The Iron Virgin is a kind of life-size humanoid statue with the face of a beautiful girl, and from the outside, people who don't know the purpose of this statue are almost all overwhelmed by the beauty of the girl on the statue, but this kind of statue is actually a torture instrument used to execute prisoners, and the inside of the statue is empty, it is like a standing iron coffin, and there are countless terrible sharp nails on the inner wall of the statue

During the execution, an iron door can be opened on the outside of the torture instrument, the prisoner will be tied hand and foot, and then sent into the statue, the executioner will close the iron door of the statue, then the long nail on the inner wall of the statue will penetrate and nail into the prisoner's body, the sharp front end of the nail will slowly pierce the body, first the wrist, then the foot and other parts, then the kidneys, abdomen, shoulders and buttocks, and finally the eyes, head and chest, although it seems to be very painful, but not to kill the prisoner immediately, during which they keep letting out miserable screams, wailing for several days in a row before they die

Unlike the burning at the stake of heathens, the Iron Virgin was designed to execute people who had betrayed the faith of the Light. It is no longer known who invented the torture instrument of defiling saints and sinners who betrayed the Church, but it is really chilling that such a horrific iron coffin was carved with a girl's face, which is also the cunning of the inventors of this torture instrument, they used the beautiful name of the virgin and the lovely appearance of the girl's face to try to give a good impression to hide people's panic about the torture instrument, it is ironic that the face of the girl on such a bloody torture instrument is actually the first generation of the Holy Light Cult of Radiant Saintess: Mary, which means: Even if you shamefully turn your back on the light, Mary is still willing to embrace you

If Mary's Holy Spirit saw it in heaven, I don't know how it would feel

In the Inquisition, countless prisoners have died over the years from this horrific form, and the world knows almost nothing about it

Similar to the execution institutions in many countries, the inquisition's interrogation chambers and execution chambers were mostly located in cellars, in contrast to the bright, sacred, and solemn basilica on the ground, and were found only through a long eerie, dark, damp corridor

This is a very special execution room, even if it is known that there are people in this execution room, including the executioner, there will not be more than 20 people, and in this execution room, there are more than a dozen steel virgins placed in a row against the wall, and the second body on the left is shaking slightly, and there is a faint scream of a man inside

Because the outer wall of this type of tool is very thick, if the door is closed, the moans and screams of the tortured person cannot be heard outside, but now the screams of the poor tortured person can be transmitted through the thick iron wall, which shows that the pain is unimaginable

A middle-aged man dressed in archbishop's robes and holding the Holy Book in his arms stood in front of the humanoid iron coffin, looking at the torture instrument with a complicated expression

Time was running out, and another man behind the archbishop reminded him that this man was wearing the clothes of a senior bishop one level lower than the archbishop, but from the tone in which he spoke to the archbishop in front of him, it seemed that he didn't take the archbishop seriously at all

Who is the person inside, the archbishop asked

He was originally a bishop of the Kingdom of Shaliland, but he sheltered and shielded two wanted blasphemers...... Well, Mr. Myleck, you don't have much to know, so don't waste your time

For the somewhat superior attitude of the senior bishop, McLeck felt very uncomfortable, but he did not express the unhappiness in his heart, and now in this case, he could not cause trouble for himself, and along the way, McLeck was used to being surprised, even though he had served in the Inquisition for many years, but it was the first time he knew that there was such a place

It's here

Approaching the door of a cell, the High Bishop ordered a sergeant standing outside the cell to open the iron door of the cell

Master McLeck only had five minutes to grasp the high-ranking bishop and said to McLeck, who was the archbishop

Thank you, McLeck nodded to the High Bishop, and walked into the cell

Bang - the iron door was closed from the outside

In the middle of the cell, there was a man in prison clothes, whose hands and feet were chained by four thick chains, because the other ends of the chains were attached to the iron rings at the four corners of the cell and pulled tightly, the locked man's body seemed to be pulled into the air by the chains, and his hands and feet could not move for half a minute, and only prisoners who were about to be executed were treated like this, in order to prevent prisoners from cutting themselves off before the execution in order to escape the pain

Yes...... The boy McLeck came to the prisoner with a disheveled head, only to see that the latter's face was skeletal and haggard, because he had not cleaned his beard for more than a month, it had already covered the young face, and what was even more shocking was that between his eyes and the right side of his face, there was a terrible scar in the shape of a centipede

Son, you must have suffered a lot, and the archbishop saw that the prisoner's prison clothes had been stained red and black by the old and new bloodstains, and he could see that the prisoner was not tortured for a day or two

Hearing McLeck's voice, the prisoner turned his head and came out, and when he saw McLeck, the prisoner's dull eyes immediately cleared, and he squeezed out a reluctant smile to McLeck: Uncle McLeck, you are finally here, since the last battle with the necromancer, I didn't expect that we would meet again in this form

You can still laugh at Julian's forced smile at the prisoner, and McLeck's tone is full of regret, do you know that you have made a big mistake

Can you tell what is right and what is wrong, Uncle McLeck, and who can tell?

Don't you understand, so many years of paladin training have been in vain, His Majesty the Pope is the spokesman of God on the ground in the light, and God's decision will not be wrong, so the Pope's words are the absolute truth, do you even have to question this, you are shaken by the Pope's words, because you don't know the Holy See well enough......

No, Uncle McLeck, the more I know about the Holy See, the more confused I am about what it is doing

Julian, he's still obsessed with it at this point

Julian smiled and turned his head away without answering

You have committed a capital crime, and it is my unremitting efforts that I finally asked His Majesty the Pope for permission to make a final confession and prayer for you, but until now you have not even the slightest intention of repentance

Confession, Julian shook his head, nothing matters now, I disobeyed the Pope's order at the beginning, I had expected such an end, if this is the fate I must face, I have no regrets

Oh my God, what made you fall like this, a month ago you were a respected hero, but now ...... Humming his misfortune and being angry about his indisputable - this is McLeck's mood at this time

By the way, Uncle McLeck, my father, do you know?

At this point, you only remembered that what was the use of asking your father for help, you also understood that the laws of the Central Church were above the laws of any country, not to mention that your death penalty was personally ordered by His Majesty the Pope, even if your father was an important minister of the Rocard Empire, it was impossible to influence the decree of the Pope

You misunderstood Uncle McLeck, I never thought and would never let my father come to save me, do things alone, when I don't want to implicate my family, Uncle McLeck, you are a friend of my father, my father is the only son, I hope you can help comfort him after he leaves, so that he will not be too sad

Alas...... McLeck sighed, knowing why bother today

If I had been given another chance, I would still have made this choice, Julian said very firmly

Sadly, you have not repented of your sins, Archduke Rousseau, I have broken my word, I have failed to take care of your son, Myleck, and I have drawn a cross on my breast, O God, in spite of the sins of this child, I ask for mercy and forgiveness, and accept his soul, Amen--

You don't have to blame yourself, Uncle McLeck, you've done enough for me, Julian comforted the archbishop

At this moment, the iron door of the cell was suddenly opened, and it was time for Master Myleck, the high-ranking bishop walked in and reminded Myleck

McLeck gave Julian one last look, then sighed, shook his head, and followed the High Bishop out of the cell, and when the two of them had gone far, two sergeants entered, and they lowered Julian from the four chains, and then brought a thick hemp rope to bundle Julian with the intention of tying Julian with a large bundle

Don't bother you, I'll go myself, Julian pushed away the sergeant who had tried to bind him, got up from the ground, and strode out of the cell

It was a long corridor, but Julian felt that it was very short, and the footsteps generated by his every step echoed in the empty corridor, even if he was facing death, Julian's psychology at this time was very calm, and finally Julian and the two sergeants who escorted him behind him came to the execution chamber with a row of steel virgins, and saw that the fourth torture instrument on the right had been opened, and the iron door was welcomed, welcoming new guests into it

An executioner was gushing out the indictment of Julian Rousseau, and Julian didn't pay attention to what the indictment was about, and he couldn't help but think of a lovely smiling face with shoulder-length hair...... Frey ...... Julian muttered softly

When the indictment was read, Julian took a deep breath, the last breath of the air in the world, and walked into the torture instrument with his head held high.......