Path of light

Chapter 563 564. Mission of the Guard Group

Roy remembered that the last time he saw Miss Christine was at the final dance of Castletown Elf Academy at the beginning of the year.

"Christine, when you come to Padstow this time, you must let me show my kindness as a landlord no matter what!" Roy said to Miss Christine with a smile.

Miss Christine narrowed her eyes like a Persian cat squatting on the closet.

"Then... I want to see the night view of Padstow City." She opened her beautiful green eyes and whispered.

Roy pointed inside and said, "Then... let's talk after we finish!"

With that said, he stood at the door of Earl Swinburne's office and knocked on the door.

Miss Christine followed Roy and whispered to Roy:

"Hey, if he asks for anything later, agree to it more readily! He has been troubled a lot recently and his temper is a little bad..."

"..."

It felt like the hints given to me by Captain Berkeley and Miss Christine seemed to mean exactly the same thing.

With Miss Christine's prompt, Roy took a deep breath and slowly walked into Earl Swinburne's office.

Lord Swinburne was sitting behind his desk, flipping through a thick pile of information.

After seeing Roy, Earl Swinburne motioned Roy to sit down on the chair opposite the desk.

There was not even a polite opening greeting. Lord Swinburne put the information in his hand on the table, raised his head and said:

"Roy, the Legion currently has two missions."

Earl Swinburne looked at Roy and continued:

"The first mission is that the supply fleet of the Legion's Second Silver Pegasus Knights was intercepted in the Sheephorn Fjord, and the Legion needs to go to rescue immediately. Currently, the fifth and sixth Silver Pegasus Knights are already on the way to rescue. I want to Your mine guard group also took a boat to Sheephorn Fjord to assist the Fifth and Sixth Silver Pegasus Knights in the battle.

In the second mission, the outer islands of the Queen Egwene Islands require guard regiments to be garrisoned, and the specific location is in the Eastern Islands.

You can choose one of these two tasks..."

Because of the reminder from Captain Berkeley and Miss Christine, Roy said without thinking:

"Then I want to go to Giethoorn Fjord."

Earl Swinburne was a little surprised. He said to Roy:

"Tell me why you chose the first mission."

Do you still need to give a reason? Roy was a little dumbfounded. He chose the first task entirely because Earl Swinburne said a lot when introducing this task.

In addition, he speculated that the supply fleet that was intercepted by the gray dwarf bandits in Sheephorn Fjord was probably the elf army heading to Golfito.

"After the troubles in the Sheephorn Fjord are resolved, will we still have to go to Golfito to perform garrison duties?" Roy asked Earl Swinburne.

"right."

"Then I want to go to Giethoorn Fjord to join the battle."

Earl Swinburne hesitated for a moment. He originally hoped that Roy would agree to the second condition and lead the mine guard group to garrison on the outer islands of the Queen Ewinnie Islands.

Earl Swinburne asked again: "Roy, how many mixed-blood elf warriors can you draw from the Pagisto Plateau?"

"Probably three thousand mixed-blood elf warriors can be mobilized." Roy thought for a while and said.

Earl Swinburne shook his head and said, "I need you to bring at least five thousand mixed-blood elf warriors from the Pagisto Plateau."

Roy was a little embarrassed.

The battlefield he is going to this time is the Sheephorn Fjord, which is not anywhere on the Partington plane.

Once the headhunter prisoners of war in Plateau City launch a riot, this army will not be able to return to Plateau City at all.

Roy struggled for a moment before saying:

"The remaining mine guards cannot maintain the stability of the Pagisto Plateau. Lord Earl, I need to recruit some mixed-blood elf warriors to form a reserve group of the mine guards."

Earl Swinburne seemed to have expected Roy to say this, and agreed without thinking:

"Yes, but you still have to handle the military expenditures yourself. Can the revenue from the mines on the Pagisto Plateau be sustained?"

Roy nodded and replied frankly: "The revenue of the mines has been growing steadily recently, and some waste mines on the plateau will resume production one after another. Military expenditures are still sufficient."

Earl Swinburne asked: "How long does it take for the mine guards to arrive at Padstow in a magic airship?"

Roy replied: "I have to return to Plateau City to bring them out. It will take about three days."

Earl Swinburne continued: "You can go and prepare. The fleet will pick you up at the Partington Island Pier."

Roy didn't want to take a medium-sized sailing ship to the Sheephorn Fjord. The main reason was that the supply ships had almost no fighting power in front of the gray dwarf bandits' warships except for running faster.

So he said: "There are several three-masted sailing ships captured from the gray dwarves in the sheltered fjord of Partington Island. These sailing ships have been transformed into magic airships one after another. I want to take the three-masted sailing ship to the Sheephorn Fjord. "

Earl Swinburne knew that those ships were the trophies captured by Roy during the naval battle on the Queen Ewinnie Islands.

"Oh? Are you talking about the three-masted sailing ships you captured? If they have been transformed into magic airships, is it possible to sail in the air? In this case, we should be able to reach the Sheephorn Fjord soon."

Roy responded: "If these magic airships sail in the air, they have to find a suitable wind flow layer. In addition, the elves have always been resistant to this kind of magical technology products from the dwarf kingdom. I don't want to leave the magic airships in the elven continent, just for fear of causing trouble." Some bad remarks.”

Earl Swinburne waved his hand and said:

"You can ask the Silver Pegasus Knight to help you find a suitable romantic layer. As for your worry that the magic airship will be opposed by the Silver Moon Elf people, then find a route in the sea and prevent them from seeing it... Isn’t that good?”

"I can give it a try..." Roy agreed.

The conversation between Earl Swinburne and Roy ended quickly. After receiving the order, Roy needed to take the magic airship back to the plateau city as soon as possible.

As a result, the plan with Miss Christine to visit Padstow City at night was completely ruined.

Roy left Earl Swinburne's office and said apologetically to Miss Christine sitting outside:

"Sorry, Christine, I'm afraid I don't have time to accompany you around Padstow City. I'm going to take the magic airship back to the plateau city soon."

"It doesn't matter, there will be opportunities in the future."

Miss Christine was sitting on a chair outside, with a forced smile on her face.

Roy still remembers the first time he met Miss Christine. At that time, she was a Silver Moon Elf lady. Her eyes were filled with arrogance and pickiness. No matter where she went, she would assume a condescending attitude. .

She seems to have changed a lot in the past few days, her whole person has become extremely restrained, and her aristocratic aura has become gentler.

"Actually... do you want to go to Plateau City with me?"

Roy had already walked into the corridor, but in the end he couldn't help it... and asked back.

"May I?"

Miss Christine's eyes became a little bright.

"It will take about three days to return to Padstow City. Do you think the time allows?" Roy asked hesitantly.

In fact, he secretly regretted it. Wasn't this causing trouble for himself...

"I'm fine." Miss Christine responded readily.

"Then come with me!"

Having said this, Roy could only bite the bullet and agree.

…

When Miss Christine and Roy left the Silver Pegasus military headquarters on horseback, Earl Swinburne stood on the high terrace, holding the railings with both hands and watching them disappear into the gradually darkening streets.

The sky gradually darkened, and the mixed-blood elf porters on the airport terminal finished their work for the day and walked out of the airport terminal one after another.

A group of mixed-blood elf crew members were also mixed in the crowd, preparing to leave the airport terminal and go to the tavern outside to have a drink and relax.

Now there are some taverns in the city of Padstow. In addition to selling ale and fruit wine, these taverns even sell diluted tree sap of life. Adding a little bit of tree sap of life to the wine will make the elves It quickly relieves physical fatigue and is very popular among elves.

Before these mixed-blood elf crew members could walk out of the airport terminal, they saw Roy and a Silver Moon elf lady holding horses standing in front of the airport terminal gate.

When Roy saw the mixed-blood elf crew, he immediately waved to them and ordered: "You guys go and find all the members on the ship immediately. Where is your captain?"

"The captain is still on the airship!" a half-blood elf crew member replied.

Roy put the reins into his hands and led Miss Christine up to the platform along the spiral staircase built around the oak tree.

Sure enough, the captain was on the deck, checking the cables of the airship's sail one by one. When he saw Roy walking from the platform to the deck, he immediately stopped what he was doing and saluted Roy.

"I have an urgent mission to gather all the crew members immediately. I want to go to the plateau city immediately."

Roy said to the half-blood elf captain.

The crew was quickly called back. As the flotation devices were activated one after another, the crew untied the cables tied to the platform, and the magic airship slowly climbed to high altitude.

Roy and Miss Christine stood on the side of the boat.

The sea of ​​trees in Padstow City is hidden in darkness. Those lights are like stars in the night sky. Everywhere that lights up, there is a tree house...

…

When entering the romantic layer, Miss Christine still felt it was quite novel.

She stood on the deck with a thin blanket around her, looking curiously at the huge spinnaker that held the entire magic airship. She even wanted to climb to the high observation deck...

It was already noon the next day when the magic airship arrived at the plateau city.

It was the first time for Miss Christine to live in such a narrow cabin. She slept very well that night. She lifted the blanket over her head and saw that it was particularly dazzling outside the window.

There were clanging sounds on the deck of the airship, and even the crew’s noisy shouts:

"Starboard, the output of the flotation device on the starboard side has decreased a bit, and the hull is tilting a bit!"

"Hurry up and furl the sails! Why are you still dawdling there..."

Miss Christine sat up from the bed and hit her head on the ceiling without any accident.

She quickly lowered her head, jumped off the bed lightly, and then ran barefoot to the round window. Looking out through the window, she saw that the magic airship was sinking continuously, and was about to sink into the thick air. In the sea of ​​clouds.

Then, the glass window was shrouded in thick fog, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Miss Christine sat on the empty lower bunk, put on the magic pattern structure of the thorn-tailed crystal lion skin, combed her hair carefully, then pushed open the cabin door and walked out.

…

"You actually built a city here?"

Miss Christine gathered her long hair that was blown by the wind and looked at the city on the edge of the vast wilderness. The dozens of meters high city wall formed a solid barrier.

Roy smiled and shook his head and said:

"For the elves, a place without the Tree of Life cannot be called a city at all."

"Are those the headhunters of the Pagisto Plateau?"

Miss Christine pointed to the headhunter prisoners who were carrying a pile of hollow bricks on their shoulders and climbing up to the roof step by step along the sampan on the scaffolding.

"Yes, don't look at them pitifully now, they were the nightmare of countless half-blood elves on the Padstow Plateau."

Roy leaned his hands on the side of the ship, looked at the headhunter prisoners who were drowsy under the scorching sun, and continued to introduce:

"At that time, just after the Padstow Plateau was completely out of the control of Baron Alvis, the mine owners on the plateau had a huge gap in demand for miners, and the refined metal ingots could only be piled up in the warehouse. In order to maintain the normal operation of the mine, some mine owners continued to add elven miners.

At that time, the city of Padstow was occupied by the Silver Pegasus Legion, and those mine owners were afraid to avoid it, and did not dare to go to the city of Padstow.

So they set their sights on these plateau headhunters. After building enough trust with the plateau headhunters, the mine owners commissioned the plateau headhunters to hunt the half-blood elves.

Soon the headhunters started slave hunting on the Pagisto Plateau.

At the beginning, their targets were basically half-blood elves living alone in the wild valleys.

Later, when such solitary half-blood elves could not be found, they began to focus on the elf villages with only a few residents, capturing strong male elves, killing old elves and children directly, and then burning the entire village. "

Miss Christine's pupils shrank slightly, and she was a little short of breath in fear.

Living on the elf continent, she had never seen such a cruel thing even though she had experienced the naval battle of Queen Ewenni Islands.

"How could they do such a thing...?"

"Don't you understand why they are so cruel? In fact, this is also the law of the jungle. "

Roy said calmly.

In fact, he also told about the fights that took place in the spinel mines. If Miss Christine had heard those stories, I wonder what she would think...

A group of half-blood elves were waiting on the platform of the airport terminal.

The half-blood elf captain hung a flag on the ship's tower. On the fluttering flag was embroidered a simple symbol in the shape of a hill.