I Spent Twenty Years Beheading People in the Middle Ages

Xu Siling, an executioner, knows exactly how to behead someone.

At the gap between the bones at the back of the neck, where there’s a small protruding bone, strike with the blade. One clean stroke, and the head falls to the ground. Xu Siling guarantees the prisoner won’t even have time to groan in pain.

You can also try hacking through the bone, meeting force with force. But the blade can get stuck, and if you don’t cut through in one stroke, you’ll often have to pull it out and swing again. That wears down the blade, not to mention the agony it causes the prisoner.

Of course, there are more than two ways to behead someone. The subject also covers...

What, you don’t want to learn?

Easy enough. I know horseback riding, sword fighting, archery, medicine, stealth, and lockpicking. Which would you like to learn?

Still, I recommend learning how to behead someone.

There are plenty of benefits to it.

[Medieval historical light novel + executioner + jack-of-all-trades + farming + a notoriously late-updating author + the Hundred Years’ War + the Black Death...]