Roy's Wait

Roy discovered that these young headhunters were a bit dim-witted; they were brave in battle, but the more courageous and fearless they were, the faster they died.

The forest clearing was littered with the bodies of young headhunters, while the dying old headhunter's cloudy eyes could only gaze at the sky...

Only he knew that these young people had heard too many glorious stories about their fathers, so they were somewhat blindly arrogant about their own abilities. They called the Half-Elf in the Southern Plateau "Pig-Orcs" because the headhunters in the village thought that catching a Half-Elf was as easy as catching a wild boar.

But now karma has finally caught up with them. These Half-Elf look very young, but each of them possesses extraordinary skills...

The old headhunter looked helplessly into the distance. He wanted to warn the other headhunters in the village, but now there was nothing he could do but wait to die.

Blood slowly drained from his body; he felt cold, the sky before him darkened rapidly, and his senses gradually diminished...

He knew he was about to die, and he wanted to shout one last time to see if there were any surviving members of his tribe around him, but he couldn't even make a sound.

He had warned the headhunters in the village long ago, but they ignored his warnings in order to get the Mine Owners's money. Later, the headhunters found that the headhunters living in the Southern Plateau were not so scary. They didn't even know how to fight back.

At first, the headhunters were very cautious about not catching Half-Elf, but later they found that Half-Elf seemed to be very easy to catch, and then the news spread quickly.

In recent years, the adult headhunters in the village have captured many Half-Elf, Half-Elf they then sell to the mines.

The old headhunter knew that the Half-Elf would never let this situation worsen. Sure enough, two months ago, an elven army appeared on the plateau. They rode Silver Pegasus and charged all the way to the Gazan Ancestral Land, almost conquering the headhunter's Land of the Ancestors.

No one expected that the Silver Moon Elf Warrior would swiftly evacuate the Pagisto Plateau overnight.

So the headhunters living in the Northern Plateau gathered together, and many of them proposed to launch a retaliatory operation against the headhunters in the Southern Plateau.

This was agreed upon by all headhunters...

The old headhunter couldn't recall anything anymore; his pupils began to dilate, and even his breathing stopped.

Roy was unable to obtain any information from these headhunters; the battle had left the entire Adventure Group covered in blood.

When Kaka and Little Eugene arrived with their companions to pick up the Adventure Group, the griffins seemed very restless...

"Roy, what happened to you guys? Did you run into trouble just now?"

Kaka saw that Roy was covered in blood, and Sabrina and Woods were in no better shape, so she asked him with concern.

"I encountered a group of young headhunters, got into a fight with them in the woods, and that's how it turned out."

Roy looked down at his blood-splattered Magic Inscription Construct and said with a sigh.

"Did you scout out the headhunter village?"

The griffin leaped into the air with all four legs, flapping its wings twice to take off. Kaka, with her arms around the griffin's neck, turned to Roy and asked.

"I've been there. Their village is very simple. Almost all the headhunters are used to living in tree hollows and lighting a campfire in a clearing in the forest..." Roy told Kaka about what he saw and heard in the Headhunters Village.

"These headhunters seem to live a very backward life!" Kaka couldn't help but exclaim.

Each time the griffin flaps its wings, its head stretches forward. Low-altitude flight is somewhat exhausting, so it is eager to ascend into the Wind Stream Layer. As the griffin rapidly rises, Roy can once again clearly see the entire outline of the mountain range.

"Yes, that's it..."

Roy replied.

Roy figured out that there weren't many headhunters lurking at the north entrance of Tianpu Canyon, so he ordered the Mine Guard Mine Guard to leave their temporary camp at the south Tianpu Canyon and set up camp on a grassy slope outside the north entrance of Tianpu Canyon.

The Half-Elf Warrior set up nearly five hundred tents on this slope.

All the Half-Elf Warrior were ready for battle, but Roy did not give the order to fight.

Aside from the Griffon Corps going out to scout intelligence every day, the Half-Elf Warrior of the Mine Guard spent most of their time in the camp doing basic training, and the battle plan was still not being issued...

The Half-Elf Warrior throughout the camp were all speculating about what Boss Roy was planning to do.

In fact, Roy had been waiting for news from Commander Helik for the past few days...

He didn't lead the mine's Guard Squad into the Northern Highland Wilderness to clear out the Headhunters Village in the mountains, because he didn't want the Half-Elf Warrior to commit too much bloodshed...

The young headhunters in the Headhunters Village are now overly confident, regarding the Half-Elf as Pig-Orcs.

If the mine Guard Squad were to appear on the northern plateau at this time, the young headhunters would inevitably fight to the death, which is not what Roy wants to see.

So he waited quietly, estimating that it wouldn't be long before news of Commander Helik's campaigns in the Northern Plateau reached them...

In any case, we must instill a sense of awe in these young headhunters.

Roy was determined to do his best to minimize the killing...

Clearly, the headhunters who escaped from Tianpu Canyon did not inform the villages in the Northern Plateau of their defeat.

Most headhunter communities are still in the dark.

Only those headhunter Headhunters Village had escaped from the Tianpu Canyon and returned home knew the inside story; they were actually among the first headhunters to migrate from the Northern Plateau to the Gazan Ancestral Land.

At the beginning, there were very few villages that evacuated to the north.

Until the wilderness in the Northern Plateau, many Headhunters Village migrated north.

Commander Helik led a group of the Rebel Army warriors, riding argali sheep and rampaging across the wilderness, almost daily wiping out Headhunters Village and turning the northwestern plateau into chaos. Many young headhunters gradually realized just how terrifying the Half-Elf Warrior were...

The Half-Elf Warrior charged forward, cutting down enemies along the way.

The young headhunters scattered and fled, and news of their defeats in the Gaxi Mountain Range and Kaltim Mountain Range began to circulate in the Northern Plateau.

A large number of headhunters want to seek refuge in the Gazan Ancestral Land.

Although the Mine Guard at the Tianpu Canyon North Slope Camp did not participate in the battle, the Headhunters Village in the surrounding mountains were retreating northwards one after another.

Many headhunters in the villages have already fled.

Woods didn't quite understand why Roy was always holding back, letting the headhunters in the surrounding mountains retreat northward.

In fact, there were many doubts in the military camp. The Elf Warrior of the Mine Guard Army were all eager to fight, hoping that Roy could take them and have a good fight with those headhunters.

Letters requesting to join the fight were sent to Roy, but they always disappeared without a trace, like stones sinking into the sea.

That afternoon, Woods finished his training with the Half-Elf Warrior and then went to Roy's tent. Seeing Roy still drawing incomprehensible lines on the map, Woods curiously asked:

"Roy, what are you doing? When are we going to go out and wipe out the headhunters in the surrounding villages?" Woods asked after sitting down.

Roy put down his Quill Pen, gently rubbed his aching shoulders, and patiently explained to Woods, "If they don't escape, many headhunters will be injured and surrender once our Mine Guard attack. If we capture them, I might have to build new Prisoner of War Camp, and then we'll need Half-Elf Warrior to guard them."

"The number of my Half-Elf Warrior is already very limited, so where would I find the manpower to manage the Prisoner of War Camp? It would be better to let them go. That way... we can follow their footsteps to find other headhunters. As long as we keep chasing them north, we can also find the Gazan Ancestral Land following their footsteps."

Woods never expected Roy to have such a thought.

"That idea actually makes some sense," Woods said to Roy.

Conference room at the headquarters of the Silver Pegasus Legion in Padesto City.

"The war on the Empress Ivini Islands may continue for some time. As we expected, after those Gray Dwarf Bandit occupied the outer islands of the Empress Ivini Islands, they began to build fortifications on the islands and dig tunnels. Once they have completely occupied these outer desert islands, the Silver Pegasus Warrior will pose no threat to them, and the battles will become increasingly difficult!"

An officer, holding a document, briefed everyone in the conference room on the battle situation in the Empress Ivini Islands.

The Logistics General sat in the main seat of the conference room. Only after the officer finished speaking did he slowly open his eyes and ask, "What military supplies are currently lacking over there?"

"We lack nothing for now, except for priests from the Moon God Temple. If those priests could join the army, the battle for the island might be a little easier," the officer continued to explain.

The Logistics General nodded, then turned to another officer and asked, "What is the situation on the Pagisto Plateau?"

"Currently, the Roy Mine Owners's Guard Squad has entered the Northern Plateau through the Tianpu Canyon, and there is a large-scale northward migration of the Headhunters Village in the Northern Plateau," the officer explained, standing up.

The Logistics General initially thought Roy had only reclaimed a few mines that had been seized by the headhunters, but the reality was quite different...

"So, his Mine Guard force has already advanced into the Northern Plateau?"

"That's about it!" the officer said cautiously.

"So, what are the requirements for the personnel on the Pagisto Plateau regarding military supplies?" the Logistics General asked after a moment's thought.

"Not yet. Apart from Standard Armaments, they only requested some military supplies that are easily consumed in combat. Food and medicine have never been supplied by us..."

The logistics officer explained.

The Logistics General nodded and did not ask any further questions.

At this moment, Roy is leading the Mine Guard team to a mine in the Northern Plateau.

Under the reconnaissance of the Griffon Corps, the Griffon Cavalry discovered a total of eleven mines in the Northern Plateau, which varied in size.

Smaller mines are simply caves carved into the rock face, with only a row of dilapidated stone houses in front of the cave entrance. The ore extracted is piled up on the mountainside, and this ore still needs to be screened a second time...

As the headhunters from the villages near the mountains gradually withdrew, these mines were exposed to the Mine Guard.

Roy led the Mine Guard to the outside of a mine and saw that there was only a low wall around the mine, with two rows of stone houses built inside.

The message the Griffon Corps relayed to Roy indicated that the Mine Owners had not left with the headhunters at the small mine.

The mine was built in a very secluded spot, nestled in a ravine on the North Slope slope of a mountain ridge. It would be impossible to see from below the slope or from a distance. However, the Griffon Corps had a much wider field of vision in the sky and quickly spotted the mine, which was not far from the northern entrance of the Tianpu Canyon.

When Roy and his Half-Elf Warrior stood outside the mine, the Mine Owners, who had been hiding inside, could no longer sit still. He led a squad of the Mine Private Army and cautiously opened the gate of the wall.

The Mine Owners appeared to be a Half-Elf, and the private army warriors behind him also looked extremely grim.

It was impossible to tell how old the Mine Owners was; he appeared to be an adult Half-Elf, dressed in a decent set of Magic Inscription Construct. Roy saw him emerge from the courtyard and took a step forward, then coldly said, "My name is Roy. I've been ordered to take over this mine. The Mine Private Army within this mine must be disbanded on the spot. Furthermore, you must cooperate with me in taking over this mine. If there are Half-Elf miners in the mine, you will be sent to the Padesto City Court for trial..."

The Mine Owners did not intend to resist. He glanced back at the Mine Private Army behind him, and the thirty-odd Elf Warrior appeared outnumbered and outmatched.

Behind Roy stood at least a thousand Half-Elf Warrior...

Some Half-Elf Warrior emerged from behind Roy and bound the helpless private army soldiers and the Mine Owners with ropes.

Then Roy stepped into the mine. This mine, located halfway up the mountain, was built on a platform he had created. The entire platform was surrounded by a rock wall. There were rows of stone houses on the east and west sides of the courtyard, with an open space in the middle.

The mine entrance was on the rock wall behind the open space, where a group of Half-Elf miners were pushing mine carts, transporting ore out of the mine.

They saw a group of Half-Elf Warrior rushing in from outside, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked towards the gate.

Roy walked straight into the mine, ignoring the ore scattered on the ground. Instead, he walked towards the group of Half-Elf miners and said, "I am Roy, and I have been ordered to take over this mine. How many Half-Elf miners do you have here?"