"Alright, be careful out there everyone, Azumi, Filaurel please take care of the other" [Alfin]
"Sure" [Azumi]
"As you wish, Princess Alfin" [Filaurel]
The group comprising of Azumi, Filaurel, Kucin and Guz's party head out to base of the slave merchant. The snow fall lightly and it is a good sign since their plan also took advantage of it. Once they arrive at the foot hill
"Filaurel, I will activate my search magic, can you use yours right now?" [Azumi]
"Yes, I will" [Filaurel]
Filaurel, being an Elf have a higher affinity toward flora magic compare to other races, she also have a high affinity toward fauna magic and as such her search magic involve using nature to tell where her target is. Now, the group will cover a wide area of forest
After some time, Filaurel stop them on their tract, saying that there are two person most likely the slave merchant on a lookout, nodding to each other, Azumi activated his teleport magic on his keris and give it to Filaurel. Filaurel then uses flora magic tree walk and blend into the tree, this causes Kucin and the students to look at awe
in whisper, Azumi mentioned
"This is one of the elf speciality, as they have high affinity toward Flora magic, they can use tree walk and use its roots and branches to move from one place to another, this magic that she use is considered hard even for most elves" [Azumi]
They all nodded in response, after a while, Azumi received a response that said everything is ready telepathically from Filaurel, and thus the suprise attack begin, Filaurel entrapped one of the man into the tree trunk covering his mouth while at the same time throw Azumi's Keris at another, Azumi instantly teleport and knock out the person with strong lighting and water magic. He then tied tue person with light chain magic and cover his mouth
The group move silently but swiftly toward the conscious guy, in a small voice Azumi whisper
"Don't scream and answer my questions if you don't want to die" [Azumi]
He proceed to use the same poison magic before, and the man spasm painfully, after a short heal, the man seems to agree to what Azumi have said, he proceed to tell the location of other lookout and the main base. Filaurel entrapped both man into the tree covering their whole body except nose and eyes. They proceed to attack the other lookout first by the same method, and proceed to go to the main base after confirming there is no other lookout
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Once there, they confirm that there are around 75 merchant and the hostage, nodding to each other, they begin to stand in their position and Azumi begin chanting
"Oh the ever warm snow, make my enemy slumber into deep sleep, snow mirage" [Azumi]
"wind lullaby, bring forth your melody into this peaceful battlefield" [Azumi]
Filaurel also add another chant
"Oh flora, oh fauna, make the scenery calm to the bystander, pleasant scenery" [Filaurel]
The same tactics that is use on fake raja, this time as the gentle snow fall, Azumi use water and mirage magic and make his magic look like a falling snow, he also add a little bit of warmth with small amount of fire magic, to top it off, the wind lullaby with pleasant scenery magic greatly help improve this plan
Slowly, one by one merchant fall asleep, recognizing something is wrong, a man matching the description of Zlatan start shouting and use water ball magic to those sleeping
"Wake up all of you bastard, someone is here" [Zlatan]
The merchant that is asleep and those that about to fall asleep were shock, but they are still in a state of drowsiness
Without a moment delay, Azumi throw his keris at Zlatan and teleport right next to him, in a nick of time Zlatan manage to avoid it. He proceed to use stone golem magic near the hostage and and the golem knock out those drowsy merchant beside the hostage.
Kucin and the other quickly join the fray, since most of the man are drowsy, there are only few resistance among them, Guz, Lydia and Kucin are in the front while Emma Blade and Blanc support in the back, each supporting a person on the front line. They make sure to form a stone wall behind so that none of the merchant run away.
The drowsy man futile resistance is easily suppress, even a few magic here and there are being block by Emma, and those that try to escape is shot by Blanc's arrow or Blade's flying knife technique, while the three other easily defeat the drowsy merchant
"such futile resistance" [Guz]
"and here i am thinking this will be hard, but this is far easier than I thought" [Blanc]
"Focus, on battle things can go south in a fraction of a second, don't underestimate your enemy even when you have the clear advantages" [Kucin]
""yes senior"" [Guz, Blanc]
At the same time, Filaurel start chanting
"Oh tree, awake from your slumber and help us in terminating this oppression, Tree Golem" [Filaurel]
With her command, two of the biggest tree took the shape of giant human and rampage the battlefield, making sure nobody run away and help protect the students and the hostages at the same time
Seeing this ambush, Zlatan in angry shout at Azumi
"why, who are you guys?" [Zlatan]
"All that you have to know is that you will be defeated by us" [Azumi]
In anger, he run toward Azumi with sword on his right hand, but suddenly he got the feeling of him falling down just few step before reaching his target and the next thing he see is the cloudy sky surrounded by wall of earth.
"You are so enraged that you can't even see a hole beneath you" [Azumi]
With that, Azumi fire off lighting and wind magic toward Zlatan and make him unconscious. The battle ended as a one sided victory