Unknown Knight

Chapter 400 The Punishment of the Blood Eagle

As for how to deal with Eden, Aix thought about it and decided to hold a public execution and hang him in public. After all, he was a public figure, and only this would be in line with his status and position.

Killing him so simply would be too easy for him, and it would not dispel Aix's hatred for him at all. When Aix announced this method, his father-in-law Iaia opposed it on the spot and gave a more suitable execution method for the Nords to punish their enemies, demanding that Iden be executed in public with the capital punishment called Blood Eagle.

As if noticing the difficulty on Aix's face, Iaya spoke to him in a rare fatherly tone:

"My son-in-law, you still don't understand us Nords. We Nords respect the strong and value revenge. If your hatred for Iden is not ended with the Blood Eagle Punishment, it would be a disrespect for this hatred, and it would even make us Nords think that you are weak and dare not take revenge on your enemies.

This is not a good thing, son-in-law. You should know that although Eden was the first to commit evil, you cannot kill all the people related to him. In addition, your attacks on Tiha City have caused a lot of casualties. There are many families of injured or killed relatives in the city. Although they dare not do anything to you in a short time, they are all watching you. If you cannot make these people respect and fear you, there is no guarantee that one day they will not have a desire for revenge against you.

Besides, this is not just your problem. Eden is unpopular, and overthrowing him is the choice of the whole city. Only public execution can distribute the hatred. All the Jarls who oppose Eden must take action during the execution. Only in this way can the Nords in the city understand that Eden is the public enemy of the whole city. He is a man who deserves to die. Everyone wants him to die and joins forces to kill him.

And all the Yaers who participated in the execution were equivalent to swearing allegiance to you in public. With this Blood Eagle execution, not only can they be deterred, but it can also ensure that they will not have second thoughts about you for a long time.

So the Blood Eagle is necessary, my son-in-law, hatred is a bad thing, you can't bear it all by yourself."

Father-in-law Iaya said a lot of things, although some of them seemed far-fetched, they were not unreasonable. Seeing that he had said so much, Aix had to nod and agree. Although he was opposed to the Blood Eagle Punishment from the bottom of his heart and thought that this punishment was very bloody, it was indeed a way to kill two birds with one stone and was very beneficial to him.

And Axe also saw that his old father-in-law had a deep hatred for Eden. This guy almost caused his father-in-law's family to suffer a tragedy of fratricide, and almost caused Iaya to lose his son. This was also a serious crime committed by Eden. Executing him with a blood eagle was probably what Iaya wanted to see very much.

The execution was held three days later. Before that, Aix had made a public announcement and no opposition was heard in the city. Even if there were some people who opposed it, they probably would not have dared to speak out.

On the day of the execution, the streets of Tiha were deserted, and all the young, old and weak in the city came to watch. Aix had to mobilize two thousand troops to maintain order in the city.

The territory was already very experienced in public trials and had formed a complete set of procedures. At the suggestion of Aix, Bandak, who was in charge of the matter, changed the procedures according to the requirements of the Lord of Iaya.

The execution was presided over by the Lord of Iaya, with Bandak as his deputy.

Before the execution, a high priest brought by Iaia forced a bowl of black sticky potion into Eden's mouth. It is said that this potion can paralyze the body and coagulate the blood, while keeping people awake. It can prevent the person being executed from dying from excessive blood loss prematurely, and prevent violent struggles that affect the execution. The person can also experience the entire execution process, which is simply terrifying.

Even if the person who designed this criminal law had a blood feud, he was also somewhat mentally abnormal. It was too cruel.

During the period before the effect of the medicine took effect, the Lord of Iaia, who was presiding over the execution, first used his rare language talent among the Nords to carefully list Iden's crimes, which included: killing innocent people, disobeying the king's orders, plotting rebellion, killing his own people, etc.

In particular, the things about Eden's conspiracy against Aix and his instigation of Borba to usurp Wocherze were described in great detail and with exaggeration. In Iaya's mouth, Eden became a sinister, cunning, despicable and shameless person, an outlier among the upright boy Nords.

Looking at his father-in-law who was speaking with a flushed face and spit on his beard, Aix couldn't help but shake his head. To be honest, every noble at that time had done what Eden did to a greater or lesser extent. Putting aside these sins and Aix's hatred, just looking at Eden as a person, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a hero for being able to work his way up to his current position step by step.

But he should never have provoked himself, the protagonist. Not everyone can offend a boss like the protagonist. Now he is paying a heavy price, isn't he?

After Lord Iaya finished speaking, representatives from all walks of life took the stage to speak. Eden has been in charge of Tiha City for so many years and has made great contributions to the prosperity of Tiha City. However, not everyone may be grateful for his contributions, but there will definitely be people who hate him. The reason is simple. If you want to achieve something, you always need to win over some people and offend a small number of people.

It was this small group of people who dug up a lot of unknown negative information about Eden, completely nailing him to the pillar of shame in history, including:

He framed and robbed his good friends of their property, wives and daughters, sent troops disguised as thieves to plunder rival caravans, secretly colluded with the slave trader Ramon to cover up his human trafficking, forcibly seized the land of Nord civilians, instigated the Nords to serve as cannon fodder and die, and so on.

In short, Bandak took about three days to collect all the crimes that Eden could collect, and also arranged, added materials, and screened them, listing out the crimes that best reflected his sins. The main purpose was to make all the Nords watching believe that Eden was a damned and unforgivable person.

The next part was the highlight. Iaya, who presided over the execution ceremony, personally wielded the axe and tied Eden to a special wooden platform. He then used the axe to split Eden's spine in half from behind, and then peeled off the skin on the back bit by bit and removed the ribs one by one.

During this process, every Yar in the city stepped forward to participate. No matter if they were Eden's friends, subordinates, or even blood relatives, they were now the ones who killed Eden and became his enemies.

After the chest and abdominal cavity were completely opened from the back, a complete set of internal organs was revealed. Each Yar stepped forward and used a dagger to remove a part of the internal organs, and then brought this part of the internal organs to Eden and put it in front of him for him to see.

When Axel finally used a dagger to dig out Eden's still beating heart, his chest and abdominal cavity were empty. Then Axel came to Eden with the heart in one hand and the dagger in the other.

Even though Axe's courage was beyond the reach of ordinary people, he still felt fear when he saw Eden's face. It was an extremely distorted face, with every pore wide open and every muscle tensed to the maximum, pulling the entire face towards fear.

Eden died. In the eyes of others, he might have died from excessive blood loss, or from great pain, or even from unbearable humiliation, but Axe, who watched closely, knew that these were not the causes of his death. Eden died of great fear.