Path of Light.

Chapter 684 685. Rejection
In the lobby of the Plateau City Hall, three captains of the Silver Moon Elf Guard were waiting in the lounge area with depressed looks on their faces.

All the civil servants in the city hall are half-elves, and this matter has made them complain privately for a long time...

Now the three of them came to visit Captain Roy of the mine guard regiment, and the front desk asked them to sit in the lounge area and wait for a while, which made them even more dissatisfied.

"What does Captain Roy mean by this? He is clearly at the same level as us, yet he is putting on airs with us. No wonder the Silver Moon Elves in Buenos Royal City who are denouncing him have almost filled the entire Music Plaza!"

Captain Talista said sarcastically with some impatience.

"Keep your voice down. If you don't want us to get even more embarrassed, just bear with it... at least don't lose your temper here, because your bad temper will not only not help us on this trip, but will even affect us." Captain Carlos patted his old friend on the shoulder and whispered.

He had known Talista for a long time and knew that his old friend had a bad temper and was a proud Silvermoon Elf noble.

"Why do you have to keep your voice down? There's nothing you can't say!"

Captain Talista stared and spoke bluntly.

The three Silver Moon Elf Captains waited in the rest area for a while before being led into a reception room by a half-elf lieutenant. Roy was waiting in the reception room and immediately smiled politely when he saw the three Silver Moon Elf Captains walking in from outside.

Roy heard from Mulin that as early as a year ago, the 17th Silver Pegasus Military sent three captains of the Elf Guard to develop the silver mines in the Caldeum Mountains.

The three captains of the Silver Moon Elf Guards learned from the previous failure and brought three Silver Moon Elf Guards to be responsible for mine safety issues.

As for the miners, they did not hire half-elves from the local area, but transferred nearly two thousand gray dwarf prisoners from the prison on the island of Palram. The leaders of the Silver Moon Elves arranged a large number of elf supervisors in the mine. They followed the gray dwarf prisoners with shackles on their feet into the mine tunnel, first cleaned up the collapsed mine tunnel, and then continued to mine silver along the ore veins.

This time, the leaders of the Silver Moon Elves did not hire a single half-elf. It was heard that the three silver mines in the Caldeum Mountains were developing very smoothly.

But since there was not a single half-elf miner in the three mines, Mu Lin had no idea what was going on in the mines...

I heard that the three mines are very profitable. The magic metal ingots smelted continuously in the three mines are often transported to Padstow City on the magic airships of the mine guards.

"Three of you, you come to the City Hall so early. What can I do for you?" Roy asked tentatively while making tea for them.

The leaders of the Silver Moon Elves all forced out an awkward smile at the same time...

"Captain Roy, we came to you this time because we want to talk to you about the Caldeum Mine!" Captain Carlos forced an unnatural smile and said to Roy.

"Please continue..."

Roy gestured to Captain Carlos.

"We operate three silver mines in the Castim Mountains of the Pagisto Plateau. After more than a year of operation, the three silver mines are now able to operate normally and have achieved profitability. However, we are not very good at running mines, so after some struggle, the three of us unanimously decided that professional matters should be left to professional elves..." Captain Carlos said very tactfully.

"So we rushed from the Castletown Mountains to the Plateau City in the hope that you, Captain Roy, can acquire these three sites and allow the three silver mines to continue to operate normally."

"As for us... we can return to the Queen Ivne Islands, because recently the traces of the gray dwarf fleet have appeared again in the outer waters of the Queen Ivne Islands." Captain Carlos said to Roy very earnestly.

"Captain Roy, we want to give you the three silver mines, so we hope that the income from the mines can be divided into three parts in the future. First of all, the income of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion cannot be changed in any way. As for the remaining half of the income, I think we can divide it equally. After all, we have invested a huge amount of manpower and material resources to restore the abandoned mines to normal operation in the early stage..."

Captain Carlos spoke a lot in an eloquent manner, and Roy listened very carefully.

Only after Captain Carlos finished speaking did Roy smile and nod at him and say:

"This is indeed an interesting proposal. Two years ago, at your strong request, I gave up the three silver mines in the Caldeum Mountains and handed them over to you to operate. Two years later, the three mines can operate normally. You will return the mines to me, but ask me for a 25% dividend..."

"I have to say, this suggestion is very good..."

When Roy said this, he suddenly stopped talking:
"...But my mine guard group is currently limited in size. I don't have enough manpower to manage so many mines. You three may know that I just came back from Golfito and I don't know much about the situation on the Pagisto Plateau."

"Next, I have to restore the normal operation of more than a dozen mines in the Nicobar Mountains, so I have no ability to take over the silver mines in your hands."

"Since the silver mines you three have managed have already achieved profitability, I believe there must be many captains of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion who are interested in this. You three might as well ask the military to arrange some more personnel!"

Roy stopped talking at this point...

The three Silver Moon Elves leaders looked at each other in surprise when they heard Roy say this.

The three of them had never expected that Roy would not take over the three silver mines.

In fact, although these three mines are currently profitable, this is also based on the fact that all the miners are free gray dwarf prisoners of war. Moreover, running the mines is really too strenuous. Some Silvermoon Elf warriors have to be sent into the mines to act as supervisors every day, and the Silvermoon Elf guards are very dissatisfied with this.

These Silver Moon Elf warriors have protested countless times in the past six months.

The three team leaders also wanted to hand over the silver mine while Roy was around and then withdraw.

They thought that Roy would gladly accept their offer to give up the silver mine. After all, what was dug out from the mines were silver ores and associated ores, which were very valuable if melted into silver ingots...

But unexpectedly, Roy politely declined.

After the three Silver Moon Elf captains left the reception room with disappointment on their faces, Roy pondered for a while before saying to the adjutant guarding the door:

"Go and invite Mu Lin over!"

The adjutant quickly agreed and turned to walk towards a room across the corridor.

Roy took out a quill from the ink bottle and began to carefully write a notice on a large piece of parchment on the table.

(End of this chapter)