Path of Light.

Chapter 554 555. The Focus of the Top Leaders
With the lifting of the ban on the Partington plane, the number of half-elf residents in the city of Padstow skyrocketed from 300,000 to over 1 million in just over a month.

Originally, at least half of the tree houses in the city were idle. Now, not only is the occupancy rate of tree houses in the city saturated, but a large number of tree houses are even being built on the hillsides opposite the city.

The half-elves who continued to pour into Padstow from the Elf Continent finally felt in this city an experience they had never had before - equality, freedom, and justice.

The security guards here will not give any preferential treatment to the Silver Moon Elves because of their special status.

Because the plane is rich in magical herbs, a large number of herbal merchants gather in the city of Padstow. As long as the half-elves in the city are willing to work, they will always be able to make a living.

Every time he came to Padstow, Roy could feel the obvious changes in the city.

However, Roy didn't like the speech advocating the independence of half-elves. He only listened to a few words and turned to leave the small square.

Not long after, Roy was drinking a glass of orange juice with relish on the side of the street when he saw a team of half-elf guards riding horses passing by on the street. They were heading towards the small square where the Declaration of Independence was being held.

Seeing a carriage parked on the street, Roy quickly got into the carriage and said to the coachman:

"Take me to the airport terminal..."

The city has entered the fast lane of development, and some half-elves seem to have begun to expand.

Roy did not plan to stay in the city. When he rushed back to the airport terminal in a carriage, the half-elf workers at the terminal had already loaded the apples and breadfruits into the cabin of the magic airship.

Roy quickly climbed onto the platform and instructed the captain who was resting on the deck:
"Has all the cargo been loaded?"

The half-elf captain immediately stood up and reported to Roy:
"Boss, all cabins are full. The airship is currently fully loaded."

Roy glanced around the deck. All the half-elf crew members stood with their chests out and their stomachs in. Roy asked casually:
"Are all the crew members on board?"

The half-elf captain quickly replied: "Everyone is on the ship waiting!"

Roy nodded and ordered, "We won't wait any longer. Let's set off for Plateau City immediately. We'll have a good rest after we arrive at Plateau City!"

"Okay, boss!" The half-elf captain agreed, and then he shouted to the ship's deck: "Flander, quickly get all the floating devices running, untie the ropes on the platform, and we're setting sail!"

The person responsible for activating the levitation device was a half-elf magician. He ran out of the ship's tower in a panic, putting a magic hat on his head as he ran.

The half-elf captain also took the opportunity to quickly run to the bridge and give orders to the half-elf crew on the ship...

The entire magic airship started to move quickly.

Roy did not linger on deck.

When he was on the deck, all the crew members would walk around him when passing by him. These half-elf crew members were all excellent half-elf warriors selected from the mine guards. They were the group of elves who admired Roy the most.

In order not to affect the normal work of the half-blood elf on the ship, Roy returned to the cabin. He lay on the bed and closed his eyes. Suddenly, the image of High Priest Reed appeared in his mind.

He was wearing a gray cloak that wrapped his whole body and walked alone in the darkness. In one of his hands, he held a holy grail of wisdom that emitted a faint holy light. Countless dark creatures were wandering in the darkness around him. Those dark creatures tried to tear off High Priest Reed through the faint holy light, but every time they put their claws deep into the holy light, they would instantly be melted into a wisp of black smoke.

High Priest Reed walked slowly forward in the darkness, surrounded by endless darkness...

Roy's eyes snapped open, and the image that popped into his mind quickly dissipated.

He sat up from the bed and found that the sacred tree in his body turned into a phantom emitting faint holy light behind him. All the flowers of light in the crown of the huge sacred tree bloomed, and particles of holy light were like pollen in the stamens, flying down from the sacred tree.

Roy reached out for the water glass on the bedside table, took a big sip of cold water, and calmed himself down quickly.

After he broke through the shackles of his body and became a first-level high priest, no matter how many holy light particles the sacred tree absorbed from the outside world, he did not feel the increase of the holy light power in his body. It seemed that after he became a high priest, his path of cultivation had stagnated.

In fact, Roy also knew that every time he purified the undead and demons, the power of holy light in his body would increase significantly...

However, in the Elf Continent, undead creatures and demons are extremely rare. Even though he possesses the power of holy light in his body and can sense the undead creatures and demons around him, the chances of encountering them in a year are very few.

I don’t know why, but Roy suddenly had an urge to go out for a walk.

In recent days, he has more than once heard a pair of eyes of reincarnation looking at him from a distant place in the darkness. Low whispers came into his ears, and then his body was ignited by a ball of fire, and a graceful figure danced in the darkness.

It was a dance full of charm.

Every time Roy tried to look over, a dazzling holy light would burst out from his body.

Then he would wake up in the dazzling holy light, and feel as if the holy light in his body had been drained away.

……

After a day and night of sailing, the sixth magic airship finally arrived at the plateau city smoothly.

Today, the Plateau City is home to a large number of half-elf craftsmen who are proficient in rock relief carving. They carve exquisite murals on huge stone slabs and then paste the murals on the walls of large buildings in the city.

The elves' city may be without walls, but it cannot be without these artistic sculptures and relief murals.

There are pools and fountains at many crossroads in the city, the city's water supply system has been improved, and many trees have been transplanted on both sides of the streets. According to Roy's requirements, these trees are basically apple trees and orange trees. Although Mulin would like to transplant some hibiscus cotton to make the streets more beautiful, this proposal was rejected by Roy.

If the breadfruit tree wasn't so big, Roy would have even wanted to plant a breadfruit tree in the center of every small square in the city...

The biggest change in the Plateau City is that the half-blood elf collectors are finally willing to sell some medium and high-level magical herbs to the herbal merchants on the free market. There are no less than 50,000 half-blood elves who make a living by collecting herbs on the Pagisto Plateau. They are scattered almost in every corner of the Pagisto Plateau. For many half-blood elf collectors, the northern and eastern parts of the Pagisto Plateau are blank areas. In the past, these places were the territory of the plateau headhunters, and the half-blood elf collectors did not dare to set foot there.

Now that the plateau headhunters have been defeated by Roy's mine guards and Helic's half-elf rebels, half-elf gatherers can search for magical herbs anywhere on the Pagisto Plateau.

A large number of magical herbs gathered in the plateau city, making this newly built small city gradually lively.

The original purpose of the city's existence was to build a prisoner-of-war concentration camp on this mound surrounded by water on three sides, mainly to detain those plateau headhunters.

But Roy never imagined that one day the number of highland headhunters in the prisoner-of-war concentration camp would exceed ten thousand.

The Plateau City was born under such circumstances. Now, with the bonus of the booming magic herb market, the Plateau City has passed the most difficult period of development in just a few months.

Although the current Plateau City is not very prosperous, it is the largest gathering place for half-blood elves in the Pagisto Plateau...

The life of the half-elves here is much more comfortable and peaceful than that in Padstow, and the barracks of the mine guards are built in the plateau city.

This time, Roy brought back 1,700 sets of standard military uniforms of excellent quality. Three half-elf guard regiments received new standard armaments, and the old equipment that was eliminated from them was packed and sent to the ancestral land of Gazan in the north of the plateau.

The half-elf rebels led by Captain Helic are currently in a state of shortage of military supplies.

Currently, there are only four magic airships traveling between Plateau City and Padstow City. After entering the Partington plane, the remaining modified magic airships were transferred by Roy to Sun Island Bay and docked at the pier on the north coast.

In Roy's opinion, having four magic airships traveling between the two cities was enough.

However, the modified magic airships could no longer stay on Partington Island, so Roy transferred them all to the Partington plane...

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But even with such a low profile, when the eighth magic airship entered the city of Padstow, a report from General Kempfred was still placed on the conference table of the Silver Pegasus Legion's top brass.

The reason was that General Kampfred believed that Governor Roy of the Pagisto Plateau currently had eight magic airships and had formed a huge air force in the Partington plane. General Kampfred declared in the report that Roy could deploy 5,000 half-blood elf warriors to any corner of the elf territory in the Partington plane within a day and night, and that the mine guards had absorbed some of the original rebels on the plane, and their combat effectiveness far exceeded that of ordinary infantry corps.

If it were just a report like this, the top leaders of the Silver Pegasus Corps might not pay more attention to Roy.

But at this moment, a document from the Armament Manufacturing Department of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom was delivered to the conference table of the Silver Pegasus Legion's top brass, which clearly stated that Roy, the leader of the Silver Pegasus Legion's mine guards, spent 300,000 magic crystals to buy 5,000 sets of excellent quality light armor suits from the Castletown City Armament Warehouse.

You have to know that the Silver Pegasus Legion only spent a total of 500,000 magic crystals in the naval battle at the Queen Eweni Islands...

But the commander of an affiliated plane of the Silver Pegasus Legion actually took out 300,000 magic crystals in one go to buy armaments. What does this mean? Boss Roy, who controls all the mines in the Pagisto Plateau, may be corrupt.

The investigators sent by the Silver Pegasus Legion checked the metal ingots and magic crystals that Roy had handed over to the military during his tenure at the Padstow City Military Headquarters. After converting all the metal ingots into magic crystals, a number that shocked all the senior military officials appeared in front of everyone.

A total of 360,000 magic crystals!

In addition, Roy runs a business of primary magic herbs, and he also has a business license from the Silver Pegasus Military. No one knows better than the top leaders of the Silver Pegasus Army how profitable the magic herb trade is...

All of a sudden, the top leaders of the Silver Pegasus Legion finally realized how big a cake Roy had in his hands.

However, the top military officials of Silver Pegasus were unable to directly ask to take back these mines at this time. The main reason was that these mines were lost by them in the first place.

If they jump out now to pick the fruits, not to mention what Earl Swinburne standing behind Roy would think, it would also be a difficult problem for the top management of Silver Pegasus to decide who to send to take over these mines.

Suddenly, the top leaders of the Silver Pegasus Legion noticed Roy and Pagisto Plateau.

The Legion's top brass began to pay attention to Captain Brad and Captain Craven, who were carrying out the reconstruction work at two mines in the Caldeum Mountains. However, they were unable to restore the mines to normal operation in the ruins of the mines in the Caldeum Mountains.

The two thousand half-elf warriors who were originally brought with them from Padstow City, some ran away and some dispersed in just one month, leaving less than a thousand people.

At present, Captain Craven and Captain Brad can only gather the half-elf warriors of both sides together.

But every day there are still many half-elf warriors who voluntarily ask to leave the legion...

There are many reasons, the main one being that Captain Craven and Captain Brad make these half-elf warriors work as miners every day, and they also have to clear out small groups of headhunters in the Caldeum Mountains.

Not only that, but I don’t even get paid for my work as a miner every day…

It just so happens that all the officers in the legion are Silvermoon Elves, and these Silvermoon Elf officers do not know how to work in the mines.

This differential treatment became a fuse that completely ignited these half-elf warriors.

If these half-elf warriors were treated differently on the Elf Continent, everyone might still put up with it. However, this was the Pagisto Plateau, and when the news of their unfair treatment reached other half-elfs, some of them immediately ran to the Caldeum Mountains to rescue them.

As a result, the largest-scale incident of half-elf warriors secretly leaving the legion broke out at the southern mithril mines in the Caldeum Mountains on the Pagisto Plateau.

……

When Roy heard the news, he was still at the North Coast Pier of Sun Island Bay. The port pier here was finally built. He and Village Chief Tiprado were standing on a magic airship, planning to transport a batch of supplies to Sun Island.

"I have always wanted to build a lighthouse on Sun Island, so that when the magic airship sails at night, it will not always get lost in the Sun Island Bay area..."

Roy stood on the deck with his hands on his waist and said to the village chief of Tiprado with a smile.

(End of this chapter)