Path of light

Chapter 689 690. Smell

Nearly 500 wind snake corpses were placed on the deck of the ship. The blood flowing out of the wind snakes had coagulated into black and purple blood scabs. Some blood seeped into the gaps in the deck, and the entire deck exuded a strong fishy smell.

Rather than saying that these wind snakes died in the hands of the half-blood elves, it would be better to say that they died in the high-altitude suppression of the magic airship and the free magic arrow rain.

They are a group of third-level magic beasts who like to live in groups. They usually live in the stone pillar forest. As long as they hide in the stone pillar forest, even the griffins can't do anything to them.

There is a fist-sized black skin magic core in the skull of each wind snake. All the magic cores were disassembled and filled a whole box.

This kind of thing needs to be taken back and the hard skin on the surface has to be polished off. Inside are magic crystals of various attributes. Generally, the magic crystals produced by wind snakes are mostly wind-attribute magic crystals, which are pure white translucent crystals.

In addition to magic crystals, the most valuable thing on these wind snakes is this wind snake leather.

Unfortunately, the leather of almost every wind snake has several arrow holes, and its value is at least halved. Some leathers are severely damaged, and the price may be further reduced.

These wind snakes were transported back to the ship, and several griffin cavalrymen began to deal with these magic beast materials. They are all very experienced hunters and know how to deal with these wind snakes.

In addition to some magical materials, wind snakes have meat that is the favorite food of griffins.

Therefore, the griffin cavalrymen dried the skinned and gutted wind snakes on the clothesline at the tail of the magic airship, and each one looked like a dried eel.

Roy rarely saw elves deal with meat other than fish, but he didn't expect that they were also very skilled in dealing with these wind snakes...

After the wind snakes in the entire stone pillar forest were hunted by the griffin cavalry, they hid in the cracks of the rocks or cliff nests. No matter how the griffin cavalry flew in the stone pillar forest, these wind snakes did not dare to run out...

This hunting in the stone pillar forest has come to an end.

Then the magic airships returned to the sea one after another...

This hunt was a great victory, but the members of the Zakarum Adventure Group could only stand on the deck of the magic airship to watch the battle.

Only Sabrina rode a white griffin and led a team of griffin cavalry to hunt wind snakes in the stone pillar forest, which made everyone quite envious...

Woods even squeezed to Roy's side, put his arm around his shoulders and whispered to him: 'Roy, when can I join the griffin cavalry? I also want to raise a griffin and try the taste of flying. '

'If you want to become a tamer, you need to accept a series of tests from the griffin cavalry. Are you sure you can stick to it? 'Roy asked Woods.

'Are those tests difficult? '

'It's probably a little harder than your practice of owl transformation. 'Roy responded.

Woods immediately backed out and waved his hand and said: 'Forget it, it doesn't matter whether I fly or not. I'm actually a little afraid of heights. ’

The griffin cavalry did not continue to explore northward. It is said that after flying over the stone pillar forest, there is an endless primeval forest to the north of the stone pillar forest. There are often some high-level magic beasts above level 5 in it. These magic beasts have a strong sense of territory and will attack all intruders without permission.

Having completed so many hunts in the dark land with the great magician Grams, he is very familiar with the strength of high-level magic beasts above level 5.

Roy knows that even if the half-blood elf warriors of the mine guards are equipped with high-end magic armor and weapons made by the Silver Moon elves, the team has magic airships for supplies and griffin cavalry for air support, it is actually impossible to make up for the gap in combat power between the two.

He dared not provoke the level 5 magic beasts, so Roy did not want to take risks in the magic forest...

At this time, Roy could not help but think of the great magician Grams.

If he were here, Roy would really dare to try his luck in this forest...

Now! Nothing is discussed.

If you count carefully, Roy has been separated from the great magician Grams for nearly two months.

If he had not gone out to sea with the ship, Roy should have gone to the city of Wopeye at this time.

The design drawings of his thick leather armor and magic pattern array made of frost dragon leather should have been completed.

As long as these magic pattern arrays are engraved on the thick leather armor, a new set of magic pattern construction will be initially completed...

From here, the coastline has changed a bit. The white sand beach is replaced by a coastal cliff more than ten meters high. At the same time, the coastline extends to the northwest and west, and the sea here is more vast.

Roy is ready to continue exploring northwest along the coastline.

After all, the sea monster Jie Zena reminded them that this sea area has been occupied by several sea beast priests. If their fleet mistakenly enters the territory of the sea beast priests, it is likely to anger these sea beast priests...

In order to avoid this unnecessary conflict, Roy led the fleet to continue along the coastline...

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The biggest advantage of taking a sailboat for an exploration trip is that everyone can rest leisurely on the boat, and the journey will not be very hard...

After leaving the area of ​​the stone pillar forest, the fjords on the edge of the coastline gradually increase. There are many traces left by the disappearance of glaciers on both sides of the canyon here. Some canyons can serve as natural shelters.

When night falls, the griffin cavalry will look for a shelter near the fleet.

All the magic airships gathered together. Some half-blood elf guards would even get off the boat and climb over the cliffs to the flat area on the top of the cliffs. Most of these were covered with a layer of soft moss and grass.

The elf guards liked to build simple tents on the grass to rest. These tents were filled with the fragrance of wild grass.

This was also the first time everyone got off the boat to relax after leaving Sun Island Bay...

Hundreds of tents were built on the green ground on the top of the cliffs on the coastline, and some elf warriors even grilled fish in front of the tents.

When night fell, gusts of sea breeze blew in, instantly blowing away the scorching summer heat.

Everyone sat on a huge rock outside the tent.

Moira secretly complained to Roy: This time the adventure of the Zakarum Adventure Group was a bit boring. They were watching the sea on the boat all day and there was nothing else to do...

Roy couldn't help pinching Moira's pink face.

Her face was very elastic and soft, and Roy liked to see her shy look...

Since Woods gave up becoming a griffin cavalryman, he became a young druid who liked to study magic herbs.

He told Roy: Over-catching wind snakes will change the ecology of the Stone Pillar Forest.

Every time you hunt wind snakes, it is best to reduce the number of wind snakes to a minimum, and then ignore them as much as possible, let their tribes gradually recover, and then organize hunting...

Roy knew that this behavior of letting the monster tribe grow and grow, and then looking for opportunities to hunt is called "raising pigs".

He was very happy that there was such a hunting ground outside the Sun Island Bay...

Miss Tiffany lay on the grass next to Moira, and she threw a water ball on her face to keep the surface of her skin hydrated...

Miss Mermaid has no sweat glands and sweat hairs on her skin, so her skin is extremely smooth and delicate, but this kind of skin also has disadvantages, that is, it needs to be kept hydrated at all times.

She has been very busy these days. She usually travels alone in the sea near the fleet. She only sits together and chats with everyone at night. She will always monitor the movements in the sea to ensure that the fleet will not be attacked by the sea beast priests...

In fact, Miss Tiffany also felt very strange these two days, because the surrounding sea area seemed very quiet. After swimming in the sea for so many days, Miss Tiffany could not see even a merman monster in the sea.

Obviously, this sea area is infinitely close to the sea area of ​​the sea beast priests, but there is not even a shadow of merman monsters here, which is very abnormal...

You know, the living area of ​​merman monsters is the shallow water area and beach of the coastline, and many mermen live like amphibious toads.

Although the coastline here is a stone cliff, there are no merman monsters under the cliff, which is a bit unreasonable.

Claire is the only elf in the Zakarum Adventure Group who has no intention of exploring.

He followed everyone to the outdoor adventure this time, the purpose is to discuss music with Roy. Recently, he has not released any representative songs, and many music critics in Buenos Aires have a negative attitude towards Claire.

This time, Claire gave up everything on hand and ran to the Partington plane to participate in the adventure group's training and adventure, just to talk to Roy about music.

In fact, Roy was also quite speechless. When the two were in the Elf Academy, they were still unstable students who fought together. Originally, they just created a song "Blue Dane River" for fun, but they didn't expect that Claire would never look back on the road of music...

Seeing Claire coming over, Moira returned to her sister very tactfully to tease the white griffin.

"Roy, I have been thinking about what you call listening to the sounds of nature. In fact, I can hear a lot of melodies, but these melodies are far less infectious and colorful than those you hear." Claire complained to Roy.

He held a notebook full of musical notations, and Roy felt dizzy after just one glance.

"Then you might as well try to fall in love. Only by savoring life carefully can you see the happy notes in life..."

Roy quickly gave his best friend some spiritual chicken soup.

Others were also listening to Roy's words quietly...

Roy took a deep breath and said to Claire:

"First of all, you have to calm down completely, empty your mind and feel the surroundings. For example, I can feel countless holy light particles floating around my body, I can see the direction of the wind around me, I can also see the beams of light falling from the stars in the night sky, and I can hear Moira's heartbeat like a drum..."

Moira and Sabrina sat back to back. When she heard Roy say this about herself, Moira blushed slightly.

The waves kept hitting the reefs, and the sea under the starry sky was extremely deep...

Sabrina and Moira sat back to back on the grass, which reminded Roy of Kikyo and Ali. He couldn't help but blush, and said to his friend with a stiff face:

"Claire, listen carefully... That's the sound of the free wind pushing the waves to hit the reefs on the shore..."

"Huh?"

Of course Claire could hear the sound of the waves, but he didn't understand what Roy wanted to say. Just when Claire was stunned, Roy began to hum with his mouth. In fact, he hummed very badly, and there was no instrument around him to echo. The gentle humming was still extremely awkward at the beginning, but later he gradually had some feelings.

No one made a sound, quietly listening to Roy humming the tune of great attachment and nostalgia...

Roy hummed the whole song because he remembered it very well.

"Roy, does this melody have a name?" Claire wrote the song in her notebook with a pen, and then couldn't help asking Roy.

"Love across time and space."

Roy didn't let Claire come up with a weird name.

When he said this, his throat was a little dry and his voice was a little trembling.

Unconsciously, he had lived in the elf world for so long that he almost forgot all his previous memories.

The evening gathering ended in such a slightly sad atmosphere.

Roy got into the tent and lay in the sleeping bag, but he still couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

The sea breeze blew in through the tent curtain, and the whispers of Moira and Tiffany in the next tent came in.

A faint light came from Claire's tent, and it was estimated that he would not be able to sleep that night.

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In the cabin of the magic airship, Leah and Alice sat side by side, with four white little feet in the same wooden basin.

They were washing their feet.

The ship stopped very steadily, and there were occasional conversations among the crew on the deck outside.

"Alice, I want to talk to Roy and join their adventure group. Look at his friends, they are all young elves, there is no reason not to accept us." Leah whispered to her sister.

"I heard that his friends are classmates who graduated from the same college, and they have a good relationship, so they formed this adventure group."

Alice said with some concern.

"As long as we can prove that we are not a burden and can help him, he should not refuse us!"

Liya always said this.

Hearing Leah say this, Alice became even more worried: "But we have been out of the dark land for so long, and I found that we have never been able to help him once."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Liya was also a little dazed, and began to recall what happened recently, as if nothing had happened.

The two were talking in a low voice in the room. At this time, Leah suddenly narrowed her eyes. She narrowed her eyes, like a kitten smelling the scent of fish, wrinkling her little nose and sniffing around.

"Liya, what's wrong with you?" Alice asked in confusion.

"I should smell the smell of darkness, although the smell is very faint..."

While speaking, Leah stepped out of the basin barefoot, and her wet feet left a line of water stains on the floor. Leah came to the window and pushed the window of the cabin open. A fishy and salty sea breeze blew into the room. In the wet sea breeze, the faint dark air became more obvious.

This sea breeze blew from the sea.

Leah looked at the direction of the sea breeze and quickly ran along the window to the observation deck on the top of the ship.