Path of Light.

Chapter 941 940. The Orcs of Mensa Plains
A vigilant look like that of a female leopard shone through the bushes, and then the Aries female warrior who had met once in the trading market stood out from the bushes. She carried a few short flying spears behind her, and even when she stood up, her body was leaning forward, as if she was ready to go.

The long-haired duck-billed Kadoma beast was nowhere to be seen at the moment, and there were obviously other Aries warriors in the bushes.

Roy spread his hands to indicate that he meant no harm.

Sayer could only stand behind Roy with a bitter face, repeating what Roy had just said in Orcish.

However, as a half-orc, Sayer could not gain enough trust from the Aries warriors, so everyone could only stand there in a stalemate.

Seeing that these Aries warriors were unwilling to believe him, Roy had no choice but to raise his hands and step back.

Since you can't gain the other party's trust, it's time to leave. There is no point in staying.

The Aries female warrior did not put down the hand hidden behind her back. Obviously, even when Roy retreated, she did not let down her guard, and her pair of bright dark eyes were always looking at Roy.

"let me try……"

At this time, Alice took the initiative to walk out of the crowd. She was wearing a white dress, but her long hair was tied up to cover her pointed ears, making her look a bit like a human girl. In fact, if you look closely, she doesn't look that much like a human girl, but it is actually quite easy to deceive these orcs who rarely come into contact with elves.

Alice was always ill during those years in the Dark Land, so she had always been extremely thin. When she wore a skirt, her arms and legs were very slender, and she didn't look like a dangerous person at all.

Seeing Alice walking towards the bushes, the Aries female warrior still had an unfriendly look on her face, but she did not stop her with her eyes.

Sayil continued to repeat:

"Your companion is injured. We are proficient in healing techniques. We can help you..."

Leah was a little worried. She hid in Alice's shadow, ready to follow Alice. But for some reason, the Aries female warrior noticed the clue at a glance. She stared at Leah hiding in Alice's shadow, ready to go.

Leia felt as if there was a sharp sword hanging over her head, and if she moved even a little, she would be pierced by the sword.

Leah had no choice but to stop...

Alice came to the bushes, and six or seven Aries warriors stood out from the bushes one after another. However, Alice's eyes were not on them, but looked into the bushes. Her eyes were pure and calm. She leaned forward slightly, then closed her eyes and clasped her hands together in front of her chest.

As the holy prayers were chanted, dazzling holy lights descended from the sky and continued to surround her body. These holy lights finally formed a beam of light.

Alice stood in the center of the beam of light, her expression filled with holy light, and even wings of light appeared behind her.

She chanted a basic 'Holy Light Spell', and a beam of holy light followed her arm and fell into the bushes.

A muffled groan was immediately heard from the bushes, and the Aries warriors around him looked at their dying companion in surprise, somewhat surprised that he could make a sound at this moment.

Alice cast the 'Holy Light' again, but this time the healing effect was much weaker.

The Aries warrior lying in the bushes uttered a weak voice at this time:

"Where am I? Why are you here too? Are we dead?"

"Oh...my chest hurts!"

The Aries warrior had an expression of tears of joy. She squatted down again, wiped her eyes with her hands, and said to the Aries warrior lying in the bushes:
"You were rescued by a group of guys disguised as Imperial merchants."

Hearing what the Aries female warrior said, the Aries warriors standing in the bushes around them gripped their weapons again and stared at Roy and the others with eager eyes.

Roy and his group could only stand where they were. Seeing Sayer's face suddenly turn pale, they knew that something seemed to have changed.

The seriously injured Aries warrior, with the help of his companions, sat up from the ground with difficulty. His face, as pale as paper, was covered with sweat, but his eyes were full of insight.

He looked at Alice and smiled gently:
"It was this beautiful half-elf lady who saved me?"

The Aries female warrior was like a civet cat whose fur stood up after its tail was stepped on. She widened her eyes and even pulled out a short flying spear, blocking the Aries warriors and screaming, "She is an elf?"

The other Aries warriors are also ready to go...

The Aries warrior sitting on the ground laughed loudly, but after just two laughs he began to cough violently. It seemed that although his injuries had improved, he still could not speak loudly.

After a while, he covered his chest and said in a low voice:
"You don't think they're not elves if they cover their ears."

The Aries female warrior looked at her companions around her, and then asked in Orcish:
"If she is an elf, shouldn't we fight to the death as soon as we meet?"

"Do you have such an idea now?"

The injured Aries warrior asked the Aries female warrior seriously.

The Aries female warrior shook her head, then looked at Roy and his group warily.

"Then ignore her and let's go our way."

The injured Aries warrior said decisively.

"..."

"Just pretend you can't see it and let's go."

The injured Aries warrior's words seemed to carry a lot of weight.

After hearing what he said, the Aries warriors no longer prepared to attack at any time. They filed out of the bushes and left along another road.

The injured Aries warrior lying on the stretcher tried hard to support his body and waved goodbye to Roy and the others.

From beginning to end, Roy didn't know who the Aries warrior they rescued was.

But he didn't care too much about it.

Roy had been thinking about how to open up a trade channel with the orcs of the Mensa Plains tribe. After all, this would help solve the problem of overcapacity of ordinary metal ingots...

In addition, he was also considering whether it was necessary to drive away the gray dwarves in the Gulf of Aden and Port Luyun. If he allowed them to continue to occupy this place, then if he wanted to do business with the orcs, he would have to do it secretly.

However, driving the Northern Fleet out of the Mensa Strait is not something that can be decided on a whim.

After all, the Northern Army Fleet has hundreds of thousands of troops, and his mine guards only have a few elves guarding them...

……

Roy didn't pay much attention to the Aries warriors who left through another road without saying anything thanking them. The team continued to move north along the coastline. They had to rush to the Kangamor Forest as soon as possible to meet up with the half-blood elves hiding in the forest. Roy also had to find a way to get these half-blood elves away from the Mensa Plains.

Sisters Leah and Alice were walking silently in the team, talking in low voices.

He praised Alice, who looked calm:

"I didn't know your magic was so powerful. To be honest, I'm not sure I can use two Holy Light spells to heal most of the Aries warrior's injuries."

Roy was promoted to a second-level expert and took the path of a combat priest.

However, because his "power" is a sacred tree, the special abilities it possesses are more inclined towards temple priests. For example, he can use the flowers of light all over the tree to allow the priests to quickly restore the power of holy light. This sacred tree can even transform the power of darkness on the battlefield into the purest power of holy light.

But Alice chose the path of a temple priest, majoring in blessing and healing. Although she did not advance to the second level, her holy light technique was stronger than that of a second level warrior like him.

"Thank you for taking care of Leah all the time. It's my honor to be able to help!"

Alice's smile was as bright as the sun, and she pulled Leah who was hiding in the shadows.

Only when the two sisters appeared at the same time did Roy realize that their facial features were exactly the same. They really were a pair of twin sisters...

Once the two were separated, no one would think that Leah and Alice had any similarities in appearance.

Roy felt that the reason why there were such big differences between the sisters was the dark and light temperaments they possessed.

Leah only seems to be well-behaved when she is with her sister Alice.

The two of them were also talking about the Aries warriors just now...

Leah thinks highly of these Aries warriors, believing that they have the "hidden" effect that can see through her.

Jie Zena and Sabrina also said that they felt like they were being stared at by the Aries warriors.

If a fight breaks out, there will definitely be Aries warriors specifically dealing with them...

After those Aries warriors left, Sayir's behavior gradually became normal.

……

Roy and his group walked until dark, and looking north, they could already see the Kangamore Forest.

After walking all day, everyone was a little tired, so we set up camp on the beach.

After all, it would be more comfortable for Miss Zeena, Miss Tiffany and Miss Olive to sleep in the sea.

No one built a bonfire, but just found some flat places to set up tents.

The orc guide Sayir spread the animal skin on his back on the grass and prepared to take a nap under the sky.

At this time, Roy came over with a few pieces of breadfruit and handed them to Sayil.

Roy looked at the guide Sayil and said:

"Saier, it seems like there are a lot of conflicts between you orcs and the gray dwarves!"

Sayil showed a bit of bitterness on his face. He nodded helplessly and said:
"The situation in Luyun Fortress may be more serious. The Aries orcs here are very powerful. They are not afraid of the retaliation of the gray dwarves, so they will take some targeted actions against the gray dwarves."

"The situation in the Gulf of Aden is a little different. The ports and trading markets in the Gulf of Aden are managed by the Gray Dwarves. Over there, the Gray Dwarves often drive out some orcs in the trading markets, and the Gray Dwarves also forbid orcs from approaching the port area."

"My mother was a human slave who escaped from the ship of the gray dwarves. When she was hiding from the gray dwarves, she met my father in the market. My father hid my mother, and then I was born..."

"Later, the gray dwarves finally found my father by following some clues. My father took my mother and me to escape from the Gulf of Aden. He had never swam in his life and drowned in the sea. My mother and I drifted on the sea for two days holding a piece of wood. We were later rescued by an imperial merchant ship. The imperial merchant ship dropped us off at St. Margaret's Port and left not long after."

"I have lived with my mother in Porto San Marco until now..."

"..."

Sayil's eyes were filled with memories.

Roy asked, "So you chose to be a guide in the Mensa Strait, hoping to return to the Gulf of Aden someday?"

Sayil shook his head, his eyes were very firm:
"I've been out for so long, and I've gotten used to life in Port Saint Magli. I don't have any thoughts of returning to the orc world. Besides, the orcs don't look down on elves, humans, dwarves, or other races the most. What they look down on the most are half-orcs like us..."

"I chose to be a guide in the Mensa Strait in the hope that one day someone would wipe out all those violent gray dwarves."

"They are the biggest bandits in this sea area. They have committed many evil deeds. In fact, the orcs in the Gulf of Aden have long had enough of them. But even if they fight with them, they will be helpless if they drive their ships to the sea."

"Besides, most of the orc tribes lack metal tools. The existence of the gray dwarves will supply these goods to the orc tribes. I know that these two trading markets on the west coast are very important to the entire orc tribe."

"You may not know how big the Mensa Plain is. Some orc tribes will take out the goods they have been preparing for a long time, and then spend several months or even more than a year crossing the Mensa Plain to the trading market in the Gulf of Aden."

"They exchanged the goods they brought with the gray dwarves for some iron materials, utensils, and weapons, and then took a few months or a year to return to the tribe with these things."

"Of course, only large tribes have this kind of strength. Some remote small tribes can only rely on the caravans of large tribes."

Roy asked Sayil:

"Don't the orcs have their own caravan?"

Sayil shook his head, then said uncertainly:

"Maybe, but these caravans can only travel within their own tribe. Once they go to other tribes, the goods they carry will most likely be looted by orcs from other tribes. There are many tribes on the Mensa Plains, and they often fight over mountains, lakes and rivers. The caravans traveling on the Mensa Plains are the fat sheep of all the orc tribes..."

Roy fell silent. Perhaps this was the fundamental reason why the Orc Tribe had always lagged behind.

Internal friction among ethnic groups leaves them with no energy to do other things.

Fortunately, there is a special tribe called the Aries in the Orc Tribe. It is because of them guarding the southern foothills of the Black Gold Mountains that the gray dwarves are forced to live in the cold Durlag's Knee.

Thinking that the old orc Luke should be a wolf orc, Roy had a headache if he wanted to do business with other orc tribes and find some new agents.

(End of this chapter)