Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 1050  Water Essences

'It was nothing more than a mere coincidence, after all,' Vicente thought to himself, exhaling a deep, contemplative sigh. His piercing gaze swept across the battlefield, observing Rex and his comrades as they engaged in a fierce struggle against the remaining Water Elementals.

Earlier, Vicente had entertained the possibility that these elemental foes had orchestrated a premeditated attack, specifically targeting Nan. However, by employing his extraordinary sensory abilities—a gift that allowed him to intercept and decipher message transmissions—he had unraveled the truth behind their presence. The group of Water Elementals, as it turned out, had found themselves in this vicinity following a recent battle. Their appearance was not, as he had suspected, a calculated move against Nan.

Vicente's mind raced back to when he had eliminated the leader of the elemental group. He had made a strategic decision to allow the remaining elementals to advance, placing them squarely in the crosshairs of Rex and the others. It was then that Vicente's keen senses had picked up on the elementals' frantic distress call.

As the battle raged on, with the elementals desperately trying to escape while simultaneously defending themselves and launching counterattacks, Vicente eavesdropped on their communications. Through these intercepted messages, he pieced together a clearer picture of their circumstances. This group of Water Elementals had just concluded an intense battle in the area and were in the process of recuperating when they had spotted Nan's group.

Upon realizing that Nan's party was affiliated with the fairy coalition, the elemental group had made the decision to postpone their departure.

However, Vicente noted with interest that this enemy group seemed to have lacked the time or opportunity to alert any nearby reinforcements about the unfolding situation. His ability to intercept messages proved invaluable once more as he listened to the exchanges between the embattled elementals and their distant allies.

Through these, Vicente learned a crucial piece of information: the nearest group of elemental reinforcements was located several hundred kilometers away.

Even if they were to travel at their maximum speed, it would take them a considerable amount of time to reach the battlefield!

As well as indicating that they could leave without worrying about subsequent fighting, this confirmed that there could be no enemies in their way who could have handed over the group's position to more opponents.

Even if the enemies were now aware of the elementals' problems, that wasn't a problem.

'Time to end this.'

Before the opponents clarified that this was the latest location of Nan and the fairies' new armaments, Vicente acted. He materialized his electromagnetic powers, cutting off communication between the Water Elementals still fighting and distant enemies.

Now, unlike earlier, he paralyzed those already weakened and surrounded individuals. He gave Rex and the others the opportunity to finish them, without even having to worry about delivering the final blow.

Rex, the dwarf, and the elf acted together, killing the last elementals in their own way, causing them to explode and disappear from this world.

Along with the elementals, the nearby water also disappeared, leaving only a few traces on the area's already muddy ground.

Vicente breathed a sigh of relief as he returned to the group's carriage. His magical forms had disappeared, leaving the entire area free of his influence.

Only the silence of the tired warriors and the guards, who had narrowly avoided death in this attack, ended the situation.

"Princess, huh?" Vicente asked Nan with a smile.

"That's just a detail," she said as she took a deep breath. "Thank you for protecting me. If it hadn't been for you, I think my group would have perished and I would have become a hostage of the elementals."

"Don't worry about it." He looked at the surroundings, seeing that the group was already moving again. "Now we have to worry about our departure. The allies of today's opponents don't know who we are, but they do know that a group strong enough to defeat those elementals has acted here. They will come after us." n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The elf and the dwarf returned to the inside of the carriage, listening to Vicente's words.

"We'll get away from them," said the dwarf. "As hard as it is to deal with opponents tracking us, escaping from opponents who don't have our tracks yet isn't that difficult. Our group will disappear to the opponents in a few minutes, Senior Vicente."

As the dwarf said it, wiping the sweat from his brow, the elf handed Vicente what was left of the elementals.

"These are water essences," said the elf as he handed over blue gems and the storage items of those dead creatures. "Water essences are only produced by Water Elementals. They can be used by magical beings with an affinity for the water element to raise their magical quality and strength."

"Oh?" Vicente had never seen anything like that before.

But that wasn't strange. Elementals existed practically only in Amae.

"They won't be of any use to you, but they are precious. Maybe you can find someone who has essences of lightning, light, darkness, or earth and they'd be willing to trade with you." Nan continued with Garnot's explanation.

"Unfortunately, I don't have anything like that, otherwise I'd help you with a trade," Hervi said with a sympathetic look at Vicente.

But just getting the water essences was good enough for him. Before, he hadn't even considered that he could win something like that!

'Unfortunately, Larissa and Rex don't have an elemental affinity for water... But I'll do as you suggested. I'll find someone to exchange for other essences.'

He thanked the group, but didn't offer them any of those essences. Even though some of them had actively killed some elementals, these were spoils that belonged only to him.

Vicente had grown up enough to know how to assume the position of expert and leader and was soon thinking about the possibilities of their path, with the convoy of carriages back on the move.

The group would soon enter a silent state of their journey, leaving the previous battlefield and entering another area of Amae on their journey to the main territory of the Fairy Tribe.

Over the next few hours, no other incidents would occur on the group's way, allowing them to travel until nightfall without worry.

In the middle of the night, they would stop to camp and rest, where they would spend the remaining hours until dawn, when they would return to the road again.