A heavy gray fog lingered over the royal capital of Santadal, and the magnificent buildings were covered with a hazy gray veil.
Li Pu followed the team and gradually walked towards the square in front of the gate. He looked towards the center of the square and saw the tall execution platform in the mist.
The Paladins and Iron Guards held tall flags and formed several thick human walls at the edge of the square. This made the square empty, but outside the square there were silhouettes of people in the mist. And the buildings further away were also filled with countless figures.
Millions of people in the entire city have walked out of their homes at this moment, standing in various locations and looking towards here. There are people everywhere in the city now, but the whole city is quiet at the moment.
No one made any noise.
At this time, some onlookers saw the escort team marching in the square through the fog, so some people who knew magic raised their hands. Immediately afterwards, a strong wind blew in the city.
Snoring...
The wind became stronger and stronger, the flags kept flying in the wind, and the fog in the city gradually dispersed.
Li Pu suddenly raised his head and saw the true face of the city.
Dilapidated tall buildings, mottled and rotten white walls, muddy and smelly gray bluestone streets, and densely packed moldy patients...
In the past three months, thick mold velvet has grown and spread crazily in the city like rust, crawling into every corner.
The once holy city has become a dying patient suffering from severe mildew. Skinny people are crowded in every corner of the city. Their heavy breathing sounds like old bellows, creaking in this dilapidated city. Noise.
People were silent, focusing their eyes on the execution escort team.
Blah blah blah...
A rotten flag flew into the sky in the strong wind, and there was a commotion in the crowd. A emaciated woman holding a dead baby in her arms took advantage of the chaos to squeeze out of the soldiers' wall and rushed madly towards the escort team.
"Give me back my child!! You give me back my child!!"
When the woman rushed in front of Li Pu, he clearly saw the woman's bloodshot eyes and saw the hatred and anger in her eyes.
Several knights hurriedly stopped the woman and dragged her back to the crowd.
In the chaos, the dead baby fell to the ground, was stepped on, and kicked to Li Pu's side.
It was just a broken puppet infested with disgusting plaque.
'Crazy, all crazy. '
Li Pu quietly looked at the thousands of pairs of eyes coming from the entire city. If his eyes could turn into swords, he would be riddled with holes right now.
'I am considered an evil god by madmen. '
Suddenly, someone on a building in the city suddenly sang a hymn to the sky, breaking the silence in the city.
It was obviously a passionate hymn, but it sounded hysterical, like a madman screaming before his death.
Gradually, people in the whole city began to sing hymns. In the blink of an eye, sounds surged through the city like violent waves.
["na-si-ki-ya-pei-ye-li, O Most High Saviour, hear us..."]
["Although this twisted world is irredeemable..."]
["But I still ask you to grant us, the dirty ones, real salvation..."]
In this violent tsunami, the knights who escorted the prisoners to the execution platform were shivering all over.
"Crazy, everyone is crazy!!"
Katerina, the female knight responsible for escorting Li Pu, said tremblingly, her forehead already covered with fine beads of sweat.
'It seems that these knights are awake and they all know that the person who will be executed today is not the evil god. That's why they are so afraid. '
'Because they know what will happen if the fungal plague is still not contained after today's execution. '
Li Pu looked at the crowds singing hymns from all directions and thought: 'The string in people's hearts has collapsed to the extreme. If it is not released, then there will be no need for the evil god to come, and the end will come to this place. '
The chants in the city were deafening. What the knights heard was madness, but what Li Pu heard was the hope and despair in people's hearts.
'These people are driven crazy by despair. '
Li Pu suddenly understood why the queen and the others wanted to execute these 'evil gods'.
These 'evil gods' are the last straw in their hearts - even if they know it may be fake, they will grab it frantically.
The wind gradually died down and the fog returned. Li Pu followed the escort team slowly towards the execution platform.
The chants were still clear in the mist.
"Since ancient times, there has been a legend among Santadal."
A 'savior' next to Li Pu suddenly looked at the sky and said sadly: "When the end comes to Tadar, the gods in heaven will send an archangel to come in hymns and kill the evil god."
Li Pu turned to look at the man in surprise and found that the guy had taken the cloth out of his mouth at some point.
"In the past three months, people have sung hymns countless times. The gods in heaven have never responded, but people's singing has become more and more uniform and pious."
The madman suddenly turned his head to look at Li Pu, and said with stern eyes: "No gods will ever respond. The only ones who respond to this world are us ten saviors!"
'It's nine. '
Li Pu said in his heart.
'You are all more of a savior than I am. '
Not long after, Li Pu and others were escorted to the execution platform.
Because the fog has shrouded again, the crowd on the execution platform can no longer be seen clearly. However, standing here, you can see the situation behind the execution platform.
Looking behind the execution platform, there is a larger platform. You can vaguely see through the fog that the Queen and others are taking their positions there.
Before Li Pu could look more, Katerina behind him pushed him and then dragged him to the stake in the center of the execution platform.
As for Li Pu's 'evil god associates', they were placed on several strange guillotines by other knights.
"Sir Victor, the things arranged by your referee are really caused by Taihu!"
While supervising her subordinates to tie up Li Pu at the stake, Katerina complained to an official on the execution platform: "This stake seems to be a temporary one, right? Can it burn the evil god to death?" !”
These female knights are the queen's personal guards. Both his life experience and status are extraordinary. Some are even heirs to certain grand duchies—princesses, so to speak. Therefore, when they talked with the leader of the tribunal, their attitude was very casual.
"Stop complaining, Your Highness Katerina. It's not like you don't know that back then, there were only nine demon-slaying platforms spread to the Holy City from the Kingdom of Heaven."
The leader of the Inquisition, 'Great Templar. Sword of Dusk. Victor', sighed: "Today, the original plan was to execute 9 'evil gods', but your majesty temporarily captured an 'evil god'. We can only get one temporarily." Burning at the stake.”
Hearing this, Li Pu was slightly startled.
Beheading an evil god doesn't seem ridiculous.
Judging from the subsequent conversation between the two, these 'guillotines' seemed to be some kind of high-standard demon-killing holy objects. In the history of Tadar, some big evil spirits were openly executed with this kind of thing.
Therefore, if you want to kill the evil god, you really have to chop off his head!
Using these demon-slaying holy objects to execute today's 'evil gods' is also very convincing to the people.
That's why Katerina complained - the stake was an ordinary mortal thing, and it was lit with ordinary fire.
No matter how you look at it, ordinary fire cannot burn the evil god. Use this kind of thing to deceive the people and say that the evil god was burned to death...
"Don't worry." The presiding judge, Sir Victor, stretched out his hand and helped the knights tie the moldy ropes around Li Pu's body. He said, "You just need to tie the ropes well and don't let him burn when the fire starts. Just run away - he is a lunatic anyway and will die if he gets burned."
"What I'm worried about is not whether he will burn to death, what I'm worried about is that he will be ganged up on!"
Katerina wiped the cold sweat from her head, looked at the people in the distance and whispered: "They are crazy, not stupid - is an evil god who can be burned to death still an evil god?!"
"Don't worry." The presiding judge reassured: "Archbishop Ayesha has made arrangements. She will personally guide the Holy Light to kill this madman."
"Has Ayesha taken the medicine?" Katerina called the Archbishop by his first name.
"Drink, don't worry. Her sanity is normal now." The presiding judge Victor looked at the high platform behind and added: "At least she is normal today."
Many officials and knights around him breathed a sigh of relief.
With Ayesha's magical power and acting skills, even if the burning stake is ordinary fire, she will make people believe that the heaven has sent down the holy light to judge the evil god.
——"It turns out that Ms. Ayesha came to act in person, so that should be no problem."
——"The people will believe that the dead ones belong to the evil god."
