*BOOOOOooom!

At the east side of the Commander's Palace, an explosion suddenly sounded, which was right after, followed by Commander Decker slowly revealing himself out of the smoke.

Quickly looking around the entire Southeast Fortress, Commander Decker immediately became dumbfounded on how the situation had turned out like this. He had only ordered a total lockdown because he doesn't want those people who had killed his son Denver to escape. He had never expected that their Southeast Fortress was actually already invaded by some unknown organization. And what's even worse was, the battle actually turned against their favor even though the entire Southeast Fortress was a place that should have given them the home-based advantage.

Looking around the West Barracks, Commander Decker then saw that it was actually already turned into rumbles. Looking at the South Barracks, he then saw that all of their cannons were actually pointed at his direction right this moment, or maybe the Commander's Palace. Turning his head to the East Barracks, he also saw the same thing, though in the East Barracks case only half of the total cannons were pointed at his direction while the other half were shooting towards the only remaining Barrack that still belongs to the Southeast Fortress, North Barracks.

"How did the situation turned out like this?!" Commander Decker was confused. For their opponents to turn the situation like this after an hour or so, simply means they have done an extreme preparation, which should have lasted for weeks or even months in order to complete. However, based on the Hybrids that he had just seen above the South and East Barracks, he could immediately say that this planned invasion wasn't planned for weeks or even months, but instead just today. How? Very simple; no large movements of Hybrids can escape the eyes of many people, simply and exactly because they are treated by almost everyone as slaves, hence if ever there are large numbers of Hybrids moving, even if no one from his soldiers could notice, the citizens of Southeast Fortress would report it themselves immediately because slaves with no Master means they're dangerous.

So, for Commander Decker not to receive any reports about it, simply means that this entire invasion was planned and executed on the very same day.

The question though is...

"Who is the mastermind behind this..." Commander Decker asked himself. While thinking though, he turned to look at the Business District where he could see large numbers of his opponent's soldiers preparing to launch an attack towards the North Barracks. Amongst those Hybrids though, there actually exist other Foreign races, and what's even more shocking was these people were people he had already seen before, specifically at Red Axe Slave House, a Slave House owned by Boss Kent...

"Charlotte was a slave from Boss Kent, and Charlotte had just escaped awhile ago..." Commander Decker finally thought of something as he can't help his mouth to form a cold smile, "So that's how it is, you want revenge, eh..."

Boss Kent was a slave merchant, and those Hybrids should also all be slaves and so were those Foreign races he was familiar with. So, connecting all the dots, Commander Decker arrived at the conclusion that Boss Kent is the one that started all of this.

If Leo heard of Commander Decker's conclusion about who has planned this invasion, he would definitely laugh till he dies out of laughter. Boss Kent was a stupidly honest person, emphasis on the stupid, so how could he even think of this very, very very thorough and complicated strategy? Even if Boss Kent wasn't a stupid person, it would still be impossible for him to think of such an easy way to conquer the Southeast Fortress, even if there were tens of them working together.

"The East Barracks is under the enemy's hands and the place that was attacked before is located also in the east, so right now Boss Kent should be in the East Barracks!!" Commander Decker thought before quickly flying straight towards the East Barracks. Right now, he doesn't care anymore about the Southeast Fortress, since it is bound to be destroyed anyways. What he cares about right now is to kill Boss Kent to make him pay for killing his son, Denver.

*Whooooosh!

.....

At this moment, Leo was standing on top of the East Barracks wall while ordering his 10 Earth Elementals to throw stone balls to an exact location towards the North Barracks, specifically towards the cannons and the soldiers that were acting as the leader. The cannons were an obvious target in order to destroy their means of attacking while the leaders would reduce their fighting capability.

"Leo!" Charlotte suddenly called, making Leo turned his head to look at her.

"Why?"

"I detect Commander Decker flying very fast towards us right now!"

"Oh... then it's time to begin the operation kill Commander Decker!" Leo said with a mischievous smile on his face.

Hearing the operation kill Commander Decker, Chief Lago who has long been waiting for this suddenly stood up from his chair as he turned to look at Charlotte. They both nodded their heads to each other before quickly flying to face with the incoming Commander Decker.

Meanwhile, Leo sent an order to the South Barracks to begin firing at the Commander's Palace.

*Booom! *Booom! *Booom! *Booom!

After doing that, Leo then ordered half of the cannons to aim towards the incoming Commander Decker.

Ash was the one to guide this cannon squad, which is obviously the best choice that Leo could ever make in this situation. With her lead, Chief Lago and Charlotte would definitely be provided with the right support they needed in order to fight Commander Decker, despite both being a mere 9 Star Mage and 9 Star Battle Mage.

To add even further support, Leo didn't hesitate to unsummon 6 of his Earth Elementals and exchange them with 4 Nature Elementals.

*Whooosh!

A Human looking entity made entirely of wood and a few leaves on top of their heads appeared in front of Leo. Looking around this Nature Elemental, he could immediately feel the aura of life and nature combined.

"Go provide support to them!" Leo soon after ordered the 4 Nature Elementals.

The 4 Nature Elementals seemingly nodded their heads in reply before quickly jumping down the Barrack's top and went to chase after Chief Lago and Charlotte.

Obviously, that is still not enough to really be sure in defeating Commander Decker, so Leo also turned the attention of his remaining 4 Earth Elementals to face Commander Decker.

"Light up the fireworks!" Leo ordered one of the Hybrids at the side. This idea was what he had learned from Angel during the escorting Veronica mission. So, obviously, this is to call out for more assistance.

*Whoooosh! *Whooosh!

At the Business District, Dan and Sebastian immediately noticed the fireworks the moment it exploded into the sky.

"It's time for us to fight against an even tougher enemy!" Dan felt delighted. General Sheng had run away during their fight, so he was left unsatisfied with it. But now that Leo had called out to them to fight Commander Decker, a 2nd Galaxy Mage, he immediately felt excited.

"I'll leave it to the both of you guys to lead this attack..." Sebastian said worryingly. Sele and old man Torre were known to always fight with each other as both of them seem to not be able to agree with anything, maybe because the other was old while the other one was young, so their views are always destined to be conflicted with each other.

"Don't worry, I'll try my best to not disagree with this little girl!" Old man Torre said as he stood up from the stone he was sitting at.

"Same for me!" Sele said with determination in her voice.

"Then, Dan, let's go!" Sebastian called out to Dan before flying towards the Commander's Palace.

"Wait, let me light these fireworks first!" Dan replied before lighting up a fire to the fireworks on his hand. These fireworks would signal the side of Leo that they are coming.

*Whoooosh! *Whooosh!

"Bye-bye guys!" Dan waved his hand as he quickly followed after Sebastian.

On the other side of the Commander's Palace, Leo smiled as soon as he saw the fireworks from Dan.

"Leo, do you have more preparation?" Ash can't help asking. It was really astonishing how Leo puts a lot of things just so that no mishaps would happen, just how cautious was this guy? She really wants to know whether he still has more in his arsenal for this operation kill Commander Decker.

"Yes, but this is the last one..." Leo replied as he turned to look at Venice, Charles, Jeffrey, and 10 more other members of the 5 Divisions.

"You guys know what to do, right?" Leo wanted to confirm whether they still knew of their task or not.

"Yes, just spam shot Commander Decker with this Cloud Piercer arrows!" Venice replied to the group.

"Good, now go!" Leo motioned for them to follow after the others to fight against Commander Decker.

His plan was to make Venice and the others provide support to Chief Lago and Charlotte the same way as to how he had provided support to teacher Homer back then.

"Yes, sir!"

Right after, with the lead of Venice, Charles, and Jeffrey, the 10 other members of the 5 Divisions quickly went downstairs straight towards the middle of the Commander's Palace and East Barracks to prepare for their assigned mission.

"Now then, let's see whether my strategies could kill a 2nd Galaxy Mage..." Leo muttered to himself as he focused all of his attention towards the incoming Commander Decker in the west direction, "Or would Commander Decker be able to kill me instead."