level 1 player

Chapter 32.3

-Rare mercenary Lucia has excellent ability to break through enemy lines and is good at defense.

– But don’t trust too much.

-She is a fugitive and a loser.

– Hired mercenaries are subject to the instructions of the employer according to the contract.

-If the employer’s instructions are judged unreasonable, the hired mercenary may cancel the contract

and return.

– The employer may terminate the contract if it is determined that the hired mercenary is acting in bad

faith.

-Points are consumed according to the time of employment when the contract is broken.

-Minimum employment time: 3 hours

-Minimum hiring cost: 299,999,999 points

It was the cheapest mercenary.

100 million points per hour.

Not a small point.

100 million points equals 3 years of lifespan.

At 300 million points, that’s 9 years’ worth of lifespan.

However, Hyunseong has over 10 billion points. And even now, the points continue to increase.

From Hyunseong’s point of view, 300 million points was not a burdensome point.

‘But that’s what caught me.’

Don’t trust too much.

She is a fugitive and a loser.

‘What does that mean? Does that mean you’re good at breaking contracts?’

she wondered

‘First of all, securing information is a priority.’

I wondered what the identity of the mercenary was.

And she had to ask the identity of the unique skill and why the dimensional gate occurs.

‘I can’t help it.’

It’s not the spec you want to hire.

However, it was not possible to spend tens of billions of points to verify information.

Although she is said to be a fugitive and a loser, it seemed that she would not be in much danger

unless she was in a combat situation.

Hyunseong pressed her hire button.

-She has hired a rare mercenary Lucia.

– Pay a minimum hiring cost of 299,999,999 points.

– 180 minutes of remaining hire time.

Wrath!

Lucia was summoned in the dungeon with a bright light.

“Thank you for hiring me, my employer. I will fight with all my might. Where are the enemies?”

Lucia asked, holding her own sword and shield and staring sharply around her.

Her words were the first language I had ever heard.

Fortunately, there were no communication problems.

It was thanks to the basic abilities of the players.

But she didn’t believe her words at all.

Hyunseong’s face was stained with embarrassment.

A rare mercenary, Lucia.

She was an old woman with gray hair and a lot of wrinkles and age spots on her face.

The armor she wore and the sword and shield she held in her hands also looked of very poor quality.

‘Why the old man… … .’

It was frustrating.

But she once had to explain the situation.

“Hey, I’ve never been here.”

“Yes? Then why did you hire me?”

“I have a few questions for you.”

“Is this your first time using the mercenary system?”“Yes, it was just activated.”

“i See. Feel free to ask. As far as I can answer, I will tell you everything.”

Lucia relaxed his fighting stance and flopped down on the floor.

“What is the identity of a mercenary?”

First, she asked the most curious thing.

“You are a player like your employer.”

“Are you a player like me?”

“Yes, to be more precise, a player with the same unique skills as your employer.”

“If it’s the same unique skill?”

“I’m talking about buying and selling.”

Also, the prediction was correct.

The creators of the numerous items listed on the purchase window.

Lucia, a rare-class mercenary summoned before Hyunseong’s eyes, was one of them.

“Then the world where Lucia-sama lives is also being attacked by monsters? Why do dimensional

gates happen?”

At Hyunseong’s question, Lucia’s eyes were filled with regret.

“The world I lived in was also attacked by monsters. I don’t know what causes dimensional gates to

happen.”

Upon hearing Lucia’s answer, Hyunseong’s expression was colored with regret.

“If you want to know the cause of the dimensional gate, you will need to hire a mercenary with a legend

rank or higher. Even the hero-level mercenaries didn’t know the cause of the dimensional gate.”

“i See.”

I thought too hastily.

“The world I live in has been 20 years since the Dimension Gate occurred. We’ve had two cataclysms,

but we’re fairly stable now. May I know when the next Cataclysm is coming?”

“As far as I know, it was done twice.”

“Is that really true?”

Hyunseong’s face brightened.

If twice is the end, doesn’t that mean there will be no more cataclysms?

“Probably not another cataclysmic event in the next 20 years or so. But I can’t guarantee any more

than that.”

“Why?”

“Because the world I lived in was completely eroded by monsters 40 years after the first cataclysm.”

Hyunseong’s face hardened like a stone.

“There must have been a fugitive and a loser in my employment phrase. Do you know why that phrase

exists?”

Hyunseong couldn’t help but answer.

He feared that his guesses would come true.

“I’m a loser who ran away from the world I used to live in.”

Lucia’s words flew like a dagger and pierced Hyunseong’s chest.

After a while.

Hyunseong, who barely calmed his heart, continued the conversation with Lucia again.

“Can I hear the story of the cataclysm from the time of the cataclysm to its destruction?”

At Hyunseong’s question, Lucia nodded her head and opened her mouth.

The world Lucia lived in was a world in which scientific civilization had not developed at all.

It was not a world where supernatural powers such as aurora, magic, and martial arts existed.

There were no monsters that appeared in fantasy novels.

The most terrifying enemy was the same human being.

The most dangerous enemies other than humans were natural disasters and attacks by wild beasts.

It was a world where civilization was at a level similar to that of the Middle Ages on Earth.

But suddenly the first cataclysm began.

The dimensional gate opened and monsters poured out.Lucia’s world suffered tremendous damage.

Lucia was a knight.

She led her soldiers against the monsters.

However, more and more powerful monsters appeared, and the knights and soldiers did not have much

power.

The only hope was the players born at the same time as the Cataclysm.

While Lucia was fighting monsters, she awakened as a player.

And that’s a very special player.

“You are a level 1 player.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Lucia nodded her head.

Lucia was also a level 1 player like Hyunseong.

She said, “At first, I used the accumulated points to quickly raise my stats and learn skills. But I soon

regretted it.”

Lucia, who awakened at the age of 31, quickly turned into an old woman.

From then on she was fighting for survival.

Lucia’s world had nothing to sell exclusively like Hyunseong’s world.

She collected her points by hunting, and she barely lived her life by learning the skillbooks that

appeared in the middle and selling duplicated skillbooks and magic stones.

“After 16 years like that, I saw hope.”

Lucia got stronger.

She also regained her lost youth.

Then she had a second cataclysm.

Lucia’s world did not properly respond to her Second Cataclysm.

Kingdoms and empires around the world did not cooperate with each other.

Although the existing resentment relationship was deep, there were many powerful people who thought

the suffering of other countries as an opportunity due to the lack of information.

Belatedly, the situation worsened and they tried to unite as one, but at that time, the lack of traffic

hampered them.

There were no modern firearms in Lucia’s world. NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

There was no tightly connected communication network.

There were no means of transportation such as airplanes or helicopters.

I didn’t even know how to use magic stones.

Manastones were just useless by-products from hunting monsters.

At least, it was the Mana Stone that helped Lucia’s growth.

Lucia sold the Mana Stones of little value in her world as his main force.

Lucia has become a dominant force in his own world.

He gathered other players and did his best to fight the monsters.

However, as time passed, the cycle of legendary monsters began to appear more and more quickly.

The level of the legendary level monsters that appeared has also gradually increased.

“There was no way to stop the increasing number of legendary monsters.”

Then, he fell into a crisis from which he couldn’t get out.

“Since the magical force field was spread out, it was impossible to use space movement skills or items.

I had no choice but to use the dimension shift item I had for an emergency escape in order to plan for

the future. There was a high probability that she would become a dimensional lost child, but it was an

inevitable choice. And I failed to get to another dimension. I became a lost child of a dimension.”

A space between a dimension and a dimension.

An empty space where nothing exists.

Lucia wanted to return to her dimension again.

But there was no way.

That’s when I thought of the mercenary system.

“If you go into the unique ability sale, there will be a window called Mercenary Support.”

With those words, Hyunseong opened a sales window.

[Mercenary Support]

It was just as Lucia said.

When I pressed the mercenary support, several messages came to mind.

Hyunseong’s mercenary rank was rare.

His minimum hiring time was 1 hour and the minimum hiring cost was over 1 million points.

He couldn’t lower it any more, but it seemed possible to raise it up.

“I registered as a mercenary and waited. But the caller didn’t show up easily.”

Time continued to pass.

Although hired in the middle, Lucia, a rare-grade mercenary, did not help much in the war.

He even asked his employer to let him live in that world, as he would keep his hiring costs to a

minimum.

But he was rejected.

The minimum hiring cost for the rare mercenary Lucia was by no means low.

One million points per hour.

24 million points in one day, over 700 million points in a month.

1 year?

That’s 8.7 billion points.

Lucia’s power was of no help to the players who could use those points without much burden.

Conversely, it was an outrageous expense for low-level players that Lucia could help.

Then a player suggested a new condition.

It was a request to exceed Lucia’s minimum daily employment cost of 24 million points.

“Can I pass the points on to someone else?”

Hyunseong asked with a bewildered expression.

The point is life.

Is it possible to hand over your life to someone else?

It was something I had never imagined.

“It is impossible to hand it over to other players or the general public. But players with the same unique

skill can do it.”

Lucia reached out his hand as if asking for a handshake.

Hyunseong took Lucia’s hand.

-Do you want to trade points?

– Tradeable points 10,431,435,876 points

“It’s really amazing.”

I didn’t know this would be possible.

“Can I increase the accumulated points by using this?”

What if Hyunseong and Lucia keep exchanging points?

The accumulated points can be increased indefinitely.

“It is impossible. If you trade points between players, your accumulated points will also decrease. The

same goes for hiring mercenaries.”