Mine Owners' Disagreement

Outside the city of Padesto lies a mountain range. The southeastern slope of the range faces the sun and is covered with a lush Apple Orchard, while the northwestern slope is shady and features a cliff and a rocky area, making the area somewhat desolate.

Vines, shrubs, and fir trees cover the North Slope North Slope, below which flows a fast-flowing stream. Therefore, although this place is not too far from the Padesto City, few elves come to this mountain range.

When Leishande was driving his caravan to deliver Magic Herbs to the Padesto City, he was worried about being discovered by the city's Elven Guard, so he would often hide the caravan among the rocks in this mountain range.

This time, Vice Captain Tennyson led a Assassin Squad to the Padesto City. Because of the presence of the Griffon Cavalry, Vice Captain Tennyson did not stay in the city, but instead hid with the Griffon Cavalry in the rocky area on the North Slope.

Griffins hide in the dense forest during the day and only fly out at night.

Roy was worried that the Mine Owners would return to Pattington Island through the Teleportation Portal today, but when he went to the Central Square, he saw a large amount of supplies being transported from Pattington Island.

Roy even went to the Teleportation Portal guard to ask: How long will it take to transport all of these supplies?

Upon seeing Roy present a Teleportation Pass, the Teleportation Portal guard responded to Roy: This shipment will not be completed until noon tomorrow at the earliest, and there cannot be any unforeseen circumstances during this period, otherwise the transportation time may be extended at any time. Moreover, this is military supplies for the Silver Pegasus Military Department.

This is also the biggest drawback of One-Way Teleportation Gate. During the time that the Teleportation Portal is sending a one-way teleport from Pattington Island to Padesto City, no matter what major problems occur in Padesto City, the teleportation cannot proceed until the teleportation is complete.

It seems that these Mine Owners are definitely not going to leave Padesto City today.

After confirming the news, Roy rode his horse to the Padesto City. He had traded low-level Magic Herbs with Leishande many times in the mountains outside the west city, so he was very familiar with this road.

Riding along the road, I found that the Apple Orchard on the Padesto City were no longer laden with fruit; most of the apples had already been harvested.

After bypassing the mountains, they easily contacted Vice Captain Tennyson, Vice Captain Tennyson was hiding in the rocky area, using the contact information they had agreed upon beforehand.

The twelve griffins had built a simple nest in the rocky area and were resting inside.

The Griffon Cavalry had set up simple marching tents below the eagle's nest, and a group of them were sitting together chatting.

When Roy and Vice Captain Tennyson walked in together, everyone stood up and greeted Roy.

Roy enjoys high prestige in the Pagisto Plateau, and almost all the Half-Elf trust him, including these elf hunters from Sun Island Bay.

It was their addition of the griffins to the Mine Guard that made Roy's Mine Guard so exceptionally powerful...

Of course, it was the addition of the Dark Moon Elves, led by Timothy and Tennyson, to the Mine Guard that gave this army its sharpest spears.

Vice Captain Tennyson gathered the eleven Dark Moon Elf Warrior together before asking Roy:

"Boss, what task have you assigned us this time?"

The Tennyson Mine Owners asked this because he knew that Roy must have something urgent to tell him when he came looking for him during the day.

Roy pulled out the remaining four portraits of the Nicobar Mountain Mine Owners from his Magic Pouch and said to Vice Captain Tennyson:

"We have already discovered the hideouts of the other four Mine Owners in Padesto City, and I estimate that these Mine Owners will soon escape Padesto City through Teleportation Portal. We must take immediate action; I don't want to drag the battle lines onto Pattington Island."

Upon seeing the information about the four Mine Owners, Vice Captain Tennyson remained silent for a long time.

Before leaving Padesto City, Dennis thoroughly investigated this information, including the families and guards of the four Mine Owners, as well as the situation around the treehouse, and so on.

In fact, these Mine Owners came to Padesto City with a group of men, and they were all accompanied by a group of elven guards.

Even for these Dark Moon Elf assassins, sneaking into their treehouses undetected would be far too easy.

Moreover, with two Mine Owners recently dying, the remaining four Mine Owners will surely strengthen their security measures.

Vice Captain Tennyson was rather reckless in action, but when it came to planning missions, he was an extremely cautious elf. He flipped through the four pages of intelligence, placed two on top, and frankly told Roy:

"We don't have enough manpower this time, so it's impossible to assassinate these four Mine Owners at the same time. At most, we can split it into two assassination teams, and one of them needs to be led by you personally. I suggest we deal with these two first." After Tennyson finished speaking, he handed the portrait in his hand to Roy.

This is probably the best assessment of Roy by Vice Captain Tennyson, who believes Roy possesses the strength of Assassin Squad leader.

"Okay, I'll lead an Assassin Squad."

Roy didn't delay either; at this point, everyone needed to do their best.

Seeing Roy readily agree, Vice Captain Tennyson grinned.

Roy realized that he actually looked better when he had a serious expression.

"Then let's formulate the following action plan. According to my plan, we can deal with the two Mine Owners at the same time. After we take care of them, the Padesto City will definitely become very chaotic. At that time, we can take advantage of the chaos to intercept and kill the other two Mine Owners along the way..."

When it came to devising the assassination plan, it was clear that Vice Captain Tennyson was quite professional.

The assassination targets were identified: one was the Mine Owner Seagonis, who had forty Half-Elf guards, and the other was the owner of the Agalia Mine Owners lived on the very edge of the Silver Moon Elf residential area.

Clearly, in Vice Captain Tennyson's eyes, the two Mine Owners were relatively weaker overall.

Even if Roy comes during the day, the operation is still scheduled for night. Only at night can the Dark Moon Elves receive the protection of the Moon Goddess, and their stealth abilities are greatly enhanced...

The Silver Moon Elf Residential Area within the Padesto City.

Four Mine Owners are gathered in a spacious treehouse, arguing about how to raise a sum of money for Chief Commander Lucius.

The Mine Owner Yarman, who had been in charge of this matter, tapped the table with his knuckles to draw everyone's attention before asking:

"What are your thoughts on the Magic Crystal Stone that Chief Commander Lucius needs?"

The other three Mine Owners looked at each other but remained silent.

Everyone had already pooled together four thousand Magic Crystal Stone to give to Commander Helix. This money was meant to buy Teleportation Pass, but now... Commander Helix brought several Mine Owners to Chief Commander Lucius's ball.

At the ball, Chief Commander Lucius spoke privately with a few of them for a while.

The Chief Commander made his point very clear: he hoped that the four Mine Owners could pool their resources to raise 10,000 Magic Crystal Stone for the construction and maintenance of the Teleportation Portal before leaving the Pattington Plane. If they could raise the money, he would arrange for his trusted men to send the four Mine Owners to Pattington Island Pattington Island prepare a ship there so that the Mine Owners could leave Pattington immediately.

They couldn't raise the money... Chief Commander Lucius didn't say what would happen if they couldn't raise the money, but the four Mine Owners knew their fate wouldn't be good.

Now, the two Mine Owners, Seagonis and Agalia, are complaining about the Mine Owner Yarman. They are openly and secretly saying that the Commander Helix, whom he contacted, is unreliable. He took four thousand Magic Crystal Stone but has no ability at all.

This time, the four Mine Owners clearly had differing opinions.

The young Mine Owners, who had been calling the Mine Owner Yarman" uncle," then said, "I think at this point, no one should try to take advantage of anyone else. Since we all want to leave the Pattington Plane as soon as possible, and since we can resolve this by spending some Magic Crystal Stone, then... let's split the cost evenly!"

The Mine Owner Seagonis glared at the young Mine Owners and immediately said:

"I don't know how much wealth the three of you have, but I certainly can't come up with such a large sum of Magic Crystal Stone."

Good grief, he just asked us to pool together 10,000 Magic Crystal Stone.

We can't find any Magic Crystal Stone in our mine.

Besides, even if the ore mined in recent years is smelted into Metal Ingots, it can't be sold. I have at least 50,000 silver ingots buried in my mine. If I can't take them with me, I can only throw them into the abandoned mine.

Maintaining the mine's normal operation over the past few years has been a considerable expense; I can't possibly produce that many Magic Crystal Stone all at once.

The Mine Owner Seagonis spoke at length, and the Mine Owner Agalia sitting next to him immediately chimed in:

"I can't come up with it either."

The ageless Mine Owner Yarman, sat calmly at the round table. He wasn't angered by what the Mine Owner Seagonis had said; instead, he said quite calmly:

"I admit... that I caused this situation to come to this point. If we split the cost equally, each of us needs to contribute another 2,500 Magic Crystal Stone. Since neither of you can come up with your share of Magic Crystal Stone Magic Crystal Stone, how about we reduce the cost by half to 1,250 Magic Crystal Stone? I'd like to know if either of you can afford that?"

"... I can manage, albeit barely." The Mine Owner Seagonis hesitated for a moment, but still agreed.

Seeing that he was the only one left, the Mine Owner Agalia, though somewhat reluctant, could only agree, saying with a strained expression, "I can barely scrape together enough..."

The Mine Owner Yarman stood up, placed his hands on the table, squinted at everyone, and said:

"Tomorrow morning, the two of you should bring 1,250 Magic Crystal Stone to meet here. We'll figure out how to get the rest of the Magic Crystal Stone."

"Mine Owner Yarman, you really have the ability!" Mine Owner Seagonis immediately gave Mine Owner Yarman a thumbs up.

The Mine Owner Yarman completely ignored him and simply said calmly:

"Remember, the teleportation portal in the Central Square will open at noon tomorrow, so don't be late tomorrow morning..."

The other three Mine Owners readily agreed:

"Knew."

"I won't be late..."

The Mine Owners were eager to flee Padesto City.

With the deaths of two Mine Owners, the entire city, even the lowest-ranking Night's Watchmen, are now talking about it.

At last night's ball, the four Mine Owners, introduced by Commander Helix, were surprised to meet Chief Commander Lucius, the highest-ranking officer of the Silver Pegasus Legion stationed in the Pattington Plane.

So this matter turned into them needing to pay Chief Commander Lucius a Teleportation Portal construction and maintenance fee in order to leave the Pattington Plane safely.

Half of the money was to be paid in the Padesto City, and the other half would be paid to Chief Commander Lucius's confidant only after the Mine Owners arrived at Pattington Island and boarded a small, prepared ship...

Clearly, the owners of the Mine Owner Seagonis and Mine Owner Agalia did not want to pay this money.

But when the Mine Owner Yarman proposed that they only needed to pay half the cost, the two Mine Owners agreed...

After the owners of the Mine Owner Seagonis and Mine Owner Agalia left the treehouse, the young Mine Owners turned around from behind the curtains and asked the Mine Owner Yarman:

"Uncle Yarman, are we really going to pay for their Magic Crystal Stone?"

The Mine Owner Yarman, walked up to the young Mine Owners, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "How could that be! We only need to pay half the Magic Crystal Stone this time. After we arrive at Pattington Island, don't expect those Silver Moon Elf to prepare a small boat for us to go out to sea. They have Silver Pegasus Warrior in the sky. Where can we escape to?"

"Then what do we do?"

The young Mine Owners finally understood what the Mine Owner Yarman was thinking: the Mine Owner Yarman actually wanted to pay only half of the payment.

The Mine Owner Yarman lowered his voice and said, " On Pattington Island, we can find other brokers who can contact the Naga Sea Clan. Once we get in touch with the Naga Sea Clan, we can use Naga Sea Clan power to sneak away. As for the fee, we don't need to pay it at all..."

The Mine Owner Seagonis brought forty elven guards with him to Padesto City, along with his family, including his three wives, two lovers, and five children.

He rented a luxurious treehouse with four floors in the Silver Moon Elf residential area, and forty elven guards occupied the bottom three floors of the treehouse.

The Mine Owner Seagonis and his family lived on the fourth floor of the treehouse. This time, only the Mine Owner Seagonis left the Pattington Plane; his family and guards had to stay in the Padesto City.

Thinking about how he had gone to the Elf Continent alone and paid such a high price, the Mine Owner Seagonis just couldn't muster any enthusiasm.

In fact, he believed that even if he settled in Padesto City, as long as he concealed his identity, the Boss Roy on the plateau would not be able to find him.

Even if Boss Roy discovers him, his forty Half-Elf guards aren't entirely without the power to retaliate...