Path of light

Chapter 430 431. Northern Plateau

The snow on the top of the Gasai Mountains remains unchanged all year round. After a long period of precipitation, hundreds of kilometers of glaciers are formed on the top of the mountain.

The most obvious feature of the mountains in the Gasai Mountains is that the tops of the mountains are covered with snow. You can only see a touch of green halfway up the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain, vegetation is reborn.

Most of these forests are coniferous forests. In addition to Korean pine and yellow Chinese pine, firs that are 100 meters high can also be seen everywhere.

Tianpu Canyon is located in the middle section of the Gasai Mountains. This mountain crack slowly expanded with the changes in the earth's crust, gradually forming a canyon.

The vegetation in this canyon is different from that of the Gasi Mountains. Many low shrubs that can only grow in the southern part of the plateau can also survive in the Tianpu Canyon. Almost all the melted snow water flowing from all over the Gasi Mountains gathers in the Tianpu Canyon. In the waterfall canyon, a giant waterfall with a length of one kilometer is formed in the middle of the canyon.

This is why Tianpu Canyon got its name.

There is an extremely cold river in the entire canyon. Even in the hot summer, the water in this river is freezing cold.

The canyon is always filled with a layer of light water mist. The occasional cold wind blowing from the northern part of the wilderness will freeze the water mist into tiny ice particles. No matter where it floats, it will turn into gravel-like ice crystals if it adheres to them. .

Plateau headhunters almost always enter the southern part of the Gasai Mountains through the Tianpu Canyon. From here, they can reach the southern part of the Pagisto Plateau by walking west along the wilderness or south along the Sudarso Mountains.

It can be said that Tianpu Canyon is the first thoroughfare from the hinterland of Pajisto Plateau to the northern part of the plateau...

Originally this place was occupied by headhunters, but now Roy has built a wall at the south pass of Tianpu Canyon and has a team of mixed-blood elf warriors stationed here.

The mine guards passed three mines in the southern part of the Jiasi Mountains and successfully arrived at the south pass of Tianpu Canyon. Roy asked the mixed elf warriors of the mine guards to camp here because the climate in the northern part of the plateau was very harsh at this time. The north wind has been blowing continuously in Tianpu Canyon for more than a month. Those cold winds have frozen the water mist in Tianpu Canyon into fine ice particles. Under the strong north wind, these ice particles hit the face like iron sand. …

The mine guards had to wait for a good day before trying to cross the Skyfall Canyon.

Before that, the mine guards would stay at the south pass of Tianpu Canyon.

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There are also some headhunter teams in Tianpu Canyon. They have long been accustomed to this extreme environment, but the mixed-blood elf warriors are not.

Roy was actually not in a hurry as to when he would be able to cross the Tianpu Canyon.

The eight mines he currently controls have slowly begun to resume normal production. The headhunters who tried to rush into the southern part of the plateau were also driven back to the northern part of the plateau. Therefore, this time his mine guards took advantage of the situation and entered the northern part of the plateau, also wanting to see Let’s see how we can extinguish the arrogance of the plateau headhunters and let them get to know the mixed-blood elves again.

According to the information left by Captain Berkeley, there were five magic crystal mines in the northern part of the Pagisto Plateau. However, the Silver Pegasus Legion wanted to invade the ancestral land of the headhunters in one fell swoop and did not have time to recover these magic crystals. mine.

The mine guards entered the northern part of the plateau. In addition to further squeezing the headhunters' living space, they also wanted to occupy these crystal mines.

Another pack team came from the distance. This pack team was entirely composed of horses. Hundreds of horses carrying supplies were parked outside the camp. A mixed-blood elf leader handed a letter to Mu Lin and talked with her. Mu Lin chatted for a few words, and it was obvious that she and Mu Lin were old acquaintances.

Then Mullin took the mixed-blood elf to see Roy. The main supplies delivered by the pack this time were food. Half of them were dried fish transported from Castletown City, and the other was fresh breadfruit.

This pack team was rented by Lysander from the carriage shop in Padstow City. The leader of the team was also a mixed-blood elf brought by Lysander from the mixed-blood elf gathering place.

Nowadays, the Mine Guards are famous in the Partington plane, and many mixed-blood elves come here because of their fame...

The tents in the camp at the south pass of Tianpu Canyon occupied almost the entire hillside. Many mixed-blood elf warriors were coming in and out of the camp. There were almost no Silver Moon elves among the officers.

The mixed-blood elves in the pack team looked extremely excited when they saw such a scene.

"I have long heard that you are doing a good job on the Pagisto Plateau. I didn't expect that there are so many people in this mine guard team..."

"We have to deal with those vicious headhunters!"

The mixed-blood elf warrior of the mine guard team said to the mixed-blood elf in the pack team, with a kind of pride on his face.

When Roy received the pack leader, he also asked about Lysander's current situation.

The leader of the pack team told Roy that Lysander should currently raise supplies from Barrier Town. All kinds of supplies on the Pagisto Plateau were being consumed rapidly. As the town closest to Pagisto Plateau, it was necessary to raise supplies from Barrier Town. Transporting materials to the plateau is undoubtedly the most cost-effective way to transport them.

Since the portal in the Partington plane was blocked, the trading houses in the Partington plane have also suffered the worst blow.

Now Lysander plans to rebuild the trade route from Padstow City to Rampart Town, and then from Rampart Town to southern Padestow.

A few days ago, Lysander told Roy this idea.

Roy was very supportive.

A strong wind blows, blowing out a sheet of white smoke from the Tianpu Canyon. The smoke composed of these snow particles changes into various shapes in the strong wind.

With this batch of food, Roy was almost ready in terms of material things.

As long as he waits for good weather, he is ready to lead the mine guards through the Sky Falls Canyon...

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The canyon was filled with ice and fog, and a team of assassins walked north along the edge of the glacier.

Moira was in the Assassin's Team. Her face was covered with a black scarf, and her body and face were covered with a layer of white snow crystals. Thick mist steamed up from the glacier and condensed into ice in the blink of an eye. The Assassin's Team It also appeared and disappeared in this thick fog.

The person in charge of leading the team was Deputy Captain Tennyson. This time when they entered the Skyfall Canyon, Deputy Captain Tennyson taught the Dark Moon Elf warriors in the team how to hide in the heavy fog.

Moira secretly rejoiced that she had followed him this time, otherwise she might have missed this concealment technique.

She wrapped the thrust saber with a bandage to prevent mist from condensing in the gaps of the thrust saber's scabbard, which would easily freeze the thrust saber and scabbard together.

They chased a group of headhunters all the way here.

The roar of the waterfall not far away covered up some sounds, and even the glacier at my feet became a little restless.

Moira wondered whether Miss Tiffany could swim in this glacier...

The Dark Moon Elf warrior in front suddenly stopped, and Moira immediately leaned down and hid her body in the ice mist.

A team of headhunters were like frightened birds. They must have noticed something strange, so they got out of a crack in the rocks and fled north in a hurry.

Deputy Captain Tennyson would definitely not engage in such a pursuit. His understanding of assassins was to ambush, but he would never pursue them.

Deputy Captain Tennyson believes that a qualified assassin should hide his body at all times...

There are fewer and fewer headhunters still active in the Tianpu Canyon. Those headhunters probably know that a large group of mixed-blood elf warriors have come to the south of the canyon. In the past few days, the headhunters in the Tianpu Canyon are retreating north.

When the assassin team first entered the canyon, they could still find some ambush targets.

But now, the group of headhunters have been frightened out of their wits, and they will flee in panic whenever they hear the slightest movement...

"Escaped again. This canyon is too cold. Let's finish work early today. Tomorrow we will apply to enter the northern plateau wilderness. Maybe there will be more headhunters there."

Tennyson said with some disappointment.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the towel from his face, flicking off the ice shell that had frozen into a lump on it.

All members of the assassin team turned and walked towards the southern exit...

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At the same moment, in the northern wilderness of Boreas Canyon.

A large number of rebel soldiers gathered in front of a magic crystal mine. Captain Herrick stood at the front of the team, squinting his eyes and looking coldly at the mixed-blood elf swordsman standing on the top of the city. He cursed with a cold face. road:

"Bragli, when we joined the rebel army together, wasn't it just to kill all the slave traders on the plane and rescue the mixed-blood elf slaves in the Partington plane, but now you have gone to the plateau... and become a The slave master’s lackey!”

The mixed-blood elf officer on the city wall who covered his face with a visor remained silent. After Captain Herrick called out his name, he lifted up his visor, revealing Captain Herrick's extremely familiar face.

"Herrick, I didn't expect that we would meet in this way." Bragli, the mixed-blood elf officer on the city wall, responded expressionlessly. "When the Silver Moon Elves negotiated peace with us in the Barrier Village, they clearly wanted to purge all of us rebel officers. If I didn't leave at that time, I was destined to be sent to the trial?"

"So you fled to the Pagisto Plateau..."

Captain Helic turned his head and refused to say any more, and the rebel soldiers behind him slowly approached the city wall.

The army pressed forward, and the sense of oppression before the battle spread from the battlefield in front of the castle.

The private soldiers in the mines standing on the walls of the castle were trembling all over. There were too many mixed-blood elf warriors under the walls, and they came here after chasing headhunters all the way.

There is no doubt about the strength of these rebel fighters, but the private soldiers in the mines on the city wall do not want to sit still and wait to be killed.

As the low trumpets sounded among the rebel soldiers, a tide of mixed-blood elf warriors rushed toward the city wall.

Captain Helic glanced at the sky.

At this time, a high-pitched cry of gryphons sounded from the clouds. A few seconds later, two gryphons broke through the clouds at the same time, wrapped in a pale golden light mask, like meteorites falling from the night sky, with a The long tail swooped towards the city wall.

This is not the first time these two gryphon cavalry have done this. They have cooperated with rebel soldiers in this way in front of the city wall of the silver mine in the Kaltim Mountains...

'Iron Will'

The two griffons hit the city wall head-on. As two roars sounded at the same time, two huge gaps were created in the city head that was originally filled with private soldiers from the mine.

The rebel soldiers standing in the front row were wearing heavy armor and holding shields in their hands. They rushed in through the gap in the city wall before the smoke cleared...

The two gryphon cavalry struggled to fly into the sky under the desperate protection of the rebel soldiers.

The rebel soldiers poured into the magic crystal mine along the gap in the city wall. Bragli, who fell from the city wall, looked at Captain Herrick who was striding forward with despair, and refused to say a word.

The defeat of the Magic Crystal Mine was actually doomed at the beginning of the battle.

The rebel soldiers did not kill all the private soldiers in the mine like they did with the plateau headhunters. Instead, they collected their weapons and armor and locked them up in a warehouse on the first floor of the mine.

The mine owner and his family members in the castle were besieged on the fourth floor of the castle. When the private army in the mine was controlled by the rebels, the mine owner did not make any resistance.

Captain Herrick walked up the steps to the fourth floor, wiping the blood on his sword with a handkerchief while observing various facilities in the castle.

Seeing the mine owner and his family members standing shivering in the corridor on the fourth floor, he strode over and said to the mixed-blood elf mine owner:

"After I check the number of half-blood elf slaves in the mine, I will decide your whereabouts. If your hands are stained with the blood of more than ten half-blood elf slaves, tonight will be your last meal. If you treat the mine The mixed-blood elf slaves there are not bad. I will try to send you to the Padstow City Trial Hall, including your family! Before that, I would like to announce to you that this magic crystal mine temporarily belongs to the mixed-blood elf rebels. "

"Besides... I hope you can take the initiative to escape. This will save me a lot of unnecessary trouble!"

After Captain Herrick finished speaking, he walked towards the city wall without looking back...

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Roy only waited four days at the south pass of Tianpu Canyon for good weather.

After seeing the north wind in the canyon calm down, he led four thousand mine guards to quickly pass through the Tianpu Canyon.

Moreover, after entering the wilderness in the northern part of the plateau, Roy did not rush into the northern part of the plateau. Instead, he camped at the north exit of Tianpu Canyon, where the mine guards would continue to rest.

The gryphon group flew out of the camp and scouted for traces of plateau headhunters around the camp...

Different from the unstoppable offensive method of Captain Helic, Roy led the mine guards to enter the northern plateau like a spring breeze, and did not expand rapidly after entering the northern plateau.

There is also a rolling hilly area outside the north pass of Tianpu Canyon. A large number of monsters and headhunters live in this area.

Roy climbed to the top of the mountain and could see far away from here.

He looked back at the Tianpu Canyon, which looked like a crack from which white smoke was constantly floating out.

Kaka rode the griffon and landed next to him. Roy sat astride the griffon, holding Kaka's shoulders with both hands, urging Kaka to take off quickly...

Flying into the sky, the large hilly land in front of Roy turned into a huge map with colors.

Roy even saw a group of headhunters hiding in a mountain col.