Chapter 515 516. The plane is open
Augustus stood at the door of the tree house, watching Roy disappear in a carriage at the end of the noisy street, and then looked back...
He was full of admiration for this 'Boss Roy who single-handedly saved the mixed elves on the Pagisto Plateau from dire straits and chaos'.
As a magic herbal medicine merchant in Padstow City, he has a much deeper understanding of this plane than other mixed elves.
In search of better magical herbs, he has traveled to many places, including the Blackwater Swamp and the Gryphon Barrier Mountains, as well as the Pagisto Plateau...
In fact, the mixed-blood elves living near the Blackwater Swamp have the hardest time. There are many high-level monsters living in the Blackwater Swamp area. Among them, the poison-horned black anaconda and the dragon fly pose the greatest threat to the mixed-blood elves. In addition, the swamp is full of Poisonous insects, snakes and ants, only the most experienced gatherers can enter the depths of the Blackwater Swamp to collect magical herbs.
The danger in the Griffin Barrier Mountains is obviously much less. Although griffons attack elves every year, they only happen a few times a year.
Although there are no aggressive monsters in the Pagisto Plateau, there are mineral veins everywhere on this land. There are many mine owners here, and it has always been the back garden of Lord Alves.
In addition, there is also a group of plateau headhunters who plunder everywhere on the plateau.
After Lord Alves was escorted back to Buenos City by the Silver Pegasus Legion six years ago to face trial, the mine owners on the plateau have been living on their last breath. Augustus always thought that the Silver Pegasus Legion was To take over the mines on the Pagisto Plateau.
I never expected that the Silver Pegasus Legion did not know the existence of the Pagisto Plateau...
The Silver Pegasus Legion blocked the Partington plane. It was originally intended to restrict the mixed elves from the Partington plane from returning to the Elf Continent, but unexpectedly it dealt a fatal blow to the mine owners on the Pagisto Plateau.
The large amounts of mineral ingots smelted in the mines could only be stored in warehouses. As the trading houses in Padstow City closed down one after another, the mines on the Padstow Plateau began to lack various supplies, including elven slaves.
It is for this reason that the mine owners on the Pajisto Plateau colluded with the plateau headhunters.
For the mixed-blood elves who settled on the plateau, a disaster was imminent...
It wasn't until Boss Roy showed up that a large number of elven mining slaves on the Pagisto Plateau regained their freedom.
Augustus has been unwilling to open up the magic herbal market on the Pagisto Plateau. In fact, he is somewhat concerned about the chaotic situation on the plateau.
All along, he has focused the work of the Magic Herb Trading Company on the Blackwater Swamp...
He knew many half-elf gatherers who gathered magical herbs in the Blackwater Swamp.
As a magic herbal buyer, Augustus is good at maintaining personal relationships with these collectors. In the past few years since the Partington plane portal was banned, a large number of primary magic herbs have become as unnoticed as weeds. The magic herb gatherers living around the Blackwater Swamp are also having a particularly difficult time.
It was when these mixed elves were in the most difficult time that Augustus took out the savings he had accumulated in the past few years, bought some living necessities in the city, and personally sent them to the Blackwater Swamp.
Because of this relationship, Augustus controls at least half of the herbal procurement channels in the Blackwater Swamp area.
The magic herbal medicine market is getting more and more popular, and he has suddenly become the largest magic herbal medicine buyer in Blackwater Swamp.
As long as Augustus says I want these magic herbs, those magic herb collectors will never sell the herbs in their hands to others.
It's not that other trading firms have approached Augustus, but Augustus doesn't want to sell magic herbs to other trading firms at all, and he also has his reasons.
When he was in the most difficult time, it was Boss Roy who reached out and gave him a hand...
The carriage driven by Boss Roy had disappeared at the end of the long street. Augustus withdrew his gaze and prepared to leave the restaurant...
"Mr. Augustus, I am the person in charge of Castletown Trading Company in Padstow City. I heard that you are the most famous magic herbal dealer in Padstow City. We just want to purchase it. A batch of magic herbs, so I want to cooperate with you further! ”
A Silver Moon Elf walked up to Augustus politely and said this.
Augustus nodded slightly, with an apologetic smile on his face, and then said: "I am very willing to cooperate with you, Your Excellency. Unfortunately, I don't have any extra magic herbs in my hands at the moment, so I'm sorry!"
He didn't even ask the Silver Moon Elf businessman about the purchase price of the magic herbs, so he decisively refused.
The Silver Moon Elf businessman was not annoyed. He took out a note from his arms, quickly wrote a line on it, handed it to the businessman Augustus and said:
"This is the address of our business. If you change your mind one day, you can come to us to talk..."
After saying this, he did not continue to pester Augustus, and turned around and left calmly.
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The three investigators originally thought that it would not be too difficult to find a temporary residence to settle down in the plateau city.
They set up three simple tents on a remote corner of the free market. They originally thought they would only stay in the tents for one night before moving into a more comfortable environment. Unexpectedly, they stayed in the tents for more than ten days in a row. I couldn't even find a suitable house to rent.
The three investigators discovered that almost all the half-blood elves in the city were walking around them.
Especially in some alleys, as long as they appear at the entrance of the alley, the mixed-blood elves who were still moving around in the alley will disperse with a 'whoosh', leaving only an empty alley, not even a fly can be seen... …
Before the investigators came, they also thought that the mixed-blood elves in Plateau City would be repulsive to them.
But I never thought that the mixed elves here would treat them like snakes and scorpions...
Sometimes when some vendors see them appearing, they close their stalls in a hurry and run away.
In recent times, the three investigators have collected almost no information about Boss Roy.
"The mixed-blood elves here are very wary of us!"
An investigator leaned against the wall a little frustrated and said to the other two companions.
Another investigator also thought of quitting: "We can't find any useful information at all here, otherwise we should go look elsewhere!"
"But we are not familiar with this place at all. If we want to go to other places, we need at least two guides..."
"Is it possible that the mixed-blood elves in the city already know our identities and are threatened by the forces behind them, so they dare not approach us?"
"That may be the case. I didn't expect that 'Boss Roy' has quite a strong control over this plateau city!"
"The more this happens, the more I feel that there must be some ulterior secrets in it."
The three investigators chatted very casually on the street corner...
They leaned against the wall. This was another narrow alley, and the location was somewhat hidden...
While they were talking, suddenly several mixed-blood elf children ran in from the other side of the alley, chasing a ball.
All the elf children's eyes were fixed on the ball, so much so that they ignored the three investigators standing at the other side of the alley.
Until the ball rolled to the feet of an investigator, and then the ball stopped. An investigator bent down and reached out to pick up the ball. A group of mixed-blood elf children saw the investigator holding the ball in his hand, but they did not dare to approach at all...
Seeing that the mixed-blood elf children did not dare to come over, the investigator casually handed the ball over, but before he could speak, several mixed-blood elf children were frightened and started crying.
At this time, I can only bite the bullet and pass the ball over...
A tall boy picked up the ball and took two steps back in a panic. He wanted to call the other mixed elf children to leave quickly, but another investigator reached out to stop him, and then asked:
"Why are you so afraid of me?"
"..."
Several mixed-blood elf children also shook their heads and said nothing, with tears hanging in the corners of their eyes, looking pitiful.
When the investigator saw that even the children were not talking to them, he had no choice but to stop with a stern expression.
The tall elf child picked up the ball, turned around and ran away. He also called his other partners with childish words:
"Run quickly..."
A group of mixed-blood elf children roared and flew out, returning the same way they came...
The three investigators couldn't understand why these elf children were afraid of them. They stood in the alley and said to themselves: "Why are they so afraid of us?"
Just as the three investigators looked at each other in confusion, a thin old mixed-blood elf leaned at the entrance of the alley and said to them:
"In the eyes of these children, you look similar to those former Silver Moon Elf mine owners. They think that you are also mine owners who buy and sell slaves, so they are particularly afraid of you."
"Actually, you rarely see Silver Moon elves on the plateau. It's normal for them to be scared when you suddenly appear in the plateau city..."
The three investigators thought of many reasons, but they never expected that these mixed-blood elf children would regard them as the owners of the mines on the plateau.
"We are not mine owners, but we just want to know if there are any mine owners who died accidentally here?" An investigator immediately stated his position.
The skinny old mixed-blood elf raised his eyes and said strangely:
"You ignored them when they were alive, but now that they are dead, you are here to investigate the cause of their death... Haha, isn't it funny?"
One sentence rendered the three investigators speechless.
"..."
The old mixed-blood elf paused for a moment: "You don't belong here... Apart from the mixed-blood elves, there are only a group of headhunter prisoners of war currently living in this city."
The old mixed-blood elf didn't say anything more, turned around and left the entrance of the alley.
The three investigators walked into the market again, intending to purchase some food.
The merchants in the market were also very indifferent to them, and seemed unwilling to say a word.
"How about we go somewhere else to investigate..."
"..."
The investigators stayed in the plateau city for nearly three weeks. Unfortunately, they could not harvest any useful information. The three investigators could only silently walk to the street corner...
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According to the city wall a few hundred meters away, Mu Lin stood on the observation deck of the arrow tower, holding on to the wall stack with one hand, and looked at the three Silver Moon elves in the alley not far away without saying a word.
Caravans from afar entered the plateau city in an endless stream, and the city gradually became lively.
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Almost at the same moment, Padstow City Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters.
Roy pushed the door open and walked into the lobby on the first floor of the Silver Pegasus Military Headquarters. He first ran to the lobby counter to sign in, and handed an application for help to the Silver Moon Elf female receptionist at the front desk.
He had prepared this application a long time ago, and this time he came to the military headquarters to submit the application.
In fact, he didn't have much hope in applying. Even if he wanted to write an application, it wouldn't be too much trouble. Trying is better than not trying...
Roy then ran to the Material Logistics Department of the military headquarters. This was originally the responsibility of Captain Berkeley, but now Captain Berkeley has been transferred to the city defense army. Another Silver Moon Elf officer took the place of Captain Berkeley. , responsible for managing this place.
Roy comes here every quarter to settle the income from these mines on the Pagistow Plateau...
It was originally agreed with Earl Swinburne that half of the revenue from the mine would be kept in Roy's hands to build the mine guard regiment, restore the normal operation of other closed mines, etc., and the other half would be handed over to the Silver Pegasus Legion. side.
This time Roy wanted to settle the amount.
The bill that Roy brought over only counted the number of mithril ingots, magic black iron ingots, and some ordinary metal ingots.
The head of the Material Logistics Department held a stack of lists in his hand and stared at Roy with some hesitation:
"Captain Roy, do you want to hand over half of the metal ingots this time?"
Roy said: "I brought some magic crystals this time. Can I use the magic crystals to settle the matter?"
The head of the logistics department looked more relaxed and replied: "Of course."
Then he paused again, as if he thought of something, and said to Roy: "Of course, if there are mithril ingots in the mine, it is okay to pay a part of the mithril ingots, but other metal ingots are not required. At present, There is no shortage of metal ingots here in the legion..."
"Currently, there are only three mithril mines operating normally on the plateau, and no more than a thousand mithril ingots are mined every month," Roy said.
Then Roy took out a few boxes of magic crystals from his magic pocket and handed them over. The head of the logistics department looked much better and said kindly to Roy:
" This magic crystal was delivered very timely. The legion just needs to go to Buenos City to purchase a batch of military supplies, and is also preparing to raise some more magic crystal. If you send these here, you don't need to go to Buenos City. Apply at the headquarters...if you need any help, just ask!”
The head of the logistics team seemed to be in a good mood.
"Nothing, just any new news from the Partington plane?" Roy asked casually.
"Oh, speaking of this, you need to be mentally prepared. I heard that the higher-ups want to release the portal to the Partington plane..."
The logistics leader whispered to Roy.
(End of chapter)