Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce 

Leo took everyone to the Magical Beasts Center to see the caged five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. 

As soon as they arrived inside the place, Eilajah immediately greeted them. 

"Welcome everyone, to the Magical Beasts Center," Eilajah introduced. He continued, "Guild Leader Loki already informed me what's today's visit is for, so I have long prepared the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. Come with me, please, I will take you all to them,"

Eilajah entered the Magical Beasts Center followed behind by Leo, Elmont, General Luke, and Darvis. 

Along the way, Elmont, General Luke, and Darvis can't help but wonder deep inside their minds that with such a small building like the Magical Beasts Center, just where exactly did they put those huge five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. 

Though, it didn't take that long for them to find out the answer to that question inside their minds. 

"Come this way please," Eilajah said as he went inside a small square room.

Leo and the others quickly followed inside. 

As soon as they got inside, the room suddenly began moving underground. 

Whoooooosh!

Within everyone's sight, a huge underground facility appeared in their sight. 

"You know, with how small the territory the Mischievous Lion Guild were allowed to buy in the Emerald Tree Kingdom, we have no other choice but to construct the other establishments underground," Leo explained, he continued, "Welcome everyone, to the headquarters of the Mischievous Lion Guild,"

Soon, everything was finally within everyone's sight. 

In front of everyone, a small village was constructed. But, unlike the village on the surface, everything here was built fully intended for the members of the Mischievous Lion Guild only. Such as training rooms, cultivation rooms, weapon storage, and plenty more others. 

Truthfully, this kind of idea was inspired from the Lion Heart City back at the Lionheart Kingdom. Just like what one could expect from Leo since almost everything that the Mischievous Lion Guild currently have was from the Mischievous Lion organization.

Although, this underground facility focuses more on training compared to being a city, or in this case, a village. 

Well, after all, they need to make use of every inch they have to the best possible means for the Mischievous Lion Guild. 

Ting! 

"Let's go," Eilajah motioned his hand to Leo and the others as he then proceeded towards the location of the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. 

The location of the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows wasn't really that far from the entrance. It was located in a huge separated room made entirely of stone brick.

As of this moment, the person currently in charge of guarding the caged five 8-Star Storm Sparrows were both Iasiah and Nightingale. 

"Good thing that you guys are finally here!" Iasiah said with a worried look on his face.

"Why, is there something wrong?" Leo quickly asked in concern.

"Yes," Iasiah quickly replied as he then pointed towards the cages, "The caged are no longer able to imprisoned the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows!"

Leo and the other's faces immediately turned ugly after hearing Iasiah's news. 

They all turned their heads to looked closely towards the cages as they soon discovered that Nightingale was using some kind of Dark Element Magic spell to stop the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows from destroying their cages any further. 

Around the cages were a few of Leo's slaves, who are now known as core members of the Mischievous Lion Guild, currently casting Magic spells after Magic spells in hope of weakening the five 8-Star Sparrows. 

However, basing on how the situation currently looked, it seems like their attacks weren't causing that much of a damage to the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows, at all. It even seemed like their attacks were only akin to ant bites for them.

"Just how exactly did they damaged the cages to such a point where it is closed to getting destroyed?" Leo can't help but ask. He was really confident that these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows wouldn't be able to try to escape as they were heavily injured when they brought them here, two were even seriously injured and closed to dying. 

Additionally, these cages are made using really tough Magic materials that even Galaxy-level Magical Beast would have a lot of trouble breaking them.

"It was from the food that they have been eating," Eilajah immediately realized the reason why. 

What else would be the reason why?

The only method where these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows could get their strength back is basically from the food that they have been feeding them. 

Eilajah continued, "You have informed us to feed to them enough food to keep them all alive. That's why I choose to feed them with carcasses of 7-Star Magical Beasts,"

"Don't you know that the more powerful the Magical Beast you feed to them, the more benefits they could get out from it?" Elmont really can't believe that they have just made such a common mistake. Such knowledge is something that every mage already knew about, so just how clumsy were they to actually commit it?

"Not to disrespect you, Seventh Prince Elmont, but I know better than you what I'm doing! I am a Magical Beast Tamer, after all, and one of the best on top of that as well," Eilajah explained, he continued, "I just didn't expect that they would actually be able to recover this quick! Base on my calculation before feeding them, they should supposedly only be able to recover enough to stay alive, not recover to this point!"

"So, I'm also really curious to know why this is happening right now!" Eilajah turned to look towards the caged five 8-Star Storm Sparrows.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! 

"Iasiah, come here and help me! My Magic spell won't be able to hold on against these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows for that much longer!" Nightingale exclaimed loudly. 

"Coming!" Iasiah replied as he flew towards Nightingale. As soon as he landed beside the latter, he put his hand forward and casted, "Hail!"

Whoooooooosh! 

A huge white-colored cloud appeared above the cages. 

The surrounding immediately turned cold, and some of the metal bars of the cages started freezing in cold ice. 

Not long after, it began raining down ice spikes. 

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! 

As the cages were just too small for the 8-Star Storm Sparrows to dodge, they received the full brunt of the Hail spell attack of Iasiah. 

KRAWWWWWWW! 

A loud bellow of pain was soon heard from the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. 

BANGGG! BANGGG! BANGGG!

WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! WHOOOSH! 

Instead of weakening the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows though, Iasiah's attack instead made them even more desperate. They started hitting the cage with their bodies, causing the metal bars to dent even further. 

Electricity and sharp winds also covered their entire body and began attacking the cages, trying to cause even more damage.

"Let me help!" General Luke finally volunteered to help after seeing how bad the current situation is. He knew clearly well that letting these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows escape from their cages would spell a lot of trouble, not only to the Mischievous Lion Guild but also to the Emerald City as the Smiling Lion Village is just a few kilometers of distance away from the city. Not to mention, there are also thousands of people in this place right now. They absolutely can't allow these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows to escape for the sake of all of those lives. 

"Stone Pillars!" General Luke casted. In the next moment, dozens of huge pillars appeared around the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows, but unlike the normal stone pillars, these stone pillars were in the form of a long sword, "Go!"

Whooooosh! Whooooosh! Whooooosh!

All of those dozens of earth pillars shoot towards the direction of the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows. 

KWAAAKKK! 

Once again, a painful bellow from the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows was soon heard as they were impaled by the earth pillars to the floor. 

However, just like the previous time with Iasiah, they became, even more, wilder after receiving General Luke's attack instead. And this time, their attacks were no longer merely hitting the cages, but also towards the people outside the cages. 

"Everyone, get as far away as possible from this place, quick!" General Luke immediately ordered everyone to retreat.

In the next second, everyone began running away to a safe place away from the range of attack of the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows, this includes Leo, Eilajah, Elmont, and Darvis.

Seeing such a sight, Eilajah can't help but say, "This is impossible! Their case right now is definitely not because I feed them with just a few carcasses of 7 Star Magical Beasts. Food could never bring about this kind of effect! Unless of course if I feed them with a carcass of a Galaxy-level Magical Beast, which I definitely can't accomplish even if I want to,"

"And besides, just look at them, they are not trying to escape because they want to get away from this place, rather it is like they are not afraid to die and have only one single thought inside of their heads; to kill all of the people in their sight! It is as if they are savage like a beast!"

Hearing Eilajah's words, Leo immediately remembered something, "Savage Fox Potion!"

"Savage Fox Potion?" Elmont turned to look at Leo doubtfully, "But how?"

"I don't know," Leo really doesn't know how a Savage Fox Potion got inside this place. He could only turn to look at everyone while at the same time activating his unique capability to see the String of Fate in order for him to see if anyone has betrayed him. 

To his surprise though, he didn't see anyone having a black-colored String of Fate. Meaning to say, no one has betrayed him.

With such a finding, things just became even more complicated than what it already has. 

No one here is secretly his enemy, so just how exactly did these five 8-Star Storm Sparrows intake a Savage Fox Potion?

At the side, Eilajah suddenly thought of something, "Iasiah, when did they start acting like this?"

"After feeding them!" Iasiah replied before quickly turning his attention towards the five 8-Star Storm Sparrows again.

"Bingo!" Eilajah snapped his fingers as he explained, "If my memories serve me correctly, Savage Fox Potion is contagious. Any Magical Beasts who eat the carcasses of those Magical Beasts that have taken a Savage Fox Potion would also become the same as them!"

"So you mean to say," Leo quickly understood what Eilajah meant to say. 

"Those carcasses of 7-Star Magical Beasts that we have just feed to them today should have taken a Savage Fox Potion without any of us knowing when they were still alive," Eilajah finished his sentence.