Frontier Expedition Force

The Frontier Expedition Force (辺境調査団) were a group of thirty individuals conscripted by Earl Migam to investigate the rumors of an Orc Lord appearing. The group was lead by Youm and supervised by the unseasoned sorcerer Rommel.

Background
The Expedition Force was created by conscripting inmates from the Migam Earldom Correctional Facility, a prison constructed to house the more raucous criminals like bandits, thugs, and brawlers, where they would often be used to assist the local soldiers in combat drills and monster slaying. The members were chosen instead of Knights due to the Earldom not having enough to spare from their own defense force, a problem caused by the complacency and greed of Earl Migam. The Free Guild was similarly not a viable option, as the Minister of Finance completely axed the tax fund granted to the earl in the foolish belief that the forest was a safe place with Storm Dragon Veldora out of the picture. Thus the task to investigate the rumored threat of the Orc Lord fell to the prisoners of the stronger members of the correctional facility, being both cheap and expendable to the desperate Earl.

Only a short amount of time later, the group of 30 members were gathered and equipped for their mission. The strongest and most component of the group, a man named Youm, was appointed as its leader, with them all being forced to sign a magical contract that would force their obedience to their overseer Rommel in exchange for expediting their sentences. However Rommel was an inexperienced and young sorcerer fresh out of the Magic Academy, he was easily conned by the experienced Youm and soon removed their contracts once they were in the forest.

Youm had switched out several of the expedition force's members for his own outside men while they supplied themselves at the Free Guild, using their unrestricted actions to have a knife across Rommel's throat in no time and extort their freedom from him. However, they couldn't simply kill Rommel, as the Earl had placed magic on the boy that would alert him to his death. So Youm decided that the best course of action was to complete their mission and have Rommel report that they'd all been killed in the line of duty, while in reality they'd have fled to another country and established themselves as a large party under its local branch of the Free Guild. This plan would however never come to fruition, as the group ended up in the employ of Rimuru Tempest, who rebranded them into a party of heroes who killed the Orc Lord with their assistance. The group would ironically become active as a group of adventurers in the process, just in their homeland of Migam Earldom rather than another country.