Warning: Gore content
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'Crash'
A middle-aged man tumbled inside the room.
Althea and Hruth Baro looked at each other, they seem to share a tacit understanding, Hruth immediately leaped up and caught the middle-aged man by his collar and sealed his energy.
"Who could have thought that it will be you", Hruth Baro threw the middle-aged man on the floor.
"Uncle Ryab!" Furiana cried out.
Ryab was the captain of the Clan leader's guard. He didn't lift up his head to look at Furiana or Hruth, he closed his eyes and kneeled on the ground.
"All these years I have been trying to dig out the mole placed by the Southeast King inside my clan"
Hruth sigh and he continued in a dejected tone.
"It's just that I never thought it would be you. Sure enough, people can't be trusted easily"
Looking at his grandfather, Althea knew that her grandfather might have trusted this subordinate. She helped her grandfather sat down and after that Althea asked, "Do you have anything you want to say!"
Ryab finally opened his eyelids slowly, "What is there to say now that I am caught. If you want to kill me then just go ahead and kill me"
Althea sat down on one of the wooden chairs with a playful smile hanging on her lips, "I am going to ask you some questions"
"I don't know anything, you will be only wasting your breath and time. Just kill me"
Ryab was determined not to open his mouth. Althea also knew that it won't be easy to pry open his mouth and let him spill the beans.
"Of course we will kill you but we are not in a hurry to hand you over to King Yama", Althea said casually but to Ryab, those words sent chills down to his spine. As a spy who was able to stay hidden for so many years, he obviously understood the underlying meaning behind those words.
Sure enough, Althea looked towards Furiana and said, " Mother, what kind of torture should we use on him? Should we use the same torture Father used on those people who betrayed him?"
Furiana was shocked at Althea's action and words but she quickly waved her hand and replied, "See as you fit"
Althea smiled and turned her head to look at Hruth Baro, "Grandfather wouldn't mind right!"
"Of course not, if my granddaughter could help me dig out some useful information from this mole then I would even reward you", Hruth too complies with Althea.
Getting up from the chair, Althea looked at Ryab who was still kneeling on the ground with cold sweats dripping from his forehead.
"Northem", Althea called out.
Within a second, Northem appeared in front of Althea and half kneeled, " Young Miss, what is your order?"
The sudden appearance of Northem almost shocked Ryab to death. As the captain of Clan leader's guard, he was also a peak high-level expert, but he hasn't sense Northem's existence before. He couldn't be blamed though since Northem was practicing a Heaven Grade
breathing technique.
Earlier Ryab was caught off guard when Althea launched a sneak attack on him. He was surprised as to how Althea found out that he was eavesdropping on them, later he thought that perhaps it was Hruth Baro but now he had a lingering fear inside his mind and his instinct says that it was Althea who found him and not Hruth Baro. Just this thought made him shudder because Althea is only a low-level mage.
Taking out a dagger from her clothes, Althea said, "Get up and take this dagger"
Northem took the dagger and stand by Althea's side.
"There is a torture method called Ethereal Crimson flower where all the victim's fingertips are cut off and hot oil is poured on it. This is the torture method my Father often uses on those who betray him. What do you think about this torture? Do you want to give it a try! I can help you", said Althea while looking into Ryab's eyes.
Ryab pupils constricted, he didn't reply.
Althea continued, "If you don't want to try that out, there are also other methods. What about the Phoenix fire? This torture method is not bad too, the victim's skin is sliced to the bone, and chilies are stuffed inside the skin, and using a thin barb wire, the skin will be stitched back. The victim will experience a feeling of being bathed in a fire. I personally like this method, also there is the blooming garden method where you will strip and your body will serve as a canvas with hot iron serving as a brush"
Listening to different types of torture Althea was explaining, Ryan couldn't help but shudder. It was not only Ryab but even Northem, Furiana, and Hruth Baro. Ryab might not know but they knew that right now Althea was spouting nonsense, Duriaz himself might not know that this type of torture exists. But whether this type of torture exist or not it still gave chills down to the spine to the listener.
"There still many different types of torture, what I said now is just external torture methods only. Do you want to listen to internal torture methods?" Althea lightly chuckled and raised her eyebrow at Ryab who was scared stiff at the moment.
"Forget it, you look so pale right now as if I drained all the blood from your face. who knows you might die from shock if I started introducing internal torture methods and I wouldn't be able to ask you anything then. Let's just make do with the external torture methods," said Althea shaking her head.
Looking back at Northem, Althea said, "Northem, we will let him try out the Ethereal crimson flower first. You are familiar with it right!"
Northem didn't know whether to laugh or cry seeing his young miss lying with a straight face. But he still played along with her too with a straight face. "Don't worry Young Miss, My Lord often let me carry out the tortures on those who betrayed him so I am pretty much familiar with it"
"That's good. Now use that dagger to cut off all his fingers"
Playing with the dagger, Northem approached Ryab and grabbed his wrist. Just as he was about to cut of Ryab's fingers, Althea suddenly said, "Ahhh... wait Northem. How could I forget this thing?"