Chapter 555: Loyalty doesn’t mean you’re agree with everything
During the first Sacred Morning, as the children enjoyed their holiday inside the house, the adults of L’Anaak Eed came out with their cleaning tools and gathered at their district’s rally point. For those who lived in the central district, they gathered at the plaza in front of the courthouse.
They met with their neighbors on the way and talked this and that about their lives and what they were going to do for the holiday after the New Year’s worship, grumbling and laughing with light steps.
But those voices immediately died down at the scene that greeted them in the plaza.
To be exact, in front of the courthouse.
There, beneath the stairs leading to the courthouse, were at least a dozen sharp poles. No one knew for sure how many they were because their brain stopped functioning. Their eyes shook as they followed the poles and saw what was pierced on top of them.
Bodies. Half-bodies. Some were nothing but heads.
Snow had piled during the Sacred Night, and the white bed had turned dark red and purple from the dripping blood. Even if they averted their eyes from the scenery above, the stained snow was enough as a reminder of the savagery above.
Their body was frozen under the immense shock and dread coursing through their body. What is this? What is this brutal execution happening on a holy day?
They clasped their parted mouth, letting out a choked gasp filled with petrifying confusion. At that moment, when enough people had filled the plaza, someone walked down from the courthouse and stopped in the middle, clasping his hands and turning the frozen citizens’ focus on him.
"Rejoice," the Lord’s vassals addressed the stunned and scared citizens with a smile. "His Lordship had caught these blasphemous exiled infiltrating the Castle and punished them!"
Hearing the word ’exiled’, the citizens finally realized the brand in those demons’ foreheads. It didn’t look new either, so it seemed like they had been branded in the past. Someone gasped and whispered to the demons around them that some of those demons looked like the notorious poison-users that plagued the demon realms all those years ago.