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The forest returned to silence.
In the clearing that had briefly become a battlefield, all the Elf Users from the Sanctified Lugia Kingdom had fallen unconscious.
Claire, Linse Laurenhrost, and Alice stepped forward. After searching the ten Sanctified Lugia Kingdom Elf Users for a while, they all came to Noah with grave expressions.
"No, we still can't find them." Claire's voice was full of frustration.
"There isn't a single Magic Stone."
Noah frowned slightly at those words.
"Why are there no Magic Stones?" Linse Laurenhrost asked in extreme confusion.
"Could it be that none of them carried Magic Stones on them?"
"No, that's impossible." Alice shook her head, rejecting that possibility.
"If they didn't carry their Magic Stones on them, then after some time, these Elf Users would be forcibly teleported back to the Great Shrine. There's no way they wouldn't have carried Magic Stones with them."
"Then why couldn't we find any Magic Stones?" Fianna asked doubtfully.
"Could it simply be that we failed to find them?"
The moment Fianna finished speaking, the Sanctified Lugia Kingdom Elf Users lying on the ground began to glow all over. Magic circles abruptly appeared beneath them, enveloping every one of them in light.
The next moment, before Noah's group, the Sanctified Lugia Kingdom Elf Users transformed into particles of light one after another and vanished from the spot, carried away by the magic circles.
The sight made the girls look at one another.
"There's no doubt that they were carrying Magic Stones before they ambushed us. But after we defeated them, the Magic Stones on them disappeared. This teleportation