Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Along the way, Leo and the others inside the command room constantly informed Veronica and the others of the location of those nearby teams. Elmont, Tifa, and Tila also informed them of the Seeker's whereabouts. 

As such, the journey was so smooth for all of them. They pretty much don't need to worry about hiding and remaining inconspicuous while moving because they know where exactly everyone was located at. 

"Watch out of your 10 o'clock, the team from the top 83 are approaching close to your location." Leo sent out a warning. 

Hearing Leo's warning, Veronica and the others immediately distanced themselves from their 10 o'clock location while continuing to make their way towards the target. 

After a few minutes, Orcborg sent another warning, "Three people from the top 87 team are spread out around your front. It is impossible to avoid confrontation, so prepare for a battle!" 

Instantly, Veronica, Oman, and Egot decided to temporarily go into three different directions to eliminate those three people hiding nearby. 

Because the battle was unfortunately three against one, it only took briefly for Veronica and the others to successfully eliminate the three people from the top 87 teams. After finishing with that, they then gathered with each other once again at their agreed meeting place before continuing to move towards the location of their target. 

As soon as Veronica and the others left, Elmont immediately informed the nearby Seeker group to go to the location where the fight had taken place to clean up the dead bodies. Doing this would also make it seem like to everyone watching that the Seekers weren't purposely avoiding Veronica's alliance since whenever they noticed the commotion, they would swiftly arrive there in response, hoping to catch them.

Aside from that, it also timely allows Veronica and the others to be free of the Seekers on the location they were going towards. 

"The target is moving farther away from your 7 o'clock. Change direction to 8 o'clock to make indirect contact with them," Bagley commanded. 

"Both Seeker groups, move towards 10 o'clock and 4 o'clock," Elmont commanded. He quickly switched the channel and informed Leo and the others, "Both Seeker groups are cornering the target in the center. The escape route would be to their 12 to 2 o'clock locations after they finished the target. The 3 o'clock is a danger zone, so please do every necessary way to avoid going to that place,"

"Roger!" Veronica and everyone quickly nodded their heads in affirmation before changing to another direction. 

Just a few minutes later, they were finally following the tail of their target, specifically the team from the top 85. 

Remaining oblivious to Veronica and the others secretly following behind them, the three people from the top 85 continued walking forward while talking with each other.

"Do we really have to patrol this location and look out for the Seekers and Hiders from the other alliances instead of just hiding somewhere really safe for us?" 

"As much as I hate to do this, but we really have no other choice. After all, we are cooperating with each other for our mutual goal,"

"He's indeed correct. If we don't do this, then there's no use for this alliance and it is much better for us to simply work alone. Do you understand?"

Whooooosh! 

"Eh? Wher-"

Whooooosh! 

"Guys?" 

Whooooosh! 

None of the three were able to react before all of them were taken care of by Veronica and the others. 

They were all killed without making any sounds and removed from the face of the Celestial World. 

"Quickly check their belongings and let's get out of here before the Seekers could come!" Veronica ordered everyone. 

Honestly, they weren't actually supposed to do something like this. In fact, they didn't even bother doing this to the team from the top 87. Also, they believed there was no need to collect items from people who are much weaker than them. Even without needing to look at their Storage Rings or any items they are carrying, they could already expect that their weapons are much more inferior to them. 

The only reason they are really doing something like this is because they wanted to show to everyone, or in particular, the members of the Naughty Elves organization watching the Emerald Elven Battle Competition, that they are specifically targeting a team for the sake of the items on them, which honestly speaking, was actually going to be purposely planted unto one of their bodies by them. This would then delay whatever the Naughty Elves organization is planning to do for a considerable duration of time. 

Simply put, they are misleading the Naughty Elves organization. 

Outside the miniature replica of the Mountain Wall range, Elmont exclaimed loudly, "And that's how you clean some trashes folks! How unfortunate for the team from the top 85, and also their allies,"

"Speaking about trash," Tifa changed the light screen before making Tila continue speaking, "It seems like our trash collectors, the Seekers, have noticed them. They are now going towards their direction to pick up some trashes while also hoping to pick up some scrap pickers along the way,"

Right after Elmont, Tifa, and Tila finished speaking, Veronica and the others quickly left to their 1 o'clock location after finishing with their acting, completely escaping away from the Seekers who were coming towards their location. 

Before escaping though, they made sure first to show to everyone watching them what exactly they have taken out from one of those dead people's Storage Ring, specifically dozens of 2-Star level Magical resources that are tremendously helpful for 1-Star Mages like them, which means to say that they have achieved their goal of giving everyone a reasonable excuse for why they seemed to be specifically targeting this team.

Of course, no matter how much effort they put into their acting, they are still clearly aware of the fact that they can't fool the Naughty Elves organization for that long. There are four possible reasons for that;

Firstly, the Naughty Elves organization aren't idiots and stupid enough to not notice that something strange is going on since almost all the teams that would likely get eliminated in the future would 'coincidentally' have their members on them. 

Secondly, neither the Mischievous Lion Guild, Red Fist Guild, and Battle Maniac team are poor enough to not be able to buy such inferior items. After all, they are basically rich enough to buy almost everything they wanted in the entire Emerald Tree Kingdom. 

Thirdly, both the Mischievous Lion Guild and Red Fist Guild are showing that they are in an alliance with the Battle Maniac team, which is a team created by Seventh Prince Elmont. As long as they reached a considerable number of kills on the members of the Naughty Elves organization secretly participating in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition, then it would be very easy to guess that they are part of the alliance created by the Evergreen royal family. 

And lastly, there's no reasonable explanation to explain how exactly they come to know about those people possessing such items. 

Even if the Naughty Elves organization would just realize two out of those four reasons, it would still be more than enough to find out what exactly they are planning to do.

However, there's one thing for certain that they can achieve by doing this; they could buy more time for their allies who are looking for the members of the Naughty Elves organization secretly sitting on the spectator stands of the Victory Arena and also enough time for everyone who is part of the alliance outside to prepare for the war. 

"Continue with the direction you are currently moving. Your next target is currently hiding inside a cave of that mountain in front," Leo sent out another order. 

"Roger!" Veronica and the others quickly nodded their heads in response before swiftly proceeding. 

Along the way to their next target, Leo, Orcborg, Luke, Selina, and Bagley, with the assistance of Elmont, Tifa, and Tila continued providing necessary and helpful information to Veronica and the others.

Since they already have had their first experience a while ago, everything thus proceeded much smoother compared to their first target. 

There were even a few times where they were able to execute the order before Leo and the others could even finish their lines, which shows to everyone that they are slowly getting more familiar with the commands. 

The same as the previous times, they will make detours for those teams that they could avoid, eliminate those that they couldn't avoid, while at the same time escaping the detection of the two Seeker groups searching closely around their area. 

And when they finally arrived at the location of their target, they would either choose to kill them without making any sounds, or as little sound as possible or if such a situation isn't really possible to achieve, then they would execute them as fast as possible in order to have enough time to stage their acting before eventually leaving the place similar to the last time.

They continued doing this until they eventually eliminated all the teams that have a member of the Naughty Elves organization secretly amongst them on the northwest location. 

In the process, they have collected plenty of 2-Star to 3-Star level Magical resources, which they shared amongst each other. These items were clearly taken out from their Storage Rings right from the very beginning, so by doing this they are simply returning those items to their rightful owners without letting anyone else suspect a single thing about it. 

At least that is the current case right now...

No matter how much Elmont, Tifa, and Tila tries to distract everyone by their humorous and interactive remarks and also by diverting the topic to something else that is interesting on the game of 'Hide and Seek', or how Leo and the others were making everything as lest suspicious as possible every single time Veronica and the others killed a member of the Naughty Elves organization, they were all still unable to change the fact that the Naughty Elves organization were now getting slightly suspicious of their actions.