Path of Light.

Chapter 856 857. One Night After the War

Mulin asked the clerks to put all the account books on the table so that they didn't have to wait in the tent.

These clerks still had to go to the square to count the supplies that had just arrived, so they left the tents one after another. In a blink of an eye, the tent became deserted, with only two elf guards guarding the door.

Roy leaned back in his chair and responded to Mulin: "I plan to let them stay and build the seawall."

"Are you going to let those imperial merchants go to the beach to dig rocks?"

Mulin asked, staring at Roy with wide eyes.

Roy nodded, without further explanation, and said to Mu Lin:

"As for those gray dwarf prisoners, send them all to the Plateau City. The capable ones should be sent to the forging workshop, and the incompetent ones should be sent to the mines. You will be returning there in a few days, so you can take them back with you."

"These things also have to be arranged on my head!"

Mu Lin said with some dissatisfaction, then she placed her hands on the table and asked Roy:
"Will this deter other merchants from coming to trade with you?"

Roy hesitated for a moment before saying calmly:
"It may be affected to some extent, but it won't be to the extent that all merchants in the empire will stop trading with us. After all, the magic herb market is currently a supplier market. Besides, I don't want to do business with those slave traders. Later, I may contact the Naga Sea Clan of the Nozahak tribe to jointly crack down on the slave ships in this sea area and try to get rid of all the slave traders operating in the area around Kui Island."

Mulin was not at all surprised by Roy's resolute attitude in cracking down on slave traders.

He had done the same thing on the Pagisto Plateau.

Mulin knew that Roy had a very paranoid hatred for these slave traders.

She knew about Roy's encounter with Captain Ralph in Castletown Harbor, and how his two best friends had turned against each other because of the gray dwarf treasure...

Perhaps it was because of those experiences that Roy hated slave traders even more than most half-elves.

Mu Lin had been busy in the tent all day. She stretched her sore arms and said with some regret:

"I had originally planned to stay on Que Island for a few more days, but I didn't expect to have to go back to Padstow so soon."

Roy looked at the empty camp outside. Almost all the half-elf guards who could be sent out were in the jungle trying to capture the fleeing gray dwarf bandits. This island was not big, but it was definitely not small either.

These gray dwarf bandits are scattered in the jungle, and it will probably take some effort to catch them all.

So he said:
"We still have to wait for a few days. At present, at least half of the gray dwarf bandits are still playing hide-and-seek with us on the island. I estimate that even if Captain Tennyson organizes a capture operation, it will take several days..."

Mulin curled her lips. She didn't want to say a word about that madman Tennyson.

When he is not crazy, he is just a ball of air. When he is crazy, he is your shadow...

……

There were still a large number of half-blood elves patrolling the Kuei Island Pier at night. Several three-masted sailing ships and magic airships moored at the port pier had dozens of lanterns hung on them, which illuminated almost every corner of the ship.

There were also some crew members on duty on the ship, and it seemed that the security at the dock and riverside was more stringent at night.

More than 7,000 gray dwarf prisoners gathered in the forest square.

These gray dwarf prisoners were shackled, and most of them had the blood stains on their bodies still not wiped off. They had to stand in the team with their injuries, waiting to pass through the magnificent portal in front of them.

The army that escorted them from Que Island into the city of Padstow was the elven guards of the Security Guard.

These gray dwarf prisoners will be held in a temporary prisoner-of-war camp on the outskirts of Padstow in the next few days.

The security guards have also returned to Padstow one after another. After all, they usually have to maintain the security of Padstow...

This forest city has a half-elf population of over one million, but the security guard corps is seriously short of elf guards.

The Security Guard has been recruiting elven guards, but due to various unexpected events, the Padstow City Security Guard has a very bad reputation. Currently, the elven guards willing to join the Security Guard are all half-elves who have newly immigrated to the city of Padstow.

As soon as the situation on Kui Island stabilized, the elven guards of the Security Guard Corps hurried back to Padstow City.

The square in the woods was filled with onlookers. These half-elves had just arrived at Kuei Island. They didn't even fully understand Kuei Island yet, so they were naturally very curious about the world inside the portal.

It is said that the door is behind Partington. Many half-blood elves in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom have heard various rumors about Partington's plane...

Now seeing the half-elf guards escorting the gray dwarf prisoners into the Partington plane, a group of onlookers were also extremely yearning.

"Do you know? Partington is behind the door. I heard that the forest over there is full of magical herbs. Even the weeds on the roadside are hemostatic herbs..."

"I know! Boss Roy started out in the magic herb business. It is said that he monopolized the trade of primary magic herbs by himself. Now, the magic herb trade of the entire Partington plane is probably in his hands."

"Have you ever met Boss Roy? I heard he looks really scary..."

"Keep your voice down. There are elf guards everywhere here. If they hear you, your life will be over."

A group of half-elves sat under a tree and chatted.

Roy walked alone through the quiet forest path. Not far away was a group of tree houses built around the forest square. Almost all of the half-blood elves he brought back from Castletown Harbor, the elf slaves he brought back from the Lost Sea, and the half-blood elves rescued from the imperial merchant ships were arranged to live in those tree houses.

These half-blood elves are full of curiosity about the island of Que, and they also like to talk about the rumors and interesting stories of the Partington plane.

Of course, a lot of the time, 'Boss Roy' was the focus of these stories, and Roy even sometimes heard stories about his own affairs...

Some tree houses were lit up, and some elves could be seen vaguely inside the houses.

Unlike the bustling square in the woods, the beach was still under martial law at the moment. Apart from the half-elf guards patrolling back and forth, the beach seemed empty.

It was low tide at the moment, and a large area of ​​beach was exposed...

Although it was night, dark clouds could still be seen in the night sky.

The sea surface was a dark blue, with occasional waves rising up, as if some Naga sea creatures came out to swim at night.

Those Naga mermaids have beautiful fish tails, nice figures, innocent faces, and sweet voices. I heard that they always like to sit on the rocks, combing their hair and singing...

When the elves hear the beautiful singing, they will be lured into the sea by these Naga mermaids.

As long as they drink a cup of poison brewed by the witch, their legs will turn into fish tails, and they can only live in the sea for the rest of their lives.

This story was told to her by her mother when she was very young.

When Wendy was a child, she was very afraid of the Naga sea tribe and the seaside.

When she grew up, she was sold to Plusterton Island in the Lost Sea by slave traders. She saw the Naga mermaids locked in cages in the sea and found that they were actually living a worse life than she was...

It was already late, Miss Sabrina hadn't come back, Miss Moira hadn't come back, and Boss Roy was nowhere to be seen.

The lemon tea she had prepared had gone cold, the bathtub was filled with water, and the whole house was empty. Wendy felt a little flustered, so she sat on a small wooden pier on the terrace, staring blankly at the dock.

A cool breeze blew over, and she hugged her snow-white arms with both hands...

At this time, footsteps were heard. Wendy didn't even see any figure, but she saw a silver boot thrown on the terrace, followed by another silver boot. Although the two boots were washed by sea water, they were full of strong smell of blood.

Sabrina stretched out her long legs, jumped in from outside the terrace railing, and stepped barefoot on the ground.

Wendy walked over quickly and helped her untie the heavy, full-body thorium armor. She clearly remembered that the armor looked brand new in the morning, but after just one day of not wearing it, the breastplate had become pitted and there was a big tear on the left leg of the trouser armor.

When she helped Sabrina take off all the armor, Wendy covered her mouth in surprise.

Sabrina's leather armor lining and the linen petticoat underneath were almost all stained with brown blood, and her left leg was bandaged, but Sabrina did not limp when she walked. She looked a little tired, and she slowly lay down on the rattan chair on the terrace, with her left hand covering her ribs.

She pointed to the two long swords placed outside the railing and said to Wendy:

"Wendy, help me hang the two swords in the house and give me a cup of lemon tea."

"Okay, come right away!"

Wendy quickly picked up the two very heavy swords and ran into the house. She saw that the blood had stained the hilts into a dark brown color...

Sabrina walked out quickly with a cup of lemon tea. She was unbuttoning her lining. She lifted the leather armor and checked her left ribs.

"The bath water is ready, do you want to take a bath?"

Sabrina took out a potion bottle as thick as a finger from her magic waist bag. She poured the sap of the tree of life into the lemon tea and drank it in one gulp. She felt like she was alive again. She walked into the room while taking off her bloodstained clothes.

Once Sabrina was completely immersed in the tub, the warm water enveloped her entire body, and Sabrina even submerged her head in the water.

Wendy stood aside, ready to soak the blood-stained clothes in the basin, but found that the entire bathtub water was dyed red.

The clothes she was holding fell directly into the basin...

Sabrina stretched her hands out of the bathtub, rested her arms on the edge of the bathtub, and slowly sat up from the bathtub. Her skin finally regained its pearly luster...

Although there were no visible wounds on her body, there were several black and blue bruises on her chest and back, the most serious of which was on her left rib.

But she just sat in the bathtub with her eyes closed, not caring at all.

"Are you scared?"

Wendy shook her head quickly, lowered her head and whispered:
"I know that the elves on the island have been fighting the gray dwarves all day, and this time we won."

"When those gray dwarf bandits rushed into our village, the elves in the village were unable to defeat them. I still can't forget the tragic scene in the village!"

Sabrina sat in the bathtub, staring at Wendy in a daze.

"Hearing you say that makes me feel much better. I killed too many gray dwarves today. When I closed my eyes just now, I felt that the gray dwarves I killed were crawling out of the blood pool one by one to seek revenge on me."

Sabrina reached out and took the ladle, scooped a spoonful of clean water and poured it over her head, and the clean water flowed down her head.

She took a deep breath and opened her eyes again, her blue eyes full of spirit again.

"Now that I think about it, I probably killed too few gray dwarf bandits on the ship..."

She didn't soak in the bathtub for too long. She stood up from the bathtub and Wendy quickly handed her a bathrobe and put it on her.

"Neither Roy nor Moira have come back yet?"

"Ah."

Wendy replied.

……

When Roy returned to the cabin, Moira had not yet returned from the battlefield.

She followed Captain Tennyson to hunt down the fleeing gray dwarf bandits, and she might not be able to come back that night.

Sabrina was wearing a bathrobe, sitting on a recliner and wiping her wet hair. Her long, smooth legs were exposed from the slit of the bathrobe, glowing like a piece of mutton-fat jade at night...

Wendy was cleaning Sabrina's armor with a brush, and the water in the basin turned red.

Once the blood stains completely solidify on the seams of the armor, it will be difficult to wash them clean later.

"How's your injury?"

Roy knew about the battle, and Sabrina was the first to rush into the bottom cabin and was seriously injured...

Sabrina rolled up the sleeves of her bathrobe, revealing her smooth arms as white as lotus roots, and waved them in front of Roy before saying:
"No matter how serious the injury is, as long as there is a priest following behind, the injury will be restored to its original state in a few breaths..."

"When I was in the Elf Academy, I always heard the instructors say that the Green Empire's Construct Knights were the most powerful army. At that time, I thought they were exaggerating a bit. I felt that no matter how powerful those Construct Knights were, they could never compare to our Unicorn Legion and Silver Pegasus Legion."

"At that time, the instructors told me that the Imperial Construct Knights were equipped with a team of priests, and they were like killing machines on the battlefield."

"I couldn't understand it at first, but now I finally understand... It's really powerful!"

Before she could finish her words, it seemed that her movement was a little too big and touched the bruise, causing her to gasp in pain.

Roy glanced at her and said nothing. He stopped and drew a divine pattern on his chest with his hands, reciting a prayer...

A holy light fell on Sabrina, and she turned and walked into the living room and went straight to the bathroom.

Soon there was a sound of water coming from the bathroom...

Sabrina felt an inexplicable fluctuation in the air around her. She took out another bottle of life tree juice from her magic waist bag, handed it to the slightly airy person opposite her, and asked:

"Would you like to drink some Life Tree Juice to recover?"

Leah emerged from the shadows in the corner of the terrace.

She was a few meters away from the direction Sabrina handed over. She nodded slightly to Sabrina and said:
"I haven't had much of a chance to do anything all day, so I don't need to drink this, thank you!"

After saying this, her body disappeared again in the shadows...

Wendy, who was washing her armor nearby, was even more stunned.

(End of this chapter)