Path of Light.

Chapter 560 561. The answer that cannot be expressed

Coming to Partington Island again, Miss Christine had mixed feelings.

The mountain town of Partington Island was unexpectedly lively. Many elves were stranded at the dock, and the carrying capacity of the medium-sized sailing ships seemed unable to meet the needs of the elves.

There were many white canvas tents set up on the beach, and half-blood elves were running on the sand.

Almost half of the space in the town square was piled with supplies. There were many flatbed trucks pulling wooden boxes on the streets of the town, traveling between the dock and the square. Countless half-elf porters were sweating here.

Earl Swinburne led Miss Christine into the portal. Many images in the space rifts were extremely distorted. Miss Christine followed closely behind Earl Swinburne. Suddenly, a ripple appeared on the mirror-like picture in front of them. The scenery in front of them immediately changed into the central square of Padstow City. Looking to the south, there was a large rolling sea of ​​trees in the distance.

Behind Earl Swinburne and Miss Christine, there was a squadron of Silver Pegasus Knights, who were all Earl Swinburne's guards.

These silver Pegasus knights appeared in the central square, immediately attracting the attention of most of the elves in the square...

Many half-elves looked confused and fearful. They stood there, looking at Earl Swinburne and Miss Christine with cold eyes, making Miss Christine even feel a little cold all over.

As soon as I arrived in Padstow, I felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the city.

A group of elven merchants lined up in the central square, apparently preparing to leave the Partington plane.

Earl Swinburne took the reins from his personal guards, turned over and rode on the Silver Pegasus, leading a squadron of Silver Pegasus knights towards the Silver Pegasus military headquarters.

Miss Christine followed closely behind Earl Swinburne. The father and daughter were surrounded by a group of guards. The elves they met along the way all moved to the sides to avoid them.

There are shops on both sides of the street, and many of the shop signs have icons of magic herbs.

Miss Christine found that the city of Padstow had changed a lot. The last time she came to Padstow, there were not so many shops between the giant trees on both sides of the street. At that time, the city seemed very quiet, with large areas of shady trees everywhere.

Now some shops have been built between many giant trees, forming intricate streets in this forest city.

Through the gaps between the leaves, Miss Christine just saw a magic airship passing through the clouds and slowly descending...

There were some young half-blood elves on the streets. They walked briskly with baskets full of fruits in their arms. Occasionally, when a carriage stopped on the street, they would come to the window and hold the baskets high in their hands.

"Fresh apples, would you like to try some?"

A half-elf young man with long legs even had the courage to run to Miss Christine's side and raised the fruit basket in his hand above his head.

Miss Christine was a little curious, so she picked up a golden red apple and put it under her nose to smell it. The sweet fragrance of the apple made her feel much better...

Earl Swinburne happened to be next to Miss Christine. When he saw Miss Christine pick up an apple and then nothing else, he smiled silently, then took out a kolberg from the purse at his waist and threw it into the fruit basket.

The clever, long-legged half-elf young man grinned at Earl Swinburne and quickly ran to the side of the road before the guards could drive him away.

"Haven't you been to various planes with the adventure group? How come you can't even figure out the most basic buying and selling transactions?"

Earl Swinburne asked, looking at his daughter Christine lovingly.

"Although I have been out with many adventure groups to gain experience, I seldom buy things in my daily life!" Miss Christine answered innocently.

"I remember you came to the Partington plane and conquered the Griffin Barrier Mountains. How was it? Now you are back in the city of Padstow in the Partington plane. Is it different from what you remember?" Earl Swinburne asked curiously.

"It's become much more lively, and the whole city seems to have grown a lot..."

Miss Christine reached out to hold her long hair that was blown by the breeze in the forest and spoke casually.

Although the disappointment on his face was fleeting, it was still keenly captured by Earl Swinburne.

The adventure group she joined had traveled to several dimensions under the leadership of Instructor Nora.

The names of these planes are still remembered in Miss Christine's mind, including the Partington Plane, Rocky Mountain Plane, Hulan Plane, Emerald Plane, Chiramei Plane and so on.

However, the instructors no longer took this group of students with them on their adventure teams.

Roy later formed an adventure group called 'Zakarum', but did not invite her to join.

Miss Christine was unhappy about this for a long time...

Earl Swinburne and his entourage rode slowly along the street on Silver Pegasus and arrived at the square in front of the Silver Pegasus military headquarters.

The half-elves that had gathered here had long since dispersed. Although the square had been cleaned carefully, there were still many traces of the gathering left behind.

Captain Berkeley, with a team of half-elf warriors, was waiting respectfully at the edge of the square. When he saw Earl Swinburne riding towards him from afar, he quickly half-knelt down to salute... In fact, Captain Berkeley had received a report from the gate guards ever since Earl Swinburne walked out of the portal and entered the city of Padstow.

He even wanted to take Roy with him to the Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters to greet Earl Swinburne.

But Roy didn't want to come, so he made an excuse and slipped away.

Captain Berkeley did not inform General Kampfred, so he was the only one waiting here with his men.

Earl Swinburne had spotted Captain Berkeley waiting at the edge of the square long before. He pulled the reins of the silver Pegasus in front of Captain Berkeley, then lowered his head and looked at him...

Earl Swinburne didn't even say anything, but Captain Berkeley knew what the earl was unhappy about.

"…Don't explain. Just tell me! What happened here that caused the relationship between you and Kempfred to become so strained?"

Captain Berkeley's hand trembled slightly.

Earl Swinburne did not stay in the square to listen to Captain Berkeley's account of what happened, but came to the Tree of Life. He did not choose to walk into the Silver Pegasus Military Hall, but stood on a huge tree root, with a huge tree trunk nearly a hundred meters thick behind him.

Captain Berkeley stood beside Earl Swinburne and narrated the whole story in detail.

Earl Swinburne's face looked worse and worse. He placed one hand on the rough trunk, closed his eyes and chanted a few ancient elven spells. Suddenly, the Tree of Life seemed to wake up. Wrinkles appeared on the bark, and the area beneath the bark kept changing, slowly turning into a huge face.

The eyes, nose, and mouth all appeared very clear, but those huge eyes had no eyeballs, and there was no tongue or teeth in the mouth...

Earl Swinburne said nothing, but tilted his head, put his ear close to the huge face of the tree trunk, and listened quietly to the whispers of the Tree of Life.

Just as Earl Swinburne was quietly listening to the whispers of the Tree of Life, General Kempfred ran out of the hall breathlessly with a group of legion officers. His face was full of fear and his heart was full of uneasiness. He had clearly written a letter to Earl Macaulay for help, but he did not expect that Earl Swinburne would actually rush to the Partington plane in person.

Earl Swinburne listened for a while, then stood up straight. He turned around and stood with his hands behind his back, with no anger on his face.

Earl Swinburne's eyes fell on Kempfred, and his cold voice immediately lowered the temperature around him to freezing point:

"Kampfred, get out of the Partington plane immediately..."

……

At that time, the half-elf rebels captured the city of Padstow from Lord Alvis. Upon hearing the news, the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion immediately entered the Partington plane and drove the half-elf rebels to the Griffin Barrier Mountains.

At this point, the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion has completely occupied the Partington plane.

The occupation of the Partington plane was the most correct decision made by the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion in the past twenty years.

After the plane portal that had been sealed for six years was opened, the Partington plane entered a period of rapid development.

Originally, the Silver Moon Elves and the Half-Blood Elves had already established some basic trust, and the Silver Moon Elves merchants were also trying to contact the Half-Blood Elves here in a new way. The Partington Plane brought the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion an income of about 700,000 magic crystals this quarter, but this income completely offset the losses in the Queen Eweni Islands naval battle...

Even part of the pensions for the Silver Moon Elf warriors are paid from the Partington plane.

Now, due to an unfortunate decision made by Kempfred, the good relationship that had just been established between the Silver Moon Elves and the Half-Blood Elves in the Partington plane had completely collapsed.

Unfortunately, the Silver Pegasus Legion is currently short of manpower, and even the Queen Evian Islands are barely maintaining the situation.

At this time, not only did the Legion not have the troops to garrison the Partington plane, it even hoped that the half-elf guard regiment on the Partington plane could go to the Elf Continent and garrison on the outer islands of the Queen Eweni Islands.

But in this case, how could the half-blood elf take the initiative to join the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion?

Thinking of this, Earl Swinburne wanted to throw the unlucky General Kempfred to an isolated island outside the Queen Islands...

……

General Kampfred left in a very awkward manner.

Under the watchful eyes of a row of Silver Pegasus military officers, he didn't even have time to go to the office to retrieve his personal belongings before he was escorted by two Silver Pegasus knights to the portal to the central square.

Earl Swinburne's eyes fell on Captain Berkeley, and after a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Berkeley, how many elven guards are there in the Padstow City Security Guard?"

"???"

Captain Berkeley looked at Earl Swinburne helplessly, and didn't know how to answer for a long time.

(End of this chapter)