MegaC

Avery Asteria was far from having anyone's dream job. Family circumstances had him drop out of school and flying around the expanse of space looking for treasure among the discarded trash in an old ship his father had been restoring. It was far from glamorous work, but it was all he could do to earn the money he needed. 

He was not the only one looking for fortune among the stars, though. One day a score that looked too good to be true led to a run in with a band of pirates. With some quick wits and a bit of luck, Avery managed to escape the worst, but he ended up missing out on collecting the valuable salvage he had his sights on.

Having lost a large chunk of his gear in his flight from the pirates, Avery seemed to be truly at the end of his rope. However, a twist of fate led him to discovering an experimental vessel that had been lost to the far reaches of space.

With this new ship in his possession, his prospects were looking up. It had everything and more than what any spacefarer could want. And Avery was going to use it to become the leader of the greatest band of mercenaries in the galaxy.

Path to Becoming the Greatest Space Mercenary

"We'd be happy to stick around and guard you, but our services aren't for free. We're mercenaries after all." Avery replied to the small convoy's leader.

He did not receive a particularly enthusiastic response and the woman on the other end told him that she needed to confer with the other captain's first. The damage to their vessels from the pirates was already going to be costly to repair. Losing too much more money might put them in the red.

"Are you sure we can't just help them out? That'd be the right thing to do." Jasmine said, her sense of justice from when she was still a member of the police as strong as ever.

"That would certainly be nice, but it's not good for a mercenary to give their services out for free. We fight for money, plain and simple. If we went around trying to help everyone we found in an unfortunate situation, we would just exhaust ourselves and our resources."

Chapter 102 Working Diligently (2)