Dimensional Mercenary - Vol. 1 Ch. 5

[MangaDex]

 

[CommieJohnTeh]

At last, they are laying down the rules; now I'm starting to understand the story a little better.
EDIT: Judging and inferring from the expositions in the chapter, I came up with some personal theorycrafts (until proven otherwise):
- The people/ladies operating in that shady corporate building could be the pantheon from that otherworld;
- The otherworld people pray to those gods, likely the ones that "pray for strength/survival before a major conflict", becoming unwitting "clients"
- The gods grant their prayers through this weird "Earth mercenary system" to augment the client's power
- The gods then channel these mercenaries to the client (in this case, Mr. Kang to Parsons), "fusing" the souls in a way or system that the mercenary is primarily in control, while the client still thinks he is still himself.
- So what's in it for the gods? Probably if the client survives, his faith to the gods would increase, and faith is likely the currency/lifeforce for these gods. Dead client, no faith for the gods, no reward for the merc.
- All that's left is to create some arbritary rules on the mercenary's side like his wages.

 

[Sep10trion]

Hmmm, so could his life have been hijacked by a rival company? Maybe by that ‘friend.’

 

[Doomer]

i think we're overlooking the biggest problem here, this dude is unemployed, has no income and then out of nowhere he mysteriously has a bag of gold worth 100 mill? is there no plan on how to launder the money? if you don't the government is going to be over him instantly and then that will lead them to Sose.

all you need to do is hire him and buy his gold and pay him using a salary based on his accomplishments

 

[Dirchesdan]

@Doomer I wouldn't expect that kind of shit here.

 

[0neDragon]

@Doomer I think the gowernment doesn'T dare to mess with SOSE or it's employes couse there defenitly some kind of meeting on good or bad terms, where they learnt not to mess with them

 

[ColonelCrisp]

"Wait a second . . ."

What's the catch?

 

[DestinyOfZero]

so the higher his level the less money the actual client recieves

 

[Tsukasa_iLy]

So he didnt ask about somebody being in his own body ? She said parson was a "client" just like him after saying you wouldn't want someone going crazy in your own body.. nah I'd have about 30 more questions and I'd ask to have a full copy of the contract. Because his danger radar should be going crazy right now.

 

[AlmondMagnum]

I kinda wonder where the money comes from. Parsons? Parsons' wages after the mission? How could a lowly mercenary be paid 100k? Especially in the middle ages. Or is the Otherworld some kind of El Dorado where gold is super cheap? And mercenaries, apparently, less able to fight than some rando from modern Korea?

 

[Thomaster]

Wait a second? More like wait a week (or one to two days in this case)

 

[ChefSakamoto]

@AlmondMagnum Earlier he did say that he accidentally responded similarly to drill excercises from his time in the Korean Military

 

[Tearsax]

The clients you are possessing are also precious customers, just like you.

He is not a customer but an employee, tho?
Also, in my country there is no sex ed, so i jumped right into pornography and im perfectly fine LOL

@Doomer: logic and reason have no power here.

 

[monkey123]

Oh those Koreans invent the weirdest plots.

 

[StorminUrAss]

@IAmInept Hey, London Underground Scans thanks for the fast updates and good quality, very cool

 

[Jadian]

@Tearsax

SOSE is a "Job Hunting Advice" company. Their employees help people find appropriate job, their customers (like MC) take advantage of their services to find jobs they can get paid for. The other side of the contract (like Parsons in the tutorial) is also a customer depending on SOSE to get their request fulfilled, however they go through that process.

 

[fanghue]

@AlmondMagnum gold was probably indeed worth less in that world. also maybe they didn't understand the purity of gold and it just happened to be that the gold coins parson got were very pure. Also our mc (as parson) did kill one of what looked like the enemies commanders and like mentioned in the chapter, he helped with the looting. so the mercenaries probably got a lot of money from both looting and as payment and divide this money according to accomplishment on the battlefield

 

[CommieJohnTeh]

More theorycrafts:

@ money issue (Ever wonder why SOSE was only paying Mr. Kang with gold coins instead of Won directly?)
- It's likely that the SOSE people are the ones paying the "mercs", not the "clients"; if my "SOSE personnel are actually gods from that otherworld" is correct; if a mission goes successful, the "client's faith" to their gods skyrockets. (alternatively, the "clients" may have also sold their soul or part of it to the gods, hence the "contract" on their side) Since "otherworld faith" (or soul) could be like an energy source to these gods, they would use it generate the gold out of thin air as payment for the "merc" (after deductions from taking a gander to the reward the client/merc fusion received in the otherworld).

@Tsukasa_iLy
"customer" might be simply a broad term pertaining to any person patronizing the agency; in this case Earth people as "employees/mercs" and the otherworld people as "clients".

 

[AlmondMagnum]

@ChefSakamoto
Yes, he did his military service, but I doubt he trained in the spear and sword.

 

[Zael]

You hear about dimensional travel and get excited about mere money..?