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"You both will lure the Treasure Beetles here, while I'll prepare a trap for them," Leo informed Chief Lago and Iasiah.

Everyone had already discussed a while back then before finally separating to execute their task on how they should handle both the Treasure Beetles and Storm Sparrows. And that is to lure them somewhere and trap them without leaving any sort of traces that will compromise them.

In the case of Leo and his group, it's to lead the Treasure Beetles in where he is right now.

The reason why they aimed to trap the Treasure Beetles was exactly because they have planned of transporting them personally to a place nearby the Storm Sparrow Tree.

Obviously, Leo, Chief Lago, and Iasiah already knew that they could actually just lure out the Treasure Beetles from the Treasure Beetle Mountain to the Storm Sparrow Tree instead, just like what Nightingale had done before. After all, doing so is the simplest method to bring the Treasure Beetles nearby the Storm Sparrow Tree.

But unfortunately, the simplest method doesn't always mean that it is the best method.

Luring the Treasure Beetles to the Storm Sparrow Tree once or a few times might be possible. But to lure them over there for a certain amount of times would definitely cause the Storm Sparrows to notice and be suspicious of what is going on. Once that happens, the Storm Sparrows would one hundred percent send a few of their men to investigate and find out the reason why many Treasure Beetles are going over their territory.

And certainly, the moment the Storm Sparrows begins investigating, they would eventually find out a lot of Treasure Beetle's carcasses lying nearby their territory.

Such findings would lead the Storm Sparrows to send a few men to the Treasure Beetle Mountain to report their findings to the Treasure Beetles, which might then let the Storm Sparrows be aware that there are actually also some Storm Sparrow's carcasses found in the territory of the Treasure Beetles.

Likewise, the same effect would also happen if Charlotte, Elvis, and Nightingale would follow the simplest method to lead the Storm Sparrows to the Treasure Beetle Mountain.

It's pretty obvious already what would happen next.

Both Treasure Beetles and Storm Sparrows would realize that someone is trying to destroy their peace, making them investigate who it was.

This obviously means that they could no longer continue with what they were planning to do as it wouldn't start a war between the two Magical Beast tribes anymore, and might just even cause them to get discovered instead.

Everything that they have done would serve as nothing, and they would have no other choice left but to just helplessly go back.

That's the reason why they should trap the Treasure Beetles and Storm Sparrows first and later on bring them personally to the territory of the other Magical Beast before finally killing them. Because by doing so, they have a high chance of remaining unnoticed and buy enough time until they finally killed a lot of them.

Of course, everything would eventually be discovered. But when they finally discovered something is wrong, a lot of their own men would already be killed, causing them to be enraged.

Additionally, with the clues that all the deaths have traces of the Element Power from the other Magical Beast, there would be a very high chance that they'll just come to the conclusion that this is certainly done by them, which would become the reason why the peace between the Treasure Beetle tribes and the Storm Sparrow tribes would be broken.

At this moment, they have chosen a location nearby the Treasure Beetle Mountain where the Treasure Beetles present are weak in cultivation level, approximately around No Star to 3 Star level.

"Okay," Chief Lago said as he prepared to leave. But as he turned around, he noticed that Iasiah actually still didn't follow after him, hence making him asked, "What's the matter?"

"Are you sure?" Iasiah asked Mister Loki, a bit worried about leaving him in this place alone. Of course, he already knows that Mister Loki is someone with a capability beyond his current cultivation level, simply due to the fact that he had seen how many Magical Beasts he had defeated already and his capability to summon those powerful Elementals. But that place was just the Green Area, while this place here is a Red Area. These two places entirely meant a different level of dangers.

"Maybe I should stay here to protect you?" Iasiah can't help suggesting. He was saved by Mister Loki, including his twin brother, Nightingale, that's why he doesn't want for any sort of danger to happen to him.

"I appreciate your concern," Leo said with a smile on his face. But he then shook his head before adding, "But Chief Lago needs you more in executing the plan. And besides, I won't grow if I keep on relying on you guys,"

From the moment he found out for the second time his affinity to become a Mage until this very moment, the majority of those times, he had always been relying on the people around him.

From Madam Silva and the Sword and Magic to his Master Olivia and the Mischievous Lion organization, then to the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance, and right now to the members of his Mischievous Lion Guild who has a high cultivation level.

Obviously, relying on the people around him is alright, but being heavily reliant on them would certainly affect him negatively, at least that is what he feels right now.

That's why right now he thought that he should make a way to trap the Treasure Beetles with only a bit of help from Chief Lago and Iasiah, specifically they would only be luring the Treasure Beetles while he would be the one to trap them. In such a way, he would be the one doing the majority of the efforts.

Hearing Mister Loki's reply, Iasiah could only helplessly agree, "Okay..."

"Just make sure though that the both of you would only lure some Treasure Beetles that you know I can handle," Leo reminded.

Chief Lago and Iasiah nodded their heads as they finally understood what Leo wanted to do.

"Then, let's go," Chief Lago said to Iasiah before jumping towards a stem of a tree in front of him and then starting to jump from one tree to another.

Iasiah didn't hesitate anymore as he quickly followed after Chief Lago.

While Chief Lago and Iasiah were doing that, Leo then began thinking of how he should make what he's thinking right now possible.

Trapping Magical Beasts with a No Star and 1 Star level is obviously something easy for him to do. To be more precise, he'd just trap them with the assistance of his Elementals.

However, it wouldn't be that simple anymore in the case of the 2 Star and 3 Star Magical Beasts.

Although he had already successfully trapped some Magical Beasts with a much higher cultivation level than these Treasure Beetles before, that was because the majority of those times he had the help from the others on subduing them.

But right now, he only wants to rely on himself.

"What if I allow two Earth Elementals to act as a trap," Leo thought, but then he shook his head while saying, "But the Treasure Beetles can use Earth Element as well, so it would be too easy for them to escape. Which means that I can only use Nature Elementals to trap them,"

Leo quickly summoned 12 Nature Elementals.

Actually, he isn't sure yet just how many Treasure Beetles exactly would Chief Lago and Iasiah lure to him. But at most it shouldn't be more than ten, or even if it is, then most likely the majority of them would only be in the No Star and 1 Star level, which 12 Nature Elementals should be able to barely handle.

"To set up a trap using Nature Elementals, it would be much better if I just simply repeat what I did with that Bandit Leader before and just enlarged the vines once they are caught inside the trap," Leo thought to himself before sending a command to the 12 Nature Elementals to create some really thin vines and spread them out to the surrounding.

Since he was only aiming to trap the Treasure Beetles, he of course wouldn't summon an Earth Elemental and create that same scene where the Bandit Leader had become something akin to a porcupine.

"That obviously wouldn't be enough,"

Of course, Leo wasn't stupid enough to believe that with such a trap alone it would be enough to handle the Treasure Beetles.

"Hmmm..." Leo began thinking while looking around the surrounding, "I can't summon Fire Elementals as their attacks would leave a noticeable burn mark on the body of the Treasure Beetles. But I can use Water Elementals,"

Without wasting any time, Leo summoned 2 Water Elementals. He then orders the Water Elementals to turn into a toy soldier form, and right after letting them hide somewhere inconspicuous.

"The attacks of these Water Elementals should only leave some wounds with no noticeable marks," Leo nodded his head, but he then began thinking again, "But still not enough though,"

"I should have thought of observing how Storm Sparrows fight first before doing this," Leo said with a heavy sigh.

"Wait..." Leo suddenly thought of something...

Leo realized that he could actually just simply use cages, Magic Ropes, or Magic Nets to trap the Treasure Beetles. Since by doing so still meant that he's trapping them without leaving any traces of unnecessary Element.

Leo can't help laughing mischievously before saying, "With this, trapping the Treasure Beetles is going to be easy,"

After thinking of that plan, Leo then quickly began setting up some traps using cages, Magic Ropes, Magic Nets, while adding them together with the traps he had set up with the help of the Nature Elementals and Water Elementals.