Mercenary System: I can increase innate potential !

"My name is Kaite." she said in a more or less soft voice.

"Don't you have a surname?"

Maxime was surprised; the knights were almost all nobles, so it seemed natural to him that they should all have family names.

"No, I was raised in a small family in the Duke's territory. After having my talent tested, I was recruited into the duke's army for training."

"Unlike Percival, once I reached the stage of apprentice knight, I traversed various battlefields without forgetting to practice an ordinary breathing method they had given me."

"After years of training, I finally got my strength."

She summed up her whole life in just a few sentences, but only she knew how much sweat and blood she had shed to reach the stage of a knight's small success.

And as she spoke, she couldn't help glancing at Perceval's corpse with a certain regret.

Perhaps if he'd had a childhood like hers, he'd have had far greater strength.

Perhaps that strength would have made it possible to kill that damned mercenary quickly, and above all she wouldn't have had to become some kind of slave today.

"All that to say, I'm not nobility at all, so I wasn't lucky enough to get a family name."

"But perhaps I could have obtained the name Devron and thus become part of the nobility, had I succeeded in this mission."

When she thought about it, she felt like going berserk.

She was so close...so close to becoming part of the nobility.

Perhaps she could have been married to an earl or viscount, and with the support of the Devron family, she would have become an important person in the nobility of the Kingdom of the Frost Eagle.

But looking at the young man before her, all those aspirations were now a thing of the past.

No one could predict what would happen to her in the future.

"So be it, from now on you'll wear a mask and be part of my bodyguard."

Kaite was more than a little surprised.

"A guard for a mercenary?"

"What kind of joke is this?"

Of course, she kept her words to herself, and only nodded in reply.

Maxime began to explain his missions.

"Your role in the future will be to follow me absolutely everywhere, preferably always lurking in the shadows."

"On the battlefield, your role will be to protect new recruits without them being aware of it."

"And you'll show up on a battlefield and fight with all your might only if we're in a bad way."

This was Maxime's new idea.

To create a secret force whose members' identities were known only to him.

A force that was totally devoted to him and would do all the dirty work for him.

A force that would exterminate absolutely all enemies who dared to offend him in the future.

Maxime knew the importance of image, whether for a company or a group of mercenaries.

He was keen to keep the image of the Saber-toothed Tigers clean and respectable, while the aim of this force would be to cleanly eradicate any force that threatened him.

Of course, at first, the missions would be fairly straightforward, as he had explained to Kaite.

But as more people join the force, and as his talent evolves, the missions will diversify and become more important, but also more dangerous.

"As the first member of this elite group, what would you like the group to be called?" asked Maxime with a smile.

Kaite swallowed hard.

"This guy is crazy, completely crazy," she thought fearfully.

Without waiting too long for Kaita's answer, Maxime continued to speak.

"I'll let you think about it, but in the meantime, let's go recruit his second member."

Simultaneously, Maxime eyed the bald man on the ground with a degree of impatience.

Following his gaze, Kaite was more than shocked.

"But...is he going to die here?" she said sadly.

Maxime looked her straight in the eye teasingly.

"You still haven't noticed?"

"Noticed what?" replied Kaite not understanding what her new boss was talking about.

"The blessings of my talent."

Kaite opened her eyes wide, finally understanding why she was feeling strange changes in her body.

She thought it was all due to the mysterious contract she'd signed.

"Do you possess a magical talent?"

"Of course, how else could my mercenary group be so strong?"

"So that means Langus won't die?" she said excitedly.

To her, although magical talent was something extremely rare and powerful, in the moment Langus's survival seemed far more important.

"Of course not." replied Maxime as he walked towards Langus.

"If I'd decapitated him or cut off one of his limbs it might have been different."

"But my sword only pierced a few minor organs."

"Although that should be fatal for many people, but my talent is sufficient to heal such wounds and even regenerate lost organs."

"Or at least, it's possible for a knight to survive it. An ordinary person would never survive this kind of injury even with my talent."

As he spoke, Maxime knelt before the bald knight.

Soon, a scene very similar to the one that had just taken place with Kaite occurred.

Once again, he closed his eyes to concentrate on using his talent.

Feeling that he was communicating with his talent, he opened his eyes again.

They sparkled with a golden, almost divine glow.

A bond began to form between him and Langus.

Maxime held out his right hand. Suddenly, glittering words appeared in the air, traced by an ethereal light.

They literally floated in the air, in an unknown language.

Maxime recited the floating words silently, his lips barely moving.

Finally, he spoke, his voice deeper, with a strange echo.

"I, Maxime, wish to conclude a contract with the designated person."

The light between them suddenly transformed into a golden spiral, like a luminous vortex.

An ethereal contract appeared before them, linking them by an extremely thin golden thread.

Langus's body began to show signs of movement.

In another dimension of the universe, Langus's body floated in the air.

All around him was dark and cold.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes.

"Where am I?"

"It's so cold..."

He knew his eyes were open, yet all he saw was pitch black.

"So this is what death looks like?"

"Hey god, are you there?"

His voice echoed in this dimension.

Simultaneously, a small, dazzling light appeared before him.

"So he really does exist?"

He just wanted to soothe his heart with a little joke.

He didn't think "God" would actually appear.

Instinctively, he reached out for the light. Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire

As if answering his call, the light gradually grew and then surrounded him completely.

But he wasn't expecting it; the light pierced his body.@@novelbin@@

"No, no, what's that!?"