Path of light

Chapter 688 689. Hunting

The sea breeze gradually dispersed the morning fog

Jiezena stood on the rocks and looked towards the outlet of Sun Island Bay. A fleet of three-masted sailing ships was taking advantage of the morning fog to rush out of the bay and sail along the west coast at full speed. .

Groups of mixed-blood elf warriors stood on the deck, and there were a large number of gryphon cavalry hovering above the sailing ship.

Jiezena sighed softly. When Tiffany came to visit her yesterday, she had already made it so straightforward. Unexpectedly, she still could not get Captain Roy to give up this exploration operation.

Seeing the fleet moving along the west coast in a mighty way, Zhezena plunged into the sea, preparing to have a good sleep at the bottom of the sea.

Since this kind of thing can't be stopped, let them experience it. If Captain Roy's fleet is really destroyed in the western sea, then she will take her group of murlocs back to Sun Island to live... …

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Instead of traveling on a boat, Miss Tiffany transformed into a Naga mermaid and swam with the fleet in the sea. When she got tired, she would climb back to the boat to rest. This kind of sea life made Tiffany very happy. Miss Ni feels very strange.

A fleet of nine three-masted sailing ships formed a line, with Captain Keller, the most experienced sailor, driving Magic Airship No. 6 at the front of the group...

The busiest thing on the ship is not the crew manipulating the sails, but the gryphon cavalry wandering in the sky. They are responsible for the vigilance of the entire fleet and always fly in circles over the fleet.

According to Boss Roy's instructions, these griffin cavalry also had to explore the surrounding sea and land. They became very busy from the moment they left Sun Island Bay.

In fact, Roy just wanted to take a boat to explore outside, and had no intention of leading the mixed-blood elf guard warriors to continue to expand territory and expand the territory of the elves.

Because the areas of Padstow Forest, Padisto Plateau and Sun Island Bay are enough for the mixed elves to live in, and the mixed elves are currently developing the Blackwater Swamp, so he has no plans to continue to open up Partington. plane.

This time, Roy led the fleet to the west. He wanted to know what kind of danger there was on the west side of Sun Island Bay, whether it was plane natives like plateau headhunters, or advanced monsters like blackwater swamp dragonflies...

Miss Tiffany met with the sea monster Zezena last night. When she came back, she told Roy that the western sea area was divided into countless power territories by the sea monster priests...

If the fleet rushes into the western waters, it is likely to be mercilessly attacked by the sea beast priests.

So this time Roy planned the fleet route to be close to the coastline. In fact, there are some disadvantages to sailing on the sea like this...

The biggest trouble is the area close to the coastline. The fleet will face numerous reefs, and issues such as tides and strandings must also be considered. In order to prevent the fleet from stranding when sailing close to the coastline, Roy asked the gryphon cavalry to fly around the fleet as much as possible. Provide advance warning for those reefs on the waterway.

Of course, the gryphon cavalry can only look down at the sea from above. Some reefs are hidden under the sea surface, and it is difficult for the gryphon cavalry to find them.

This kind of reef group relies on Miss Tiffany to give some early warning.

And this fleet will only sail during the day. Once it gets dark, the fleet will anchor close to the coast.

In this way, the fleet sailed for seven days after leaving Sun Island Bay. This was the edge of the area explored by the gryphon cavalry. The landforms in front of it changed greatly. Countless round stone pillars hundreds of meters high rose from the ground. These The stone pillars are not straight upward. Each stone pillar is like countless huge pancakes stacked on top of each other.

The diameter of these large stone pillars can be several hundred meters, while the diameter of small stone pillars can be tens of meters, and their heights are almost the same...

When the sea breeze blows into this stone forest, it will continuously make a wailing sound...

This piece of stone pillars extends far west along the coastline.

At present, the griffin cavalry have not been able to explore the end of the stone forest area. They only know that behind this stone forest is a virgin forest. When the griffins fly to the edge of the stone pillar, they dare not fly forward anymore. The virgin forest is even more distant from the stone forest. Unexplored.

The main reason is that there is a group of third-level monsters living in the canyon here. They are wind snakes that live in groups...

The wind snakes in Stone Pillar Canyon have always been the old enemies of the griffins in the Barrier Mountains.

Roy stood on the deck of the magic airship at the front, looking towards the land at the edge of the coastline. Those hundred-meter-high stone pillars were like stone giants, standing on the coastline.

"Kaka, I heard that there are many wind snakes living in this stone forest?" Roy asked Kaka.

This time they took a boat to explore the west. Kaka and Little Eugene led their respective cavalry squadrons and traveled westward with the fleet...

"Yes, these wind snakes are level three monsters, and there are a lot of them. Little Eugene and I have been here before. We wanted to hunt a few wind snakes and bring them back. Unfortunately, we failed. Little Eugene was bitten by a wind snake. "If we hadn't run fast and fled back to the village quickly, little Eugene would have died on the way," Kaka said to Roy with lingering fear.

Little Eugene was chatting with Leah on the roof of the ship at this time.

"Are these wind snakes difficult to hunt?" Roy asked Kaka.

"Yeah!" Kaka responded, and then said:

"These wind snakes like to build their nests on stone pillars. They live in groups in the stone pillar canyons. We have tried many hunting methods, but unfortunately none of them worked."

Kaka looked a little embarrassed.

"The adult wind snake is about seven or eight meters long, with a pair of wings growing on its back. It is very good at gliding in the air. They usually don't fly very fast. When they want to escape, they just need to fold their wings and they will fall like a sharp arrow."

"When there is wind, they will also fly with the wind. How high these wind snakes can fly depends on how high the wind can blow them."

"If they are in an open area, the griffins can easily defeat these wind snakes, but in this stone forest, the griffins are no match for the wind snakes. The wind snakes are flexible and as hard as black iron. They are extremely powerful. As long as the wind snakes entangle the griffins, the griffins will be entangled to death by the wind snakes unless they use the 'iron will'..."

"If they didn't fly into the stone pillar forest on a griffin, ordinary adventure groups would never get close to the wind snakes..."

Kaka knows these wind snakes very well and seems to have done a lot of homework.

"Let the fleet anchor in this area tonight. Let everyone be careful and don't let the wind snakes in the stone pillar forest take them as prey." Roy instructed Captain Keller.

Captain Keller quickly agreed and turned to make arrangements.

"So your exploration ended here because of the wind snakes in the valley?" Roy asked Kaka.

"Although it's a bit difficult to say, it's true!" Kaka responded a little embarrassedly.

"These wind snakes are third-level magic beasts. Are the magic materials on them valuable in the magic market?" Roy turned his head and asked Claire who was studying the whale hunting crossbow.

Claire held the control handle with one hand and answered without thinking:

"The feathers on the wings are the main material for making wind-controlling arrows. Venomous fangs, poison sacs, and snake skins are all quite valuable."

He has been helping Roy deal with a large amount of magic metals and magic herbs in recent years. Many high-level magic beast materials are also handled by Claire, so he is also very familiar with these magic beast materials.

Woods, Moira and Sabrina were also discussing the whaling crossbow at the bow, and heard Roy, Kaka and Claire talking about wind snakes.

Woods couldn't help but ask Roy:

"Roy, you are not going to attack those wind snakes, are you?"

Roy nodded and said:

"...Yes, I want to try it. These wind snakes are too close to the Sun Island Bay. I don't want a large group of wind snakes to rush into the Sun Island Bay one day and catch me off guard."

"They are flying monsters that live in groups. How can we deal with them?" Woods asked with some doubts.

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Not long after, Woods' question was answered.

The floating devices of the nine magic airships were all activated, and then these magic airships with retracted sails floated into the air. The magic airships did not fly into the wind flow layer, but hovered at a position higher than the Stone Pillar Mountain.

Then the propulsion device at the stern of the magic airship was activated, pushing the magic airship to slowly move above the Stone Pillar Mountain.

At least three hundred half-blood elves holding longbows stood on the sides of each magic airship. They looked down from above, holding elven longbows and crowded together. From a distance, each magic airship was densely packed with people.

There were also a large number of griffin cavalrymen wandering around the magic airships...

Such a big noise naturally alarmed the wind snakes hidden in the stone pillar forest. In the chaos, these wind snakes came out from the gaps in the stone pillars. They had already felt the dangerous atmosphere brought by these magic airships.

These wind snakes spread their wings behind them, and their long snake bodies kept twisting, and they could actually fly high.

They were the overlords of the stone pillar forest area. They had no fear of the magic airships that suddenly appeared. Hundreds of wind snakes flew towards the magic airships.

Roy stood on the observation deck of the main mast of the first magic airship, holding a flag in his hand. When he saw that these wind snakes had flown into the range of the elf archers, he immediately waved the flag in his hand.

The next second, countless arrows fell from both sides of the magic airship.

The arrows shot by the elves from above hit the wind snakes one after another, leaving them with arrows...

The groups of wind snakes would naturally not retreat. They could manipulate the power of the wind. When flapping their wings, the magic patterns hidden on many wind snakes lit up one after another. Tornadoes formed in front of the wind snakes and then rolled towards the magic airships in the sky...

The fierce force of the wind made the magic airships shake violently and continue to rise to the sky.

When these magic airships were blown up more than 20 meters by the wind, the wind power exerted by the wind snakes had no power.

One after another, whirlwinds flew out of the stone pillar forest, but they could not affect the magic airships floating in the sky.

This group of wind snakes, regardless of everything, faced the densely falling feather arrows and desperately rushed to the magic airship. They were still spraying poison arrows from their mouths, but the venom splashed on the bottom of the ship and did not cause any harm to the half-blood elves on the magic airship.

Some wind snakes with arrows all over their bodies fell from the air after their physical strength was exhausted.

There were too many half-blood elf guards on the magic airship, and the feather arrows were shot endlessly.

Facing the rain of arrows falling in pieces, the wind snakes had no way to avoid it...

Wind snakes were constantly shot by feather arrows and fell.

Occasionally, some extremely brave wind snakes flew up against the rain of arrows, and were immediately spotted by the griffin cavalry who had been waiting in the sky for a long time...

Kaka and Little Eugene each led a squadron of griffin knights to deal with these wind snakes that broke through the arrow rain defense line.

After a short period of formal training, the griffin cavalry could skillfully swing the elven swords in their hands in air combat. Some wind snakes were even cut down by the elven swords as soon as they flew up.

The area around the magic airship became very chaotic...

The griffins and this group of wind snakes were obviously old enemies. Once the two sides met, they would fight to the death.

This time, the griffin cavalry had the help of the half-blood elf archers and quickly suppressed the wind snakes...

Some wind snake bodies fell on the top of the stone pillar forest, and more wind snake bodies fell at the bottom of the canyon.

This time, Roy used the arrows on the ship without regard for the cost to ambush the wind snakes.

In the rain of arrows, the fighting spirit of these wind snakes was finally defeated by the half-blood elf guards.

Some wind snakes in the stone pillar forest began to flee to the northwest...

The half-blood elf warriors on the magic airship cheered.

In terms of strength, these half-blood elf guards were simply unable to fight against the wind snakes. However, they stood on the magic airship and shot arrows at the wind snakes that rushed into the sky from a high position. Roy didn't care about the consumption of arrows...

After a battle, the half-blood elf guards on the magic airship actually won the battle.

The scattered wind snakes re-entered the narrow gaps in the stone pillar forest...

The griffin cavalry began to pursue the stone pillar forest desperately. They quickly found the wind snake nest on the stone pillar and found some wind snake eggs in the nest. They moved them to the magic airship as trophies along with the wind snake corpses.

The wind snake eggs were about the size of coconuts, with pink spots on the snow-white eggshells, and the shells were very strong.

The griffin riders put the wind snake eggs into a wooden box. Soon one box was full, and then they started to load the second box...

When Claire saw the giant eggs, Roy whispered:

"Roy, we made a profit this time. These wind snake eggs are very valuable. They can definitely be sold at a good price in the Castletown magic market."

In just half a day, the half-blood elf guards on the magic airship defeated the wind snakes in the stone pillar forest.

As the griffin riders cleaned up the battlefield non-stop, the magic airship continued to chase north...

There was a row of tattered wind snakes on the deck. The leather of this wind snake was not very valuable. Fortunately, some tail feathers of wind arrows could be disassembled from the wings.