The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary (Manga) Series

BATTLE TO SURVIVE

Loren and Lapis accepted a quest to escort Scena, daughter of the chief of state, to her hometown of Hansa. Mid-travel, several of their fellow adventurers mysteriously lost consciousness, and the group encountered a horde of undead, including a dragon. The remaining adventurers barely manage to escape and reach their destination. Unfortunately, their troubles continue, as all fifty thousand of Hansa’s city folk have vanished without a trace. With the undead threat fast approaching, Loren, Lapis, and the overly confident Claes must work together to keep Scena alive and unravel why she appears to have been abandoned.

ESCORT QUEST

In order to repay his debt, ex-mercenary Loren parties up once again with cleric Lapis as adventurers for hire. Their latest mission is to escort the chief of state’s only daughter, Shaena, back to her hometown. Along the way, however, their fellow adventurers keep inexplicably disappearing. Between their mysterious charge and the sudden appearance of an undead horde, Loren and Lapis might be in for their most complicated adventure yet!

FOR A FEW COPPERS MORE

After disaster struck his mercenary band, Loren was broke and desperate. To make ends meet, he signed up as an adventurer, and that fateful decision landed him in the heart of a dangerous, labyrinthine ruin. After discovering that the ruins’ ancient magic still functions, and that the place is mass-producing goblins of unnatural power, Loren, Lapis, and their new silver-rank companions team up to shut the place down for good. With a horde of bloodthirsty monsters ready to defend their home, it’ll take everything they’ve got to pull it off alive!

DUNGEON CRAWL

The mercenary life was hard on Loren. Despite his enormous skill with a blade, he found himself alone and out of work. Joining up with a team of newbie adventurers seemed like the key to getting back on track, but their goblin hunt didn’t go as planned. Thanks to his new comrades’ bravado, Loren faced a disastrous ambush, only narrowly escaping along with the enigmatic priestess Lapis. Together, the two of them head deeper into an ancient labyrinth, seeking a way to escape from the perilous ruins. An avalanche of monsters stands between them and a secret from ages past!

A gritty swords and sorcery tale of a veteran mercenary who must start anew after he loses his old company–and don’t miss the original light novels, also from Seven Seas!

Loren spent years fighting for the highest bidder, drifting from one battlefield to the next as part of a mercenary band. All that changes when a battle goes horribly wrong, and Loren barely escapes alive. Alone and without so much as a coin to his name, Loren resolves to start a new life as an adventurer. The adventuring trade is a world unto itself, and Loren’s cynical common sense clashes with the foolhardy courage of his new comrades. Meeting the enigmatic and beautiful priestess Lapis just might be the key to his survival–and the beginning of a strange new chapter in his life.