Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 336 Torture

Looking at the severed limbs and the blood-soaked remains of the altered body, Xuan Yuan Mu Ze was deeply disturbed. After a long while, he finally calmed down and asked, "Is this just their welcoming ceremony here?"

Alberto nodded and said, "Yes, please don't be in such a hurry. This is just an appetizer in hell. Please follow me and continue. I have many works of art here worth appreciating."

So Xuanyuan Muze continued walking with Alberto. Along the way, he saw countless prisoners enduring inhuman torture in cells made of one-way glass. They were being skinned and dismembered, beaten and humiliated, and some were even being parasitized by unspeakable, disgusting creatures. According to Alberto, these things were called parasite eggs. Most of the basic staff of Hell, the "worker bees," were basically bred by these prisoners themselves, which could be considered as making use of waste.

The two then arrived at a huge prison cell. Alberto pointed to the cell with an air of mystery and said, "Welcome to this creative workshop of hell. This is where the most heinous criminal of the past three hundred years is imprisoned. He was the source of inspiration for many of the tortures we use now, and he was the first to try them. His name is 'Xin Yongyang,' a prisoner from planet number 438 of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races. He founded a private school and recruited children under the age of twelve under the guise of 'making children more obedient.' He used inhuman violence to cause psychological harm to twenty-six children. He even attempted to torture those children with electric shocks. Fortunately, Lingzi reported the situation in time. We executed all the parents and personnel involved by slow slicing, and then exterminated the mastermind's entire family and sent them to hell, thus preventing the incident from escalating further."

Later, as a warning, the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races began broadcasting the live stream of "New Yongyang" in hell in the classroom every year during parent education and official education sessions, to warn those potential beasts what would happen if they dared to touch the foundation of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races!

But this time is different. Thanks to your and His Majesty's esteemed visit, the Creative Workshop will be welcoming a new group of guests to keep him company for the long term. However, these new guests haven't yet completed their 'welcome ceremony,' so let's first take a look at this treasure of hell.

After speaking, Alberto turned on the switch of the one-way glass in the Creative Workshop. Instantly, a human being strapped to an operating table and being electrocuted until he was urinating and defecating came into Xuan Yuan Muze's view. Although there was no smell, the disgusting scene still destroyed Xuan Yuan Muze's last remaining psychological defenses. Xuan Yuan Muze finally could not suppress the strong dizziness and ran to the corner to vomit.

Seeing this, Alberto picked up the outside communication device and shouted to the people inside, "What's wrong with you? Why didn't you dig out his excretory organs completely? You're disgusting our guests."

The jailer inside quickly replied, "Sir, you forgot that his body is newly replaced and hasn't been modified yet. Didn't you say that since it's newly replaced, we shouldn't waste it and should make use of his organs that haven't been removed yet?"

Alberto slapped his forehead and said, "Oh dear, how could I forget about that? Never mind, I'll take the guests to inspect other places then." With that, Alberto hung up the call and turned off the one-way glass.

At this moment, Xuanyuan Muze also recovered and asked Alberto, "What does 'newly replaced body' mean?"

Alberto explained, “Ah, many prisoners’ bodies are very fragile. After a few years of torture, their bodies decay and collapse. How can that be? Their souls haven’t collapsed yet, so how can we let them die so easily? There’s no such thing as a free lunch. So we usually use genetic cloning technology to create a new body for the prisoners, transfer their souls into the new body, and then continue to torture them. Didn’t I tell you? That prisoner is the most sinful in the last three hundred years. That sentence means he has been serving his sentence here for three hundred years.”

The purpose of hell is not to make prisoners fear death, but to make them regret being alive, to make them scream even when they breathe, and even to make them regret being born. Few people can maintain hope for life after ten minutes in hell, but it doesn't matter, hell will not let them die. Our goal is to torture them until their souls disintegrate and they are never reborn. But don't worry, the souls of these worthless people will return to the River Styx after they collapse and will not cause any loss to the negative energy of the universe.

However, that was still too easy on them, so Hell invented this! As he spoke, Alberto pressed the device in his hand, and then clusters of eerie green flames appeared on the chandelier in the corridor, while a long, mournful scream rang out.

Alberto waved his arms as if conducting a symphony, and while appreciating the 'music', he said, "This is how I gather the souls of those criminals whose souls have collapsed and hang them in the corridor like lanterns for lighting and music. It doesn't consume energy and can torture the criminals' souls a second time. Moreover, the beautiful screams are very much in line with the style of hell."

When the necromancers don't have soul energy to cultivate, they come to me to consume the soul energy from these sky lanterns. The soul power after being tormented by the sky lanterns is the purest and easiest to absorb. The necromancers really like this high-quality soul energy; it's a way of making use of waste.

Xuanyuan Muze looked at him and questioned, "Aren't you afraid that the wronged souls of these people will come after you for doing such heinous things?"

Alberto snorted and retorted dismissively, "Guest, you clearly don't understand what 'wronged souls' means. Wronged souls refer to those poor people who died unjustly. But everyone here died legally and legitimately, so there's no such thing as being wronged. Moreover, in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races, cases are usually handled by necromancers who repeatedly search souls to confirm the facts. In the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races, as long as His Majesty wants, everyone's thoughts are transparent, so there's no such thing as a wrongful conviction."

And rest assured, soul searching will not harm those commoners. The difficulty of soul searching depends on the difference in soul strength between the soul searcher and the soul being searched. The greater the difference in soul strength, that is, the stronger the soul searcher's soul, the less damage the soul search will cause to the soul being searched. Every necromancer authorized to search souls is at least an archmage who can cast super-level magic. The difference in soul strength between the common people and them is like the difference between a planet and a star. So unless the necromancers intentionally harm them, soul searching will not have any side effects at all.

As for being afraid of vengeful spirits, you must be joking. They're just spirits, why should I be afraid? I've seen the dead before, and these useless souls are too weak. So what if they become vengeful spirits? I have plenty of ways to kill them. Besides, there are several necromancers stationed here in Hell. Even if a star explodes, we have plenty of ways to deal with it, let alone the mischief of the dead.

"Though I am not particularly talented, I am still a legendary warrior. If those criminals didn't possess demigod-level strength in life, their desire for revenge after death is nothing but a pipe dream. All fear stems from ignorance and weakness. My esteemed guest, these beasts in hell deserve their fate. Don't be so sensitive. If you pity these beasts, isn't your pity just another way of turning your hand on the innocent victims?"