"Issue the Extermination Order."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately felt the atmosphere on the bridge grow considerably more oppressive. Then Okegis, who had been sitting on Duanmu Huai's shoulder all this time, jumped down, while at the same time, led and surrounded by Servo-skulls, a Throne Angel descended from above, holding a parchment scroll in its hands as it flew toward Duanmu Huai.
"..."
Watching this scene, the expressions of the Fusion Warriors led by Ellie were rather complicated.
Well, this was also quite a sight. In the dim bridge hall, the area where Duanmu Huai sat was lit only by one burning candle after another. Under the faint, flickering candlelight, his towering body sat in a golden chair carved with skulls and wings, revealing only the profile of his stern, gloomy face.
Floating skulls circled around him, while the cold corpse of a baby flapped its wings as it descended from above and came before him, raising its tiny arms...
No matter how you looked at it, this did not look like something a good person would do!
To be honest, ever since boarding the warship and seeing these things, Ellie and the others had been speechless... Although they had been told that the bodies of these Throne Angels were all cloned, it was still extremely difficult to accept seeing tiny babies transformed into such inhuman, ghostly forms.
In fact, Ann and Mary had protested before, feeling that something else should be used as a substitute, but Duanmu Huai had refused. He could certainly have used the Angels in the Soul Cards, or something similar, as replacements, but Duanmu Huai felt that doing so would fail to reveal the true nature of the Inquisition.
Skulls, corpses, war—the Inquisition was ultimately all about these things. Apart