Path of Light.

Chapter 689 690. Taste
Nearly five hundred wind snake corpses were placed on the deck of the ship. The blood flowing out of the wind snakes' bodies had coagulated into black and purple blood scabs. Some blood seeped into the cracks in the deck, and the entire deck exuded a strong fishy smell.

Rather than saying that these wind snakes died at the hands of half-elves, it would be more accurate to say that they died from the high-altitude suppression of the magic airship and the free rain of magic arrows.

They are a group of third-level magical beasts that like to live in groups. They usually live in the stone pillar forest. As long as they hide in the stone pillar forest, even the griffins will have no way to catch them.

There was a fist-sized black magic core in the skull of each wind snake. When all the magic cores were disassembled, they filled a whole box.

When you take this kind of thing back, you have to grind off the hard skin on the surface, and inside you will find magic crystals of various properties. Generally, the magic crystals produced by wind snakes are mostly wind-attributed magic crystals, which are pure white translucent crystals.

In addition to the magic crystal, the most valuable item on these wind snakes is this wind snake leather.

Unfortunately, almost every wind snake's leather has several arrow holes, so its value is at least halved. Some leather is severely damaged, so the price may be further lowered.

After these wind snakes were transported back to the ship, several griffin riders began to process these magical beast materials. They were all very experienced hunters and knew how to deal with these wind snakes.

In addition to possessing some magical materials, the meat of wind snakes is the favorite food of griffins.

Therefore, the griffin riders hung the skinned and gutted wind snakes on the clothesline at the tail of the magic airship, each one like a dried eel.

Roy rarely saw the elves handle meat other than fish, but he didn't expect them to be so skilled in handling these wind snakes...

After the wind snakes in the entire stone pillar forest were hunted by the griffin cavalry, they hid in the cracks of the rocks or in the cliff nests. No matter how the griffin cavalry flew in the stone pillar forest, these wind snakes dared not run out...

The hunt in the stone pillar forest has finally come to an end.

Then the magic airships returned to the sea one after another...

The hunt was a great success, but the members of the Zakarum Adventure Group could only watch the battle from the deck of the magic airship.

Only Sabrina rode a white griffin and led a team of griffin cavalry to hunt wind snakes in the stone pillar forest, which made everyone quite envious...

Woods even squeezed next to Roy, put his arm around his shoulders and whispered to him: "Roy, let me join the Griffin Cavalry someday. I also want to raise a griffin and try the feeling of flying."

"If you want to become a beast tamer, you need to accept a series of tests from the Griffin Cavalry. Are you sure you can stick with it?" Roy asked Woods.

'Were the tests difficult?'

"It's probably a little harder than learning the owl transformation technique," Roy responded.

Woods immediately backed out and waved his hands, saying, "Forget it, it doesn't matter whether it flies or not. I'm actually a little afraid of heights."

The griffin riders did not continue to explore northward. It is said that after flying over the stone pillar forest, there is an endless primeval forest to the north of the stone pillar forest. Some high-level magic beasts above level five often appear in it. These magic beasts have a strong sense of territory and will attack any intruders without permission.

After completing so many hunts in the Dark Land with the great magician Grames, he is very familiar with the strength of high-level magical beasts above level five.

Roy knew that even if the half-elf warriors of the mine guards were equipped with high-end magic armor and weapons made by the Silver Moon elves, and the team had magic airships for supplies and griffin cavalry for air support, they could not make up for the gap in combat power between the two.

He didn't dare to provoke a level 5 monster, so Roy didn't want to take the risk of going to the monster forest...

At this time, Roy couldn't help but think of the great magician Grames.

If he were here, Roy would really dare to try his luck in this forest...

Now! Nothing can be discussed.

If you count carefully, Roy has been separated from the great magician Grames for nearly two months.

If Roy had not gone out to sea on the ship, he should have gone to the city of Wopeye at this time.

The design drawings for his thick leather armor made of frost dragon hide and the magic pattern array should be completed.

As long as these magic patterns are engraved on the thick leather armor, a new set of magic pattern construction will be initially completed...

From here on, the coastline has undergone some changes. The white sandy beach has been replaced by coastal cliffs more than ten meters high. At the same time, the coastline extends to the northwest, and the sea here is more vast.

Roy prepared to continue exploring northwest along the coastline.

After all, the sea monster Jie Zena reminded them that this area of ​​the sea has always been occupied by several sea beast priests. If their fleet mistakenly enters the territory of the sea beast priests, it is likely to anger these sea beast priests...

In order to avoid this unnecessary conflict, Roy led the fleet to continue along the coastline...

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The biggest advantage of taking a sailboat for an exploration trip is that everyone can rest leisurely on the boat, and the journey will not be very tiring...

After leaving the area of ​​the stone pillar forest, there are gradually more fjords on the edge of the coastline. There are many traces left on both sides of the canyons here after the disappearance of glaciers. Some canyons can serve as natural shelters.

When night falls, the Griffin Riders will seek a safe haven near the fleet.

All the magic airships gathered together. Some half-elf guards would even get off the boats and climb directly over the cliff rocks to the flat area on the top of the cliff, which was mostly covered with a layer of soft moss and grass.

The elf guards like to set up simple tents on the grass to rest, and these tents are filled with the fragrance of wild grass.

This is also the first time for everyone to get off the boat and relax after leaving Sun Island Bay in these days...

Hundreds of tents were set up on the green ground on the top of the cliff along the coastline, and there were even some elven warriors grilling fish in front of the tents.

When night falls, gusts of sea breeze blow towards us, instantly blowing away the scorching summer heat.

Everyone sat on a huge rock outside the tent.

Moira secretly complained to Roy: This Zakarum Adventure Group's adventure was a bit boring. They just sat on the boat and watched the sea all day. There was nothing else to do...

Roy couldn't help but pinch Moira's pink face.

Her face was very elastic and soft, and Roy liked to see her shy look...

Ever since Woods gave up becoming a griffin rider, he has become a young druid who likes to study magical herbs.

He said to Roy: Over-catching wind snakes will cause changes in the ecology of the Stone Pillar Forest.

Every time you hunt wind snakes, it is best to reduce the number of wind snakes to a minimum, and then try to ignore these wind snakes as much as possible, let their population gradually recover, and then organize a hunt...

Roy knew that allowing the monster population to grow and then looking for opportunities to hunt was called "raising pigs."

He was very happy to have such a hunting ground outside Sun Island Bay...

Miss Tiffany was lying on the grass next to Moira. She threw a water ball on her face to keep the surface of her skin hydrated... Miss Mermaid had no sweat glands or hairs on her skin, so her skin was extremely smooth and delicate, but this kind of skin also had a disadvantage, which was that it needed to be kept hydrated at all times.

She has been very busy these past few days. She usually travels alone in the sea near the fleet, and only sits with everyone to chat at night. She always monitors the movements in the sea to ensure that the fleet will not be attacked by the sea beast priests...

In fact, Miss Tiffany also felt very strange these two days, because the surrounding sea area seemed very quiet. After swimming in the sea for so many days, Miss Tiffany could not see even a single fishman or monster in the sea.

This sea area is obviously very close to the sea area of ​​the sea beast priests, but there is not even a shadow of the merman monsters to be seen here. This is very abnormal...

You should know that the living areas of the merfolk monsters are the shallow waters and beaches of the coastline, and many merfolk live like amphibious toads.

Although the coastline here is a rocky cliff, there are no merfolk or monsters to be seen under the cliff, which is a bit hard to understand.

Claire is the only elf in the Zakarum Adventure Group who has no interest in exploring.

His purpose in joining everyone on this outdoor adventure was to discuss music with Roy. He had not released any representative songs in recent times, and many music critics in Buenos Aires had a negative attitude towards Claire.

This time, Claire gave up everything she was doing and ran to the Partington plane to participate in the adventure team's training and expedition, just to talk to Roy about music.

In fact, Roy was quite speechless. When the two were in the Elf Academy, they were still unstable students who fought together. He originally composed the song "Blue Dane River" just for fun, but he didn't expect that Claire would never look back on the road of music...

Seeing Claire coming over, Moira tactfully returned to her sister and teased the white griffin.

"Roy, I've been thinking about what you mean by listening to the sounds of nature. In fact, I can hear a lot of melodies, but they are not as infectious and colorful as those you hear." Claire complained to Roy.

He was holding a notebook filled with musical notation. Roy felt dizzy at the first glance.

"Then you might as well try to fall in love. Only by savoring life carefully can you see the happy notes in life..."

Roy quickly gave his best friend some inspirational words.

Others were also listening quietly to Roy's words...

Roy took a deep breath and said to Claire:

"First, you need to calm down completely, empty your mind and feel the surroundings. For example, I can feel countless holy light particles floating around my body, I can see the direction of the wind around me, I can also see the beams of light falling from the stars in the night sky, and I can hear Moira's heartbeat like a drum..."

Moira and Sabrina sat back to back, and Moira blushed slightly when she heard Roy say this to her.

The waves continue to hit the reefs, and the sea under the starry sky is extremely deep...

Sabrina and Moira sat back to back on the grass, which reminded Roy of Kikyo and Ali. He couldn't help but blush, and said to his friend:
"Claire, listen carefully... that's the sound of the free wind pushing the waves against the rocks on the shore..."

"Forehead?"

Of course Claire could hear the sound of the waves, but she didn't understand what Roy wanted to express. While Claire was stunned, Roy began to hum with his mouth. In fact, he hummed very badly, and there was no musical instrument around him to accompany him. The soft humming was still extremely awkward at the beginning, but later he gradually got some feeling.

No one made a sound, and they listened quietly to Roy humming the tune of deep attachment and nostalgia...

Roy hummed the entire piece because he remembered it very well.

"Roy, does this melody have a name?" Claire wrote the song in her notebook with a pen, and then couldn't help asking Roy.

"Love that transcends time and space."

Roy didn't let Claire come up with a weird name.

When he said this, his throat felt a little dry and his voice trembled a little.

Before he knew it, he had been living in the elf world for so long, so long that he almost forgot all his previous memories.

The evening gathering ended in such a slightly sad atmosphere.

Roy crawled into the tent and lay down in the sleeping bag, but still couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

The sea breeze blew in through the tent curtains, carrying with it the whispers of Moira and Tiffany in the next tent.

There was a faint light coming from Claire's tent, so it was estimated that he would not be able to sleep that night.

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In the cabin of the magic airship, Leah and Alice sat side by side, with their four white little feet stretched into the same wooden basin.

Two people are washing their feet.

The ship was parked very steadily, and occasionally the sound of crew members talking could be heard on the deck outside.

"Alice, I want to talk to Roy and join their adventure team. Look, his friends are all young elves. There is no reason for them not to accept us." Leah whispered to her sister.

"I heard that his friends all graduated from the same academy and have a very good relationship with each other, so they formed this adventure group."

Alice said with some concern.

"As long as we can prove that we are not a burden and can help him, he won't reject us!"

Leah always says this.

Hearing what Leah said, Alice became even more worried: "But we have been out of the dark land for so long, and I found that we have never been able to help him once."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Leah was also a little dazed, and began to recall what had happened recently, but it seemed that nothing had happened.

The two were talking in a low voice in the room when Leah suddenly narrowed her eyes. She narrowed her eyes like a kitten that smelled the scent of fish and wrinkled her nose to sniff around.

"Liya, what's wrong with you?" Alice asked puzzledly.

"I should be able to smell the scent of darkness, although it is very faint..."

As she spoke, Leah stepped out of the basin barefoot, and her wet feet left a line of water stains on the floor. Leah walked to the window and pushed open the cabin window with force. A fishy and salty sea breeze blew into the room. In the wet sea breeze, the faint dark air seemed more obvious.

This sea breeze blows from the sea.

Leah looked at the direction where the sea breeze was coming from, and swiftly ran through the window to the observation deck on the top of the ship.

(End of this chapter)