Path of light

Chapter 371 372. Escape plan

The news that Roy brought out ten Dark Moon elves from underground spread immediately throughout the second mine, and then this incident also aroused concern among the mixed elves...

In their view, this is a sign that the owner of the mine, Mr. Roy, is more willing to believe in the Dark Moon Elves, and it is worthy of the attention of all mixed-blood elves.

Roy was also about to send someone to the warehouse to select ten sets of armors and weapons, when he saw Mu Lin lift the curtain from the door and burst into the restaurant in a hurry.

"Roy, how did you..."

Before Mu Lin finished speaking, she was interrupted by Roy:

"Mulin, I'm just looking for you. You can help me select twenty outstanding mixed-blood elf warriors. I'm going to take them to the first mine together."

Mu Lin froze on the spot and swallowed the words she was about to blurt out to question Roy... back into her stomach.

"Uh...okay, okay."

Mu Lin said.

Then Mu Lin approached Roy and asked in a low voice:

"What happened over there at the first mine?"

Because Mu Lin knew that there were at least 300 mixed-blood elf warriors at the first mine. However, Roy gave up these mixed-blood elf warriors and had to mobilize manpower from the second mine. This was a problem in itself.

Roy pulled Mu Lin out of the restaurant and said in the corridor outside the restaurant door:

"The first mine has been unable to supply spinel ore normally. I guess something happened underground. I need to go into the mine to check to find out the specific situation."

Mu Lin's eyes widened and she asked Roy:

"Is that why you went underground to recruit ten Dark Moon elves?"

Roy turned his head and said with a smile: "Yes, without you, Captain Kepler, and his elite warriors, to be on the safe side, in addition to the ten Dark Moon Elf warriors, twenty of the best are needed A mixed-blood elf warrior, go on adventures with me."

"I'll go with you too..."

Mu Lin blurted out without thinking.

In addition to her straightforward personality, this girl is also a born adventurer...

The worry on Mu Lin's face quickly dissipated, and she looked at Roy eagerly, but Roy said:

"Mulin, you have a more important task now!

The second mine is currently under construction, and the shaft expansion project will soon be connected underground.

When the time comes, you'll need to step up your efforts to guard the mines.

In previous mine shafts, there was only a hanging box to connect the upper and lower shafts.

Now we have opened a stair tunnel. Although it is convenient to enter the underground shaft, it also means that it is easy for them to escape..."

When Mu Lin heard what Roy said, she said reluctantly:

"...Okay, I will keep an eye on these Dark Moon Elves and Gray Dwarves."

Speaking of which, the mixed-blood elven slaves underground in the second mine had no hostility towards the gray dwarf bandits, because these gray dwarf bandits did not have time to bully this group of mixed-blood elven slaves under the pressure of the Dark Moon elves.

But the mixed-blood elf miners were full of hatred for the Dark Moon elves, and the feud between the two sides lasted for at least several decades.

Obviously the grievances between them cannot be easily resolved...

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Ten Dark Moon elves led the horses out of the gate of the second mine fortress. They saw the rolling mountains and the vast wilderness in the distance, the sapphire sky and the clouds like galloping horses in the distance, and the vast grassland. There are herds of one-horned bison and jumping antelopes, and the air you breathe into your lungs is fresh and free.

A hawk spread its wings and flew out from the cliff at the top of the mountain. Its figure appeared and disappeared among the jagged rocks, and disappeared in an instant.

After a moment, the gray wings flapped violently, and the hawk flew up from the rocks, holding a fat hare in its talons...

The eyes of the Dark Moon elves followed the falcon flying far away.

Roy ignored the eyes of these Dark Moon elves who longed for freedom. He touched the horse's butt with his whip, and the horse ran forward quickly along the narrow gravel road on the ridge.

Thirty armored elf warriors quickly followed Roy's footsteps on horseback...

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Roy hurried to the first mine with thirty elf warriors.

Walking into the courtyard inside the fortress, I saw Lambeau standing next to the mine and worrying. There were only a few pieces of ore waste in the hanging box.

There were even broken gravels next to the pieces of waste stone. The empty wooden boxes seemed to be making the most ruthless mockery to Rambo...

A group of mixed-blood elves also reprimanded angrily:

"The gray dwarves and dark moon elves down there are simply going too far. Do they want to go on strike?"

"Captain Lambo, let me tell you... we should cut off the food supply tomorrow and let them starve for a while so that they can sober up!"

Rambo looked up and saw Roy leading a team of well-equipped warriors through the gate of the fortress and into the courtyard. Knowing that Roy had made up his mind to go into the well to check, he said to Roy:

"We put the food in according to the quota, but there was still no response..."

Roy handed the reins in his hand to the mixed-blood elf warrior next to him, walked straight to the mine, glanced at the dark bottom of the well, then looked at the hanging box, and said decisively:

"Without further ado, Timothy, your team will take the lead and be the first to sneak into the well. Remember to stay hidden throughout the process. If the other party arranges too many guards at the wellhead, send us a warning signal. You must also come from the well. Withdrew, remember not to take risks, I will find other ways to break through the defenses at the entrance of the shaft."

"Understood, Lord Roy." Timothy replied seriously.

He was wearing a set of exquisite armor, with an elf sword on his waist, and his body exuded a fighting spirit that was difficult to hide...

The crane can only lower ten elf warriors at a time. The Dark Moon Elves are proficient in stealth, so Roy let them take the lead.

In fact, it was not that Roy had never thought about whether Timothy would lead several other Dark Moon elves to defect in battle once the Dark Moon elves were guarding the entrance of the shaft.

But then I thought again, the chance of this happening is really low...

As the ten Dark Moon Elf warriors entered the mine first, Roy waited for a while, but did not wait for the warning signal from below the mine.

Roy decisively brought ten mixed-blood elf warriors into the hanging box. This time, Lambo personally operated the winch to lower the hanging box.

Slowly entering the shaft, as the light became darker and darker, the temperature in the shaft slowly dropped. The mixed-blood elf warriors were all wearing sophisticated armor and surrounded Roy. Roy was not idle either, one after another. The 'blessing of strength' fell on the heads of these half-blood elf warriors.

The shaft of the first mine is shallower than the shaft of the second mine. The further you go down, you will find obvious signs of dripping water in the rock formations on the four walls.

Entering the bottom of the shaft, Roy found that the hanging box actually landed firmly on a stone platform, and there was actually a shallow pool around it, with a waterway flowing along the edge of the mine to the depths of the mine.

When Roy poked his head out of the hanging box and looked into the mine, a Dark Moon Elf showed half of his body from hiding and waved to Roy to indicate that everything was safe in the mine.

Roy remembered that the Dark Moon Elf warrior was called Bessemer. Roy gently climbed over the hanging box, stepped on the shallow pool of water up to his ankles, and walked out of the shaft.

Ten mixed-blood elf warriors followed Roy closely.

Roy walked to Bessemer and asked him in a low voice: "How is the situation inside?"

Bessemer did not speak, but pointed inside, and Roy discovered that the Dark Moon Elf warriors had actually controlled two gray dwarves.

The two gray dwarves were lying on the rocky ground with their eyes closed. They must have passed out. Their hands and feet were tied together behind their backs. There were two sharp mining picks beside them.

Roy didn't expect that the exit of the mine tunnel was actually occupied by gray dwarves.

He bent down and groped in the pocket on the gray dwarf's waist, and grabbed a large handful of dried mushrooms and dried moss. Sure enough, they had some food made from mushrooms and moss.

Roy couldn't understand why the gray dwarves got the food and ale put in the mine and refused to provide spinel ore to the mine. They would only force the mine to interrupt the trade of food and ore.

There is no remaining spinel ore visible at the shaft entrance...

Timothy walked out of the mine with several Dark Moon elves and whispered to Roy: "It is the gray dwarves who have occupied the residence in the mine. There are at least nearly a hundred gray dwarves inside, and there is also a large amount of food stored inside. .”

The mixed-blood elf warriors were released one after another.

This time, Rambo did not obey Roy's instructions. He raised and lowered the crane eight times. Three teams of elf warriors brought by Roy entered the mine one after another. Rambo also led five teams of mixed-blood elf warriors into the mine.

A full eighty armed elf warriors were crowded in the mine shaft.

"Why did you come down too?" Roy asked Lambeau in a low voice.

Lambeau smiled and responded to Roy: "We can at least be safer together."

Since so many elf warriors came down, Roy no longer wanted to sneak into the mine for reconnaissance, so he simply led the elf warriors deeper into the mine.

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The gray dwarves did not expect that a group of elven warriors would come down from the mine.

What's more, I didn't expect that the first batch of people to sneak into the mine were actually ten fully armed Dark Moon Elf assassins. This kind of thing has never happened in the past few decades...

There were only two gray dwarves guarding the entrance of the mine, and they were still dozing.

The first thing the Dark Moon Elf warriors did when they sneaked into the mine was to subdue the two gray dwarves quietly.

At this time, a group of gray dwarves were still planning how to seal the entrance of the shaft, and then hid deep in the mine and dug a passage toward the ground.

They currently have enough food in their hands. After running out of ale, these angry gray dwarves decided to dig a passage to the ground and escape from the underground...

They have been preparing for a long time and have accumulated hundreds of mining pickaxes in their hands.

Moreover, the mixed-blood elf miner slaves left the mine, and the Dark Moon Elf prisoners were blocked in a mine tunnel by them. All threats in the mine were eliminated, and the gray dwarves decided to start executing their escape plan.