300. Pope's Salvation

Boom!

Boom!

Drums echoed in the large arena on the Guild Peninsula. Although it was currently the time for Martial Tourney, the yearly competition, today it was booked for mass execution. 

A total of nine hundred and forty-six men were involved in the mass scandal. The news didn't take too long to spread everywhere, and since the surviving mother and son gave their testimony and the money was recovered, the guilt was proven beyond any doubt. 

The Judge, Archbishop Noah, didn't even have to look at the names. He simply signed at the end of the long parchment with the names of all the accused. 

On top of the nearly a million collected from Cardinal Cohn and Kenny, almost two million Graces in the form of coins and bricks were recovered from various other places. In total, the money was enough to feed a town of ten thousand for more than a decade. And all this money was earned from human trafficking.