Path of light

Chapter 261 262. Secret

There were three carriages parked outside the hotel, a group of elven guards on horseback waiting outside, and a group of Silver Moon elven archers standing at the outermost perimeter.

There were many elves watching the fun around, and everyone was pointing at Roy and the others, not knowing what they were talking about.

The instructors boarded a carriage one after another, and the elf guard stood outside the carriage and closed the carriage door.

A group of elven guards walked at the front of the team, and elven archers followed on both sides of the carriage, surrounding the three carriages.

The expressions of the instructors became very ugly, especially instructor Virgil, who was sitting in the carriage and asked nervously:

"Instructor Nora, what's going on? Didn't we help them destroy a slave trader's den? Now how do we say that we broke into the apple orchard for no reason and arrested the farmers in the apple orchard privately? That Jones is not a slave trader. ?"

Instructor Nora lowered his head and said in great depression: "We seem to have fallen into a trap. These elf guards and Jones colluded to deceive us."

Instructor Eleanor sat next to Instructor Nora, glanced at the rear window of the carriage, and then said:

"Now these elf guards have even invited officials from the trial court to take us to the scene in the apple orchard and convict us."

When Instructor Virgil heard what Instructor Eleanor said, he suddenly became anxious and whispered:

"Then why should we go with them?"

"A whole team of elf guards are waiting outside the hotel, and there is also a group of archers outside. Where else can we run?" Instructor Eleanor asked in a low voice. "Besides, if you don't go to the scene and take a look, how would you know who it is? It's so powerful that it can collude with the elf guards and slave traders in Padstow City!"

"But next... what should we do?" Instructor Virgil complained softly.

Instructor Eleanor said nonchalantly:

"You are a Silver Moon Elf, what do you have to worry about? I guess what they want most now is for us to resist, and then arrest us for resisting arrest."

Instructor Gru muttered to the side: "Now I hope that the Padstow City Council of Elders will know about this."

"On the carriage behind, it seems that the officials of the trial office are also their people." Instructor Nora's face became even more gloomy when he said these words.

"We really shouldn't trust those elven guards..."

Instructor Virgil said with great regret.

…

The team quickly left the city and arrived at the apple orchard. The wooden house by the river still retained traces of last night's fight.

However, the only difference is that the entrance is hidden in the basement behind the stairwell. The originally smelly basement was filled with iron cages, which were evidence of their slave trade.

But now...

Overnight, the prison-like basement miraculously turned into a wine cellar, a cellar filled with oak barrels of cider.

There wasn't even a trace of odor inside, just a faint aroma of wine.

Even the walls are different from last night. Some black pebbles are neatly arranged together, and the gaps are filled with mortar.

The bodies of the five slave traders were still lying in the living room, but they were no longer wrapped in blankets. The leather armor and swords on their bodies had disappeared, and they were only wearing thin linen clothes. These dead people A slave trader suddenly became a farmer in an apple orchard.

After the elf guards brought all the members of the adventure group into the wooden house, the three officials of the trial also walked into the dilapidated wooden house surrounded by the elf guards.

Instructor Nora's face turned ugly, and the other instructors were also a little dumbfounded. Originally, they thought that even if these slave traders would clean up the scene, they would not be able to clean the basement, and there would always be some clues left!

I also plan to look for the escaped mixed-blood elves around the apple orchard.

When everyone came to the apple orchard, they discovered that... obviously they couldn't do this.

The three trial officials walked around the riverside wooden house and looked at Instructor Nora with questioning eyes.

They were wearing the uniforms of the judges of the trial court, and they all wore the badge of the Council of Elders on their chests, and they were looking at every member of the adventure group.

An elf guard captain stood in front of Instructor Nora, with a straight face, and said to her:

"Now we suspect that you have killed five farmers for no reason in the apple orchard, so... next, please follow us back to the guard team for investigation."

Instructor Eleanor stood up. She was a Silver Moon Elf. She stood in front of Instructor Nora calmly. She calmly took out the Elf Academy badge, put it on her chest, and said to the Elf Guard Captain:

“We are instructors at the Castletown Elf Academy and have the right not to accept unfair investigations from the Padstow Guards.

Yesterday we handed over two slave traders to you, one is Mr. Jones, and the other is the human magician Benjamin on the Kumquat. Now... please hand over this magician Benjamin to us. We are ready to Return to Castletown.

Where is Benjamin the Magician now?

He will face a trial before the Castletown Council of Elders. He should still be locked up in the guardhouse, right? "

After saying that, instructor Eleanor looked at the elf guard captain with sharp eyes.

The elf guard captain was a little confused. Seeing the other party reveal his identity, he didn't know what to do for a moment.

Teachers at the Elf Academy are considered a special class with a certain social status in the Elf Kingdom.

The elf guard captain could only bite the bullet and say:

"In fact... this Benjamin Magician, we don't have any evidence that he is a slave trader, so we have acquitted him."

Instructor Eleanor saw that the guard captain had lost his previous aggressive aura, and turned to look at the three trial officials. His eyes continued to fall on the guard captain, and he said reluctantly:

"In Castletown City, the wanted notice for Benjamin Magician is posted on the bulletin board at the door of almost every guard team. As the elf guards of Padstow City, why did you let him go without doing any investigation? Already?"

Instructor Virgil took the opportunity to come out from behind, patted Eleanor on the shoulder, and said, "Okay, Eleanor, let's go."

The two instructors turned around and wanted to walk out of the wooden house. A group of elf guards guarding the outside of the wooden house immediately surrounded them and pointed their swords at instructors Virgil and Eleanor.

The elven archers all around also raised their longbows and placed an arrow on the bowstring, but did not draw it.

The scene suddenly became tense...

Roy even saw Instructor Nora secretly giving him, Sabrina, and Miss Christine secret signals to prepare for a breakout.

But at this moment, Miss Christine walked out from behind Instructor Nora.

She put on an extremely arrogant posture, glanced at the officials of the trial court in the wooden house, then walked up to the elf guards, put a badge of the Silver Moon Elf nobles on her chest, and looked at the elves in front of her expressionlessly. The guards said:

"I am Christine Swinburne. You are now... holding the weapons in your hands and pointing at a member of the Swinburne family. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Her voice was calm and gentle, but it made the expressions of the three trial officials behind her change drastically.

A court official came out in a hurry, glanced at the silver badge on Christine's chest, and immediately shouted:

"Put down your weapons, everyone, put down your weapons. This is the lady of the Swinburne family. Hurry up and put down your weapons..."

As expected, the elven guards put down their weapons one after another, and the elven archers around them also took the opportunity to put down their long bows.

Only then did Miss Christine turn her head and respectfully asked Instructor Nora:

"Instructor Nora, do we want to leave here?"

Instructor Nora raised his head, sorted out his bad mood, and said to the members of the adventure group: "Let's go back to Castletown..."

Everyone got on the same carriage and then left the apple orchard.

…

The apple orchard fell into a strange silence.

The court official walked into the depths of the apple orchard alone with a cold face, and boarded the carriage parked under the apple tree with an expressionless face.

Lord Alves sat on the carriage, looked coldly at the deputy presiding judge of the trial court in front of him, and said in a cold voice:

"Didn't we agree? After bringing them here, let the elf guards control them all. Lord Raphael, how did you let them go?"

The words were full of doubts.

Deputy Judge Raphael let out a dry laugh in his throat, and then his smiling face suddenly turned cold, and he said to Alves:

"Alves, I promised you that within the scope of my authority, I can close one eye and let you do whatever you want in Padstow City, but this does not mean that you can provoke the elven nobles of the Elf Continent! This time your people have caused trouble, I hope you can handle everything properly before the investigation team sent from above arrives at Padstow, and don’t let the elves of the investigation team grab your little tail.”

Alves was a little surprised: "I provoked the elf nobles? Aren't they a group of elf academy instructors?"

Deputy Judge Rafael coughed slightly again, as if he had to cough every time he spoke.

"There is a young Silver Moon Elf among them, a young lady from the Swinburne family. I think you should know that the Swinburne family currently controls at least three Silver Pegasus regiments. I also believe you don't want those Silver Pegasus warriors to come to Pagoda. Conducting military exercises on the Tinton plane..." Deputy Judge Raphael said.

Alves was still a little unconvinced and said: "We should have kept them all just now!"

Deputy Judge Raphael coughed violently again. He took out his handkerchief and wiped his purple lips, then he snorted and said:

"Stop dreaming. The elf guards of the guard team and your archers have no way of keeping these instructors. As long as one elf among them successfully escapes, we will all be implicated. If the Silver Pegasus of the Seventeenth Army is allowed to The legion enters the Partington plane, and none of us have any good fruits to eat.”

Alves stared hard at Deputy Judge Raphael’s face and said:

"So you just let them go and let me deal with this mess?"

Deputy Judge Raphael laughed dryly again and said:

"This is the mess you made in the first place. Clean up this mess quickly and don't bring us unnecessary trouble. Padstow City cannot withstand any major shock..."

Alves rubbed his face with his hands helplessly, and his voice became slightly softer:

"I know, it's really troublesome."