Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 1074: Hunting Elementals

Vicente left the Elves Tribe as quickly as he had arrived on his second visit to the area. As soon as he had presented the group with Leena, Lyra, and Tasar, he said goodbye to them and the tribe.

Vicente was only there to talk about the native elves of Polaris Realm, who had passed

through the island. He had many other curiosities and questions to ask someone as knowledgeable about local history as Lyra. But now was not the time to focus on things he would have time to learn later.

In a few months, he would find himself sailing the Sea of Stars again, when heʼd have at least a few years at Lyraʼs side to hear some of what she knew. So, after resolving his immediate doubts and giving the three of them something in return, he said goodbye.

Vicente told them he would return one last time, when he was to leave Amae for good, when Lyra was to join his group and depart from Amae. This could happen at any time in the next few weeks, so she should be prepared.

So he, Larissa and Rex set off from the elvesʼ territory, going on to search for the four enemy areas that Nan had marked for him to deal with as soon as possible.

It was time for them to enter their last phase in Amae before continuing with their journey to find more information about the Nine Paths and the next stages.

In particular, now that he had got his eighth pentagram, he was now interested in obtaining the sixteenth pentagram!

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After a few days of traveling, Vicente had split up with Larissa and Rex, leaving them with a group of fairy allies to follow plans other than his own.

Now he was walking alone near the first target he would attack, with only Prisiche, in her usual bespectacled form, accompanying him on this mission.

Moving forward, he could see his way to the enemies through Prisicheʼs data, who had been, since they left Light Cay, primarily helping him process less important data.

Things like details of an islandʼs characteristics that he didnʼt intend to devote himself to werenʼt important for him to master deeply. He had simply been letting her process this information and guide him through local issues and journeys, focusing only on the essentials that could be useful on his journey ahead.

Knowing how to get to the outpost of the enemies he wanted to act against this afternoon wasnʼt exactly important to him beyond this mission itself. Prisiche guided him through the enemy region, while he himself noticed opponents here and there on the path she was tracing.

She was in the form of glasses, more interested in the battle ahead than Vicente himself. Given the nature of Viceʼs powers, she always gets the chance to take control of one of his metal creations and fight alongside him.

As she had no cultivation, she could fight at the same level as her master, which was a lot of fun for an artificial intelligence like her.

[Master, weʼre close. Nanʼs data says that we are only 1 minute away from the enemies at our current speed. You should prepare for lookouts watching the surroundings as well as traps.]

This was the first of four attacks that Vicente intended to make to help the war in Amae take a course that would lead to the predominance of the fairy forces. But over the last few days of traveling, he had come across a few local confrontations, some of which he had gotten involved in and let Prisiche have his fun.

Today he didnʼt intend to do that. The outpost was not the core of an enemy tribe, of course. The fairies wouldnʼt dare try something like that. After all, even if there was a war on, attacking the core of a territory could be viewed very badly and generate generations of hatred and fear.

As nervous as the fairies had previously been about the dwarvesʼ betrayal, their current aim was only to diminish the enemyʼs forces, not exterminate them.

Vicente himself wasnʼt willing to invest his time in an endless hunt, so his missions would serve to deal with strategic points such as the Wood Elementalsʼ headquarters, not far ahead of them.

He took more care with his movement as Prisicheʼs warning faded, focusing on the area full of trees ahead, where the strategic outpost of the fairy allianceʼs enemies should be in this region.

ʼHere should be 10 of the 40 strongest Grand Magus in the enemy group. Some of them are probably out of the area, on missions, but the intelligence gathered by the fairies says that at least 4 Grand Magus of the Wood Elemental Tribe are settled here, almost permanently,ʼ Vicente thought to himself as he saw, little by little, the building that blended in with the trees and the terrain, occupying an area of around 2,000 square meters in the middle of this dense forest.

When he stopped in one bush, hidden in the not-so-strong shadows at that time of day, he spread his senses around, advancing until he understood the outermost area of the enemy post.

He could sense 22 defensive formations and traps for invaders trying to secretly enter the area. At the same time, 12 guards from the beginning of the 8th stage were standing by, alternating their vigilance against the surroundings, looking for traces of trouble.

Vicente didnʼt immediately sense the magical fluctuations of the enemies now inside that Wood Elemental unit, but he could tell that there was a group of a few dozen enemies there. Outposts like this served as warehouses for groups going to war and others returning. It shouldnʼt be uncommon for wounded returning to these areas of conflict to stay at outposts like this for a while before returning to battle or going home.

But the numbers at this post didnʼt matter so much to Vicente. He was there for a massacre and only the number of medium-sized Grand Magus-which could make things somewhat difficult for him- mattered to him.

He mapped out the terrain with his earth element skills, feeling some difficulty, as wood was precisely one of the elements he would have trouble facing.

Given the nature of the wood element, holders of wood-related powers had good defenses against opponents with lightning as an element. Vicente sensed this even before fighting, sensing little of the surroundings of this unit, which he had chosen to attack first precisely because of the challenge it would impose on him.

The Wood Elementalsʼ misfortune was Vicenteʼs other affinities, which propelled him to go ahead and start his attack after only 5 minutes since arriving in the area.