On the other side, the mages also completed the spellcasting arrangements. Many glass bottles were placed on the trestle, containing pure souls.
What a big gesture, Jayne thought to himself.
He knew that refining souls was not easy, and when the World Island was captured, mages were only used at the most critical moments. Unexpectedly, they took out nearly a hundred bottles this time.
God knows where these souls are collected from.
Following the Duke's order, the soldiers began to rotate the winch on the box vigorously.
The side walls of the iron box gradually closed up, squeezing the prisoner's living space little by little.
Jayne couldn't help but be a little surprised. Did this adult want to crush the prisoner to death? Although there is nothing wrong with this method of execution, and it can serve as a warning to others if carried out in the square of the imperial capital, execution on a permanently frozen sea in a world of ice and snow feels a bit unnecessary.
"Your Excellency, are you planning to..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Aurora.
"This is not meaningless torture, but the key to causing the soul to tremble." The latter said calmly, "Have you ever heard of an evil spirit called a Yuan ghost?"
Jayne shook his head honestly.
He could talk all afternoon about the types of cannons and boat-managing skills, but his understanding of demons basically remained at the impression of strange and difficult enemies.
There are not many opportunities to encounter evil spirits at sea.
"This is the naming of the East. They subdivide evil spirits into six categories, and then name them according to their characteristics. At this point, they do a better job than us." Aurora continued, "Yuan A ghost is such an evil spirit. It usually likes to curl up in a narrow space and pull people who accidentally get close into it. No matter how big the target is, their hiding place will not be damaged, so the only thing that changes is Those unlucky ones who got caught.”
The fleet commander suddenly trembled.
This chill comes not from the snowflakes and ice floes of the permafrost sea, but from the iron boxes placed on the dock.
Wouldn't the shrinking space be the same as the prison of the Abyss Ghost to the prisoner
"It seems you have discovered it." Aurora smiled, "Abyss ghosts can be artificially guided out. Dongfang has used similar torture instruments to create magical weapons that hide Abyss ghosts. But our research needs to go further. You’ll see next.”
At this time, the whine sounded.
The closed walls of the box tightly suppressed the prisoner in the center. The first places to feel pain were his arms, chest and lungs. The severe pain caused by the inward contraction of their ribs made them scream loudly, but the sound soon faded away - it was not that death came so quickly, but that the front and rear iron plates pressed against their chests and backs, making them unable to He couldn't successfully complete the inhalation and exhalation process, and the screams naturally became impossible.
But that didn't mean the pain disappeared.
Judging from the prisoners' ferocious faces and red cheeks, it is known that the torture they endured far exceeds the severe cold of the Permafrost Sea.
The purple soul in the bottle also began to tremble, as if being pulled by something.
Your Excellency the Duke wants to create abyss ghosts
Jayne van Riet gasped when he realized this.
Although the Church of the Moon Goddess is not as hostile to evil as the Church of the Sun God, it has stated many times in public that eradicating evil is the church's duty. After all, everyone knows that evil and living beings are incompatible and are sent by hell. As human minions, eradicating evil spirits is about winning the hearts and minds of the people.
Behind the Duke, His Majesty Talius is also the main leader of the church, almost on an equal footing with the Pope. Everything Aurora does can be regarded as having obtained His Majesty’s consent and support. Doesn’t this mean that the church’s top leaders themselves are creating demons
And... why did the Duke mention the evil knowledge of the East? He had the impression that Natadine had not established diplomacy with the countries on the edge of the world. How did this news reach the ears of the imperial mages
However, as a professional soldier, he is loyal to His Majesty, and he will never pry into issues that should not be under his control.
The squeezing time is quite long.
As if to intensify the pain of the torturer, the soldier rotates the winch slower in the second half. Occasionally there would be one or two clicks of broken bones, but at other times there was only death-like gasping.
Blood seeped from the cracks in the box, staining the overlapping vines on the dock red.
"Sir, please give them a happy life!" Elder Coslin couldn't help crying.
Aurora sighed, "I originally wanted to share the honor of going to the new world with you, but it seems that you can't bear it." She nodded her chin at the bodyguard, "Take this adult down. Remember. , don’t let her touch any branch of the tree boat.”
"yes!"
Soon several soldiers swarmed up, picked up the pleading elf elder, and dragged him out of the dock area.
Two quarters of an hour later, the execution was coming to an end.
After the ribs were broken, the body's resistance dropped sharply, the internal organs were ruptured one by one, and pieces of flesh and blood were squeezed out of many people's mouths. Even the last gasps became weaker and weaker.
At this moment, the soul in the bottle suddenly jumped out of the bottle!
A layer of purple mist filled the air above the trestle.
In an instant, Jayne felt that his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by something, and his stomach juices began to churn! He couldn't help but take two steps back and covered his mouth with an ugly expression.
Other soldiers reacted more strongly than he did, and some even fell to the ground and vomited directly.
These elites have experienced hundreds of battles, and it is impossible for them to lose their composure because of the miserable conditions of a group of prisoners.
It was more direct malice, as if someone was staring at them from somewhere!
The mages had already set up mental protection spells. They advanced instead of retreating and chanted spells in unison.
"Your Majesty the Duke, the abyss ghost you are talking about... ahem... how on earth are you going to help us get through the high black wall?" Jayne couldn't help but ask. The evil demon has not yet taken shape, and its hostility towards the living is so obvious. Once it appears in its full form, will it still be at the mercy of the mage
"It's very simple," Aurora said calmly, "If the container is too small, it will squeeze people to death, but if the container is large enough, it will be different. The essence of the Yuan ghost is the power of chaos, which can break the barriers in the common sense and make it a An unobstructed passage. Just like humans cannot get into a narrow gap by their own strength, but the Abyss Ghost can pull us into it."
She paused at this point, "And this invisible black wall is the new shelter of the Abyss Ghost!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a force field spell of the plasticity system appeared out of thin air, forming a hexagonal "huge honeycomb" on the outer edge of the border.
At this moment, the winch turned to the bottom.
All the victims breathed their last.
The purple mist seemed to come alive, swarming into the "container" constructed by the force field, and a dark door suddenly appeared in front of everyone!