431. Northern part of the plateau
The snow at the summit of the Kassi Mountains does not melt all year round, and after a long period of precipitation, hundreds of kilometers of glaciers have formed on the summits.
The most striking feature of the mountains of the Kassi Mountains is that the summit is covered with snow, and the green is only visible halfway up the mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is the vegetation is reborn.
Most of these forests are coniferous forests, and in addition to Korean pine, yellow pine, 100-meter-tall fir trees can be found everywhere.
The Tempestine Canyon is located in the middle of the Kassi Mountains, and this mountain crack slowly expands with the changes of the earth's crust, gradually forming a canyon.
The vegetation in this canyon is different from that of the Katsi, and many of the low shrubs that can only grow in the southern part of the plateau can also survive in the Skyfall Canyon, and almost all the snowmelt water flowing down from all over the Katsi Mountains collects in the Skyfall Canyon, and forms a huge waterfall in the middle of the canyon that is up to a kilometer long.
This is where the Tempestine Canyon gets its name.
The entire canyon has this extremely cold river, and even in the hot summer, the water in this river is cold and biting.
The canyon is always filled with a layer of fresh mist, and the occasional cold wind blowing from the northern part of the moor will freeze these mist into tiny ice particles that will turn into gravelly ice crystals wherever they drift on.
Plateau headhunters almost always enter the southern part of the Gathi Mountains through the Tempo Canyon, from where they can reach the southern part of the Pajisto Plateau by heading west along the Mangyuan or south along the Sudasso Mountains.
It can be said that the Tempus Canyon is the first artery road leading from the hinterland of the Pagisto Plateau to the northern part of the plateau......
Originally occupied by headhunters, Roy has built a wall at the south pass of the Skyfall Canyon and is garrisoned by a team of half-blood elven warriors.
The mine guards passed through the three mines in the southern part of the Katsier Mountains and successfully arrived at the south pass of the Tianpu Canyon, where Roy let the mixed-blood elf warriors of the mine guards camp here, because the climate in the north of the plateau is very harsh at this time, and the north wind has been blowing in the Tianpu Canyon for more than a month......
The Mine Guards will have to wait a good day before attempting to traverse the Skyfall Canyon.
Before that, the mine guards were to live on the south pass of the Tianpu Canyon.
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There are also some headhunter squads in the Skyfall Canyon, they have long been accustomed to this extreme environment, but the half-blood elf warriors cannot.
As for when he would be able to cross the Skyfall Canyon, Roy wasn't in a hurry.
The eight mines he currently controls have begun to slowly resume normal production, and the headhunters who tried to rush into the southern part of the plateau have also been driven back to the northern part of the plateau, so this time his mine guards took advantage of the situation to enter the northern part of the plateau, also to see how they can extinguish the arrogance of the headhunters on the plateau and let them reacquaint themselves with the half-blood elves.
According to the information left by the head of Berkeley, there are still five magic crystal mines in the north of the Pajisto Plateau, but at that time, the Silver Pegasus Legion wanted to attack the ancestral land of the headhunters in one fell swoop, and did not have time to recover these magic crystal mines.
The mine guards entered the northern part of the plateau, in addition to further squeezing the living space of the headhunters, but also to occupy these crystal mines.
In the distance, there was another pack team, this pack team was all made up of horses, hundreds of horses loaded with supplies parked outside the camp, a half-blood elf leader took a letter and handed it to Mu Lin, and chatted with Mu Lin for a few words, obviously it should be an old acquaintance with Mu Lin.
Murreen then took the half-blood elf to meet Roy, and the main supplies sent by the pack were food, half of which was dried fish from Castletown, and the other was fresh breadfruit.
This pack team was rented by Reshander from the Padestor City Carriage and Horse Dealer, and the leader of the team was also the half-blood elves that Reshander brought from the half-blood elf gathering place.
Today, the Mine Guards are well-known on the Partington plane, and many half-blood elves come to visit them......
The tents in the camp at the south pass of the Tianpu Canyon occupied almost the entire hillside, and many half-blood elf warriors were in and out of the camp, and the silver moon elves were almost invisible among the officers.
The half-blood elves in the pack team were extremely excited to see such a sight.
"I've heard for a long time that you're doing a good job on the Pagisto Plateau, but I didn't expect there to be so many people in this mine guard......"
"We're going to deal with those vicious headhunters!"
The Half-Blood Elf Warrior of the Mine Guard said to the half-blood elves in the packer, a kind of pride on his face.
When Roy received the pack leader, he also asked about Reisander's current situation.
The leader of the pack team told Roy that Reisander should currently raise supplies in Barrier Town, and that all kinds of materials on the Pagisto Plateau were being consumed rapidly, and as the closest town to the Pajisto Plateau, it was undoubtedly the most cost-effective way to raise materials from Barrier Town and transport them to the plateau.
Since the portal of the Partington plane was blocked, the comptoirs of the Partington plane have also suffered the worst blows.
Now Reshander intends to rebuild the trade route from the city of Paddestow to the town of Barrier, and from the town to the south of Pagesto.
A few days ago, Reisander told Roy about this idea.
Roy was very supportive.
A gust of wind blew, blowing a cloud of white smoke from the Tianpu Canyon, and the smoke composed of these snow particles changed shapes in the strong wind.
With this batch of food, Roy was almost ready in terms of material.
As long as he waited for good weather, he was ready to lead the mine guards through the Skyfall Canyon......
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The canyon is filled with ice and fog, and a team of assassins heads north along the edge of the glacier.
Moira was in the assassin team, her face was covered with a black scarf, her body and face were covered with a layer of white snow crystals, and the thick mist evaporated from the glacier and condensed into ice in a blink of an eye, and the assassin team also appeared and disappeared in this thick fog.
The leader of the team was Vice Captain Tennison, and this time when he entered the Skyfall Canyon, Deputy Captain Tennison taught the Dark Moon Elf warriors in the team how to hide in the fog.
Moira was secretly glad that she had come with her this time, otherwise this concealment technique might have been wrong.
She wrapped the Spike Saber in a bandage to prevent the mist from congealing in the gaps in the sprawl of the Spike Saber, which could easily freeze the Spike Saber and scabbard together.
They hunted down a team of headhunters and made their way here.
The roar of a nearby waterfall drowned out some of the sounds, and even the glacier at your feet became a little restless.
Moira wondered if Miss Tiffany could swim in this glacier......
The Dark Moon Elf warrior in front of him suddenly stopped, and Moira immediately ducked down and hid her body in the ice mist.
A squad of headhunters was like frightened birds, they must have noticed something unusual, burrowed out of a crack in the rock, and fled north in a hurry.
This kind of pursuit, Vice Captain Tennison will not do, his understanding of the assassin is an ambush, but he will definitely not pursue.
Vice-Captain Tennison believes that a qualified assassin should hide his body at all times......
Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer headhunters who are still active in the Tianpu Canyon, and those headhunters probably know that a large group of half-blood elf warriors have come to the south of the canyon, and in the past few days, the headhunters in the Tianpu Canyon are retreating to the north.
When the Assassin Squad first enters the canyon, they can still find some ambush targets.
But now, the group of headhunters has been frightened, and they will flee in a hurry at the slightest hint of wind......
"Escaped again, this canyon is too cold, call it a day early, tomorrow we will apply to enter the northern plateau wilderness, maybe there will be more headhunters over there."
Tennison said with some disappointment.
He reached out and tugged at the face towel from his face, bouncing off the frozen ice shell.
All the members of the Assassin Team turned around and walked towards the southern exit......
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At the same moment, in the northern wilderness of the North Wind Canyon.
In front of a magic crystal mine, a large number of rebel soldiers were gathered, and Captain Helik stood at the front of the team, squinting his eyes and looking coldly at the half-blood elf swordsman standing at the head of the city, he scolded with a cold face:
"Bragley, didn't we join the rebels together to kill all the slave traders on the plane and free the half-blood elf slaves on the Partington plane, but now you have run to the plateau...... Become a slave owner's lackey! ”
The half-blood elven officer on the city wall who covered his face with his face in armor was silent, and after Captain Helik called out his name, he lifted his visor, revealing the face of Captain Helik's most familiar face.
"Helik, I didn't expect us to meet in such a way." Bragley, the half-blood elven officer on the city walls, replied with a blank face. "When the Silver Moon Elves negotiated peace with us in the Barrier Village, it was clear that they wanted to purge all of us rebel officers, and if I didn't leave at that time, I was destined to be sent to the Inquisition?"
"So you fled to the Pagisto Plateau......"
Commander Helik turned his head and didn't want to say more, and the rebel soldiers behind him slowly approached the city wall.
The army was overwhelmed, and the feeling of oppression that had preceded the battle spread from the battlefield in front of the castle.
The mine warriors standing on the walls of the castle trembled, there were too many half-blood elf warriors under the walls, and they had come here after chasing headhunters all the way.
The strength of these rebel fighters is undoubted, but the private army of the mines on the city walls does not want to sit idly by.
As a low trumpet sounded among the rebel warriors, a tidal wave of half-blood elven warriors rushed towards the walls.
Captain Helik glanced at the sky.
At this moment, a high-pitched and loud griffin chirped from the clouds, and a few seconds later, two griffons broke through the clouds at the same time, wrapped in a pale golden shroud, like a meteorite falling from the night sky, with a long tail, swooping towards the city wall.
This was not the first time the two griffon cavalrymen had done this, having done so in front of the walls of the silver mines in the Kartim Mountains......
'Iron Will'
The two griffons slammed into the city wall, and with two roars at the same time, the head of the city, which was originally full of private troops in the mines, was knocked out of two huge gaps.
The rebel soldiers in the front row, dressed in heavy armor and holding shields, rushed through the gap in the wall before the smoke cleared......
The two griffon cavalry struggled into the sky under the desperate protection of the rebel fighters.
The rebel warriors poured down the gap in the wall into the magic crystal mines, and Bragley, who had fallen from the city, looked at the striding leader Helik with a desperate expression, refusing to say a word.
The defeat of the Magic Crystal Mine was already doomed at the beginning of the battle.
Instead of killing all the private soldiers in the mine as they did with the headhunters on the plateau, the rebel fighters confiscated their weapons and armor and locked them up in a warehouse on the first floor of the mine.
The owner of the mine and his family were besieged on the fourth floor of the castle, and when the private army of the mine was taken over by the rebels, the mine owner did nothing.
Captain Helik walked up the stairs to the fourth floor, wiping the blood from his sword with a handkerchief as he observed the castle's facilities.
Seeing the mine owner and his family standing trembling in the corridor on the fourth floor, he strode over and said to the half-blood elf mine owner:
"I'll decide where you go when I've checked the number of half-blood elf slaves in the mines. If you have the blood of more than ten half-blood elf slaves on your hands, tonight will be your last meal, and if you treat the half-blood elf slaves in the mines well, I will send you to the Inquisition of Padstow City, including your family! Before I do that, I would like to announce to you that this Magic Crystal Mine temporarily belongs to the Half-Blood Elf Rebels. ”
"Also...... I hope you will take the initiative to escape, which will save me a lot of unnecessary trouble! ”
After Captain Helik finished speaking, he walked towards the city wall without looking back......
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Roy waited only four days at the South Pass of the Tempestine Canyon before waiting for a good day.
Seeing that the north wind in the canyon had subsided, he led the four thousand mine guards to quickly pass through the Tianpu Canyon.
And after entering the wilderness in the northern part of the plateau, Roy did not rush into the northern part of the plateau, but camped at the north exit of the Skyfall Canyon, where the mine guards would continue to rest.
The griffons flew out of the camp and scouted the trail of highland headhunters around the camp......
Unlike the Helik Regiment's commanding attack, Roy led the mine guards into the northern part of the plateau like a spring breeze, and did not expand outward quickly after entering the northern plateau.
Outside the north pass of the Heavenly Waterfall Canyon is also a rolling hilly area, where a large number of demonic beasts and headhunters live together.
Roy ascends to the top of the mountain, from which you can see far away.
He looked back at the Skyfall Canyon, which was like a crack in white smoke that kept drifting out.
Kaka landed beside him on a griffin, and Roy straddled the griffin, holding Kaka's shoulders with both hands, urging Kaka to take off quickly......
Soaring into the sky, Roy's view of the vast hilly landscape became a huge map of colors.
Roy even saw a colony of headhunters hiding in a mountain col.
(End of chapter)