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Returning back to the Problem Children's side.

Now that they were aware that Leon could create earth puppets to make clones of himself everything had changed and they started on the Plan B. Which was actually supposed to be the original plan of Jin.

”Is he following us yet?” Leslie asked Lance who just got down from the tree.

”Yes, I hit him in the head just now which seemed to make him pretty furious,” he said nonchalantly.

”Hopefully he gets angry enough to actually follow us, otherwise the plan is not going to work anyway,” Leslie said as she shrugged.

”Oh yeah, before I forget to say it. He also sent 5 clones after us so it seems like we will fight more than one of them. I haven't tried attacking them so I can't tell how strong they are” Lance spoke to the earpiece.

Now they knew that aside from just creating a copy of himself Leon could actually create multiple copies of himself.

”Umm, will the plan still work?” Leslie asked unsure about it.

The original plan was to deal with a single [Earth Lord] not fight an army. They weren't even sure if he could create more.

”As long as the original dies all the others should die as well. Just make sure that he reaches the location we discussed about” Jin replied from the earpiece.

”Understood” all of them replied at the same time.

Selim was on the way and should reach the forest from the sewage system. Hayato and Six were not part of this phase of the plan. As for Luke, he must have already been on his way.

Lance decided to stay back in order to draw aggro to himself after seeing the original Leon not move and just send clones. As for Leslie, she was just staying behind to help him in case things got out of hand.

”Okay let's start going again,” Lance said once he was done with his report.

So the duo started running towards the location on the forest they agreed upon before. It was away from the rest of the school so there wouldn't be any accidental casualties.

According to Jin, he had a strong attack that could take down [Earth Lord] Leon in one hit but in order to make sure he is hit they had to make him stand in the same position for at least a minute.

That might seem like a pretty short time for some people but what you might not be aware of is the stronger a person gets the shorter their fights become. Just look at battles between swordsmen.

They can decide who is the winner or who is the loser just from a single attack.

So Jin needed time to set up his attack while they needed to make sure Leon stay in the same spot.

As they arrived at the location they saw that Luke was already there waiting for them. He was aware of the fact that Leon sent earth puppets after them so he was getting ready to attack them.

[Earth Shatter]

The ground they were standing on started to tremble with cracks spreading all over. The crack seemed to have its own will as it made its way towards them. If they were caught up by it they would fall into a crevice.

The trio looked around to see any indication of where Leon might be but they couldn't see anything. He had attacked out of nowhere.

While Luke and Leslie were still trying to find out Leon's whereabouts Luke had a glint in his eyes.

Two jet black twin swords appeared on each of his hands and he stabbed them towards the ground.

He seemed to be expecting something but nothing happened.

How?

He was sure that Leon or rather Leon and his clones must be hiding underground.

According to Jin's description, Leon was an Earth Mage and Luke had seen him jumped out of the ground to attack Selim once.

That meant since they weren't able to find Leon's real body and they were getting attacked by him it could only mean he was hiding underground. That could be the only logical explanation then why was it that his attack did not do anything?

Seeing that it didn't work Luke spoke to Lance ”Get on top of the trees and give us a visual”

Lance immediately did as he was told and climbed the tree.

The situation was getting tense.