quicksilver blood

Chapter 287 Execution Day

It is now three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still nearly three hours before the execution in Orlando.

Two hours after the notice was issued, the place of execution in Orlando was finally determined.

As the first major criminal to be executed with a silver injection in the history of the White Tower, Orlando will be publicly executed with a silver injection on the highest spire of the White Tower.Because the top floor of the second tower is only less than three meters away from the Great Barrier, the execution at that height would be invisible to the people below, thus losing the meaning of public execution.

After a brief discussion, the execution location was determined on a protruding balcony on the second floor of the second tower.This is a height that can be seen clearly even from the ground.

Now some wizards of the silver rank have begun to assemble the silver-infused chairs on the second floor of the second tower—this is still quite the original kind of silver-infused chairs, although the style is old, the silver is shining like it was just released.

It was a luxurious torture instrument in the style of high elf art.

Although theoretically the simplest punishment for injecting silver is just to draw blood, inject silver, and freeze it, it is said that under the advice of several old wizards who have studied the ancient culture of Elcate, the execution in Orlando will restore the ancient Elcate as much as possible. People's silver pouring ceremony.

The equipment used to carry out the silver injection is a rather artistic seat fixed on the ground.

The only set of silver-infused torture instruments in the White Tower was brought out along with part of the treasure trove when Scott and Anvilia left the royal court.So far, it can be considered as a cultural relic.

It looks somewhat similar to the electric chair used by Elkart in ancient times to execute electrocutions, except that it is wrapped with a large number of twisted silver thorny metal vines.

These seemingly metal vines are actually hollow, and they are not metal, but some kind of wooden vines with pseudo-iron properties, but they are just coated with a layer of silver on the outside.

These quite artistic twisted vines are actually consumables that are pulled out from the opening of the silver injection chair after putting the material in the material slot behind the seat—it is still slightly hot to the touch.

When executing the punishment of injecting money, the victim must sit on a seat fixed on the ground.Afterwards, these silver vines will be tightened little by little under the action of the mechanism, until those sharp spikes cut through the skin, and the silver vines are embedded into the body along the cracks in the skin, and there is no more protrusion on the skin surface. Until then, the first step is considered completed.

Silver lines would appear on the surface of the prisoner's skin like tattoos, and the blood in the prisoner's body would be drawn out by the lines on the vines and flow to the seat behind him.At the same time, the whole body of the prisoner was fixed by wooden vines with pseudo-iron characteristics, and the whole person seemed to be nailed to death by steel bars. His joints could no longer bend a little, and he could only sit stiffly on the seat like this, and the rest of his life was also trapped. countdown.

When the victim fainted due to blood loss, the executioner would press the switch on the seat, and the mercury vapor stored in the silver vine would be gently injected into the executioner's blood vessels to fill the blood void. .

The slight high temperature softens the vines, and the seat behind the victim unfolds backwards under the action of the mechanism to become a metal surface, and the body of the victim tied to it unfolds backwards and lies flat.

By this time, the victim was probably dead.The mercury will continuously fill it, completely filling the blood vessels.Then the executor took away the vessel containing the mercury, put the victim in a huge crystal cover engraved with embalming mantras, filled the inside with mercury until no gaps could be seen, and then sealed the mouth. After being stored at low temperature, it is placed in a coffin and buried underground.

If the executioner's technique was good enough at this time, the victim should not have suffered any unnecessary injuries.In this case, their souls will be completely frozen after three months.

Their bodies are still elastic, their souls still have intelligence, and they even have a sense of touch.But because their souls are too heavy, it is impossible for them to ascend to heaven and return to the kingdom of gods.They can only freeze like this until the world ends - or is stolen by the devil.

The souls of these sinners have been turned into crystal-like works of art, and the filth in the souls has been completely purified by mercury.In the devil's world, every silver-filled sinful soul is the top luxury.So far, not a single soul who has been cast in silver is not in the hands of the devil.People will not fight against the devil for the corpses of these sinners. In more cases, the devil will sign some contracts with them that are beneficial to people, as a reasonable and legal exchange for taking away these souls.

The execution of the silver injection is so ceremonial, which is related to the culture of the ancient Ercate people.They believe that through such rituals, people's blood can be purified and the minds of those buried near the silver injector can be purified.

To be more precise, today's three capital punishments were originally invented by the Elkat people.

The cross is the symbol of the Dormant Master.The blood of those who were crucified would soak the entire cross.And when they died, the smell of blood was enough to attract flies.The Elkat believe that this will make the Sleeping Master, who loves cleanliness, hate such a dead person and not take his soul away.This is why the people of Elkat bathe and put makeup on corpses.

Both the fire and the silver injection are related to the two sworn enemies of the Elcates.Of these two mortal enemies, one will turn into black venom and enter the human body to control the thoughts of others, while the other will turn into a human, using lies and music to provoke struggle among the crowd.

What these two have in common is that they both have a considerable degree of immortality.Only the punishment of silver injection and fire can seal the two.It can be said that at the very beginning, there were more ritual elements in the three capital punishments than punishments.And it wasn't just the three capital punishments in the beginning, it's just that these three have been handed down.

Later, under the deduction of the gods, the punishment of crucifixion, fire and silver injection became the death penalty for anti-humanity, traitors and heretics.

However, even the scholars of the White Tower can only understand this level at most.After Elcate turned into a desert, that period of history was also buried.There are still relatively complete records about Dongguohui, but there are only some rather vague descriptions hidden in poems and biographies in the White Tower.

There were still a few hours before the execution, and the gray-haired old wizards had already arrived at the top of the second tower early. They gathered around the silver-filled chairs being assembled and excitedly exchanged their stories about ancient Erkart. Research.

The executioner this time will be Scott. In response to the requests of the old wizards, he will use the most standard procedure to demonstrate the entire process of silver injection to the majority of wizard apprentices and wizards who study the ancient history of Elkata. .

Unlike those young people.Compared with Orlando's crimes, these old wizards are more looking forward to what the whole process of the original version of the silver injection looks like.After all, listening and watching are two very different experiences.

Just when the Silver Injection Chair was about to be assembled, there was a burst of noise from downstairs in the second tower.The old wizards couldn't help but look down.

Among the noisy crowd, a black-haired man with eyes wrapped in black cloth and his hands shackled behind was surrounded by densely packed sly sword wizards, coming out of the basement of the third tower and heading towards the side entrance of the second tower. go.

These crafty knife wizards wear the blue sparrow medal on their chests, with proud expressions on their faces.Proudly leading the biggest sinner of the White Tower to his execution ground.

Sharp-eyed people have noticed that Orlando's complexion is extremely pale and his steps are vain.

No one who saw this scene would doubt whether he had been tortured, because the facts were already in front of his eyes—Orlando had clearly lost blood to the point of almost going into shock.Even if the healing potion can heal the external injuries, it cannot replenish the blood.Orlando's severe blood loss at this moment has proved how cruel the torture in the White Tower was.

After all, in order to ensure that the soul will not be squeezed out from the wounds of the corpse, the person who is subjected to the punishment of silver injection is not allowed to have any large wounds.

An old wizard looked at the crowd downstairs that was almost boiling and surrounded the Sly Knife wizards, and subconsciously looked up at the sun.

Now the sun has begun to set.

In no more than an hour, dusk will fall.

(End of this chapter)