As Perfikot's alchemy was activated, the wooden stakes used to bind the convicts all came to life.
They seemed to sprout again, instantly transforming into sharp and terrifying claws, emerging from the bodies of those convicts bound to them, like a carnivorous flower.
The convicts screamed and howled in horror, no longer able to curse Perfikot.
Because at this moment, their tongues and mouths were all pierced by the newly grown branches, making them appear as if impaled upon a tree, or rather like a tree had grown out from inside of them.
Yet despite this, the convicts were still alive.
This is the terrifying aspect of what Perfikot had done; even gutted by a tree, they were still alive, not dead.
Perfikot wanted them to live, using their lives and screams to warn everyone in the city, making them dare not rebel again.
"Miss!" Seeing the scene before him, Foster looked at Perfikot with concern.
