Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Compared to the scene when Hogg Bale had been executed on the first day, the trials and executions of the next few days were relatively ordinary.
It was not because the people who were executed were not in high positions. In fact, all the people who were executed in these days were aristocrats. There were no civilians among them. Many of them were great aristocrats, and more than one chief of the big tribes was put on the guillotine.
However, compared to Hogg Bale, their weight was a bit light.
Sui Xiong thought that his drama was not good enough. He didn’t arrange it well. Actually, he should have executed Burton Tiger on the first day. He should have executed a Legendary Master both on the second day and the third day. When the audience would think about which Legendary Master would be executed next, he would suddenly execute Hogg on the fourth day. That would be more shocking.
It was a pity that the past was over and done with. The past was the past. What a pity!
Unlike Sui Xiong who regretted his drama not being perfect enough, the audience was very satisfied with the bloody drama these days.
This could be seen from the increasing number of the audience.
On the first day, there hadn’t been many people. Even though Sui Xiong had already made good preparations, would those people with high status and identities be interested in this open death penalty? The statuses of the people he had killed before were not high enough.
However, Sui Xiong’s first blade in the Golden Tent had killed the previous emperor of the Orc Empire. That had immediately aroused everyone’s interest.
The first one is such a big man. Who will be the next?
People had been very curious.
Therefore, as soon as the news that he had executed Hogg had spread, many people had rushed to the Golden Tent from all directions to see what had happened.
People lived in societies. Of course, there were struggles within the Orc Empire; there were power struggles and ideological struggles. They fought for real benefits and speaking rights. As a collection of extremists, Isis had many enemies all over the world. Even inside the Orc Empire, they had a large number of enemies.
Before Emperor Junero had come to power, they had been keen on purging the Half-blooded Orcs in the top class. Just that action alone had earned them many enemies.
The marginal group referred to the children born by Orcs of two different races. Those children had the characteristics of the two races.
The bloodlines of the Orcs were amazing. If they married into a race other than the Orcs, they would give birth to children with weakened Orc characteristics. Those children were Half-Orcs in the biological sense. However, if the Orcs from different races got married, then regardless of the races of the husband and wife, the children would generally show the characteristics of only one race. For example, if a fox and a rabbit got married, they would give birth to either a fox or a rabbit. The child wouldn’t show the characteristics of both sides.
It was said that this was the pre-set of the Orc gods who had created them. It would ensure the purity of the bloodlines so that it wouldn’t cause disputes on the issue of belief.
There were always exceptions to everything. With about a 1% chance, an interracial couple would give birth to a child with two racial characteristics. In the previous example, it was possible to give birth to a child who had the characteristics of both a fox and a rabbit.
This kind of child was a part of the marginal group.
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Hopes Wilder, who had gone thousands of miles to the technical school of the Republic of Northwest to study mineral processing before, was such an example.
In the past, the Orcs hadn’t particularly discriminated against the marginal group. Although they were born as Half-Orcs, there had been a lot of Half-Orcs in the Orc Empire. That hadn’t been a big deal. Although members of the marginal group were strange in appearance, there had been no difference between the treatment of them and the other Half-Orcs. Moreover, because of better family conditions, their living standards had been pretty good.
However, Isis believed that since two bloodlines were awakened at the same time in their bodies, they couldn’t get a response from any god. Members of the marginal group were born to be Half-Orcs. They were the shame of their families. The top class of the Orc Empire should be examples for the civilians. They should serve the gods more devoutly. They should deal with such children on their own so that the children won’t dishonor their families, and so that they won’t discredit the gods they believed in.
Those were high-sounding statements, but how could the great aristocrats be willing to kill their own children!
Dishonor? We don’t think so! Discredit? The gods say nothing. Who are you?
With the support of Emperor Hogg, Isis had forcibly executed the marginal group of many aristocratic families. For a long time, because of that, various races of the Orcs had stopped interracial marriage. Later, Emperor Junero came to power. The law proclaimed in writing that it was forbidden to kill any member of the marginal group. The Orcs started having interracial marriage again.
But even though Emperor Junero openly opposed it and even issued a clear order, Isis still secretly killed marginal group members. They didn’t dare to oppose the command of the emperor and kill openly. However, they could use various means to put pressure on the families who just gave birth to a marginal child. They could force them to kill the children on their own.
As an official organization, Isis was supported by Hogg Bale. Its force was naturally very powerful, and few Orc families could resist their pressure. Hopes left his hometown, went to the Republic of Northwest to study, and decided to live there for a lifetime. That was largely because of this reason.
After all, Hopes was a descendant of the branch of the Wilder family, a famous Sage Family among the Orcs. Hopes had the family name Wilder, so he was an aristocrat with high status.
Because of the pressure from Isis and the discrimination against the Half-Orcs, even he had to leave his hometown and go far away. Others were in worse situations.
However, people held a grudge. Even though they killed their own children because of the pressure, it didn’t mean that the parents would really believe in the damn words of Isis. They didn’t believe that they killed their children to maintain the honor of the families and to glorify the gods they believed in.
Instead, they secretly remembered it and kept this hatred deeply in their hearts, waiting for the opportunity to get revenge.
Therefore, this time, when Sui Xiong wanted to annihilate Isis, inside the Orc Empire, many people applauded and even held parties to celebrate. Countless parents went to the places where their poor children had been buried; the children couldn’t have official graves. The parents comforted the dead souls, crying and laughing.
Many people who came to see the doomsday of the Isis leaders this time were such people.
Later, every time a group of people died on the guillotine, a large group of people cheered under it. Their cheers were widely spread, echoing in the air of the Golden Tent. It also came into the palace.
“Do you hear that?” Morani said beside Junero. “The civilians really hate those guys!”
“I didn’t know that before!” Junero said, sighing and shaking his head. “If I knew that their grievances were so big, I would have used my own hands to clean up this evil organization!”
“You knee, you just didn’t pay attention,” Morani said, shaking his head. “Just like you and I didn’t know that Lefon had hidden his strength.”
“I remember. At that time, we were called Hero Lion and Hero Tiger, and we were the most probably runner ups,” Junero said. Thinking of the past, he couldn’t help but laugh. “In a flash, it’s been thousands of years. We are old.”
“Yeah, even though our bodies don’t grow old, our souls still grow old,” Morani said, sighing softly. “When are you going to leave the Main Plane? I will see you off.”
“Wait a moment,” Junero said. Hearing the cheers coming from the distance, Junero shook his head with a bitter smile. “At least, I won’t leave until the disturbance ends.”