The strategy is to gain those artificial master level mages' attention and stop them before they can arrive at their destination, the capital of Consenza.
From what I can see, there are only wind mages coming. Children or adults, they are all flying on their own. My guess is that there will be more coming, but for now, only the wind mages move first because they are fast.
And seeing how they didn't fly too fast despite being an artificial master level mages, prove my deduction. Maybe the rest of the artificial master level mages will arrive soon by foot. They want to let the other artificial master level mages to catch up sooner or later. Though it's just my guess.
None of them are going directly to the fake village. They are slightly away from it. They have no intention in stopping at the fake village.