T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World

"Punish them severely!"

To maintain balance among powerful clans, the "living water" of humble origins was indispensable for the emperor who controlled the empire.

From a public perspective, this provides countless ordinary people with a visible ladder to upward mobility.

Privately, having no connections, they were the Anna royal family's top priority for winning over and shaping from the moment they entered the academy.

Even though this selection process also provides talent for other nobles, the royal family, represented by Kurien, always manages to select the best of the best.

Kurien knew very well that the Star Speakers, this group of utterly corrupt academic cliques, kept every penny of the nobles' funds, while the wild mages' share could be moved at will.

Vanaree's knees buckled. The mountain-like shouts shook his mind. His lips trembled, and he wanted to argue, but when his eyes met Kurien's icy gaze, he choked on his words, leaving only boundless fear.

He didn't act like an old man; he quickly bowed and kowtowed, adopting the humble posture of a commoner meeting a king, in exchange for the pity of the superior.

He was hoping to get away with it.

As long as they maintain the right attitude, at worst they will only lose the position that allows them to stay and work at the academy.

In a year or two, he can still start over in the public eye as a magician and a potion master, maintaining his prestigious status.

"So, you've confessed?"

Vanaree and his potion-making team immediately knelt down.

Meanwhile, the other professors' psychological defenses crumbled, and they too collapsed.

Kurien turned and looked around at the princes and officials who had come with him, muttering to himself.

"good very good."

"Just admit your guilt."

"Okay!"

He waved his hand: "Since you've admitted your guilt, then punish me."

He summoned the presiding judge forward.

“You are well-versed in the Imperial Law. Now tell me, according to the Anna Law, how should the actions of Vanare and the others be dealt with?”

The presiding judge shuddered. He looked up as if seeking an answer, meeting Kurion's emotionless eyes, and felt a chill run through his body.

He knew how to answer, but...

"What, is my voice not loud enough? Do you want to come closer?"

"No, Your Majesty... He should be executed."

Vanaree's forehead was pressed against the ground, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up.

Execution?

Many people here hold noble titles.

They only need to pay a fine for the same punishment.

Anna's laws apply only to commoners.

Kurien looked at Mint, then at the boundary between reality and illusion, and finally turned to the side to glance at the young students who were staring at him in a daze.

He smiled.

"Then execute him."

Thunder exploded.

Vanaree's mind was in a daze. Ignoring his impolite behavior before the king, he recklessly raised his head and stared directly at Kurien, his eyes filled with disbelief.

The presiding judge swallowed hard and tentatively asked, "All of them?"

"If you think those who knelt down are innocent, then go ahead and interrogate them."

A chill ran from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and the judge knelt down as well.

Kurien saw the astonishment of everyone at the boundary between the real and the virtual, and a long-lost sense of pleasure welled up inside him.

Behind him, a young man dressed in fine clothes stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, although Vanaree and the others are unforgivable, they have, after all, been rooted in the academy for many years and have made invaluable contributions to the selection of talent for the empire... Perhaps..."

Kurien glanced at him, and the young man actually knelt down as well.

Jiang Heyi didn't find Kurien's gaze particularly frightening; it was just that everyone looked horrified when they met his eyes.

Is it really that scary?

"The empire is not yours to rule yet; I am the emperor."

The chilling tone in his words carried on the wind, sending a shiver down everyone's spine. Jiang Heyi even got goosebumps.

"Execution."

The inner guards were mobilized, pinning all the members of the potion department to the ground and stepping on their backs.

Vanare cried out, “Your Majesty, you cannot do this! I am willing to atone for my sins!”

Upon hearing this, the officials around him actually knelt down and began to offer their advice.

Kurien didn't look at them.

"I am the Lord of Anna, and I command you..."

"kill!"

The magic flowed into his body, and in an instant, blood filled Vanaree's pupils and flowed from his seven orifices.

The square was stained crimson with blood.

A gentle breeze carried the pungent smell of blood to every onlooker.

Kurien flipped through the ledgers, then looked up at the people on the boundary between the real and the virtual.

Admiring their surprised little expressions, I couldn't help but laugh even in this serious and oppressive setting.

The more he laughed, the lower the people around him knelt.

In the end, only the students who had been watching and the group from the boundary between the virtual and real worlds remained standing.

"Inner guards, get ready, it's time for the next batch."

"Your Majesty..." The presiding judge finally couldn't hold back any longer. He pleaded, trembling, "You...you should maintain the proceedings. They still..."

Kurien asked, "Can you do it?"

"I am the Emperor of Anna, I, Kurien, command you and the Imperial Guards to kill!"

With that, Kurien tossed his personal sword to the judge.

"Go, or you'll die!"

Mint snapped out of her shock and gave Kurion a thumbs up.

“Now that’s more like a Lion King,” she couldn’t help but exclaim. “Otherwise, I would have thought you were old, like Wick.”

Chapter 398 I am the emperor, what I say is 3, and that's 3

In order to survive, some people had already secretly sided with Kurien. The audit was just a formality to silence some people.

As he called out each person's name from the list, one person collapsed and begged for forgiveness.

There is no forgiveness, only bloodshed.

The students of the Star Speaker Academy stared in disbelief as their instructors, who had been teaching them in class not long ago, lay one by one in pools of blood, their throats tingling.

This even included several Rank 7 scholars who were somewhat well-known.

The eldest prince beside Kurien once again pleaded with him for leniency, but received only silence and a cold "kill".

Some people couldn't bear the oppressive atmosphere and even thought of jumping into the sky to escape.

Before a true master of killing techniques, he was reduced to a shower of blood, falling to the ground, his body utterly destroyed.

Jiang Heyi never expected things to unfold this way.

In the Siren incident, Kurien's balancing act between the various factions gave them a sense of compromise.

The ruler of a country, nicknamed the Lion King, still needs their assistance to severely punish a few culprits, which inevitably makes him feel sad.

I thought the script would be similar this time, but I didn't expect it to be a scene of mass killings.

The two storylines span only half a year on the timeline, so what happened to Kurien that caused so much change?

The presiding judge, wielding the Lion King's sword, fought until his silver robes were stained red, and only after the last person fell did Kurion offer a casual comment.

“You are Anna’s sharp blade to punish evil. If it’s not sharp enough and needs to be sharpened, then I will consider getting a different one.”

"Take this sword, it's yours now."

The presiding judge knelt down with a thud, trembling with fear, and dared not raise his head again.

The five great academies of the empire grant students special privileges during their studies, exempting them from bowing to nobles.

Including the emperor.

The rules were revised when Kurien took power, so seeing this pile of wooden stakes immediately calmed Kurien's agitated state.

More than once, when faced with difficult choices, Kurien would sneak into the academy, sit quietly in a corner of the open area, and watch the students come and go.

It's like looking down at a rushing river and listening to the roaring water when you're feeling down.

This is his unique way of relieving stress.

"Whether you're a wild mage or a nobleman from a privileged background, once you enter the academy, there's only one evaluation criterion: whether you can realize your full potential."

"Rene."

Suddenly called out, Renee, still shocked by the massacre, paused for a moment before walking towards Kurien.

Kuryn moved Renee to the front so that all the trainees could see her clearly.

“Renée Grellian, I believe many of you who consider yourselves of high status should understand the prestige of the Grellian surname.”

"Rennie, would you care about your opponent's background?"

“A worthy opponent will earn my respect.” Renee paused. “Like, Mint, I realized this back in the academy.”

Kurien laughed, quite pleased with her answer.

He suddenly spoke sternly: "For more than ten years, they have been misappropriating funds meant for wild mages' materials within the academy and squandering them recklessly. In order to prevent you from realizing it, these people have deliberately instigated conflict after conflict, causing the contradictions between wild mages and nobles to spiral upward."

"Among them, how many may possess the talent of mint, yet have been let down?"

"How many unruly mages have not received fair treatment and have left the academy disheartened?"

"They are causing countless unawakened individuals in the empire to lose faith in the empire's five highest institutions of learning!"

"In that case, I have no choice but to bring out their corpses, announce it to the world, and let everyone regain their faith."

It sounded like a dark joke, but none of the trainees laughed; their expressions were unusually serious.

……

……

The news that Kurien had killed dozens of scholars on the spot spread throughout the continent of Ana in an instant.

The wealthy and powerful families in Anna fell silent in an instant.

"His Majesty is old and has gone a little mad."

Kurien was neither old nor crazy. After doing all this, he made no attempt to hide his presence at the manor where he was staying at the boundary between the virtual and real worlds.

The inner guards were heavily guarded, preventing anyone from getting close.

Lying on the bench, Kurien shed his fierce aura and lazily basked in the sunlight.

Judging from his appearance at this moment, he really does look like an elderly man taking a nap in the warm sun. Who would have thought that he had just presided over a righteous massacre not long ago?

Jiang Heyi spoke frankly: "Your Majesty, you don't seem to be in a good mood."

Wick glared at him, but seeing his nonchalant expression, he sighed helplessly.

It wasn't just the Anna nobles who were having a headache with them; even he, the head of the inner guard, found it a headache.

The Fallen Star Siren is registered, and Queen Mirrorheart is fond of her. There are also rumors that the somewhat famous Siren Kesha from the Fallen Star Sea has an ambiguous relationship with them, and even went to work in the guild.