Path of Light.

Chapter 717: Battle of Queen Island

The eight magic airships were uniformly equipped with whale-hunting heavy crossbows, and each magic airship carried five hundred half-elf guards. When the floating device was fully operational, the magic pattern array sprinkled patches of light blue starlight around the airship.

When passing through the portal, all the half-blood elves in the square were cheering, and some were even calling out "Boss Roy".

Then eight magic airships appeared in the sky above Partington Island, rising quietly from the cracks in the mountain.

Roy stood at the bow. He saw a team of silver Pegasus knights flying into the sky from the dock of Partington Island. When they came and wandered around the magic airship, they happened to see Roy standing at the bow and the half-elf guards on the deck.

The Silver Pegasus Knights saluted Roy and then returned to the dock at Partington Port.

Today, Partington Island has become a supply transit station for the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion.

A large amount of war supplies were stored in the warehouse at the port terminal of Partington Island. Originally, it was just an island terminal that could only dock three medium-sized sailing ships. After just a few years of development, it has now expanded to accommodate twenty medium-sized sailing ships...

This is the most important shipping hub from the Elf Continent to the Queen Ewenni Islands. Medium-sized sailing ships dock and depart every day.

All supplies sent from the Partington plane must be sent out from the Partington Island Pier.

Most of these supplies will be sent to Castletown Port, and then from Castletown Port to various parts of the Silvermoon Elf Kingdom.

Since there are currently nearly one million half-elves gathered on the Partington plane, the Partington plane has become the subsidiary plane that supplies the most resources to the outside among the many planes of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom.

It was also because of the huge tax revenue and abundant resource supply from the Partington Plane that the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion was able to garrison in the Queen Eweni Islands for so long, and the logistics line of the Legion never collapsed...

The 17th Silver Pegasus Legion stored a large amount of military supplies in a warehouse on the port dock of Partington Island, and a steady stream of supplies were delivered to the Queen Evian Islands every day.

Under Roy's instructions, the magic airship did not stay on Partington Island. After flying out of the gap in the mountain, it climbed towards the wind layer.

In the wind sphere, the magic airships began to speed up towards the Queen Eweni Islands...

A medium-sized sailboat sails from Partington Island to the Queen Ewenni Islands, and it takes about a day and a night to reach the main island of Queen Ewenni.

But the magic airship rose into the wind layer, and three hours later, Roy saw Queen Island.

Standing on the ship's tower, Roy faced the fierce wind in the wind layer and saw an archipelago disappearing from his sight...

I still remember the first time I led the mine guards to Key West. At that time, the mine guards came to the island on a medium-sized sailing ship, and the half-blood elf warriors had nothing in their hands...

After being stationed on the island for several months, Roy took away eleven three-masted sailing ships when he left.

It was these eleven three-masted sailing ships that, after being transformed into magic airships, accelerated the development of the Partington plane.

As the Sun Island Bay was incorporated into the territory of the Partington plane occupation area, these magic airships headed for Golfito Canyon, and Roy's mine guard group was also growing stronger.

Now the number of half-elf warriors in Roy's mine guards has reached 20,000, not including 2,200 griffin cavalry and 1,500 assassin warriors. He also has more than 8,000 siren warriors in the Sun Island Bay, and more than 20,000 highland headhunter prisoners of war...

On the Partington plane, the mine guard's chariot has expanded into an extremely large battleship.

Eight magic airships came to the Queen Eweni Islands to participate in the war. In fact, Roy also had a selfish motive. He planned to seize some more gray dwarf three-masted sailing ships...

This three-masted sailing ship built by the gray dwarves has a reasonable structure and is very strong. With the addition of a flotation device, it requires almost no structural reinforcement and can be used as a magic airship.

In comparison, the Silver Moon Elves' medium-sized sailing boat is much thinner, and the hull will be deformed when it leaves the water. Even with the flotation device, it cannot fly into the sky.

Moreover, the hull of a medium-sized sailboat is relatively small, and its stability will be very poor after entering the wind flow layer...

Eight magic airships broke into the airspace of Queen Island. In addition to the huge island standing in the sea, Roy also saw nearly a hundred three-masted sailing ships gathered in the eastern waters of Queen Island.

At this moment, Roy wanted to rush over and shout loudly to the gray dwarf bandits on the three-masted sailing ship:

"Don't move, everyone get off my boat..."

The magic airship had slowly descended from the clouds. At this time, bursts of attack horns were heard from the blue sea, and the entire sea surface seemed to be boiling because of the sound.

The gray dwarf bandits were so powerful this time that Roy made a preliminary estimate. If every ship was full of gray dwarf bandits, there would likely be nearly 100,000 gray dwarves on the more than 100 three-masted sailing ships.

The total number of troops of the entire 17th Silver Pegasus Legion distributed in the Queen Evenny Islands could not exceed 50,000. After all, the number of Silver Moon Elves was small, and there were even fewer Silver Moon Elves willing to join the army.

Of course, there is also a good side. The 17th Silver Pegasus Legion has absolute air superiority in the Queen Evenny Islands. After all, there are four Silver Pegasus Knights stationed here for a long time.

The horn sounded, and all the three-masted sailing ships drew waves on the sea...

With sails hoisted, the three-masted ship attacked with all its might.

Opposite the gray dwarf bandits were nearly a hundred medium-sized sailing ships. This fleet was completely outmatched when facing large three-masted sailing ships that were seventy or eighty meters long on the sea.

The gray dwarf bandits even crashed into the cannons on the three-masted sailing ship. When the charge horn sounded, these cannons that spewed solid iron projectiles began to emit white smoke.

Pumpkin-like iron bullets flew out from the sailboat of the gray dwarf bandits, and could only create small splashes in the sea. However, once these iron bullets hit the medium-sized sailboat of the Silver Moon Elves, they would almost directly smash big holes in the hull of the medium-sized sailboat.

Some projectiles would even break the masts of medium-sized sailing ships, and when they landed on the Silvermoon Elf guards, most of them would have broken bones and tendons. Some Silvermoon Elf guards would be directly smashed to pieces by the iron balls ejected from the cannons.

The moment the charge sounded, the medium-sized sailing ships of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion began to collapse.

There wasn't even a real confrontation between the two sides...

There were countless silver Pegasus knights scattered in the sky. These silver Pegasus flapped their white wings and circled back and forth in the sky. The silver Pegasus knights held long javelins in their hands and threw them at the three-masted sailing ship. For a moment, the javelins fell like raindrops.

It was basically difficult for these javelins to damage the hull of the three-masted sailing ship. The Silver Pegasus Knights were almost all aiming at the gunners on the deck...

These javelins fell from great heights, and once they hit the gray dwarf artillerymen, even if they were wearing barrel helmets, these magic spears would pierce their bodies directly and nail them to the deck.

Soon, a group of gray dwarves wearing full dwarf chain mail and holding tower shields in their hands completely covered the deck of the three-masted sailing ship, and they would not retreat even if spears fell repeatedly from the sky.

As for the cannons on the three-masted sailing ship, they were also firing frequently.

The medium-sized sailing ships of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion quickly retreated to the Queen's Island dock, and the fleet of three-masted sailing ships also rushed directly to the Queen's Island dock... There were ten ancient war trees lined up on the Queen's Island dock. These ancient war trees were sixty to seventy meters tall. Behind them was a large shoal covered with sea reefs. On the crowns of the ancient war trees stood countless Silver Moon Elves carrying forest bows. There were so many that they could not be counted...

Looking at the large number of three-masted sailing ships on the sea, the Silvermoon Elf guards on Queen's Island became extremely nervous, especially the medium-sized sailing ships that almost fled back to the port dock. It was clearly stated in the battle plan that the medium-sized sailing ships were to attract the Gray Dwarf fleet to the edge of the pirates, but when such a scene of collapse appeared on the sea, almost all the Silvermoon Elf guards felt a little weak at this moment.

There was a large amount of artillery fire from the three-masted sailing ship. The shells of these artillery pieces were solid and the damage caused was very limited, but the damage to the medium-sized sailing ship was still serious.

Now the gray dwarf bandits filled all the decks. They raised their tower shields that were not full of iron nails and almost avoided all the javelins of the silver Pegasus knights in the sky.

The three-masted sailing ship in the front was moving very fast and rushed to the shallows of the port dock with an almost unstoppable momentum.

A large number of gray dwarves jumped onto the beach along both sides of the ship and approached the pier of Queen's Island along the beach.

The ten ancient war trees on both sides of the dock used their strong wooden arms to roll up the sea rocks and began to smash them onto the three-masted sailing ships. The three-masted sailing ships were constantly broken by the huge rocks.

The Silver Moon Elves on the ancient war tree took advantage of their height to rain arrows at the gray dwarf bandits rushing towards the front of the port.

Unfortunately, these gray dwarf bandits relied on their strong physiques. Not only did they wear iron barrel-like helmets, but they also held door-like tower shields outside their dwarf chain mail. The rain of arrows shot from ordinary forest bows could hardly hurt the gray dwarf bandits.

The first few thousand gray dwarf bandits rushed onto the beach, and some of them rushed onto the port dock, where they engaged in close combat with the Silvermoon Elf guards.

The elves' magic armor is exquisite and light, and their weapons are flexible and sharp. The gray dwarf bandits wear heavy armor, hold tower shields, and carry war hammers or giant axes in their hands. They rush forward and destroy all resistance in their eyes.

The elven warriors used their flexible bodies to fight with the gray dwarf bandits. They tried to stab their swords through the gaps in their armor and deal a fatal blow to the gray dwarves.

The gray dwarf bandits would take the opportunity to lock the elves' weapons with their armor. If they did not let go of their weapons, their heads would be smashed in an instant by the gray dwarf warriors with hammers.

As more and more gray dwarf bandits came ashore, nearly half of the port dock was soon lost.

The silver Pegasus knights in the sky were unable to cause any damage to the shield-wielding gray dwarf bandits on the deck, so they flew over the docks and fought against the Silver Moon Elf guards on the auxiliary port docks...

But the Silver Pegasus Knights of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion are the main combat units on the battlefield.

Once the Silver Pegasus Knights assist in fighting on the battlefield, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

The ten ancient war trees could only destroy the three-masted sailing ships that kept docking at the port. A large number of gray dwarf bandits boarded the medium-sized sailing ships and began to plunder the Silver Moon Elf warriors on the medium-sized sailing ships.

The entire Queen's Island was filled with smoke...

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Earl Swinburne, standing on the observation deck high above the Tree of Life, frowned. He and other high-ranking officers of the legion had not expected that the Gray Dwarf bandits would be so determined in their attack this time. They were determined to capture Queen's Island at all costs.

Without the support of all parties in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom, the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion's battle line at the port dock was already showing signs of collapse.

Some military officers even advised Earl Swinburne:
"My Lord Earl, the gray dwarf bandits have successfully landed on the island. For safety reasons, the legion headquarters should leave the island in advance."

"The battle has just begun, and the outcome is still undecided. Have you, the staff officers, already started to consider the evacuation plan?"

asked Lord Swinburne, somewhat crossly.

Several Silver Moon Elf advisors at the side lowered their heads in shame, but still gritted their teeth and insisted, "Please ask the Earl to leave the island in advance..."

The Silver Pegasus Knights joined the battle at the port dock and threw short flying spears from the sky, immediately blocking the attack of the gray dwarf bandits.

However, the scale of the gray dwarf bandits this time was quite large. As the three-masted sailing ship behind continued to approach the port, more gray dwarf bandits rushed onto the port dock.

At this moment, someone pointed at a few black spots under the clouds in the sky and shouted, "Look, what are those?"

"It looks like a magic airship!"

"It must be the magic airship of the gray dwarf bandits. Quickly send the Silver Pegasus Knights to intercept it!" Some high-ranking military officers could not help but shout out.

"Wait, those magic airships look like they're from the Partington plane..."

A leader of the Silver Moon Elf Guard couldn't help but shout.

More senior officials began to notice the magic airship descending rapidly from the sky.

"Isn't it said that the Partington plane is under attack by the Dark Legion? Isn't Captain Roy setting up a defense line in the southern part of the plane?" Earl Macaulay leaned close to Earl Swinburne and asked in a low voice.

Earl Swinburne squinted his eyes and looked up at the sky. The magic airship in his eyes became clearer and clearer. He could even see the flag flying on the airship.

His eyes gradually brightened...

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Roy didn't expect the fleet to arrive at the Queen Eweni Islands at the right time...

A large number of medium-sized sailing ships of the Silver Pegasus Legion were surrounded by three-masted sailing ships around the port terminal. A group of gray dwarf bandits at the front of the fleet actually managed to land on the island. The Silver Pegasus Knights and Silver Moon Elf Guards worked together to defend the port terminal.

However, more and more gray dwarf bandits rushed out of the three-masted sailing ship, and they kept moving closer to the port.

The elves fought against the ten ancient war trees, but their space was squeezed out by the gray dwarf bandits, and the port dock was full of the gray dwarf bandits.

Roy urged the captain to make the magic airship descend quickly.

The captain was worried that the magic airship was falling too fast and the buoyancy device would not be able to stabilize the falling momentum of the magic airship, causing it to crash next to the port. He had to keep the six buoyancy devices operating normally.

Roy could only ask the half-elf warriors to aim their whale-hunting crossbows at the three-masted sailing ship of the gray dwarf bandits...

Magic explosive arrows flew out from the magic airship, like meteorites from the sky continuously falling onto the three-masted sailing ship, and then balls of fire appeared in Roy's eyes.

(End of this chapter)