With the lifting of the ban, the mercenary groups sprang to business. Their objectives were more or less the same — begin warming up its members, and at the same time, commence missions to receive remunerations. Rhode's Starlight was no different, naturally. Starlight functioned rather clandestinely because Rhode didn't need to follow the points system in order to elevate to guild status. But Rhode still required to strengthen and polish his mercenary groups' aggregation through various missions. Furthermore, he also needed the remunerations to maintain the operation cost. After all, money doesn't simply fall from the skies, even for him. Since his mercenary group had grown in size, Starlight's financial reserves began to dip.
Thus, Rhode concluded that it'd be better to accept hard, yet less life-threatening missions, and at the same time, having high remunerations. But his requirements were slightly too demanding…
