"Scarlet Executioners!" The moment Makelele saw those red-clad freaks, he cried out in alarm.
"Scarlet Executioners? Those red Bugles?" Solam asked like a complete country bumpkin. The so-called Bugles referred to the way these people were dressed. The rest of their clothes were passable, though the garish red was ugly enough. What really made Solam want to mock them was their hats: tall, pointed hoods resembling Ku Klux Klan attire. Those sharp hoods were probably half a meter high, looking utterly ridiculous, like something a clown would wear.
Naturally, Makelele had no idea what Bugles were, but he still nodded.
Scarlet Executioners was the name ordinary people used for them. They were a high-end combat organization within the Church of Bane, similar to the Eye of Fear in the Church of Fear. As for what they were actually called, few people knew. They had many other names as well, such as Scarlet Butchers, Apostles of Strife, and so on. Every region called them something different, with no unified name. In fact, there was no specific designation for this organization within the Church of Bane.
In truth, the Church of Bane did not even have an official establishment for them. If they truly needed a unified name, they preferred to call them "losers," because these people were all failures in the internal struggles of the Church of Bane.
Bane demanded that his priests and followers climb to the very top of their societies by any means necessary—hatred, fear, destruction, or conflict. He preferred his priests to corrupt existing systems from within under the cover of law, but he could also tolerate, within limits, methods that created discord and depravity. Torture, interrogation, and premeditated assassinations were all methods favored by the Dark Lord—and his followers were rarely foolish enough not to study