The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel.

Chapter 272 Arrival
"Kill them all!"

A roar like thunder rang out on the calm sea, and a dilapidated but fierce pirate ship slammed into the defenseless merchant ship.

A group of pirates with ferocious faces jumped onto the merchant ship like evil spirits emerging from hell, shouting and clamoring, and the swords they brandished in their hands flashed a dazzling cold light in the sunlight.

"Ha~ha~ha~" The big man in the lead was extremely burly, and his three-meter-tall body was like a moving iron tower.

His exposed upper body was bulging with muscles, and his veins stood out like the tangled roots of an old tree.

A hideous scar running diagonally from his forehead to his chin, like a winding centipede, made his already ferocious face even more terrifying.

"Guys, bring back all the valuables!"

"Yes, Captain!!"

Dozens of pirates as ferocious as wolves and tigers shouted in unison, their voices filled with greed and fanaticism.

They surged onto merchant ships like a surging tide, their eyes gleaming with desire for wealth and violence.

These pirates wore all kinds of tattered clothes, and exuded a foul stench of sweat and blood, but the weapons in their hands were polished to a shine, each one soaked in the blood of innocent people.

They rampaged across the merchant ship as if they were in an empty space.

When encountering someone who dared to resist, the pirates raised their swords without hesitation and chopped them down fiercely.

For a moment, blood splattered and screams were heard.

Some of the resisting crew members had their throats cut with a knife, and blood gushed out like a fountain, instantly dyeing the deck red;

Some were stabbed in the chest, their eyes filled with unwillingness and despair, and their bodies slowly fell down.

The unarmed ordinary passengers were even more terrified. They fled in all directions but had nowhere to hide.

Women became tools for them to vent their animal desires.

The pirates grabbed those weak women like hungry wolves pouncing on their prey, ignoring their pleas and struggles, and committed atrocities in full view of the public.

Their cries and shouts for help seemed so faint in the chaos, yet so miserable.

The guards originally equipped on the merchant ship were completely vulnerable in front of this group of vicious pirates.

Although they fought desperately, the gap in strength between the two sides was too great.

"what!!"

Screams echoed across the merchant ship.

"Ha ha!!"

The pirates' wild laughter filled the bloody air; they enjoyed the pleasure of killing and plundering.

"This way my bounty will exceed 1000 million!!" The pirate captain stood at the bow, looking at the bloody scene in front of him, his eyes flashing with excitement.

He seemed to have seen his name rising high on the wanted poster, and the bounty number kept magnifying in his mind.

He began to imagine himself entering the Grand Line and the glorious scene of a new world.

In his fantasy, he was like an invincible god of war, riding the wind and waves on the Grand Route, and wherever he went, his enemies were trampled under his feet.

In his eyes, those so-called Four Emperors were nothing but lambs to be slaughtered.

He imagined himself facing the admirals face to face and easily defeating them.

"The Pirate King must be mine!!"

He brandished the huge machete in his hand and roared towards the sky, his roar filled with an extreme desire for power, wealth and fame.

"Huh? What is that?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Hasana's big eyes like copper bells. He pointed his rough fingers to the sky and tried to raise his thick neck upwards.

He saw a small golden dot in the sky. It was particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the azure sky, like a piece of debris fallen from the sun.

As time went by, the golden dot grew bigger and bigger.

"What is that thing? How can it be flying in the sky?" Hasa frowned, and the wrinkles on his rough face deepened.

He was an uneducated pirate who had spent his entire life plundering at sea and had a pitifully narrow vision.

In his limited knowledge, there were only ships on the sea, and the sky was the territory of birds and clouds. The flying thing in front of him was far beyond his understanding. He had never even heard of such a thing as a spaceship.

"It seems to be getting closer."

The other pirates around also discovered the golden unidentified object one after another. They stopped their evil deeds and looked up at the sky.

There was curiosity and a hint of uneasiness in their eyes.

These pirates usually only know how to rob and loot, and are instinctively afraid of new things.

When the spaceship approached, the pirates could clearly see that this strange thing was ten times larger than their ship.

Its golden shell shone with luxurious and mysterious brilliance in the sun, and its streamlined hull was engraved with complex and exquisite patterns.

"Captain?" The ordinary pirates began to panic, with obvious fear in their voices.

"I'm Hasa the Mad Bear with a bounty of 800 million berries!!" He tried to use his name to dispel the fear in his heart.

He suddenly pulled out the huge machete from his waist and raised it high. The muscles in his arms bulged with force, and the blue veins were entwined like vines.

He slashed at the spaceship, trying to split the thing that made him uneasy in two.

However, before his machete could touch the spacecraft, the spacecraft's automatic defense system was activated.

A laser shot out from a device on the spacecraft, too fast for anyone to react.

The laser accurately hit Hasa's heart, instantly leaving a large charred hole on his broad chest.

Hasa's eyes widened, filled with astonishment and disbelief, and he fell straight to the ground, motionless. Blood slowly flowed out of his wound, gathering into a dark red pool on the deck.

"captain??"

The pirates shouted in terror. They looked at their captain lying on the ground, and the fear in their hearts flooded like a tide.

They were already in a panic, and now they were even more at a loss. They had no idea what to do and could only stare blankly at the huge and mysterious golden spaceship.

The golden spaceship slowly opened its hatch.

Looking at the group of pirates in front of him, a trace of disdain flashed in Weiss's eyes. He was too lazy to talk nonsense with these people.

In his eyes, these pirates were nothing but a bunch of evil scum.

"Ah!!" Suddenly, a pirate let out a shrill scream, the sound was like the wail of a night owl, making people's hearts tighten.

"My hand!!" He widened his eyes in horror, and his hand was like a sand sculpture that dissipated in the wind.

The decomposition process starts from the fingers and spreads to the arms little by little.

He could clearly feel that his body was losing control, but he was powerless and could only let out desperate cries.

However, this is just the beginning.

Not only him, but all the pirates' bodies began to decompose at the same time.

Some pirates tried to escape, but their legs disappeared during the decomposition process;

Some pirates raised their weapons and tried to resist, but their arms disappeared before they could even swing them.

Their screams rose one after another, interweaving into a melody of death above the merchant ship.

In just a few seconds, dozens of pirates disappeared, and the originally noisy and bloody merchant ship instantly became quiet.

Only their clothes and weapons were left on the ship. The clothes were piled up in a mess on the ground, and the weapons were scattered randomly.

And there was a red gem in Weiss's hand.

(End of this chapter)