Path of Light.

Chapter 548 549. Two Mine Owners

Boss Roy's speech in the small square in front of the city hall caused a great response in the plateau city.

Just half a day later, the purchasing point of the mine guard group adjusted the purchase price of magic herbs. The purchase price of primary magic herbs increased by 30%, while the purchase price of mid- and high-level magic herbs decreased by 30% accordingly. This means that the mine guard group will focus on purchasing primary magic herbs, and mid- and high-level magic herbs will flow into the free market.

Moreover, the official advice given by the Plateau City to the half-elf collectors is to hope that they can put the intermediate and high-level magical herbs in their hands into the free market.

All of a sudden, the half-elf collectors in the Plateau City responded to Boss Roy's move.

The elf merchants who were unable to buy magic herbs in the past finally had a wave of business opportunities, and the free market became more lively.

The first batch of iron chains was finally delivered from the Jiaxi Mountain Forging Workshop. These iron chains, as thick as wrists, were used to reinforce the Sun Island Port and the surrounding seawalls.

The iron chains can be woven into a huge iron net, wrapping all the stones piled on the seawall in the iron net, which will make the seawall more stable.

Roy also plans to use these iron chains to weave into huge iron cages during the construction of the port, put the stones into the cages, and then pile them on the port dock.

The first batch of iron chains shipped from the forging workshop did not seem to be many, but in fact, the iron chains moved into the magic airship only filled half of the warehouse. The captain in charge of driving the magic airship hurriedly found Roy and told him that the magic airship was currently fully loaded.

The weight of these iron chains was beyond Roy's expectations, so they had to be packed in two magic airships and transported to Sun Island Bay.

This time the magic airship is heading to Sun Island Bay, and Roy will go on board.

In addition, the mermaid Jie Zena, Miss Tiffany, and Moira will also take a boat to Sun Island Bay.

Sabrina was unable to go to Sun Island Bay because she had to stay to help Mulin train a new army of half-elfs.

A magic airship will consume a large amount of magic crystals when it rises and enters the wind layer.

When fully loaded and rising into the wind flow layer, it would burn about 120 magic crystals in just half a day.

After the magic airship enters the wind layer, it needs to maintain a suspended state in the wind layer. In this state, the twelve floating devices are in a low-energy operation state, and about sixty magic crystals are used in a day and a night.

In other words, the magic airship needs two hundred magic crystals for a one-way trip from the Plateau City to the Sun Island Bay. It seems that this freight is simply astronomical.

But if we change the calculation method, we will get a completely different answer:
A magic airship can carry about 500 half-elf warriors. If the high freight is distributed to each half-elf warrior, the freight is actually not expensive.

Of course, if there is time and conditions to travel by caravan overland, the freight would be less than one-tenth of that of the magic airship.

At present, the treasury of the mine guard group can fully afford the high freight. Roy also hopes that the magic airship as a means of transportation can be accepted by the elves in the Partington plane, so he doesn't care too much about the cost of magic crystals in the early stage.

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The magic airship left the Plateau City and gradually rose into the clouds. Miss Tiffany and Moira stood side by side on the deck.

"Before you leave, aren't you going to go see that little half-elf girl?" Miss Tiffany asked curiously.

Moira shook her head, a gust of wind blew her hair up, she pursed her lips and said, "I don't want to go."

Miss Tiffany blinked and stared at Moira: "You have helped her so much, don't you want to see how she will live in the future?"

Moira shook her head with a faint smile on her face.

The mermaid Jie Zena was lying in the bathtub in the stern cabin, her two hands constantly pouring sea water on her body, her other two arms resting on the edge of the bathtub, and her last two hands holding a book in one hand and a cup of fruit tea in the other, looking very comfortable.

There were only two round glass windows in her room, through which she could see white clouds as smooth as a wool blanket. In the distance, the Griffin Barrier Mountains pierced through the clouds and pierced the sky, like a huge natural barrier.

It turns out that in addition to the sea, the Partington plane also has such a vast and colorful world...

She suddenly felt that the free life of lying on the seabed and basking in the sun every day didn't seem so attractive anymore. Desire is something that cannot be easily extinguished once it grows in the heart.

A group of people arrived at the port of Sun Island Bay on a magic airship. At this time, nearly a thousand half-blood elves gathered at the port. They were transporting huge rocks from the stalagmite forest and piling them on the beach, preparing to build a seaport here.

When the sea monster Jie Zena saw the magic airship coming to the sea surface of Sun Island Bay, she could not wait to walk out of the cabin, pushed open the door next to it, and said to Miss Tiffany lying in the bathtub: "Tiffany, we are even now."

"Well, take care along the way!"

Miss Tiffany said this casually, waving her hand with her back turned.

Then, Jie Zena twisted her shoulders and swam to the deck, and came to the side of the ship. Under the stunned gaze of a group of half-elf crew members, Jie Zena jumped from a height of several hundred meters. After waiting for a long time, a faint "plop" sound was heard on the sea.

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Roy came to Sun Island Bay this time for the construction project of the port terminal.

Under the leadership of Captain Tiprado, the half-blood elves near the Sun Island Bay have built the prototype of a port during this period.

Moreover, before this, a simple dock was built here with logs, and now it is just being rebuilt on the original site, so the progress is very fast.

After all, the half-elves in the Sun Island Bay are able to tame griffins, so it is quite convenient for them to use griffins to move these huge rocks.

More than half of the half-blood elves in Sun Island Bay now live in the jungle behind the port terminal, and a brand new elven village has taken shape in the jungle.

Captain Tiprado stood with Roy on the beach in front of the port. He pointed at the flying fish boat parked on the beach not far away and said to Roy excitedly:

"Some people have tried fishing in Sun Island Bay recently, and the harvest is pretty good every day."

"Prepare a batch of fresh sea fish tomorrow morning. I will transport these fresh sea fish to the Plateau City!" Roy said with a smile.

"Captain, are you really planning to use the magic airship to transport sea fish?"

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Three weeks later, Roy was hurriedly called back to the Plateau City by a letter from Mulin.

The Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters in Padstow City sent two Silver Moon Elf mine owners to the Plateau City. Following the two mine owners were two thousand half-elf warriors, but all the officers above the rank of squad leader in this army were Silver Moon Elves.

Captain Brad and Captain Craven were standing in the lobby of the city hall. Roy still had some impression of them.

They were originally the captains of the Silver Moon Elf Infantry Guard Regiment. When the Silver Pegasus Legion invaded the Pagisto Plateau, their Infantry Guard Regiment was stationed in the mine.

However, their infantry guard regiment was now dispersed by the gray dwarf bandits in the naval battle of Queen Eweni Islands.

Currently, the Silver Pegasus Legion has no plans to reorganize the Silver Moon Elf Infantry Guard.

They were no longer the commanders of the Infantry Guards Regiment, so they could only be sent to the Partington plane by the military and ask General Kempfred to arrange a less busy position for them.

General Kempfred hopes that they can become mine owners on the Pagisto Plateau, so that they can save some capital for themselves and maybe even re-establish the Infantry Guards Regiment in the future.

General Kampfred saw the huge profits of the Pagisto Plateau mine and did not want Roy to control the Pagisto Plateau mine alone, so he sent two mine owners over in the name of the Silver Pegasus Military.

According to General Kampfred's idea, Roy had to give up two normally operating mines, but Roy did not want to give up the mines he had worked so hard to create.

Roy said to the two Silver Moon Elf leaders:
"When we first created this mine guard, the Legion did not provide any military funding. I relied on the revenue from the Pagisto Plateau mine to establish this mine guard."

"Earl Swinburne promised me that half of the revenue from these mines will go to the mine guards to maintain the army's daily expenses, post-war pensions, replacement of armaments, etc. The other half of the revenue will be paid to the Silver Pegasus Legion."

"If you want to take over these mines, there is nothing wrong with that."

"But I don't care how you run the mine you took over. Half of the monthly revenue of the mine must go to the mine guards. In addition, the revenue paid cannot be less than that of the previous month. As for the rest, how much you want to keep... go talk to General Kampfred."

(End of this chapter)