Hopnos was able to possess the combat power of a high-level magician in his early twenties not only because he was talented enough, but also because he had the resources to support him.
His backer is Prince Oniya, the president of the Imperial City Adventurers Association.
As the Imperial Capital Association of the Austrian Empire, the president of the Adventurers Association here must have the ability to coordinate and compete with multiple parties.
Therefore, Prince Onia has the strength of a great mage.
It was precisely because Hopnos did not have much connection with the nobles in the imperial capital that Chris came to him.
Before Chris found Hopnos, he was a complete training madman. He stayed in the training room all day long and practiced crazily.
In fact, when Chris first came to find him, he was unwilling to leave, but under the orders of Prince Oniya, he had no choice but to leave.
When he was about to leave, Prince Onia told him that he was not allowed to come back to him until he showed his dignity.
Hopnos had already made up his mind that he would not go back until he reached the level of a magister.
But when he discovered Al's special situation, he finally decided to tell Prince Onia about the situation.
Hopnos has been in the Adventurers Association of the Imperial Capital for nearly ten years. Although only some of the senior officials know him, it does not prevent him from walking around in the association as if he is in a deserted place.
It took him more than ten minutes to directly enter the backyard of the Adventurers Association.
The so-called backyard is actually where a group of senior executives and their families live, and there are also some special rooms.
If you are an ordinary person, even if you can avoid everyone's eyes and ears and enter it, it will definitely take a lot of time.
But Hopnos is different, he doesn't need to spend too long, he really knows this place too well.
Moreover, when he actually entered the backyard, even though there were some strong people here, those people basically knew him.
So in the backyard of the Adventurers Association, he was "home".
"Hey, little Onya is back." A member of the association greeted him.
Because Hopnos was an orphan, he took Prince Onia's last name.
Others may call him by his name, but those who are familiar with him will call him Little Onya.
Hopnos has long been accustomed to this, so when someone wants to say hello, he smiles and nods in response, without giving Al the cold expression at all.
In fact, this is because everyone here is his acquaintance. As for Al and Chris, although they belong to the same guild as him, they are not familiar with each other.
Only when facing these people whom he has known for more than ten years can he truly let go of himself and talk to these people on an equal footing.
"Senior Sonny, do you know where my master is?"
The magister named Sonny replied: "You can search here first, but I don't think it will be useful, because I seemed to have seen him go out before."
"You also know that he is the president of the association after all. There are a lot of things happening every day when he wakes up. Business trips are also common. How else can you wait here for a few more days?"
Hopnos thought for a while: Even if I tell the master about Al, I won't be able to think of a solution in a short time. Moreover, even if it is solved, he will not become an effective combat force for a long time.
When I came back, Chris told me that he was ready to receive the assignment from the association and hoped that I would return within the specified time.
After thinking for a while, Hopenos said to the magister Sonny: "I have other things to do. If I can't find the master, please ask the senior to tell the master for me, and say that I have something to talk to him.
"
"No problem!" Sonny nodded directly and agreed.
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As Sonny said, Prince Oniya is really not in the association.
After writing on a piece of paper that he had something to do with Prince Oniya, he put it on his desk.
After that, Hopnos left here with peace of mind.
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Although Chris wants to accept tasks, he is not prepared to accept tasks that are time-consuming and difficult.
Because he doesn't want to waste time, and he doesn't care about the money he gets after completing the task.
He accepted the mission mainly to test the level of trust between each other, and to see if he could find "like-minded" partners in the process and grow the big family of the Freedom Group.
Among the many missions for adventurers, the most lucrative ones are war mercenaries, but only the top adventurer guilds and powerful men above magisters and swordsmen are eligible to accept them.
However, war mercenary, although it has been listed in the first column of the Adventurer Association's taskbar for a long time, cannot be obtained at all under normal circumstances, and will only be activated when a national war breaks out.
The first-level tasks are also varied, including protecting certain big lords, conquering mazes, and even killing some wandering monsters. However, the strength of wandering monsters is generally not weak, at least.
A leader-level monster.
The second level is lower, some are sending certain goods to each other, and some are collecting goods.
For those tasks that were a waste of time and that required too much strength, Chris immediately put them out of the options.
After staying in front of the taskbar for half an hour, Chris finally found a task that suited them.
The villages near the imperial capital are harassed by monsters, but the monsters are very weak, not even low-level monsters.
Although this village is near the imperial capital, it is very poor. In addition, the monsters are not very strong. Even ordinary people can take advantage of the geographical advantage and fight them back and forth.
On the task list of the Adventurers Association, this is an inferior task. Because the opponent is too weak and the reward is too low, almost no one has accepted this task from here for four or five months.
After all, although monsters like this, which are not much stronger than wild beasts, can't be said to be everywhere, there are still quite a few in most countryside.
Chris accepted this task just to let Al practice his skills.
And a mission of this level was of no use to their guild's rating, so it was naturally impossible for Chris to waste time receiving such a mission.
He received multiple tasks at the beginning, and this was just one of them.
And it matches their next itinerary, that's all.
After selecting the mission, he returned directly to the headquarters.
Because Chris had told Al and the others before that they would need to perform tasks later and asked the two of them not to run around.
So Al and Hopnos were in the room, waiting quietly for him to come back with a mission.
Seeing Chris back, Hopenos asked him directly: "What mission did you receive?"
Chris took out a few pieces of paper and said: "I have received a total of five tasks, but I have confirmed it before. These tasks are all in the same direction, and they are not a waste of time. I estimate that they are at most half
In a few months, all tasks can be completed."
Having said this, Chris took out one of the notes and handed it to Al: "This is the task I selected for you, to kill the monsters harassing Shiquan Village."
Al turned over and over, but didn't see any other words on it, so he asked Chris curiously: "What's going on? Why does it feel like there's no beginning or end?"
Chris replied: "Although there is very little explanation about the mission, I speculate that the strength of the monster should not be very good, otherwise a small village does not even have a transcendent. If there is really a powerful monster attack,
They have no chance to send out tasks."
Al thought for a while and felt that what he said made sense, so he put the note into his arms.
After that, Hopenos and Chris discussed some relevant details of the next few tasks.
Al just listened and didn't take it too seriously. Although this thing would be of some use to him in the future, he also knew very well that his top priority now was not to understand things that were of no use to him.
Instead, study the details of the task carefully and ensure the method of action in the future.
No matter how weak the monster is, it is not something that he can easily deal with now, so he must be well prepared, because tomorrow is the time for them to take action.
After returning to his room, Al immediately took action.
Indeed, without extraordinary strength, he usually does not cause much damage to monsters.
But he can definitely use the help of tools.
For example, the sword he made before has been slightly polished with some details in the past few days, so that it can be more powerful in combat.
Although it is not as good as the special effects of magic, with this sword in his hand, he is not afraid at all even in close combat with a trainee swordsman.
If it were a trainee swordsman with little actual combat experience, Al would even be sure to kill him within ten moves.
Of course, powerful weapons alone cannot make Al completely at ease.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time in the day, Al spent the night making a piece of soft armor that was close-fitting and wearing it on his body.
All the materials he used were "smooth" materials from Eric, so even the fighting spirit of a junior swordsman could not penetrate his soft armor, and a junior magician could not destroy it.
In fact, the level of these materials is not low. If they are made by a refiner, they can even withstand attacks from mid-level experts.
Although there is only one level difference between the primary level and the intermediate level, the combat power they can unleash is completely different.
There may not be a big difference in combat power between a junior swordsman and an intermediate swordsman. Let’s see.
But the basic magician and the intermediate magician are different. Just one point can tell the difference in strength between the two. The junior magician can only release some single-target attack magic, while the intermediate magician can already release some.
A wide range of magic.
If it is a single-target offensive magic, Al is not afraid of it, but if it is a range-attack magic, even if Al is protected by soft armor, he cannot fully defend against it.
This level of soft armor is enough to protect oneself. No matter how strong it is, it may not hurt the opponent, and even if it has a noble phantom, it may not be useful.
Looking at the fully armed Al the next day, Chris asked him seriously: "Are you ready?"