Path of light

Chapter 487 488.Gryphon Regiment Road Construction Incident

The Griffin Barrier Mountains are like a towering wall that reaches into the sky, dividing the Partington plane into two, with Padstow City located in the forest to the north.

The Silver Moon elves built a city in the jungle to the north of the Barrier Mountains and spent huge sums of money to build a plane portal here, closely connecting the Partington plane with the Partington Island in the Elven Continent.

Hundreds of kilometers west of Padstow City, a stretch of rolling mountains connects the mountains at the eastern foot of the Padstow Plateau. This land is crisscrossed with rivers and ravines, and is also called the Land of Crack by the mixed-blood elves. The mountains here Landslides and landslides occur every day, and even the most experienced local guides are reluctant to enter.

Therefore, the only way to get to the Pagisto Plateau from Padstow City is to pass through the jungle south of Padstow City and enter a hilly and mountainous area of ​​more than 200 kilometers, so that you can go around to the southern part of the Pagisto Plateau. This is the entrance to the Pagisto Plateau.

In fact, this hilly and mountainous area is separated between the Pagisto Plateau and the Griffin Rampart Mountains.

If you continue walking westward along this muddy and difficult-to-walk hilly land, you will find the western end of the Griffin Barrier Mountains.

It was thought that the Griffin Barrier Mountains and the mountains extending out to the southwest of the Pagisto Plateau were closely connected. When Roy led the mine guard group through this hilly mountainous area, he discovered that this was not the case. The western end of the Griffin Barrier Mountains The trend came to an abrupt end on a hilly mountainous area.

The mountains to the southwest of Pagisto Plateau continue to extend to the southwest. It is said that there are high-level magical beasts in the mountains there that even griffons have to stay away from.

There are hilly and mountainous areas sandwiched between the Griffin Barrier Mountains and the mountains to the southwest of the Pagisto Plateau. The closest points of the two mountain ranges are only less than 80 kilometers apart.

With the gryphon group leading the way in the sky, Roy led the mine guard group and walked south along the hills and mountains. At the end of the hills and mountains was a fault zone that was more than 200 kilometers long.

This seems to be a pass that leads to the southern part of the Partington plane between the Griffin Bulwark Mountains and the southern mountains of the Pagisto Plateau.

Four years ago, Roy wanted to see what the western end of the Griffin Barrier Mountains looked like.

The scene before him was beyond his imagination...

Because the end of the hilly and mountainous area was a fault zone, he and his four thousand elven warriors were actually standing on the top of the cliff. He stood on a rock and looked down. His sight was blocked by a cloud, and they seemed to be standing on a cliff. Mountain top in the clouds.

It just so happened that this mine guard group came down from the Pagisto Plateau, and on the left was the 10,000-foot-high Griffin Barrier Mountains...

But there is still a bottomless chasm in front of us.

The wind blowing from the north along the hilly and mountainous areas suddenly dispersed on the cliff...

The clouds and mist below the cliff were blown by the cold wind, rolling and surging like an endless river.

The mine guard group Roy brought out this time was composed of 3,000 mixed-blood elven warriors and 1,000 dark moon elven warriors.

Today's assassin team has absorbed all the Dark Moon Elf prisoners from the three gem mines. Under the strict training of Captain Timothy and Deputy Captain Tennyson, these Dark Moon Elf warriors have strong abilities at night. combat effectiveness.

Five hundred gryphon cavalry wandered in the sky.

According to Captain Tiprado's suggestion, the mine guard group can be stationed here.

The 500-meter gryphon cavalry of the gryphon regiment carried them to the northern jungle of Sun Island Bay...

But Roy insisted on opening a path to the south here, so he asked the mixed-blood elf warriors to set up a rope ladder from the top of the cliff, preparing to lead the mine guard group directly to the bottom of the valley.

This cliff does not go directly to the bottom of the valley. The faults here are in the shape of steps, but the view is blocked by rolling clouds and fog. From the top of the cliff, the situation inside the canyon cannot be seen at all.

At this moment, the mixed-blood elf team in front has descended to the narrow platform of the third step.

Kaka and little Eugene rode griffins and fell from the sky. The huge griffins brought a considerable visual impact to the mixed elf warriors.

Especially when they flapped their huge wings and landed on the top of the cliff, the elven warriors felt that they might be blown away by the fierce wind at any time...

Kaka jumped off the back of the gryphon, ran directly to Roy, and said to him:

"Roy, you'll reach the jungle north of Sun Island Bay after passing through the stalagmite canyon. You'd better come with me to see what's going on at the bottom of the valley!"

"What's wrong? What happened?" Seeing Kaka's serious face, Roy knew that he must have encountered some problem ahead.

"Although it may be easier than climbing over the Griffin Barrier Mountains here, it's not that easy... you'd better go down and take a look!" Kaka said and pointed to his griffon.

Roy rode Kaka's griffon not once or twice. The griffin no longer rejected Roy. When he saw Roy clumsily climbing onto the saddle on his back, he just turned his head to the side...

Kaka skillfully climbed onto the seat in front, holding the reins with one hand. The griffin leaned forward, spread its huge wings, flapped a few times, and then took off into the air.

Then the griffin carried Roy and Kaka into the rolling clouds and mist at their feet.

Little Eugene followed closely on a griffin. These rolling clouds were very humid. When the griffin passed through the clouds, the moisture quickly condensed into small water droplets between Roy's eyebrows and hair.

The cloud layer was not very thick, and the griffin quickly passed through the cloud layer.

Although the sun is blocked by clouds and fog in the canyon, it is just like a cloudy day...

You can see the conditions below the canyon through the clouds, but the scene below really made Roy take a breath of air.

Under the mist-shrouded moat, there is a forest of bamboo-shaped stalagmites. Each stalagmite is almost more than ten meters high. The top of the stalagmite is as sharp as a cone, and each stalagmite is as lifelike as a bamboo shoot, densely packed together.

If any mixed-blood elf warrior lost his footing on the cliff and fell into the canyon, he would probably be impaled on the sharp needle-like stalagmite tips.

Roy discovered the existence of these stalagmites. Even if the mixed elf warriors went down to the bottom of the valley, they would not be able to walk through the bamboo forest because the bottoms of these stalagmites were almost tightly packed together...

The mixed-blood elf warriors who were laying ladders on the edge of the cliff had already passed through the clouds and reached the third layer of the fault zone, and they were continuing to build ladders downwards.

In fact, Roy did not take the advice of the village chief of Tiprado and let the griffin group carry the mixed elf warriors across this chasm. The reason was that Roy wanted to open a passage here.

You can't always rely on the Griffin Group's transport capacity...

Seeing these stalagmites, Roy actually thought that as long as a pontoon bridge made of giant trees was opened between these stalagmites, and a stepped elevator was built next to the cliff, the bay of Sun Island and the hills and mountains could actually be connected. The southern end is closely connected.

But now I just think about it, we can't keep the four thousand mine guards waiting at the top of the cliff.

After Kaka flew in this stone forest canyon for a while, the end was indeed the intersection of the jungle and the stone forest, where the stalagmites and trees were closely connected.

To be precise, the place where the stalagmites are located below cannot actually be called a canyon, it can only be a fault zone...

These stalagmites grow at the foot of the fault zone. You can't see the end of these stalagmites running from east to west, but their width is only less than one kilometer.

At this time, Roy regretted that he had left all the floating devices at the first mine. If he had known the terrain here was like this, he would have brought a few of them.

He originally wanted the old dwarf craftsman from the first mine to design a magic airship, so that the magic airship could navigate between Padstow City and the Plateau City.

Calculated based on the flight time of the griffons. It would only take about ten days for the magic airship to fly back and forth between Padstow City and Plateau City.

Just as Kaka passed through a stalagmite forest, Roy found an obvious gap at the edge of the stalagmite forest.

"Kaka, stop for a moment! Yes, it's right here."

Roy asked Kaka to land at the gap...

Kaka didn't quite understand what Roy meant, and couldn't help but turn around and ask Roy:

"What's wrong? Roy."

For Elf Tamers like Kaka, these faulted cliffs and the Griffin Barrier Mountains are not obstacles, so they rarely notice what is going on at the bottom of the cliff.

If Roy hadn't led the mine guard group into Sun Island Bay this time, I'm afraid they would never pay attention to this place.

It is still a little difficult for the griffin to land in the jungle, because there are also some sharp stalagmites hidden in these jungles. An emergency landing without any protection can easily injure the griffin...

But Roy wanted to investigate here again...

Kaka was a little embarrassed, but still agreed to Roy's request.

I saw him holding the griffin's neck tightly with both hands, and shouted to Roy: "Roy, hold on tight, we are about to land..."

Roy was a little confused. This was not his first time riding a gryphon. Why did he have to hold the saddle firmly with both hands to land? Aren’t landings usually very smooth?

Before Roy could ask clearly, he saw Kaka whispering softly in the gryphon's ear, like some kind of spiritual communication...

Then, instead of slowing down and landing, the griffin spread its wings and flapped twice, carrying Roy and Kaka into the sky. The griffin then let out a high-pitched cry.

The cry of the gryphon made Roy's ears ring.

Roy just grabbed the armrest of the saddle and looked at the griffin nervously. At this time, white magic lines appeared on the griffin's body. These magic lines covered the griffin's body and formed some strange symbols.

These magic patterns even cover Roy and Kaka's bodies.

Then Roy discovered that the griffon's body was constantly transforming into steel, and even he and Kaka became iron men...

At this time, the griffin suddenly retracted its wings in the sky, and under the pull of gravity, it fell from a high altitude like an iron ball.

'Iron Will'

The magical skills that griffins are born with.

A huge iron ball slammed down into the stalagmite forest on the edge of the jungle, like a solid cannonball, and fell with a bang.

Roy only felt that he fell with the gryphon and hit the densely packed sharp stalagmites. For a moment, stone chips flew and dust flew. He was completely confused, but he was very conscious.

At this time, a crater with a diameter of five meters was formed around the stalagmite.

The griffin rolled on the spot and got up from the crater.

Kaka dragged Roy and jumped to the griffin, and then Roy found that the steel state on his body was disappearing rapidly...

This was the first time for Roy to experience such a reckless landing. In the dust, he glanced at Kaka.

"There's no other way. If you want to avoid getting hurt in a place like this, you have to do it like this!" Kaka shrugged his shoulders and explained innocently.

Roy walked out of the pit in a few moments. As expected, the surrounding stalagmites also showed outward sputtering damage.

The gryphon's landing in this way was still very shocking.

Originally, Roy had only a vague plan in his mind, but now the plan became more and more clear in Roy's mind. Roy first checked the damaged area of ​​the stalagmite, and then moved closer to the griffon to check whether it was injured.

After confirming that the griffon had not received any damage, Roy looked at Kaka:

"Kaka, I suddenly thought of a way, so that we can open a passage in the stalagmite forest, and then we build a double-car elevator to closely connect the north and the south..."

"Roy, do you want those gray dwarf prisoners of war to open a passage in the stalagmite forest here?"

Kaka thought Roy would transfer some gray dwarf prisoners of war from the plateau...

"No, that's a lot of trouble! I want to ask your gryphon group to do this. Just use the 'Iron Will' that your gryphon just displayed. I guess you can smash out a passage soon!" Roy He said confidently.

This time it was Kaka's turn to be a little dumbfounded and let the griffons smash a passage through the stalagmite forest. Is this a human saying?

"Kaka, we are about to arrive at Sun Island Bay..." Roy said.

Kaka slapped his forehead helplessly and said to Roy: "I'll go talk to the head of Tiprado Village, but I can't guarantee that this will happen!"

Then Kaka rode the griffin and flew into the sky, leaving Roy alone at the edge of the stalagmite forest to check the surrounding environment.

As expected, this place is closest to the cliff of the fault zone, and there is also a fallen tree, with half of the dead tree trunk pressing on the stalagmite forest.

Roy got closer and observed the big tree. Just as Roy expected, this big tree with a diameter of five meters had a hollow middle trunk and extended to the middle of the trunk.

If this big tree can be used, at least dozens of meters of tunnels can be saved.

It didn't take long for the Tiprado Village Chief to be found by Kaka. This time, the Tiprado Village Chief didn't even discuss with Roy, and just let the griffon use 'Iron Will' to smash it down. On the edge, a crater was created again...

"This idea is simple and crude, and it works once and for all. Just do it..."

The mayor of Tiprado stood in front of Roy and readily agreed to Roy's suggestion...