"Asteed."

"age?"

"Twenty-five."

"Why did you choose to be a pirate?"

"I offended the local Thieves Guild in my hometown, so I had to try my luck out at sea."

"How many people are there on your pirate ship, and who is the captain?"

"There are 247 of us in total, and our captain is the great Bloody Hand - Hallett."

"You seem to admire your captain?"

"Of course! Sir Hallett is the most famous, generous, and worthy captain in the entire Sword Sea. All the pirates in the Nelanther Islands are proud to be on his ship."

"Oh? Tell me more about your captain. And why he ordered you to run to this deserted island to hunt down four fugitives even though he had already successfully captured the merchant ship."

…

Under Zuo Si's careful questioning, the pirate captive quickly confessed everything he knew.

Moreover, the answers given by the two people who were isolated and interrogated separately to the same question were almost not much different.

There is no doubt that this was very different from what he had expected, that was simply pirates robbing merchants.

Especially the behavior of "Blood Hand" Hallett, which doesn't seem like that of a simple pirate at all.

It's more like building a huge intelligence network and force in the name of pirates.

Based on the information about the continent of Faerun that the Grand Necromancer Asta collected from various captives, Zuo Si roughly knew that the Nelanther Islands were located in the southwest of the continent and consisted of thousands of unnamed islands of various sizes.

To the east, across the Strait of Aysvir, is the peninsula that extends from the border between the Empire of Amn and the Kingdom of Tethyr.

At the southern end of the peninsula, there are some scattered unnamed islands and a place jokingly called the "Racing Channel" by passing ships.

As for the origin of this name, it is naturally because of the rampant and widespread pirate activities in the Nelanther Islands.

All merchant ships passing through the route from the Racing Channel to the Ayswell Channel are likely to be targeted, followed and chased by pirates, thus forming a "race" with the pirates in front running desperately and the pirates behind chasing desperately.

Although Amn had sent its navy to clear out the rebellion many times, the results were minimal.

Often, when warships arrive, the pirates disappear.

As soon as the warships left, the pirates showed up again.

"It turns out that this small island under my feet is right next to the Racing Strait, not far from the capital of Amn - Askatra..."

After learning his approximate location, Zuo Si was visibly relieved.

What he feared most was that the island he was teleported to was far away from the mainland, and there might not be any ships passing by for weeks, months, or even years.

Compared to this crucial information, the pirate captain with a strange style of behavior, "Blood Hand" Hallett, and the heir of the Roldan Chamber of Commerce who is on the run, are secondary.

However, considering the threat that more than 200 pirates, including earth elves and ogres, might pose to himself, Zuo Si decided to strike preemptively.

At least reduce the number of pirates first.

Especially those guys who are heading towards the caves on the top of the mountain.

"Red! Bite them to death!"

Zuo Si gave the order to kill without hesitation.

He had no intention of letting any of the prisoners go from the beginning.

The previous formal declarations and rules were just to extract more valuable information from the human pirates.

After all, there were more than 200 vicious and murderous bandits!

Zuo Si only has one person and a small number of summoned creatures.

In a head-on battle, he wouldn't have the slightest chance of winning.

Seeing the leopard walking towards them with its big mouth full of sharp teeth, the two human pirates twisted their bodies like crazy, as if asking "why didn't you keep your promise".

But unfortunately, Zuo Si did not intend to answer any questions.

He had already developed a "heart of stone" after spending nearly two years in the floating city's tower.

In the blink of an eye, the lively prisoner turned into a corpse lying on the ground with his eyes open.

After biting off the enemy's neck, the big cat licked the blood from its lips with its tongue, as if waiting for the next instruction.

"Come on, Red. It's time to greet our pirate guests and let them know who is the master of this island."

After saying this, Zuo Si took out the [Control Corpses] magic wand from his bag, pointed it at the three corpses on the ground, and released the spells stored in it one after another.

The effect of this fourth-ring necromancy magic is just as its name suggests. It can transform a relatively complete corpse into a zombie, or discard the flesh and blood wrapped around it and only keep the bone frame inside.

Although in the eyes of the Grand Necromancer Asta, these low-level undead without intelligence are not even qualified to be cannon fodder for him.

But for a group of pirates who are generally superstitious and have low combat effectiveness, it can still cause some panic and harm.

After a while, three zombies made from the pirates' corpses slowly crawled up from the ground.

However, except for the last one awakened, the previous two quickly escaped from the caster's control.

Because Zuo Si's current spellcasting level is not enough to control so many undead creatures at once.

Seeing that the two zombies were about to pounce on him, he immediately controlled the zombies under his control to knock them down, then released the control and took the big cat away at a very fast speed.

When the three zombies got up from the ground again, the man and the leopard had disappeared without a trace.

Having lost their target, they immediately began to wander around aimlessly.

Needless to say, Zuo Si created these undead creatures in order to cause as much trouble as possible to the pirates running around the island.

Perhaps during the day, it wouldn't be too difficult to kill a few slow-moving zombies.

But once it gets dark, these undead who possess [dark vision] and can sense nearby living things will become the most deadly attackers and killers.

What's more, leftist thinking wants to create more than just three or five skeletons or zombies.

Instead, he planned to use half of the forty or so rounds stored in his wand.

Sneak attack, killing, transforming undead...

In the next hour or so, he cooperated with Leopard without much effort and killed all the pirates near the cave on the top of the mountain.

There is no way! These pirates were too careless and didn't think there was anything on the island that could threaten them.

So they dispersed as soon as they landed, and went into the dense woods, grass and bushes in small teams.

Each team shall not exceed four persons.

Moreover, the distance between teams ranges from over 100 meters to over 200 meters.

Many times, even if one team discovered that another team was attacked and wanted to rush over to rescue, it would take more than ten seconds.

A dozen seconds was enough for Zuo Si to kill all the enemies in front of him, and then use the corpses to transform a few zombies to join the next battle.

Although the Creator profession is not strictly suitable for combat, it is more suitable to stay in the tower to create various magic items and wonders.

But it depends on who you compare with!

Compared with those high-level wizards who can call the wind and rain and release spells such as lightning, fire, strong acid, and poisonous clouds, the profession of creator is certainly much inferior.

But if compared with a group of illiterate pirates, Zuo Si could find more than a dozen different ways to kill them.

This is the gap between knowledge and wisdom.

What's more, the enemy is in the open, while he is in the dark...

(End of this chapter)