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“Lone mercenary Loren teams with cunning priest Lapis to survive exploitative adventuring party.”
The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary
食い詰め傭兵の幻想奇譚
7.24
6,068 rank · 1,244 readers · 13 favorites
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Lone mercenary Loren teams with cunning priest Lapis to survive exploitative adventuring party.
One by one, the mercenaries who raised Loren fell in a terrible, bloody battle. The lone survivor in a hard world with only his wits and his sword to his name, Loren hires himself out as an adventurer. His new party, however, proves all too willing to run headlong into danger using him as their meat shield. Only Lapis, the party's sly priest, sees his true worth, just as Loren sees hers. They must rely on each other, or else neither of them will live to see the end of their first adventure. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
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mode 6
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- 8 “Is it worth a read? Yeah, it is. It's one of those that's interesting enough to keep you invested in it, even though you know it might not be that "OMG MASTERPIECE" kind of series. The story...”
- 6 “Saying "Hooray! It's competent!" is a textbook example of condemning with faint praise, but such is the state of fantasy light novels that even checking off the most bare basics of storytelling is...”
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Mar 2017 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M43210 catalog