Chapter Twenty-Eight: Mercenary Captains
"Alan, you're here, welcome. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info I've just been chatting with some old friends and I'm talking about you and you're there. ā
When Alan led Steven into the decorated golden living room, Hollanster was sitting on the high platform in the center, chatting with a few people around him, and when he heard the butler say that Alan was coming, he immediately got up from his seat and walked down the steps to greet Alan.
Facing Allen, Hollanster showed his trademark hearty smile, as warm as an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time, and the unpleasant meeting a few months ago seemed to have never happened.
"Meet your lord, Happy New Year!"
Alan and Steven smiled and saluted and sent New Year's greetings.
"You're welcome, Alan. Come, come, let me introduce you to a few friends. ā
Hollanster walked down the steps, stopped Allen's salute, and took him by the arm and walked to the platform. Seeing Hollanster affectionately take Alan to the stage, several people sitting on the stage also stood up.
"Alan, this is Lord Nelson, the leader of the LTTE. ā
With the exception of Herbert and Barry House, who were often with Horancest, Allen was seen inside the castle for the first time. Of course, there was one of them he knew, and that was Nelson, the leader of the LTTE.
After meeting Nelson, Holland introduced four other people to Allen in turn, including Marcus Ogu, the leader of the Eagle Mercenary Regiment, Carter, the leader of the Spirit Snake Mercenary Regiment, and Walker, the leader of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Regiment.
Alan met them one by one, and except for the leader of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Regiment, who was slightly cold to Allen, the other three people were more enthusiastic, obviously they had already heard of Allen's name, and they were also full of curiosity about him.
"Alan, this is Higgs, the leader of the Braveheart Mercenary Regiment. ā
Hollanster seemed to see that Alan and Walker, the leader of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Group, were not having a pleasant conversation, so he hurriedly introduced Alan to a strange middle-aged man on the stage.
The middle-aged man was dressed in a white robe, plain and elegant, and he stood quietly in a corner of the stage, seemingly keeping a distance from the others. There are four major mercenary groups under the mercenary union, namely the tiger, the wolf warrior, the flying eagle and the spirit snake, in addition to these four corpsion-level mercenary groups, the others are some small and medium-sized mercenary groups with a scale of hundreds to dozens of people, the brave heart mercenary group is such a small mercenary group with a scale of one hundred and ten people, today in the case that the leaders of other small and medium-sized mercenary groups have not appeared on the high platform, Higgs and the leaders of the four major mercenary groups appear here at the same time, which can only show that Higgs completely relies on personal strength.
"Alan Kanter, meet Captain Higgs. ā
It turned out that this person was his father's old boss, the leader of the Brave Heart Mercenary Regiment, Alan thought to himself as he saluted Higgs and said respectfully.
"So you're Duran's son, and Havech told me about you I don't know how many times, and my ears are almost calloused. ā
Higgs said as he looked at Alan curiously.
"Yes. Duran Kante is my father. ā
"Back then, I had high hopes for your father Duran, but I didn't expect him to go back after completing a southern mission, and now it seems that he must have been with your mother and gave birth to you. Is your father okay all these years?"
Higgs said with a sigh, his eyes dark, as if he was reminiscing about the past.
"I haven't seen my father in years. ā
Alan shook his head and said that he still had the same impression of his father, Duran Kanter, who had been an alcoholic and indifferent to him all those years ago, but that impression seemed inappropriate to say.
"Tiger father has no dog, you have not lost your father's face, if he knows your achievements today, he will definitely be proud of you. ā
Higgs had a smile on his handsome face, and he didn't ask why Alan hadn't been in touch with his father for so many years.
"Thank you, Captain, for the compliment. ā
Alan said humbly.
"Alan, this is the Grand Mage Cecil, the deputy head of the Wolf Warrior Mercenary Regiment, Cecil Archmage has been staying in a mine in Capra Pass for the past few years, and this time he just rushed back. ā
When Alan and Higgs were talking happily, Hollanster suddenly interjected again, this time he introduced Alan to the last stranger on the platform, it was a tall and thin man in his fifties, in fact, he didn't need to introduce him, Alan had already identified the other party's identity as an earth-based archmage from the four yellow marks on the boxwood wand held by the old man, and there were three red marks on the wand, indicating that he was still a high-level fire magician. Alan even guessed that the mine where Cecil stayed must have produced magic crystals, otherwise it would be impossible to tie up a great magician, and it seems that this Cecil is also good at alchemy.
Cecil is the only deputy head of the mercenary group who can stand on the stage, and the others are all full leaders, and the reason why he can appear here is probably because he is a great magician, and others standing here may rely more on their positions, and he can stand here because of his personal strength, as well as Higgs.
"Junior Alan meets the Archmage!"
For this kind of senior mage, Alan is generally full of respect.
"I heard that you are the apprentice of Fama Lux, and Phama Uxes is the only earth archmage I admire. ā
Cecil looked at Alan with a strange expression before speaking. As soon as he opened his mouth, he mentioned the old magician first, but this is also in line with the habit of communication when magicians first met, so let's talk about the inheritance first. And listening to Cecil's tone, this man's temper is far less modest than Herbert's, although he praises the old magician, but the implicit meaning is that he doesn't pay much attention to anyone except Famakos, let alone Alan, a student of Famakos.
"The teacher also often mentions you in front of us, Archmage, and he admires your achievements in earth magic. ā
Having dealt with Emaar, Alan didn't care about Cecil's pride, but said politely. However, his words were only polite, not true, and Famax really rarely mentioned this person, so that when Hollanster introduced him, he had no impression at all.
"Humph!"
I don't know if I heard Allen's words insincerely, Cecil first snorted coldly twice, and then asked in a sharp voice:
"Fama Kos doesn't have any knowledge in alchemy, did you learn alchemy from Jones?"
"Yes, when we were studying at the Academy of Magic, Archmage Jones used to be our teacher of alchemy. ā
Alan knew that the Jones in Cecil's mouth was actually among the four court mages of Yus, and the archmage Jones who was famous for his alchemy, although Alan and Jones did not have a strict teacher-teacher relationship, and his alchemy had already come out of the blue, but his alchemy was indeed brought into the door by the archmage Jones.