Path of light

Chapter 607 608. Leaving Isnas

There is no so-called market in the Isnes Expeditionary Force Camp.

The camp is full of dilapidated and abandoned tents, and is surrounded by all kinds of domestic garbage. There is no protection from the magic tower, and the camp is completely exposed in the dark place.

The only natural protection here is the huge crater, and all the buildings are at the bottom of the crater.

Even if the surroundings were completely dark, no dark creatures broke into the camp...

When Roy was wandering around, he could still see some traces of fighting in the dilapidated buildings on the edge of the camp. There was also a collapsed goddess statue at the entrance to the camp. You could see dry pools at regular intervals in the camp. These pools A drinking platform was also built on one side, but now these platforms have completely collapsed.

I heard that the Isnes Expeditionary Force Camp is the largest camp built by the Dark Land Temple Expeditionary Force.

But in fact, this place has become a forgotten corner. Apart from the ruins, there are only dozens of priests left here.

There is a small square in the center of the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp. A statue of the Statue of Liberty that seems to be relatively well-preserved is placed in the center of the square. A group of priests in gray robes knelt devoutly in front of the statue with their hands on their chests. Putting your hands together, you are praying devoutly.

Roy came closer, and no one in the group of pious priests even turned to look at him.

Standing behind the group of priests, Roy waited for a long time.

After the old priests finished their prayers and stood up in front of the statue, Roy saluted an old priest who had difficulty walking. He originally planned to bid farewell to the old priest this time, but when the old priest saw Roy, he Open your mouth and say:

"If you want to live in the camp, then find an unused tent to live in. Try not to live in the edge of the camp. Find a tent that is not too damaged. In addition, try to reduce the consumption of materials as much as possible. There is almost nothing here... …”

The old priest said as he staggered towards his residence.

"I definitely don't know the great priest you are looking for. There were too many priests who entered the Dark Land from Golfito, and they were divided into three groups. It is not strange that the priests do not know each other. It’s about the land.”

His throat was a little dry and hoarse, so he took out the water bag and took a sip.

Although there is a shortage of food here, there is no shortage of water.

The old priest had a haggard face, with wrinkled skin covering the bones, but his eyes were very clear. Although the robe on his body was dirty and torn, Roy could still see the pattern on the collar that symbolized the great priest.

"I'm not looking for a place to stay, because I'm leaving the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp soon. Before I leave, I want to say goodbye to you!"

Roy said respectfully.

The old priest nodded and said to Roy: "The living environment in the Dark Land is not suitable for us to live here for a long time. If there is no news, it is better to give up as soon as possible!"

"Have you ever thought about leaving here?" Roy couldn't help but ask.

The old priest shook his head slightly and said, "Where else can I go except here?"

"Perhaps we can return to the Elf Continent, where... we can live a more comfortable life in the future." Roy continued.

The old priest shook his head again. He stopped and turned around with difficulty. His eyes fell on the Statue of Liberty in the square, with a look of persistence in his eyes.

"I followed the expedition into the dark place in order to find the long-lost goddess."

"Under the guidance of the gods, we knew that the goddess was lost in the depths of the dark place. Unfortunately, we spent almost all the wealth of the temple and still could not find the goddess who disappeared in the dark place."

"But even so, I want to be as close to the goddess as possible, at least stay in the dark place. Maybe I will have a chance to hear news from the goddess..."

The old priest said to Roy in a hoarse voice.

Roy didn't say anything else. He just followed the old priest silently. Waiting for the old priest to return to the tent, Roy wandered around the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp again. To be honest, this place gave him too much disappointment. .

There are no magnificent buildings, not many priests, and not even a decent free market.

"There's rubbish everywhere here..."

Roy complained in a low voice and walked to the area of ​​the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp that originally belonged to the free market. The ground here looked a little smoother, but there was not even a ghost in the market.

In the depressed free market, Roy suddenly found a mixed-race elf girl sitting in a dark corner. She was wrapped in a tattered cloak, and the hood completely covered half of her face. Only her slightly pursed lips could be seen. And a pointed chin.

Her fingers were slender, and she was actually sitting on a blanket with bare feet.

The part in front of the blanket belongs to the stall. There are not many things on the stall. Apart from some dead branches and yellow leaves, there are also a few gray-white soul crystals. Other than that, there is nothing else.

Roy didn't expect to see such a small elf girl in such a place.

"What do you plan to exchange for these things?"

Roy squatted down in front of the stall and reached out to pick up a dead branch. He didn't find anything special about this dead branch.

"This is a evergreen branch. If you put it into a water bottle, you might have a chance to sprout again in the future..." As soon as the elf girl spoke, her voice sounded very soft, and she licked the hair beside her ears. Silk, revealing half of the translucent pointed ears.

Roy said nothing and just continued to stare at her.

Unfortunately, only her chin and lips can be seen, and her skin color is a little gray.

Roy felt that something seemed wrong with her, so he squatted there for a long time without saying anything.

"Elf biscuits, or other edible things, dried fruits or something, you can exchange anything."

The elf girl spoke the elven language, and her accent was very different from that in Castletown.

"Do you live here alone?" Roy asked curiously, holding the dry branch in his hand.

The elf girl immediately became nervous, she lowered her head even lower, and then answered with a guilty conscience:

"I have an uncle, my uncle is a priest."

At this time, Roy closed his eyes. He could not feel the natural breath of the elf girl, but could feel a dark air lingering around the girl.

When Roy closed his eyes, he felt that the elf girl's body became unreal, like a ball of black fog.

Roy glanced at the elf girl in confusion.

Unexpectedly, Roy grabbed her wrist with one hand and rolled up her sleeves. There was a flame black line on the elf girl's forearm. After being stained with the dark air, this black line immediately spread around, as if there was really a black flame burning.

The half-elf girl saw Roy grab her arm and roll up her sleeves, and her face changed drastically.

Her arm was soft and smooth, and she suddenly broke free from Roy's hand, then dropped everything on the stall, turned around and got into a ruined tent.

Roy did not rush to catch up, but continued to squat in front of the stall, looking at the goods on the stall thoughtfully.

He took out a small bag of elf biscuits from his magic waist bag and threw it on the stall.

He chose again and again on the stall, and finally took a half-cut statue carved from black wood, and then left on his own!

...

He failed to find out the news of High Priest Reed in the Yisness Expeditionary Force Camp.

Roy left Yisness with regret this time.

I was originally planning to go shopping in the free market in the camp, but unfortunately there were no merchants in the free market in the camp, which meant that there were no dark beast materials to buy.

Roy waited until the camp was completely dark.

At this time, the camp had no protective barriers. The dark creatures floating in the air did not rush into the Isnes Expeditionary Camp. They seemed to float along a certain route, and their movement trajectory perfectly avoided the Isnes Expeditionary Camp.

I don't understand why these extremely active dark creatures would specifically avoid the Isnes Expeditionary Camp...

The night before leaving.

Roy hid alone in the tent and sorted out the elf biscuits and breadfruits in his magic waist bag. He carefully divided them into forty portions, and then moved the food out and distributed it to the poor priests who stayed in the Isnes Expeditionary Camp in the dark.

After all this, the black sky gradually turned dark red.

This time Roy didn't say goodbye to anyone, because he had said everything he needed to say yesterday.

As the sky gradually brightened, Roy wrapped himself in a magic cloak and walked out of the Isnes Expeditionary Camp alone, heading towards the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp.

…

Byron Thor, Linglan Bronzebeard, and the Great Magician Dalakli, who were hiding in the tent, did not come out to see him off. They respected Roy's silent way of leaving.

Since he chose to leave quietly, if the three of them ran out at this time, it might make the atmosphere awkward...

However, they also saw Roy distributing some food to the priests in the Isnes Expeditionary Camp while hiding in the tent.

The dwarf uncle stuck his head out of the tent, staring at Roy who was gradually going away, and said in confusion:

"What is he doing?"

The Great Magician Dalakli had a much better impression of Roy, and showed an intriguing smile on his face, saying:

"He seems to be helping these priests. This kid is really an interesting guy."

Then the Great Magician Dalakli turned to look at Byron Thor and asked him:

"Byron, where do you know him?"

Byron Thor thought of the scene when he first met Roy in the tavern, and said:

"In Castleton City, he was looking for a second-turn strongman everywhere, and planned to take this second-turn strongman to the Partington plane to kill a sea beast priest..."

Hearing Byron Thor say this, the Great Magician Dalakli couldn't help but widen his eyes.

As a second-turn strongman, he certainly knew what kind of terrifying existence the sea beast priest was.

Although the sea beast priest is also a second-level strongman, most of the sea beast priests have a more powerful contracted sea beast...

"Byron, you didn't kill a sea beast priest before coming to Golfito, did you?" asked the great magician Dalakli tentatively.

Byron Thor smiled faintly and said:

"That's true, but the sea beast priest was in a weak state and was led to the seaside by them. The contracted sea beast was shot dead by me before it could show its power."

"You are really amazing." Even the dwarf Linglan Bronzebeard said with some envy.

The great magician Dalakli asked in confusion: "Did this kid actually come into contact with the sea beast priest in the Partington plane?"

"To be honest, his position in the Partington plane is much higher than we imagined..." Byron Thor said in a low voice, looking at Roy's voice that had become very vague.

The dwarf Linglan Bronzebeard and the great magician Dalakli looked at Byron Thor at the same time.

"He was the first officer to form a regular army of half-blood elves in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom. It is of great significance to the half-blood elves, and he saved a large number of half-blood elves on the Pagisto Plateau in the Partington plane." Byron Thor said in a low voice.

The dwarf Linglan Bronzebeard opened his mouth so wide that he even forgot to close it.

Byron Thor continued:

"Did you find that we set out from the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp... All the way to the Isnes Expeditionary Camp, there seemed to be someone following us?"

The dwarf Linglan Bronzebeard shook his head vigorously, and he looked at the great magician Dalakli.

The great magician Dalakli also shook his head slightly, indicating that he did not notice it.

"Do you know why I always ask you to accompany Roy on hunting trips? In fact, I should be the most suitable person to accompany him!" Byron Thor whispered to Linglan Bronzebeard.

"What else did you do?" The dwarf uncle asked tentatively.

"Well, I and the great swordsman Alvin went to investigate who the guys following us were, but they seemed to be deliberately hiding from us, and they kept a distance of ten kilometers from us. It can be seen that they posed no threat to us, and I tried to approach them several times, but in the end... I couldn't find them."

Byron Thor's eyes showed a lack of confidence.

This surprised the dwarf Linglan Bronzebeard and the great magician Dalakli even more.

...

While the three were whispering in the tent, Roy had left the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp and came to an agreed location ten kilometers away from the camp to meet up with the Dark Moon Elf warriors lurking there.

Roy had bought several maps from the merchants in the Wanderer Camp before, and these maps marked the approximate locations of several nearby wild camps.

The locations of the wild camps became more certain after the maps were overlapped.

The group of Dark Moon Elf warriors had been following Roy. They had already found the wild camps and were waiting for Roy to leave the Isnes Expeditionary Force camp before heading to one of them...

Roy planned to go to these wild camps to make some purchases, mainly to buy materials for dark monsters.

This time Roy prepared a large amount of soul crystals, and the Dark Moon Elf warriors also carried a lot of hard currency, such as elf biscuits, dried fish, etc...