Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire
Chapter 437 - 266 Judicial Court, Execution Privilege_2

Chapter 437: Chapter 266 Judicial Court, Execution Privilege_2

However, it seems that there has been a change, and the Holy Dragon Emperor’s tolerance towards the fairies seems to have been exhausted by this group of insatiably greedy individuals.

A trial specifically aimed at fairies was held in the Central Square of Elisium City, with all judges and adjudicators being fairies themselves.

Although in the eyes of the citizens of Elisium City, this was just another grand play directed and performed by the fairies themselves, as the fairies have always been known to strike hard externally while being lenient internally within their own clan.

Yet even so, the Central Square was still crowded with onlookers, shoulder to shoulder, for regardless of their size, fairies are always pleasing to the eye, especially the Dragon Fairies presiding over the trial, who are the epitome of perfection.

The dragon-like features on the fairies, in Elisium City, where the pursuit of dragonification and the regard of dragons as beauty is the highest aesthetic standard.

"Erica, during your tenure, you abused your power, embezzled and solicited bribes... Do you plead guilty?"

The Great Fairy pressed down in the center of the square, felt the gazes cast upon her face from all around, only feeling her face flush with heat. She had no remorse, only a sense of humiliation.

Just a day ago, she was still the high and mighty Court Secretary of Moduo City, surrounded by nobles fawning over her, but now she had to kneel, accepting interrogation from a Dragon Fairy, subjected to the jeers of those peasants.

"I plead guilty."

Without the voice she had before capture, Erica weakly complied.

There was no use in arguing, as the Truth-telling Technique and Lie Detection Technique awaited her, arguing would only make her more embarrassed. It would be better to plead guilty early, end it soon, preserve some dignity, and at worst, just spend some time in Fairy Town, endure for a few decades, and once out, she could regain her authority.

"Since you plead guilty, next we announce your punishment!"

"Waist chop, abandon in the market!"

The entire venue erupted, even those citizens who came just for entertainment couldn’t help but start chattering.

"Did I hear that right?"

"Waist chop? How is that possible? Isn’t she a fairy?"

"What?"

Erica, who was listless and dispirited, was somewhat shocked as she looked up at the Dragon Fairy who announced the verdict.

She didn’t recognize this individual, for the number of Dragon Fairies had nearly reached a hundred, it was not surprising to see an unfamiliar Dragon Fairy. Ever since the awakening of the Holy Dragon Emperor, the birth rate of Dragon Fairies had increased.

Seeing a Great Fairy step out from behind the Dragon Fairy holding a chopping axe after the verdict was read, Erica was thoroughly panicked.

"Wait a minute, did you make a mistake? How could it be a waist chop? I am a fairy, I am a noble Great Fairy!"

"Shouldn’t the punishment be the confiscation of all my assets?"

"I am willing to go to Fairy Town, I am willing to stay there for a hundred years, no, a thousand years, I am willing to atone in Fairy Town."

As she saw the fellow fairy with the chopping axe approach closer, Erica was utterly panicked, but with her magic power sealed, she could do nothing but push backward with her slender long legs.

"A criminal like you cannot be accommodated in Fairy Town!"

The Great Fairy with the chopping axe looked at her fellow fairy, whose face was as pale as a flower and weeping like a rain-soaked pear, with a hint of pity in her eyes, but she still raised the chopping axe in her hand.

This was an act of salvation, a rescue to regain the Holy Dragon’s favor towards the Fairy Race.

Why did the fairies rise? No one would forget what fate awaits fairies who lose the Holy Dragon’s favor. Not a single fairy dares to imagine.

Therefore,

"For the future of the Fairy Race, you degenerates must die!"

"Ah! No—"

The chopping axe fell, and a rich fragrance of flowers and grass suddenly spread throughout the square, yet the source of the fragrance was a Great Fairy cleaved from the waist, her body split, she let out a painful scream.

Yet the exuberant vitality from grass and wood allowed her to drag her half-body struggling across the square, although her internal organs were also spilling out with her struggle, the scene was particularly gruesome, causing many Great Fairies, like her with sealed magic power, to collapse on the ground in fright.

The onlooking crowd also boiled over at this moment, witnessing firsthand a Great Fairy being cleaved at the waist. Even those residents with the oldest tenure had never seen such a scene in all their lives.

No one expected this trial tailored for the fairies, which was just at its beginning, to result in a Great Fairy being executed, defying their instinctive presumption of it being a farce and mere formality.

"Are these really fairies? Could they be imposters?"

"My goodness, in all my life, this is the first time I’ve seen a fairy executed!"

Even though they saw it with their own eyes, many citizens couldn’t believe it, experiencing a surreal sense of disbelief.

Fairies were considered the first-class citizens under Holy Dragon’s rule, even tiny Little Fairies would not be dared to offend, yet a fairy was executed, and it was done by her own kind no less.

This made many realize that the previous wave of internal investigation sparked by the judiciary was only the beginning, the dragon that ruled this vast land was truly enraged.

Fairy Erica was executed, marking merely the beginning, she was the first, but not the last fairy to be executed here today.

As the captured fairies were examined one by one, and their crimes announced, although some fairies attempted to argue, with the cooperation of Truth-telling Magic, lies held no meaning.

More and more Great Fairies were executed, a pleasant scent from the flora filled the sky above the square, though there was not a hint of bloodiness, those splashes of red were piercingly conspicuous.

In the Holy Dragon Territory, the highest privileged race faced a purge today, they no longer held any special status, becoming indistinguishable from the officials and nobles they once pursued.

"Sifreya, what are you doing?"

When the mass execution was halfway through, a voice full of anger reverberated over Elisium City, a Dragon Fairy who received the news hurried back.

One of the three Fairy leaders, Elfino, appointed by the Atlas Kingdom as the Governor of the Valley of Flames, and recognized leader of the worldly faction within the Fairy Clan.

"You finally returned!"

Sitting high on the judicature bench in the courtroom, overlooking as one Great Fairy after another was executed, Sifreya slowly stood up at the sight of her friend rushing back with hundreds of fairies through the Transmission Array.

Her eyes also finally showed emotional fluctuations. It was a recollection of past goodness and a poignancy towards the doomed results.

"What exactly are you doing? Why are you killing them? What crimes do they have?"

Elfino, who had rushed back from the Valley of Flames, looked at the square, at the bodies of the Great Fairies whose heads were chopped off or waist cleaved, trembling all over in anger.

"They have committed numerous crimes, but I suppose you wouldn’t want to hear about those."

Sifreya raised her eyes, gazing at this once-familiar friend, who had become increasingly unfamiliar under the corruption of power,

"Their biggest crime was disregarding the Holy Dragon Emperor’s care and trust in them. They betrayed the emperor’s kindness, forgot their responsibilities, and indulged in satisfying their hideous desires, disrupting the order established by the emperor."

"Nonsense, who allowed you to do these things?"

Elfino was furious.

"Of course, it was His Highness Noah, have you not awakened yet? Elfino, power has blinded your eyes, leading you to such a foolish state? "

Sifreya slowly unsheathed a long blade forged specifically for her,

"In that case, let me be the one to execute you; you are the source of all evil and corruption."