Old days in the box

Chapter 29

The effect of the Hidden Knife is disappearing!
Sharon was startled and immediately hid in a side alley with Lothar's Edge in her arms.

As the duration of Lothar's Edge ended, Sharon's entire body had quickly appeared.

"Sure enough, it won't last long. Now we can only wait for it to cool down." Zhou Xiao was also anxious on the screen and almost squatted on the chair.

Fortunately, the streets near the War Sanctuary were complicated and there were many dark places in the alleys, so it was not so easy to find Sharon.

"The Divine Sword has failed...has it been used for too long?" Sharon shook Lothar's Edge nervously, but this time the Hidden Sword did not give her a response, but fell into a short cooling time.

She is now in front of the War Sanctuary. All the Kingdom soldiers escorting the team will pass by here. If she is not careful, she may be discovered.

Just then, she heard the noise coming from the door of the sanctuary, getting louder and louder.

Sharon exposed half of her head from the alley and secretly looked in the direction of the sanctuary.

In front of the main hall of the War Sanctuary, a large number of people were gathering here, fiercely opposing the grand sacrificial ceremony.

"Oppose the grand sacrificial ceremony! Oppose the sacrifice of civilians!"

"Release the hostages and set me free!"

"The soldiers of the Kingdom pretended to be powerful and confiscated people's property without permission. Protest!"

A large number of shouts and curses intensified, and the number of people gathered in front of the war sanctuary continued to expand, and hundreds of people gathered before they knew it.

These are, the opposition?
Zhou Xiao in front of the screen was also watching the farce with great interest and even ordered a takeaway.

But since they are the opposition, why do they dare to protest at the gate of the War Sanctuary?Aren't you afraid of being arrested?

The scene of the kingdom soldiers beating the poor man and taking him back was still vivid in his mind, which shows that the capital will show no mercy to those who turn to believe in the sons of the past.

"It seems that these are just ordinary people who simply oppose the ceremony. They should be neutrals." Zhou Xiao quickly understood.

At this time, the captain of the guard in the sanctuary led the soldiers out of the door, with more than 60 prisoners behind him.

With an indifferent look on his face, he stared at the angry crowd below and said:
"Everyone, the sanctuary only requires you to submit one person from each household. Now that the number of people required for the grand sacrificial ceremony is about to be met, you are all members of your family who have submitted quotas. Stop messing around and leave."

"The miracle of the God of War is about to come, and we will finally win."

The guard captain's words obviously angered the protesting crowd below, causing them to erupt even more violently.

But his words also confirmed Zhou Xiao's conjecture from the side. The people protesting below were indeed neutral people, not converts, so the kingdom's attitude towards them was relatively softer.

It turns out that the great sacrificial ceremony directly requires each of their families to surrender one person.

Are the gods here so straightforward about asking for sacrifices? Don't they even hint at it?Zhou Xiao thought.

Although the captain of the guard said so, the actual situation was obviously not as fair as he said.

Sharon's experience is enough to get a glimpse of it. During the process of performing sacrifices, it was obvious that many soldiers harbored selfish motives and used orders to secretly make money to satisfy their selfish desires.

Nobles like Sharon were not spared, which shows how rampant these soldiers are, and they will only become more unscrupulous when facing ordinary people.

No wonder so many people gathered in front of the War Sanctuary to protest.

At this time, Sharon heard the guard captain say this and clenched the hand holding the hidden sword tightly.

"The War Sanctuary allows the soldiers to blackmail us. None of the bishops and captains in the Sanctuary need to be handed over, but they want to arrest us civilians to make up the number. Why?"

Hysterical roars came from the resisting crowd, and the number of people gathered continued to increase.

Many poor people's homes had been completely burned by the fire, and they had nowhere to go except here.

However, the guard captain standing at the entrance of the sanctuary did not even raise his eyelids, as if he could not hear the roar of the crowd at all, and just continued:
"But before you leave, the sanctuary will ask you to witness something."

"Those behind me are all traitors to the evil god in the kingdom who have violated their faith. They listened to the bewitchment of the deep-diving evil, and actually gave up their belief in the God of War and converted to that old evil god! You should take this as a warning and don't step on it. Go to the same dead end as them!"

As soon as the guard captain finished speaking, the more than 60 prisoners behind him were directly pierced in the heart by the soldiers, and their blood flowed to the ground.

Screams erupted from the crowd, and the fierce yelling suddenly fell silent.

"It turns out that after a long time of work, you came to Caishikou to behead someone in public." Zhou Xiao laughed.In ancient times, when criminals were executed, they would often follow the routine of questioning and beheading at the food market at three quarters in the afternoon.

On the one hand, this is superstitious, and the Yang Qi at noon should be used to resist the Yin Qi of the prisoner. But more importantly, beheading at Caishikou can play a great deterrent effect and serve as a warning to the onlookers.

This guard captain never came to respond to the people.

His purpose was to execute these converts in public to intimidate other people in the city.

It's ridiculous, the War Sanctuary doesn't care about the death of civilians, but it does care about what the civilians believe.

"It seems that the capital has been divided into three factions. The supporters of the War Sanctuary, those who have converted to the deep-diving elves, and the neutral ordinary people. This is the rhythm of a big fight." Zhou Xiao shook his head.

I really don’t know that the kingdom has become such a mess without opening the map.

The execution of the captain of the guard indeed had a great deterrent effect.

The crowd, which had been noisy just now, was obviously quiet now.

All the more than 60 prisoners fell down, and their blood flowed down the steps of the sanctuary. Seeing such a scene, who dared to protest loudly?

And Zhou Xiao also noticed that although the captain of the guard claimed that there were more than 60 heretics who had converted to the deep-diving elves.

But the only person who emerged from his window was Sharon, a believer.

In other words, those people did not pass the filter of the window. They did not believe in Zhou Xiao wholeheartedly. They just couldn't bear the oppression of the War Sanctuary, so they rebelled in the name of deep-diving elves.

"Excalibur is responding!"

At this time, after Lothar's Edge slowed down for a while, the light of the runes was rekindled.

Sharon quickly picked up Lothar's Edge, and her body disappeared into the air again, disappearing from sight.

Although she was shocked by the execution just now, the War Sanctuary was right in front of her, and she believed that she would be able to find her father's whereabouts inside this time.

"Very good, I'm ready too. Let's go in quickly." Zhou Xiao was also a little nervous off-screen.

For this great sacrificial ceremony, the kingdom even did not hesitate to make its own capital look like this.

What they are messing with here must be something big.

Sharon, who was invisible again, ran out of the alley, carefully walked up the stairs, bypassed the blood on the ground and the guards at the door, and walked into the War Sanctuary.

Under the cover of the Hidden Knife, this sanctuary, which represents the highest divine power of the Kingdom of Donnos, finally appeared in front of Zhou Xiao.

In the window, a grand temple building gradually opened up.

The little Sharon was running around inside, passing one burning stove after another.

Zhou Xiao scrolled the mouse and slightly enlarged the field of view.

As Sharon opened the drawing, he was gradually able to clearly see the internal structure of the War Sanctuary from the bird's eye view.

This place is more like a giant foundry than a temple.

More than a dozen stoves are arranged neatly, emitting fire. The pipes of these stoves eventually lead to the War Altar, which is also the largest stove pool in the War Sanctuary.

Sharon used invisibility to run into the depths of the sanctuary, where escorting groups of people could be seen everywhere, leading to different furnaces.

The sounds of crying and cursing echoed in the corridor, like purgatory on earth.

She saw these people being escorted here from the capital, and finally pushed into the furnace one by one, where they were melted together with the high-temperature molten iron.

The temperature of the molten iron in the furnace is so high that when a person falls into it, there is almost no sound immediately.

When Sharon saw this, she immediately collapsed.

The Great Sacrifice Ceremony turned out to be a large-scale living sacrifice using human lives!
A long queue was escorted in front of each furnace, and they were pushed into the furnace in an orderly manner. After melting at high temperature, all the molten iron finally flowed along the pipes and gathered into the pool of the big altar.

The supreme war priest was standing in front of the high altar, holding the parchment high and reciting the final ritual incantation.

(End of this chapter)