Path to Becoming the Greatest Space Mercenary Chapter 24 - 24 Major Assignment

For several seconds Avery just stared back at Kaiden with a blank look on his face.

When he and his sister ca into the bar, he never expected that it was to try and recruit him.

Nevertheless, despite having been caught off guard, Avery already knew what his answer was going to be.

"Sorry, I don't plan on working under anyone. Perhaps if you two wanted to beco my followers, that'd be another story. But I doubt that's the case."

Kaiden scoffed at Avery's counteroffer and Kasandra hardly offered any response at all. Neither of them took his words seriously and realized that he was not going to join them.

"Well, whatever. I sought you out since you seem to be a promising rookie and I heard that Urs trained you, but I figured it be a long shot. If you change your mind, leave a ssage for us at the Association. See you around." Kaiden said, turning around and leaving with his sister in tow.

Once they were gone, Avery released a sigh of relief that he had been holding in. He had been worried that his blatant rejection might be t with hostility, but the Twin Fangs, as he had heard them be called, seed to be sensible.

"You're really sothing special Avery. I think that's the first ti those two have spoken to anyone other than when necessary for a job." Jackson said, looking impressed.

All the other rcenaries began clamoring about how so of the top three star rcenaries in the sector had just tried to recruit Avery.

"Are they really that impressive?" Avery eventually asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"You really don't know?! The two of them are pretty famous around here. They ca onto the scene from out of nowhere and started collecting bounties from infamous pirates that had set up base around these parts. I've heard that they're pretty skilled and that they're flying identical dium sized vessels that have been heavily customized. There's also been talk that the two of them are likely to rank up soon and take the top spot among rcenaries in the sector. We've got a lot of two and three stars, but there aren't any four star or higher rcs currently active in this system."

After listening to Ehdo's explanation, Avery was feeling a bit intrigued by the two Woest siblings.

Yet, as he took out his terminal to look up so information on them, soone else burst through the doors with an excited expression on his face.

"Everyone, pull up the mission board! The Alliance Police just posted a big job!" The man shouted.

With wide eyes, all the other rcenaries pulled out their terminals and navigated to the rcenary Association's site.

On the front page, was an assignnt put forward by the local Alliance Police tasked with keeping order in the Yuson System.

There were not any details of what the job entailed, but any and all rcenaries with their own ships, no matter the rank, were being accepted.

"They've got to be arming up to finally exterminate the pirates that have invested the sector."

"I'd say that's likely. After those brazen raids on Dirluc Mining, they've got to do sothing to show that they can protect the people. Otherwise, the businesses and rchants keeping the colonies here afloat are going to pull out."

"It's been too long since I last participated in a raid. I can't wait to get a big payday taking out those scum."

All of the rcenaries in the bar were imdiately alight with enthusiasm. While the details of the request remained unknown, they all figured that their guess was likely the case.

The Alliance Police only did blanket recruitnts when sothing big was going down that they needed a lot of manpower for.

That normally ant an invasion from a hostile power, an outbreak of dangerous space monsters, or most often, the extermination of space pirates.

'It's basically like a bonus stage in a video ga. Though, there aren't any respawns if sothing goes wrong.' Avery thought, pulling up what information he could on similar missions that had been posted in the past.

What he was most interested in was paynt, and he was surprised to find that these types of jobs didn't co with much in the way of a standard commission.

It seed that other than a small reward of three thousand Krenin for participating, hired rcenaries were normally paid depending on the number and types of vessels they took out. Of course, they also received any bounties and whatever was in the cargo holds of the pirate they took out.

"This could be the opportunity I was looking for."

If Avery was able to rack up a sizable number of kills, it would see him receiving a payday that dwarfed what he just earned as security for Dirluc Mining.

Of course, there was the possibility of not taking out a single pirate. In that case he would not be paid much at all and going on the mission would be a waste of ti.

This faint worry did not last long, though. Avery was certain that with the Dauntless and Urs' teachings, that he would do just fine in a large raid.

"Okay, let's all go register for this job, and then we can get back to celebrating." One of the rcenaries said, a bottle in his hand raised high.

Everyone else cheered in approval at this, and Avery found himself following behind the others back to the Association building.

For a lot of requests, it was unnecessary to register directly at the branch and could simply be done remotely, but for a mission directly from the Alliance Police like this, it was required to apply in person.

When Avery and the group he had joined arrived, the building was several tis more packed than before. Practically every rcenary residing on Yuson II had shown up to sign up for what was almost certainly going to be the most profitable job of the year.