CH 17

“No way! You can’t kill them! I’m not some Wolf King either!” Bonia was so agitated that he said in a shaky tone, “Don’t you dare to slander me!”

“If you really aren’t the Wolf King, wouldn’t their deaths be the best proof of what you’re really afraid of?” Lu Jingqian approached him step by step and continue to edge him, “You are so afraid of their death, wasn’t it because you are afraid that if they die and turn into wolves, you won’t be able to hide your identity?”

“No! You are talking nonsense, I am not a Wolf King and they are not werewolves!” Bonia collapsed inside and could no longer confront Lu Jingqian in words, but emphasize the same words over and over again.

Lu Jingqian no longer pays attention to him, and even Chuck has acquiesced, his objection alone was of no use.

Lu Jingqian turned his head to Antwin and said, “Do it.”

Antwin ordered his subordinates to execute a werewolf first, and when that werewolf was executed, the square full of people was very quiet. Everyone stared at the dead man in silence, waiting to see if he would turn into a wolf.

Bonia closed his eyes and hugged his trembling body, he could already anticipate what kind of look will everyone look at him with, and he didn’t want to bear it or face it. At this moment, he wished he could turn back time so that he could be all ready to face all this instead of being helpless as he is now.

And so, as everyone watched, the slain member of the White Knights took on the form of a wolf.

Chuck was no longer able to react. As the Black Knights, killed several other White Knights one after another, he simply stood there, motionless, and watched.

The killed werewolves all turned into their wolf forms, and the people, perhaps because they had been shocked too many times, actually did not feel too much of a sense of surprise when they saw those werewolves turning back into wolf forms.

“Do you have anything else to say in your defense?” Lu Jingqian looked at Bonia and said, “If not, I’ll have to go on to prove your identity as the Wolf King to everyone.”

Bonia had nothing to say but he stare hard at Lu Jingqian, thinking of the possibility of holding him hostage and then escape from here. He could not fall into the hands of the Black Knights. After his identity as the Wolf King was exposed, he would only die.

The Black Knights once again took action, they pinned Bonia down and dragged him to the high platform in the very center of the square.

Bonia did not know what they wanted, but already had a strong bad feeling, he struggled hard and shouted, “Let go of me! Let me go! I’m a prophet, you can’t do this to me!”

The members of the Black Knights set up a wooden frame on the high platform, after tying Bonia to the wooden frame, they put a circle of dry firewood half a meter high around the frame, and after pouring fuel on the dry wood, the members with torches were standing aside waiting for orders.

“Chuck! Chuck, help me!” Bonia’s only hope now was to ask for help from Chuck, he shouted, “I’m not Wolf King, believe me for one last time! I can explain everything to you. You can’t let them do this to me! Chuck!”

Chuck’s hands clenched into fists, he wanted to rush over to save Bonia, but his body could not move. Hearing Bonia shouting his name loudly made him feel heartbroken emotionally. But rationally, he could not give him a response.

Bonia, who did not get a response from Chuck, felt unprecedented despair, knowing that there was nothing he could do to turn back the time and that his next fate was completely out of his control.

After getting a gesture of order from Antwin, the Black Knights ripped open Bonia’s collar so that a piece of his chest was frankly exposed, then exited the woodpile to light the fire.

The fire got hotter and hotter, and the heat wave hit Bonia right in the face, giving him a scorching sensation on his face and chest. Werewolves have a natural fear of fire. Bonia, as the Wolf King, was not so scared that he immediately turns into a wolf form, but having been burned like this, the strong sense of crisis will make the Wolf King symbol on his chest unable to resist but surfacing.

Bonia thought if he could endure this part, he might still have a chance to turn around. He clenched his teeth and made himself hold on. As long as the fire was over and his Wolf King mark had not appeared, he could continue to deny himself as the Wolf King and the Black Knights could not forcefully kill him.

How could Lu Jingqian not know what Bonia was thinking, he had long been prepared and added something to the fuel to make it impossible for Bonia to do what he had to do to force the Wolf King mark not to appear.

“Ah! Arghh!!!” Bonia felt very painful, he was shaking all over. He could not hold back and could only shout to vent the pain.

On Bonia’s chest slowly emerged a blue flame, after the flame slowly became smaller, everyone saw the emergence of a blue glow on his chest. Only some of the people could not see clearly the pattern because they were a little far away, but Chuck saw clearly that it was a pattern of a wolf’s head.

Although the people could not see the pattern on Bonia’s chest clearly, the next scene not only gave them a fright, but also enabled them to confirm clearly that Bonia was definitely a werewolf and nothing but a werewolf.

Because Lu Jingqian added something to the fuel, it not only forced out the Wolf King mark on Bonia’s chest but also made him unable to endure and transform into his original form. Although he did not have his whole body turned into a wolf, the constant transformation of the wolf’s head and the human head was enough to explain everything.

Since Bonia’s identity as the Wolf King had been confirmed in public, Lu Jingqian did not intend to just burn him to death. So he asked Antwin to give an order for his subordinates to put out the fire.

As if the fire had roasted out all the strength in his body, Bonia was completely limp when he was lowered from the wooden frame by the Black Knights. He did not know why he just experienced a fire roast and lost all his strength. As the Wolf King, he was too shocked at how weak he was at the moment.

Bonia was dragged closer to the people. This time as long as the people standing in front, they will be able to clearly see the mark of the Wolf King on his chest.

“The reason Bonia was able to identify so many werewolves in those two years is that as the Wolf King, he had the ability to identify werewolves.” Lu Jingqian explained to the people, “His plan is to sacrifice a small number of werewolves first. After gaining the trust of everyone, naturally whomever he said to be werewolves is a werewolf. Then he could use humans to die instead of werewolves and let the number of humans slowly decrease so he could accomplish his purpose of ruling the whole continent as the Wolf King.”

The people let out a lot of huffing and puffing because they were actually deceived by the Wolf King impersonating a prophet for so long without knowing since and still trusting him wholeheartedly. Before Bonia has also specifically named that Heron has werewolf blood. If not because Heron’s father saving those people, and many are willing to stand up for him, he would have been killed.

The people felt scared when they thought about it. Just a little bit more and the human race will be completely ruled by the wolves. If that day really comes, human beings will definitely live worse than death.

Because of the aftermath and anger, the people have a huge heart of hatred for Bonia, and now they just want to break him into pieces.

The angry people rushed forward and surrounded Bonia and beat him up. Bonia only felt all the bones in his body were going to break, and all parts of his body were in pain, and he couldn’t even scream.

In that moment, Antwin rushed forward in the public, wrapped his arm around Lu Jingqian’s waist, and quickly retreated. So to not let Lu Jingqian be pushed by the public.

He said to the people, “Please don’t worry, since the Wolf King has revealed his identity and fallen into the hands of the Black Knights, we will never let him get away with it. Now there are too many people, there may be misunderstandings, everyone first calm and cool. We’ll keep him in the prison, and if anyone wants to torture him to vent, they can apply to the Black Knights guarding him and get in line.”

The reason why Lu Jingqian did not let the people carry out a mass act of violence against Bonia, was that he did not want Bonia to immediately die by the out-of-control people. He kept Bonia because he still has some use.

Although they have difficulty controlling their anger, the people have instinctive respect and obedience to the words of the prophet. So after Lu Jingqian finished speaking, even if everyone hated to beat Bonia to death, no one make any more moves.

Lu Jingqian walked up to Chuck and said, “As for how your White Knights, and you, the leader, make up for your mistakes, it is up to the people to decide.”

Chuck looked at Lu Jingqian, regret was eating away at his heart, making him feel very painful, but this pain could not be expressed at the moment, he could only smother it in his heart, making it even harder for himself.

He trusted Bonia so much and defended him so much, yet he was nothing more than a pawn to be deceived and used. It was not only a shame for him but a huge blow. A fact that was too much for him to bear.

He closed his eyes, not wanting to face what had just happened, and hoped that everything was just a dream, from which he would wake up when he opened his eyes. But when he opened his eyes, he saw the angry expressions and hateful gazes of the people, making him accept the reality that this was not a dream.

The people who were unable to vent their anger completely against Bonia for the time being diverted some of their anger to Chuck and the White Knights. The people felt that they, as the guardians of humanity, had become the accomplices of the Wolf King and almost helped the Wolf King to rule over the human race. When they thought of this, the people’s hatred for Chuck and the White Knights became even stronger.

Chuck knew that under the anger of the people, his position as the head of the Order is certainly untenable. He turned his head to look at Lu Jingqian in the carriage, thinking that if the person he believed, in the beginning, was Heron, he must not have been in such a situation now.

After the Black Knights left, Chuck, who had returned to his senses, also hurriedly led the White Knights away. The people’s sense of anger was getting stronger and stronger, and if he didn’t leave in a hurry, he was afraid he would be mobbed by the people who had changed their targets of anger. Then he would be the first Knight Commander in history to be besieged by the people and would never have the face to see anyone again in his life.

On the way back, Chuck recalled all the past events and thought about the process of his love for Bonia, which now seems to be just a means for Bonia to use him. And he actually fell for it, which was incredibly ironic.

The more he remembers, the angrier he gets, and the more he hates Bonia. He can’t just do nothing about it, or he’ll die of anger. He must see Bonia once to let him know what the price of angering him is. So he can make a complete end to all the feelings he gave to him before.

Zia’s here:

Bonia is done for.