The Genii Games - Chapter 2: Banishment

For The Genii Games – Chapter 1: Outwit, Link, #part 1

When majority of the genii woke up once more, they found themselves in a different place. This place was entirely furnished and decorated with cuddly plush to paintings that comprises of beings that could exist only in fairyland; the entire setting was those of a dreamy and delusional outlook. Only one thing was out of place, a totem that could only mean antipathy towards any being from any universe.

Oliver was the first to be awake. He looked around the surroundings and immediately realized they are probably in the next location for the next segment of the Genii Games, Banishment. Even without the guide to this place, he deduced from the setting of this place, a banishing of a certain player, since there was an odd-looking totem placed here. That totem probably meant 'the banished one'. 'The banished one probably considered as one of 'the fallen one' in the Angel and Devil context also similarly in the setting of this place.

Oliver took out his palmtop which he had installed a surveillance program to monitor the situation in the dining hall during the previous game, Outwit. The contents played, was of no surprise to Oliver as he had anticipated the astounding skills of Micah Evergreen. Oliver also managed to have video info on the various agents face features through his camera and how the process on how Oliver and the other geniuses with Graham was transported over here.

However, Oliver did not expect Micah to come out from the kitchen, which Micah had previously burnt down. Oliver's loss was his carelessness, and he would not commit the same mistake again. Oliver went and stuffed several mini cameras onto the plush to avoid detection and to place a Wi-Fi interference bug behind a few paintings, to intercept wireless signals.

Meanwhile, Agent Sabrina whom is in-charge of this segment of the Genii Games was briefing Micah
on the ground rules and regulations of this game while alighting from the private jet that sent them to the location.

"This game, Banished, basically requires a vote comprised of the majority of geniuses which are the Angels in these game to isolate of a person similarly to those of the Angels and Demons context. The person being isolated would be considered the 'the fallen Angel'. There can be up to five voted fallen ones in the thirty-five contestants that we have in this game. There are up to 8 voting sessions, each session have up to 2 hours for all the geniuses to vote." Agent Sabrina paused for a breather.

She continued: "Whoever that is voted as 'the fallen Angel' would lose their voting sessions, instead allowing these 'fallen Angels' to choose any of the genius among the geniuses to become a 'fallen ones'. However if at least five 'fallen Angels' incidentally manage to choose the same genius among the crowd of geniuses to become a 'fallen Angel' they would be reinstated as an Angel and similarly all the Angels would become 'fallen Angels'. By the end of the game, if there are still Angels left, they would be the winner."

"So wouldn't the 'fallen Angels' cheat?" Micah asked Agent Sabrina doubtfully.

"Nope, because all the 'fallen Angels' would be isolated in a room with soundproof doors, to prevent communication if any and opaque a cubicle to prevent sign language communication; so it really would depend hugely on luck to get the same name all at once." Agent Sabrina clarified Micah's doubts.

"Oh, really, what a different and difficult game I have played in my life." Micah commented sarcastically.

Micah was actually feeling excitement and joy from this game; maybe because he will be competing against his intellectual equals and winning had never been so fun before. He entered the building to notice that the entire setting of the arena was a place befitting for intellectually impaired children, which is definitely not him.

Micah immediately approached a few geniuses that were wide-awake conversing to convince them on teaming up with him. Oliver was one of the few by a stroke of luck since he was conversing about banishing of the previous game winner, Micah.

"Hey guys, glad to see you all wide-awake after falling asleep for quite some time." Micah tried some ice-breaking techniques.

"Not glad to see you, Winner." A genius decimated all the ice-breaking speeches that Micah had prepared beforehand.

"I guess it would be obliging to know the name of you guys then?" Micah asked politely.

"I guess not, in case you involve us in one of your sinister schemes, which we cannot endure." Another genius rejected Micah's offer.

"Hmm, Look what we have here, The Genius, Micah!" Oliver taunted Micah.

"Wow, Thank you, Oliver Green. Where's your bodyguard that watches you constantly." Micah returned the taunting fabulously.

"Oh, his somewhere behind you, holding a scalpel preparing to chafe you to shreds if possible." Oliver replied in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone.

Micah avoided the blow which was meant for him seconds before it rain down on him by the man bulk, Graham. "This is hilarious, I am here with a proposition to win and you all want to play rough?" Micah commented on their performance.

"So what proposition would allow you to come forward to enlist our help?" This proposition was enticing, Oliver.

Micah knowing that Oliver is finally interested to hear the details, he continued his proposition. "This game would require people to be banished to win. The five banished fools must then vote in unison to choose the exact same contestant to be a fallen angel. This will change the stand of the entire fallen angel with all the angels stand. At the end of game, the remaining angels would win this round."

"I see, my guess was partially right then." Oliver commented slightly.

"I bet it's based on the setting of this place huh?" Micah replied in conjunction with the comment, Oliver have made.

"Yeah, I guess we have slightly similar thinking." Oliver answered wryly.

"Perhaps we have, Mister Oliver Green." Micah added on formally.

"Hopefully we are not being ignored by your inter-squabble cum proposition?" The two of the geniuses interrupted their conversation.

"He would definitely not
dare ignore you guys, Arête Rochelle and Miette Cornelius, both of you is considered essential for this plan." Oliver interjected with words of sarcasm.

"Oh, I know, definitely Mister Oliver." Arête blasted away with his understanding.

"That's good, or I may have to undergo drastic measures you know, Arête Rochelle." Oliver gave an understated and indirect threat to Arête.

Meanwhile, the other geniuses are also busy bonding up with each other, deciding on the scenario that will unfold in time. They started to devise a plot among themselves, possibly already knowing half of the game plan that would be going on.

"This is incredulous; we are brought into a season of Angels and Demons?" Alex Stockholm asked with feigned excitement.

"Yeah, Mister Alex Stockholm; probably one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world, isn't it not?" Agent Sabrina made her startling speech using a Wi-Fi headset.

While, Agent Sabrina was busy giving out the game instructions, similarly using the palmtop that was give earlier but instead of typing G-A-M-E, they were required to type in D-E-A-T-H to get the instructions instead.

Oliver was busy thinking of a counterplot against Micah's schemes that was probably sinking into his group mates as the goes by. He, himself must be the only victor, thought Oliver who was probably suffering from Narcissistic Disorder.

Micah was trying to access to Wi-Fi around this place, to come into a shocking realisation that they wireless connection around here was intercepted by some unknown source; which he suspected was one of the players here.

The first round of Banishment finally started, as Micah had anticipated beforehand, he was the first to be voted as a fallen angel, a majority of 34 – 01, which is not surprising, as Micah had voted Oliver Green, on purpose.

Micah was, sent, to a secluded room, filled with opaque screens and a large projector screen, projecting the scenarios that were playing out. He was, in fact glad that he would not be involved in the whole hocus-pocus and there are no Wi-Fi interceptors around here, definitely.

Meanwhile, Oliver and Graham was busy discussing their plans furtively and intently. Oliver exchanged opinions with Graham, his bodyguard, "Someone actually voted me, that is ridiculously funny of him, that is of course I bet, its Micah Evergreen's way of joking."

Graham replied, "Oh, why is he making such a joke then, Oliver?"

Oliver simply shrugged it off and said, "Probably showing that he is not to be trifled huh?"

Graham exchanged his views to his principal, "I do not think that, Micah Evergreen, is a foe that simple; if he is, the world would be a much safer place for the majority."

"I agree with your viewpoints on this matter, Graham, it's just that what he is trying to accomplish with this joke, that I cannot understand his ideas coherently..." Oliver conceded to Graham his stumbling in Micah's logic.

"I guess, only time would tell us, eh?" Alex Stockholm interrupted their conversation abruptly.

"Eavesdropping is a bad skills, aren't it, Alex Stockholm?" Graham added malice to his reply.

"My bad, my bad, I am so sorry for eavesdropping... Just that I cannot help it, this conversation is so enticing till I cannot sit back and enjoy." Alex apologised, his words dripping with plain sarcasm.

Oliver just strutted off and approached two of his 'comrades', Arête Rochelle and Miette Cornelius, who have been pre-informed on the counterplot that Oliver had devised, partially of course. Oliver does not believe in revealing his entire plans and schemes to people, especially not to partnerships, and it did more good than bad to most of his schemes hence for his veiling.

"So are we ready for the initiation of the first plan?" Arête questioned Oliver curiously.

"Oh, definitely, Arête Rochelle, time to vote people down; first to go, Alex Stockholm, that ignoramus." Oliver replied casually.

"We have gathered around half of the crowd, to agree with this plan of ours, to ensure that they would not lose." Miette reported formally.

"Oh, that's wonderful news, bonjour?" Oliver chimed in feigned happiness.

"Arrivederci, Oliver Green, this is good news for our plans, isn't it?" Arête returned Oliver a round-a-bout retort.

"Bonjour, monsieur le, Oliver Green, I have a proposition to make. I am Pierre Lefebvre, hailing from France." Pierre Lefebvre cut into the squabbling between the trios.

"Nice to meet you too, Pierre Lefebvre; may I query about your proposition?" Oliver replied in perfect French.

"Yeah, I believe you are also aiming to win this game right? Why not we all win together and nobody would lose out?" Pierre answered Oliver, with an extremely innocent tone.

"I am not some kind of charity am I, Mister Lefebvre?" Oliver replied using a rhetorical question.

"I am not sure… I just thought that if everyone also won, we would be able to go to next round unscathed you know…" Pierre murmured his answered genuinely.

"If everyone could be a winner, there would be no competition and especially, there would be no Genii Games, you know." Oliver shattered Pierre's dreams cruelly.

"Enough of all this chatter, let's get on with our plans, Oliver." Arête interjected in their conversation.

"I have enough of this French kiddo anyways; let's execute our grand master plan." Oliver agreed with Arête indirectly.

Therefore, the second round of voting's was out earlier than the pre-determined time, 2 hours. Alex Stockholm was the fallen angel for this round as the voting was as such, 25 – 11, a shocker for some of these competitors that voted for people such as Oliver Green, Linda Quaint, Freed Abdul and some unknown names such as Guilford Christina and Levantine Corpus, a intriguing name.

Shockingly, Micah Evergreen also launched a vicious plot to win this game easily; first Micah chose people that are currently cooperating with Oliver to join the cult of 'fallen angels'. Hence, there was a special name announced through the system, Miette Cornelius was the unlucky one to join it.

"Damn that brat for trying to maim my right and left hand aides!" Oliver cursed Micah for removing Miette from the game.

"Don't be so emotional, sir." Graham tried to calm the raging Oliver from erupting.

"Never mind, I would just need a little more time to think of a new plan then." Oliver merely smiled at Graham's efforts to calm him.

"Oh dear…" Graham muttered under his breath, "When Oliver has that look on his face, all hell will break loose."

Just as Graham predicted, Oliver indeed had something up his sleeves that can cause something unprecedented to happen in this round of Genii Games.

Oliver projected his voice at loud as he possibly could, with his Adam's apple showing itself, "Guys, next round kindly please vote me as a fallen angel! I would love to sacrifice myself, just as Jesus had crucified himself to save humanity from their sins!"

That was a mass chorus of discussion going on among the crowd of genii, discussing the motives of what is he trying to achieve by using such charming words, which would have probably charmed a tiger, if there were one here.

Arête went straight to Oliver and fired him with queries on his sudden diversion in his tactics and plans, "Oliver, what are you trying to do here!"

Oliver just glanced at Arête stoically and replied, "I merely wanted to be a hero, that's all."

Even Graham was of the utmost shock by his principal's actions, especially this move that is extremely risky and may cause his principal to lose this segment of the Genii Games, unless his principal intended to… Nevertheless, Graham would stick to his principal until the very end and prevent his principal from getting hurt, which is his main priority in tagging along, as he is a bodyguard.

The crowd decided to trust the words of the sly fox, Oliver Green, as the third round of voting goes like this, 32 – 0, with all the votes going to Oliver Green, making him a member of the cult of 'fallen angels'.

What Oliver miscalculated or perhaps did not receive knowledge of, there was a projection screen and a sound amplifier in the isolation rooms and Micah Evergreen oversaw what had transpired in the game and had decided to tweak his plans slightly to accommodate to Oliver's decision.

Not only that, Alex Stockholm had also monitored Oliver Green waiting to pounce on him at the right time, only to his dismay, Oliver became a fellow 'fallen angel' too.

While, all the events are playing out one by one, the agents were busy too, discussing about the rate of transition that this game is going through currently.

Agent Sabrina was the first to deliver her opinions, "This game is going too smoothly and I can only guess who is going to be the winner in this round, especially when two of the crème of the genii decides to become 'fallen angels'.

Agent Zeus also conceded to the point that Agent Sabrina was trying to make by beating around the bush, "I agree with your statement, Sabrina, but do not forget that there are still aplenty of geniuses waiting to win this round of Genii Games and would stop at nothing, not even Despair can make them falter."

Agent Belle was not satisfied with the guessing games, "Agent Zeus and Sabrina, it's virtually impossible for them to be reinstated into Angels now even with the additional props we have provided the 'fallen angels' isn't it not?"

Agent Angel refuted Agent Belle's argument in simple retorts, "I Agent Angel, do not get what you, Angel Belle is trying to convey here. This game can be won by these 'fallen angels' indeed, in fact it is because that is a big loophole in this entire rule setting. There are only 35 players but rather 57 players can be in fact voted as becoming a 'fallen angel'."

"In technically, there means by the fifth round, all players would be 'fallen angels' because 35 players could already be voted as 'fallen angels' but would happen if this game was being directed by someone, to ensure that by the fifth round, a certain player would be voted by 5 angels simultaneously?" Agent Angel continued her analysis on the game play.

"OH! So that's how Micah would be using his skills to manipulate this game, once again?" Agent Liam answered excitedly.

"That's it; you sure got it quickly, Agent Liam." Agent Sabrina commented on Agent Liam's analytical process.

The Agents were partially right, hence only some portions of their predictions was right, furthermore since Micah had already ingeniously plotted a scheme that covered all angles trapping all his prey in one swoop, probably causing something more than just a slight shock to the participating prodigies.

In the meantime, the crowd of prodigies are discussing on, who to sentence to be a fallen angel for the next voting round. They had made a united stand to exile Arête Rochelle, since he was one of Oliver's aides and he may do more harm than good in this predicament.

Micah had recently made an important discovered of the true usefulness of the palmtop, something that was a given to all the contestants and decided to make good use of this knowledge. He sent a Wi-Fi palmtop signal to Alex Stockholm's palmtop, giving indirect instructions to Alex. The instruction was as such, "Kindly boycott this round of fallen angel selecting election, if you want to win this round of Genii Games."

Alex understood the instruction perfectly and decided to accede to Micah's request, as his desire to win this foolish game was stronger than his desire for revenge against him. His heart of vengeance halted for now, since revenge can take place at anytime, best to allow Micah to trust him foolishly giving him a change to backstab Micah later on.

Graham was definitely unable to join Oliver in the isolated room meant for 'fallen angels' only, because it was rules and Graham was one of the participants in Genii Games too, under a very special reason. Hence, Oliver had made a pact with Graham to select him as a 'fallen angel' too, so that he would able to aid him even though they would not be in the same room.

The results for the fourth voting session finally came out with all the votes tallied; the prodigies voted unanimously, that Arête should be joining the 'fallen angels' since he had cooperated with Oliver Green beforehand. Furthermore, Graham was, unsurprisingly chosen to be a 'fallen angel', which was pre-determined already by Oliver Green and Graham unanimous decision.

Micah's had finally executed his pre-finale plan; he sent an intimidation message specifically to Oliver Green, "Hi Oliver Green, I know that you are intercepting the wireless around here, preventing me from tapping into any surveillance networks indeed? If you are agreeable to kill De Vane Kruption as a means to win during the eight voting round, select Michael Jones to be a 'fallen angel' during any of the
voting rounds."

Similarly, Micah had used his palmtop to send a slightly different message, basically requesting the same thing from all the other 'fallen angels' the same thing, ensuring the success rate of his plans. The fifth voting round, also considered as one of the decisive rounds, which would overturn tables; a count of votes have attributed on Micah Evergreen, a vote count of 29 – 0 have been made, completely ensuring the fact that Micah would continue to be 'fallen angel'.

Furthermore, Micah Evergreen's plan worked and the 'fallen angels' been reinstated as angels once more; while the angels had now been all demoted as 'fallen angels' together with Micah Evergreen since he was voted once more.

While, Micah once again broke the records for the game records, the agents were also engrossed in discussing and watching on how the game is advancing.

Agent Sabrina commented on the advancement of this round of Genii
Games;
Banishment, "Wow, this Micah Evergreen is truly impressive huh?"

Another agent conceded, "Unbelievable! A mere child able to accomplish stunts such as these, I am truly impressed."

Agent Belle lamented, "Child Geniuses, what do you expect? Begging or sprawling on the floor and weep uncontrollably?"

Agent Zeus merely glanced at Agent Belle and replied, "You could keep your non-constructive comments to yourself, truly, Mademoiselle Belle."

Agent Belle did not start any unnecessary lamentation and retorting afterwards, only for a short period of time, which was actually contributing to the quiet and queer environment needed for analysis and checks on the progress of the game so it can be accountable to the higher ups, organising this fascinating game.

The four geniuses and one bodyguard was not very happy with the arrangement; such as being stranded on the game as the only five angels and required to feel the wrath of the fully enraged mob of geniuses.

"Oh great, let's all vote Micah Evergreen in the game, since it's him who had caused us such suffering. I have no doubt he would win if we do not do so." Oliver broke the silence, completely enraged that a swindler of a genius duped him.

Oliver Green may have erred from his original plans, but he would definitely not allow Micah Evergreen to have another shot at being the, winner once again. Just one humiliation would be enough for Oliver; he would definitely not allow his shot at winning to be a dream, once more. Reverse psychology would be the best psyching technique for all these bunch of geniuses that was in his team once again, Oliver thought.

Meanwhile, Micah Evergreen is keeping himself busy, devising another nefarious plot to be the winner once again. He may really need help, this time round; luckily, he already enlisted Michael Jones and Alex Stockholm, the backstabber's help beforehand already.

The game is nearing the end soon and what would the geniuses in this game do to win this round of genii games, Banishment; of course, knowing geniuses and prodigies, something unexpected and baffling is going to happen...

Oliver decidedly commanded his teammates to vote Micah as a 'fallen angel' regardless of the outcome, but what was Oliver really intending to do; it would definitely not be beneficial to the majority, indefinitely.

He had already predicted the outcome of his commandeering beforehand as, taking the personalities of geniuses into account; they would definitely not heed his commandment and that could serve as a basis for one final vengeance plot against another fellow schemer, Micah Evergreen.

While, Oliver was busy plotting, Micah was also busy devising a foolproof plan to ensure he would be included in the winning portion, even it means allowing the majority to win; the essence of the Genii Games is to ensure that you are never the loser, regardless of the cost.

The sixth turn of voting results is out at last, a tied score for all angels, 1 – 0. Furthermore, predictably the 'fallen angels' had voted unanimously for Oliver Green to become a 'fallen angel' which once again caused the 'fallen angels' and angels to switch once again, making Oliver Green and Co the only five 'fallen angels'.

Both Oliver and Micah had already predicted the outcome of the sixth round, and very well know that either the seventh voting round is a turn, which tables flip or winners determined. Micah had already pre-determined the decision of Oliver, and has decided to use reverse psychology to meet his target. As the saying goes, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, Micah would not back down from a challenge easily.

"Guys, are you all prepared to lose?" Micah simply asked the crowd of geniuses.

Micah received his reply almost immediately by a fellow genius, "I doubt so, but considering the way things are going, it may certainly be so, especially when you are a target for all five of the 'fallen angels'."

Micah simply scrutinised that genius and asked a rhetorical question, "Are you oxymoronic?"

"How could I be oxymoronic when I just gave you a perfect reply of best of both worlds?" that genius returned the questioning to Micah.

"Oh, that was not even a question, whoever you are." Micah deliberately ignored that genius's questioning.

"I am Douglas Sanchez, a fellow Swiss and you are?" That genius asked.

"I am Micah Evergreen, the winner for the first round of Genii Games..." Micah replied while pausing deliberately to allow his words to sink into every genius in this game.

His words apparently worked, as miraculously, all the participants are showing a mixed convulsion of emotions on their faced; some stunned, some simply baffled, some furious and some blatantly ignoring. Micah continued after this charade of emotions in perfect Swedish, "It's a very nice pleasure to meet you, Mister Douglas Sanchez."

The actions that Micah was displaying currently definitely set forth a snowball effect and before the end of the seventh voting round, you could already guess the results that will surface after it. As expected, Micah had secured a 'fallen angel' position due to the votes from the majority of, 25-0, a slightly lower than expected results.

Oliver Green had of course, defied human's regular abilities once again to think of a brilliant counter plan, to ensure a slight foiling of the original plans of another fellow schemer Micah Evergreen. He simply instructed his teammates in the sixth voting round; in the case they had all became 'fallen angels' again, they would stick to the original plan of theirs, which is to vote for another five random angels to become 'fallen angels' too.

This ensured the state of equilibrium later on, which he would need it to triumph Micah Evergreen, who had already positioned himself to the winning side. Oliver muttered under his breath, "This is so troublesome."

"The game is ending soon eh, Agents." Agent Zeus simply mentioned the inevitable.

"Of course, Agent Zeus, such a redundant fact, even I wouldn't bother mentioning." Agent Belle insulted Agent Zeus indirectly.

"Agent Belle, I thought I mentioned before about you giving constructive comments? Regardless, we will need to start on our planning details for the next segment of Genii Games, Kid-Nab." Agent Zeus counteracted Agent Belle's comment wistfully.

"Definitely we would need to discuss about this matter, Agent Zeus. Here are the blueprints for the next venue, which the next segment of Genii Games would be held." Agent Liam reported lawfully.

Displeased with Agent Zeus counteracting, Agent Belle retorted with malice dripping all over it, "Yeah, that's a constructive comment, Agent Zeus."

"Stop the bickering, Agent Zeus and Agent Belle; we are in the midst of an important discussion." Agent Sabrina disciplined unchangingly.

Both Agent Zeus and Agent Belle lamented on Agent Sabrina's disciplinarian action, "Yes, Miss Agent Sabrina, we hear you loud and clear."

Meanwhile the second segment of the Genii Games is ending soon, with six angels including Micah Evergreen, demoted as 'fallen angels'. The final voting round starts; two hours left before the voting round successfully ends.

"Let me see, what Mister Oliver Green is plotting in his devious skull." Micah lamented briefly while on his phone screen displayed surveillance of different areas in the game arena and isolation rooms.

"What kind of stupid and dumb game is this? THIS IS GARBAGE!" Freed Abdul cursed under his breath in the game arena, which was one-hundred percent caught on Micah's camera scope lens that he had placed in one of the plush toys in it due to paranoia, similar to Oliver Green.

Furthermore, it seemed like Oliver Green was making a toughest decision of his time in this segment of Genii Games...

He was contemplating whether to win this segment of Genii Games, which would definitely include Micah Evergreen or losing this game to ensure that Micah would also lose. Being a genius it took him shorter than a minute to make this decision, as usual.

Oliver stuck to the original plans that Micah Evergreen had meted out beforehand by sending the threatening message regarding the Wi-Fi interception problem that had surfaced beforehand. Oliver chose Michael Jones to be a fellow 'fallen angel' in the seventh round to show his regards towards cooperation in this segment of Genii Games, Banishment.

The other four 'fallen angels', Arête Rochelle, Graham Vicario, Miette Cornelius and Alex Stockholm saw this result, and immediately knew that the eighth round of voting results, who would be the unlucky soul to bring discredit to the entire bunch of prodigies in the voting arena now. Micah Evergreen smirked conceitedly behind the screens in the isolated room and briefly murmured, "Everything as according to plan now, time to play around with the information that I had received, plus formulate a new plan to win the next game."

The prodigies left in the arena was not very haughty now, knowing that they may lose anytime now, definitely did not help matters. All of them knew that they would most probably lose this match and had decided to pull a few schemers down with them; there were 24 people and with simple maths, eight 'fallen angels' once getting 3 votes would definitely stay as 'fallen angels' without fail.

The unlucky eight 'fallen angels' are definitely people that give them the strongest impression and that includes, Oliver Green, Graham Vicario, Miette Cornelius, Arête Rochelle, Micah Evergreen, Alex Stockholm, Michael Jones, Linda Quaint. This was all in-control by another highly proficient genius that had introduced himself beforehand, Pierre Lefebvre, an unnoticed and ignored innocent- looking genius.

Micah Evergreen had not wanted anybody else to win, except for himself, thus he used his phone to access the salt-encrypted voting systems that would prevent majority of hackers from tweaking the tallied voting scores.

Micah was no ordinary hacker; he was an internationally acclaimed and infamous hacker that had sold cross-country information to earn an income of more than a few hundred millions in less than six months. He had also deactivated Interpol files that were already amassing against him and all his alleged crimes to ensure that his work continues to be a secret and wonder.

Micah decoded the salt-encryption and replaced it with 13-logarithm Mash encryption instead, allowing him to decrypt the voting system and change the scores. The eighth voting round is finally out, and the scores are extremely baffling, even to Pierre Lefebvre who had devised a plan to pull down every single strong competitor that could pose a problem to him.

The scores go as such, 2-0 for nine players, which includes, Oliver Green and his bodyguard, Graham Vicario and his two aides, Arête Rochelle and Miette Cornelius, not forgetting, Mister Alex Stockholm the entrepreneur.

The other four players include Lyle Fond a Nobel Award recipient for engineering from New South Wales, Australia, Candice Chaperone a genius from Ireland, Shinichi Kenny from Japan and last but not least, Maida Mafeyas from Russia. Only two players escaped from the tenacity of being 'fallen angels' are Michael Jones and inevitably, Micah Evergreen who had the most foresight among all.

Micah's plan would have worked brilliantly, if only all five 'fallen angels' had voted De Vane Corruption. Oliver, realised that Micah Evergreen, was never that simple, decided to incite a mutiny among the 'fallen angels'. Micah Evergreen was voted by the majority 'fallen angels' to be their teammates, once again, ruining Micah's plan A.

The voting rounds were finally over and the second segment of Genii Games finally culminating, Michael Jones emerging as the winner for the second round of The Genii Games...

Agent Sabrina finally boomed her voice through the P.A. systems installed in the building, drowning out all the various idiosyncrasies that the prodigies were experiencing, not inclusive of Oliver Green who was busy – currently, mentally profiling his adversary, Micah Evergreen. He would not suffer another defeat.

"All the prodigies that had lost this match, I am extremely sorry to hear, since this game was particularly easy to win since there were several loopholes with the rules that we had meted out earlier to you guys." Agent Sabrina paused for breather.

"As according to the rules and regulations, since Michael Jones were the only "angel" left after the eight voting rounds, they are hereby the winner for the second stage, thus we would reward him with exclusive information for the next round of Genii Games, "Kid-Nab". With this, this round of Genii Games, Banishment, successfully ends." Agent Sabrina finished her announcement by sighing heavily unto the microphone before turning it off.

"This would not be the end of me, trust me, Micah Evergreen. Till the next round, we compete." Oliver muttered to Graham, as the agents came and escorted them towards the Lear Jets prepared.

"Let's go have some food first before any of our usual plotting, Oliver." Graham suggested to his principal.

"Anything, I would need to have some tiresome refreshment and food anyways." Oliver lamented.

"That's good to hear, Oliver." Graham replied positively.

Meanwhile, Alex Stockholm was busy messaging for assistance, using his phone: "where are you, SS? I need your assistance in The Genii Games. You should have received the mail already, so come here quickly!"

A reply came, "Alex, I am in the third round arena already. I was in the game with another group of intellectually impaired geniuses," and it ends.

Stay tuned to find out more, on the next game, "Kid-Nab", and find out who is the mystery person, Alex was messaging for help! =)

• To be continued in the next chapter, "Kid-Nab"