The Scapegoat Grand Marshal

The Scapegoat Grand Marshal

The moon shone bright and the stars were few. Within the Black Rock Mountains, only crows and vultures could be seen circling overhead, while all manner of Magic Beasts roamed among the peaks.

Fortunately, this godforsaken place generally only had low-tier Magic Beasts. No powerful Magic Beast had claimed it as its territory.

After all, Magic Beasts needed to eat too, didn't they?

In the Black Rock Mountains, where one could barely find a single soul, let alone enough food to fill one's stomach, it was already fortunate not to starve to death!

At this moment, Xiao Lin had already ventured deep into the Black Rock Mountains.

Only now did he finally understand why, even though he had wiped out those people from the Cloud Empire, Nalan Jie and the others had shown no reaction whatsoever.

"Is this miasma? And man-made miasma at that! No wonder those Cloud Empire bastards were so confident they could keep lying in ambush here, waiting to attack the squad Mu Chen and I led. So they simply weren't afraid of being attacked from both sides!"

Standing at the entrance to the deepest part of the Black Rock Mountains, Xiao Lin saw a vast expanse of purple-black fog.

That purple-black fog was miasma.

With such a massive stretch of miasma blocking the exit of the Black Rock Mountains, how could Nalan Jie and the others dare to rush out recklessly?

If the Cloud Empire launched an attack when they were halfway through, every last one of them would die inside!

That explained why, despite the considerable commotion Xiao Lin had caused when slaughtering the Cloud Empire group, Nalan Jie and the others had still failed to show themselves.

It was not that they were unwilling to come out. They simply did not dare!

Although even Great Dou Masters could use Dou Qi armor to protect themselves and force their way through miasma of this level.

Doing so would consume a huge amount of Dou Qi, not to mention that while they were charging through the miasma, how could they ensure the enemy would not strike them while they were down?

Therefore, without being absolutely certain that the enemy would not interfere, Nalan Jie and the others had chosen to remain where they were and wait for rescue. That was already the best solution!

After all, the commotion outside might have been great, but who could guarantee it was not merely an enemy feint?

Responding to all changes by remaining unchanged was Nalan Jie and the others' only choice!

Xiao Lin stood quietly before the miasma, deep in thought. In the end, he did not choose to disperse it immediately.

To keep more people from learning how much he had contributed to this matter, Xiao Lin decided to let Nalan Jie suffer a little longer. It was not as if he would lose a piece of flesh over it.

One had to know that they had already reached the most critical step of the plan!

Time continued to pass slowly.

Before he knew it, the moon had climbed to the center of the sky, and midnight was fast approaching.

At the same time, within the Gama Empire's military camp, Grand Marshal Mo Ya had changed into a set of black night clothes and quietly left his tent.

He had to hurry to the meeting place agreed upon with the mysterious person who knew his secret!

As the grand marshal, he normally could not leave the military camp whenever he pleased.

That was why he had chosen to put on night clothes and sneak out.

For Grand Marshal Mo Ya, a Battle King, secretly leaving the camp was not difficult. As long as he settled everything and returned before dawn the next day, no one would discover that he had slipped out of camp the previous night!

That way, everything would remain under his control.

"I'd like to see who has the nerve to threaten me!"

After muttering a curse under his breath, Mo Ya's figure descended into the Black Rock Mountains.

However, before he could meet the mysterious person who had summoned him, he quickly noticed that something was wrong here.

"What is going on? Why can't I see a single person from the Cloud Empire in the Black Rock Mountains? What the hell are they doing? Did they follow the plan or not?"

The Black Rock Mountains were not actually that large. To put it bluntly, they were merely a gorge.

Since the Cloud Empire had chosen this place to set an ambush for the Gama Empire, they should have stationed at least a few sentries around the area, shouldn't they?

Yet after Mo Ya arrived, he could not even see a ghost!

Oh, no. When Mo Ya reached the entrance to the Black Rock Mountains, a few low-tier second- and third-rank Magic Beasts had enthusiastically welcomed him, drooling all the while.

Naturally, those low-tier Magic Beasts were promptly slapped into pulp by Mo Ya.

With the strength of a Battle King, killing a few second- and third-rank low-tier Magic Beasts was easy.

After sensing that something was amiss, perhaps relying on his own strength as a Battle King and believing there was nothing in the Black Rock Mountains that could threaten him, he chose to venture deeper inside.

Yet the farther Mo Ya went, the more wrong things felt.

"Hmm? No, this is... the smell of blood?"

He sniffed the air twice, and Mo Ya quickly caught a scent different from the surrounding air.

As the empire's grand marshal, Mo Ya had experienced countless battles.

He was therefore quite sensitive to the smell of blood.

The instant he smelled it, he shot forward in a single stride and headed deeper into the Black Rock Mountains at an even faster speed.

Before long, beneath the bright moonlight overhead, he saw a massive pit.

On both sides of the pit, enormous black boulders had already been reduced to powder.

At that moment, if Mo Ya looked down from the sky, he would discover that the pit was actually a palm print.

Of course, that was not the most important part. The most important thing was that near the pit lay corpse after corpse, all crushed into meat paste.

Those corpses were embedded in the ground. Judging by their state, they likely could not even be pried out.

Grand Marshal Mo Ya also noticed that every one of those corpses wore the uniform of the Cloud Empire!

At that point, their identities were practically obvious.

They were precisely the elite Cloud Empire squad that had originally been waiting to ambush the Gama Empire!

"What happened? Why is it like this? Who was it? Who the hell did this? I'll skin you alive!"

They were clearly not people from his own empire, yet when Mo Ya saw their corpses, he looked utterly crazed.

Honestly, anyone unaware of the truth would probably think Mo Ya was not the grand marshal of the Gama Empire, but the grand marshal of the Cloud Empire!

How ironic.

However, after Mo Ya's roar faded, the surroundings remained silent. Not a single sound came from anywhere.

That was right. Xiao Lin, who was hiding in the shadows and watching Mo Ya lose his mind, had no intention of showing himself. He was calculating the time.

As for Mo Ya, he knew someone had to be watching him from nearby, so he did not dare act rashly.

After all, whoever had annihilated the Cloud Empire's elite squad was not someone Mo Ya dared underestimate in the slightest.

In his mind, this was definitely something only a high-level Battle King could accomplish!

It was not that he had never considered the possibility of a Dou Emperor.

But he quickly dismissed that somewhat paranoid thought.

After all, if a Dou Emperor had truly caused all this, why would they need to sneak around and play schemes behind the scenes?

Was it not because they feared his strength?

Mo Ya was not boasting. From his perspective, this was indeed the most reasonable conclusion.

Only someone whose strength was not much different from his could have plotted all this, right?

Thus, although Mo Ya's muscles were taut and he remained vigilant of his surroundings at every moment, he had not yet lost his nerve to the point of fleeing.

Although he was currently a seven-star Battle King, as long as he did not encounter a Dou Emperor, even if he faced a nine-star Battle King, he believed he could still escape back to the military camp.

That was the confidence that allowed him to remain in the Black Rock Mountains.

Of course, more importantly, Mo Ya wanted to find out exactly who had ruined his plan.

Otherwise, he would never be reconciled to it!

After all, as long as he successfully buried the Gama Empire's younger generation, the Cloud Empire had promised to give him a high-grade Xuan-tier cultivation technique!

That would give him the confidence to break through to the Dou Emperor realm!

Therefore, he absolutely would not allow his plan to fail.

About a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Lin's immense Heavenly Realm soul power finally sensed another dark figure arriving at the entrance to the Black Rock Mountains.

It was Ghost Spider, the Cloud Empire's commander for this battle, a five-star Battle King.

"He's finally here?"

The instant he sensed Ghost Spider's arrival, Xiao Lin moved.

Naturally, he still had no intention of revealing himself. Instead, he threw a purple sphere shimmering with specks of starlight toward Mo Ya, who was not far away.

It was the gas produced when the Cloud Empire's eight-star Battle Spirit had self-destructed earlier, a gas capable of marking others.

Now, Xiao Lin turned around and used this special gas on Mo Ya.

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