tiger Mercenary Group on the Extreme Continent, they are top-level mercenary teams with the strength to subvert an empire.
Of course, most mercenaries do not take fighting against national forces as their main business, in fact, because of the large number of monsters, more than ninety percent of mercenaries will receive tasks such as crusading against invading monsters or caravan guards.
Such a mission can not only save valuable troops, but also avoid the hidden dangers caused by powerful mercenaries, so it is very popular with the country or local lords. The three largest countries on the polar continent even devote special funds to supporting these crusades every year in order to save their own military spending.
Strictly speaking, the Gu Wurm Hunter is actually a special kind of mercenary, because the talent of these hunters is usually not enough for them to learn martial arts or magic, but with special craftsmanship and the materials obtained from the body of the Gu Wurm, the hunters are far stronger than the same level of martial arts practitioners or magicians when dealing with creatures like the Gu Wurm. This is also the reason why the Hunters are not directly under the management of the Mercenary Guild, but organize the Hunter Guild themselves.
However, although Shi Leiyin's knowledge of mercenaries is very detailed, this is limited to mercenaries among humans.
Although as a slime, Shi Leiyin has been away from human society for a long time, but because of the relationship between human souls and thinking patterns, Shi Leiyin's understanding of the monster world is limited to some things that he has seen with his own eyes along the way. Because of this, Shi Leiyin didn't know that the monster world also had a social structure similar to that of humans, and even had the same mercenaries as humans.
It wasn't until Ku's introduction that Shi Leiyin knew that the monster world was not as simple as he saw.
Shi Leiyin's understanding of the monsters on the Polar Continent originally came from the Elder Tree Spirit. The elder tree spirit who had traveled to the continent, because of its existence form, actually did not really come into contact with the circle of high-level monsters in this world.
In the eyes of the Elder Tree Spirits, the high-level monsters in this world are basically active in one secret realm after another. The world outside the secret world is occupied by humans and low-level monsters.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this, in fact, it is precisely because of the huge number of secret realms on the polar continent that human beings have been able to establish a country as large as the three major countries on the polar continent. You must know that the country that Shi Leiyin first came into contact with on the pan-continent, including the capital, has only four cities inhabited by humans. The territory is not as large as a small principality on the far continent. Almost ninety percent of the Pan-Continent is occupied by monsters. Of course, this also causes the proportion of powerful humans on the pan-continent to be much higher than that of the polar continent, but the population base of the polar continent is huge, and when the two are offset, the high-end strength of the humans on the two continents is estimated to be about the same.
Although high-level monsters rarely appear in human countries on the extreme continent because of the secret realm, but also because of the secret realm, human beings will often invade some semi-open secret realms for profit.
Because of the large number of human beings, even if the monster races in these secret realms are strong, they are often unable to resist the huge number of human mercenaries and adventurers. Except for those monsters who are unwilling to come into contact with any other race, most monsters will have a few friendly monster races, which has led to reinforcements between monster races. After a long time, there was also a full-time reinforcement activity among the monsters, that is, the original monster mercenaries.
Of course, by now, monster mercenaries have become a very common existence in the monster world. Some of the young individuals of the powerful monster races, unwilling to live in the secret realm of their own race all the time, will choose to go out to carry out mercenary activities, accept the employment of those races in the secret realm that have been attacked by humans, obtain training experience, or die there.
As a chamber of commerce, even if it is not in the Demon Realm, the Jinkisya Chamber of Commerce still pursues a policy of activities above commerce on the Polar Continent. As long as it is a job that can reasonably earn money, the Chamber of Commerce will participate in or invest. Therefore, whether it is a mercenary intermediary of humans or a mercenary intermediary of monsters, the Jinkisya Chamber of Commerce has already carried out it on the Quan Continent.
And what Ku wants to introduce to Shi Leiyin is this part of the monster mercenary intermediary.
Ku is not the deacon in charge of the mercenary intermediary of the Jinkisya Chamber of Commerce on the Far Continent. However, in addition to being responsible for part of the treasure management, the library recently happened to be at the request of a colleague in the Chamber of Commerce, and used the labyrinth to recruit monster mercenaries for the face of humans in a certain secret realm.
Originally, Ku planned to go to the distribution village of a certain monster mercenary under the Chamber of Commerce to find a suitable candidate after completing the deal with Mr. Wolf. However, it is obvious that the current Shi Leiyin is also a very suitable candidate.
As a demon, Ku can naturally see that Shi Leiyin has not weak strength. Not to mention the special abilities that Shi Leiyin possessed, just by virtue of its strength close to the fifteenth level and the high-rank rank of the fifth order, it was enough to impress Ku. This level of slime is not something that can be encountered when encountered, let alone hired as a mercenary.
Also because of Shi Leiyin's rank, Ku thinks that Shi Leiyin is an ideal long-term employment option for the secret realm where he needs to take over the defense mission.
However, even if he really wanted to hire Shi Leiyin for a long time, Ku gave two different hiring options.
One is to pay according to the monthly remuneration, Shi Leiyin can get a reward of 3,100 mainland general gold coins at the beginning of each month, deducting Shi Leiyin's monthly repayment, he also has a salary of 100 gold coins a month.
Another way is to pay Shi Leiyin four million continental general gold coins at one time based on a hundred years, and in the next hundred years, Shi Leiyin needs to work under Ku as a mercenary.
Of course, no matter which one you choose, the Chamber of Commerce will take care of food and shelter during your work, and will also provide a certain amount of vacation time each year.
Shi Leiyin calculated that the actual income of the second option was higher than that of the first option. But on the other hand, the degree of freedom is much worse. Especially according to Shi Leiyin's current arrears, if he chooses the second option, he will sign a two-hundred-year deed of sale, which is simply unbearable for Shi Leiyin, who is now accustomed to a free life. And the problem with the first one is that this high reward is limited to the secret realm that Shi Leiyin needs to go to at the moment. Once this secret realm is completely closed, Shi Leiyin may face the need to choose a new job, and the new job will most likely pay less than the current one.
If it was Shi Leiyin on the earth at the beginning, he would probably not hesitate to choose a second employment contract with high pay and stable enough. But now Shi Leiyin is inclined to the first employment contract.
Of course, Shi Leiyin has a third choice, which is not to accept Ku's mercenary mercenary employment. However, considering the trouble of obtaining gold coins and the huge amount of arrears that needed to be repaid, Shi Leiyin thought for a while, and finally accepted the first method of employment. However, with the means of negotiating wages on the earth at the beginning, Shi Leiyin still raised his salary from 3,110 gold coins to 3,130 gold coins. Although it seems that it is only an increase of less than one percent. However, judging from the actual amount received, it has actually increased by 30%. In this regard, Shi Leiyin felt that he could already snicker.