The Demon Emperor was Saint Emperor

Chapter 95: Execution

Previously, it wasn’t that people hadn’t anticipated the new Emperor would start a purge, but no one expected Helena to strike such a heavy blow.

Nearly ninety percent of the empire’s nobles were arrested and convicted, with the lightest sentences being three years in prison.

As for those noble officials who committed serious crimes, they were given a minimum of twenty years in prison, stripped of their titles, and had their properties confiscated.

As for those who committed capital crimes, the ones most resistant among the nobles, all were sentenced to death and executed immediately, with no room for maneuver.

Apart from the National Defense Army appearing in the Imperial City, more of Helena’s troops sealed all the exits of Celestial Destiny City, trying to capture the relatives of these nobles in one fell swoop.

The events in the Imperial City couldn’t be concealed, as these nobles all had Communication Stones, and even Lynn only had space-sealing devices; he’s not a GM, so how could he silence others?

Fortunately, Communication Stones have a delay, and the main force of the National Defense Corps was already positioned throughout the city, along with many exiled strongmen summoned back by Helena, even if some major noble houses still had stubborn members, they could handle them.

"Your Majesty, if you do this, I’m afraid the Celestial Destiny Empire will collapse instantly. Without us, the Celestial Destiny Empire might soon be replaced by the Elf Kingdom! No longer will it hold the prestige of an empire!"

"You cannot kill me! My Soros Clan has bled for the empire, achieved merits; even if not cleared by merit, I shouldn’t lose my Duke title!"

"Helena! Our Oden Clan is a founding noble clan! Since your ancestors and their ancestors, we’ve been the pillar of the Celestial Destiny Empire, if you kill me, at least three counties will rebel against you! Are you trying to incite a civil war?"

"The calamity of the Demon Race is not over, yet you weaken the strength of my Celestial Destiny Empire and the Divine Protection Continent like this, have you pledged allegiance to the Demon Race?"

"Right! We can still go to the battlefield! Redeem our sins with merits! Didn’t your brothers get sent to the front lines by you? I can do it too!"

Among the many nobles captured, the noise rose, but most people didn’t really believe Helena dared to implement the sentences against them. If she really did, even without mentioning the stability of Celestial Destiny Empire’s politics, losing so many Saint Tier and High Tier warriors in one breath, the empire’s military power would probably drop out of the empire’s ranks, replaced by the Elf Kingdom in the eighth position on the continent.

When the Late Emperor was in power, he had already offended all the top warriors in the nation; with the new emperor now cutting off seventy to eighty percent of the middle forces, could the Celestial Destiny Empire still be called an empire?

However, Helena soon proved her resolve with actual actions.

When the first imperial noble, a marquis-ranked tax official, was dragged to the Divine Altar and beheaded, seeing the blood splattered, and the headless nobles truly realized their predicament.

"My God! Why did my Teleportation Stone fail?"

The Soros Duke, captured personally by Armand, although shouting before, wasn’t really panicked inside, but when he saw his colleague beheaded, he immediately activated his escape card. Yet his Space Transmission Stone, filled with magic elements and usable seven times, suddenly malfunctioned.

"Don’t come near me!"

Elsewhere, a marquis erected a Defense Magic Array, a top-tier Sacred Artifact passed down in his family, which even High Saint Tiers could not easily break.

Then Lynn threw a Broken Iron Sword over, and like popping a soap bubble, shattered his entire Magic Shield.

Armand, who initially prepared to personally axe the battlefield, was a bit slow and, upon approaching that marquis, neither could he chop nor retreat.

"Damn! You’re next! Old man arranges for you to cut in line!"

Saying this, Armand, regardless of the sequence, directly picked up the marquis like a small chick and helped him reincarnate first.

"Spare me, Her Majesty the Empress!"

"Helena, I was your grandfather’s Personal Guard Captain, even if you don’t consider the Late Emperor’s favor, look at the favor of the late late Emperor..."

The sounds in the crowd turned from noise to ghostly cries, but neither Helena nor Lynn paid any attention to it.

They beg for mercy now, but why didn’t they stop when committing heinous crimes?

If they were easily spared, then what about those who died unjustly, those who were oppressed generation after generation?

Later, during the execution process, incidents continued to occur, facing death, the nobles’ potential exploded considerably, sometimes even the National Guardian War Saint Armand found it troublesome, and Lynn had to intervene three times.

Fortunately, Helena broke through to High Saint Tier, able to impose absolute suppression on her noble subordinates with Imperial Might, otherwise, even with Armand striking, with Lynn overseeing, it wouldn’t be easy to handle them cleanly.

Fortunately, it was fortunate, so everything went smoothly, even the most troublesome dukes fell one by one under Armand’s axe.

In the face of absolute power, any tricks or schemes were worthless, even the richest Soros Duke with a substitute Sacred Artifact merely took another axe, but ended up with a more broken corpse, leaving very unpeacefully.

The purge against Celestial Destiny Empire’s nobles lasted a whole day, counting those later escorted and executed family members guilty of capital crimes, over eight thousand were publicly beheaded in the Imperial City this day.

It was only because the Divine Altar was large enough, and the executioners professional enough, otherwise, even eight thousand pigs wouldn’t be slaughtered within a day.

As night gradually fell, the blood under the Divine Altar had already formed streams, the nobles and officials not sentenced to death looked on with scalp tingling.

Now they were grateful they weren’t too evil, or else there would be a splash of their own in the crimson below.

"Escort the remaining to prison, anyone attempting escape will be deemed guilty of capital crimes, and post a supreme bounty, I have the money now!"

Once all those sentenced to death were executed, as the palace guards summoned their courage to clean the site, Helena simply swept her gaze over the execution ground and the prisoners, then flicked her sleeve and headed to the deep palace.

Armand and his National Defense Army began transporting the mountain of corpses outside the Imperial City, for the current Her Majesty the Empress, a High Saint Tier, no longer needed their garrison in the palace.

Moreover, besides the Empress herself and her Giant Dragon companion, there was that one person...

With just a glance from that terrifying presence, causing Armand’s hair to stand on end, even if the Demon King Army came, they’d probably all be dealt with in this deep palace.