Early the next morning.
The Lord asked Lesley to seal the Snake Heart Stone and let the convoy continue to move forward.
Sarah suggested that Li Ang ask the team to turn directly to the west and go to Long River Town first.
"Sir, since the enemy in the dark knows your route, you definitely shouldn't do what he wants!"
But Li Ang refused. "The enemy will probably think so too... Continue south, we will go through the forest to the village..."
Sarah was puzzled. "The only one who knows your route is Ralph! Do you want to go to the place he said?"
"Sarah, this was not done by Ralph. He shouldn't be able to afford a killer like Risadiran. Ralph is not the only one who knows my route, there are others..."
Li Ang said thoughtfully.
Sarah shook his head in confusion. "Others? Rangers? They can't even afford them..."
"Sarah, if you were the injured elf assassin... where would you hide?"
"In the forest, of course."
"That's right, I'm going to catch him."
Sarah didn't say anything more. She just put on a set of Ranger armor silently and stayed by Li Ang's side.
Since the lord has made a decision, as a subordinate, you should solve the problem for him instead of creating it.
Although Sarah never likes to wear heavy armor.
The convoy continued to move forward slowly, but Ansen stopped shooting birds.
He is taking care of the wounded more carefully now, probably because he wants his brothers to recover quickly and help as soon as possible.
Li Ang no longer relied on the carriage. He rode Alice again and was fully equipped. He even installed a breastplate for the first time and the lining was lined with satin - this was considered a simple body armor made by himself.
The bow and arrows were also carried on his back.
In his hand, he was still holding the slightly curved Noldo longsword that Risadiran dropped - there was no scabbard, so he had to carry it.
Kloze is still on the carriage. It's not that he is lazy, he is sharpening his sword.
He occupied a carriage alone, and on the carriage were a bunch of various swords.
It is more efficient to polish equipment while walking.
Most people in the team never thought that Kloze was an excellent blacksmith before he became a soldier.
Meitengheim men are actually good at blacksmithing.
Their volcano-covered hometown is full of fine iron ore, and the god they worship is also 'God of Steel'.
Those muscles and strength were probably acquired through blacksmithing - but this also resulted in Meitengheim people's food consumption being particularly large, with one serving as much as three...
It is difficult for Meitengheim, which has little arable land, to feed these big and hungry people, and there are frequent famines, so Meitengheim became the "Mercenary Wholesale Department".
Kloze is very satisfied with his current boss, because in his many years of mercenary career, he has only met Li Ang who is willing to let Meitengheim people eat freely.
Although the lord has never been willing to eat with them...
Everyone was on guard, but no one seemed to complain.
In fact, no one noticed that this lord, who was always a bit out of place, seemed to have put this small team together in just ten days.
in different ways.
The convoy gradually entered the forest, and the road in the forest gradually became no longer smooth.
But nothing happened on this road that everyone was carefully guarding.
We didn't meet anyone along the way, except for the occasional wild deer or rabbit that came out of the nearby forest, which added a lot of food reserves to the team.
"There are so many wild animals here? Why doesn't anyone come to hunt?"
Li Ang asked John next to him--another swimming expert wearing Zha armor.
"Sir, this area is already a place frequented by Noldo Elvess. Hunters dare not come here. In fact, no one dares to come here alone... Only convoys with a large number of people dare to pass here, or those slave-catching teams..."
John looked around nervously while answering.
"There are very few people passing by, but it can still maintain such a wide road..."
Although the road on the ground is a bit bumpy and overgrown, it is still spacious and the carriage can move without any problems.
"Probably the slave-catching team has been maintaining the road. Noldo Elves girls have always been the most valuable slaves, and the slave-catching team has to use prison cars to transport them. I attended an auction with... others... in Xingar. At that time, three elf girls were auctioned for a sky-high price of one hundred thousand dinars... but..."
The speaker was Sarah, and it seemed that there was someone she didn't want to mention in her words. She glanced at Li Ang with some concern, and continued without giving anyone a chance to ask questions.
In fact, Li Ang heard it, but he didn't ask further questions.
Only by respecting the privacy of each partner can your partners respect you.
Noldo Elves is not an aborigine of this continent. It is said that he came to the Pande Continent nearly a thousand years ago, and he seems to have a very high level of technology.
However, no one knows how Noldo Elves came to Pendor.
They occupy the depths of Long River Forest as if they suddenly appeared out of thin air, and do not interact with any humans.
They may think that humans are lower animals. In their eyes, humans are probably about the same as, or even worse than, wild animals in the forest.
At least the Noldor will not kill wild animals, but they will kill humans who dare to enter Long River Forest - and they also have this ability.
The deeper you go into Long River Forest, the more aggressive Noldo Elves becomes.
It is said that there is a beautiful sapphire-like lake in the hinterland of Long River Forest, but so far no one has been able to reach there alive.
Of course, there is no such thing as unreasonable hatred in this world. There is certainly a reason why Noldor actively attacks humans.
The Noldor once had a high-level civilization that had been passed down for thousands of years. They originally just hid in the forest and lived in peace with the world, unwilling to conflict with humans.
But the initial tragedy came from their beauty.
Elves may be the darlings of Creator God. Each elf has a beautiful appearance and a long lifespan. Their snow-white skin is born with an indifferent temperament - they themselves are like works of art.
Except for their long pointed ears, these beautiful creatures have the same anatomy as humans - but have ten times the lifespan and are a hundred times more beautiful.
This kind of beauty has an irresistible appeal to some people.
After many attempts, some human rulers concluded that Noldo Elves should not have any magic, but was very skilled and had an amazing level of craftsmanship.
However, the total population of Noldo Elves is not large, it seems that there are only a few thousand people - maybe Creator God is looking for balance, and the reproductive ability of elves is very poor.
Of course, this may have something to do with their long lives and indifferent personalities.
They are beautiful, rare, powerful, proud, and despise humans.
--Every one of them is giving birth to the desires of human powerful people, and all kinds of different desires are concentrated on the same goal.
Sex, possession, wealth, conquest, or something else.
These desires combined form an irresistible desire, and every powerful person in mankind wants to possess Noldo Elves.
And as long as it does not involve unknown areas such as magic, then human rulers can use their lives to achieve whatever they want.
So, a tragedy began.
This is the disaster of the Noldor and the carnival of the human nobles.
Some relatively friendly Noldo Elves were maliciously captured without warning, and have since become the most dazzling playthings and property in the nobles' back houses...
Then a crazy competition was ignited - everyone with power and wealth wanted to own a beautiful elf.
The king is no exception.
As a result, elf slaves have become expensive goods with no market price, especially elf girls, whose worth is almost equivalent to the annual tax of a large county!
Moreover, nobles have different tastes, and there is also a huge market for male elves...
Therefore, there were countless slave-catching teams near Long River Forest, but most of them left their lives in the forest forever.