Chapter 582: Judgment in Hell
When everyone regained consciousness, they found themselves on a blazing earth.
Hot magma loomed between the crevices of the rocks beneath his feet, the sky was obscured by smoke and black clouds, and the air was filled with the suffocating smell of sulfur.
Feeling the scorching heat around him, and the hot roasting on his armor, Cumberland opened his eyes and asked, "This is here?"
"Hell. ”
The dragon waved its wings, pierced through the thick fog of the sky, landed on the burning earth, looked at the people in front of it, and said, "The end of sin." ”
Whether it was the Holy Cult, or the Valkyries, or the Knights, everyone knelt on the ground despite the scorching heat on the ground, waiting for the gods' judgment.
Todd beckoned forward, and the soul of the orc, who had just been killed in battle, floated out of the queue and slowly came to the feet of the dragon.
Todd raised his dragon's head, looked at the sky, and yelled, "Shields!"
An angel immersed in light breaks through the fog and slowly descends into the heavens of hell.
Shields has a human form, but she doesn't look like a creature of this world at all.
He is extremely beautiful in appearance, and his appearance tends to be neutral. The light emanating from his body seemed to purify the space around him, and no longer saw darkness and shadows, bringing endless peace and tranquility to people.
Shields came to Todd's side and saluted respectfully to him, "Walk on the highest reaches of the sky, and your servants await your commands. ”
Todd pointed the dragon's claw at the orc soul in front of him, "Let's start the judgment." ”
"Yes. ”
Shields drew a pattern in the air, and a huge balance appeared in mid-air.
Then, with a flick of his finger, an orc soul at the front of the queue slowly floated to the front of the scales.
As the orc's life story began to be played on the canopy, Shields began to throw the weights of good and evil into the scales.
After waiting for all the weights to be placed, Shields glanced at the scale below the scales, turned to Todd and said, "Supreme, he has the right to enter the kingdom of heaven." ”
Todd nodded.
Shields raised her right hand, and two female angels fell from the sky, one left and one right, to the side of the orc soul, and led the latter to slowly rise into the sky and disappear into the sky.
Shields turned her gaze to the second orc soul and spoke, "Next." ”
Just as the second orc was being judged, a wave of fire rose up to a hundred meters in the sea of fire far away from hell.
A creature with curved horns on its head, a long tail on its back, and purple flames rising from its red skin, slowly rose from the lake and flew to Todd's side.
"The hosts. ”
The creature from the Hellfire Lake, with a pair of goat-like pupils, and his ugly face made people shudder, he first saluted Todd respectfully, then looked at the ongoing judgment ceremony of Shields with disdain, and said in a deep voice: "According to this fool's judgment, everyone is a saint!"
Todd looked at the infernal creature and said, "Matenas, I allow you to give your opinion. ”
"Thank you so much, my host. Madcenas flicked his tail and walked over to the scales of judgment, and under Shields' glare, he took a piece of weight from the good end and intended to throw it into the evil end.
An angry Shields flailed her wings, and the space suddenly shone with light: "You ritual-blasphemous villain!
Massenas shook the weight in his hand, looked at the orc soul and said, "This man, before he became a Holy Cult Army, once killed a friend of his with his own hands. ”
Shields retorted, "That friend of his, for offending the clan chief, should have been sentenced to death by the clan. In order to protect the honor of his friend's family, and also to save his family, with the approval of the clan, this man reluctantly executed his friend. ”
Massenas looked disdainful: "Bah, what to defend honor, if he is really brave and really cares about his friends, he should start an uprising and kill the violent and unscrupulous clan leader, instead of choosing to live like a coward!"
Do you know how many people will die in an uprising? Do you know that war will consume the food of the tribe and make them face the extermination of the tribe in the following winter?
"You idiot angel with only rules in your head!Why don't you look at the days after that, because that madman clan leader, hundreds of people were slaughtered one after another. I dare say that if this man had been braver, he and his friends would have overthrown the tyrannical rule of that patriarch!"
Listening to an angel and a demon arguing about good and evil, Todd suddenly had a strange feeling.
But now, he also heard the problem, this orc's execution of his friend may really not be very favorable for judging good and evil.
Todd raised his dragon claw and said, "Treat this matter as controversial, this weight will not be put into the scales, and the trial will continue." ”
"Obey the oracle, my master. (Shields, Massenas)
Later in the course of the trial, such arguments about good and evil continued to arise, both because angels and demons saw things differently.
Of course, these controversies were all put on hold by Todd after they were determined.
Soon, the results of the trial came in.
The souls of dozens of fallen orcs, whose fate was all tilted in favor of good, all entered the kingdom of heaven.
Seeing this result, Shields waved her wings of light in satisfaction, as if celebrating the victory of the kingdom of heaven.
On the other side, Massenas shook his tail and horns, and said unhappily: "My master, this is not fair, why is there not even a soul left?"
Todd stared at the silent crowd under his feet with dark golden dragon pupils, and whispered, "The trial is not over yet. ”
Shields was stunned, he looked around the venue, and said suspiciously, "I don't see any other souls...... The rest of these people are the living. ”
Todd flapped the dragon's wings, and the scorching storm set off by the huge wind pressure blew everyone's eyes open.
He roared loudly: "Behind the death of these orcs, there is deception and betrayal!"
Images reappear in the sky, showing a group of orcs gathered in the shaman's tent, waiting for the revelation to come.
The orc shaman grabbed a handful of powder and sprinkled it on the stove, setting off a blinding glow.
The orc commander, who knelt down on one knee beside him, asked in confusion, "My lord, the unauthorized use of troops must be approved by the shaman assembly. ”
The orc shaman picked up another handful of powder and sprinkled it on the flames, without saying a word.
The orc commander continued, "Mobilizing the entire orc species to attack the enemy is indeed something we dream of. But before leaving, the great dragon god himself issued a holy decree asking us to obey all orders with the Grand Master of the Knights of the Dusk. Now, is it ...... for us to attack without the consent of that human or the shamanic assembly?"
The orc shaman lowered his head and said to the orc commander, "Guess what, what did I see?"
"I ...... I don't understand what you mean......"
"In the midst of the flames, I received a revelation from the dragon god. The orc shaman touched the flames with his palm and whispered, "The god is very unhappy with our cowardice, and he has repeatedly asked me why I have curled up in a corner and allowed my enemies to laugh at my god's incompetence. ”
The orc commander's face flushed, and his muscles burst out: "Our god is omnipotent!
The orc shaman withdrew his palm: "We are conquerors in the eyes of the pagans, orcs synonymous with courage and strength in the Holy Cult army!
As soon as these words came out, the orcs in the camp stood up one after another, shouting the slogan of worshipping the gods.
The orc shaman dipped his finger in a little furnace ash, smeared a mark on the forehead of the orc commander, and said: "Go, warriors! wash away our shame with the blood of the enemy, and pay tribute to our great dragon god with their wail! Only victory can make the dragon god recognize us, and let the orc race gain the favor of the gods!"
Todd waved his hand to cut off the image of the sky, and roared at the orc shaman in the crowd who was kneeling on the ground and shivering: "In the name of God, you instigated your own people to rush headlong into the unknown enemy group, not only causing great casualties, but also disrupting the layout of the entire war!"
The orc shaman, trembling like chaff, pressed his forehead against the earth, not caring for the flames between the cracks in the ground, which had begun to scorch his skin.
I only heard him say incoherently: "I just want to ...... Dedicate victory to my God...... Want to get your compliments...... I didn't know ...... at all."
"Your ignorance has led your people to their deaths!" Todd bowed his head and said to Shields and Massenus, "Start the judgment on him!"
Shields hesitated for a moment and whispered to Todd, "Supreme, the judgment of fate is only for the dead, but this person is still alive......"
Compared to Shields's hesitation, Massenus didn't have so many scruples, so he grabbed the orc shaman, brought the latter to the balance of fate, and began to lay the weight of good and evil.
Todd pointed the dragon's head towards Shields and said slowly, "The purpose of initiating the judgment of the living is to give more lives the right to continue living. ”
A few minutes later, without any suspense, the orc shaman was convicted.
Under everyone's horrified gaze, the orc shaman was torn off his limbs by Massenas.
Amid the blood and broken limbs on the ground, Massenus grabbed the orc shaman's hair and dragged the latter's bare torso into the lake of fire, laughing happily, "Finally! Finally, there is a soul left! Don't be afraid, don't panic, we have time, we can get to know each other well." Trust me, you're going to fall in love with everything here!hahaha!"
In such a bloody scene, one of the less timid knight co-captains spit out directly, and some of them were also pale.
Todd looked at these people and said in a deep voice, "Remember today! I don't want this to happen again, the others go back to your posts, Cumberland, you stay, I have something to ask you." ”