Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire
Chapter 433 - 264: The Dragon of Punishment, The Great Purge Arrives_2

Chapter 433: Chapter 264: The Dragon of Punishment, The Great Purge Arrives_2

The boy, realizing the shadow of death enveloping him, let out a wail and knelt on the ground, with tears and snot mixed, smeared all over his chin and face, looking extremely disgusting.

"You’re not genuinely remorseful, you’re just afraid of death!"

The eyes of the Holy Dragon, revived from the ceiling fresco, were filled with indifference. He did not accept such cheap repentance, and black fire ignited on the third boy.

"No, no, my child!"

The woman, seeing all the flesh and blood of her child consumed by the black fire, leaving only a skeleton wailing non-stop, screamed hysterically,

"Why? Why can’t my child be given a chance? He’s so young; he knows nothing."

In her wailing, the woman looked at Noah with an abominable gaze, filled with hatred,

"Holy Dragon, how can you be called the Holy Dragon? You are so cruel, without mercy, you are nothing but a Demon Dragon from Hell..."

"Is this your repentance? When your son killed and dismembered a farmer’s child, why didn’t you think he was cruel? Before kneeling and begging me, why didn’t you plead for forgiveness from the innocent child’s parents?"

Noah’s eyes showed coldness and disdain,

"You people who nauseate me, do you deserve my leniency and mercy? The final destination of your souls will be Hell!"

The dark flames ignited between the eyebrows of the mother of that boy, yet did not engulf her whole body, but even so, it made her feel a pain that pierced her heart and soul.

And her man, her husband, was so terrified by this scene that he sat down on the ground, his lips trembling non-stop, yet he dared not utter a word.

"Do you feel remorse?"

The question, as if from the Death God’s inquiry into Hell, echoed again, and unsurprisingly, the dark flames of faith ignited once more, creating yet another skeletal figure of dark fire.

No one was truly remorseful; killing a farmer’s child was nothing in their cognition. Perhaps initially, they were flustered causing a death, but once their parents intervened and smoothed things over with the local judge, their remnants of fear and reverence were cast aside to the clouds.

When Noah descended upon them, their guise of weakness, the tears they shed, how could it possibly deceive the Golden Dragon? They were just a group of death-fearing criminals.

One by one, the boys were ignited by Noah in the courtroom, until the last one,

"My uncle is the Earl of Slytherin, I have noble blood."

"The Earl of Slytherin, is that right? Good, I’ll remember that."

Noah nodded slightly, without even asking the last noble-background boy whether he felt remorse, he directly ignited him, turning him into a dark fire skeleton.

At that moment, in the courtroom, all two hundred and thirty people turned pale, their legs trembling, all terrified by the horrific scene before them.

Seven skeletons burning with dark flames, wailing and struggling, it was unimaginable that these seven skeletons were just moments ago a few youths who could talk and laugh with their parents.

After dealing with this murderous gang, Noah turned around and looked again at the judge on the platform, who had lost both hands. He cowered, wishing he could crawl under the floor, while the clerk, judicial assistant, and others shrank fearfully, not daring to meet Noah’s gaze, afraid of drawing the attention of the Holy Dragon.

"As a judge, you are very incompetent. What does this profession mean to you? A stepping stone for befriending wealth and power, trampling the dignity and beliefs of commoners?"

Looking at the trembling, chubby judge, Noah didn’t take further action. Similar individuals were everywhere in his domain.

The judge’s ruling could not be said to be wrong, but was rather the final decision made based on various conditions and demands, grounded in reality rather than the ideal of upholding fairness and justice.

"You may remain silent, but I am curious, what is ’atonement gold’? I don’t recall establishing such a crime payment when setting up legal statutes. Is this a legal provision you created yourselves?"

The truth could not be concealed, especially with Noah’s direct intervention. With the trembling clerk’s narration, Noah quickly learned what the so-called atonement gold was.

This was a project specifically established for merchants and families with some assets. Regardless of the crime committed, as long as sufficient money was paid, the crime could be offset, punishment reduced, or even rendered innocent.

It specifically involved merchants and respectable individuals with assets because when it came to the nobility, the Law Code basically couldn’t do anything to them.

"How interesting!"

After understanding what atonement gold was, Noah laughed out of anger, the legal system he and a group of fairies painstakingly built, and the ever-thickening Golden Dragon Code had clearly become a price list in the hands of some people for extortion and profit.

"You have great courage, indeed!"

"Are you truly the Holy Dragon, Your Majesty?"

At this point, realizing Noah was not recklessly slaughtering, and having answered Noah’s series of questions, the clerk boldly and cautiously inquired.

"Whether I am or not, you will know soon enough."

Noah soared around above the courtroom and finally returned to the ceiling.

When Noah no longer used the Power of Faith to maintain it, the body that carried his consciousness ultimately returned to its ordinary essence.

However, what appeared on the ceiling was no longer an unremarkable fresco, but an angry dragon coiling at the center, overlooking below.

As Noah withdrew his consciousness, the oppressive domain crumbled instantly, allowing everyone to move freely. The guard team members, who had hurried there upon hearing the bailiff’s whistle, fled the courtroom like they were escaping a calamity.

The news of the Holy Dragon’s descent swept through the small town on the border of Noah Territory like a hurricane.

Initially, people didn’t believe it, but when curious residents rushed to the courtroom and saw the seven black fire skeletons still wailing at the center and the Holy Dragon statue formed from the fresco on the ceiling, they started to believe a bit.

However, what truly made the local townsfolk believe the Holy Dragon’s descent was that on that very night, fairies from Elisium City arrived, taking away the seven ever-wailing black fire skeletons along with the local ruler, the Earl of Slytherin.

"Raven Claude? I know the surname Claude, but I don’t know this person at all!"

When summoned by the noble supervision committee of Elisium City, the Earl of Slytherin was baffled. When he learned the reason for his summons, he couldn’t help but clench his fist.

Not to mention he didn’t know that beast Raven, even the Claude surname he knew required several connections to link to him, with no blood relation at all, yet they implicated him.

"Claude Family! Wait till I return..."

The Earl of Slytherin vowed angrily that upon his return, he would clear out those flaunting under his banner, provided he could make it back.

However, when the uneasy Earl of Slytherin followed the fairies to Elisium City, he found the atmosphere unprecedentedly solemn, completely unlike the thriving prosperity he remembered.

After using his local connections to inquire slightly, he found out it was the Holy Dragon’s direct order to thoroughly investigate and rectify the judicial system in the territory, especially scrutinizing the so-called atonement gold.

"Does the Holy Dragon not know about the atonement gold?"

After understanding the situation, the Earl of Slytherin couldn’t help but gasp.

"It’s said to be unknown, therefore a thorough investigation will ensue. All judges who accepted bribes through atonement gold will face severe punishment."

"How many would have to be executed?"

The Earl of Slytherin couldn’t help but mutter to himself.