Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

Before long, the agile figure of the forest elf Lysa appeared first at the entrance of the stronghold.

Her long, emerald-green hair was somewhat disheveled, clearly indicating that she had just been running.

Immediately afterwards, scout Alvin and assassin Duru also appeared silently.

All three of them carried a faint smell of blood.

They immediately spotted Betty kneeling on the ground, her face flushed.

The little girl lowered her head, her fingers tightly gripping the hem of her clothes, her whole body curled up in a ball.

"Um, that..." Betty's voice was barely audible. "I'm sorry, it was my fault this time."

Her ears turned bright red, and her voice grew softer and softer.

"I just learned some practical skills from the young mage, and I couldn't resist trying them out..."

"As a result, I lost control and crashed the bike."

Freya crossed her arms and looked at her coldly.

The other team members remained silent, and a heavy silence filled the air.

"Your entire payment is confiscated this time." Freya's voice was flat. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Betty quickly shook her head, her voice trembling with tears, "No, no objections..."

She secretly glanced at the crowd, then quickly lowered her head again.

Freya sighed softly.

This isn't the first time Betty has led the whole team to crash into a tree.

Her young apprentice had only been practicing levitation for a year, yet she had already crashed five times.

The worst incident wiped out four months of their income.

Freya turned to Lin Gui, the greatest contributor who had just saved Betty from her mistake, and her tone softened considerably:

"Thanks to your quick thinking this time."

"Once we receive our payment, Betty's share will be transferred to you."

She looked around: "Does anyone have any objections?"

"No objections!" the barbarian warrior Barton shouted gruffly. "If it weren't for the little mage, we would have worked for nothing again!"

The beastman Grom nodded sullenly: "His levitation spell... is very strong."

Priest Silas smiled gently: "I have never seen such exquisite manipulation."

The three of them, including Ryza, who had gone to lure the demon away, looked confused.

After listening to their teammates' vivid descriptions, they all wore expressions of disbelief.

Alvin muttered, "A twenty-meter-long train weaving through a dense forest? How is that possible..."

Trudeau spoke up, a rare occurrence for him: "I missed the show."

Freya recalled the scene just now, her eyes still filled with amazement.

Lin Gui's understanding of levitation has surpassed conventional knowledge.

He can precisely control objects weighing hundreds of tons.

It can also maintain absolute stability during high-speed flight.

Even more astonishingly, he was able to guide the train's enormous inertia.

Achieving flexible turning that almost defies the laws of physics.

Such precision in control was something even a legendary mage like her couldn't match.

Faced with everyone's praise, Lin Gui made a timely suggestion:

"How about... I take control of this forest?"

"Once we're out of the forest, Miss Betty will take over."

He explained, "Unlike the complex terrain of forests, there are basically no shelters at sea."

"As long as you're careful not to get discovered by the sea monsters, it will be much easier to control."

Upon hearing this, Betty's face turned deathly pale.

She desperately tried to wink at Lin, tears welling up in her eyes.

Lin Gui was confused.

The sea is indeed an ideal environment for performing levitation techniques.

There are no obstacles and the field of vision is wide open.

Epic-level demons typically inhabit the deep sea, where the seawater acts as a natural barrier.

He wasn't talking about that forbidden, silent sea...

The scholar Eli noticed his confusion and stepped forward with a smile.

"Little mage, you'll understand when we reach the shore."

He glanced at Betty with a gloating look:

"By the way, when we came out of Twilight Fortress, everyone suggested that you take control of the passage through this forest."

"But Betty insisted that you take charge of the sea while she took charge of the forest, saying that her levitation skills had improved greatly."

"And then... that's what happened."

Lin Gui's expression was strange.

It seems that Betty is particularly averse to operating trains at sea.

Judging from the scholars' expressions...

It doesn't seem to be because Blackwater Bay itself is particularly dangerous.

The last rays of twilight were being swallowed by the forest, and darkness spread out from the depths of the woods like a tide.

Lin Gui gazed at the forest gradually sinking into deep darkness, and suddenly spoke:

"How about we set off tonight under the cover of darkness?"

This suggestion caused the surrounding teammates to frown simultaneously.

Vice-Captain Aubrey stroked his chin thoughtfully: "It's definitely easier to spot someone during the day..."

"But the cover of darkness also means limited visibility," the forest elf Lysa calmly pointed out. "The difficulty of transportation will increase exponentially."

Scout Alvin added, "And we lack true night vision capabilities."

"Duru and I rely mainly on hearing to locate objects, and the range we can see in complete darkness is very limited."

The assassin, Duru, nodded silently, his figure appearing and disappearing in the twilight.

Lin Gui had anticipated their concerns and pointed to Shia beside him:

"My ranger can see through the darkness."

All eyes immediately turned to Shia.

At that moment, Lysa's gaze suddenly sharpened.

In the chaos of the train tumbling, Shia's hood, which she had been using to cover herself, had fallen off.

At this moment, her dazzling silver hair and long, pointed elf ears were fully exposed to everyone.

It was only then that the North Wind Caravan noticed the ranger who had been following the little mage.

It turned out to be an elf, and an extremely rare silver-haired elf at that.

The forest elf Lysa narrowed her eyes, strode forward, almost touching Shia, and looked directly into her eyes:

"Which elven tribe are you from?"

Her voice carried an undeniable questioning tone.

"Silver hair is extremely rare among elves; only two tribes possess this trait—"

"The Elven royal family, or..."

Lysa's voice suddenly turned cold: "Traitor, Windseeker."

Shia's body tensed instantly.

His fingers unconsciously clenched the hem of his clothes, and he subconsciously wanted to pull up the hood.

But it was discovered that it had already disappeared in the chaos.

Lin Gui immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Xia:

"She is of mixed race; her mother was an elf captured by humans, and as for her father..."

He paused deliberately, looking at Lysa meaningfully:

"I imagine you wouldn't want to know her father's race, would you? As an elf."

Lysa remained unmoved and coldly retorted:

"Silver hair! That's absolutely impossible on a mixed-race person!"

Lin Gui retorted without backing down:

Are you sure?!

"Of course! This is a fact universally acknowledged by the Elven race!"

Lin Gui suddenly laughed. He stretched out his palm and began to count them one by one:

"On the continent of Akara, there are quite a few races that are born with white hair."

"The barbarians of the far north have lived on the snowfields for generations, and one in ten of them is born with white hair."

"The white fox clan of beastmen, their fur is naturally silver-white."

"And the winged people of the Snow Eagle Clan, whose feathers shimmer silver in the moonlight."

"Even some sea creatures have silver-white hair."

His gaze swept over Lysa's gradually changing expression, and he continued:

"How can you be so sure that when elves interbreed with these races, their children won't inherit the white hair characteristic?"

Lin Gui's voice suddenly rose:

"Don't forget the hero in your elven history known as the 'Silver Moon Blade'!"

"Isn't she just a white-haired girl? And a mixed-race child rescued from a slave farm!"