Path of Light.

Chapter 555 556. Return to Padstow
The three-masted sailing ship did not start its propulsion device. The half-elf crew raised the sails and let the sea breeze blow the three-masted sailing ship towards the Sun Island.

When the weather is clear, the beautiful Sun Island Bay is like a magnificent sapphire. The coral reefs make the seabed colorful. Standing on the bow of the boat, you can see schools of fish everywhere in the sea.

When the three-masted sailing ship approached the Sun Island, it found that the entire island had become a ruin.

When the deep-sea monster awoke from the bottom of the sea, the entire island was shaken violently. The island, which was originally covered with lush tropical rainforest, now has most of the trees buried in rubble. Only a few coconut trees on the edge of the island survived.

Not only that, the entire pattern of Sun Island has also changed greatly.

The original Sun Island was a round island, but now it looks like a horseshoe. The middle part of the horseshoe is occupied by sea water, and you can also see piles of rocks emerging from the sea.

Weeds have grown in the cracks between many rocks, and the messy grass leaves are swaying in the sea breeze...

Roy transferred from the magic airship to a flying fish boat and approached the deserted Sun Island.

The mermaid asked Zena that there should be a cold pond on the island, but now it seems that the cold pond should be completely buried by rocks.

Roy pointed to the blue sea around him and said to the village chief Tiprado:
"Sun Island Bay is a natural fishing ground. One day, the fishery resources here will be transported to Plateau City and Padstow City. If we want to transport fishery resources out, in addition to having a magic airship, we also need to build an ice-making workshop at the dock."

"The ice-making workshop is very simple. All you need to do is buy a magic rune plate with the word 'freezing'. Then, just keep adding water into the trough and you will be able to freeze ice cubes." Village chief Tiprado said casually.

When Roy was in Castletown, he would go to the ice workshop to buy some ice to cool off during the hottest summer months.

But he never knew that these ice cubes were made of ice magic rune cloth...

"...That's true." Roy smiled awkwardly.

I originally thought it was a troublesome matter, but it turns out it can be easily solved with magic...

Roy originally wanted to build the lighthouse on the highest point of Sun Island, but now Sun Island has been razed to the ground.

A lighthouse can only be built at the southernmost point of an island.

Roy walked around the ruined island. He found that some cracks in the rocks still emitted a foul odor. Every time he passed an area with a strong odor, he could see some green-shelled scavenger crabs running out of the cracks...

A griffin cavalryman circled over the island and landed directly on the beach more than 50 meters in front of Roy and Village Chief Tiprado.

He jumped off the griffin's back nimbly and ran towards the village chief Tiprado and Roy.

Roy and Village Chief Tiprado stopped and turned to look at the half-elf cavalryman.

"Captain, Boss Roy, Lord Mulin from the Plateau City has sent us news that the Silver Moon Elves in the Caldeum Mountains are hunting down half-blood elves, and some are fleeing to the southern part of the plateau..." The half-blood elf cavalry ran up to Roy and reported in a low voice.

Roy frowned and looked at the village chief Tiprado, then asked:
"What exactly happened?"

The half-elf griffin cavalryman did not explain anything further. He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Roy: "This is a letter from Lord Mulin to you!"

Roy took the letter from Mulin and pulled out the paper inside.

After a while, Roy's face turned completely black. Those two Silver Moon Elf leaders were really stupid. If he had known that they would cause such trouble, he should have driven them back to Padstow.

"I'll go back to the Plateau City now!" Roy said to the village chief of Tiprado, "You will be responsible for building the lighthouse on this island."

"Boss Roy, just leave it to me. The port on the north coast has already been built, and this small lighthouse is even simpler..." Village chief Tiprado readily agreed.

Roy did not stay on the island any longer. He returned directly to the magic airship. Then all twelve floating devices on the magic airship were turned on. The magic airship quickly rose into the wind sphere and flew to the Caltim Mountains on the Pagisto Plateau.

……

In fact, there is currently no Silver Moon Elf Army in the entire Partington plane.

On the Partington plane, the largest force is the mine guard regiment commanded by Roy, followed by the Padstow Security Guard Regiment commanded by Captain Berkeley.

All the Silver Moon Elf officers under Captain Brad and Captain Treven totaled only one hundred and fifty people.

There was an incident in which a half-elf warrior deserted the army without permission at the silver mine in the Caldeum Mountains, and they were completely powerless to stop it.

The two Silver Moon Elf leaders realized that it was pointless to stay in the silver mines in the southern part of the Caldeum Mountains, so they followed the same route they had come, traversing the Caldeum Mountains and the wilderness with great difficulty, and returned to the Plateau City.

As for the two thousand half-elf warriors under their command, some of them ran back to the city of the plateau, some slipped into the spinel mines in the southern part of the plateau, and some simply fled to the northern part of the plateau, preparing to look for the half-elf rebels led by Captain Helic.

When Roy arrived at the silver mine in the southern part of the Caldeum Mountains on a magic airship, the two captains had already led their teams back to the Plateau City in a hurry.

The two Silver Moon Elf leaders planned to take the magic airship of the Plateau City and return to Padstow immediately.

As the governor of the Plateau City, Mulin naturally did not let the magic airship at the airport terminal set sail immediately. She had no idea what the two Silver Moon Elf leaders would do after returning to Padstow City, so she secretly suspended the normal operation of the magic airship and waited until Roy came back.

……

When Roy arrived at the City Hall of Plateau City, he met with Mulin first to learn about the current situation.

After hearing that the two Silver Moon Elf leaders were still stranded in the Plateau City, and hearing Mulin talk about some half-blood elves who escaped from the Caldeum Mountains and ran to the Plateau City to seek Mulin's protection, he said to Mulin: "I want to meet those half-blood elves and find out what happened!"

"I'll ask someone to call them over!" said Mu Lin.

An adjutant behind her immediately walked out of the hall, and soon brought more than fifty half-elves into the hall of the city hall.

Mu Lin then briefly described what happened, which was actually not much different from what Mu Lin wrote in the letter.

In general, these two Silver Moon Elf captains treated these half-elf warriors as free mine laborers. When facing the plateau headhunters, they were a group of elf warriors. When living in the abandoned silver mines, they were a group of free laborers. Even the lowest-level Silver Moon Elf team leaders did not need to work in the silver mines.

This kind of differential treatment completely ignited the pent-up anger in the half-elf warrior's heart.

Although there was no mutiny in the army, there was a large-scale desertion of the half-elf warriors.

Roy sighed and said to the group of half-blood elves:

"No matter what, you are all deserters. If you want to seek an explanation from everyone, I suggest you come with me to the Padstow Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters, and sit down and talk things out face to face. Otherwise, you should not return to Padstow City in the future. You can live well on the Padstow Plateau."

One of the middle-aged half-blood elves walked out of the crowd and said to Roy, "Boss Roy, I want to follow you to seek an explanation for everyone." Roy hesitated and said, "It might be dangerous to do so."

"Alonso, let's stay in the Plateau City. Don't go to Padstow City. Those Silver Moon Elves will not keep their word with us. How they deal with us will depend on their words..." Someone from the group of half-blood elves at the back advised.

The middle-aged half-blood elf named Alonso said calmly:

"I'm not afraid. There is no death penalty in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom. This is not our fault. No matter where I go, I will seek an explanation. If all the Silver Moon elves think they did nothing wrong, then we'd better not work for them in the future. Anyway, in the Partington plane, we can live well no matter what we do."

"Then I'll go too. I'm willing to stand up and prove that Captain Craven and Captain Brad are enslaving us!"

Someone among the half-blood elves spoke immediately.

Roy could see that these half-blood elves were also full of grievances...

Moreover, once this matter gets out of hand, it will inevitably cast a shadow again on the relationship between the Silver Moon Elves and the Half-Blood Elves.

Originally, with the lifting of the ban on the Partington plane, the relationship between the Silver Moon Elves and the Half-Blood Elves had eased.

"Okay. In the afternoon, a magic airship will sail to Padstow City. You guys come with me."

Roy hesitated and finally spoke.

He hoped that the Elf Elder Council in Padstow would be fair when hearing the case.

……

After a simple lunch, Roy came to the airport terminal next to the city wall and saw a large group of half-elf warriors waiting outside the airport terminal.

More than a hundred Silver Moon Elf warriors surrounded Captain Craven and Captain Brad, and were forming a defensive formation inside the airport terminal, confronting these half-blood elf warriors.

"What are you all doing here?"

Roy stood at the gate of the airport terminal, and the half-elf warriors immediately made way for him.

When the Silver Moon Elf warriors saw Roy, they did not retract their swords. Instead, they tightened their defensive formation even more nervously.

"Either you board the magic airship or get out of the way!"

Roy walked inside from the gate step by step, and saw that the Silver Moon Elf warriors were not moved at all, so he shouted at them coldly.

Roy walked in front of a Silver Moon Elf warrior, and the edge of the long sword in the Silver Moon Elf warrior's hand was almost touching Roy's magic pattern chest armor...

Hundreds of half-elf warriors suddenly appeared on the surrounding city walls. This group of half-elf warriors stood on almost all the commanding heights of the airport terminal. They held in their hands excellent quality elven magic longbows, and the sounds of the bowstrings being pulled mixed together and reached everyone's ears.

The Silver Moon Elf warriors at the entrance of the airport terminal retreated one after another, and all the Silver Moon Elves, including Captain Brad and Captain Craven, changed their expressions drastically.

Roy walked forward again.

With every step he took, two feather arrows would fall on both sides of his body.

The arrows were arranged in two straight rows, as if to open a passage for him.

The Silver Moon Elf warrior standing in front of him could only retreat in embarrassment...

"Captain Brad, Captain Craven, aren't you going to take this magic airship back to Padstow City? Why aren't you ready to get on board yet?" Roy walked directly to the two Silver Moon Elf captains and asked.

"Captain Roy, what are you doing..." Captain Brad asked, his face flushed and pale, as he stared at Roy with an uncertain expression.

"I'm going to Padstow too!" Roy said, and then he ignored the two of them and walked up the stairs to the terminal.

The half-elf warriors followed him and boarded the magic airship one after another.

At this time, Captain Brad and Captain Craven looked at each other, followed by the Silver Moon Elf Warriors, and prepared to board the magic airship...

When the two of them walked onto the platform, a half-blood elf from the airport dock stopped Captains Craven and Brad and said with a smile:

"Two captains, you haven't purchased the airship tickets yet. Each ticket is worth one magic crystal. There are exactly 157 of you. Please pay 157 magic crystals!"

"They..." Captain Brad was about to talk about the half-elf warriors in front of him, but was stopped by Captain Craven.

The two Silver Moon Elf captains stood on the airport platform in a state of exasperation, took out money bags from their magic waist bags, and together collected 157 magic crystals, before being allowed to pass by the half-elf employees.

Roy stood on the deck and didn't even look at the two Silver Moon Elf leaders. He asked the captain of the magic airship:
"Is the magic airship ready?"

The captain immediately stood up and said to Roy, "Boss Roy, get ready!"

"Let's set off immediately!"

Roy instructed the half-elf captain.

……

The magic airship, which was not carrying any cargo, arrived safely in Padstow City in the evening of the next day.

The magic airship docked at the Padstow Airport Terminal. The two Silver Moon Elf captains hurriedly left the magic airship with more than 150 Silver Moon Elf warriors and walked out of the airport terminal very quickly.

Roy discussed with the half-elf warriors who came by boat, and they decided that a group of elves would follow Roy to the Silver Pegasus military headquarters tomorrow morning to let the military headquarters mediate first. If the judgment given by the military was unfair, they would go to the Elf Elders Council to sue the two Silver Moon Elf leaders.

Roy then went to the supply warehouse in Padstow, met with Rambo, and talked about the current situation in Padstow.

Although Captain Berkeley knew some things, given his position, it was not easy for him to tell Luo Yiming.

So Roy asked Rambo to keep an eye on the situation in Padstow.

Sure enough, when I just met Rambo, I learned from him that an independent half-elves organization was stirring up trouble in Padstow. It had been quite a mess recently, and Captain Berkeley's security guards were in a state of panic every day...

(End of this chapter)