Your Majesty, drink the medicine quickly

Chapter 5 Crazy! All crazy!
  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 execution platform.

The execution platform stood in the center of the square in front of the palace's main entrance. Through the fog, you can vaguely see that it is very big and there are many people busy on it.

The Paladins and Iron Guards held tall flags and formed several thick human walls at the edge of the square. If you look carefully, you can see that there are crowds of people in the mist around the square, which can be said to be a sight of people. 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. People are everywhere in the city. They are standing around the square, or on the streets further away, or on tall buildings, looking towards the square, waiting. People made a little noise, and the whole city was silent at the moment.

At this time, the people near the square 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.

Hululu
  The wind became stronger and stronger, and the fog in the city gradually dispersed. The flags held by the guards fluttered in the strong wind.

Li Pu suddenly raised his head and saw the true face of the city.

Dilapidated tall buildings, mottled and rotten white walls, muddy and stinking gray bluestone streets, and densely packed with mold 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.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
  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!!"

The woman regarded Li Pu and the others as evil gods, and her bloodshot eyes were filled with hatred and anger.

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 by the chaotic crowd, and then kicked to Li Pu's side in the chaos.

It wasn't a baby, it was a broken puppet infested with disgusting bacteria.

Li Pu raised his head. He saw tens of thousands of people around him, all staring at him with hatred. If their gazes could be turned into swords, he would be riddled with holes right now.

‘The emotions of the people in the city have been suppressed to the extreme in the apocalypse. They have gone crazy. They don’t care who the evil god is, they just want to vent. '
  Suddenly, someone on a building in the city suddenly sang a loud hymn to the sky, and the sound was very penetrating.

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 implore 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, all crazy!!"

Katerina, the female knight responsible for escorting Li Pu, said tremblingly, her forehead already covered with fine beads of sweat.

’ 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 that if the mold plague is still not contained after today’s execution, the queen and them will be the next ones to be beheaded. '
  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, the gods will send an archangel to Tadar. He will come in hymns to save all people."

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 in order to summon the archangel. But the gods have never responded. Some people say that the singing must not be loud enough or neat enough, while others say that it must be It’s because everyone is not religious enough.”

"As a result, the singing became more and more uniform, louder and louder, and more pious. But the gods still did not respond."

The madman suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Pu, and said with stern eyes: "We are the only ten saviors who can respond to this world!" 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, the female knight Katerina escorting him 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 other strange guillotines by other knights.

"Sir Victor, why are there only nine demon-slaying platforms, and a burning stake was temporarily added to make up the number? Is your inquisition too confused?"

While supervising her subordinates to tie up Li Pu at the stake, Katerina complained to an official on the execution platform: "This stake looks like a random tree stump! It's not even enchanted! People!" You will be suspicious! Because the real evil god didn’t burn him to death with ordinary fire!”

These female knights are the queen's personal guards. Both 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. 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." It was going to be burned at the stake--when the news of the Canucks got through to me, the guys were all coming out, it would be great if we could find a nice tree stump."

Hearing this, Li Pu was slightly startled.

This improvised stake at the stake was indeed very funny, but dragging the evil god to the square to behead him didn't seem ridiculous - this kind of demon-slaying platform was capable of killing the evil god.

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!

And 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. It is really too deceptive to use this kind of thing to deceive the people by saying that the evil god was burned to death by fire.

"Don't worry, Katerina."

Sir Victor, the leader of the inquisition, stretched out his hand and helped the knights tie the moldy ropes around Li Pu, and said: "It's the same as any pillar. Anyway, he is a madman. He will die if he is 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 leader of the Inquisition reassured: "Archbishop Ayesha has made arrangements. She will personally guide the Holy Light to kill this madman."

"Ayesha? She has always been great at acting, but she won't suddenly get sick, right?" Katerina called the Archbishop by his first name.

"Don't worry. She has taken the medicine and will not become crazy again." The presiding judge Victor looked at the high platform behind and added: "At least not today."

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.

The knights were relieved when they learned about this.

——"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."

　Dear readers, some parts of this book may be very confusing. The author recommends that you ignore the suspense and read it as absurd and funny.

　　Doubts and truth will be revealed as the plot develops.

　　Next, the plot will gradually start to get crazy.

　　Let us follow Li Pu's perspective and explore this absurd and crazy world where gods exist.

　　(Don’t worry that this is an illusion world, as the introduction says, both worlds are a real world)

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)