Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

An hour later, Charlotte and her team were still unable to find the nest of the Treasure Beetles. Though fortunately, they finally found a few clues that would most likely lead them towards their nest.

"With these eggshells of the Treasure Beetle's eggs on the ground, we should probably be close to their nest right now," Charlotte informed Elvis and Nightingale while looking at the road in front of them with a lot of eggshells scattered on the ground.

"Great!" Elvis can't help feeling delighted after seeing such a sight. He added, "As long as we follow this path, then it wouldn't take long for us to reach their nest,"

"Indeed," Nightingale agreed.

A few newborn Magical Beasts would usually still have a few pieces of eggshells sticking around their body after leaving their eggs, which would slowly fall off one by one as they keep on walking or moving around.

Since this road in front of them has a lot of such eggshells scattered around, it meant that newborn Treasure Beetles had walked over here in the past, leaving traces of their eggshells.

And just like what Elvis had said just now, as long as they follow this path, then it might eventually lead them towards the nest of the Treasure Beetles.

Knowing already that they can't waste any more time here, Charlotte, Elvis, and Nightingale quickly followed the traces of eggshells on the ground.

"Let's go," Charlotte said as she began leading the way.

Elvis and Nightingale didn't hesitate to follow after Charlotte.

Along the way, they quickly noticed that majority of the Treasure Beetles they have encountered are actually female Treasure Beetles.

They long already know about the fact that it's always the female species of the Magical Beasts that will take care of their eggs, which means to say that their assumption now has a very high chance to turn out to be true.

With this discovery, every step that they took just made them more and more excited. In fact, they are expecting already that they will find the nest of the Treasure Beetles soon.

After ten minutes or so of walking, just like what they have expected, they indeed arrived at a place covered with plenty of Treasure Beetle's eggs. Within their view, there should be around tens of thousands of Treasure Beetle's eggs around this place.

However, there's just this one single problem in front of them...

The place that they have arrived at right now is indeed a nest, but it wasn't just an ordinary nest of the Treasure Beetles, but rather it's the nest of the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle basing on the sole fact alone that at the center of the nest was the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle surrounded by its tens of thousands of eggs.

"I really didn't expect the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle to be a female Treasure Beetle," Elvis said.

"Yeah..." Nightingale thought the same.

The Beast Lord Storm Sparrow that they have encountered before was a male Storm Sparrow, that's why they somewhat expected already inside their minds that the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle would also turn out to be a male Beast Lord Treasure Beetle.

They really didn't expect that it would actually be contrary to their thoughts.

"You two, that's not the important point here," Charlotte quickly reprimanded them. She explained, "That Beast Lord Treasure Beetle might indeed be a female Treasure Beetle. But remember, just like the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow we saw before, that Beast Lord Treasure Beetle is definitely also heavily injured as well and is still currently recovering,"

Hearing Charlotte's words, Elvis and Nightingale quickly understood what she meant. They immediately began observing the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle closely in order to confirm Charlotte's assumptions.

In the next moment, Elvis and Nightingale's lips slowly curled up to form a mischievous smile.

Just now, they have finally confirmed together that the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle is indeed heavily injured. And what's even more important is, its injury seems to be a lot more worst than what they have seen from the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow before.

In the case of the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow, its two wings were broken and one of its feet was covered by Magical materials. While on the other hand, the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle only had one of its wings left, meaning to say it can't fly anymore, while it only has four out of its six legs left and its horn was cut completely into half.

With the current state of the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle, it obviously could no longer fight... No, technically, it could still fight, but it would have a high chance of losing its life. That's why it's much better for it to not fight yet until it fully recovers.

"It seems like we could still steal some Treasure Beetle's eggs out from this nest," Elvis said.

"What! You're actually only thinking of stealing some? No, no, no, we would be stealing thousands of Treasure Beetle's eggs!" Nightingale proclaimed in confidence.

"My bad," Elvis quickly realized his mistake.

"Tch, the both of you don't really seem to understand what I meant," Charlotte said with a sigh. She explained, "Since the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle is seriously injured right now, then this means that we have a chance of successfully catching it!"

"Catching it?!"

Both Elvis and Nightingale were immediately rendered dumbfounded by what Charlotte had just said. If Charlotte had said that they can kill the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle, then the both of them would have thought that it's indeed possible to do that, especially considering the three of their strength combined together.

However, to capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle is an entirely different story.

It's actually possible for them to successfully capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle.

However, since their current location right now is somewhere deep inside the Treasure Beetle Mountain, so even if they could indeed capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle, taking it out from this place would be like bringing out the King right in front of their own loyal subordinates. In short, it's impossible to escape from the eyes of the Treasure Beetles living in this place.

"You're kidding me, right?" Elvis can't help thinking that maybe Charlotte was actually just joking with them.

"No," Charlotte didn't hesitate to confirm that she wasn't joking at all.

"Then how exactly would you do such an impossible thing?" Elvis asked.

"Yeah," Nightingale nodded his head in agreement. He explained, "With our current location right now, and not to mention that there should be hundreds of thousands of Treasure Beetles living in this Treasure Beetle Mountain, it would be impossible to take away the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle out from this place even if we could indeed successfully capture it without letting the Treasure Beetles notice,"

Charlotte shrugged her shoulders as she replied, "Who said that we will be capturing it right now?"

"Huh?" Elvis and Nightingale asked in unison.

Charlotte cleared out their confusion by saying, "Isn't there going to be a battle between the Treasure Beetle tribe against the Storm Sparrow tribe happening soon?"

"Yes, but what about that?"

"We will use that opportunity to capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle," Charlotte said with a mischievous smile on her face. She explained, "Most likely, during battle, the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle wouldn't be making any appearance in the beginning. At that time, it would definitely be focusing on doing its best to recover as much as possible in order to prepare itself to fight against the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow. This also means that it would be sending out most of its strong men to lead its soldier during its absence, making this Treasure Beetle Mountain less guarded by powerful Treasure Beetles than before,"

"Additionally, the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle should already know clearly that it would have a very high chance of being in the disadvantageous position if it allows the situation in the battlefield to be stuck in the stalemate. After all, the injuries it had received are a lot more worst than the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow. Simply put, the latter would recover earlier. Once the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow recovered first and appear in the battlefield, the situation in the battlefield would immediately tilt in the favor of the Storm Sparrow tribe,"

"That's why I'm guessing that the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle should have a plan to counter that. I don't know what exactly it is planning to do, since I'm not the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle. But one thing is for certain though, and that is its aim would be to not let the Storm Sparrow tribe have the advantage even if the Beast Lord Storm Sparrow would appear," Charlotte paused, before continuing, "So, we will wait until how the situation in the battlefield would turn out to be before deciding on whether we should capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle or not,"

Elvis and Nightingale were a bit surprised by what Charlotte was planning to do. They really didn't expect that their simple plan of stealing some Treasure Beetle's eggs would actually take a huge turn all of a sudden and have now included capturing the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle.

After the both of them analyzed Charlotte's plan together, they soon arrived at a conclusion that it might just be possible to capture the Beast Lord Treasure Beetle and take it away from this Treasure Beetle Mountain without getting noticed by any Treasure Beetles.

So without any hesitation,

"I agree," Elvis agreed.

"So, do I," Nightingale seconded.

Charlotte smiled before pointing her hands towards the direction of the Treasure Beetle's eggs and saying, "But first, let's steal as many Treasure Beetle's eggs as possible,"