I am an Eldritch Entity-Chapter 92: Double agent

Eryndor leaned back on his chair completely, his head bent backwards enough to look at the ceiling.

"Ha."

"Haha."

"Hahaha."

Few small laughs gradually turned into full blown laughter as his right hand slapped his forehead.

"Lucian you madman!"

Eryndor spoke, his tone laced with regret, relief, amazement, happiness, nervousness, worry. It was everything all at once.

If his guesses were true, which they had to be for the jigsaw puzzle to complete, then this was an absolutely crazy plan.

Lucian had completely turned over to the Mage Outer Domain.

That is, what the Mage Outer Domain thought.

But in reality, Lucian would be on the side of humanity.

Lucian was aiming for the city of Polinek itself.

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Eryndor reckoned that Lucian had promised to give the resources of the city, and lives of several authoritative figures, including Pat Ravencroft, to the Mage Outer Domain.

This was his way of taking revenge.

However, the Mage Outer Domain had to win the city with minimal costs so that they could profit from the battle. Else it was no use if they achieved a pyrrhic victory.

And this is exactly what Lucian promised them, an easy victory.

This was most likely why they gave such heavy preference to ambush, because that might be one of the only three conditions Lucian had put forward.

The second condition might be that Lucian wanted to lead the city, he would give a hefty amount of resources every month, sure, but get to keep the city.

He wanted to use Calix as a spearhead so he could use his ability to grow stronger.

Calix was at stage eight of the Telepath realm, but that was only the power of the Mentalist power system.

His ability made him stronger depending on the number of people under him.

But how did it make him stronger? did it increase his realm? Did it increase his physical parameters? His mental parameters? No one knew.

He just grew stronger. That was all Eryndor knew.

Well, one could start by assuming the lowest value, that his ability gave him a power equal to stage one of level one, after leading his team Lockheim, which had like thirty to forty people.

Then, what would happen if he led a city of hundreds of thousands of people? Possibly even in millions since it was a big resource city.

Eryndor couldn’t imagine. Calix would instantly reach the peak allowed by Cosmic Limit.

He wasn’t ready to imagine that even with such a massive boost, his ability won’t grant him a power equal to stage nine of level two.

Lucian might’ve somehow known about Calix’s ability, through some Mystical Artifact? Or an Anomaly? Or a treasure? No one knew.

That was the only reason he focused so much on Calix’s submission, to have him work for him.

Once he had Calix under him, ready to listen, he could tell him about him being a double agent, to convince the honest man. The man who worked for humanity.

But then again, just having Calix wasn’t enough. He needed to have a city, a proper city with people living inside.

He couldn’t let the soldiers and the citizens which were forcefully conscripted in the battle to die. That would be counterproductive to his plan.

Now here would be his third condition.

For the Mage Outer Domain to not kill the people if they are not attacking their troops, or if there was no one to lead the attack.

Well, how would he achieve that?

Eryndor was allowed on the mission so that Lucy could do the job of mentally destabilising Calix’s mental condition, by showing him the faces of Ken and Hellen who went through long durations of damage over four planets.

Eryndor figured that he had already foiled Lucian’s plan by saving Ken and Hellen on two planets, and probably on the last one as well.

He might have also foiled his plan back then by not allowing the Mage Outer Domain to retrieve the Mystical Artifact - Amplifier Doll.

Well, I don’t regret it.

Eryndor did, only a tiny bit, but that didn’t count.

The higher the damage and hopelessness on the couple’s tortured faces, the higher the chance that it would allow Lucy to use the Mystical Artifact - Bracelet of Submission with highest efficiency.

In the moment Calix was rendered helpless, the ambush had to arrive, to completely subdue Calix with overwhelming power. Lucian would likely be with this force.

First, to subdue Calix, and second, to convince him on spot so that he wouldn’t look to rebel at every moment.

Even after taking control of Calix, the core issue still remained.

The main battle would’ve already begun, how would he guarantee a clean victory?

This was where the fact that Liliana had to adjust the speed of the spaceship to match the timing of the war would step in.

That is when Liliana’s mental attacks over the past weeks would step in.

They weren’t mental attacks in pure sense, but a sort of accumulation still.

She would use all accumulated portions to trigger the ring type treasure she was using, which would allow her to make the target forget about one thing.

Eryndor knew the details of this mission.

Only team Lockheim were responsible for approaching the Shx’Trelith Forbidden Void.

But before leaving the spaceship, all the people, including team Lockheim themselves, would take turns checking if any of the four members of team Lockheim had a device which had any connection back to Earth.

Liliana would trigger the treasure at that point, to make them all forget anything related to the fact that Liliana had a device on her.

This device was connected to numerous removable physique extensions which was almost made compulsory in the army.

The extension devices weren’t connected to anything else, so there would be no chance of damage spreading to the entire digital space of Earth.

Well, what would happen if the Shx’Trelith traced the connection back to Earth? This was why it was important to match the timing of the mission and the battle.

What would happen if Shx’Trelith came across the cleverly hidden curses, roasts, insults aimed at it while it was going through the connections?

What if it happened just when the battle was going on?

It was an emotional Eldritch Entity with tendency of mood fluctuations, the very likely possibility was that it would burst out angrily, then retreat.

But according to senior Erin, that would at most, result in paralysis.

And well, isn’t that what everyone wanted?

An easy victory.

An army which was paralyzed, granting an easy capture of the Polinek city to the Mage Outer Domain.

An easy beheading of the authoritative figures of the Polinek city, including Pat Ravencroft.

An army which was paralyzed, the one which wouldn’t be killed by the Mage Outer Domain for they had to follow by Lucian’s third condition.

Lucian would therefore get the city, with a trump card by the name of Calix, which could be used in important situations to give the hostile forces a heavy blow.

Eryndor might’ve been undermining the effect of the ability.

What if a city of million people allowed Calix to reach the peak of level three as soon as the Cosmic Limit increased?

Lucian’s brilliant master plan was to plant a nail on the side of hostile forces. A nail which they didn’t even know of.

He was playing a risky double agent, all for humanity. Hopefully.

There was one thing which remained.

Anagrams.

They were words or phrases formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

The machines which moved the Maws of Agony.

The brilliant mechanism of the removable physique extension.

Who provided that?

The Cyborg Genius - Caulin

Which happened to be an anagram of -

Lucian.