THE SPY IN THE BEDROOM
"Yes, you made all the planning and arrangements for us have you forgotten about them so soon?" Darklord questioned the Invincible Skeleton King who was dumbfounded.
Kolgane thought about the matter for a second as he scratched his ear before he threw the war planning table over to the shock of those who were there.
"How dare you?" Archdemon Zesgumath scolded Kolgane but Kolgane was the more furious one.
"Why didn't you tell me about the change in plans? Kolgane replied to them to their surprise with an angry question and accusation.
"How can you not know of our plans? You are our advisor", Archdemon scolded Kolgane again and asked him.
"If my memories serve me, our original plan was to invade Eloora city. How will I know about the plans to invade the Templar court if you change our plans, you should have sent someone to inform me at the Sacred Grove", Kolgane replied to them and asked.
The briefing was silent for a moment before Emily spoke.
"It is dangerous to send confidential messages to the Sacred Grove to inform you in case the enemy intercepts the message. There are many enemy spies there recently", Emily replied to Kolgane.
"You've sent similar messages to me before without such considerations", Kolgane complained to them.
"Alright, stop blaming Emily. I changed the plan recently and didn't plan to tell everyone until everything is ready", Queen Emerald told the war council.
"Yes, if the plans have changed, you must brief me about it immediately. I am the one with the brains here. Damnit what is this army without me?", Kolgane told them rudely and asked.
"Emily will brief you about our plans", the queen told Kolgane with displeasure at his rude outburst.
"Follow me, let me show you our new units that we will use against the Knight Templar Academy", Emily told Kolgane as she showed him away.
"Splattttt"
Kolgane followed the Spider Queen with a smack on her behind to the annoyance of the war council of the Demon army.
When Kolgane left the meeting, the Darklord asked, "He knows about our earlier plans to attack Eloora city. He is not an impostor, is he?"
"It is a pity. I would smash his head if he was a spy", Archdemon Zesgumath told them.
"Father you are right. Kolgane would never know how to respond today if he was a fake, unless he was there in my room last night and heard us talking. I just made our new war plan then", Emerald replied to her father.
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"How in hell will you know how to respond to the Demon Queen? She was obviously trying to test you by asking you about something only Kolgane will know", Ratatouille asked me.
"When I went into her bedroom, I dropped a spy drone in her room. The drone recorded everything in the room after I left", I replied to him.
"I knew it. You are going to record the Queen sleeping, right? Did she sleep with her clothes on?", Ratatouille told me and asked.
"Shut up, pervert", I scolded him before I added, "the drone was a precaution, but it captured a conversation between the Queen and her father. My earpods received the details of their conversation which is the reason I could respond to them today".
"What will happen today if you didn't put a spy inside the Queen's room?" Ratatouille asked me.
"I also have a drone in the meeting room. They were talking about how to test me before I joined them in the meeting, so I know of their plans from there too", I replied to him.
"We are lucky the Demon Queen doesn't have access to all the devices that Sara could make. If they do, we are in big trouble", Ratatouille said to me.
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[In the Knight Templar Academy]
"Zissis, are you sure we are doing this? This is a treason against the Knight Templar Court", someone asked another.
"Chronas, this is our only chance to survive in these turbulent times and perhaps revive the fortune of our families", Zissis told Chronas.
"Zissis, the Diabolese family is gone, we are lucky the Knight Templar Academy will harbor us. There is no need to go back to the matters of family", Chronas told her.
"I will not stay in this accursed academy to become the equal to the slaves. Our family must rise again", Zissis told him.
"If you must do it, you better do it now. The kitchen staff will return from their breaks soon", Chronas told her.
Zissis opened the large barrels of wine in the kitchen and poured in potions that she brought with her before closing the barrels again. They quickly left the kitchen after that.
The wine inside the barrels started to transform once the potion was poured inside as its dark magic filled the wine.
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"I will offer a toast to all those who competed in our Knight Templar Academy ranking, to those who succeeded and those who didn't. I cannot promise you success in the future, but I can promise you fairness and equality in the ranking from now on", Dean Masker said in his speech to the new graduates of the academy and offered a toast.
All the graduates of the academy accepted the toast and drank their wine. Even the staff and other students who were at the conferment ceremony partook in the wine.
The wine was laced with poison that the traitorous students of the academy put into them beforehand although they didn't know it was poisoned.
They drank the poisoned wine heartily.
While the students and knights were having a celebration, suddenly uninvited guests appeared to crash the party.
"Arggghhhh"
Students and knights were suddenly attacked by invisible beasts that mauled and killed many of them to their shock and horror.
While the academy was dealing with the sudden intrusion of the invisible beasts, the academy's alarm went off. An army of demons was climbing the mountain towards the academy to the complete surprise of the knights and students of the Templar Academy.
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