457. Return to the plateau
Over a rolling hill, the grey dwarf POWs arrived at a makeshift camp at the foot of the plateau.
The temporary camp is located in a col between two mountain ranges, just at the entrance to the Pagisto Plateau, and you can reach the southern part of the Pagisto Plateau by following the winding mountain path in the col behind.
The Silver Pegasus Legion was evacuated from the Pagisto Plateau a few months ago, leaving behind a camp in the valley on the plateau and a camp in the col into the pass.
The Silver Moon Elves prefer a comfortable living environment wherever they are, so even the makeshift camps are built in a decent way.
After more than half a month of trekking, the gray dwarf prisoners of war arrived at the temporary camp here, and they still had to rest for two days before setting off.
Along the way, the half-blood elves and grey dwarf prisoners ate and lived together, with little difference except for the shackles on the feet of the grey dwarf prisoners.
These gray dwarves are thick-skinned and strong, and they will not feel tired even if they walk on the mountain road with heavy shackles, and walk for most of the day in one go.
These half-blood elves in the town of the fortress were not hostile to the gray dwarf prisoners of war, and they even felt that the gray dwarves were shackled and trekking on the mountain roads pitifully, so these gray dwarves hardly carried any weight on them.
And these gray dwarf prisoners of war also seemed extremely honest, completely different from the gray dwarf miners that Roy found in the mines, and they did not have the murderous and ruthless eyes of them.
While resting along the way, the half-blood elf warriors would offer to hand the grey dwarf prisoners of war water bladders, and occasionally an apple.
Many of the half-bloods are coming to the foot of the Pagisto Plateau for the first time, where the mountains are undulating, and the higher peaks behind are almost obscured by the mountains in front of them, so they are far less majestic than the Griffon Barrier Mountains, and the peaks of the mountains are still some distance from the clouds.
The vegetation of the mountains here is still very dense, and a touch of pale green stretches out for a long time......
Standing in front of the platform in front of the barracks, looking at the rolling hills behind him, Roy turned to a half-blood elven warrior who was preparing for his trip and asked:
"The rest of the road will be difficult, do you regret coming here?"
The half-blood elf warrior put down the plank in his hand, raised his head and said to Roy with a smile:
"Why regret it? It's rare to have such a good opportunity to go to the Pajisto Plateau to have a look, which is actually quite good! It's good to live in Barrier Town, but if I repeat the work every day, I will feel very tired, Barrier Town is a huge cage, and I am the bird trapped in the cage. ”
A young half-blood elven warrior took the opportunity to say:
"I heard that Commander Helik is fighting with the natives of the plateau in the northern part of the plateau, if only I could go to the battlefield in the northern part of the plateau and take a look......"
"I also want to see how fierce the natives really are, and I have heard that they have black tattoos on their faces, spears in their hands, and argali, and they can leap and jump on the mountain cliffs."
Everyone talked a lot about the Plateau Headhunters, most of which were described by the half-blood elf miners who ran down from the Plateau, and now there are many such miners who have settled in Barrier Town, and the Plateau Headhunters in their mouths are as ferocious as demons in hell.
These half-blood elven warriors regard Captain Helik as a hero, and they also want to go to the northern part of the plateau to meet those highland headhunters.
……
In mid-February 1408, Roy led a thousand gray dwarf prisoners of war out of the makeshift camp at the mountain pass and marched again to the Pagisto Plateau.
With Lessander's caravan following them along the way, and with plenty of supplies, the Grey Dwarf POWs only had to conquer this extremely steep mountain road.
The road into the Pagisto Plateau is difficult, with most of the way on the edge of the cliffs and a cold rock wall on one side, where rocks can roll down at any moment. On the other side is the bottomless stream, and the grey dwarf prisoners of war have made it easy for them to escape the ranks, all they have to do is jump.
The half-blood warriors who walked this path for the first time were all pale, but each of them rode argali, which walked on the rugged mountain road as if they were walking on the ground.
Roy didn't expect that these gray dwarf prisoners of war were also very accustomed to the mountain roads here, and they walked steadily every step.
It was the mountain roads here that blocked the carriages of the city of Paddestow, as well as the caravans of the elves.
Merchants who wanted to transport supplies to the Pagisto Plateau had to use a caravan to carry them in addition to putting them in their magic pockets.
Riding an argali, holding the reins in one hand and the crooked horns in the other, Reisander turned to Roy behind him and said:
"It would be nice to build a road here, this road is simply too difficult to walk, it is better to have a sunny day now, if it is a rainy day, it is difficult to find a place to shelter from the rain on this mountain road, the mountain road is wet and slippery, and you can't stop on this mountain road less than a meter wide, otherwise it will be more difficult at night, you can only go forward hard, and occasionally the stones will roll down the top of your head, it will be even more fatal......"
Roy glanced down the cliff face, the steep mountain wall was bare, and the valley floor was littered with rocks.
This is the second time he has walked this mountain road, although he has made sufficient mental preparations, but once he walks on this mountain road, his heart will still be very desperate......
It's a road with no end in sight, and each section has a strict distance limit, and you can only stop at each platform rest area.
"I heard that there is a kind of magic airship created by goblins in the Roland Continent, which can fly directly to the clouds, from one place to another, this kind of magic airship looks like a large sea ship, with masts and sails on it, and the carrying capacity is also very good......," Reshander said with envy.
"If only Partington had a magic blimp as well, we could transport those magic furnaces directly to the plateau."
Roy struggled with this all the way.
The magic furnace Claire got him was too big, and he had been thinking about how to transport three magic furnaces to the plateau, which was a bit difficult to be honest.
With Roy's current level of knowledge, the easiest thing he can think of is to build a hot air balloon and then rely on the wind to blow the balloon onto the Pagisto Plateau, but building a hot air balloon requires constant attempts, and the high altitude of the Partington plane is stored in the merry stratosphere, and if you are not careful, it is easy to rush into the mezzanine of the turbulent airflow.
The mezzanine belt hurricane is likely to tear the balloon to shreds, and Roy doesn't have time to do that for the time being.
A griffin lingers against the rock wall.
The griffin cavalry was giving them their way through the sky, and the griffon's location was supposed to be a platform rest area.
Roy knew it wasn't too far from the resting platform.
By the time they arrived at the rest platform, Kaka and his griffons were already waiting there.
Roy described the magic airship to Kaka, and Kaka said to Roy very longingly: "I will also go to the Roland Continent to see ...... if I have the chance."
……
After this time together, the gray dwarf prisoners of war found that these half-blood elves were not the same as those of the silver moon elves before.
The half-blood elves do not have any hatred towards them.
Despite walking a long mountain road every day, the grey dwarf prisoners of war were never harassed by the half-blood elves, and their daily ration of food did not shrink......
Gradually, both sides are also trying to communicate.
Although the language is not understood, it is still possible to say a few simple sentences with gestures.
When the old dwarven craftsman was resting, he suggested to Roy that if this mountain road was the only way to reach the Pagisto Plateau, it should be repaired, at least by nailing a row of iron rings to the cliff face and putting on a chain......
This will make it a little easier to get along the trail.
The method is simple, but it is also very practical, Roy has so many mines in his hands, it is relatively simple to make some iron rings and steel drills in any one.
After walking on this road for nearly half a month, the gray dwarf prisoners of war finally passed the most difficult section of the mountain road, passing through a mossy mountain, and the scenery in front of them immediately changed, the land here was gentle and vast, and the clouds on the plateau were very low, which made people feel a little oppressive.
The half-blood elven warriors riding argali, however, apparently didn't care, and they rushed into the purple grass blanket, turned over and jumped off the argali, and then ran on the soft tundra.
A group of gray dwarf prisoners of war also sat down, looking at the sky above them and the land in front of them, knowing in their hearts that they would spend the rest of their lives here.
Reisander's pack team walked at the rear, the argali, carrying a large amount of supplies out of the valley, they stopped by the river five hundred meters away, the argali, not only to drink, but also to rest by the river, the half-blood elves in the pack team had to carry down the gargali and pile them together......
Roy's Grey Dwarf POW camp and the first stop for Reshander's pack were a valley camp built by the Silvermoon Elves on the Pajisto Plateau.
This is also an abandoned camp left by the Silver Pegasus Legion, but the buildings in the camp still exist, and the Silver Pegasus Legion did not tear down these temporary wooden houses when they left, and these houses have been used as warehouses by Lessander to store some supplies.
There were a few half-blood elves living in the camp, and they all came out of the mountains with Lessander.
Roy took the gray dwarf prisoners of war to the valley camp, and found that the camp was actually very lively, there were at least hundreds of half-blood elves living here, and almost all the wooden houses were full of half-blood elves, and the gray dwarf prisoners of war could not be placed in the wooden houses, so Roy could only set up some tents in the camp.
"Why are there so many half-blood elves here?" After Roy had placed the Grey Dwarf prisoners of war, he secretly ran over to ask Lessander.
"I just went to find out that many of the half-blood elves here are miners from the Nicobar Mountains, they were rescued by you from the mines of the Nicobar Mountains, and after recuperating in the northern part of the plateau for a while, they began to go south, and the half-blood elves who live in the camp are almost all ready to leave the Pajisto Plateau with the pack team, so they will stay temporarily in the valley camp."
Reisander said to Roy, which he had just learned.
The elven miners of the Nicobar Mountains want to live in Barrier Town, just to wait for Reshander's caravan to leave the plateau, and they can go with them.
Roy looked at the half-blood elven warrior riding an argali......
The half-blood elves in the fortress town are trying to come to live on the plateau, while the half-blood elf miners in the Nicobar Mountains want to leave the plateau as soon as possible.
The Grey Dwarf prisoners of war did not stop at the three gem mines, and left the valley camp and walked to the Mithril mines in the Sudazor Mountains, where the two Mithril mines were managed by Channing, and the two Mithril mines had been barely afloat due to the lack of enough miners.
This time, Roy arrived at the Sudasonan Mithril Mine with a thousand Grey Dwarf prisoners of war.
When he arrived at the Southern Mithril Mine, Channing led a group of half-blood elf warriors to wait at the gate of the castle of the Southern Mithril Mine, the castle gate was open, and the city walls were full of half-blood elves wearing standard armor.
Roy rode into the castle, and Channing, dressed in a delicate white gauze dress, stepped forward to hold the reins for Roy.
Since the two half-blood elves also brought a ladder covered with a red carpet and placed it on the side of the war horse, Roy jumped off the horse, and immediately a half-blood elf maid handed over a warm towel to intervene.
Channing had the half-blood elven warriors taken to the castle's guest rooms to rest, while the grey dwarf prisoners of war were placed in a shed in the Mithril mines in the backyard.
"Leave you four hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war, can you control them?" The first thing Roy said after dismounting was to ask Channing how many miners she needed.
"Yes." Channing replied confidently.
Roy nodded, he liked Channing's style of doing things.
Roy didn't stop at the castle, and went directly to the Mithril mine in the backyard with Channing, and he said as he walked:
"If the mine needs a half-blood elf guard, you can always mention it to me......"
"The Southern Mithril Mines have a two-hundred-man mine guard that can handle the current situation." Channing said.
Roy walked to the magic furnace in the backyard, pointed to the furnace in front of him and asked Channing, "Do you know how the owner of the Sitney Mine transported this cumbersome magic furnace to the plateau in the first place?" ”
Qian Ning was slightly stunned, and then thought of it: the only possibility that Roy asked like this is that he has already obtained the magic furnace, but he has encountered a problem at present, and the magic furnace cannot be transported to the plateau.
Qian Ning frowned and thought about it seriously before he said, "My father rarely talks to us about these things, but I have heard others talk about the magic furnace before, and it is said that in order to transport this furnace to the plateau, my father hired a special transportation team. ”
"Lobato, do you remember how my father brought this furnace in the first place?" Qian Ning then asked the old gray dwarf miner next to the furnace.
The old gray dwarf miner named Lobato squeezed his wrinkled eyes with all his might, and thought for a long time before he said:
"The transport team hired by the owner of the Sitney mine is not a transport team, it is a group of half-blood elf adventurers, and I don't know where they got a floating device, they asked a magician to manipulate this floating device to hang the furnace in mid-air, and then used a dozen argali-sheep to pull the magic furnace floating in the air, and successfully entered the Pagisto Plateau......"
Roy hadn't seen a levitation device, but according to the old gray dwarf miner's description, he probably knew what it was.
(End of chapter)