Path of Light.

Chapter 714 715. Padstow Parliament
The battle lasted until dawn, when the first rays of sunlight appeared over the sea.

Those faceless warriors began to retreat into the deep sea, and these dark faceless men soon hid in the dark abyss.

After the death of the Faceless Warriors, they would float on the sea and be constantly pushed to the beach by the waves. These corpses would quickly dissolve in the sea and turn into sticky black grease...

On the beach, the Dark Faceless warriors who were shot into ice sculptures by magic crystal arrows finally began to melt slowly after the sun appeared above the sea level.

At this moment, some murloc monsters are about to take advantage of the Dark Faceless Warriors' ice crystal state to smash their heads with hammers, eventually turning them into rotten meat without any vital signs.

That night, at least two thousand Faceless warriors died in the sea and shallows outside the Sun Island Bay.

After a whole night of fighting among the three thousand sirens, hundreds of them were entangled by the Faceless Warriors, their bones broken and they died. More sirens were injured to varying degrees, and their bodies were contaminated with extremely corrosive dark energy.

After a busy night, many of the priests of the Knights Templar had used up all their holy light power.

Captain Jelloin transferred a group of priests from the North Coast Camp to provide post-war treatment to the Siren Warriors. Roy saw that Alice was among them. He hadn't seen Leah for several days. Seeing Alice busy treating the injured Siren Warriors, he didn't go up to ask.

Instead, the mermaid Jie Zena dragged her tired body to Roy's side and rested against a sea rock.

"I didn't expect that fighting against the Dark Faceless Warriors would be like this. This victory was not easy to come by..."

Zeina sighed with emotion, then turned to look at Roy:

"But we still won! With the blessing of the divine arts, we used the weapons made by the elves to severely damage the Faceless Army. Now I feel like my whole body is falling apart. I am tired and sleepy, but I am too excited to sleep. Roy, can you understand how I feel now?"

"Is it that the anger accumulated in your heart is released all at once, and you see a glimmer of hope for victory ahead?" Roy looked at the group of human priests on the beach and asked Zeena.

Jie Zena shook her hair, letting the sea breeze blow through her, her long hair fluttering in the wind...

Then she looked toward the distant sea with her golden eyes and said in a low voice:
"They said that all the siren tribes in the western seas were dispersed by the Faceless Legion. At least three quarters of the siren warriors died at the hands of the Dark Faceless Warriors. Do you know how many sirens live in the western seas?"

Before Roy could answer, Zeena said to him, "There are at least 500,000 sirens."

After saying this, Jie Zena lowered her head and whispered, "I thought that this time the Faceless Legion would wipe out all the sirens in the western seas..."

Her eyes were full of bitterness.

"I have always believed that the Sirens are the strongest overlords in the western seas. Almost no force can become the Sirens' enemy, not even the half-blood elves living south of the Griffin Barrier Mountains. The elves can only live in the forest and have no way of occupying the ocean."

"It was not until the Faceless Legion showed up that I realized that the Siren Clan's true rival had appeared, and we were totally unprepared..."

Zeina said a lot to Roy...

Jie Zena also said that during the battle between the Sirens and the Faceless Warriors, the number of Sirens warriors strangled to death by the Faceless Warriors' tentacles was actually limited, and the greatest damage to the Sirens warriors came from the dark energy surrounding the Faceless Warriors' bodies.

Once a Siren warrior is contaminated by the dark energy, his body will be severely corroded by the dark energy.

The reason for the massive loss of the Siren Warriors was actually the dark energy of the Faceless Warriors...

But now the dark aura is no longer a concern for the Siren Warriors, because with the priests of the Knights Templar here, after the battle, the priests will purify the dark aura from all the Siren Warriors.

Another point is that the Faceless Warriors have an absolute advantage in strength.

The power blessings bestowed by the priests on the Siren Warriors just made up for this deficiency...

Furthermore... the Siren warriors are now equipped with magic weapons made by the elves. These magic weapons can ignore the tough skin of the Faceless warriors. When fighting, they can easily cut the bodies of the Faceless warriors with sharp swords.

The Siren Warriors are more agile in the sea...

Relying on their flexible bodies, they can constantly fight with the Faceless Warriors in narrow areas. When their strength and weapons are enhanced, the Siren Warriors become the advantage on the battlefield.

When the two sides were fighting in the sea, the advantage of the Siren warriors was not actually very obvious, but once the battlefield shifted to the sea or the beach, the casualties of the Faceless warriors would instantly increase.

The magic airship suspended in the air and the giant whaling crossbow built on the arrow tower on the top of the mountain will continuously shoot magic crystal arrows.

Once these magic crystal arrows hit the Dark Faceless Warriors, their bodies will quickly solidify into ice crystals.

These ice crystals can be easily broken, and the bodies of the Faceless Warriors frozen in the ice crystals will also shatter.

……

Over the next half month, the Faceless Legion in the western waters would send a large number of Faceless warriors to attack the Sun Island Bay almost every night.

Due to the serious casualties among the Siren Warriors in the early stage, Roy ordered them to retreat to the entrance of Sun Island Bay. Only the Faceless Warriors tried to rush into the Sun Island Bay. The Sirens would engage in a fierce battle with the Dark Faceless Warriors at the narrow bay entrance.

Recently, these faceless warriors also tried to cross the arc-shaped mountains and directly enter the Sun Island Bay. Unfortunately, due to the arrow towers and walls built by Roy between the mountains, the faceless warriors' smuggling plan failed.

In recent days, the Faceless Warlord has not appeared on the battlefield, which has also resulted in the Dark Faceless Army being unable to attack the Sun Island Bay...

The Faceless Legion and the Sirens on the Sun Island were in a stalemate in this state.

Every time the Faceless Warriors capture the Sun Island Bay, they suffer heavy casualties.

The entire sea outside the Sun Island Bay was also stained like ink by the bodies of the Faceless Warriors...

But the Siren Warriors won after all.

For a long time, some Dark Faceless Warriors were killed every day, and the Siren Warriors on the Sun Island even summed up a set of effective combat tactics.

The siren Jiezena, who led the siren warriors in close combat with the faceless warriors every day, was finally successfully promoted to a second-level warrior according to the notes left by Commander Alcesar in these frequent fierce battles.

She was only one step away from becoming a sea beast priestess.

In order to become a sea beast priest, she had to find an opportunity to enter the deep sea and sign a magic contract with a deep sea beast, so that she would be qualified to become the leader of the siren clan. Currently, the deep sea in the western sea area was occupied by the Faceless Legion, and Jie Zena could not enter the deep sea for the time being, so this matter had to be postponed.

The Dark Faceless Legion was unable to capture the Sun Island Bay, and the news spread quickly. Soon, some scattered sirens sneaked into the Sun Island Bay. They came from different sea areas, and most of them stayed in some remote corners of the western bay because their siren tribes were defeated by the Faceless Legion.

When these sirens heard that the sirens in the Sun Island Bay were resisting the Dark Faceless Legion, they all gathered here.

Roy had never expected that the number of Siren Warriors in the Sun Island Bay would increase. More and more Siren Warriors came every day, and the number of Siren Warriors increased from the initial 3,000 to more than 8,000 in more than a month.

The area of ​​Sun Island is limited, and even on the narrow beach inside the curved mountain range, there are many Siren camps stationed.

The situation in Sun Island Bay is gradually stabilizing...

……

Roy calculated the time and found that he had been guarding Sun Island Bay for nearly four months.

A large amount of war supplies were stored in the warehouse at the north shore dock of Sun Island Bay. These supplies were almost bought with all the wealth of Roy's mine guards, including giant whaling crossbows and magic crystal arrows, excellent quality thorium magic armor, excellent quality elven magic weapons, and so on.

The most elite half-elf warriors of the mine guard group also gathered in the Sun Island Bay.

Since the battlefield had been near the entrance to the Sun Island Bay and the main force was also the Siren Warriors, the 1412 elven guards of the mine guard regiment had never participated in the war. Therefore, in March 3, nearly mine guards returned to the Plateau City on a magic airship.

Five thousand plateau headhunters stayed in the Sun Island Bay, and they will continue to build the stone wall between the arrow towers on the mountain.

According to Roy's interruption, the height of this stone wall should be flush with the arrow tower. Roy even planned to build a gate with a width of 200 meters at the entrance of Sun Island Bay to completely block the entrance to Sun Island Bay.

But the first draft of the design of this gate has not been completed yet...

……

During this time, Miss Christine formed the Elven Elders' Council in Padstow.

There are twelve members in the Council of Elders. Roy and Chief Berkeley both became members of the Council of Elf Elders. In addition, Mulin, Resander and Captain Tiprado were also recommended by Roy and became members of the Council of Elf Elders in Padstow City as half-elves.

This means that Roy now has four votes from the Padstow Elf Elder Council...

However, since the establishment of the Elf Elder Council, Roy, Mulin, and Captain Tiprado have never appeared in the Padstow Elf Elder Council.

Only Lysander would occasionally attend a council of elders, but he would also sit in the corner of the meeting room and rarely speak.

Roy had even forgotten about becoming a member of the Elders Council for a while. After all, the war in Sun Island Bay had kept Roy very anxious for a while...

Roy didn't know that the hiring of half-blood elves as members of the Elf Elder Council had caused an uproar in the aristocratic circles of the Silvermoon Elf Kingdom two months ago. Half-blood elves serving as members of the Elder Council had never happened before in other places in the Silvermoon Elf Kingdom.

The Silver Moon Elf nobles accused Miss Christine of breaking the rules. How could a half-blood elf be qualified to join the Council of Elders...

In response to this, the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion, the controller of the Partington plane, issued a statement stating:

The Partington plane is a plane inhabited mainly by half-blood elves, who account for more than ninety-five percent of the total elven population. Therefore, the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion decided to give four seats to half-blood elves with outstanding achievements.

The names of Roy, Mulin, Leishande and Captain Tiprado appeared prominently on the statement...

This incident caused a lot of uproar in Padstow, but there was no movement at all in the Highland City and Sun Island Bay.

After the situation in Sun Island Bay stabilized, Roy finally found time to take the magic airship back to Plateau City.

Here, he heard Mulin talking about becoming a councilor of Padstow City, and Mulin also asked Roy whether the Highland City should also establish a Council of Elf Elders.

"Don't you think you have enough to do? For the time being, we will keep the Plateau City under martial law. This city was originally built to house prisoners of war from the Plateau Headhunters."

Roy said to Mulin, standing on a terrace at City Hall.

At this moment, the prisoner-of-war camp across the Tolai River outside the city had been completed. Many half-elf guards stood on the sentry tower. Roy casually asked Mulin:

"How many Plateau Headhunters are left in the prisoner-of-war camp now?"

"So far, there are still 22,000 plateau headhunters in the prisoner-of-war camp..." Mu Lin asked his assistant to take out an account book, checked it briefly and responded.

Roy was startled by Mu Lin's words. He turned his head and stared at Mu Lin and asked:

"How come there are so many prisoners? Did you also count the 5,000 prisoners in Sun Island Bay? Those prisoners will probably stay in Sun Island for a while."

"No, Captain Helic's army is still fighting in the northern tundra. They'll send over here any headhunters they capture along the way when they can gather a thousand or two thousand of them. In the past month, I've received two waves of prisoners of war from them." Mulin reported to Roy.

Roy frowned and said to Mulin:
"Write a letter to Captain Helic and ask him what he wants to do. The north is so cold and not very suitable for elves to live in. What's the point of expanding the territory there?"

"Got it, boss."

Mu Lin added, "The mines in the Caldeum Mountains have stopped working again. All the Silver Moon Elves have evacuated from the mines. Currently, all the mines in the Caldeum Mountains are vacant. Boss, should we take them back?"

Roy shook his head.
"Not necessary for now. I guess the situation in Queen Ewenni Islands is quite tense. All the Elf Guards should be withdrawn to Queen Ewenni Islands."

"Qianning went to the Nicobar Mountains to investigate the mines there. What was the specific situation?"

Roy asked Mulin again.

"Qian Ning said last time when he came back that the main tunnels of all the mines had been blown up, and the mines had been severely damaged by the mine owners. It would take a lot of manpower and material resources to rebuild them, and the mines might need to be redeveloped..."

(End of this chapter)