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Seeing Chief Lago's fireball attack, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes immediately used their nimble feet to quickly dodge away from the range of attack. Of course, they were all aware that by dodging this attack they would end up sacrificing a portion of their men. But for them, such a sacrifice was worth it. After all, if they die, the enemy would have no trouble anymore in cherry-picking the rest of the Savage Foxes.

The moment Chief Lago saw the action of the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes, he quickly redirected the fireballs towards another direction, specifically towards the place with no Magical Beasts present.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

Five spheres made entirely out of fiercely burning flames immediately engulfed the surrounding place. In the next moment, five huge empty deep pits appeared on the places where the fireballs had landed.

Chief Lago knew clearly that the moment the fireballs landed on the formation of Savage Foxes, it would immediately kill a lot of them, just like how it had turned the places it had landed on into an empty pit. He doesn't want that to happen because just like what Leo had said, "A dead Magical Beast is equal to zero points,"

But of course, there is also another reason for that. Redirecting the attack might only seem to be that Chief Lago doesn't want to kill any Savage Foxes, but looking closely at the location of the pits, one could easily see that they have actually trapped the Savage Foxes in the center.

Because of this, the moment the Savage Foxes tries to retreat or even just simply move into another place, they would find it extremely difficult as they would have to go down the deep pits first before climbing back up to reach another location. This would in turn give them a lot of trouble. Like, for example, give their enemies some time to catch up to them, or worst, trap them.

Fortunately, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes seemed to not notice such a thing. In their minds, they only thought that the reason Chief Lago decided not to kill any of their men is that because they wanted to capture them alive, or at least to capture as many as possible, thus they would try their very best to minimize their loss.

The reason for them thinking about this was because after observing these people's behavior this past few days, they have noticed one common thing among the majority of them, and that is they don't plan on killing any of the Magical Beasts, at all. Instead, they only wanted to capture them and most likely take them somewhere else, possibly to the Emerald Tree Kingdom, because at this same time of every year, there would be some kind of event about capturing Magical Beasts over there.

Right after dodging the attack, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes did not hesitate to return back to their formation.

Obviously, now that they realized that those people don't actually plan on killing them, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes immediately agreed on a plan to use this opportunity to benefit themselves. Everytime that person's attack, they would use their men to block it for them.

Unbeknownst to the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes, this was exactly what Chief Lago was planning to do. Although he doesn't know about it yet, but he has a way to find out.

Once again, five fiercely burning fireballs appeared around Chief Lago, and as soon as they appeared, he immediately pointed his hand towards the direction of the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes.

Unlike a while ago, this time the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes choose to simply back off inside the formation of Savage Foxes. And just like what they have expected, the fireballs were redirected again to the same exact location, thus further deepening the pits and connecting them together to form a crescent moon-shaped pit. After seeing that, they then stepped out of the formation and revealed to Chief Lago a mocking smile on their faces, as if telling him that they knew he won't dare to kill them.

"Oh, you think you got me," Chief Lago smiled mischievously. Putting the Doombringer forward, he immediately casted the next Magic spell. But this time, it was no longer a Fireball spell, but rather the Vine spell.

"Vine spell!"

Whooooosh! Whooooosh! Whooooosh!

Without the help of the Doombringer, Chief Lago could easily create a hundred or so of vines, specifically the Hundred Vine spell, but with the Doombringer's help, the amount of vines that had appeared are shockingly more than 500 vines.

Instantly, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes' faces turned ugly. Without any hesitation, they quickly began escaping from the vines while at the same time destroying a few of them to decrease the number of vines.

Unfortunately, unlike the Fireball spell, the Vine spell could also be used to trap the Savage Foxes. Because of that, a few Savage Foxes were dragged out from the formation and brought towards the direction of Chief Lago and soon after being put inside the cages that he had just taken out from his Storage Ring.

As soon as the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes saw this, they quickly realized that they would have to look for another place away from their men so that Chief Lago can't use this opportunity to slowly catch a few of them. If they allow him to continue capturing more Savage Foxes, then it would be possible to slowly weaken their forces.

Seemingly in an instant, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes realized that there is actually such a place. They all turned to look at the deep pit around them, and in the next moment, their eyes immediately lit up as they then quickly run in that direction.

Unbeknownst to the Savage Foxes, Chief Lago's mischievous smile only became, even more, bigger after seeing them going towards the deep pit.

Without any hesitation, Chief Lago quickly stopped capturing some Savage Foxes as he then quickly directed all the vines to chase after the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes.

In the process of the chase between the vines and the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes, the deep pit was slowly being surrounded by hundreds of intertwining vines.

Without any of the Savage Foxes realizing, they just made their escape route even more difficult to traverse.

Soon, after seeing that he has more or less covered a significant amount of the deep pit already, Chief Lago finally decided to stop the vines from chasing after the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes.

The five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes can't help heaving a sigh of relief after seeing this. It seemed like that person had realized that using mere vines to catch them is impossible.

Immediately, the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes returned back to their formation. All of their faces became solemn, and they no longer showed a mocking expression on their faces. At this moment, they decided to prepare themselves for what kind of a Magic spell that person would use this time.

It didn't take that long for Chief Lago to cast the next Magic spell.

"Rock Pillar!"

This time, what Chief Lago had casted was the Rock Pillar spell. Around him, 50 meters tall huge pillars made out of rock appeared, specifically a total of 100 rock pillars. Surprisingly, the amount of rock pillars he had created is actually ten times more than what he can make without Doombringer's help.

Nevertheless, this was good news for Chief Lago as this means he can use the rock pillars to cause even more trouble to the Savage Foxes, or best, this might even be the cherry at the top of his cake.

The five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes immediately became a bit nervous after seeing those huge rock pillars. In their minds, they can't help but think that maybe this time they won't be able to escape anymore. But then, in the second thought, they suddenly realized; since those rock pillars are huge, then most likely that person wouldn't be able to hit them.

The solemn expression of the five Three Tailed Savage Foxes was quickly replaced with a mocking grin as if to say to Chief Lago, "Come, try hitting us!"

"Go!" Chief Lago pointed the Doombringer towards the direction of the Savage Foxes.

Whooooosh! Whooooosh! Whooooosh!

With that, all the rock pillars immediately flew towards the direction of the Savage Foxes.

Seeing that, the Savage Foxes simply backed inside the formation of Savage Foxes, expecting already that the rock pillars would be redirected towards another direction.

Just like what the Savage Foxes had expected, the rock pillars were indeed redirected. However, something finally hit them as soon as all the rock pillars landed on the ground.

It was at this moment that the Savage Foxes had finally realized that they have fallen into a trap.

Surrounding around them were the huge deep pit that the Fireball spell has created, which are now covered with thorny vines because of the Vine spell a while ago. And farther behind the deep pits where the 50 meters tall rock pillars, surrounding them in all of the direction except their very front.

At this moment, the mocking grin on the faces of the five Three-Tailed Savage Foxes has now turned into fear. Right now, they realized that if they want to escape from this place, then the way out for them would be to move forward.

Unfortunately, in front of them was the powerful person that had caused all of this to happen. That person would definitely not let them easily escape his trap after meticulously setting it all up from the very beginning until this very moment.

To escape, they would have to sacrifice a lot of their own men, which honestly speaking, is something that they don't really want. Well, who else actually wants such a thing, right?