Chapter 39: Rebuilding - Part 1

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Arthur's POV

When I saw the slaver ships on the horizon, I already know what I would do with them. Unlike Relim, they would not get tortured for information or stay alive any more than necessary.

Before leaving the island I already prepare a solution for these kinds of events. After reaching the main ship, I quickly grasp the captain of this fleet by the head and look through his memories, and find out why is this fleet is here and what happened to the town we headed to.

The boss of the organization that leads the west blue branch was aware of the existence of werewolf island and its inhabitants. Well at the very least they were aware of the people living on that island are a powerful and dangerous bunch.

The boss thought Relim's ship either sunk in a storm on a nearby sea area or relim and his crew angered some people they shouldn't get killed by the people of the Osina island. Apparently, that was the name of the island my new crew lives on.

Well, that theory was accurate as it can get. This little crime boss can't ever imagine the person they angered actually is an otherwolder with a cheat ability but he still has some time to show some regret before I wipeout everyone involved with their filthy trade.

As for the prisoners captured by the now-dead scumbags are actually safe and sound... Technically. When they were attacked, townsmen raised up arms and fight against the attackers but unfortunately, these bastards were experienced in these kinds of situations.

Instead of directly engaging in a full-size battle with the townsfolk they sent half of their forces in front to just stall the townsfolk and set fire as much as building they can, so the other half of their forces could flank the town forces even though they had enough power to directly fight and completely crush the town under an hour.

They have been using similar tactics for years now. Gather the attention of people who can fight or somehow resist them and use these distractions to kidnap women and children hiding deep inside the town or villages.

Kidnapped people were physically looking healthy when I found them but I wasn't sure on the mental health side.

Some of them had small cuts and bruises on their bodies, I didn't know if those scars left from the time they get kidnapped or later on the ship, I only look through the memories of the captain, not his underlings.

Aside from his worries for filling his quota for slaves that bastard didn't really care about what happens under the deck and honestly I was not gonna ask these people if they get tortured or got r*ped by the slavers. I just told them if they think their recent memories to hard for them to digest I can delete their memories about the last 2 days.

Some of the women around me directly accept my offer and literally beg me to delete those memories on the spot. I didn't need to be asked twice so I quickly done what they ask and also heal their scars while I'm at it.

After seeing I'm capable of doing what I promised the rest of the people decided to take my offer and the mothers and the elders of the children that kidnaped took the decisions instead of them only two elderly women decided to remember what happened here, so they explain what happened to other people when I'm done erasing their memories. As for the children, I'm told these scumbags didn't do anything to them but they were unfortunately around and heard the pleads of the women when those poor souls attacked by the slaver scum. The elders said it would be better if these kids won't grow with such a trauma.

When I'm finished with these people, one of the elderly women explained the situation to now confused townsfolk. Why they aren't back at their homes and why they did choose to get their own memories erased. while the rest of the adults listens to the explanation the other elderly woman who decided to keep her memory intact asked me what happened to the rest of the people captured alongside with them.

From the expression when she asked that question I know she wasn't expecting good news from me and unfortunately, I had the type of news she was afraid of.

Before entering the lower deck of the flagship of the fleet I cast the <Detect Living> spell to see the captured people but even before that I knew that from the memories of the captain all of the people except the ones on his ships are get harvested for their organs, I was just hoping I could save the rest of these people. Even if they were on their last breath I could restore them to a perfect state in a matter of minutes but it was all too late, outside of 98 adults and 14 children in prison on the main ship rest of the townsfolk captured were all killed.

I gave the bad news to the elderly woman. I didn't go in detail about what happened to them and the old lady didn't ask either. I order my crew to gather whatever resources they can gather from those ships so we can help this town to rebuild a bit faster.

After a quick search, my crew brought what they found on the main ship, Crates full of money and treasures these scumbags raided from the towns they destroyed, weapons, cannons, ammunition, food, and some other supplies put in the warehouse of the main ship.

Since my ship was not big enough to carry everyone, I decided to use the slaver's flagship to carry these people back to their homes. Of course, I cast <Purify> to clean up whatever nasty marks left by those scum before utilizing the ship.

The women and children slept on the bunkers I build on my ship. It was a bit cramped up but it was better than spending another night on the ship that they live through a nightmare. Even though I erased their memories they were not oblivious to what happened to them.

As for my crew, most of them will live on the slave ship until we reach the town. It's not like that these werewolves actually care or shown pity for what happened to these women but after my little demonstration in which I killed over 500 humans in a matter of minutes, I don't think they could dare to defy my requests or more accurately my orders.

When I think about the number of people I killed and how easily I dismiss any thought about the value of lives I took, I felt conflicted about it.

500 people... If back in my old world, any single person kill these many people regardless of how awful they are would be remembered as a monster thought out history,

I know that the Gamer's Mind keeps me calm, rational, and sane, so I should felt some guilt about the lives I took... but fuck that.

This is not my homeworld that even though the laws back there are still flawed and favors the powerful and rich, the rest of the people still has a chance to make their voices heard through multiple channels, and with enough people supporting a cause could make a difference, regardless of how big or effective that difference is but here...

All those nonsense isn't worth shit, so I'm gonna hunt fuckers down. I will start here in west blue than south than east then north, Whether they hide in paradise or in the new world I will find every last one of these fuckers and personally sent them to hell.

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Authors Note: I know I said I would post one chapter per week during my exam period but catching up the classes ı fell behind and then later on studying the finals itself, really burned me out, I was feeling too tired to edit and write chapters... so I apologize to the people who were expecting me to keep my promise.