Crowned King

Chapter 3 Burning

There are few entertainment methods in this world, or rather, there are few entertainment methods for civilians. After nightfall, everyone stays at home and sleeps.

Usually, Roya City has a curfew. Except for special personnel such as church monks and defense forces, no one is allowed to go out after nightfall.

Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as some special festivals, or when burning is carried out, it is open to ordinary people at night. Most people smell the aroma of barbecue in various senses and revel in the nearby streets.

When Adam came back after fetching water, he heard Maggie calling him.

"Don't buy pickled vegetable cakes today. Help me make more meat cakes. I should make a lot of money tonight." The Boku family is not rich. The main source of income generally comes from pickled vegetable cakes and some wooden products made by Alis. Occasionally, the two have to do some short-term work to supplement the family income.

In this era where civilians have already exhausted their efforts to live, and some free time at night is for revelry, no one will care who is the person who is being burned to death on the stake.

As for the more diligent Maggie, it would be easier to sell meat pies and other snacks to everyone after the curfew was finally lifted tonight. She didn't care about other things.

Adam was somewhat interested in the people on the stake, after all, they were all called "beasts" by the church.

He believed that he was not the only alien species who wanted to go to the Kingdom of Loken from the Roya Wall, so there should be a lot of alien species hidden in Roya City. If he could contact them, he might have more choices, although he had not yet decided how to contact Adam.

I don't know if they will go to visit the stake.

Put the meat pie in the woven basket, and the sky outside has darkened. Alis and Maggie are ready. Each of them carries a basket and asks Lina to follow them to the intersection.

There are already many people on the street, gathering in groups of three or two, talking and laughing about various gossips and interesting stories about the neighbors, and the atmosphere is very harmonious.

Adam walked along with the basket and found that there were some soldiers in the crowd who were maintaining order, and some people were looking for something in the crowd.

Seeing this situation, Adam felt that the possibility of him encountering other aliens this time might be very low.

After all, not every alien can be like Adam, who is usually the same as ordinary people.

Under the inspection methods of the church, most aliens find it difficult to conceal their abnormalities.

For example, the nemesis of werewolves is silver. Adam's self-healing ability in the transformed state is very abnormal. The blood splashed out after being cut, and the wound has begun to heal.

But if the wound is caused by a silver weapon, not only will the self-healing ability be suppressed to the lowest, but he will also be poisoned.

If it is a werewolf, even if it touches silver in human state, it will be burned. Therefore, many sheriffs will carry some silver items on their bodies, which makes many werewolves have nowhere to hide.

"It is estimated that there will be no aliens." Adam was not very disappointed. He had almost no contact with other aliens, and all the information came from books.

In the case of insufficient strength, it is not necessarily a good thing to rashly contact other aliens.

Soon the sky darkened, and people gathered at the street corner.

Under the intersection of a large number of torches, Adam's face alternated between light and dark. Perhaps one day he would be put on the stake and watched by people.

There were various smells at the scene, but when the man wrapped in the sack was brought up, Adam smelled a scent of herbs.

"Witch doctor?" Adam frowned. Witch doctors are a gray profession. Most of the employees are humans. They can use all kinds of strange materials to refine all kinds of magical potions.

Because the potions produced are effective, the monks of the church turn a blind eye to the existence of witch doctors.

Generally speaking, only the most heinous lives will be burned at the stake, and witch doctors will not be carried to the stake unless they are deprived of their qualifications as human beings.

Watching the soldiers tie the suspected witch doctor to the wooden rack, a white-bearded old man in monk's clothes stood in front of the woodpile and began to read out the guilt of the person being burned at the stake.

"The sinner Butis used evil means to make magic potions. His crimes are extremely serious. The South City Church has sentenced him to death by burning!"

"Burn him! Burn him!" After the verdict was announced, the crowd of onlookers was already shouting wildly.

The man tied to the stake was still struggling, but there were already monks holding torches and coming to the edge of the platform.

Adam mixed in the crowd, looking at the dancing flames on the torches, suppressing the strangeness in his heart, and shouting with others.

When everyone's eyes were attracted by the thrown torches, Adam saw a man squeeze out of the crowd.

The man's eyes were glowing green, and in the process of rushing out, he grew black and gray hair, his mouth became longer, and he turned into a giant human wolf, tearing his shirt completely.

The huge palm waved away the people in front of him, and the werewolf howled and rushed to the platform.

Adam vaguely felt that he was hit by something, which made his blood move slightly abnormally, as if he could transform at any time and howl at him.

"As your bloodline matures, does your control over your transformation ability weaken?"

The werewolf's sudden rise terrified the surrounding onlookers. Adam was thinking about screaming with the people around him when he heard the white-bearded monk who had read out the verdict shout.

"Calm down!"

The voice was like the sound of water dripping in the silent night. That voice became your everything, and you followed it involuntarily. The crowd, which was originally panicked by the werewolf's jump, instantly quieted down.

The werewolf that seemed unstoppable and rushed to the platform, before it touched the person tied to the stake, a young monk rushed out from the side, and the ceremonial sword in his hand came out of the sheath with a golden glow. Adam even heard the sound of the rules in a daze.

The angle of the sword was very tricky, and it pierced the werewolf's throat.

A lot of green smoke came out of the werewolf's throat, and his huge palm waved twice. As the young monk pulled out the ceremonial sword, he fell on the platform.

"Brother Fra."

The young monk was the one who had been very optimistic about Adam and lent him the "Word of God".

Adam really didn't expect that Brother Fra had such strength. His eyes flickered twice, and he moved away from the young monk and looked at the wide-open eyes of the werewolf corpse, which seemed to still have despair.

A large amount of black smoke flew out from the throat wound of the corpse, and the werewolf corpse shrank quickly, turning back into a human wearing shorts and naked upper body.

Seeing the appearance of that person, Adam lowered his head, as if he didn't dare to look directly at the corpse, but he was covering up the corners of his mouth that couldn't help but curl up.

He did feel sorry for his own kind before, but the other party's despair made him grasp more hope.

As Adam knew before, most alien species could not cover up their own abnormalities, but in the face of the church's search, the alien species did not become extinct, and naturally there were ways to escape the search.

"The so-called magic potion made by the witch doctor should be the potion to suppress abnormalities." Adam knew the werewolf, and the other party even bought a few pickled vegetable cakes from him. At that time, Adam did not realize that the other party was a werewolf.

Adam has collected intelligence from most of the people he can contact. This werewolf has lived in the South City for many years. It is precisely because of this that he did not choose to escape after the witch doctor who sold the potion to cover up the abnormality was arrested.

He has adapted to life in the South City and cannot accept the escape in the future, so he is so desperate to attack the execution ground.

Maybe there are other ways to cover up the abnormality of the werewolf, but that is meaningless for the werewolf whose living status quo has been broken. This time, the attack is just a request for death.

The reason why Adam is happy is that this is an opportunity for him. He does not know how to tap the power of blood, but he is very familiar with how to cover up blood.

"Those aliens who have lost their way to conceal their abnormalities and are unwilling to flee must need a new umbrella of protection."

"And I can be that umbrella!"

The burning was held as scheduled. The witch doctor who was covered by his mouth did not disturb the bonfire party. The aftermath of the werewolf attack was also cleared by the monk's magic.

Adam, who was selling meat pies, gradually moved away from the burning rack behind him.