I Became a Soul Eater

“Hello. Can’t I just call you Bocchan now?”

“I am past that age now.”

Gi-Zac still treated me with the mercenary’s characteristic slightly awkward attitude. But it was growing. It wasn’t that his body had grown, he had grown as a human being. Now, instead of being a low-level mercenary who had been rolling on the floor for 20 years, he was the leader of a huge mercenary corps and thousands of mercenary villagers.

“Count, please help me.”

“I will help if I can, but what kind of help do you want?”

Zizac suddenly spoke politely, but my answer came out a little cold. It was because he seemed to know a little about what G-Zac wanted.

“I know Sir Jake and the Count made him stronger.”

“That’s not allowed”

No matter how much you shut down, those who know will know. The fact that I made Jake and Argin into master-class fighters was like an open secret known to those in the know.

“I will pay any price. please.”

Zizac bent his back as if he was going to fall to the floor.

“The price is not the problem. To receive that method, the basic conditions must be prepared. Zizac will die”

“Is that so?”

“Jake almost died. Ten high-ranking priests and I healed him for a week.”

Gijak’s soul was good for a low-level mercenary, but that was all. It doesn’t reach Jake before becoming a Master. Considering that Jake almost died, G-Zac must die.

“If it means risking your life, you can.”

“No, thanks to Jake, I figured out the conditions for success. There is no possibility at all.”

Abel Tristan, who is said to be the head of Sword Mountain originally as a disciple of Zizac, has a possibility. but didn’t tell me that Jijak’s face darkened.

“Is there no way at all?”

“And what are you going to pay for it? You’re not going to become a private in our territory, are you? Both Jake and Argin are knights who have sworn allegiance to me. I have so much money that I overflow.”

Zizac gritted his teeth. I wondered if I said it too harshly, but Zizac must have known. The drowning person must have come with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw.

“As the Count knows, I have been a low-level mercenary for over 20 years. None of my friends who started mercenary work around the same time as me. In the meantime, there must be thousands of mercenaries who have seen meaningless deaths. Even then, I had no idea. Mercenaries were originally thought to be like that. Then, somehow, I had thousands of people following me. I got strength. There are many children who follow me like a father. So I wanted to change it. I wanted to change the lives of those mercenaries who could not settle down properly and wandered and died like insignificant bugs. But in one day, 342 people died. Am I wrong? Is there really no way?”

Zizac was quite emotional.

“G-Jacques, I understand your feelings to some extent, so I will do anything to save my people. The residents of Mercenary Village are all Akasha residents.”

It was the same mercenary who fought against the Sword Mountain mercenary corps, regardless of origin. No matter who wins, the result is the same for the mercenaries to die. However, it is better for my people to live. There might be a way to raise a few people’s skills using records, but that’s not a fundamental solution.

“Right now, the training of mercenaries is insufficient, so they don’t even have proper swordsmanship.”

Zizac was doing it in his own way, but it was still incomparable to the systematic training of the regular army. Since the place where they learned swordsmanship or other martial arts is different, it is Jung-gu Heating. That may be an advantage for mercenaries, but the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. There is also a mercenary swordsmanship. But it’s just a mixture of very crude stabbing slashes.

“It knows.”

“Can you change it if you know?”

Of course, it’s not easy, so G-Jacques couldn’t have done it.

“Let me help you with that part, just promise me one thing”

“What is it?”

“I will never do anything that harms Akasha.”

“It is very easy.”

“No, wouldn’t it?”

A mercenary will do anything for money. Even now, many mercenaries are already selling the information of the Akasha territory for money from other territories. It’s not that I don’t know and leave it alone.

I recited to Zizak the story of how Sword Mountain’s mercenaries harmed Akasha’s territory. There were things that happened in the past and things that are currently in progress. Zizac’s face was gradually turning white.

“If you knew, why did you leave me alone?”

“Then shall I kill them all? Shall we go to war with Sword Mountain by accusing them of treason? What do you think will happen if we tell this to Jake or Argin?”

Zizac shut his mouth again. If the two masters rampage, no matter how strong Sword Mountain is, the mercenary team will be destroyed.

“how is it? Do you still think it’s easy?”

“No, I am not confident.”

Zizac answered honestly. No matter how much Jijak, you can’t completely control all mercenaries. It will be the same for anyone.

“Then make another offer.”

“I hope the conditions are easy this time.”

“If possible, I would like to go the right way. Are the words difficult? A mercenary is a job that will do anything for a price. But now Sword Mountain has some spare time, right? I hope you don’t use that power for bad things.”

Zizac thought deeply this time. It seemed that many thoughts were intersecting. I waited patiently I suddenly looked at the window and saw Bastet not sleeping for some reason, watching over me.

“I’ll do it. I can’t guarantee that you always do the right thing, but I try to get the right thing as much as possible.”

That’s it. I don’t think the world changes all at once. This is what I felt after watching the world for a long time.

Even if you don’t feel satisfied right away, the world is changing like a small ripple in the sleep that gets bigger and bigger.

At this moment, Jijak and I created a small stir in the mercenary world. It is to expect that over time it will change the world in a very small way for the better.

“good. I will pass on the details through the officials.”

A long time after Zizac left, Bastet threw a word and closed her eyes again.

[Don’t try to do too much]

is it? I had no intention of making the whole world peaceful. However, there is a wish that it is as much as it is in the area I manage.

He summoned Wither and the officials to discuss the mercenary academy. Of course it’s not free. You will receive an amount of money necessary for operation.

They also discussed establishing an academy within the territory, which they had been thinking about for a long time. To be precise, it was not an academy only attended by nobles, but an academy dedicated to Young Ji-min.

For now, it was decided to adopt a method of dividing the operation into a lower grade that teaches the basics and an upper grade that teaches specialized knowledge. Operating experience is also important. It wouldn’t be possible to run it like the Imperial Academy from the beginning.

Wither murmured that he had a lot of work all of a sudden, but he was the one who came a while ago and asked for work. And I know that he is a guy who cares for Young Ji-min more than anyone else.

“By the way, Wither, do you remember anything about the name Setas?”

After thinking for a while, Wither shook his head.

“Who is that? I don’t remember”

Setas is a baby who was just born. It’s been about a week since I was born. However, the alter ego was noticed. He was a child with tremendous talent. If you have to find something to compare with, the old Forte is more than that. He was a genius born only once in a few hundred years.

Such a baby was born as the son of a baron’s maid not far from here and the chief of security. Considering that Wither doesn’t know the name, it’s one of the two. Either he died before he could blossom his talent, or he changed his name in the future, most likely the former. Isn’t that the case with Fortega right now? And there is also the case of a serf boy not long ago.

“no. Then, let’s start with the mercenary school.”

“All right.”

After the wither returned, he was a little worried. Are you going to bring Setas with your parents right away or will you wait a little longer?

It would be the right choice to bring him right away, but there was a part that took a little bit of trouble in my heart, so I decided to watch it for now. The stuck part was nothing else.

baby is weird Every action he did was not at all like the behavior of a newborn baby. And the baby feels the same energy as me.

Sleeps most of the day eat, sleep and eat Up to this point, there was no difference from other babies. But at night, when the parents fall asleep, they wake up and something similar to natural energy vibrates around the baby.

Can you use natural energy from birth? This is not common sense. I wondered if this was also a joke of the gods, so I couldn’t bring the baby named Setas.

First of all, it is a wait-and-see. If a dangerous moment comes, I could use the watching alter ego to help or go directly, but I decided to hold off on bringing them. Right now, it seemed that there would be no problem because there were no elements that could be dangerous to the baby.

In the meantime, a civil war began in earnest in the Neos kingdom. What also drew protests was that the neighboring powers started fighting to occupy the territory of Count Ctolari.

The forces of the civil war were not largely divided into a few places, but dozens of noble families, each with their own legitimacy, and some places already had a place to praise the king. Now, even if this civil war is over, there is a high possibility that the name of the country called Neos Kingdom will disappear.

And the expected guest came to the Akasha county. It was Eltis, the last vampire prince. I was watching from the beginning that he left the tavern he originally ran.

I was thinking of going first and bringing him back, but I thought it would be okay to go on a trip with the girl he was supposed to protect, so I kept watching without taking away their memories.

As the civil war in the Neos Kingdom intensified, Eltis closed the bar and left the Neos Kingdom with the girl. A new start could be anywhere, but in the end, the place he chose was where I was.

A bat flew in through the window late at night. Already waiting for him, I greeted him.

“Long time no see. Eltis”

Eltis, who quickly turned into a human, greeted the world with a gesture full of moderation and dignity, like an aristocrat who will never exist again.

“long time no see. saint”

It was a pity that Bastet just disappeared somewhere, and I didn’t know how this old vampire would react to God.

“Are you going to open a tavern here too?”

“You also know everything. I don’t have many talents, so I can’t think of anything else.”

He wanted to bring Eltis to the New Continent as well, but he couldn’t because there was a girl following him. Although it would be difficult to use it, I had no choice but to be satisfied with joining the strong forces in the territory.

“Anyway, it’s a really peaceful and nice estate.”

“I don’t know if it’s a good territory, but it’s peaceful.”

To be honest, I’m not sure if it’s peaceful. There is a god who goes to kill a cat if he eats it, the king of beasts lives drinking alcohol, and now a true blooded vampire opens a tavern. Without realizing it, I smiled bitterly. If you think about it, I’m the scariest guy.

“There is nothing like peace in times like these.”

“I can see it that way.”

A territory where there will be no starvation and no death from being dragged away. Now I’m a little greedy and I’m touching this and that, but even that much is a pretty good manor by the standards of this world.

“We will inform you of the location of the newly opened tavern through management.”

“Thank you for your kindness.”

Eltis was already under construction on a suitable building to open a tavern. Because he needs a special space to spend the day.

“By the way, I heard that there is something strange in the saint’s manor?”

There must be one or two strange things in this estate

“Couldn’t it be a black cat?”

“no.”