Well, this was the first time she had been caught because of the sudden announcement from Hindia about the purpose of their return to visit Earth.
She thought that the Candrasas had brought all the humans from Earth to Yamani, and she missed the opportunity because it took days to survive after moving from Bali to Yamani when the gates opened.
Dirga failed to move them all to a safer area, so almost everyone who moved with Dirga was automatically scattered to various places, even though they were both already in Yamani.
Seeing how many humans there were in L-07, she just thought that was all, and the rest had become a meal. However, the announcement that Hindia had just made exposed her suspicions for the whole year.
She finally knew that the Candrasas had not really touched all parts of the Earth.
They only managed to destroy Nusantara. In the end, it turned out that it took quite a long time to prepare it all.
The announcement of Hindia at that time was really plastered in front of her face when she had just arrived at L-06 for a routine meeting with Putra. The appearance of Hindia right in front of her face made Kintan unconsciously activate her powers and made her stand on alert, subconsciously letting passersby see Kintan's true form. That alert position made Kintan show her face and the power of the crystal, without realizing that someone had now seen her identity.
Just as the announcement ended, as she tried to walk away, her neck felt like it had just been stabbed by something. Kintan, started to lose her strength just as she realized that someone had attacked her.
Someone had managed to sedate her.
When her consciousness began to recover, Kintan was suddenly hanging with her hands and hair tied on The Distribution Pole, in the square with a body that was no longer wearing any clothes.
"What the fuck is this?!" she thought subconsciously.
The effects of the anesthetic were still there. Her body seemed as if it was still sealed from within, and she couldn't use her powers at all. All of her fingernails are now purple.
From her gaze, Kintan could see someone carrying an arrow was sharing his 'prey' with someone she knew, who was in charge of this crazy activity.
She would definitely be eaten alive on this stake, like the typical culture they used to do whenever a fugitive was caught and not taken over by the Candrasas.
Everyone started to gather, their happy smiles etched clearly on every face, realizing that today there would be an unlimited distribution of flesh from the wrena who had been their fugitives for a long time.
What a beautiful day.
But it's really sickening for Kintan.
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"Where are we going to meet Kintan?" Clarissa asked, as they had just arrived at the gate of the L-06 dimension portal.
"We used to meet around the square," Putra reminisced, "around The Distribution Pole in the center of the square, and pay attention to every aisle that we passed. Later, there will also be Kintan around the same."
Clarissa nodded casually.
Every layer of land in Yamani has at least one square that shows the identity of the land. At L-06, their square was fitted with an execution pole, which they always referred to as the Pole of Distribution, where lowly beings would be displayed and slaughtered alive in public. This activity usually only happened when a high-class fugitive was caught and not taken by the Candrasas. They would celebrate the capture by placing them on The Distribution Pole and torturing them alive.
That was the culture of the wrena in that subsoil that Putra never wanted to see.
He looked around him, which wasn't as busy as usual. Even though a few hours ago, when he was still fighting with Clarissa at the auction house, things weren't this quiet.
"I guess it wasn't this quiet?" he asked subconsciously.
"Let's go to the square first," replied Clarissa, pulling Putra's hand to go to the main road, towards the square.
Along the way, everyone was talking about the events that had just happened after the big announcement from Hindia. The announcement itself had made it seem as if they wanted to have a big celebration to prepare for even more meat they were going to get in the next few months, and now they had news instead of someone to be served at the Distribution Pole.
"Or maybe Jane was caught? She just got away, didn't she?" Clarissa asked, making Putra silent.
It seemed impossible if it was Jane.
Jane wouldn't be hiding in the same layer of soil after she was almost caught, she couldn't be in this layer.
Putra began to ignore Clarissa's presence as everyone continued to talk about how the person now hanging on the Pole of Distribution was a fugitive, a person who had been wanted for a year. He no longer even heard Clarissa's voice calling out to him for walking too fast. Putra's steps seemed to not know how to slow down as he began to approach the central street towards the square.
He could already see someone hanging from the execution stake with a body no longer covered by a single cloth. His head cursed loudly, questioning why Kintan could be caught and couldn't use her powers, while on the other hand, he also started to think about how to save his comrade.
No one can die anymore.
He had to do something.
"Looks like she's been sedated," muttered Clarissa, who had just arrived beside Putra, making him wake up from his own panic. "Look at all her nails. They are purple. Someone has locked her power in there."
Clarissa then looked around her, trying to make sure that there weren't many journalists around them, or even one of the Candrasa elite. "There's no way they'd release a Wrena fugitive to the public." She thought.
"How do you break the seal that locks in its power?" He asked Clarissa.
"We need—" Clarissa was just about to reply to Putra's question when someone from the front row screamed loudly, making both of them automatically turn to Kintan.
"THE RAIN OF BLOOD NOW DROPPED ON HER BODY. HE COMES! HE COMES!"
Clarissa and Putra are now frozen. Drops of blood began to wet Kintan's body, until finally the body was rained with fresh blood very profusely until no one else could see Kintan's body behind the rain of blood.
When Clarissa had just realized the origin of the blood rain; that there was a pitch black hole above the Distribution Pole where Kintan was hanging, Kintan's thin shadow suddenly seemed to fall to the ground, and within seconds, the black hole disappeared.
The rain of blood stopped.
Kintan ... has now disappeared.