As night fell, flames shooting into the sky from Pine Needle Castle, the seat of the Renard Family on Akray Island, could be seen by people dozens of kilometers away.
The Renard Family's castle stood in the heart of Akray Island, a traditional residential district for the Ewindara Archipelago's old noble houses and wealthy merchants. After the Ewindara Autonomous Council was established, nearly one-sixth of its members came from this very area.
Although fires had risen from more than one location across Akray Island at the same time, the anomaly at the Renard Family's Pine Needle Castle drew the most attention.
Amid the flames soaring into the heavens came the muffled groans and screams of the Renard Family's guards and every person who dared resist, in the final moments before their deaths.
The high walls and massive gates of Pine Needle Castle's outer fortress had been breached today without serving any purpose at all. The fall of the outer fortress only hastened the Renard Family's complete destruction.
It was slaughter and devastation so precise, ruthless, and efficient that it left one in awe.
The ones carrying out this slaughter were the Ancient God Church's Order Tribunal.
The name Order Tribunal might have been somewhat awkward on the tongue, but mention the Red Gloves, and there was no one in the entire Sacred Ice Island Kingdom who did not know them.
The Order Tribunal was an organization that had only emerged within the Ancient God Church in recent years. Before its appearance, as trade between the Eastern and Western Continents and several surrounding subcontinents increased through the waters of the Ewindara Archipelago, pirate forces in the archipelago and surrounding seas had welcomed their own springtime. Yet that spring came to an end the moment the Order Tribunal appeared.
What forged the