Path of light

Chapter 304 305. Chase

Several wind foxes slipped very quickly, ran along the ridge of the mountain for a while, then climbed over the ridge and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Sabrina and Moira originally planned to outflank them from the other side, but the wind fox did not escape in their direction. Seeing the wind fox run away, Sabrina took Moira and walked behind the boulder. come out.

The six companions walked towards the mountains while talking about the shortcomings of hunting the wind fox this time.

Their horses are still tied up in the camp, and they cannot leave for too long, otherwise it will be the most troublesome if they are found by other carnivorous predators.

In order to keep her body adequately hydrated, Miss Tiffany pours herself some water every two hours.

Moira suddenly stopped and moved her pointed ears. Sabrina noticed some doubts on her face and asked her, "What's wrong, Moira?"

"I heard the voices of elves over there." Moira said nervously, pointing in the direction of the wind.

It was her first time joining an adventure group and she was afraid that she would do something wrong.

Woods and Roy looked at each other. They were walking in front and did not hear the voices of the elves.

Roy stepped forward, but was held by Woods' hand beside him.

Woods touched in the direction Moira pointed.

Woods lowered his waist very low and hid his whole body in the grass. His movements were like a cheetah lying in the grass.

Standing among the weeds, you can only see the weeds gently swaying...

Woods moved forward to investigate, and quickly retreated from the grass. When he exited from the grass, his face looked a little ugly.

"Woods, what did you find out front?" Roy asked.

"There is a group of suspicious mixed-race elves on the edge of the woods ahead. They are bringing a few elf children. They don't look like residents of Barrier Town." Woods said.

"Take me to have a look." Roy decided to go to the front to check it out in person.

Woods took Roy forward and found a path through the grass.

This piece of grassland was a bit far away, and the two of them didn't stop until they got close to the woods. Woods turned his head and made a gentle movement towards Roy.

Then the two lay down in the grass. Woods carefully pushed aside the grass. Through the gaps in the grass, Roy saw a group of mixed elves lighting a fire at the edge of the woods. As expected, except for a few adults, there were also other people in the team. There were several mixed-blood elf children sitting quietly under the big tree, with no smiles on their faces.

It seems that the youngest elf girl still has tears in her eyes...

There were no ropes tied to their bodies, and the attitude of the mixed-blood elves towards the children was quite gentle.

Judging from the attire of this group of mixed-blood elves, these mixed-blood elves should be all elf hunters. The leather armor on their bodies should be sewn by themselves. The stitches are wide and the workmanship is rough. They carry swords and short bows on their backs, and their waists are There were a bunch of messy pockets hanging on them, and even the two elf hunters were carrying bear traps.

Roy observed for a while and then retreated with Woods.

"Could he have met a slave trader?" Woods frowned and asked Roy in a low voice.

Roy was also a little unsure. After listening to Woods' description, he thought those mixed elves were probably a group of slave traders, but after he went over to check them out, he felt that it didn't look like that.

"It's hard to say, but those elf children didn't seem to be under any duress." Roy said.

Woods hesitated and asked Roy: "Then what are we going to do now?"

All the members of the adventure group gathered together, and everyone stared at Roy.

"Give up the trip to Pagisto Plateau for the time being. Let's follow them first to see what they want to do." Roy said decisively: "If they are a group of slave traders, we will find a way to kill those children." Rescue them. If we can confirm that they are not slave traders, then it will not be too late for us to go to Pajisto Plateau..."

There were only six people in the adventure group, so naturally no one objected to Roy's decision.

Especially Woods and Miss Tiffany hated the slave traders.

"Okay, then it's settled."

As the leader of the adventure group, his decision was supported by all members, which greatly increased Roy's confidence.

He took the initiative to stand up and said to everyone: "Then I will keep an eye on them first. You can go back to the camp to fix things. Later, we may have to take turns to keep an eye on them until we discover their intentions."

Claire put the skinning knife back into its sheath and said to Roy:

"Let Woods and I go first! Woods and I will learn the detection methods of the jungle."

Roy glanced at Woods.

"I happen to be familiar with the situation there. Claire and I will go over and monitor them first, and we will change shifts tomorrow morning." Woods agreed readily.

This guy has always been hard-working and very easy-going, but there is one thing that cannot touch his bottom line. He is the kind of mixed-blood elf with a strong sense of justice.

Just like now... If Roy hadn't said that there were some doubts about the group of mixed-blood elves, according to Woods' idea, he would have rushed up and overturned their camp...

Miss Tiffany couldn't help but warned Claire: "Claire, don't be careless this time. If you meet a slave trader and you inadvertently expose your whereabouts, those slave traders will be ruthless..."

Miss Tiffany was once imprisoned on the Sea Wolf for almost twenty days. At that time, there were far more Naga Sea Tribes dead than those imprisoned in the bottom cabin.

Claire arranged her weapons and equipment, stood next to Woods and said:

"I will be careful."

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Roy took several other members of the adventure group back to the temporary camp. Unexpectedly, Kaka was waiting in the camp.

Roy was startled and thought something had happened. Kaka ran to Roy for help.

"Kaka, why are you here?" Roy asked nervously.

Kaka stood up from the root of the tree, wiped his hands, and smiled stupidly at Roy:

"Little Eugene and I came to find you after we transported the supplies to the mountain. Roy, I am going to go to the Pagisto Plateau with you."

Roy certainly welcomes this.

"Ah, do you want to join our adventure group?" Roy was about to confirm again, because Kaka's joining probably means that the secret of the Elf Tamer hidden in the south of the Griffin Barrier Mountains can no longer be hidden.

In fact, this is no secret to the military of the Silver Pegasus Legion.

It's just that ordinary elves don't know much about these things...

"Yeah, I don't know...is it okay?" Kaka asked shyly.

Roy stretched out his hand to Kaka and said:

"Welcome to join our adventure group, but I can't help you register as a member of the Adventurer's Guild for the time being. I can only wait until this adventure is over. If you have this idea, I will take you to join the Adventurer's Guild."

Kaka nodded stupidly.

He was already happy to be able to join Roy's adventure group.

Roy then introduced Kaka to the other members of the adventure group, Sabrina, Moira and Miss Tiffany.

After hearing that Roy said Kaka was an animal trainer, Miss Tiffany cast a curious look at Kaka.

Roy said to Kaka: "But for the time being, we can't go directly to Pajisto Plateau, because now we have encountered something..."

With that said, Roy told Kaka about the group of mixed elves they found nearby.

After hearing this, Kaka also frowned.

"Do you suspect they are a group of slave traders?" Kaka asked Roy in a low voice.

Roy shook his head slightly. He also felt that this matter was a bit strange, and said, "Now I just suspect that Woods and Claire are still watching them over there."

"I'm better at monitoring and tracking this kind of thing, so why not leave it to me."

Kaka slapped her chest loudly.

Of course it would be best to be able to monitor these mixed elves from high altitude. Roy immediately nodded in agreement.

Kaka asked clearly about the current location of the mixed elves, then walked to the forest glade and blew a loud whistle into the sky.

Not long after, a gryphon swooped down directly from the clouds. It looked like a fallen meteorite. When it was close to the ground, its wings suddenly opened, and its whole body brought a strong air current, and The gryphon was also suspended steadily in mid-air.

Kaka quickly asked the griffin to fly lower, then nimbly jumped on the griffin's back, pulling on a rein extending from the griffin's head, and as the griffin spread its wings, Kaka rode on the griffin. The body suddenly rose into the sky...

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After the sky completely darkened, Kaka, who was hiding in the sky and monitoring the ground, rode his griffon back to the camp.

The gryphon could not stay in the camp, because as soon as the few ordinary war horses in the camp saw the gryphon, their legs would immediately become weak, and they would even fall down on the grass...

In the camp, Roy asked the returning Kaka: "How was it? Do you think they are slave traders?"

"It doesn't look like it. I think they are very attentive to those mixed elf children..." Kaka said frankly.

There was no bonfire in the camp at night. Roy sat in front of the tent, chatting with Kaka in the dark...

"I have the same feeling. Kaka, you will continue to monitor in the air tomorrow morning. You don't need to fly around in the air all the time. You just need to fly up regularly to take a look." Roy ordered Kaka.

At night, Kaka also had a simple tent in the camp, next to Roy's tent.

He actually wanted to have a good chat with Roy, but Roy went to bed early, and he could even hear Roy's snoring in his tent...

This night, Sabrina and Moira were on watch.

Early the next morning, Roy took Miss Tiffany to monitor the mixed elves and replaced Woods and Claire.

Kaka also rode the gryphon and flew into the sky again...

What surprised Roy was that this group of mixed-blood elves actually headed towards the barrier town. The mixed-blood elves children followed the team and moved forward silently.

Due to lack of tracking skills, Roy and Miss Tiffany were worried about being discovered by each other, so they did not dare to follow too closely...

Fortunately, Kaka is monitoring from the air, so even if he loses his pursuit, he can find the right direction immediately.

In the afternoon, Roy and Miss Tiffany simply withdrew from the front. Since Kaka was watching from the sky, the adventure group only needed to stay far behind and follow.

…

"Do you think they are going to Barrier Town?"

Roy took out a map and traced the route of the mixed elf team on the map. Sure enough, they were heading towards Barrier Town.

Claire and Woods sat aside and agreed with Roy's point of view.

"That's probably it. Maybe they will settle in Barrier Town." Woods said.

Sabrina and Miss Tiffany objected, believing that they would never go to Rampart Town.

The members of the adventure group were hiding in the shade of a forest. Each of them was riding a horse, so they were not worried that the mixed elves would not be able to catch up if they were too far away...

At this time, Woods rushed down from high altitude riding a griffon.

He didn't let the gryphon get close, and ran over alone, saying to everyone: "...over there, another group of mixed-blood elves came. They were all riding Pajisto Plateau argali. There were probably The seven elves seem to be chasing them."

"...Pagisto Plateau Argali, are you saying that the group of elves came down from Pagisto Plateau?" Roy asked.

"It's almost like the elves on the plateau." Kaka nodded.

"There is also a group of mixed elves living on the Pagisto Plateau?" Roy couldn't help but ask again.

"Of course, although there are no large-scale gathering places, there are some scattered small villages." Kaka answered, with doubts in his eyes 'how could you not know'.

"I thought that on the Partington plane, the area occupied by the elves was only the area around Padstow City. Now it seems that not only is there a large jungle south of the Griffin Barrier Mountains that is occupied by you, but even Pudge There are also mixed elves living on the Sto Plateau..." Roy felt as if he had discovered a new continent.

"That's it!" Kaka said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Claire took the opportunity to say: "You said those elves chased them out from the plateau, what do they want to do?"

"I think they are chasing the elf team in front..." Woods guessed.

"Kaka, please work harder and keep an eye on these two teams to see what they want to do!" Roy said to Kaka.

"Okay, I'll go and keep an eye on them..."

Kaka readily agreed. He took a short rest here and then rode the griffon to high altitude.

It was already evening when I received the news from Kaka again. This time, the news that Kaka sent back was that after the group of mixed elves riding plateau argali caught up with them, not long ago, they were with the front. There was a fight between the mixed elf team.

The mixed-blood elves who caught up behind them were all well-equipped with weapons and equipment, and their methods were ruthless. In the first fight, they chopped down two adult mixed-blood elves on the other side...

Fortunately, using the cover of the forest, the mixed-blood elves managed to escape with the children.

"Which side are we going to help?" Claire asked Roy excitedly.