Adriel looked at the soldier who was throwing up all his food on the ground, this soldier is a recruit who had just finished his training, he is strong, but lacks experience and has only fought against zombies and some beasts.
Soldiers who have fought on the front lines during the promotion test would not flinch even when faced with a sea of corpses.
"Stand up, soldier!" Adriel ordered, with his face still pale, the recruit stood up and saluted in front of Adriel.
"I apologize for my behavior, sir!"
"Next time you will be sent back to the training ground," Adriel commented casually, making the soldier turn pale, the training led by commander Irina is already horrible enough, if he was returned for misconduct ...
"Take me to what you saw", the soldier did not have time to consider it before hearing Adriel's voice again.
"T-This, sir, is sure ..."
"It's a order, soldier", the tone of voice this time was much colder, letting the soldier know that he shouldn't say anything else.
The soldier nodded and led him up the stairs, as they walked the soldier looked at Adriel with a pleading tone, "Sir, when you see him ... please don't go crazy, please, I don't want to die from a fit of rage from my boss"
Adriel did not speak, he wondered that he has found this man so that he is so scared of his possible reaction.
The two of them reached a door ajar at the end of the second floor, the young recruit once again turning pale as he remembered what he saw inside.
Adriel did not linger, he opened the door directly and looked inside.
"..."
"..."
"..."
Silence reigned for a long time in the old, faded hallway, the previously stale and humid atmosphere beginning to freeze to such a degree that the B-rank soldier believed that he would die from the cold.
What is it inside that room that could make someone as calm and collected as Adriel barely control his fury?
What Adriel saw ... was even more traumatic than the scene of hundreds of piled-up and rotting corpses, more trauma than a full-scale war.
Inside the room are ... girls, little girls, girls and boys, all under 10 years of age.
They were all dead and devoid of clothes, their malnourished bodies were full of wounds, their lower halves were totally devastated and filled with a white liquid that need not be described.
And that, as horrible and macabre as it may seem, is not the worst, they were all hung from the ceiling with large reeds that are usually used to draw water from wells, many of the children's limbs were missing, some were missing half of the body and others only had a skeleton left.
On top of a large table where some large knives were placed, slices of meat and some small arms and feet were present, giving the final touch to this extremely macabre and frightening scene.
"Hey, what's up there?"
At this moment, Isabela arrived, surrounded Adriel and also looked at what was inside the small compartment.
Silence reigned again, lasting several more minutes before Adriel turned around with Isabela and left, leaving the soldier unsure of what to do.
At this moment, I hear Adriel's voice from behind, "I withdraw what I said before about your behavior, select some soldiers to bury those children later, now come down, I want you to see this."
The voice sounded as cold as hell, although part of the speech was praising him, the soldier broke out in a cold sweat and ran to the first floor as if his life depended on it.
For a brief moment, he felt sorry for the people below, but remembering the macabre scenario that was still fresh in his memory, that sympathy immediately disappeared.
Downstairs, the atmosphere immediately froze the moment Adriel and Isabela entered the lobby.
Adriel didn't even look at the kneeling men as he ordered two soldiers who continued to comfort the orphans, "Get the childrens out of here, you know where to take them"
The soldiers attended immediately and took the orphans out of the building, those children would be sent to the orphanages that Adriel had personally ordered to build, where they would receive the best education, food and training, they would also teach them about cultivation to become stronger and control your destiny.
Adriel looked at the men who were kneeling in fear and said blankly, "Child murder, pedophilia, sexual assault, cannibalism, abuse, anything else to add before I declare your conviction?"
Everyone's faces turned pale one of them stood up and exclaimed, "It's not what you think, it's not what you think, whatever you've seen...!"
A punch from Isabela sent the man flying through the air and crashed into the wall, his body exploding into bloody pieces instantly.
The rest of the men began to plead and shout, but were quickly silenced by the soldiers, who beat them on the head.
Adriel wrote quickly on a sheet of paper before handing it to a serious-looking woman next to him.
This woman has a peculiar talent, she can force someone to tell the truth, if she asks something, the person asked will be forced to tell the truth and only the truth, she is in charge of interrogating the suspected survivors.
The woman's expression changed drastically when she saw the list of questions, she looked at Adriel to confirm it, seeing that he nodded, the woman could only accept that it was true and went towards one of the criminals who was tied up and immobilized.
Thus, the interrogation began.