Path of Light.

Chapter 152
"Instructor Nora, I have encountered a trouble." Roy said tactfully.

If Instructor Nora frowned or didn't answer, Roy planned to say goodbye politely, then turned around and left.

Instructor Nora cracked the corner of his mouth, with an intriguing smile, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked Roy:

"Could it be that Yu Dang on the Jinju came to the door and needs me to help you solve it?"

The students on the training ground had almost left, and another group of senior students gathered towards the training ground.

Instructor Nora looked at Roy with great confidence.

Roy touched his face and asked in a low voice, "Is the expression on my face so obvious?"

Instructor Nora pointed to the corridor leading to Teaching Building No. [-], motioned Roy to follow her there, and said as he walked:

"Basically... tell me where you met those slave traders."

Roy squeezed out an embarrassing smile, and whispered:

"Instructor, my trouble now... is actually not those slave traders, but I did see the magician who escaped from the Kumquat in the back street of the college, but he disappeared when I chased him out. I have already reported this to the guards."

Instructor Nora stopped, stared at Roy, and asked him with some dissatisfaction:

"That escaped magician appeared in Castleton? You...Why did you tell me now? You should tell me about it right away! Roy."

Instructor Nora was silent for a while, and then said again:

"Now... tell me about your troubles!"

"Instructor Nora, two friends and I have a stranded ship by the sea. The ship used to belong to a group of pirates. At that time, the captain and the first mate escaped... Now they have sneaked back and have been living on that ship for the past few days." Roy made a long story short, introducing the situation on the Black Pearl.

Instructor Nora stared at Roy in surprise:

"You mean... a pirate captain and his crew lived on your ship?"

Roy nodded quickly: "Yes, I confirmed it last night."

Instructor Nora looked at Roy again, stretched out a hand to stroke the hilt at his waist, and said to Roy:
"I see! How is their strength?"

Roy thought for a while, and replied: "The gray dwarf captain is very powerful, probably...probably..."

In fact, he didn't know how to describe it.

But when Instructor Nora heard the word 'captain of the gray dwarf', Instructor Nora immediately asked with a serious face:

"The two pirates you mentioned are the gray dwarf Ralph and the blood elf mage Udulla?"

Roy was also taken aback by Instructor Nora's serious expression, and asked cautiously, "Do you know them?"

"In Castletown, there are wanted portraits of the two of them hanging on the walls of almost every guard team. Since they have reappeared, I will help you with this matter." Instructor Nora frowned and said, "When are you going to do it?"

Roy was worried that Captain Ralph would run away, so he said quickly:
"If possible, then tonight..."

……

After making an appointment with Instructor Nora and finishing his second geography class at the college, Roy ran to the gate of the college and took a long carriage back to the Statue of Liberty.

When passing by the lower city, Roy saw many half-blood elves walking to the streets and participating in protests.

It’s just that some stall owners who set up stalls on the street were unlucky this time. Some stall owners closed their stalls early and then joined the protest procession, but some stall owners were slow to respond.

The entire lower city became a mess, and the long carriage also detoured through several impassable blocks in the lower city, and reached Brown Street with difficulty.

Roy jumped out of the car and found that Brown Street was quite quiet.

However, a large group of elves gathered in Castleton Port in the distance. Roy walked along Brown Street towards Castletown Port and found a group of protesting half-breed elves gathered on the port pier. Now the port pier is also in chaos.

Even in the small square next to Castletown Harbor, there were some excited half-breeds planning to rush to the seaside castle.

When Roy ran to the port, he saw that the large ships parked on the deep-water docks had been ordered to prohibit the crew from disembarking.

The fishing boats at the docks in the shallow water area are densely parked on the docks, and no fishing boats can be seen going out to sea.

The fish market is also closed...

I didn't expect that such a big conflict would erupt in the killing of the half-breed elf girl by the priest of Thorndike.

The elf patrols were maintaining order. Roy did not enter the port, but walked along the edge of the port to the small square leading to the seaside castle. There were also some half-blood elves gathered here. They were stopped by a group of silver moon elf guards in the small square, and they simply sat in the square.

A group of silver moon elf guards blocked the mountain road leading to the seaside castle, and Roy found Simpson Squadron Leader who was maintaining order.

The elf guards were just in a stalemate with these protesting half-breed elves, and neither side had done anything aggressive.

Roy walked along the edge of the protesting crowd, squeezed in front of Squadron Leader Simpson, and shouted Squadron Leader Simpson's name.

Squadron Captain Simpson walked up to Roy and took him to a slightly quieter place:

"It's you, why are you here?"

Seeing Roy, the squadron leader Simpson on the horse frowned.

Roy took the opportunity to get close to Captain Simpson and whispered to him:

"Squadron Captain Simpson, I'm here to tell you something. Last night we found the gray dwarf captain and the blood elf mage on the Seawolf. They seemed to sneak into Castleton Harbor again, and stayed on that ship for one night..."

Squadron Captain Simpson felt the cold sweat streaming down his forehead. Thinking of the castle dance the night before, fortunately the castle's guards had been strengthened, he secretly called out 'lucky'.

"Oh, why didn't you say this earlier?" Squadron Captain Simpson asked Roy.

The night before last, Roy only said that he found some clues on the ship, and only guessed that Ralph and Udura sneaked back to Castletown harbor.

"When we saw you the night before, they were not on the ship either. We didn't dare to confirm it at the time, and you were on guard duty at that time. We were only able to confirm that it was them last night." Roy quickly explained: "They should not stay on the ship during the day, but they may come at night, so I think if it is convenient for you, we will act together at night."

Captain Simpson looked up at the scorching sun above his head, reached out and patted Roy on the shoulder, and said:

"Understood, this protest will end before dark, I just have time tonight, this time I have to catch them no matter what..."

Roy didn't expect Squadron Leader Simpson to agree so readily, and immediately thanked Squadron Leader Simpson:
"Thank you very much for your help!"

Captain Simpson motioned Roy to the edge of the small square, and said to him:

"Actually, it cannot be ruled out that they came back this time to take revenge on Princess Ophelia. No matter what they want to do, we'd better keep them here, otherwise, they will always be a threat that cannot be ignored..."

……

Squadron Captain Simpson agreed to help, which was a surprise to Roy.

Back at the temple, Roy walked into the main hall and told the matter to Priest Reed who was praying in front of the Statue of Liberty.

Jasper was also praying with Priest Reed, and he was shocked when he heard that Captain Ralph actually lived on the Black Pearl last night.

The early warning facility he set up could only notify him that something alive was boarding the ship, but he couldn't directly confirm the identity of the other party like Roy did.

"Roy, how did you do it? You said you were going to give someone a gift yesterday afternoon, just for this?" Jasper asked.

"Well, it's for this!" Roy replied frankly.

Grand Priest Reed stood in front of the Statue of Liberty and said nothing, but said silently: "We are the disseminators of the Holy Light, so we must always remember; 'Keep goodwill and uphold justice'."

After saying that, he turned and walked out of the main hall without saying a word.

Roy didn't expect that Priest Reed would say such a sentence in an ambiguous manner. Jasper, who was standing next to him, was also confused, and he didn't understand what Priest Reed was thinking.

The two followed High Priest Reed out of the main hall.

The High Priest Reed standing on the steps in front of the main hall suddenly turned around and said to Roy and Jasper:

"As the great priest of the Temple of Liberty, I do not recommend your actions tonight."

"But as your teacher, especially since both of you have been held hostage by them, of course I have to settle this matter with them."

Roy breathed a sigh of relief...

"Roy, what are your plans?" Jasper asked Roy.

"Before that, I had already invited Instructor Nora from the Elf Academy, and I met Captain Simpson at the seaside castle, and they all agreed to help at night," Roy said.

The three walked around the path to the backyard of the temple, continuing to discuss the plan to deal with Captain Ralph.

……

At this time, Captain Ralph was hiding in a cave formed by a sea reef not too far from the Black Pearl...

Originally, Captain Ralph planned to leave Castleton Harbor quickly after dawn after grabbing a sea ship nearby.

But they finally waited until dawn, and then they found sadly that there was not a single fishing boat in Castleton Harbor.

The two waited from morning to noon, but they couldn't see even a fishing boat.

Not only that, even the big ship didn't move at all.

After the sea water rose, most of the dark cave on the reef was submerged by sea water. The two of them could only huddle together wet. There was no fishing boat passing by, so they dared not run out. Fortunately, there was no shortage of food in the reef area. For the gray dwarves, the shells on the reef were also very delicious.

"Wait a little longer, we will sneak back to Castleton Harbor at night, and grab a ship to go to sea at night..."

Captain Ralph pried an oyster off the reef and sucked it into his mouth.

(End of this chapter)