The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel...

Chapter 272 Arrival

"Kill them all!"

A roar like thunder echoed across the calm sea as a dilapidated yet menacing pirate ship rammed into the unsuspecting merchant vessel.

A group of ferocious pirates, like demons emerging from hell, shouted and yelled as they boarded the merchant ship, their large swords gleaming with a blinding cold light in the sunlight.

"Ha~ha~ha~" The leading man was extremely burly, his three-meter-tall body resembling a moving iron tower.

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

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

"Men, get all the valuables back for me!"

"Yes, Captain!!"

Dozens of ravenous pirates shouted in unison, their voices filled with greed and fanaticism.

They surged aboard the merchant ship like a tidal wave, their eyes gleaming with a thirst for wealth and violence.

These pirates wore all sorts of tattered clothes and reeked of a mixture of sweat and blood, but their weapons were polished to a gleaming shine, each one having drunk the blood of innocent people.

They rampaged through the merchant ships as if they were in an empty field.

When they encountered anyone who dared to resist, the pirates did not hesitate to raise their swords and slash down fiercely.

In an instant, blood splattered and screams filled the air.

Some of the resisting crew members had their throats slashed, and their blood gushed out like a fountain, instantly staining the deck red.

Some were pierced through the chest, their eyes filled with resentment and despair, their bodies slowly collapsing.

The unarmed ordinary passengers were terrified and fled in all directions, but had nowhere to hide.

Women were reduced to tools for them to vent their lust.

The pirates pounced on the vulnerable women like hungry wolves, ignoring their pleas and struggles, and committed atrocities in full view of everyone.

Their cries and pleas for help sounded so faint amidst the chaos, yet were incredibly tragic.

The guards that the merchant ship was originally equipped with were no match for this group of vicious pirates.

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

"ah!!"

The screams of agony echoed across the merchant ship.

"Ha ha!!"

The pirates' wild laughter filled the bloody air as they reveled in the thrill of killing and plunder.

"That way my bounty will break 1000 million!!" The pirate captain stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the bloody scene before him, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

He could almost see his name rising high on the bounty poster, the bounty amount magnified in his mind.

He began to fantasize about the glorious scene of himself entering the Grand Line and breaking into the New World.

In his fantasy, he was like an invincible war god, sailing the Grand Line and crushing all enemies wherever he went.

Those so-called Four Emperors were nothing more than lambs to the slaughter in his eyes.

Imagine yourself facing off against a naval admiral and easily defeating them.

"I will definitely be the Pirate King!!"

He brandished his enormous machete and roared at the sky, his roar filled with an intense thirst for power, wealth, and fame.

"Huh? What's that?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Hasana's large, bell-like eyes. He pointed his rough fingers to the sky and strained his thick neck upwards.

He saw a small golden dot in the sky, which looked particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the azure sky, like a piece of debris that had fallen from the sun.

As time went on, the little golden dot grew larger and larger.

"What is that thing?? How can it be flying in the sky??"

Kassa frowned, and the lines on his rough face deepened.

He was an uneducated pirate who spent his entire life plundering at sea and was pitifully ignorant.

In his limited understanding, the sea was only for ships, and the sky was the domain of birds and clouds. This flying thing in front of him was far beyond his comprehension; he had never even heard of a spaceship.

"It seems to be getting closer and closer."

The other pirates around also noticed the golden unidentified object, stopped their evil deeds, and looked up at the sky.

Their eyes held both curiosity and a hint of unease.

These pirates are used to robbing and looting, and they are instinctively afraid of anything new or unusual.

As the spaceship drew near, the pirates could clearly see that this strange object was ten times larger than their ship.

Its golden hull shimmered with a luxurious and mysterious glow in the sunlight, and its streamlined hull was covered with intricate and exquisite patterns.

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

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

"I am Hassa 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 drew the huge cleaver from his waist, raised it high, and the muscles on his arm bulged with the force, the veins twisting like vines.

He slashed fiercely at the spaceship, intending to cleave this unsettling object in two.

However, before his machete could even touch the spaceship, the spaceship's automatic defense system activated.

A laser beam shot out from a device on the spaceship, moving at a speed too fast for anyone to react to.

The laser struck Hassa precisely in the heart, instantly leaving a charred hole in his broad chest.

Hassa stared wide-eyed in astonishment and disbelief. He fell straight to the ground, motionless, blood slowly flowing from his wound and pooling into a dark red puddle on the deck.

"captain??"

The pirates screamed in terror as they looked at their captain lying on the ground, their fear overwhelming them like a tidal wave.

Already panicked, they were now even more at a loss, completely at a loss, 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 hint of disdain flashed in Wes's eyes. He was too lazy to waste words with these people.

In his eyes, these pirates were nothing but a bunch of scoundrels who did evil.

"Ah!!" Suddenly, a pirate let out a piercing scream, a sound like the mournful cry of a night owl that sent a chill down one's spine.

"My hand!!" He stared in horror, his hand vanishing in the wind like a sand sculpture.

The decomposition process started from the fingers and gradually spread towards the arm.

He could clearly feel his body losing control, but he was powerless to do anything about it and could only let out desperate cries.

However, this is just the beginning.

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

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

Some pirates picked up their weapons to fight back, but they disappeared before they could even swing their arms.

Their screams rose and fell, weaving a deathly symphony above the merchant ship.

Just seconds later, all the pirates disappeared, and the once noisy and bloody merchant ship fell silent.

Only their clothes and weapons were left on the ship; the clothes were piled haphazardly on the ground, and the weapons were scattered haphazardly.

And in Wes's hand, there was now a red gem.

(End of this chapter)