Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Unreyleyted along with his two other team members, Triyvial and Teypoary, continued moving to the location where they have heard the subtle sound just now, remaining totally oblivious about them, walking closer and closer towards a trap.

"I swear to Fate that this is where I had heard that noise," Unreyleyted said with doubt evident in his voice.

"We have also heard that sound, too, but how can you really be sure that those are really people? It might just turn out to be a small animal, like a rabbit or something," Triyvial shook his head dismissively.

"Indeed, we have already encountered plenty of those along the way here. In fact, it wouldn't even be strange if that sound was actually from a Magical Beast looking for prey. If that really happened to be the case here right now, then there is a huge possibility that we will-" Before Teypoary could even finish his line, his entire head was immediately covered with vines that came out straight from the ground.

Both Unreyleyted and Triyvial were unable to react in time before Teypoary's head was twisted, swiftly ending the latter's life.

Seeing such a tragic Fate of their comrade who was talking in front of them just now, they quickly pulled themselves together and put each other's back against one another to prevent their enemies from attacking their blindspots.

In spite of their effort, though, it still didn't change their outcome, which is death!

Dozens of fireballs suddenly shoot out from the left side of both Unreyleyted and Triyvial, causing the two of them to immediately separate from each other as they jumped in their respective front in order to dodge.

However, before they could even land on the ground, the vines that had just killed Teypoary abruptly grabbed their feet and dragged them high. While they were being dragged, they soon saw a woman's figure jumping from above the trees while holding a Magic sword in her hand, obviously intending to swing it to their heads.

Whoooosh! Whoooosh!

Everything happened so fast for Unreyleyted, Triyvial, and Teypoary that it completely caught them off guard. When they finally realized that they were ambushed, it was already too late and beyond saving, as they have already taken their last breath.

"Threat eliminated," Veronica said through the communicator.

"Good job!" Leo replied. He then continued, "Now go and continue to the center because your team is already considered very late. Both the Red Fist Guild and Battle Maniac team is now in position over there and are only waiting for your team's arrival,"

"How can they be so fast?" Veronica can't help but ask in curiosity. The game of 'Hide and Seek' had just begun a few minutes ago, yet those two teams are actually already in their agreed location to meet?

"Use the trees to travel," Leo replied. It was precisely because of such a method that both the Red Fist Guild and Battle Maniac team was able to travel really fast. He also agrees with that, since jumping from one tree to another is much quicker than merely walking or running.

"Okay!" Veronica quickly understood what Leo meant. She turned to look at Vannessa and Jessica as she informed them of what to do.

A few minutes later after they started moving using the trees, Veronica and her team finally realized just how fast exactly they were traveling.

Compared to running on the ground where they will meet a lot of slopes, high grounds, and other similar formation of lands that would delay their paths for a considerable duration of time, traveling through trees only requires them to worry about one thing, specifically landing on a tough enough stem that will support their land and not let them fall to the ground. Such a problem is extremely simple to solve since they can just go and look for the thicker stem of the tree that they were going to jump onto.

Ten minutes or so of traveling later, they finally arrived at the very center of the map. And after only spending a few minutes of looking, they eventually found the members of the Red Fist Guild and Battle Maniac team currently resting beside a tall tree while talking with each other. They are most likely trying to get to know one another while waiting for them.

The moment Veronica and her team from the Mischievous Lion Guild arrived, the members of both the Red Fist Guild and Battle Maniac team quickly noticed them.

"We are now in contact with everyone in the alliance," Veronica reported to Leo through the communicator.

"Good job!" Leo complimented, he the quickly continued, "Just wait until the timer finally finished. In the meantime, try to get to know everyone for better cooperation later on,"

It wasn't only Leo who had heard Veronica's words, but also the other members of the alliance as well, including the six people from the Red Fist Guild and Battle Maniac team that have arrived in front of them. So, there was no need for any further confirmation to find out whether they are really allies or not.

"You people must be Veronica, Vannessa, and Jessica from the Mischievous Lion Guild," A young Orc greeted. He then continued, "I'm Oman, from the Red Fist Guild, and these two people with me are Ofin and Olok,"

Following after Oman's introduction was a handsome blond Elf, "The name is Egot, from the Battle Maniac team, and these two women with me are Elreen and Erika,"

"Nice meeting all of you, and I hope that we will have a pleasant cooperation in this game," Veronica replied.

Since the timer for the Seekers to be released is still half an hour later, the members of the alliance continued talking with each other.

Meanwhile, Leo, Orcborg, Selina, and Bagley were now gathered together inside a separate room, where a large table showing a three-dimensional version of the miniature replica of the Mountain Wall range on top could be seen. There were also red dots indicating all the Hiders that participated in this game of 'Hide and Seek'.

A while ago, during the time that Veronica and her team were traveling to the center of the map, Bagley suddenly knocked on the room of the Mischievous Lion Guild along with Orcborg and Selina as they then asked for Leo to come with them somewhere really important. They said that it was a place where they could cooperate much better.

Complying with their request, Leo assigned Ash to become the temporary leader of the team, as he would be busy on something else.

After walking for a few minutes, they soon arrived at the security room of the Victory Arena and went inside. Over there, they saw a much better map of the miniature replica of the Mountain Wall range. Unlike the two-dimensional map that everyone is looking at right now, the map in front of them was three-dimensional. They can even zoom it wherever they want and from whatever angle they desire.

Apparently, this was, again, another Magic Technology. But it wasn't from the Elves Secret organization, nor was it originally invented by the Human race, rather it was an ancient Magic Technology that they have found from the Emerald Tree in the past.

This table was said to just be a single portion of an entire Magic Technology, a much bigger one than this one. As for what exactly its name was? No one still knows even a single thing about it, since there were no records to be found, even until this moment. They are temporarily calling it as of now as Mirror Map Table, a name derived from the function of this Magic Technology.

Above this Mirror Map Table were ten light screens that are showing what exactly the participants are doing. It can also be changed to show another team after they clicked on one of those red dots on the Mirror Map Table.

All of these were arranged by the cooperation of the Evergreen royal family and the Elves Secret organization, with what Bagley had informed them as the purpose.

An Elf suddenly stepped inside the room and asked, "I believed that you had already familiarized yourselves with the Mirror Map Table?"

It was Luke.

"Not everything yet, but we are definitely good with the basics," Leo replied.

"Understanding the basics is more than enough since there is really no need for us to use the Mirror Map Table for something else other than for the purpose of bettering the cooperation between the teams we have sent in the games, at least for now," Luke nodded his head before sitting on the chair beside Selina.

Waving his hand, Luke then took out dozens of documents from his Storage Ring before handing them to Leo and the others. He then said, "Those are just a few of the confirmed identities of the members of the Naughty Elves organization that we have found to be participating in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition. It's not really considered a lot, but we can use them to locate the other hiding members, I hope,"

"I hope?" Bagley narrowed his eyes together.

"We have sent a few people to secretly follow after them a few days ago. But aside from confirming that they are indeed members of the Naughty Elves organization, we haven't yet seen them being in contact with other members from the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event. Even these dozens of people didn't have any secret meetings with each other aside from that time during the ball at the Evergreen royal family's castle," Luke explained.

"I guess that we are expecting a considerable degree of difficulty in our current situation," Orcborg said before heaving a heavy sigh. 

"Definitely," Selina agreed.