Mercenary

Mercenary is the generic term used to refer to individuals hired for missions. Besides being a job class name for some, individuals not belonging to the class can still be classified as one to some degree by having different roles elsewhere.

Background
Mercenaries are those who carry out missions solely for the high amount of money rewarded. They are usually seen frequenting around places specialized in selling weapons and other items to them.

In addition, a group of mercenaries were hired to fight and participate during times of war. However, when peacetime arrives, mercenaries would often adopt the ways of a bandit or thief, attacking travelers without warning and looting their items afterward.

Although mercenaries get hired on the job, they avoid visiting villages due to how common it was for other mercenaries beside them to be hired there. This was done so intentionally in order to avoid a confrontation and fight between former comrades of the same profession.

Fortunately, a band of well-trained and reliable mercenaries are known to be employed by traveling merchants. For starters, they were entrusted with the task of protecting the merchants while moving to a different destination.

In a way, mercenaries do their job without being bound by loyalty to countries. The missions they are committed to doing involved wars between nations, investigating monster lair ruins, wiping out monsters, and many other tasks that relate to violence.

Known Mercenaries

 * Commander Alexei

Known Mercenary NPCs

 * Beast of Burden
 * Doppelgänger
 * Redcap
 * Lip Bug
 * Hanzo
 * Eight-Edge Assassin
 * Fuuma
 * Tobi Kato
 * Kashin Koji

Abilities and Powers
Mercenaries are comprised of various individuals each skilled in their own respective profession such as assassination.

Trivia

 * Adventurers were looked upon as "anti-monster mercenaries" tasked with hunting down monsters for fame and money