In the evening, the shadow of a caravan appeared on a path in the woods.

The crisp and pleasant sound of bells came, and the head horse who walked in the front was also carrying a large bag of goods, and the head of the regiment Sindeji walked in the front, looking very good.

When the caravan arrived at the mouth of the valley, they camped, the horses needed a good rest, and the elves repaired the hooves of the horses, and the next part of the road was a rocky road, and if the hooves were cracked, walking in the canyon full of rubble could easily injure the horses.

"I originally planned to arrive here at noon today, but the transaction in the village has not ended, so it has been delayed for half a day."

When he said this, Captain Sindeji's face was full of pride.

On this trip to the Barrier Village, the business of each village is good, and now a lot of magical herbs have been purchased, as long as they can return to Padstow City safely, they will be able to make a steady profit.

Captain Sindeji was naturally very happy in his heart.

At night, the chirping of harpies is heard from time to time, and they make a sound that resembles a wicked laugh, and even the elves get upset.

Gru climbed to the top of a tree, ready to shoot a few harpies to give them a little intimidation.

Captain Sindji walked to the campsite of the adventuring group, sat down in front of the campfire, and said to Instructor Nora:

"They have been living on the nearby cliffs, there are a lot of caves on the cliff wall of this canyon, they can fly in the caves, they can ambush any hunter who enters the caves, and many hunters enter the caves, but they become the rations of the harpies, so the elven hunters in this vicinity never climb into the caves of the rock wall to catch these harpies.

At night, they are also attracted by the light of the fire, they hate the sound of bells, and as long as they hang a string of bells outside the tent, the harpies will not come close.

The elves don't like the leather of the harpy, it is crumpled and unaesthetic, few elven hunters are willing to hunt them, I heard that the human nobles like to keep the harpy in a birdcage, but the human witchers can't come to the Partington plane.

When we cross Tiger Leaping Gorge tomorrow, we'll try not to provoke the harpys, who don't normally target us. ”

After saying that, Captain Sindeji also gave Instructor Nora a string of bells.

"Got it, we'll be behind your team when the time comes, and we won't provoke them unless they attack on their own initiative."

Instructor Nora stood up and said, and climbed onto a rock wall, standing on top of the rock wall, shaking the bell in his hand vigorously.

Sure enough, the harpy's laughter came to an abrupt end, and then there was a pop of wings flapping in the forest, and several harpies flew through the woods and into the caves of the canyon.

……

Instructor Nora arranged for Roy to be on duty for the night, and it was the second half of the night, so Roy needed to sleep a little earlier.

Just as he got into the tent, a group of elven warriors ran out of the forest against the background of the night, and these elven warriors came to the entrance of Tiger Leaping Gorge before they stopped.

For a while, a series of neighing of war horses sounded.

Roy poked his head out of the tent and looked out, the elven warriors were all wearing metal armor, with swords hanging from their waists and battle longbows on their backs, looking imposing.

When jumping off the horse's back, you can hear the sound of metal grinding clearly.

This group of elven warriors are all Silver Moon Elves.

The leader of the elven warrior team strode up to Captain Sindeji and asked him:

"You're a caravan from Padstow?"

"Yes!" Captain Sindeji hurriedly responded.

The elven captain raised his chin slightly, pursed his lips and said to Captain Sindeji:

"If you go from this road in the future, you will have to take the initiative to pay a tax to Lord Arvis, this mountain forest including the canyon in front has become the territory of Lord Arvis, you group are now trespassing on private territory, according to the laws of the elven country, we have the right to expel you, but since you do not know that this mountain forest has become the private territory of Lord Arvis, we will not expel you immediately. If you don't want to pay your taxes, you'll need to get out of here tomorrow morning. ”

Captain Sindeji was slightly stunned, he didn't seem to have heard of it, but the name Lord of Jarvis was very famous in Paddestow City, he owned the largest trading house in Paddestow City, and was considered the most powerful Silver Moon Elf nobleman in Paddesto City.

Since it is possible to let the elven army enter the jungle and announce this matter everywhere, it seems that this matter should be true.

Captain Sindeji asked the Silver Moon Elf Captain in front of him:

"I wonder how big is Lord Arvis's territory here?"

The elven captain coughed slightly, then pulled out a parchment map from his bosom, and unfolded it in his hand.

This map happens to be the entire map of the Partington plane, but only the elves' current occupation zone radiates 300 kilometers from the city of Padstow to the center.

Apparently the elven captain had come prepared, and he had already drawn a green area on the map.

Pointing to this area, the elven captain said to Captain Sindeji:

"From the city of Paddestow to the south to the Griffin Barrier Mountains, this land has now been bought by the Lord of Arvis."

Not only was the head of Sindeji stunned in place, but the entourage of the merchant group all looked up at the elven captain, and everyone couldn't believe that this lord of Yalvis had bought a quarter of the land in Padstow City at once.

Captain Sindeji hurriedly asked:

"Well, you're saying that the forests south of Padesto have been bought by this Lord of Yalvis?"

The elven captain corrected, "In fact, Lord Jarvis's territory only extends to the northern foot of the griffin barrier, and the area south of the griffin barrier is not counted as Lord Arvis's land. ”

Several instructors from the adventure group also came over, and among the instructors, only Instructor Nora was a half-blood elf, and the other instructors were all Silver Moon Elves, and they were all wearing demonic leather armor, so they looked like they knew that their identity was extraordinary.

The elf captain glanced at the instructors and nodded to the instructors.

Head Sindeji continued to ask:

"In the future, if we pass through the territory of Lord Jarvis, we will have to pay taxes?"

The elven captain became a little more gentle, put on a natural look, and said, "That's it. ”

Instructor Nora asked curiously, "Where does this territory of Lord Jarvis extend to the east?" ”

The elf captain held up the parchment map in his hand and said to everyone, "The width of the territory is about two hundred kilometers. ”

Captain Sindeji's face changed slightly, and then he noticed the thin line on the east side of the map, frowned and asked, "You mean that the east has reached the edge of the Mokias Mountains?" ”

The elven captain shook his head, pointed to the eastern area and said, "It's not that far, the Blackwater Swamp is not currently the territory of Lord Jarvis. ”

Captain Sindeji sat down a little weakly, and said to the elf captain:

"Okay, got it, we'll leave as soon as possible."

The elven captain and a group of warriors also camped at the entrance of the canyon, but the camp where they rested was dozens of meters away from the caravan.

Instructor Nora sat across from Captain Sindji and asked him:

"In the future, if the caravan doesn't want to pay taxes, will it have to detour from this territory?"

Captain Sindeji wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and said with some sorrow:

"That's almost more than three times as much, and the Mokias Mountains are notoriously dangerous, and almost all the magical beasts over there are infested in groups in the mountains and forests, even in the Blackwater Swamp, the long-snouted giant crocodile, killer bee, dragon fly, and patterned giant snake are all notoriously ferocious. Without the adventuring groups and mercenary groups to follow, our caravan would not be able to move an inch over there. ”

"Huh? I didn't even know there was such a place in the Partington plane, I knew there was a place like the Blackwater Marsh, why did we venture to the griffon barrier......"

Instructor Nora exclaimed.

Guide Marjery, a little dumbfounded, said to Instructor Nora, "Didn't you come to climb the griffon barrier?" ”

"I just didn't know that there was a place like the Blackwater Swamp, so I decided to climb the griffin barrier, I knew that there were dragon flies on the Blackwater Swamp, so we should have gone there to see ......"

Instructor Nora said with some regret.

The other instructors didn't care.

Instructor Eleanor asked with some concern, "What about the elven villages in the territory?" ”

"Of course, you also need to pay taxes, otherwise you may be kicked out!" Captain Sindji said worriedly.

The instructors fell silent, the last thing they wanted to see

“……”

Even Instructor Gru, who usually doesn't like to talk much, couldn't help but say at this time:

"It's a bit unreasonable that they've lived here for so long, and all of a sudden, they've become subjects of Lord Yalvis, right?"

In the elven village, they had seen the oppression of these half-blood elves by the Padestor Silver Moon Elves, and these half-blood elves who lived in the elven village had almost no chance of going to school, and many of them could only become hunters or herb gatherers in this life.

Now there are also Silver Moon Elf nobles who have taken the jungle they live on for themselves......

The atmosphere in the merchant group was very dull, but in fact, this also meant that the head of Sindeji needed to open a new trade route.

……

The next day, the caravan passed through Tiger Leaping Gorge and successfully arrived at the next elven village.

This group of elven warriors arrived first, and the warrant of Lord Jarvis had been issued, and the half-blood elves in the village were suddenly in chaos, and everyone came out of their homes one after another to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Some half-blood elves don't want to leave their homes, and many elves have lived here for half their lives, so they naturally don't want to leave here.

Since you have chosen to live in the village, the first thing you need to do is pay taxes to the lord of Arvis.

Many elves don't have the habit of saving money, they only find ways to make some money when they need it.

At this time, the caravan led by Sindeji arrived at this elven village, and many half-blood elves took out some magic herbs and magical beast materials from their homes and sold them to the caravan in exchange for some Kohler and paid a tax.

Many of the young half-blood elves in the village do not plan to pay taxes, and they are ready to leave their homes and continue their migration south.

In their words: the world is so big, we don't accept slavery.

The young half-blood elves were ready to follow the caravan south all the way to the Barrier Village.

The whole village has become extremely noisy, and the village that used to be very quiet will now be abandoned, and there is a sadness of parting everywhere.

The young half-blood elves clamored to follow the merchant group, and the head of Sindeji had no reason to refuse.

But Captain Sindeji also has his own concerns......

The further south you go, the more dangerous the jungle becomes, the jungle in front of you is often infested with magical beasts, and the closer you get to the griffin barrier, the more dangerous it becomes, because the griffin is the true overlord of this jungle sky.

……

The group still did not follow the caravan into the village, and under the guidance of Marjery's guide, the group came to a mountain pass.

This time, Instructor Nora divided the adventuring group into two combat groups, which were only 500 meters apart, and walked side by side in the jungle......

Roy was still in a group with Instructor Virgil, Instructor Gru, and Instructor Eleanor, and they had three instructors in their group.

Instructor Nora and Miss Scarlett, along with Sabrina and Miss Christine, are slightly weaker, but they still have Marjery's guide in the group.

After walking out of Tiger Leaping Gorge, the mountains and forests here have become significantly more desolate, and it is difficult to find paths in the jungle, and everyone is almost always walking on the wild grass, according to Majery's guide, there are often dire wolves in this mountain range.

The Wind Fox that the adventure group hunted before could only be regarded as a first-level magical beast, but the dire wolf here can be regarded as a second-level magical beast, and this kind of magical beast is more dangerous for Roy, Sabrina, and Miss Christine.

So when Instructor Nora was in the group, he repeatedly told Instructor Eleanor to take care of Roy.

However, the responsibility of caring for Roy ultimately falls to Instructor Gru.

As the archer in the adventure group, Instructor Gru's usual duty is to hunt and kill the monster and give it a fatal arrow.

However, for a great elf archer, the most feared thing is that the monster breaks through the encirclement of other instructors, and once it rushes to the side of the Gru instructor, the combat effectiveness of the Gru instructor will be sharply reduced.

Roy is currently in the Adventure Party, mainly protecting the Gru Instructors.

Instructor Eleanor was at the front of the group, Instructor Virgil was in the center, and Instructor Gru led Roy at the back of the team......

……

In the middle of the mountain, an angry two-headed dire wolf crouched in the grass, its blood-red eyes staring at the two half-blood elven hunters in front of it.

The two half-blood elven hunters had just hunted a wind fox in its territory.

Although it had long seen that the wind fox was not pleasing to the eye, the wind fox was too fast and too alert, and the dire wolf never found a chance to hunt it.

But now that it saw two elven hunters break into its territory and hunt the wind fox, Dire Wolf suddenly felt that it should teach the two elven hunters some lessons, such as making them his own meal.

The dire wolf was crawling in the grass, and it didn't even dare to move, for fear of disturbing the two elven hunters.

It waited patiently for an opportunity......

Finally, the two elven hunters crouched down, and they seemed to have begun to skin the wind fox, and it was now that the dire wolf swooped out of the grass and rushed towards the two elven hunters a hundred meters away.

(End of chapter)