Although this area was where the AvLee elves lived and trees could be said to be everywhere, the problem was that these trees could not be used just by chopping them down. They needed to be processed into standard wood before they could be used to build and repair various construction equipment. This was the reason why Xeron asked Roy to find a lumberyard.
Roy led the demon team and randomly chose a direction. After being warned by Roy, Fat Tiger kept his eyes open and carefully sniffed the various smells in the air, afraid that he would encounter enemies along the way. Roy walked silently while deliberating over his plan.
He believed that the reason why the pegasus knights attacked Xeron's demon army and focused on the siege equipment might be because there was an elven garrison near this area. This garrison might be a city or fortress, but the defense of the city walls might not be strong.
The pegasus knights might have thought that the demon army's invasion was aimed at this city, so in order to prevent the weakly defended city from falling, they spared no effort to destroy the demon's siege weapons.
This was a very simple logic that could be figured out with a little thought. Roy believed that Xeron should have guessed it, so he did not choose to continue marching but stopped to repair the catapults first. He probably wanted to take down or destroy this city.
However, this was not what Roy wanted to see. It was not that he was worried about the elves, but that he did not want to see the elves defend the city.
At present, the elves might not know the true plan of the demon army. They probably thought that the demons were simply invading, but in fact, Xeron's true goal was to kill the queen of the gold dragons.
If the elves misjudged the demon army's military goals, they would focus their forces on defending the city to prevent the invasion, and the gold dragons would help the elves defend the city. But this way, the elven troops would become scattered, and their protection of the queen would weaken. At that time, they might even be defeated by the demon army.
Therefore, Roy felt that he needed to warn the elves …
However, it was very troublesome to remind them. After all, Roy was a demon. If he dared to appear near an elven city, the elves would immediately shoot him to death. Moreover, even if he had a chance to speak, they might not believe the words of a demon.
This was the worst thing about being a Demon. In the eyes of the world, Demons were synonymous with lies and evil. Even if they occasionally wanted to speak the truth, they would be rejected directly.
Sure enough, this was a world that only cared about appearances …
As he thought about it, he continued to search. In the end, he realized that his luck was really bad. There seemed to be no sawmill in this direction, so he could only turn around and search in another direction.
In the absence of satellites and navigation, he could only explore slowly. He did not dare to go too far in one direction, so he could only go back and forth.
In the end, Roy flew into the sky and relied on his vision to find the location of a lumberyard. Only then did he rush over with his team.
This was a lumberyard in the depths of the forest. It was very hidden. If he had not seen a piece of the forest missing from the sky, Roy would not have been able to confirm it. But it was precisely because it was hidden that there were no elven guards stationed in this lumberyard.
When Roy and the others approached, they heard the sound of sawing wood. More than twenty lumberjacks were working in this lumberyard. They cut off the branches and bark from the wood they harvested, sawed the round wood into pieces, and finally turned it into flat square wood.
When they saw Roy and the others appear, these lumberjacks were stunned. After coming back to their senses, they screamed and scattered in all directions, trying to escape.
However, they were chased back by hellhounds and little demons. One of the hellhounds could not help but bite a lumberjack to death and eat his soul.
In the end, when these lumberjacks appeared in front of Roy, what he saw was a group of shivering quails …
"Don't worry! As long as you cooperate, I won't hurt you! " Roy looked down at the lumberjacks and said coldly, "Now, this lumberyard is under the control of the demons. I want you to continue working and producing wood!"
He had no choice but to be cold. Even if Roy smiled and said this, these workers would not think that he was kind, so Roy simply used coercion.
Just like that, the lumberjacks and the lumberyard fell into Roy's control. Under Roy's arrangement, the ten-odd hellhounds and twenty-odd little demons took turns hauling the wood they produced to Xeron's camp.
The production efficiency of these lumberjacks was not high, and it would be strange if they could work faster by hand. Roy could only wait here until they produced enough wood.
These lumberjacks were all civilians, but Roy observed and found that they were all elves, but most of them were old. Under Roy's gaze, these people were very nervous, and some even smashed their fingers.
Seeing their nervous looks, Roy did not care so much. He pointed at an elf who looked like a foreman and said, "You, come here!"
The foreman jumped in fright. Trembling, he walked over and said, "Yes … Sir … Sir, do you have … do you need something?"
"Do you know how to read?" Roy asked him. "It's the language of your elves. Do you know how to read and write it?"
"O-of course!" The foreman nodded hurriedly.
"Okay! Go find a piece of paper. A sheepskin scroll is fine too! Then write it down in the language of the elves when I speak. Is there a problem? "Roy asked.
"Yes … Yes!" Of course, the foreman had no problem with it. In fact, as long as Roy did not want to eat him, he would not have any problem …
After the foreman brought the sheepskin scroll and a quill pen, Roy said, "Write this: Arrogant AvLee …"
The foreman looked up in astonishment when he heard the first sentence. He glanced at Roy and thought, How is our AvLee so arrogant? No matter how arrogant the AvLee are, are they as arrogant as you demons?!
After Roy glared at him fiercely, he reacted and broke out in cold sweat. He quickly shook the quill pen and recorded Roy's words.
"Arrogant AvLee! How dare you stand in front of us when the demon army is about to flatten the kingdom of Erathia? Now, in the name of high-rank demon lord Xeron, I declare that the AvLee elves will be executed. We will destroy your cities and kill your golden dragon queen. As long as you continue to block the iron hooves of the demon army, the slaughter will not stop! Your world will burn under my feet! "
After thinking for a while, Roy finally added, "I am a demon!"
The foreman listened to Roy's domineering declaration with trepidation, but he gritted his teeth and wrote down all his words in the elven language according to Roy's instructions. Finally, he handed it to Roy with both hands.
Roy took it and looked at it. He found a string of beautiful words on it, but he could not understand what it was. However, he thought that the foreman would not scribble, so he blew the ink dry and put away the sheepskin scroll.
This was a letter of challenge to the elves. Roy wrote it in the name of Xeron because he knew that even if he wrote about the situation of the demon army in the tone of an undercover agent, the elves would not believe him. They might even think that it was a counterplot and increase the strength of the defense of the city.
Therefore, Roy simply wrote this letter of challenge with a tough attitude. As long as he sent it to the elven army, they would take it seriously …
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