Chapter 53-Justice?(3)
Chapter 53-Justice?(3)
An experiment to collect sunlight with a magnifying glass and burn paper. It is now clearly in my vague childhood memories. Before this world went crazy, when it was a normal and calm world.
Just as I used to burn paper by collecting sunlight, this time I planned to burn a living creature. Even a living person.
Although they are small creatures less than 1cm in length, they are definitely human.
But at the same time, I was also an enemy of Serenian, the elves who had migrated to my pot.
Serenian wanted to show his overwhelming strength, just as the spirit of the sky dropped his spear with a pin to catch the demonic mouse bugs that crawled out to the ground last time, so that he could calm his trembling heart.
So that not only you but also other elves can see it and make up their minds again. To prove that they are not wrong.
So I accepted the request. It was intended to show the power of a truly overwhelming and powerful divine spirit if seen in a flowerpot, as Serenian wanted.
“—. —!”
In the flowerpot, the elves were busy moving. And in the center, he could see Serenian commanding the elves.
They were building something in the wide open space in front of the World Tree. A firewood pole made by stacking up a pole made of several tack pins firmly driven into the ground and split toothpicks around it.
The expressions of the elves who were making it were strange. It’s like a mixture of fear and tension.
Only Serenian was unwaveringly resolute among them.
“—-!”
As soon as the preparations were over, the elves dragged the prisoners out of the dungeon where the ants’ nests were located. Prisoners of the investigative team dispatched from the Central Conference, which has already dug up most of the information that can be gleaned.
Of the mix of elves and humans, only humans were tied to poles. As I expected, instead of killing the elves, Serenian seemed to be thinking of other ways.
“—? –!”
In the end, one of the humans who were tied to the pillars alone was seen talking about something with a stern face as Serenian approached them.
I thought I knew what you were talking about. Do you know how to do it, or don’t do stupid things, something like that.
“–.”
However, Serenian responded coldly and responded by slapping him in the face.
Naturally, the humans were enraged as a group and shouted more, but she rather smiled at them and put her finger to her mouth as a sign to be quiet.
Then she raised her finger and pointed her sky. At the same time she turned her body towards the elves watching her.
Anxiety still lingered on the faces of the elves. It has to be. According to Serenian’s words, what she was doing now was by no means moderate.
Even though she avoided being tied to a pole, the elves of the investigation team who fell to the ground in contemplation were horrified at her actions.
[Elf’s Prayer – Prayer of Punishment]
While everyone was watching him, Serenian stood in his place and began to pray to the sky. It was her sincerity to me.
‘If you want.’
I saw the letters shimmering in front of my eyes and her will, and I raised the camera lens that I had prepared in advance. It would certainly be easy to set the tiny creature on fire if it let the intense daylight through the verenda window pass through.
“—?! –!!!!”
A total of seven people were tied to poles. I focused the condensed sunlight on the body of one of them through the thick camera lens.
It wasn’t long before I could see screams and smoke burning, but my hands didn’t shake. Her enemies are my enemies. She must not hesitate to kill enemies to survive. It wasn’t actually the first time I’ve tried killing people.
***
“Gee, don’t lie. Heaven’s punishment.”
When the elves first mentioned Heaven’s Punishment.
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Ethan didn’t believe it even as he was being dragged along with the others.
“These gnomes are finally crazy!”
“Those who joined hands with the beasts!”
It was the same with the humans who were being held together that showed a violent reaction. They did not stop fighting fiercely.
“Serenian!”
And when they were all brought outside. Edan shouted when he saw the high elf Serenian commanding the elves.
Then, hearing that cry, she looked back at him with indifferent eyes.
“Stop here. If things get bigger than this, I won’t be able to handle it!”
“Can you handle it?”
“Yes, it is at the level of the investigation team now, but if the central meeting knew this, they would not be silent. Will mobilize troops. Wouldn’t it be better if it was between us, even humans are intertwined. If their soldiers get hurt, the humans will definitely step in.”
Ethan tried to convince her as best he could with her trembling voice. From his point of view, Serenian and some of the elves here were doing something ridiculous and reckless.
He thought that it was impossible to counter the power of the Central Council, which was allied with one human kingdom and gathered the power of the Great Forest Elves at the level of a village like this.
“You are not wrong. Barbaric, cowardly bastards like you will never be able to afford war…”
“You shut the knife!”
When the leader of the humans opened his mouth, Ethan shouted in a fit of rage. One reason he was so desperate and earnest was to persuade and save Serenian.
“Please understand. A meaningless resistance, Serenian. They just get hurt and die.”
“Can you see this?”
But Serenian smiled and turned his back, halfway down his clothes, revealing a spotless white back full of scars. Like the crest engraved on the back of her hand now, when she first became a high elf in the Great Grove World Tree.
A pure white back with that symbol engraved on it. It was Ethan who cut the back and erased the symbol.
“You carved it like this with dozens of whippings. Caught in front of disgusting traitors, making me pass out and wake up over and over again. But you speak so shamelessly.”
“Th-If you don’t, the elder will kill you! Do you really think I would have been okay with whipping you?!”
Ethan, his eyes shaking, exclaimed urgently. In fact, Ersilla had no intention of keeping Serenian alive, who had been resisting until the end. It was thanks to Ethan’s stepping up and stopping him that he was able to end it with an exile sentence.
“…Your mistake in not letting me die then, Ethan. Tie the humans to poles!”
Serenian didn’t deny it either, but he didn’t forgive him either.
Shortly, among the captives brought by the elves under her command, only humans were selected and bound to iron posts that had been made in advance.
Ethan closed her mouth, but she couldn’t say anything more. She said she was too cold and adamant, but she didn’t know what the hell was going on.
“I’m sure you will regret it, you stupid dwarf!”
And that was the case with the others as well. The humans of the investigation team who were now tied up were also desperate, not knowing what would happen to them.
In particular, their captain, who was called Carl, did not hesitate to insult Serenian.
“Why should we regret? You are the enemy who attacked us first and harmed our families.”
“Hmm, the only alliance we have is the elder and the elves who are loyal to her. That means traitors like you are not allies or anything. Now, there are more than one sneaky bastard out there targeting you… Who do you think is stopping those worms with the excuse of an alliance?”
Carl smirked, running her up and down her. Her face hardened sternly at the gaze that scanned her own exposed skin.
“You will be brutally trampled. Are you confident that you can command monster ants? In four years, all others here will be trampled down, defeated, and taken into slavery! Big.”
“Stupid.”
Serenian punched him in the face as he poured out curses.
Afterwards, deciding that she wasn’t worth talking to, she turned to look at those who were looking at her. Residents following her own, as well as those taken prisoner.
“We are not doing this because we have no power.”
And she pointed to the sky. Those who had just arrived from the outside looked at her with bewildered eyes, but the residents of this place couldn’t help but understand what her actions meant.
“Even the spirits who take care of us in the sky were enraged by your actions. He himself will judge you.”
“Breaking nonsense…Goddess such as demons from the underworld, goddesses from the Church of Order, and earth mothers from the gnomes do not directly intervene. Like your proud world tree!”
“Then you can check it yourself. In what way Heaven punishes you.”
Serenian laughed. The thought of watching their enemies’ faith in their own rightness be shattered in one stroke filled them with joy.
‘This is our belief, Ethan.’
Serenian, who started praying, glanced at Ethan, who was looking at him with a blank face. It was her moment to prove what she believed in and chose to fight.
“This!”
“The sun moves!”
And that moment.
Obviously, the bright sunlight was intensely concentrated in a single moment.
The concentrated sunlight slowly moved the floor and headed somewhere, and everyone was speechless. A miracle no one can explain.
“Ughhhhh!!! Hot! Stop that! Stop!!!”
The destination was one of the humans who were bound. The sunlight focused on the body heated up the iron pole and began to heat the tied body alive.