Governor

Roy stood in front of the instructors, threw the rope in his hand on the ground, and walked over to hug each of them.

"I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you when you needed me most... Roy," Instructor Nora said to Roy, her face full of guilt.

Roy patted Instructor Nora on the back and said, "This isn't your fault, Instructor Nora. It was my carelessness..."

Magician Scarlett pulled Roy out of Instructor Nora's arms, embraced Roy against her full bosom, rested her chin on Roy's forehead, and said to him, "I'm so proud of you, Roy."

"Thank you for the compliment, Miss Scarlett."

Roy quickly broke free from Scarlett's embrace; he felt his heart pounding in his throat.

Then came Instructor Eleanor. Her hug was a bit more normal. She put her arms around Roy's shoulders, patted him hard, and said, "I really want to know what you've been through these past two days to miraculously appear before us. Do you know how hard we've been looking for you these past two days?"

Roy's voice was a little hoarse as he said to Instructor Eleanor, "Actually, I don't know how to say it. To put it simply, I met two Half-Elf who rescued me from Benjamin and Abbott and then brought me to this area before leaving."

Next up was Instructor Gru, who punched Roy on the shoulder and joked, "I thought we'd be throwing you a funeral when we got back. I even had your eulogy ready. Now that you're back, none of that's going to matter."

"It will come in handy sometime. Don't forget I'm a Half-Elf."

After saying that, Roy went up and hugged Instructor Gru.

Of all the instructors, he was closest to Instructor Gru, Instructor Gru also liked Roy's personality very much. The only regret was that Roy was not an archer.

Roy hugged Instructor Virgil and Woods, and then shook hands with Sabrina and Miss Christine.

Instructor Nora then squatted down next to Abbott, turned his body over, and made him reveal his face.

"This is...?"

"He is Abbott, the murderer of Jasper. The human mage Benjamin is dead, he died in the mountains. I plan to bring Abbott back to Castleton City," Roy said to Instructor Nora.

Abbott was bound like a cocoon, and even his mouth was tightly strangled by Roy with rope.

After a long dragging, Abbott's feet were raw and bloody. He had been unconscious, but now, lying by the campfire, he had woken up again.

He stared at the group of instructors with bloodshot eyes, his expression filled with fear and panic.

Instructor Nora knelt down and untied the gag from his mouth.

Then Abbott cried out hysterically, "Please... take me to the court in Castleton City. I want to be tried. I am Abbott, Novice Priest the Castle Town Goddess of Freedom Temple..."

"I don't want to listen to your rambling."

Instructor Nora punched him in the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious again.

She had just untied the rope, and now she was using it to gag Abbott.

It's better to tell him to shut up.

Instructor Gru couldn't quite understand Roy's actions and asked him in a low voice, "You went through all that trouble to bring him back just so he could be tried and then locked up in the island prison for the rest of his life?"

Roy shook his head weakly and said:

"Of course not. I promised Miss Tiffany that I would let her ask Abbott herself why he killed Jasper."

Upon hearing Roy's words, Instructor Nora tapped her head in frustration and asked Roy:

"So... you want to bring Abbott back from the Pattington Plane?"

Roy nodded in agreement, but he also expressed his concerns. "However... I don't know if I can get the Teleportation Certificate."

Instructor Nora glanced at Miss Christine beside her and said to Roy, "I can't help you with this. You should ask Christine; that might be better."

Miss Christine, who had overheard Roy and Instructor Nora's conversation, interjected, "I can try, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to get the Teleportation Certificate. I'll do my best to communicate with them."

Roy sat down by the campfire.

Sabrina handed Roy a cup of fruit tea and a tray of fruit. Roy first drank the fruit tea in one gulp, and then picked out a few Breadfruit from the plate and wolfed them down.

Woods moved closer to Roy, ignoring Roy's dirty appearance, and put his arm around his shoulder, saying excitedly, "Roy, I thought I would never see you again. The day you were taken away by that magician, we were all terrified."

Roy swallowed the Breadfruit whole before smiling at Woods and saying, "Actually... I also thought my life was coming to an end, but thankfully, I met two friends who rescued me from their clutches."

Roy didn't say who his two friends were, but Instructor Gru seemed to have guessed. He leaned close to Roy and whispered in his ear, "Are they the two Half-Elf you met at Aperture No.3...?"

"Yes, it's them," Roy admitted honestly.

However, when answering, he did so very softly.

Nora and the other instructors, not having heard what Instructor Gru and Roy were saying, asked curiously, "What are you two talking about?"

Instructor Gru quickly waved his hand and casually said, "It's nothing, it's just a secret between the two of us."

"Well, I really don't understand how two men could have secrets between them."

Hearing what Instructor Gru said, Instructor Nora stopped asking questions.

Despite being exhausted, Roy went to the stream to take a bath before resting, changed into clean clothes, retrieved his Magic Pouch from Instructor Nora, and borrowed a large box from Miss Christine. He then put Abbott, who was tied up like a dumpling, into the large box and placed it at the entrance of the tent.

"If you don't untie the ropes binding him, it won't be long before his limbs become necrotic due to lack of blood circulation..."

Sabrina reminded Roy.

"No, I will use Minor Healing to help him restore his bodily functions."

Roy waved his hand, and seeing that Sabrina was still frowning, he explained:

"The pain he is suffering now is the same pain I suffered two days ago. I am simply 'returning the favor'."

Upon hearing Roy's words, Sabrina stopped pleading for Abbott in the box and didn't even mention giving Abbott water again.

"They carried you on this escape, you must have suffered a lot!" Sabrina said, sitting at the door of Roy's tent.

Roy lay on the fur rug inside the tent and said to Sabrina outside the tent, "Actually, it's not so bad, because I was unconscious most of the time. It felt like I was having a very, very long dream."

"It's a good thing you came back, otherwise I really wouldn't know what to say to Moira when I went back," Sabrina said.

Roy didn't respond to Sabrina anymore; he was exhausted and had fallen asleep...

Negotiations between the Negotiation Team and the Rebel Army are still ongoing...

However, as the Elf Warrior of the Silver Pegasus Legion captured nearly two hundred Slave Traders in the Rebel Army ' Fifth District, a large-scale upheaval finally broke out within the Rebel Army.

The Half-Elf belonging to the Padesto City faction in this Rebel Army expressed their desire to return to the city to live.

Life in the Bulwark Village is too hard. Not only do they live in treehouses and eat wild fruits, but they also have to continue to suffer here...

A larger force within the Rebel Army was a group of Half-Elf hunters from the jungles surrounding the Pattington Plane. These Half-Elf hunters had nowhere else to go and did not want to live in the Padesto City.

The first condition the Rebel Army Chieftain presented to the Negotiation Team —to designate a piece of land as public territory—was offered to these Half-Elf hunters.

With this public territory, the elven hunters had a fixed hunting ground.

The Negotiation Team actually agreed to the Rebel Army ' demand that they designate the area Padesto City, extending to the Griffon Bulwark Mountain Range, as public land.

After the first demand was successfully negotiated, Earl Griffin, the head of the Negotiation Team, did not agree to the Rebel Army' second demand, "To establish a Half-Elf autonomous state here, with Half-Elf as governor."

Once an autonomous state is established, with a Half-Elf governor, what difference would it make from the current Rebel Army? The only difference might be that the Half-Elf organization of a legion would become legal...

On the contrary, the third demand—that all Half-Elf members of the Rebel Army be exempt from retribution afterward—was readily agreed to by Earl Griffin. However, the Negotiation Team also demanded that the Rebel Army Chieftain be tried by the Buenos Elven Council of Elders, Rebel Army Chieftain might ultimately be imprisoned for life in the Parrham Island Prison.

Regarding the fourth provision punishing the Silvermoon Elven Nobles who sold slaves, Earl Griffin assured the Rebel Army that Alvis would be tried publicly in a courthouse in Buenos. As for the other Elven Nobles ... he made no promises.

The Negotiation Team officials initially thought the Rebel Army Chieftain wouldn't agree to this condition, but to their surprise, the Rebel Army Chieftain actually agreed to the fourth condition.

Because the Elf Warrior of the Seventeenth Silver Pegasus Legion captured a large number of Slave Traders, the Negotiation Team and the Rebel Army engaged in a three-day tug-of-war over the second demand, which ultimately ended with the Rebel Army backing down: ' The Pattington Plane will not build an autonomous state for the Half-Elf.'

The Half-Elf originally from the Padesto City will return to Padesto City within two months to start a new life.

The Bulwark Village will be rebuilt into a small town on its original site, Rebel Army Chieftain has promised that at least half of the Half-Elf will live there.

The biggest dispute right now is over the selection of the mayor of Rampart Town. The Rebel Army originally wanted a Half-Elf, but the Silver Moon Elf officials disagreed, so they had to relax the requirements: the mayor cannot be Silver Moon Elf.

For the Negotiation Team, it was unacceptable for Silver Moon Elf to serve as the town's governor; that would mean Half-Elf would be needed.

This brings us back to square one...

The reason why Earl Griffin refused to back down was that Duke Augus, the pro-war member of the Negotiation Team, was unwilling to make a final concession on this issue.

She can't be Silver Moon Elf, but she also doesn't want to be a Half-Elf.

The two sides have been unable to reach an agreement on the selection of personnel.

"Earl Griffin, what do you think of the matter of the newly established town mayor?"

Viscountess Yuffilia had always advocated for peace talks, walked on the grass beside the stream and asked Earl Griffin, who had a full head of white hair.

Earl Griffin walked along the creek with his hands behind his back, frowning as he said to Viscountess Yuffilia, "This matter concerning the town mayor is probably Augusg's last line. He has been making concessions repeatedly lately. If we continue to force him to compromise on this matter, this negotiation may become even more difficult to resolve. I think it would be easier to persuade the Rebel Army."

"Isn't it said that... the Rebel Army are full of Slave Traders? Is it possible to persuade them to back down?"

"They're worried that if the town is managed by the Silver Moon Elf, it will become a second Padesto City..."

Viscountess Yuffilia walked forward on the soft grass, and suddenly looked up and saw Roy doing rehabilitation exercises not far away. His human face gradually became clearer in Viscountess Yuffilia's eyes.

Thinking of how Miss Christine and Roy sat and chatted together that day, Viscountess Yuffilia immediately had an idea.

"Your Earl, what do you think about appointing a Half-Elf as the governor of this town?" Viscountess Yuffilia asked with a smile.

"Is this Half-Elf a resident of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom?"

"Yes."

"Did this Half-Elf receive an education from the Silver Moon Elf?"

"Being processed..."

Earl Griffin opened his eyes, looked at Viscountess Yuffilia, and said with a smile, "It's not impossible to appoint a Half-Elf who has received Silver Moon Elf education since childhood as the governor of Rampart Town, but where can we find such a Half-Elf at this time?"

Viscountess Yuffilia pointed at Roy and whispered to Earl Griffin, "That young Half-Elf was sent by Earl Swynborne to capture the Slave Traders. I think... the town's governor can only continue to serve smoothly because of Earl Swynborne's support, so he should be a good candidate."

Earl Griffin raised his head and looked at Roy with burning eyes.

"Please ask him to come to my carriage later. I think I should have a good talk with him..."

After saying that, he stopped walking forward and turned back.

Viscountess Yuffilia, following behind Earl Griffin, glanced at Roy with a faint smile on her face, then turned and left the creek...

Roy, who was doing rehabilitation training on the grass, had no idea that the two important figures had just chosen him as the first governor of Rampart Town when they passed by the river.

Such a young consul...

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