The witch thought I am a Demon God-Chapter 511 - 300: Recruiting 100 Professional Troops and the Ghost Captain, Phantom Pirates on the Sea_2
Unhappy pirate sailors watched their sunken ship, "If the Valji Family want to take on the landsman Ivita, why are they attacking us?"
"Shouldn’t fewer enemies be better?"
"Why indiscriminately attack us?"
An old captain from a small pirate team said at his side: "Young man, you oversimplify matters. Do you think spectators can just watch the show from the sidelines? No, in real war, spectators will be the first to be wiped out."
"Look at those pirates on the ghost ships, their targets are selective. The ships destroyed in the harbor are all from small weak pirate groups, as well as those who lent their ships to other pirate teams."
"They avoid the actual large pirate ships, even just those associated with larger pirates."
The old ship captain sighed: "The Valji Family and the Ghost Captain are likely afraid that Ivita will hire or borrow ships from the small and medium sized pirates in the Transfer Port. By doing this, they aim to reduce the power Ivita can draw from the Transfer Port."
"They’re telling all those who want to watch the show from the sidelines that while they can watch the drama, it comes at the price of their lives."
The sailor who asked the question first is flushed, "But that’s not fair, how can they! How can they!"
The old pirate captain gave him a cold glance, "How can they? Aren’t you aware of the world we live in?"
"In the pirate world, the weak are bound to be dragged into conflicts."
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being so weak that even merely standing next to two strong entities can drag you into troubles, boy!"
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In the first market of the Transfer Port, Ivita took the Iron Mountain Knight and found Wilson, who was recruiting professionals at the street corner.
Upon seeing Ivita, Wilson immediately saluted him. Behind him stood many individuals, professionals with many scars and apparent signs of transforming into marine creatures on their bodies.
Ivita glanced at these professionals. Some of the relatively honest ones would follow Wilson and salute him, but most men remained defiant.
Vampire Wilson said to Ivita, "Sir, I’ve recruited almost a hundred first-class professionals based on the price you used to recruit in Ambros, primarily warriors and first-class knights."
"There are three second-class professional individuals, all are second-class knights, and their seafood transformation is the most severe."
"While their combat abilities can be ensured, their discipline cannot."
Ivita nodded, in other words, these people might not be obedient.
But considering the professionals recruited in this place have probably been pirates for a while, and are such that they might occasionally rob their employer, he couldn’t expect too much.
After all, the people on the Valji Family side are probably just a bit better than his own side.
In the pirate world, who isn’t a troublemaker?
Ivita heard the professionals whispering about him. They murmured quietly, even when Ivita looked at them, they merely lowered their voices a bit.
"Our employer is so young, has he been weaned yet? If people knew we were following the orders of a kid, my friends would laugh me to death."
"These days, steady jobs aren’t easy to do, being a pirate makes it easy to get bullied by the quartermaster, the captain, and the first mate, they take away our shares. So, it’s better to be a mercenary ... so just endure it."
"But he really is too young, what’s his wizard class level?" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Ivita glanced at them, pondering how to tame this group of disobedient ’wild wolves’.
To deal with these people, demonstrating his own power was the best choice.
These people fall under those who fear physical force but not righteousness.
The better you treat them, the more arrogant they’re likely to be.
After Ivita decided on his principle, he said to them, "Since you have joined me, I have three simple rules you must obey."
"First, no desertion, those who quit midway are seen as traitors and will be executed without mercy."
"Second, no disobedience to my orders, otherwise they are seen as traitors and will be executed without mercy."
"Third, I have a little interest, which is dealing with defiant ones who don’t listen to me, so the third rule is that I welcome challenges."
Ivita tilted his head slightly, feigning contempt as he looked at them.
As expected, someone could not stand it; a first-level knight burst out: "You’re being too arrogant. Applying such rules, are we still mercenaries? Kiddo, let me tell you, in this pirate world, no one cares if you’re the employer or not, we do whatever we want."
"Here, we do what we want, whenever we want!"
"If you can’t stand it, you can fire me, but you have to pay the one-year salary you promised. Or you can try to please me; maybe I can still work for you~"
Before he could finish speaking, a huge purple figure rose behind Ivita, the massive energy body of the throwing magic, holding the Purple Witch’s magic whip. A lash down directly left a huge whip mark on the street and a puddle of shattered corpse.
