KINGDOM DESTRUCTION 3

None of the residents spoke while king Alaric spoke. Everyone listened.

"Thus, with this, I punish the sinners to death. And leaving one offspring to be sacrificed for the rest of her life, we need her blood to be shed once a week to eliminate the influence of black magic in the kingdom. With this, I punish you to death!!"

"LONG LIVE THE KINGDOM OF BRITAIN GUSTAF!! LONG LIVE ALARIC KING!!"

Everyone shouted after king Alaric finished speaking. He returned to his seat right next to the queen dowager. But the calm Benedict rebelled violently when he heard that his daughter would not die but become the victim of torture, which was more terrible than death.

"CASSIA!!" Benedict shouted the name of the queen dowager, who turned slowly towards him, giving a triumphant smile.

"NO!! PLEASE, MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, ARE NOT BLACK SWITCHES!! ALARIC, PLEASE BELIEVE IN ME!"

Unfortunately, she did not hear Rania's screams among the screams of the residents who cursed her parents, and her grandparents had been beheaded—leaving the mother, who looked resigned. Her eyes are red, her hair is messy, and her face is ashen. She looked at Rania with deep regret that her daughter had to suffer such a painful punishment, she had given up, but the unreasonable sentence was instead handed down to her innocent daughter.

On the other hand, Benedict, the sword master, managed to escape the soldiers' grip. He stepped before the queen dowager with a thick grudge and hatred. He was ready to chew the entrails of the cruel queen.

"YOU ARE A DEAD QUEEN, CASSIA!!"

"What is this sinner saying? The guards quickly take him under the Guillotine to be beheaded immediately—" said King Alaric, who was immediately cut off by the sword master.

"And you! I knew the son of Philips would not do this, and you are my daughter's fiancé. But I didn't think that you, too, would be deceived by the very sinful liars around you!!" Benedict's speech continued even though they hit the body to the ground for daring to look directly at the royal family as a sinner.

Benedict still looked up and continued, "REST ASSURED, SON! YOU WILL REGRET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE IN YOUR LIFE!!" Benedict's oath.

Rania saw everything her father was doing and heard what her father said. Her body weakened and fell onto the wooden floor she stepped on, and the two guards behind let her know that this little girl would not have the power to escape.

And it all happened so fast. Grandpa, grandma, mother, and father are beheaded in front of Rania's eyes without being able to do anything until she is returned to a different prison, a colder prison, with a blank stare.

Rania was still in a state of shock, it was already getting dark, but the screams, hateful looks, and disgusted stares at her were still visible.

Moreover, the blood from her parents, when their heads separated from the body. One last look of affection, even a word her father spoke before the Guillotine knife finally cut his throat.

"You must stay alive and remember all that they have done. The gods will never stand by the tyranny of sinners—" Benedict's words stopped when his head was separated from his body, and that was the terrible thing that Rania remembered.

Rania hugged her body, and she shivered uncontrollably, remembering all the events today. Her father's eyes were red with tears, but the depths of her father's eyes radiated hatred, anger, and guilt, even though now only she was left alone.

She had a younger brother before she could even see her brother. The queen's side took her from Hera's arms that time. Even so, she remained alone in this cold prison.

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"Stop!!! Arghh!! I beg you to stop… please stop it hurt… cry..."

The sound of the whip slashing against her back. How long had it been? Rania doesn't know; she cries bitterly, but no one listens to her. Even the figure she loved in front of her was watching with a cold, untouchable face. Rania was initially pleading with the king of Alaric but now lost hope.

Her face was already covered with tears and splattered with her blood, and her body was sore and sore. The repeated lashes were aimed at the same wound, her hands tied up. Being whipped while hanging made the part of her body switch hurt and her wrists and shoulders very sore.

While under her feet, there is a container that holds her blood.

"Argh!! Please… cry… please stop…." Rania pleaded desperately.

"SILENCE!! You are a sinner unfit to speak before the king!!" The civilian who was whipping her answered angrily, a natural hatred in her voice that frightened Rania.

"It hurts… it hurts so much…." Rania was only 13 years old but had already endured this torture.

"You deserve it!! Now, everything will be like hell!" The whip on the hand of the guard who was whipping Rania disappeared.

King Alaric stood up from his chair and walked towards the fire that was burning in a vessel, and he pulled a hot iron from it. Rania, who had hoped this torture would end, glared wildly and struggled harder, forgetting the pain from whipping the body.

"LET ME GO!! Please Alaric... PLEASE NO!!! ARGHHH!! SICK!! IT HURTS!!!!" Rania was hysterical when the hot iron reached the skin of her stomach.

The burning pain, the skin that touched the hot iron scalded, and the sound of burning flesh wafted through the room with an inescapable loud cry. Raia saw Alaric's face in front of her and visited with her own two eyes that there was no compassion from the man she loved.

But the king of Alaric himself, as her former fiancé, didn't give any reaction on his face.

And the screaming, crying, and despair continued until the pain knocked Rania unconscious. King Alaric went from there and let the correctional officers who carried Rania's body into her prison again after ordering them to clean the sinner's scars. The blood that had been collected was carried away.