024: Punishment

Dark Forest, Punishment Square.

Punishment Square is a place in the Ancient Ruins that strikes fear into wizards not because of any inherent danger or powerful magic creature lurking about, but simply because...

It is the place where wizards guilty of severe crimes are subjected to justice.

Moreover,

Not just any crime or common punishment. The rules must have been gravely violated, and punishment here is no ordinary penalty—but the greatest punishment of all—

Death!

Punishment Square rarely opens, but once it does, it invariably causes a sensation.

At this moment, a massive stone pillar has already been erected at the execution platform in the center of Punishment Square. Its height exceeds a hundred meters, its diameter requiring several men to encircle it, and its surface is covered with black iron chains. Beneath those chains, faces are engraved—faces that carry expressions of utmost pain.

This is the Pillar of Torment.