Path of light

Chapter 456 457. Return to the Plateau

After crossing a stretch of rolling hills, the gray dwarf prisoners of war arrived at the temporary camp at the foot of the plateau.

The temporary camp was built in a mountain col between two mountain ridges. It is just at the entrance to the Pagisto Plateau. Follow the winding mountain road in the mountain col behind and go all the way north to reach the southern part of the Pagisto Plateau.

A few months ago, the Silver Pegasus Legion withdrew from the Pagisto Plateau. In addition to leaving a valley camp on the plateau, there was also a camp left in the col entering the mountain pass.

The Silver Moon elves like a comfortable living environment no matter where they are, so even the temporary camps are well-built.

After more than half a month of trekking on foot, the gray dwarf prisoners of war arrived at the temporary camp here and still had to rest for two days before setting off.

Along the way, the mixed-blood elves and gray dwarf prisoners of war ate and lived together. There was almost no difference except that the feet of the gray dwarf prisoners were shackled.

These gray dwarves have thick skin and strong bodies. Even if they are walking on the mountain road with heavy shackles, they will not feel tired even if they walk for a long time at a stretch.

These mixed elves in the barrier town are not hostile to the gray dwarf prisoners of war. They even think that the gray dwarf prisoners of war are shackles and trekking on the mountain roads. Therefore, these gray dwarves have almost no weight on them.

And these gray dwarf prisoners of war also appeared to be extremely honest, completely different from the gray dwarf slaves Roy found in the mines, and they did not have the murderousness and cruelty in their eyes.

When resting along the way, the mixed-blood elf warriors would take the initiative to hand water bags to these gray dwarf prisoners of war, and occasionally even get an apple.

This is the first time for many mixed elves to come to the foot of the Pagisto Plateau. The mountains here are rolling. The higher peaks behind are almost blocked by the mountains in front, so they are far less majestic than the Griffin Barrier Mountains. There is still some distance between the top of the mountain and the clouds.

The mountain vegetation here is still very dense, and a touch of light green extends far away...

Standing on the platform in front of the barracks, looking at the rolling mountains behind, Roy turned to a mixed-blood elf warrior who was preparing for the trip and asked:

"The road ahead will be difficult. Do you regret coming here?"

The mixed elf warrior put down the wooden board in his hand, raised his head and said to Roy with a smile:

"Why should you regret it? It's a rare opportunity to go to the Pagisto Plateau and have a look. It's actually quite good! Life in the barrier town is also very good, but if you repeat the work every day, you will It feels very boring, Barrier Town is a huge cage, and I am a bird trapped in the cage."

A young mixed-blood elf warrior took the opportunity and said:

"I heard that Captain Herrick was fighting with the plateau natives in the northern part of the plateau. It would be great if I could go to the battlefield in the northern part of the plateau and take a look..."

"I also want to see how ferocious those natives are. I heard that they have black patterns on their faces, hold spears in their hands, ride argali, and can jump up and down the mountains and cliffs."

Everyone talked a lot about the plateau headhunters. Most of these things were described by the mixed-blood elf miners who ran down from the plateau. Nowadays, many of these miners have settled in Barrier Town. They talk about the plateau. Headhunters are as ferocious as demons from hell.

These mixed elf warriors regard Captain Helic as a hero and want to go to the northern part of the plateau to meet those plateau headhunters.

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In mid-February 1408, Roy led a thousand gray dwarf prisoners of war to leave the temporary camp at the mountain pass and marched towards the Pagisto Plateau again.

Because Lysander's pack team followed them along the way and had sufficient supplies, the gray dwarf prisoners of war only needed to conquer this extremely steep mountain road.

The road into Pagisto Plateau is difficult to walk. Most of the road is on the edge of the cliff. On one side is an icy rock wall, and rocks may roll down at any time. On the other side is the bottomless abyss. It is easy for the gray dwarf prisoners of war to escape from the team. They only need to jump.

The mixed-blood elf warriors who walked this road for the first time were all pale, but each of them rode argali. These argali walked on the rugged mountain road as if they were walking on flat ground.

Roy didn't expect that these gray dwarf prisoners of war were also very adaptable to the mountain roads here, and they walked steadily every step of the way.

It is the mountain road here that blocks the carriages from Padstow City and the caravans of the elves.

If merchants want to transport supplies to the Pagisto Plateau, in addition to putting them into magic pockets, they can only use pack teams to carry the supplies up.

Lysander was riding an argali, holding the reins with one hand and holding the curved horns with the other hand. He turned around and said to Roy behind him:

"It would be great if we could build a highway here. This road is simply too difficult to walk. It's better now that it's sunny. But if it's rainy, it'll be difficult to find shelter from the rain on this mountain road. The mountain road It's wet and slippery, so we can't stop on this mountain trail, which is less than one meter wide, otherwise it will be even more difficult at night. We have to bite the bullet and keep going forward. Occasionally, rocks will roll down from above our heads, which will be even more fatal..."

Roy glanced down the cliff. The steep mountain wall was bare and the valley bottom was full of rocks.

This is the second time he has walked this mountain road. Although he has made sufficient mental preparations, once he walks on this mountain road, he will still feel desperate...

This is a road with no end in sight. Each section of the road has strict distance restrictions. You can only stop and rest at every platform rest area.

"I heard that there is a magic airship created by goblins in Roland Continent. It can fly directly into the clouds and fly from one place to another. This magic airship looks like a large sea ship, with masts and sails on it. His abilities are also very outstanding..." Lysander said enviously.

"It would be great if Partington also had a magic airship. We could transport those magic furnaces directly to the plateau."

Roy struggled with this all the way.

The magic furnace that Claire got him was too big. He had been thinking about how to transport three sets of magic furnaces to the plateau. To be honest, it was a bit difficult.

With Roy's current level of knowledge, the easiest thing he could think of was to build a hot air balloon, and then rely on the wind to blow the balloon to the Pagisto Plateau. However, making a hot air balloon requires constant attempts, and Partington There is a wind layer at high altitude above, and if you are not careful, you can easily rush into the interlayer with turbulent airflow.

The hurricane carried away by the mezzanine is likely to tear the hot air balloon into pieces, and Roy does not have time to do this for the time being.

A griffin kept wandering close to the rock wall.

The griffin cavalry is giving them a path in the sky, and the griffin's location should be a platform rest area.

Roy knew that it was not too far from the resting platform.

When they arrived at the resting platform, Kaka and his griffon were already waiting there.

Roy described the magic airship to Kaka, and Kaka said to Roy with great yearning: "I want to go to Roland Continent to see it if I have the chance..."

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After this period of getting along, the gray dwarf prisoners of war discovered that these mixed elves were different from the previous Silver Moon elves.

The mixed elves don't have any hatred towards them.

Even though they have to walk a long mountain road every day, the gray dwarf prisoners of war have never been made trouble by the mixed elves, and the daily food distribution has not shrunk...

Gradually, both parties are also trying to communicate.

Although there is a language barrier, it is still possible to say a few words with gestures.

When the old dwarf craftsman was resting, he suggested to Roy: If this mountain road is the only way to reach the Pagisto Plateau, it should be repaired properly, and at least a row of iron should be nailed to the cliff. Ring, put on another chain...

In this case, traveling on this mountain road will become easier.

The method is very simple, but also very practical. Roy has so many mines in his hands. It is relatively simple to make some iron rings and steel drills at any one of them.

After walking on this road for nearly half a month, the gray dwarf prisoners of war finally passed the most steep mountain road and passed through a mossy mountainous area. The scenery in front of them immediately changed. The land here was flat and vast. , the clouds on the plateau are very low, which makes people feel a little depressed.

These mixed-blood elf warriors riding argali obviously didn't care much. Everyone rushed into the green-purple grass carpet, jumped off the argali, and then ran around on the soft tundra.

A group of gray dwarf prisoners of war also sat down one after another. They looked at the sky above their heads and the land in front of them, knowing clearly in their hearts that they would spend the rest of their lives here.

Lysander's pack team walked at the end. The argali sheep carried a large amount of supplies out of the valley. They stopped at the river five hundred meters away. The argali sheep not only wanted to drink water, but also rested by the river. In the pack team The mixed-blood elves have to lift the supplies from the argali and pile them together...

The first stop of Roy's gray dwarf prison camp and Lysander's pack team was a valley camp built by the Silver Moon elves on the Pagisto Plateau.

This is also an abandoned camp left by the Silver Pegasus Legion, but the buildings in the camp still exist. When the Silver Pegasus Legion withdrew, these temporary wooden houses were not demolished. All this time, these houses have been used as warehouses by Lysander. , store some supplies.

There are some mixed-blood elves living in the camp, and they all followed Lysander out of the mountains.

Roy brought the gray dwarf prisoners of war to the valley camp and found that the camp was actually very lively. There must be at least hundreds of mixed elves living here. Almost all the wooden houses were full of mixed elves. There was no way to accommodate the gray dwarf prisoners of war. In the wooden house, Roy could only set up some tents in the camp.

"Why are there so many mixed elves here?" After Roy settled the gray dwarf prisoners of war, he secretly ran over and asked Lysander.

"I just went to find out about it and found out that many of the mixed elves here are miners in the Nicobar Mountains. They were rescued by you from the mines in the Nicobar Mountains. They rested in the northern part of the plateau for a while and then started to go there. Going south, almost all the half-blood elves living in the camp are preparing to leave Pagisto Plateau with the pack team, so they will stay temporarily in the valley camp."

Lysander said to Roy, this is what he just learned.

The elven miners in the Nicobar Mountains want to live in Barrier Town, and they are here just to wait for Lysander's pack to leave the plateau, so they can accompany them.

Roy looked at the mixed elf warrior riding an argali behind him...

The mixed elves in the barrier town tried their best to come to live on the plateau, but the mixed elves miners in the Nicobar Mountains wanted to leave the plateau as soon as possible.

These gray dwarf prisoners of war did not stop at the three gem mines. They left the valley camp and walked to the mithril mines in the Sudarso Mountains. The two mithril mines in the Sudarso Mountains were managed by Qian Ning. , two mithril mines have been struggling to maintain operations because there are not enough miners.

This time Roy brought a thousand gray dwarf prisoners of war to the Sudarsonan mithril mine.

When arriving at the South Mithril Mine, Qian Ning led a group of mixed-blood elf warriors to wait at the gate of the South Mithril Mine Castle. The castle door was open, and the walls were filled with mixed-blood elves wearing standard armor.

Roy rode into the castle on horseback, and Qian Ning, wearing an exquisite white gauze dress, stepped forward in person and held the reins for Roy.

Since the two mixed-blood elves also brought a ladder covered with red carpet and placed it beside the horse, Roy jumped off the horse and immediately the mixed-blood elf maid handed over a warm towel to intervene.

Channing asked people to take the mixed-blood elf warriors to the guest rooms of the castle to rest, while the gray dwarf prisoners of war were arranged in the sheds of the mithril mine in the backyard.

"You are left with four hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war, can you control them?" Roy's first words after dismounting were to ask Qian Ning how many miners she needed.

"Okay." Qian Ning replied confidently.

Roy nodded, he liked Chan Ning's style of doing things very much.

Roy did not stop at the castle and followed Qian Ning directly to the mithril mine in the backyard. As he walked, he said:

"If the mine needs a mixed-blood elf guard, you can always mention it to me..."

"The South Mithril Mine has a mine guard team of 200 people, which can handle the current situation." Qian Ning said.

Roy walked to the magic furnace in the backyard, pointed to the furnace in front of him and asked Channing: "Do you know how the owner of the Sitney Mine transported this heavy magic furnace to the plateau? "

Qian Ning was stunned for a moment, and then thought: The only possibility for Roy to ask this is that he has already obtained the magic furnace, but he has encountered a problem and the magic furnace cannot be transported to the plateau.

Qian Ning frowned and thought about it seriously, and then said: "Father rarely talks to us about these things, but I have heard other people talk about the magic furnace before. It is said that in order to build this furnace To transport it to the plateau, my father hired a transport team."

"Lobato, do you still remember how my father brought this furnace up?" Chan Ning then asked the old gray dwarf miner next to the furnace.

The old gray dwarf miner named Lobato squeezed his wrinkled eyes hard and thought for a long time before saying:

"The transportation team hired by the owner of the Sitney Mine was not a transportation team, but a group of mixed elf adventurers. I don't know where they got a floating device. They asked a magician to control it. A floating device hoisted the furnace in the air, and then used a dozen argali to pull the floating magic furnace into the air, and successfully entered the Pagisto Plateau..."

Roy had never seen a flotation device, but based on the old gray dwarf miner's description, he probably knew what it was.