I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Reading that expression, Shuri broke into a nervous sweat. Then, with his eyes, he cursed Isaac.

‘Come on, you brat. Isn’t this enough? We can move on from here! As long as we achieve our goal!!’

However, Isaac’s expression only became more sinister.

“Haaah.”

Shuri, with a face showing he really didn’t want to, spoke to Naiser, touching his forehead.

“There’s still… a final test.”

“What the hell?”

“Tell me the location of the locket!”

Naiser, lying on the ground, was dumbfounded. Despite his arm being broken, his entire body torn apart by some unknown technique, but he wasn’t Red for nothing!

Is this guy really daring to threaten and interrogate him?

“You bastard! Do you think I’d talk, you idiot! I’m not combat ineffective yet…!”

Then Shuri, seemingly convinced that it wouldn’t work, grabbed Naiser’s collar and whispered.

“Hey, bastard! Please, just tell me! This is all to save your damn life, you know!”

“What the hell are you saying? Do you think the person who will be the head of the Red family will ever flinch?”

In the end, Shuri looked up at the sky with moist eyes.

“Huh… You just have to confess. Huh. Okay then.”

At those words, Isaac’s eyes turned into a crescent moon, and the corner of his mouth twitched with a grin.

However, Naiser, who had no idea about the situation, instead just snorted.

“Damn you! Come on and try it! As the successor to the Red family, I have learned all kinds of torture techniques, but how dare you…Cough?!!”

Shuri’s foot stepped on a bad spot of Naiser’s body.

Squeeze.

Instantly, a silence fell over the arena.

“…Ughh.”

The agonizing moans that sounded like something was about to burst came from the paladins.

The knights coughed and turned their heads, while the priests closed their eyes with a devout posture.

Even though… Isn’t that a bit odd for a priest, or rather as a human being?

Even if it’s torture, there should be a limit to what’s inhumane.

However, with his eyes closed, Shuri spoke.

“No matter how much training, training to that extent… No, I can’t. Damn it!”

Of course, these were Isaac’s words.

He just repeated them as they were.

While Shuri, with a foot that seemed to burst something soft, muttered as if he hated it.

“For now, for humane reasons, holy power won’t be used… Confess for the sake of your family’s future… If the successor cheats, the price will be cut off. But you can save one side.”

The Red apprentices screamed in agony.

Those cowardly bastards!

“The Blue… such cowardice…!”

“That bastard, he didn’t look like that before!”

At the same time, Naiser, who was suffering, gritted his teeth.

‘There’s no way Shuri would do something like this!’

The only person who would do something like this is Isaac Eshua, who doesn’t even look like him!!

‘You devil! Just to get a locketin a test, taking the future of someone else’s family…’

At the same time, a trembling Naiser, who had realized something, shivered.

Wait? Didn’t Shuri say that before?

-Well, then, I’ll just take the locket.

Shuri, originally, was going to find the locket, not even asking for a confession. He didn’t ask about the location of the locket!

In other words…

‘He already knows the location…!’

Naiser, who soon met eyes with Isaac, felt a chilling certainty.

‘These bastards, they really know where the real one is!’

Then, Naiser trembled for a different reason.

How on earth did he find out?

He had cast a perfect concealment spell on the real locket, hiding its presence completely!

No, even before that, why would he go so far as to capture the leader and torture him when he already knew the locket’s location?!

This guy is completely insane!

‘Darn it, it can’t end like this.’

Naiser gritted his teeth as he looked at the broken statue of the god Isaac had destroyed.

That statue was a divine blessing that bestowed favor from the deity. Praying to it could grant advantageous power and turn the tide of the battle.

So, he signaled his subordinates.

However, as if anticipating it, Kina lightly tapped the ground.

Flash!

Simultaneously, a golden array of magic was activated on the ground.

“Cough!”

“Aargh!”

All the Red apprentices within the range of the gold magic screamed and collapsed.

It was a wide-range spell that paralyzed everyone who wasn’t an ally, leaving them helpless.

The trainees who fell paralyzed for a moment moaned only in agony.

“Those bastards…! Now that I think about it, they intentionally let themselves be captured!”

“Naiser knew it was fake, yet he deliberately infiltrated the Red camp! To degrade Naiser into such a state!”

Isaac chuckled when they had noticed that now.

“Do you have to be so clueless to become a heretic inquisitor? You idiots!”

“Trying to force a confession out of Naiser with these tricks!”

“No matter what, Naiser will never confess!”

Isaac then smirked.

“Oh, you’re wrong about that.”

“What?!”

“Confessions don’t necessarily require capturing the leader. You youngsters.”

“What???”

“If you guys claim to follow the Red faith, don’t you know about that? Originally, a confession isn’t about tormenting the leader; it’s about tormenting the weakest one first.”

“…?!”

“Usually, the lower ones have looser tongues. You all should know the location of the locket as well.”

The Red team, who understood the meaning of his words, grumbled. This guy disrespects the Red even while playing dead!

“Don’t make me laugh! Even though Naiser has been reduced to that state, he’s keeping his mouth shut, and if you think that we would talk… heuk.”

Isaac raised his rattle… no, the sinister morning star.

“Yeah. We can deal with them one by one.”

“Aaaah! Spare us!”

At the cries of his subordinates, Naiser shook his body as if to say stop.

“Crazy bastard, won’t you stop?! You already know who has the real one! You don’t need to go this far!”

However, Isaac chuckled.

“Well, who knows?”

Maybe he doesn’t know it and needs to torment them one by one?

Isaac put the Saintess’s ring on his finger that he had received 10 years ago when he was a baby. It was an Elder Ring that absorbed the surrounding holy power.

Then, Whisper seemed puzzled.

[With that ring, you can absorb holy power without beating them up, right?]

‘Beating them up increases the sensation by 10 percent each time.’

[Oh, then you have to beat them up. It seems that more holy power is secreted due to the defense mechanism.]

Isaac laughed.

Yeah, that’s right. Although it felt like zombies during the demon king era, it’s good for this situation.

Anyway, entrusting Naiser’s torture to Shuri was for the sake of destroying this country! It was to cut off the bloodline of one of the five noble families that followed the God!

‘Now it’s my time!’

Before getting caught by the inquisition, he had to get his hands back to their original state! Hehe!

Actually, it might be because of his actions rather than his hands that he’ll be dragged away first.

The Red apprentice captured by Isaac screamed in agony.

“After destroying the statue of the god, now resorting to violence that should never be committed as a priest! Are you even a priest after doing that?”

“Oh my, when did I ever ask for torture?”

“Do you not know that this place where was summoned the Red’s divine garden? Everything that happens here is observed by the God of criminal justice! And still, do you think you’ll get away with this!”

However, Isaac snorted.

God of criminal justice? Ah, are you talking about that lazy guy?

“Oh, the mighty deity of the Red is too busy to watch over ants like us. Pray with more devotion and try to see.”

“…!!”

Shuri touched his forehead at Isaac’s provocation.

Ah, that guy is going to receive divine punishment. A guy without faith! I wonder what he’s up to when he makes a contract with a deity.

As no words seemed to get through, the Red apprentices trembled.

‘This guy is completely crazy. He’s insane!’

Perhaps they were afraid of seeing themselves in a state similar to Naiser’s.

“Fine! I get it! I’ll tell you the location! The person with the locket is Sol… Puhak!”

Isaac delivered a punch infused with holy power, causing the opponent to lose consciousness.

Ah, the techniques of the Saintess are indeed powerful.

“Sorry. My hand slipped, and I couldn’t hear. Next.”

When Isaac turned his head, a nearby apprentice shouted.

“I, I know! So… that blonde-haired Sol… Puhak!”

Isaac didn’t listen again and knocked him out.

“Oh, why is your voice so low? I can’t hear you! Can’t you confess properly?!”

The Red apprentices trembled as they realized the truth.

‘This bastard…!’

‘He has no intention of listening. He’s going to knock us all down!’

However, Isaac, who was replenishing his holy power, laughed.

“As you guys know, there’s no time limit for this test, right? I’ll slowly torture you like the Red Pentagon!”

Isaac swung his weapon.

Naturally, for the guy who actually had the locket, he intentionally went to him last.

The spectators watching this scene turned pale, and even the Crown Prince commented.

“…Sir.”

“Yes.”

“Are we really witnessing the selection test for the representative priests of the Empire?”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“…I see.”

The guard knight narrowed his eyes and looked at the Crown Prince.

“…It may be presumptuous, but are Your Highness’s eyes twinkling with delight?”

“It’s an illusion.”

“Yes.”

…He’s surely mistaken. Yes.