Path of Light.

Chapter 932 931. Breaking the Whole into Parts
The location pointed out by the two gray dwarves on the nautical chart is at least 20,000 miles away from the Naantali Islands. It will take a three-masted sailing ship about five months to reach the frozen island.

Roy also learned about the information about the Northern Army Fleet's base from some imperial merchants.

It is said that this is the last piece of land of the Duergar's Knee that has not been burned by war.

Roy asked the two gray dwarf prisoners:
"I'm asking where you usually resupply supplies and repair ships."

"Fort Rowan is about two weeks away from here..."

The two gray dwarf warriors answered at the same time.

They pointed at the northernmost corner of the Mensa Strait, and one of the gray dwarves said in a muffled voice:

"Look, it's right here. After patrolling the Nantalli Islands, we usually return to the Lowenburg Fortress to rest. After completing ten missions, we can return to the Frozen Island..."

These gray dwarves seemed to be very honest. Roy asked them a few questions and they answered them one by one.

They were indeed the regular troops of the Northern Army Fleet, and were currently on patrol in the Mensa Strait. They had never thought that they would be captured by a group of half-blood elves that fell from the sky.

There are two military ports on the Mensa Strait, one is located in the Gulf of Aden Fortress in the middle of the Mensa Strait, and the other is located in the Lowenburg Fortress in the north of the Mensa Strait.

Roy asked them about the distribution of the Northern Army fleet in the Mensa Strait.

The two gray dwarves hesitated for a moment before speaking:

Almost every half a month, Fortress Lowenburg would send out a patrol team to circle around the northern part of the Mensa Strait. The entire Mensa Strait is currently under the control of the Northern Fleet, except that the control over the area south of the Gulf of Aden is slightly weaker. The control over Fortress Lowenburg is much stronger.

In addition, the two gray dwarf warriors also said that in addition to being a temporary military port for the Northern Army Fleet, the Luyun Fortress is also the only port for trade between the tribal orcs and the gray dwarves.

Although the gray dwarves are not particularly good at metallurgy and forging, the armor and weapons they create are still very popular among the orcs...

Gray dwarf warriors and orc warriors have some common characteristics. Most of them are strength warriors who like to use weapons such as axes and hammers. They also like to use some armor plates connected together and just hang them casually on their bodies.

Therefore, the weapons and equipment made by the gray dwarves are very popular in the Orc tribe, at least more popular than the weapons made by the elves.

The orcs will also sell some hides, ores and wood to the gray dwarves. Currently, the gray dwarves can no longer get any resources from Durrag's Knee, so their shipbuilding industry is extremely dependent on the wood and minerals on the Mensa Plains. This is also the reason why the gray dwarves and the tribal orcs can trade.

When the gray dwarves first possessed Durlag's Knee, they would not have gone to the Mensa Plains to purchase wood!
In fact, the gray dwarves were forced to choose normal trade with the orcs because they could not steal anything from the Mensa Plains. They were born to be a group of robbers. No matter what they wanted, the first thing they would do was to snatch those things back.

Unfortunately, when facing orcs who were stronger than them, they couldn't gain any advantage at all.

After their home, Durlag's Knee, was occupied by dark forces, the gray dwarves were forced to migrate from Durlag's Knee. For these gray dwarves, the biggest problem facing them was the sea in front of them.

They needed to build some boats so that they could migrate to other places.

However, the largest forest in Durlag's Knee had long been occupied by the Dark Legion, and their only choice was to obtain wood from the orcs' Mensa Plains.

The gray dwarves could not defeat these orcs who were more brutal than themselves, so they chose to trade with the orcs in the Rowan Fortress.

In addition, the Rowan Fortress is also the largest shipbuilding base of the Northern Fleet...

These two gray dwarf warriors were also very honest and basically said whatever they wanted, which saved them from being beaten.

Even when explaining this information, Roy had someone prepare a piece of cheese bread and a plate of vegetables for each of them, and the two gray dwarf warriors swallowed them without hesitation.

These cheese, bread and green vegetables were found on the imperial merchant ships. They do not exist in the elven world at all.

When Leah found these foods for Roy, Roy almost ate a piece of bread until he was full...

Roy had all the food collected. He was going to bring it to the priests of the Knights Templar. As for the merchants and sailors of the empire, of course they had to do as the locals did in the kingdom of elves and eat green apples with the elves.

In the Partington plane, the Sirens fought a bloody battle with the Dark Faceless Men, but Roy's mine guards gained some wealth from the war.

It was this wealth that gave Roy the idea of ​​using the forging workshop to create magic materials, and then asking the inscription masters of the Magic Guild to make magic pattern structures.

But compared with the wealth obtained from these imperial merchants, those wealth seemed insignificant...

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The nights in the Nantali Islands are much cooler than those on the island of Que, and a group of half-elf crew members boarded an imperial merchant ship.

After some simple repairs, these imperial merchant ships had replaced the burnt sails and reinstalled new sails on the masts.

The half-elf crew began to hoist the sails, using the wind to get the merchant ship away from the island.

Sixteen imperial merchant ships set sail one after another, forming a straight line on the sea...

The bright moonlight sprinkled on the sea, and one imperial merchant ship after another left the port. These sixteen imperial merchant ships, under the control of more than a thousand half-elf crew members, headed towards the island of Kui thousands of miles away.

In addition to these more than one thousand half-elf crew members, there are nearly 60,000 half-elfs on board. They are traveling to Kui Island on the imperial merchant ship.

If everything goes well, they will arrive at Kui Island in more than four months.

There are sufficient supplies on board. In addition, these merchant ships will stop at some islands along the way to replenish supplies.

As long as we cross the Mensa Strait and enter the territory of the Elven Kingdom, we won't have to worry too much about the gray dwarf fleet catching up...

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At night, on the south shore of the main island of Naantali, a group of imperial merchants sat on the grass.

There was also a large group of Imperial sailors not far away. They were gathered together by the half-blood elf guards, and they were all guessing what the half-blood elf guards wanted to do...

Everyone was a little worried that these half-elves would secretly kill them all at night and bury them all on this island.

The merchants were worried that these half-elf guards would use the most cruel means to force them to hand over where they hid their money.

Everyone seemed a little nervous, their hearts pounding...

A magic airship was anchored on the beach, and several small boats were paddling towards the main island.

"Look, they are coming..."

"What should we do? Should we take out some and send them away?"

"How big do you think their appetite is? Once they discover these secrets, will they slowly torture us and make us hand over more wealth?" "They are coming over here, stop talking."

Several imperial merchants who were whispering with their heads down hurriedly raised their heads after being reminded by their companions...

Boss Roy walked in the front, and wherever he went, the half-elf guards would salute him.

Roy was followed by a group of half-elf guards.

Roy walked to the Empire Merchant and stopped. He took out a thick sheepskin notebook from his arms, holding a pen in his other hand, and said to the group of merchants sitting on the grass:

"Next, the merchants whose names I called out, please step out."

Almost every one of these imperial merchants is fluent in Elvish.

"Grisel, master of the Dawn Commercial, please come to me..."

Roy shouted as he followed the list.

A pot-bellied imperial merchant stood up from the grass with a pale face. He was wearing dirty fancy clothes and his hair was messy. As he hadn't taken a bath for several days, his clothes were stained with sea water, wet and dry, dry and wet again, and a layer of white alkali hung on his clothes.

His eye sockets were a little swollen, and it seemed that he had suffered a lot in the past few days.

Now when he heard Roy calling his name first, he was so scared that he went limp all over.

"I am Grisel of the Dawn Commercial."

Roy looked at the parchment notebook in his hand, then looked up at him and said:

"Grierson, there are a total of 3,927 half-blood elves on your ship. These half-blood elves from Komostadi Port boarded the Dawn Commercial and prepared to go to Que Island at your instigation."

"But when I found you, your ship appeared on the Nantalli Islands. I now have every reason to suspect that you are a slave trader."

"This Dawn Commercial and all the property on board are confiscated by me. Do you understand?"

Roy finished speaking, his eyes fell on the face of the imperial businessman.

Grierson rubbed his greasy face vigorously. The time to make a decision had come. He hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded with difficulty.

Boss Roy could accurately call out his name and the name of the ship, and even knew which port the half-elf was deceived.

Grierson couldn't deny it...

Roy nodded to a half-elf guard beside him. The elf guard took out a metal plate, quickly engraved the name "Grierson" on it, and then hung the metal plate around his neck.

The silver metal nameplate not only has Grierson's name on it, but also a very unique number and even the name of the ship it owns is engraved on it.

In addition to the metal plate, another half-elf warrior took out a linen prisoner uniform from a wicker basket and asked Grierson to put it on.

Nearly one hundred imperial merchants, wearing uniform prisoner uniforms, boarded the magic airship along the sampan.

They were arranged in the cabin at the bottom of the magic airship. The cabin was empty and there was nothing in it, but the entire cabin was very damp. When they touched the wooden wall with their hands, they could feel that the entire wall was covered with water droplets.

Not only that, the entire cabin was filled with the smell of salted fish, and uncleaned fish scales could be seen in some corners.

The merchants of the Empire suspected that Boss Roy used this cabin to store salted fish...

The imperial merchants were packed separately in the lowest cabin.

After them came more than a thousand imperial crew members. Their living environment was better than that of the imperial merchants, but they also had identity tags on their chests and wore uniform linen tube robes.

These imperial crew members seemed very honest, but they were a little exhausted...

The imperial crew members obviously had not yet recovered from the blow from the sudden attack of the half-elves. They were originally hired workers on the merchant ship, and this time the ship owners were selling elven slaves, so they were implicated.

Moreover, these half-elves behaved very strongly this time. They have already killed many mercenary warriors on Nantali Island, and they probably wouldn't mind executing a few ordinary crew members.

Many Imperial crew members haven't gotten much sleep these days, and have even become somewhat dazed...

Compared with this group of Imperials, the captured Gray Dwarf warriors were much more calm. They wore the same prison uniforms as the Imperials, with identity tags hanging around their necks. They walked onto the ship obediently and were as honest as the Imperial crew members, squatting on the deck waiting for the half-elf guards to arrange cells for them.

This scene completely overturned the imperial people's perception. In the eyes of the imperial people, the gray dwarves were the kind of drunkards with bad tempers, greed and cunning, and revengeful. But now they were standing in front of the half-blood elves, and they could actually squat on the deck obediently and wait quietly...

The half-elf guards had dealt with countless gray dwarf warriors during this period, and they were familiar with some of their little tricks...

The Green Empire people and the gray dwarves boarded the magic airship and flew to Kui Island overnight.

The fleet of the Empire's merchant ships had also sailed far away at this moment.

Roy stood on a reef on the island, quietly watching the sixteen imperial merchant ships disappear into the night, and then shifted his gaze to a magic airship, which would also set off to return to Kui Island tonight.

All the imperial merchants and crew members will undergo labor reform at the Kuei Island Shipyard, and will not be tried until Roy returns to Kuei Island.

Since the gray dwarf fleet often appeared near the Nantalli Islands, and the number of times it appeared was relatively frequent, Roy wanted to disperse the fleet...

The fleet was broken up and dispersed north of the Mensa Strait.

This way, they could also search the northern waters of the Mensa Fjord for those imperial merchant ships that had not joined the Nantalli Islands.

In fact, these imperial merchant ships are Roy's biggest headache.

When they came here, Roy followed a fixed route all the way here. Those imperial merchant ships also took this route, so the fleet had such a big harvest...

Now the magic airships have to disperse to search for those imperial merchant ships, and the chances of finding them are much smaller.

Roy assigned search missions to the magic airships and also assigned some personnel.
He wanted to go to Lowenburg to gather intelligence and see if there were any imperial merchant ships trafficking half-elves in the port there.

This time, Roy did not plan to approach Fort Luyun from the sea.

In that case, Roy's ship might be discovered by the gray dwarf warriors in the fortress before they even get close to it...

This time, Roy planned to sneak into the interior of the Mensa Plain on a magic airship, and then head to the Luyun Fortress by land.

(End of this chapter)