Finally, the day that the group of smugglers was supposed to arrive at this base arrived, but they weren't going to seem so soon. During the day I was camped on one of the branches of one of the trees near the cabin, I and another bag of food and water stayed on that branch all day.
I have a good field of vision from up here to take advantage of my eyes which have been strengthened by my aura art and my ability to see mana and elemental energy. As there isn't much cover in this area, I can watch all directions the group led by Mitus can choose without having to change locations.
I'm also carrying two alarms with me, one to detonate the trap I set up near the cabin and the second to alert my team that Mitus' group is coming. I made them different colors to avoid any chance of me confusing the two.
It would really be a big mistake to confuse them, a mistake that is not only embarrassing but can cause the death of some innocent people or even someone on my team.
I spent my day up in a tree being hit by the cold north wind, but thanks to my fire element I can protect myself from the cold. The lazy smugglers made me wait for them basically all day, only when the sun was almost disappearing over the horizon could I see their group arriving.
Without using my ability to see energies I still had a pretty good view of their group. They were like a dark trace in mine from the green plain, to too few trees they are passing through to hide their large group.
With at least six large wagons being escorted by the smugglers, this operation is quite forced. It's quite easy to see that the smuggler group is pushing their luck in many different ways.
That's a pretty big group to travel anonymously over such a long route with so much goods, if the stretch of border they cross was so remote and the army's attention wasn't focused so far away from here they wouldn't be able to maintain this route. working.
But luckily for us the smugglers are quite relaxed and the placement of my traps is well aligned with the smugglers. When I detonate the traps, I will at most slightly damage the sides of the wagons, hopefully I can hurt most of the gray core smugglers.
Even if your number isn't big for the size of your operation and enough to put a good prize on my team. At the end of the day, we have to be careful not to damage the goods, this greatly harms Tania's combat ability.
When they perished in my field of vision I activated the correct alarm, it didn't take a minute for Ana to emerge from the cabin leading the rest of the team. All armed and ready to ambush the smugglers, they set up the formation that was created by Ana and explained yesterday.
Right in front of the smugglers' route Ana is hidden in a small hole and covered with a layer of earth to hide her presence. It would be kind of weird to have a lone person waiting for them to arrive.
More on the sides Carmilla on the right and Luke on the left, then ready to attack the rest of the smugglers including the vice leader of the smugglers who also has the green core at the same stage as Carmilla.
But in front of them the group was divided to attack the smugglers from different sides after I blow them up. Fim and Nolan on the right side to attack the smugglers and protect Tania who is behind them.
On the other side Abel and Quinn are ready to attack the smugglers, Ana decided to split it this way because she wants the right side to be eliminated quickly while Avel and Quinn distract and bar the smugglers from their side. That was a pretty risky choice, even though she left me high so she could attack from both sides with my bow Ana still told me to focus on the right side.
While the front of the smugglers group will be blocked by Ana and Carmilla, we have to eliminate the smugglers on the sides and back of the smugglers group quickly. Only after killing them will, they be able to protect the slaves and surround Mitus who must be captured alive.
Even though Ana is confident that she can subdue Mitus she cannot be absolutely sure that she can stop him from doing something crazy, after all a wild animal and more ferocious and insane the moment he realizes he is being subdued. Even though I may doubt that Mitus is a warrior who is brave enough to face death head-on and not give up until his last breath, we must be ready to face this kind of challenge.
When the smugglers approached, I could get a good view of their formation, apart from the two green core warriors the rest of the gray core doesn't have many elements. Only a third of them have a single elementary seed.
As we suspected before, the quality of these warriors is much better than those left at the base to tend the slaves, but I don't think any warriors are too complicated to kill among them.
The biggest problem the side groups will face comes from the mages, the four mages on top of the carriages one at each end of the convoy and two in the middle. The mage behind is obviously an earth mage who is focused on hiding the caravan's trail, his mana pool is well drained and I doubt he's the source of any major problems.
Especially if I can hit him with my first shot which will be done the moment after I detonate the explosive rune sets. Among all the caravan members he is the most vulnerable as he not only has his back to my position but he is completely focused on that side.
Attacking any other target has a higher chance of them being able to dodge my fast wind arrow.
I've been patiently waiting all day, but this last hour of waiting took a long time, but eventually the sunlight disappeared causing the forest to darken when Mitus' group was very close to the cabin. Time really is on our side, without the light or a lot of time to get used to it, it's even less likely that the smuggler group suspects that something is wrong.
With a level three arrow made from materials of the wind element, I lock my sights on the earth elemental mage. I still haven't poured any of my aura or elemental energy into her just to have a chance that the smuggler's group tracker could sense my presence.
I hope the rest of the team didn't make such a big mistake, especially Fim who seems to have trouble keeping his elemental energy and aura inside his body when he's nervous.
Patience is a virtue of a quiet one that was something I developed hunting with my mother, but I have to admit that moments like this make my heart pound. The last meter was marked by the smile on my face that I couldn't keep hidden as Mitus in his black leather armor mounted on his horse stood on top of the rune sets hidden beneath the ground.
I've really gotten good at hiding the elemental energy from the cores I use to power these mines so they can explode without having to absorb mana or fire element from the air.
I pour my aura into both the arrow that is in my bow and the detonator, when the explosions began my elemental wind element energy flowed into the arrow completing my preparations. The light and sounds of the explosions will dominate the forest throwing dirt in all sides, directly hurting all the mounts and some warriors, when the entire group of smugglers was surprised by the violent explosions that destroyed their reality.
My arrow was fired, being obscured by the sounds and lights that mowed down the smugglers, it made its way without attracting anyone's attention. The wizard who was sitting on top of an armchair on the roof of the last carriage, only holding the roof of the cart, hasn't moved an inch since the moment I fired my arrow.
The poor mage had his skull completely destroyed when my arrow touched his body, the strength of the aura and the wind element will destroy the skull of the mage who was unlucky not to have a solid defense.
I had my eyes locked on him and I could see that before my arrow hit him it broke two layers of blue glow and when the arrow killed the mage there was a good amount of earth element coming out of the mage's body.
It seems that mages are equipped with more than one defensive magic tool. I wonder what kind of trump cards Mitus will have to sweat against Ana.
When the earth that was thrown into the air by the explosions started to descend the rest of my team destroyed their hiding places advancing against the group of smugglers who were hit by the explosions. Their distance wasn't great, but it was enough to give several smugglers time to start recovering from the pack the explosions caused them.
A warrior like Mitus was already standing on his horse's carcass releasing his aura while his eyes were focused on Ana who was advancing against him.