Chapter 56：Trapping the soldiers (1/2)

Chapter 56 Trapping the soldiers

Author: M_W Cancer

Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral

Night was fast approaching. Fortunately Leo and the others has successfully found an empty cave in a hidden corner.

The cave was in a corner with thick bushes at its both sides and a tree trunk blocking its view at the cave's entrance from outside. It was a really good hiding spot. Other people would not be able to notice it easily unless they try to look really hard for its existence or they already knew such a cave existed.

Getting inside the cave, Leo quickly told the girls to clean up place first as he walked outside. He wasn't trying to ditch them since it was cleaning, but instead he plans to set up some traps and alarms to avoid any possible danger during their stay inside the cave.

'Surely those soldiers are already looking for us!'

Arriving outside, Leo immediately started looking around his surrounding while trying to make up a plan in his mind on where to set up the traps.

In just a few minutes of thinking, Leo had finally thought of a plan.

Leo swiftly moved towards a tree on the right side of their cave as he squat down and examined the soils thickness.

”Not to soft and not to hard, perfect for setting up a hole!” Leo said as he ordered his Earth Elemental, which was currently hiding in his pocket in a mini soldier form, to dig a hole in the side of the tree.

Everyone was currently inside the cave, so he wasn't afraid of his trump card being noticed by anyone. Moreover, the Earth Elemental was only in a half a meter tall height right now. With him standing before it, it was difficult to view its existence.

Finally finishing the hole, Leo quickly covered it with scrubs and branches that he saw laying around the area. Afterwards, he proceeds to set up more traps around 20 meters diameter from their cave.

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Meanwhile, those soldiers from before were slowly approaching Leo's location.

Although, all of them didn't really have any idea of where Leo and the others were hiding, they could still make up a possible route just by simply looking at a map.

”Sir, I suggest that we take a rest! Magical Beast are more active during the night, so surely Lady Veronica and the others would hide themselves inside the caves!” One soldier suggester to the leader of their group.

The group was made out of five soldiers. The soldiers that had escorted Lady Veronica were separated into three groups, the soldiers were grouped into five people in the two groups while their leader made up the third group, since the leader had decided to look for them alone.

”No, I suggest we keep on searching them around the areas with potential caves. I'm sure that one of those caves is their hiding spot. After finding out which cave they are hiding, we will then report to the others and catch them in the morning!” The leader of the group said reasonably as he let out a chuckle.

”Oh, you are a genius sir!” The soldier that suggested nodded in agreement to their leader's plan.

Unknowingly, on the top of one of the tree somewhat far from the soldier's location, Leo was coincidentally observing them.

After setting up the traps, Leo immediately went to where they had came from before to check whether he could find some searching soldiers around. He had already expected that those escorting soldiers had found out that they had escape, so he wanted to know whether they're already nearby or not. He wasn't really expecting any result, but unexpectedly though, he had found five soldiers fifty meters away from their cave.

”They are unexpectedly fast! But no need to worry...” Leo said as he revealed a mischievous smile on his face before he suddenly disappeared from the top of the tree.

After finding the soldiers, Leo quickly thought of setting a trap for the five soldiers using the Magical Beast around. Although, he wanted to eliminate them quickly using his Earth Elemental, however, by doing so would only reveal their general location and plan the moment the bodies were found out. Hence, using the Magical Beast around would surely make the others think that the five soldiers has unfortunately been killed due to being attacked by Magical Beast.

The moment Leo started moving, darkness was also slowly engulfing the light in his surrounding. Night has finally arrived, and the Magical Beast living in the Yellow Forest was finally more active now.