Barth rubbed his hands together enthusiastically, a smile never leaving his lips. Jasto was handsome, his face shining like a diamond, and he had soft green hair that reached his neck. He was a duke on his home planet, with power and wealth, owning several banks and farms from which he reaped huge profits. But this did not extinguish the flame of his ambition and his desire to achieve glory. He joined the Franks army and supported it with a great deal of money. He was promoted quickly until he reached the rank of general of the most important brigade in the Third Army and began to finance biological weapons, viruses, and doctors in order to achieve quick victories. But he also possessed great power, which he had managed to acquire by paying vast sums of money and undergoing many genetic modifications on himself.

Jasto was famous for his racism against everything that differed from the Zurix in general and from the Franks in particular. He wrote a book calling for the necessity of the Zurix colonizing all primitive planets in order to spread civilization in them and that they had the right to take all measures to achieve this noble goal. Because the great duty of the Zurix required them to cleanse the universe of the ignorance and primitivism that contaminated the brilliance of civilization and stood as a barrier.

Jasto called out to one of the captains, "Captain! We will celebrate tonight in this large village. Spread the soldiers around the village, because I am going to burn it to the ground. Anyone who tries to get out, shoot them. Don't let anyone escape and expose what happened here. We don't want any blame from the philosophers who prattle on about freedom, equality, and the rights of races."

The captain nodded and ordered the battalions to spread out around the village of Barqa, the largest village in the east of the planet Ghlizan. The east was also teeming with the Kilghoul and Masirghin tribes, who owed allegiance to the Franks and were not on good terms with the Prince of Ghlizan.

Jasto opened the 3D map of the planet Ghlizan and looked at it intently. The planet Ghlizan consisted of a large continent in its center, which was the capital and its surrounding suburbs, villages, and forests. Eight large land routes emerged from this round continent, leading to eight continents of varying sizes. Between the capital and each continent were many small islands. The eight continents were medium-sized, circular, and close to each other, connected by long land routes. If you looked at the map for a moment, you felt that you were seeing a map of a hexagonal body with a circle (i.e., a continent) at the end of each side. The Franks soldiers were concentrated in the capital and the three eastern continents. They had weak control over the Tree of Knowledge in the north and were trying to expand to the west, where the Prince was, but they were suffering successive, resounding defeats and retreating a lot. And 70% of the planet Ghlizan was still under the Prince's grip.

Jasto closed the map and looked at his transparent, crystalline hands. He stimulated the energy in them, and he saw a yellow glow radiate within them, and the temperature of the air around him increased. He aimed his hands at the village and fired successive, burning yellow rays in consecutive bursts. In just a few moments, they caused explosions in the houses and blew many of them to smithereens. Jasto was delighted and smiled a wide smile as he continued with other successive bursts, destroying everything it came upon until it was like dust. Then he began to fire the rays at all parts of the village.

The Ghlizan were terrified, and they began to run in panic, not knowing what was happening. They ran left and right, colliding with each other. Suddenly, the rays would come and wipe out a part of them, so they would run faster. Some of them fell from the horror of what was happening. Some of them managed to get out of the village with their families, only to be surprised by the Franks soldiers standing in rows and sniping them with their rifles, not distinguishing between young or old, man or woman. They knew that it was Jasto, the Burner of Villages, who delighted in mass exterminations. No one would survive or escape from Barqa. It was decided.

One of the Franks soldiers said to the one next to him, "What a psychopath."

The other said, putting his finger to his lips, "Shh. If he hears you, the consequences will be dire. It's our good fortune that he's with us, not against us. I can't imagine facing a monster like him and seeing the terror that the people of Ghlizan see from him."

The first one said, contemplating the burning village, "Perhaps General Hugo would have painted a picture of this scene, but he can't stand Commander Jasto. He sees him as a rich, reckless boy who used his money and influence and ways of cunning and intrigue and spreading diseases to achieve all these victories and get promoted to this position. He sees him as a fake. Everything he is, is because of money."

The second one nudged him with his elbow to lower his voice and whispered, "That's how the rich and the aristocratic classes are. They fill their lives with falsehood to hide the deformities in their souls. I heard that Commander Jasto's father confined him in a strict religious school when he was young because he used to kill the farm animals with brutality and delight in it. His father wanted to correct his crookedness and fix his son's frightening impulses. But Jasto became more resentful and began to kill the pets at the school and hang them on the desk of the monk who was the headmaster. The monk would punish him by burning him with a hot piece of iron on his body, thinking that an evil spirit had possessed him and was the one doing this to him and whispering to him to commit these evil deeds."

The soldier listened to Jasto's laughter as he burned the village, then continued his speech. "But he was a devil to his core. The monk woke up one day and the school was on fire, and the students' bodies were charred, and only a few survived. Jasto went to his home after that and burned it, and burned his father inside it. But the Franx Galactic Court said that it was undoubtedly an accident and that an innocent child could not do such a thing.

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