Path of light

Chapter 519 520. Promotion

Claire has a wide network of contacts in Castletown City, and she also has some friends in the mercenary union.

Soon some news came from the mercenary union:

In fact, there are not many second-level masters registered in the Castletown Mercenary Union. Most of the second-level masters of the Silver Moon Elf were recruited by the military and became members of the regular Silver Moon Elf Legion. The rest The powerful second-level elves will also be recruited by the upper elf nobles.

Therefore, there are only a handful of second-level experts who can form mercenary groups. This type of mercenary group undertakes a wide range of tasks, and is also very popular among the mercenary unions.

Almost all of the mercenary groups with second-level experts are performing tasks outside.

Currently, there is no mercenary group in the Castletown Mercenary Union that agrees with Roy's request...

Even so, Claire still heard a piece of news from someone inside the mercenary union.

There is a second-level expert who currently lives in the lower town of Castletown.

He was originally a member of a mercenary group, but that adventure group has now been completely disbanded, and the second-level expert is living a life of intoxication in the city.

Claire heard the news and ran to Brown Street to find Roy.

The two of them were going to the second-level strongman's residence and asked him for help...

According to the address written on the note that Claire took out, Roy found that the address above was actually the pub at the end of Brown Street, which left Roy somewhat speechless.

Roy still clearly remembered that when he was working part-time as a guide seven years ago, he took a group of sailors to the tavern. The group of sailors killed Jefferson in the tavern and then escaped...

From then on, Roy almost never came to this pub.

Now he and Claire were standing at the door of the tavern again. For a moment, Roy felt like he was in another world, and those long-dusted memories seemed to be slowly awakening again.

"What's wrong, Roy, let's go in!" Claire stood at the door of the pub, looking at the simple door number and the old wooden corridor, and said to Roy.

"Okay!" Roy quickly sorted out his still messy thoughts and agreed.

Passing through the corridor like a covered bridge and walking into the tavern from the terrace, the interior furnishings of this tavern have not changed.

The owner of the tavern has not changed at all. He is still sitting behind the bar and dozing off. There is only one waitress standing at the bar to greet the guests.

"I didn't expect this pub to be so close to your home..."

Claire complained to Roy as she walked.

"I didn't expect that there was actually a Level 2 expert living in seclusion nearby! Haha." Roy laughed dryly. He looked around and saw that the tavern was still so deserted and there were only a handful of drinkers in the tavern.

Roy glanced around casually from the corner of his eye and discovered that Duke, the owner of Brown Street Grocery Store, was actually drinking here.

He was obviously drunk. He was sitting alone in the corner. The wine bottle in front of him was mostly empty. There was also a plate of dried fish on the table.

Boss Duke took a sip from a small glass of rum, squinting his eyes and looking a little comfortable.

Roy stopped and quickly said hello to the Duke boss.

In any case, Boss Duke can be regarded as half of Roy's teacher. He not only taught him how to drive a flying fish boat to the sea, but also taught him how to fish on the beach, which brought him a lot of happiness in his childhood...

Come on, Duke heard Roy's voice and raised his head. When he saw Roy, he opened his eyes slightly. With a hint of drunkenness, he asked Roy to sit down and said to him:

"Roy, long time no see. I heard that you went to the Partington plane to develop?"

"Well, I manage several mines on the plateau for the Silver Pegasus Army." Roy replied, sitting down opposite Boss Duke, and introduced to Boss Duke: "This is my good friend Wagner Claire. ”

Boss Duke saw that Claire was a Silver Moon Elf, so he just nodded to him and didn't say anything. Instead, he asked Roy:

"I've heard some things coming out of the Partington plane. I heard that some Silver Moon Elf nobles were selling slaves there... and they ended up making a big fuss and were wiped out by the Silver Pegasus Legion?"

Roy didn't expect that when news of the Partington plane reached Castletown City, it would become like this.

He quickly told Boss Duke a brief summary of the major events that have occurred in the Partington plane in recent years, including the 'Silver Moon Elf Noble Slave Trade', the oppressed mixed-blood elves riots, and the Silver Pegasus Legion taking the opportunity to go to Paltington. The chaos in the Tinton plane was put down, the naval battle on the Queen Egwene Islands broke out, and the plateau headhunters took the opportunity to take revenge on the mixed elves. In order to resist the headhunters, the mixed elves in the Partington plane formed a guard army, etc.

Almost every event could be told at length, but Roy only gives a brief introduction.

Boss Duke listened with some interest. At this time, he had sobered up a little and was drinking a glass of lemon tea with ice cubes...

"So you had such a wonderful time in the Partington plane!" Boss Duke said to Roy with a smile.

Roy smiled bitterly and said: "After all, the Partington plane is not Castletown in the Elf Continent. How can life there be so simple? This time I encountered a problem, so I wanted to invite someone to Castletown. A Level 2 expert is going over there to help."

After saying this, Roy approached the Duke boss and lowered his voice and said to him: "I heard that there is a strong second-level player here, so we came here to try our luck."

The Duke boss opened his eyes and hesitated for a moment before asking: "Um, are you here to see Byron?"

Roy nodded quickly.

He had just entered the tavern and was still worried about how he could find Byron Thor, whom he had never met before, in the tavern.

Now, when Roy heard what Duke boss said, he immediately asked: "...Byron Thor, Duke boss, do you know him?"

Boss Duke curled his lips and snorted: "We have been old friends for many years, but if you ask him for help, I guess you will be disappointed this time. This guy has been in a bad mood recently and often curses people for no reason. If you lose your temper, you may need to self-regulate for a while before you can return to normal!”

Roy didn't expect the Duke boss to say this, and said quickly:

"Ah! Even so, I still want to try."

"Look, that's..." Boss Duke saw that Roy insisted on meeting Byron Thor, so he could only say to the mixed elf sitting back to back with him at another wine table: "Byron, there is a Young friends want to chat with you!”

…

The mixed-blood elf looked a little slovenly, with messy hair and a strong smell of alcohol.

He sat back in his chair without saying a word, and seemed to have no sense of existence.

If Boss Duke hadn't reminded Roy, Roy wouldn't have even noticed that there was an elf sitting behind Boss Duke.

He drank in silence, seemingly turning a deaf ear to what the Duke boss said.

He didn't even raise his head, and ignored Roy and Claire at all.

Roy walked over, looked at Claire, stood in front of Byron Thor and said very formally:

"Hello, Lord Byron Thor, I am Roy, the mine owner from the Pagisto Plateau in the Partington plane. I would like to ask for your help..."

"Go away!"

This short word burst out from Byron Duke's mouth, and it sounded murderous. Roy had a strong feeling that this guy was a murderer who came out of the battlefield.

Although he is a mixed-blood elf, the bloodshot eyes hidden under his short hair are full of murderous intent...

Roy took half a step back.

"Byron, where has your grace gone?" Boss Duke's voice came from the side, resolving Byron Thor's hostility.

Byron Thor smiled coldly and responded: "It's buried in the dark place, haha."

Boss Duke sighed: "You always have to try to come out..."

"Don't talk to me, just leave me alone."

Byron Thor grabbed the wine bottle on the table, stood up and walked out of the tavern.

By the time Roy and Claire chased him out, Byron Thor was already gone.

…

Roy didn't expect to come to visit this second-level powerhouse. He didn't have a chance to say a word and was rejected.

Claire's face didn't look very good either. He was now considered a celebrity in Castletown. Not only was he ignored by the Duke boss, but Byron Thor didn't even look at him.

Unable to successfully invite this second-level powerhouse, Roy and Claire could only leave the tavern disappointed.

Claire stepped in front of the carriage and said to Roy:

"I will go to other Silver Moon Elf nobles to inquire. I heard that many second-level strong men are working for them. If that doesn't work... I will go to the mercenary union in Buenos to hire second-level strong men for only a fee. Given enough, it should be easier to hire a second-level expert over there.”

Roy was also a little depressed. What he thought he could do with a sum of magic crystals turned out to be a failure.

"Remuneration is not an issue!"

"I'm going to have a misunderstanding tonight, so I'm leaving first."

Claire climbed into the carriage and waved goodbye to Roy.

…

Roy didn't even know where these merchants from the imperial merchant ship found out about him, and they were standing outside the yard.

A row of horse-drawn carriages were parked on the opposite side of the Danne River.

When Roy walked to the door, these imperial businessmen saw Roy and immediately swarmed around him.

They knew that Roy was a junior magic herbal medicine dealer in Castletown. As soon as they gathered around him, they greeted Roy warmly:

"Boss Roy, I am a magic herbal medicine dealer in the Green Empire. If you have low-level magic herbs for sale, please consider us. Our firm is looking forward to cooperating with you!"

"Boss Roy, you should also consider our firm! Our firm supports barter, and all goods shipped from the Green Empire can be sold at a low price..."

"Boss Roy, I think you should select a few more junior magic herbal medicine dealers. We can also become one of the magic herbal medicine purchasers, and our quotation will definitely be the highest price..."

Roy stood at the door of his home and waited for a moment.

After all the imperial merchants had revealed their identities, Roy breathed a sigh of relief before refusing:

"Currently, the contract for this business has been signed. I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation next time..."

Roy stood at the door of the courtyard and politely refused.

After a group of imperial businessmen listened to the translated words, they all left in carriages with great frustration.

Roy opened the far door and walked in. Tomorrow, he planned to take a supply ship to Partington Island with Moira, Sabrina, and Woods. Here, the matter of hiring the second-level strongmen in the mercenary group would be started. Claire is solely responsible.

Moira and Sabrina spent the whole day preparing things for the trip.

The two of them ran to Magic Shopping Street in Uptown District in the afternoon, and they haven't come back yet...

Roy picked up two apples and lay down on the wicker chair on the terrace. Recently, he felt that the sacred power in his body was always ready to move.

But every time he carefully felt what it felt like, that wonderful feeling disappeared without a trace...

There are several pots of flowers of light on the terrace, and Roy's lounge chair is right in the middle of the flower pots.

He originally thought he would need to purify a few more demons before he could find a breakthrough.

But now Roy only feels that the rich holy light has almost made the entire body translucent. As the power of the holy light is peeled off from the body like a spring silkworm spinning silk, a layer of light cocoon is formed around the body. .

Roy finally realized that he might break through the shackles of the tenth-level priest tonight and be promoted to a first-level great priest.

There was originally a sacred tree condensed in his body, but now this tree of holy light was actually wrapped in a vortex formed by the breath of holy light. Roy's body burst out with countless holy lights, and countless particles of holy light floated in the air around the small courtyard. , at this moment, they continued to gather towards the tree of holy light in Roy's body.

The light cocoon outside Roy's body is getting thicker and thicker...

Roy, who was trapped in the light cocoon, didn't need to breathe, and couldn't feel a trace of suffocation inside.

And Roy felt as if his body was about to be assimilated by countless holy lights and become transparent, and the tree of holy light was also rapidly growing countless branches and leaves. The power of these holy lights kept rotating around Roy...

The next moment, he saw from countless strange and sacred auras that the world in front of him seemed to be changing.

In Roy's eyes, all the colors seemed to become extremely bright, and the extremely small sounds around him could be transmitted to his ears without any hindrance. The surrounding magic vortex continued to shrink and slowly condensed in Roy's body.

It is an extremely natural and wonderful feeling that comes naturally.

The tree of holy light in his body seemed to have disappeared, and seemed to be integrated with him.

Around Roy's body, a naturally formed magic vortex had taken shape, and the leafy tree also appeared behind Roy when Roy's belief moved.

This tree of holy light no longer only has nine root systems, but also has lush branches and leaves on the crown.

At this time, the roots of the big tree were wrapped in the whirlpool outside the body, and sacred light continued to penetrate into the sacred tree.

Roy stood on the terrace with a surprised look on his face. Looking at himself who had successfully advanced, Roy stretched out his right hand. With a slight movement of faith, a dazzling white light appeared in the palm of his hand.

What surprised Roy even more when he arrived was...the tree of holy light that was integrated with his body actually bloomed at this moment...