Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 1047  War's Destruction

Two days of travel were enough for Vicente and Larissa to understand the war in Amae.

Unlike the fighting in Light Cay, which took place in secluded places, without the battles ever reaching the masses, the situation in Amae was completely out in the open.

They passed through two battlefields in these few days of travel, seeing not only areas devastated by the fighting of those involved in the conflict, but also many bodies and even wounded survivors.

Those involved in the war didn't seem at all concerned with hiding the trails of death they had been leaving across Amae, turning what had been a natural paradise until recently into a boiling battlefield.

The wounded were simply left behind to die slowly or even to survive and carry the message of what would happen to them to the island's tribes.

There were no cities in Amae. The island comprised tribes and free regions, where weaker tribes would gather in the same area, but each had its own territory and hardly interacted with each other so that there was a need for cities.

The island's economy was also quite rudimentary, with barter being the most widely used method of trade on Amae, without the existence of a common currency useful throughout the island.

This was one reason why the island was so difficult for those who didn't have a side, but also why the current war was so brutal.

Vicente felt as if he was traveling through one area dominated only by Polaris Realm beasts, where situations similar to Amae's could be seen before The Purification.

In particular, the forces in areas like Majestic Treefrog Grove lived in peace for most of the time, but now and then in the history of Polaris Realm there have been major wars in these forest regions, with situations similar to Amae's developing.

When magical beings so far apart in different territories fought, things could get bloody and destructive very quickly!

Humans were no better, Vicente knew that. But perhaps living in the same cities and having their loved ones share similar environments to their enemies prevented humans from fighting on such a ridiculous scale.

In that sense, he thought that the humans of Polaris Realm and the magicians of Light Cay were superior to the natives of Amae.

But this wasn't his home, and he didn't have anyone who really mattered to him living in Amae. For Vicente, the surrounding situation at the moment was nothing more than an opportunity for him to grow and, to a lesser extent, entertainment even.

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On the fourth day of the group's journey, they were passing through a region that had lost all its plants and now presented a flat muddy terrain that stretched for hundreds of square kilometers.

Amid this extremely hot and humid area, the group traveling in carriages and wagons towards the Fairy Tribe could see parts of the area flooded with drowned bodies here and there.

Meanwhile, others like them were traveling through the area, a sight not as unusual as one might imagine.

The last few days of the journey weren't all about sightings of war wounded. On more than a dozen occasions, the group had spotted creatures traveling in groups.

According to Garnot, after battles were over, it was common for those not involved in the fighting near the battlefield to move, often making retreats of their entire tribes to different areas.

To a lesser extent, allies of the winners or losers of these battles would move into the area to withdraw their troops or even advance against the domains in front of the defeated territories.

Being an island divided into territories, each major battle should take important territories from enemy tribes and thus suffocate their enemies not only militarily, but also in other ways.

There was no well-developed commerce on the island, but there was trade. Preventing a force from moving its resources through certain areas, or even one from taking valuable mines for that enemy tribe, could greatly affect the fate of a war.

In short, on several occasions, the group came across the movements of large groups—three to five times the size of their own—while traveling.

But they didn't have to fight until then. Most of the travelers they encountered were beings too preoccupied with their own destinies to worry about a strange group like theirs.

Meanwhile, everyone in Nan's group continued to wear the special armor Vicente had created for them and hid the symbols in their vehicles.

Unless one came close to their group, realizing that they were part of one of the most complicated tribes today would be almost impossible.

That was changing, however.

As the group traveled through the muddy terrain, Nan continued to look out of the window of her vehicle, her gaze not at all pretty. She had been feeling strange for the last hour and now she was displaying behavior that caught Vicente's attention.

Seeing how she was swinging one of her legs and biting the nails of one of her hands, Vicente sighed and left his vehicle.

One thing he had learned about Nan's behavior—probably from fairies in general—was that whenever something bad was about to happen, she seemed to act out of the ordinary. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He didn't need to ask the fairy in the group what was bothering her. He left the carriage and sat above the vehicle, signaling for Rex and the group's guards to continue on their way, as they had planned.

"Vicente?" Larissa asked, having already noticed the same as her partner to understand that trouble was approaching them.

"I'm just getting ready in case something happens. Don't worry, I'll keep the group safe. Just stay with Nan and the others for now."

The dwarf and elf of the group appeared next to Vicente, while Larissa agreed as she continued in the vehicle.

"A Water Elemental did the damage you're seeing," said the dwarf, as he recognized the magical fluctuation remaining in the area. "That probably wasn't the first battle that resulted in this desolate place. But it was certainly a Water Elemental that was here."

"Was? I feel like they still are," said the elf as he felt the hairs on his body stand up in alarm at the enemy's presence.

Vicente scanned the terrain, soon finding something in front of their path.