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Hearing Dan's order, both the Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team cooperated with each other to defeat all the Goblin teams in their front. On the other hand, old man Torre focused solely on defending their back, not letting the Goblin teams that his team had brought here assist those Goblin teams in the front. 

With the reinforcement of the Eagle Lion team, Sebastian's burden was finally lifted off by a small margin, allowing him to finally stop his extremely aggressive fighting style as he now has more people to cover his back and defend against the attack from the Goblin teams. 

Meanwhile, Dan doesn't need to focus purely on supporting anymore. He could finally land a hit to a Goblin with his attack, hastening the process of annihilating these Goblin teams. 

After tens of minutes, the front yard was finally cleaned off of Goblin teams. And without any hesitation, both Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team quickly proceeded to clear off their backyard. 

This time, because the Goblin teams have been spending a lot of their energy trying to break old man Torre's defense, they were no longer able to fight in their peak condition. 

In no time, all the Goblin teams were annihilated. None were able to escape, no matter how much they try. 

Goblin corpses littered the ground in all sorts of ways, along with their weapons and equipment. 

"Putui! That's what you get for daring to attack us!" Sebastian said as he kicked a dead Goblin. 

"Picked up all of those items, and bring the Magical Beasts they have caught to us," Dan quickly sent out an order to the Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team. Since they have annihilated all of these Goblin teams, their loots would naturally belong to them. 

"I suggest that we finished everything here quick," Old man Torre suddenly suggested. 

"Why?" Sebastian curiously asked. 

"Both of our teams being attacked by a bunch of Goblin teams shouldn't just be a mere coincidence. I believe that the others are also experiencing the same, so we should find the others as soon as possible and lend them a hand," Old man Torre explained. 

"No need," Dan shook his head, he explained, "Alpha Lion team has Charlotte, Bravo Lion team has Ethan and Elaine, and Charlie Lion team has Chief Lago. If there is someone that we should be worrying about, it would be the Goblin teams that dared to attack them," 

"I guess you're right," Old man Torre expressed his agreement. With a 9 Star Battle Mage, a 1st Galaxy Mage, and a 9 Star Mage in those three teams, fighting against a bunch of Goblin teams wouldn't be a problem, especially since these Goblins only have a cultivation of 1 Star to 4 Star level. In fact, from the very beginning, the only reason that they were at the disadvantage was mainly because the number of Goblins was ten times higher compared to their own. To be more precise, it was a battle of 10 members of the Mischievous Lion Guild against a hundred or so of Goblins. 

After collecting all the loots, Sebastian, Dan, and old man Torre along with the Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team finally decided to make their way back to the Emerald City. They also wanted to know about the situation of the other teams and also discuss about how they should handle this new problem related to a bunch of Goblin teams suddenly attacking them. 

The first team of the Mischievous Lion Guild that arrived at Emerald City was Leo and his Alpha Lion team and Chief Lago and his Charlie Lion team. After all, they were the only teams that didn't encounter any attacks from a bunch of Goblin teams. 

The next that arrived was Ethan and Elaine's Bravo Lion team. 

"Didn't expect that you would be able to get plenty of catches today," Leo said as soon as he saw the number of Magical Beasts that Ethan and Elaine's Bravo Lion team had caught. 

"Oh, actually, we have only caught 10 Magical Beasts. The rest were from those Goblin teams that dared to steal our catch," Ethan replied. 

"Goblin teams?" Leo quickly furrowed his brows in suspicion.

Ethan quickly began explaining what had happened to them along their way towards the Emerald City, "It's like this; at first, there was only a single Goblin team that followed us. But a few minutes later, a bunch of Goblin teams suddenly appeared and attacked us. Though, I wasn't really surprised that much because I've long already expected that there would be some participants in the Emerald Event that would choose to steal the Magical Beasts that the other participants have caught,"

"Are you sure?" Chief Lago quickly asked after hearing Ethan's explanation. 

"Yeah, why? Were you actually also attacked by someone else? Then it seems like my guess is indeed correct. Stealing the Magical Beasts that the other participants have caught is a common occurrence in the Emerald Event," Ethan replied.

Chief Lago shook his head and said, "My Charlie Lion team wasn't attacked by anyone, but a Goblin team followed after us for a few minutes before passing by our team and continued moving towards the direction of the Emerald City," 

"I believe that something strange is going on here," Leo suddenly said, before explaining, "My case was similar to Chief Lago, a Goblin team followed after us and later on passed by our team and continued moving in the same direction as to where we were going. At first, I thought that they were laying an ambush or something in our front, but we didn't experience any of that, making a few of us think that it was just a coincidence. However, after hearing that the both of you also have the same experiences, it finally confirms my assumption before that the reason why the Goblins seemed to be targeting us is because we have annihilated a Goblin team of the Hunter Goblin Guild yesterday,"

"So you think that this is the work of the Hunter Goblin Guild?" Ethan quickly asked. 

"No," Leo shook his head. He turned to look at Chief Lago and asked, "Have you noticed their Guild token?"

"Yes, and it wasn't the same as the Guild token of the Hunter Goblin Guild," Chief Lago replied. 

"So you're saying?" Ethan asked as he still wasn't able to understand what Leo wanted to say.

"I've read a book about the Goblin race yesterday. The book mentioned that the Goblin race is extremely sensitive to people that have killed their own kind, which is to say since Chief Lago and Sebastian had annihilated a Goblin team yesterday, and considering that a lot of people were able to see us doing such a thing as well, thus the news of us killing a Goblin team should have then reached the ears of the Goblins living in the Emerald City, making the entire Mischievous Lion Guild their target of enmity," Leo explained. 

"But how do you explain that you and Chief Lago weren't attacked, yet we were? Shouldn't they be attacking you instead, since it was mainly you guys that were involved in killing those Goblins yesterday?" Ethan followed up another question as he noticed that those uninvolved were actually attacked, yet those involved weren't. 

"I guess it's because they knew that they won't be able to handle me, hence they didn't dare attack my team," Chief Lago replied. He explained, "Yesterday, everyone was able to find out that I have a 9 Star level cultivation. So, after seeing that I was present in the Charlie Lion team, those goblins team following after us didn't dare attack us anymore... No, if my guess is correct, it should be, they didn't dare attack us, because it seems like their plan was to send out a single Goblin team to check the situation first before sending a signal to the other Goblin teams hiding in secret after confirming that they can handle us," 

"But why didn't they attack Leo and his Alpha Lion team, then?" Ethan asked while pointing at Leo. 

"Oh, were you actually hoping that we would get attacked?" Leo said jokingly. 

"Of course not!" Ethan quickly shook his head.

"Well, I was protecting Leo yesterday, so it is not strange for them to think that I am also protecting him today," Chief Lago replied.

"Yeah," Leo nodded his head in agreement. 

"Now that you mentioned that..." Ethan said as he suddenly thought of something. 

Leo and Chief Lago were also able to realize it.

"Sebastian and Dan!" Leo exclaimed in worried. 

"Which direction did they choose to go?" Chief Lago quickly asked. 

Ethan thought for a moment before replying, "I think it was to the southeast direction," 

"Okay!" Chief Lago said as he prepared himself to fly off towards the southeast direction to lend a hand to Sebastian and Dan's Delta Lion team. But before he could fly himself up, he noticed a familiar presence coming towards their direction, "It seems like they are fine,"

Leo and Ethan quickly turned to look towards the direction that Chief Lago was looking at. 

Soon, in the direction that they were looking at, they finally saw Sebastian, Dan, and surprisingly also old man Torre along with both the Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team together.

Behind them were plenty of cages with Magical Beasts inside while being pulled together by some kind of rope made out of thick roots towards their direction. 

Dan seemed to have casted some kind of Support Magic spell to levitate onto the air the injured Sebastian in a convenient way, while old man Torre was focusing on strengthening the defense of the cages to avoid any accidents from happening, specifically a Magical Beast breaking out from the cage since not everyone was able to pay attention to all the cages. After all, they were basically bringing with them more than 50 cages, more than twice in numbers compared to all the members of the Delta Lion team and Eagle Lion team.