Path of light

Chapter 354 355. Risk going down the well

This second mine fortress is much larger than the first mine fortress, and it is built more solidly. It is like a castle built by dwarves, and most of the buildings are hidden in the mountain.

The places that stick out are the city walls and arrow towers...

There are various kinds of ordnance on the city wall. The most worthy of Roy's attention are the four sky-shooting crossbows placed in the arrow tower.

In fact, there are four other sky-shooting crossbows hidden in the corners of the city wall. At this time, these four sky-shooting crossbows are covered with tarpaulins and tied with ropes. Next to them are racks full of crossbow arrows.

For the Silver Pegasus warriors, they would never easily break into the range of the sky-shooting crossbow.

The Sky-Shooting Crossbow has a maximum range of 600 meters. It is difficult for the Silver Pegasus warriors to avoid as their targets in the air are too big.

There are no valuable gemstones in the warehouse, and the entire mine has become a mess under the search and rummaging of the elf warriors. Many of them are so messy that there is simply nowhere to stay.

Captain Kepler was very worried that Roy might lose his temper when he saw the messy rooms and the low-grade ore in the warehouse...

Roy walked around the warehouse without showing any signs of displeasure.

What Captain Kepler didn't know was that there was no high-grade gem mine in the warehouse, which actually saved Roy a lot of trouble.

Because these gem mines themselves belong to the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion, there are countless pairs of eyes staring at these gem mines, so Roy has never thought about tapping these gem mines.

In addition, Earl Swinburne hopes that Roy can join the Silver Pegasus Legion after graduating from the Elf Academy and form a non-staff regiment.

Earl Swinburne also told Roy that Roy would form a non-staff fighting group in the future. As for the funds for forming the fighting group, it may be obtained from these mines...

There was a large amount of gemstones stored in the warehouse of the first mine. That was because the Grantham mine owner had no time to hide the high-grade gemstones, and the fortress was captured by the cavalry vanguard.

Although there are no high-grade gem mines in the second mine, the primary gem mines are piled up in the warehouse like ordinary stones. The management mode here is even rougher, and these ordinary gem mines are piled together in the warehouse without even wooden boxes. Like a coal bunker.

Looking at the mine in front of him, Roy felt a little worried...

The owner of this mine is much more ruthless than the owner of the Grantham mine. He has bought many mixed-blood elf slaves. He must have also spent a lot of money when he purchased gray dwarf bandits and dark moon elf prisoners.

Roy judged this from the amount of food he put into the mine every day.

Looking at the dark wellhead, the cold air keeps blowing upward...

The Silver Moon Elf warriors built a soft ladder at the entrance of the mine. There was no reaction inside the mine, and no mixed-blood elf slaves climbed up. This shows that the absolutely stronger party in the mine is currently in control of the situation.

If the mixed-blood elf mining slaves had taken control of the situation, they would have climbed up the ladder long ago.

Only the gray dwarf bandits and Darkmoon Elf prisoners would choose to stand still...

Roy's guess was more likely to be gray dwarf bandits.

The more than twenty mixed-blood elves brought over by Mu Lin were very diligent. After arriving at the second mine, they took over the important task of guarding the mine entrance from the Silver Moon Elf guards.

In the afternoon, the half-blood elves hoisted an empty wooden box into the mine.

Use a crane to pull up the wooden box, which is filled with ordinary gemstones.

Roy flipped through it twice and couldn't see any high-grade ore. Roy asked the mixed elf to push the gem mine into the warehouse. Then he turned around and pointed at the wooden box filled with fruits and food, and asked the mixed elf to send these materials down the mine. .

Suddenly there was a strange cry from the bottom of the well...

Later, Roy tentatively put a bottle of rum and a salted fish into the wooden box. He wrote on a piece of paper that the rum and salted fish can be made from high-grade ore. If he wants to drink it next time When you get this rum, exchange it for high-quality ore.

The elves continued to hoist the small wooden box into the mine, and the strange screams coming from the depths of the mine became louder.

After the small wooden box was hoisted up, it turned out that the box was almost full of high-grade gemstones.

It seems that rum is also a hard currency here and can be exchanged for high-grade gem mines.

The only thing that gave Roy some headaches was the mixed-blood elf mining slaves, who still couldn't be rescued. Roy felt that he had broken his trust.

You must know that Mu Lin and Lambo can bring a group of young mixed-blood elves from the gathering place to help them. It is entirely because he promised Lambo and Lysander to rescue the mixed-blood elves slaves imprisoned in the mine as much as possible...

But now, the mine in front of him looked like the huge mouth of an abyssal beast. Whatever was swallowed could not be spit out.

This mine collects gemstones much faster than the first mine.

It is not difficult to understand that those mixed-blood elf mining slaves are still underground, and they are the main force in collecting gem mines...

The mine here can hoist up two large boxes of gemstones at a time, and there is also a small box of high-grade gemstones placed separately.

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"Roy, is there any way you can... redeem the elves inside?"

At night, Mu Lin found Roy and made her request.

There was only a desk in the room, bookshelves on the walls on both sides, and moonstones on the ceiling above. The room was not dark at all.

Roy was sitting on a chair, writing and drawing on a piece of parchment. When he saw Lambeau coming in, he said helplessly:

"What can I do? The most direct and effective way is to send an elf team to explore the situation below the mine..."

"I'll go!"

After saying that, Mu Lin turned around and walked out.

Roy quickly followed Mu Lin and said, "I'll go down with you."

Mu Lin stopped and saw that Roy didn't seem to be joking, so she said to him, "Do you know how dangerous it is in the mine?"

"So I'll go down with you to be more reliable. I'll go talk to Captain Kepler later."

After Roy finished speaking, he took off the leather armor hanging on the wall and quickly put it on.

Follow Mu Lin's footsteps and walk out...

…

Captain Kepler had just gone to inspect the city wall and returned to the third floor when he saw Roy and a mixed elf swordswoman walking out of the room one after another. The two even had a little argument.

The mixed-blood elf swordswoman walked very fast, and Roy chased after her from behind. The two started talking again.

Captain Kepler hesitated...

Although it might be annoying to appear at this time, he still walked out from the stairs and greeted Roy:

"Roy, where are you going?"

Roy turned around and saw that it was Captain Kepler coming out of the stairs, and said to Kepler:

"Captain Kepler, we want to take a look underneath the mine."

Captain Kepler was startled, and quickly grabbed Roy and said to him:

"Roy, you have to think carefully about this matter before making a decision. There are a group of gray dwarf bandits and Dark Moon Elf prisoners below the mine. If you run down recklessly, you will probably be swallowed to pieces by those people. There’s not much left…”