THE MULTI USE SCAPEGOAT

THE MULTI USE SCAPEGOAT

"No….", Mage Narga screamed as she witnessed the destruction of the Secret Vault of the Monastery of Elis.

"Teacher, what have we done? We destroyed the Monastery of Elis and killed all the apostles," Strega asked her teacher worriedly.

All around them was debris and wreckage from the destroyed Monastery of Elis. Despite the assault of demons, the monastery withstood its trials, but it was finally destroyed by the Mage of Prolis.

"They deserved it for lying to us. The Ayen god's soul is inside their secret vault", Mage Narga replied to her.

"Can we recover the Ayen god's soul?" Strega asked her teacher.

Mage Narga pointed her hands onto the wreckage of the Secret Vault. Suddenly, the debris was moved to the side as a piece of invisible skin floated toward her.

There was a magic tattoo on the skin.

"This is our tracking magic on the monkey's soul. His soul was here alright", Narga said.

"Where is the monkey now?" Strega asked.

"The Ayen monkey god Hanuman is probably dead. Nothing survives this explosion, especially a weakened soul", she replied to her disappointedly.

"What should we do now?" Strega asked again.

"We return to the continent of the Three Dynasty. The Armageddon realm will open soon. We have a mission to complete", Mage Narga told her.

"Teacher, the Gate to Elis was destroyed by the apostles recently, we can't return there from the gate", Strega told her teacher.

"Those damn apostles. Will they cease to give me trouble even in their death", Mage Narga complained.

------

[In the Hall of Istiopolis City]

"What do you think will happen when the Mage of Prolis finds the monkey god's trail in the Secret Vault?" Queen Mistral asked.

"She will pry the vault open to recover the monkey's soul that is for sure. The apostles couldn't stop her", Aluva answered.

"The Secret Vault is not easy to break. I tried it before and couldn't", Ratatouille told us and complained.

"The Mage of Prolis' magic is strong. I am not worried that she couldn't break the Secret Vault. In fact, I would hope she breaks it", I said to them.

"Aren't you worried she will find the monkey god missing? All you put there is the tracking magic that they put on the monkey, not the monkey god himself", Eirot asked me.

"The tracking magic was put there to tell the Mage Hanuman is inside the Secret Vault. If she cracks the vault, the self-destruct mechanism inside the vault will destroy everything in there leaving no evidence. The Mage must accept that Hanuman was destroyed", I explained to them.

"See, I told you he is running another scam on those bloody Eunuchs and the mages", Sara told us with another I-told-you-so.

"You have everything prepared, the Secret Vault and even the tracking magic of the monkey god, when did you plan this?" Eirot asked me.

"Before we went with the Mages of Prolis to Elis I've already have something similar in mind but that didn't work out because we were transported elsewhere. Well, nobody would have guessed that fate shone on us, and I could run this ruse and with much greater simplicity than my earlier plans", I explained to her.

"What will happen to the apostles? I was hoping to destroy them myself," Eirot asked when someone replied to her immediately.

"There is no need for that. Our intelligence gathering reported that the Monastery of Elis was destroyed together with the regiment of apostles living there. Nobody survived the Mage of Prolis' spell", Raven informed us about his intelligence report.

"Are you sure? What about the apostle's forces in our empire now?" Queen Mistral asked.

"After the closure of the Gate to Elis, most of the Church's forces retreated to Kalydon, the only neutral territory in this continent", Raven told us.

"Our forces have taken over all the former military bases of the apostles in our empire after the apostles' retreat back to Elis. We now control all of Drachia's territory", Bommurs told us.

"So, the Three Dynasties became just Two", I said to them.

"Soon, once we destroy the Demon Queen, this entire continent shall belong to us", Queen Mistral told us.

"Shall we march on the Demon Queen now?" Bommurs asked us.

"No, not yet. We let the Demon Queen be for the moment", I replied to him.

"But this is the best time to move on the demons?" Bommurs protested.

"Somebody else will deal with the Demon Queen", I replied to him.

"Who will deal with the Demon Queen?" Mistral asked me.

"The Church of course", I replied.

"Please elaborate, we don't know about your plans", Raven asked me.

"Remember some months before you gave me information that Warlock of Delirium is in the Demon Queen's camp? I thought I could use that information," I asked Raven and replied.

"Yes, but that was some time ago. What has that got to do with the Church attacking the Demon Queen for us?" Raven asked in reply.

"When we escaped from the Garden of Eden, I took on the face of Warlock and used my Malevolence in my encounter with a dozen or more Saints. I killed most of them but left a few of them alive as witnesses", I explained to them.

"Is that the reason you took on Warlock's face when we were leaving Eden?" Rinna asked me.

"Yes. There is no hiding the use of Malevolence magic in the Garden of Eden unless I have someone to fall for doing such a deed. Warlock fits the description because he is probably the only other person in all the land that could summon Malevolence magic. I can also blame the eruption of Malevolence in our cities during various times on him", I explained further.

"See, he blamed the Malevolence on the scapegoat and probably implicated the Demon Queen bitch at the same time. His scams are multi-dimensional", Sara praised me.

"I couldn't have devised the plans without going through your Game Theory", I replied to her and returned the praise.

"So, to the two most cunning beings in Nyx, you still haven't explained why the Church will attack Queen Emerald?", Bommurs asked.