"Few months from this archipelago should be a small sub-continent under the control of Laros Kingdom; they are a small native force, not really connected to the Gates or any other of the Cosmos Factions. Still, they are pretty strong in these ends of the Tower and are actually a very old faction; they even produced several Legendaries, including Supreme Stage Legendary Level Professional."
Actually, some of the factions that existed in the Lower Floors had some really terrifying backgrounds because they produced many Legendary Level experts during their long time of existence.
Their foundation was very deep due to this.
Juulius knew that the Laros Kingdom should have even several Gold-Tier Professionals keeping guard; countless of them were protected by some of their high-Tiered Professionals that had already long ago given up on any kind of advancement for the future and their possibilities of reaching Legendary Level were null.
So many of them just retreated to the lower Floors, where they lived their lives in peace until their remaining lifespan was passed.
Naturally, due to the Covenant and the purpose of the Tower, in certain places, their actions were pretty much restricted.
Still, if their respective factions were attacked and were in danger of destruction, then according to the Covenant, they could move freely.
"Then it is decided..."
Samiel said as they arrived at the white sandy beach of the island as they observed the horizon.
There was nothing on it except the sea, endless waters, sometimes some of the enormous mari-type magical beasts resurfaced from the depths of the ocean to the surface.
Suddenly as they were observing the horizon, they saw something approaching them from a distance and Samiel's superior eyesight recognized it as a ship... this was really considered as heavenly luck because the second they arrived at the beach, a ship was approaching the island.
"Pirates or Bounty Hunters... the ship is too shabby to belong to one of the nations or to the Marines... and this area wouldn't be attractive for the top dogs. So this is considered as our luck; they are probably going to anchor and take a break."
Samiel commented on the situation with the ship because, during very long voyages, the crew needed the ground not to go mad from the nothing else than sea and oceans.
This would be their opportunity to get their hands on the ship, which would bring them to the Laros Kingdom.
"Should we lure them or wait for them on the beach?"
Juulius asked his Lord so they could implement their strategy against the pirates, but in truth, Samiel didn't care about that. He was confident that whatever pirates were coming here would be maximally Steel-Tier; stronger ones wouldn't be wasting their time in the outskirts of the Floor like this.
"Not really... let us serve as bait... they will think that we are two clueless climbers and see us as easy targets for robbing; that way, we can easily kill them and take over their ship. How many members does one Pirate Crew have?"
Samiel stated that as he ended with the question, because he wasn't well versed in this type of knowledge, he only studied what he considered important and information about pirates certainly wasn't one.
"A few tens for the smaller ones, typically small-sized ships will have around thirty to forty pirates at best... "
Juulius answered with a whistle, while Samiel grinned as this would be ended in a few minutes if they played with their prey.
Thus they waited on the beach while the pirate ship approached the island and soon enough, the ship arrived at the island and started anchoring while the pirates started disembarking from the ship.
Samiel scrutinized the pirates and they were, in fact even in a worse state compared to the bandits he encountered in the Tower... and that was something to behold because even bandits in Tower had better equipment and disciple compared to militaries of Lower Worlds in many cases.
All of them were dirty as heck, wearing shabby clothes and weapons; clearly, the words "shower" or "hygiene" wasn't in their vocabulary at all.
Most of them fulfilled the stereotypical assumptions and images of pirates with beards and crude appearances as they rushed toward them without a second word, with weapons in their hands and the intention to kill burning in their eyes.
Samiel just chuckled, seeing that the pirates of an unknown pirate crew attacked them without a second thought, while Tytos, who was sleeping by Juulius's legs, woke up and pounced at the nearest and biggest of the pirates, ripping of his head and gulping it down to his stomach in one go.
Most of the pirates were only Iron-Tier and some of them were Steel-Tiers ones, probably the lieutenants, officers and captain, so Samiel didn't even bother making a move, as he let his "underlings" do the job for him.
Second later, even Nefertari joined the fray, as with her claws slit the throats of a few pirates and Juulius started decimating them one by one with his sword.
The pirates were falling down like a flies, one after another, under the precise and precise sharpness of Juulius's sword.
Not even considering the grand disparity in terms of raw power, his technique was superb, polished through several Eras already, because Crowford House was older than many of the factions of the Material Plane of the Cosmos.
Within two minutes, only one man remained from an original number of thirty-seven pirates, who was kneeling on the ground with Juulius pressing his sword to his throat. Samiel then went to the kneeling pirate, who was clearly, based on his appearance, the pirate captain.
The pirate captain attempted to spit it on him, but Samiel just dodged and with a nod from his lord, Juulius slit his throat as Samiel captured his soul and instantly ate it.
Through the passive effects of the Level 3 Ultimate Ability Soul Devour, he got all information about that the pirate possessed.
"So, whom did we put to eternal sleep?"
Juulius asked with a small laugh, knowing that there was no eternal sleep for those whose souls were eaten for the Eldritch Creatures so it was more or less a joke.
"Wadham 'The Rat' Combs, captain of the Tooth Grin Corsairs... they have a bounty on them 5,000 Credits. Basically just small fish; they only operate in these waters because they don't dare to cross the sea lines and come into the territorial waters of the Laros Kingdom due to the feer of their military and the strong presence of Marines. Unfortunately, though, his knowledge of shit and he doesn't have much useful information aside from some big shot pirates on the Floor with tremendous Bounties, reaching even hundreds of thousands of Credits."
Samiel summarized because he didn't get a lot from the Combs, aside from information on local pirate crews.
The Tooth Grin Corsairs were one of the strongest pirate crews in these waters and most of the others had bounties ranging from a few hundred Credits to a few thousand...
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