Wandering Mercenary in an Open World

In the late evening, when the sun, which had been in the sky for a long time in the summer, began to sink over the horizon, scarlet lustre and loud laughter were seeping through the windows of a large inn with a wide stable.

“Three more beers here!”

“When will the food be served? How long has it been since I ordered it?”

“I broke my beer glass. Bring me a new one! Didn’t I drink it all? Do you have any proof?”

‘I’m going crazy!’

Mei, who works as a waitress, was annoyed at her customers who were yelling at her. She wanted to scream at them to tell them to wait a bit, but she pressed down on it. The guests in the inn were all mercenaries with savage looks.

It wasn’t for nothing that the inn was called a haven for mercenaries.

Since Mei had six younger siblings, she was forced to hold on. She would have quit earlier since the inn was full of eccentric people.

Then the door of the inn swung open.

Mei, who was still busy and seemed exhausted, looked at them with tears in her eyes, weeping at the appearance of the new guests.

There were three guests. Two big men and a beautiful woman in a pretty blue robe. Mei swallowed her saliva. They were far from the rest of their regular guests.

Is she a noble maiden, and her guardian knights?

Spreading her imagination like that, Mei sprinted towards them.

“What would you like to order?”

The woman in a blue robe said with a faint smile.

“Three glasses of beer. One roasted turkey. Before that, I’d like some mouth-watering soup and warm bread.”

“All right!”

Kyle murmured as he watched Mei run to the kitchen after bowing her head politely.

“The waitress’s aptitude seems to be fit for the job…”

Luon, who was sitting opposite him, grinned.

“Do you think this job suits you?”

Kyle replied, rubbing his shoulders.

“I don’t know if it can be seen as a job to follow a warrior with a holy sword and a wizard. What’s certain is that I’ve been carrying a shield all day, so my shoulders have gotten stiff.”

Amelia opened her eyes slightly at the words.

“I’ll have to take some time later to look into the shield. Even if it’s a principle that interferes with magic, it’s possible to calculate its range properly.”

Kyle nodded at Amelia’s words and opened his mouth.

“By the way, Lord Luon. Can’t you make it a little easier for me? We will continue to be together all the way to the tower, but how long are you going to call me like this? Just call me Kyle.”

Luon shrugged his shoulders.

“If you promise not to call me Luon, I’ll think about it.”

“All right, Mr. Luon.”

“Remove Mr. too.”

“Oh, that will be a little hard, but I’ll try.”

Amelia intervened.

“Just call me Amelia, too.”

Meanwhile, Mei started putting the prepared food and beer on the table. Since she had a lot of plates, Luon thoughtlessly stretched out his arm and helped her set the table. Mei was startled by the sight and she spoke.

“I’ll finish it, Sir Knight.”

While Luon had a puzzled expression on his face at her unexpected words, Mei, who had finished setting, bowed her head and walked away.

Amelia laughed at the sight, and said,

“She must have misunderstood something. By the way, Luon, did you like that girl? Why did you help her with the food all of a sudden?”

“Even though she is cute… isn’t she too young?”

Luon frowned at their words.

“Everyone does this where I used to live.”

“Where did you live?”

“Korea.”

“It’s my first time hearing about it…”

Of course, Luon had no intention of solving Amelia’s curiosity, so he immediately drank the beer. The beer was cool. The bitter taste that surrounds the mouth was not bad either.

Then Kyle, who drank the beer, said with a roar.

“It tastes good. Don’t you drink Amelia?”

Amelia, who was tapping the table with her fingers without saying a word, suddenly came to her senses and put the glass to her mouth. Her head recoiled as she drank the beer with unusual force. Soon after, an empty glass was put down with a bang.

The men sitting around cheered and blew whistles at her. Even if everyone pretended not to be, they seemed to be paying attention to Amelia. Yeah, it doesn’t look like it’s a face that goes anywhere.

Amelia said.

“Originally, I had planned to head straight to Losis and then cross the Plains of Duns, but as both of us know, it is impossible to move as planned now since we cannot guarantee how long the seal of the fragment will last. I need to change the route a bit.”

Luon asked, bringing the bread soaked in the soup to his mouth.

“Where?”

“I’m thinking of going to Dumphris.”

“Is there any special reason?”

Then a steaming roasted turkey came up on the table. Amelia answered after ordering three more beers.

“I plan to strengthen the seal on the fragment there. There is someone who can help. I don’t know if he’s still alive…”

“Is that so?”

Luon ripped a turkey leg and placed it on Amelia and Kyle’s plates. It was a natural habit that came out because he was the one who grilled meat in the original world, but the two of them looked at each other awkwardly. Either way, Luon added.

“This may be a fundamental question, but can’t we just teleport to the tower? Don’t you know how to do that?”

Amelia shook her head.

“I can do it. But we can’t go to the tower that way. The coordinates are not constant, but keep changing. If you force yourself to move, you’ll become a piece of meat that can’t be even recognized. You will become the gatekeeper’s food.”

“Amelia, we are eating right now.”

As Kyle frowned, Amelia asked playfully.

“You have a weak stomach in a strange way. Didn’t you look at the bodies during the day.”

“Wasn’t he a devil follower who deserved to die? It’s a bit unfair to compare a spear throwing bastard to meatballs.”

Kyle, who said so, looked around for a moment and raised his glass to eye level.

“Shall we make a toast?”

“Good idea.”

Amelia also lifted her glass. She nodded towards Luon, who was looking at them with a blank face.

“Why don’t you keep up with the rhythm? Champion of Tibella?”

Luon smiled and held out his glass.

“Just call me Luon.”

The glasses met lightly in the air. The night fell, but the heat in the inn didn’t seem to die down. The mercenaries clashed with their colleagues and talked loudly, celebrating that they had safely passed the day today. The floor was covered with food scraps, and the air was murky even though the window was open, but the atmosphere was not bad. Luon and his party also jumped on the atmosphere and continued to drink.

The first person to get up was Amelia. She said,

“I’m going up now. Alcohol is good, but sleep is more important to me. It’s better for both of you to go up and take a rest. We will be moving early in the morning.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Amelia went upstairs.

“Well, it would be nice to drink some more. Mr. Luon, no, Luon. Why don’t we drink some more without worrying? The night is still long.”

The aspirations were good, but Kyle didn’t last very long.

Luon’s high fitness level always had the ability to keep his body in optimal condition, so alcohol absorbed by his body was also quickly broken down, and in fact, Kyle’s tongue curled in front of his virtually unlimited drinking capacity.

“Well, I mean, what is it? To be honest, I want to go with you. The reason why I asked you, haha! I wanted to repay Luon like this, so that’s why, of course I did pay you, but hehe! People’s minds… Anyway, I’m sure the villagers would want me to.”

After continuing his gibberish confession, Luon, who eventually sent Kyle, who was crying, upstairs, drank the beer left in the glass at once. Mei approached him even though he didn’t call.

“Shall I fill your glass with beer?”

“It’ll be troublesome to come and go, so just bring about ten cups at once.”

“All right. Sir Knight.”

Luon shook his head.

“You must have misunderstood something, but I am not a knight. I am just a···”

Mercenary, Luon swallowed those words inside. He beckoned to the waitress who was staring at him, as if to go, and smiled a self-helpful smile. He did not know when it became normal to introduce himself as a mercenary.

The college student, who liked to grill meat and got drunk even with a bottle of soju, went away, and a mercenary who crushes a monster’s skull with his fists was the only one left, and he didn’t know whether he would stay up all night and will be even able to get drunk…

Suddenly, he remembered a sentence he had been holding on to for a long time.

[Challenge numerous monsters, demons and legends to complete your story.]

Then a smile leaked out.

‘What the hell is the end of the story?’

‘Do I really need to kill these disgusting monsters every day? Shouldn’t my story be to eat, drink, and enjoy just like the people in this world?’

Luon continued to think, Knowing that these worries would not give an answer.

The inside of the inn was still crowded and full of people, but he drank alone, getting farther away from that scenery. And then he remembered the scenery of the original world that he had pushed into the corner of his heart.

The ten beers disappeared in an instant, but Luon ordered the same amount again. And the night grew deeper and deeper.