Chapter 498: Purification Ground

As the main city of Corvador County, the residence of the Death Knights, the Purgatory City, which occupies the entire Devil's Delta, is nearly a thousand square kilometers wide, with more than one million citizens!

The entire Purgatory City resembles a horseshoe, with gates to the west, north, and south, and the Weeping Wall to the east, which has been written in the annals of the Roland Empire.

In addition to the solemn and sacred temple area, the entire Purgatory City is divided into five parts - the central ring area, the Winter Palace, where the palace of the Death Knights is located!

The fan-shaped area in the northwest, the Inner Harbor, was artificially excavated with a large number of criss-crossing waterways at the beginning of the city's construction, forming a huge water transportation network in the city, and connected to the Devil's Lake through the 'Urn District Waterway', which is the busiest area for shipping and trade in the entire Purgatory City!

The southwestern fan, named after Hyde Park, which is closely associated with Purgatory's unique funerary customs, is the place where the dead of Infernal City die, as well as a concentration of middle- and lower-class civilians.

Southeastern sector, arena area. Today, the royal family of Roland is the descendant of the perfect knight Richard Roland, adhering to the spirit of chivalry, and thus allowing the competitive spirit in the knightly culture to flourish. So it's no surprise that in the entire Valley of the Dawn, the Roland Empire has the largest number of arenas, and almost all medium-sized cities must have arenas!

As a derivative of the Arena, there are a large number of magic shops, weapon shops, and armor shops around the Death Arena...... In addition to these, the arena area is also the rich area of Purgatory City, where the vast majority of the rich and powerful people in the entire Purgatory City are gathered!

And the last area located in the northeast of Purgatory City is the purification field area that countless civilians respect and at the same time can't help but tremble!

The Decontamination Yard was formerly home to the Death Knights' barracks, with numerous barracks towers. Each of these barracks towers is extremely tall and has the same style, arranged in a compact and staggered manner, which will give people an indescribable sense of solemnity during walking!

At the center of the purification field is a huge circular stone altar shaped like an altar, and the bottom of the stone altar has white lines like 'mosquito coils'. On the stone altar stood three tall bronze sculptures, about four times the height of an ordinary Roland (about seven meters)! From the shape of these three bronze sculptures, it is not difficult to judge that one of them is an abyss ogre who uses humans as food, one is the most powerful and ferocious and wild troll among the many magical beasts in the Dawn Valley, and the other is a necromancer wearing hooded robes - these three creatures are the most typical and difficult representatives of the dangerous aliens identified by the Inquisition!

In the center of the white 'mosquito coil' pattern, a nine-meter-high stone pillar stands. The three bronze sculptures are next to the stone pillars, and the hands are tightly tied to the stone pillars, facing three different directions in a triangle, with their heads hanging low. Black flames ignited from the edge of the white 'mosquito coil' pattern at the bottom, rising five or six meters high, and perennial to extinguish! Looking from the outside of the stone altar, these three bronze sculptures seemed to be on fire, suffering endless pain and torture - this was a sign of the Inquisition's merciless judgment of these heretics!

At the edge of the purification ground, there are statues of Death Knights! These statues are made of pitch-black metal, wearing a full set of death armor and a slender death lance standing in front of them. These death knights with their spears in both hands, their cold and merciless gazes, witness the end of countless heresies here!

Between the many metal statues of the Death Knight and the stone altars, there are also many stone pillars that are only one and a half meters high, and there are also white lines like 'mosquito coils' under these stone pillars! From the stone altar in the center of the purification field, it is not difficult to guess the function of these stone pillars - yes, they are the tools used by the Death Knights to purify the captured heretics! This process is called purification by the Death Knights, so this place is called the purification field!

It can be said that in the thousands of years since the construction of Purgatory City, countless heretics have been judged by the Death Knights here, and they have finally been purified!

Look at a living person, or some other creature, so irresistibly tied to a stone pillar, grilled by a rising black flame, roasted until the skin is blackened, the bones are roasted to ashes, and the original shape is not visible at all...... Even if they did not sympathize with these heresies, the citizens who witnessed the process could not suppress the fear that this stimulus made them involuntarily born in their hearts!

So it's not hard to understand why the vast majority of the citizens of Purgatory City have mixed feelings about the purification field - happy to see heretics being judged here, but never want this to happen to them one day!

But today, one citizen after another, forcibly dragged out of their warm homes by the Red Demon Soldiers or the Red Association Guards and brought them to this purification field!

"Citizens William and Hayley, the Red Association guard Hank has found a bronze statue of the false god Payit from your home, and according to the 'Prohibition of Faith Decree' issued three days ago, it is incriminating you, do you have any objections?" A scribe-like tomb keeper, holding an open record book in his left hand and a quill in his right hand, stared solemnly at a middle-aged Roland couple who were escorted to the front by two Red Association guards.

The husband of the husband, a middle-aged man named William, had fallen to the ground with convulsions and foaming at the mouth when the Red Union guards had broken into his home and searched for the bronze statue of Payit, and even now his hands were shaking as if he had hypochondriasis!

However, the wife of the husband and wife, a middle-aged Roland woman named Hailey, although her expression was also extremely panicked and pale, she still forced herself to calm down: "Hui, Lord Hui, that statue was only picked up on the street a few years ago, and I was just going to take it to the store and sell it for a few dollars, and we never prayed to it!"

Because when they broke into the couple's home, the couple was indeed not sacrificing the statue, so it is indeed difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood of Hailey's statement, and they can't give any strong evidence, but judging by common sense, most of these words are still false.

What is puzzling is that after listening to Hailey's statement, the tomb keeper clerk just nodded with a sly smile, and did not continue to ask her anything, but turned to the middle-aged man William and said: "Since you are silent, then it means that you have admitted your guilt? Very good, now you have been condemned as a heretic and will be burned at the stake! As for the woman, you have been acquitted." ”

As he spoke, he saw the secretary of the tomb keeper scribble a few strokes on the notebook, and then at his signal, two Red Union guards tied the middle-aged man William to the nearest stone pillar.

"No, please don't, my husband, he is not a believer in Payit!" Seeing the two Red Association guards do this, how could the middle-aged woman Hailey not understand what they were planning to do! She rushed forward in panic, constantly blocking the movements of the two guards with her waist and elbows (the rope in her hand was not untied), and at the same time looked at the tomb keeper clerk with a pleading face, hoping that he would finally let go of her husband as if he had spared herself.

However, the secretary of the tomb keeper turned a blind eye to the middle-aged woman's pleas, and one of the two Red Association guards was quite impatient with the middle-aged woman's indifference, and coldly picked her up, and then threw her away several meters away like garbage! Looking at the middle-aged woman with bleeding on her forehead, the Red Association guard just sneered disdainfully.

With the successful clasping of the middle-aged William's hands (the purification stone pillar has a metal ring that can be pulled apart and closed), under the eyes of the tomb keeper clerk, one of the two Red Association guards suddenly half-crouched on the ground, and slapped his palm on the end of the white 'mosquito coil' pattern!

"Wow-"

At this moment, a black flame ignited nearly a meter high along the 'mosquito coil' pattern, a little higher than the height of the stone pillar, but it could make people clearly see the face of the middle-aged man.

"Ahh

The first to be burned is the middle-aged man's eyebrows, hair, and other surface hairs, the kind of honor like a plucked bird, which does not allow it to look extremely ugly. Immediately followed by the clothes on the middle-aged man's body, it was not leather armor or metal armor with fire resistance attributes, it was just an ordinary cloth clothes, so the clothes on the middle-aged man's body easily burned and turned into ashes in less than a minute!

As the clothes were burned, the middle-aged man's body had begun to emit a foul smell of oil, and it was estimated that the middle-aged man's flame-covered skin had turned burnt yellow, just like the same color he showed when he barbecued a snow rat or a wild wolf - such a thought could not help but make the gastric juices of the onlookers around him surge......

As time progressed, the middle-aged man's screams gradually became inaudible, and at this time, the flames around him had risen to a height of two meters, covering his whole body! Because of the obstruction of the flames, the tomb keeper clerk, the two Red Association guards, the middle-aged man's wife, and many citizens who were forced to watch not far away, they could no longer see the middle-aged man's figure at all, and could only vaguely see a light gray frame, like a figure dripping from diluted ink on white paper.

Suddenly, there was a "pop-" sound, which was the sound of something breaking off, and in the eyes of everyone, the middle-aged man's pale gray 'humanoid' frame could no longer maintain his 'human-shape' at this time - part of his knee bones were burned off......

"It's really not burned, it's only been a few minutes—" Looking at the flames that were gradually extinguishing, the Tomb Keeper Clerk couldn't help but sigh in great disappointment, which made everyone around, including the two Red Association guards, shudder fiercely!

"Why are you two still stunned, since this heretic has been dealt with, why don't you hurry up and arrest the next one?" Seeing that the two Red Association guards had no eyesight, the tomb keeper clerk couldn't help but glare at the two of them with extreme dissatisfaction.

"Yes, my lord, here we go!" the two Red Union guards trotted away, not knowing whether it was because of their enthusiasm or because they did not want the clerk to notice the horror on their faces......

And a 'purification' ritual like this, presided over by a tomb keeper clerk, is going on or preparing to be carried out in countless places of purification!

(End of chapter)