Rise My Elementals! - Chapter 756: Leo’s mischievous plan and Edgar Pierce’s cunning plan

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Leo hid under the cover of a group of vines to prevent Edgar Pierce nor the two Sword Mantises from noticing him. He nocked an arrow onto his bow and accurately pointed the sharp head to the two Sword Mantises. In his mind, he thought, “The second I hit one of the Sword Mantises with my arrow, there’s no doubt that they will immediately convey a message to Edgar Pierce about my sneak attack to them. By that time, the latter will discover what I am planning to do. He’d probably choose to disregard me for the meantime and focus all of his attention on his two Sword Mantises. Otherwise, he’d lost his advantage against my Golems. In the end, our fight would continue remaining at a stalemate,”

“I can no longer afford to wait or create another opportunity to break the stalemate like what I did right now. So…” Slowly, Leo moved the head of his arrow to the ground in front of the two Sword Mantises. “On the other hand, if I also secretly lend a hand to my Golems to let them win, it would likewise make Edgar Pierce retract his focus from me back to his two Sword Mantises, similarly ending in the same way as the former,”

“However, what if I slowly turn the table to my Golem’s favor while at the same time making Edgar Pierce focus all of his attention on me regardless of what?” Leo decided in his mind.

In the next moment, a tiny red-colored Magic circle slowly formed on the sharp head of the arrow. As soon as the Magic circle finished forming, Leo didn’t continue wasting any time and let go of his hand.

Whooooosh!

Contrary to what everyone was expecting, the arrow didn’t hit the two Sword Mantises. Rather, they simply hit the ground right beside the earth wall. Its location was hidden from the sight of the two Sword Mantises. Still, the Golems could clearly see it due to the difference in location of the two parties. And despite hitting the ground, the arrow didn’t explode like everyone thought after seeing Guild Leader Loki creating a Magic circle of the Fireball spell onto its head.

“What is he doing?” This was the question that everyone wanted to know the answer.

While everyone watching was in the midst of their thinking, Leo continued shooting arrows in locations that couldn’t be seen by the Sword Mantises. He also ensured that the arrows would always avoid their sight while traveling to a specific location so that it wouldn’t ruin his scheme.

“Good thing that there are earth walls nearby and pieces of rocks that chip away from my Golems. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to secretly hide all of those arrows,” Leo thought in his mind before deciding to stop for the meantime and turn his attention back to Edgar Pierce. After all, he can’t let the latter become suspicious of anything other than what is happening in this place he had created.

Leo carefully sneaked towards another location that could provide him a good view of Edgar Pierce while simultaneously allowing him to launch a sneak attack on the latter.

It didn’t take that much time for Leo to find another location to hide. He was the one who created this place, so he naturally knew plenty of good hidings spots.

“If I intentionally miss another attack, Edgar Pierce would certainly feel suspicious about my intention for doing that, especially considering the method I used to create this place,” Leo paused to catch some breather. He soon continued, “I can only hope that this won’t accidentally kill him, as that would cause a lot of trouble to me,”

Whooooosh!

Edgar Pierce was more than prepared already for Guild Leader Loki’s sneak attack. So as soon as he heard a whooshing sound in the air somewhere around him, he instantly ordered his Golems to surround him and block the attack.

While using the Golems as a shield, Edgar Pierce didn’t forget to sneak a peek to the location where the arrow had come from to find Guild Leader Loki’s whereabouts.

Bang!

The arrow instantly broke into pieces after it hit the body of the Golem and slowly fell to the ground. From behind, Leo’s figure could be seen swiftly trying to sneak towards another location.

“There you are! So, you are moving to the north this time,” Edgar Pierce smiled cunningly. But despite knowing where Guild Leader Loki was expected to go next, he didn’t immediately launch an attack, but rather he carefully thought a plan in his mind about how he could catch the latter off guard once he appeared again.

Although Edgar Pierce can’t see where exactly Guild Leader Loki was right now as the latter had swiftly jumped down after launching a sneak attack on him, he can still make some mental calculations in his mind to calculate where he is right now. In addition to that, he can see where the best hiding spots to launch sneak attacks are, so he takes note of them in advance to prepare for any arrows that might suddenly fire at him from those locations.

“One might think that I am just an ordinary duck sitting still in one place and waiting for the hunter to kill me. But without that hunter knowing, I am actually a Magical Beast Duck, who’s instead waiting for the hunter to appear so that I can have my meal for the entire day!” Edgar Pierce cunningly thought in his mind.

If Leo could hear what Edgar Pierce was thinking right now, he would be able to easily understand what the latter meant with that idiom; An ordinary duck and a Magical Beast Duck are two completely different species of animals despite having an almost identical appearance. The former could be easily hunted by ordinary hunters, but the latter could only be hunted by powerful hunters, such as Mages and Magical Knights. The reason for that is because if ordinary hunters would hunt for Magical Beast Ducks, it would instead cause the situation to completely reverse, with the hunted becoming the hunter and the hunter becoming the hunted.

In their case right now, once Edgar Pierce realized where Guild Leader Loki would appear next, he could prepare to launch a sneak attack in advance before the latter could attack him. By that time, he would become the hunter, and Guild Leader Loki would become the hunted.

However, without Edgar Pierce knowing, Leo is actually not an ordinary hunter. As a matter of fact, he’s not even a powerful hunter. Rather, he is a predator, a Mischievous Lion hunting for his prey, Edgar Pierce, the sitting Magical Beast Duck.

From the very beginning of their fight, Leo has never once underestimated Edgar Pierce. As such, he will never think of the latter as an ordinary duck but had always thought of him as a Magical Beast Duck that can turn the situation in his favor by exploiting his carelessness.

Both Leo and Edgar Pierce had never underestimated each other even once as they both know that one single carelessness would allow the other to have the advantage. But unfortunately, the former’s mischievousness seems to be more superior compared to the latter’s cunningness.

Leo continued to repeat his method. He kept on secretly planting arrows with a Magic circle of the Fireball spell embedded onto them and hiding them all over the battlefield between his Golems and Edgar Pierce’s two Sword Mantises. Simultaneously, he pestered Edgar Pierce with his sneak attacks.

Meanwhile, Edgar Pierce patiently waited for the perfect opportunity for him to launch his counterattack. After all, Guild Leader Loki’s arrows could hardly affect him, especially now that he can somewhat expect already where the arrows would fire from. Every time an arrow is shot, he could timely tell his Golems to block the attack for him while also observing closely where Guild Leader Loki would go next.

“I just need to plan a few more arrows,” Leo thought inwardly.

“Just you wait,” Edgar Pierce similarly felt the same.

The spectators increasingly grew even more excited and cheered louder and louder as they continued watching both Guild Leader Loki and Edgar Pierce’s plans slowly take place. It wasn’t only them, but Elmont, Princess Tifa, Princess Tila, Osborne, and all the teams currently watching the fight from their respective rooms as well.

As the time for both sides to reveal their plans grew closer and closer, everyone was already standing up from their seats while feeling a mixed emotion of hope, despair, thrill, and many other more similar emotions deep inside of them.

Some people even wanted to scream loudly in order to inform the player they supported what their opponent wanted to do. If it wasn’t for the stage being rebuilt higher than the spectator’s stand, then a few of them would have long been unable to contain their desire and spoiled the plan of either Leo and Edgar Pierce.