Path of light

Chapter 229 230. Barrier Village

Walking out of the dark jungle, the feeling of being stared at by a pair of eyes finally disappeared.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Glazed Beast is not easy to mess with...

Maybe at some point, they will suddenly jump out from the grass somewhere. There are not many elves in the caravan who can block the Liuli Beast's attack.

Guide Margery and Captain Xindeji analyzed that the reason why the Glazed Beast did not show up in this territory may be because there were too many elves in the caravan. The Glazed Beast was probably frightened by the elves when it saw so many elves. Living.

So much so that the means prepared by the caravan to resist the Glazed Beast were of no use.

Scarlett Magician was looking forward to it all the way, hoping that a glass beast would come out of the woods.

Then the adventure group swarmed up and killed the glazed beast.

She has wanted a magic cloak of glazed animal skin for a long time, but this kind of Warcraft leather is hard to find. As long as this kind of animal skin appears in a leather shop, it will be immediately bought by regular customers. Scarlett Magicians simply can't buy it.

Scarlett Magician was somewhat regretful that she was unable to hunt the Glazed Beast.

Everyone walked out of the territory of the Glazed Beast and stood on a grassy slope with sparse woods. Captain Xin Deji pointed at the dark mountains in the distance and introduced to everyone:

"That's the Griffin Barrier. Walk south for four days from here and you'll probably reach Barrier Village. We have to be careful about the griffons in the sky. Griffins often appear in this area and often attack merchant groups. However, Don’t worry, everyone, we are also prepared, and as long as they dare to fall, we will not give them a chance to fly.”

The elf hunters stood on the grass slope, looking up at the gryphon barrier in the distance, with a trace of joy on their faces.

"We're finally here. I didn't expect that this visit to Barrier Village would go so smoothly..."

A group of mixed-blood elves discussed happily.

Roy was also standing among the elves, surrounded by members of the adventure group.

Instead of looking at the barrier mountains in the distance, he raised his head and looked up at the sky. He could vaguely see some small black spots suspended in the sky. Those black spots were constantly circling in the sky. He felt that those should be lions. Vulture.

Captain Sindji did not stay on the hillside for too long. He did not want to expose the caravan to the sight of the griffin.

Leading the caravan into a forest...

The closer we get to the Griffin Barrier, the trees in the woodland here become very sparse. The hillsides that cannot be covered by the branches and leaves of the trees are covered with weeds, and the weeds are full of messy gravel.

It was in this woodland full of weeds that Captain Xindeji led the caravan along an almost indistinguishable path.

In order to deal with the griffins in the sky, Roy discovered that Captain Sindeji had specially prepared two sky-shooting crossbows.

This kind of giant crossbow is relatively bulky and is usually fixed on a stand. Each sky-shooting crossbow is specially carried by a horse.

Once traces of the gryphon appeared, elves in the caravan immediately loaded the crossbow strings and loaded the wind magic arrows into the arrow trough of the sky-shooting crossbow.

Generally speaking, as long as the griffon is not close, it will not shoot the crossbow arrows...

Many times, Sky Crossbows are not used to hunt griffins.

It is just a tool used to intimidate griffins. Those griffins in the sky are also very smart. As long as they see the sky-shooting crossbow, few griffins dare to risk their lives and dive down.

There were probably too many elves in the caravan, and there were more and more griffons circling in the sky.

Although they appear to be just black dots the size of sesame seeds now, no one can guarantee that they will not attack the caravan.

Captain Xin Deji could only give up walking through the wild grass. He led everyone into the forest again, in order to avoid the griffons' tracking.

The road is getting harder and harder...

Many times, the adventure group has to lead the horses forward, and at this time, these horses become a burden.

Sometimes it seemed like there was no road ahead, but Captain Xindeji was able to find a passage from a secret location and lead everyone through the narrow passage.

Roy discovered that having a guide who was familiar with the surrounding environment had many benefits.

Especially when encountering danger, the guide can lead everyone to avoid these dangers in time.

Otherwise, facing this vast wilderness, with acres of grass and dense forests, it would be difficult to find a way, let alone find the barrier village at the foot of the mountain.

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Being stared at by these griffins, the griffins also wanted to find opportunities to attack the caravan. However, the griffins that rushed down to investigate the situation several times saw the two sky-shooting crossbows, so they did not dare to rush down at all.

The caravan walked in this wilderness for another four days, and finally arrived at the foot of the Griffin Barrier Mountains.

Roy finally saw this barrier village built in a dense forest.

Strictly speaking, Barrier Village is actually built in a mountain depression, with scattered treehouses scattered throughout the hillside. These treehouses are hidden in the tree crowns and come in various shapes.

The elves fully demonstrate their romantic and aesthetic nature when building wooden houses.

And there are so many treehouses in this village. At first glance, they didn't seem like much, but when Roy took a closer look, he discovered that most of the giant trees had treehouses.

There are many more elves in this village than Roy imagined...

A small stream meanders all the way north at the bottom of the valley. The paths leading to the stream are paved with stone steps. On both sides of the road are forest glades covered with moss. The entire mountain col looks very beautiful, like a paradise.

If it weren't for the occasional gryphon flying overhead, Roy would have felt that this place was definitely a place of refuge...

No matter where you go, you feel like you are living in an oil painting.

The sun shines through the leaves into the forest glade, and those speckled beams of light make the woods colorful.

"This is the Barrier Village. This is the largest elf village besides Padstow City." Captain Hindji introduced to everyone.

Then he turned to the half-blood elf hunters and said:

"If any of you want to settle in Barrier Village, you'd better visit the village chief here. You don't have to follow us all the time."

After the mixed elf hunters received instructions from Captain Xin Deji, they formed a group and walked towards the highest building in the barrier village. Everyone wanted to visit the village chief of the barrier village...

The adventure group, led by the guide Margery, also said goodbye to the caravan. The caravan stayed in the barrier village for two days. After completing the acquisition mission, it would leave here and continue to the next village.

The adventure group will stay in the village before continuing their plan to climb the Barrier Mountains.

The adventure group has spent seventeen days in the Partington plane. Including the four days of delay on Partington Island, more than half a month has passed. The return journey will take about twenty days, which is the time left for the adventure group. The time for adventure here is less than twenty days.

Finally, we arrived at a place familiar to the guide Margery, and he took everyone to a hotel.

The hotels in Rampart Village are exactly the same as those in Padstow City. Almost all of them are built with more than a dozen wooden houses on several adjacent large trees, and then the wooden houses are closely connected with hanging ladders. That is to say, as long as you climb the tree At the top, these tree houses are connected to each other, just take the hanging ladders hanging from the top of the trees.

Because no one had much rest during the trip, Nora decided to rest in the hotel for two days.

This time, Instructor Nora rented two tree houses in total. The two tree houses had ten rooms in total, and each room had its own bathroom. This made Roy very satisfied.

He felt that during these days of hiking in the jungle, he was not able to take a shower every day, and walking in the hot and humid jungle, he had to sweat a lot every day, and his whole body was sour and smelly, and he felt like mushrooms were about to grow on his body. .

Take a comfortable bath, wash all the clothes that should be changed, and hang them on the terrace outside the room.

The advantage of living on the top of a tree is that as long as you walk out of the house and stand on the terrace, you can enjoy the dazzling sunshine. When you return to the tree house, it becomes extremely cool under the cover of the leaves.

Sabrina, who lived next door, was also drying clothes, and from Miss Christine's side, a half-blood elf maid came to the door with a basket. When the maid left, she held two baskets full of clothes that needed to be washed...

Sabrina's wet hair was still dripping with water drops. She smiled at Roy and said:

"I'm used to pushing the door open to see the sea. Now I live in a mountain col and look at the endless green mountains. How do you feel?"

Roy pointed to the towering barrier mountains behind him and said to Sabrina: "When we climb to that cliff, we may have a more beautiful scenery!"

As he said this, a griffon happened to glide over from the cliff, circled outside the range of the sky-shooting crossbow, and let out several shrill cries, as if it was demonstrating towards the barrier village, or as if it was demonstrating towards the barrier village. Provoking...

However, the residents here seemed to have been accustomed to it for a long time, and no one found anything surprising.

Roy discovered that there were actually several sky-shooting crossbows placed on some of the tallest and most lush trees in the village. At first, Roy thought there were only a few scattered crossbows, but when he counted them carefully, he discovered that there were also some shooting crossbows. The sky crossbows were hidden in the dense branches and leaves. The few sky crossbows he saw were just the tip of the iceberg.

The mixed-blood elves living here are indeed far away from the disputes in the elven world, but they have to face the harsh natural environment.

"Hey, this is how the elves live, and living here gives you the feeling of returning to nature. We are used to a comfortable life in Castletown, and we have probably forgotten what real jungle life is. These days Hiking in the jungle, I finally regained some of the feelings I had when I was young."

Instructor Virgil's voice came from the terrace of the tree house next door.

"Seeing that you are enjoying it so much, I will leave the task of exploring the path to you the day after tomorrow, so that you can deeply experience what it means to be close to nature, okay?" Instructor Eleanor's voice came out.

Instructor Vergil on the terrace next door was immediately silenced.