Perseus POV
"Must hurt, huh?" I laughed at the captured pirates, not gonna lie, I felt great.
I'm in such a great mood after being able to pull of such the lines, so great of a mood that I encouraged the people of my side to loot all their ships.
"Look at the captain's engine." Zach's bulky younger brother said as he hold this super large engine like it's nothing "They got higher quality mana stones than ours, the new ones where we can charge easily."
The crew scavenge through all the ships and got many parts to replace their own rusty ones which they keep in the storage room as a backup or to sell those that they don't need anymore. I also share some of the things we looted since they followed my request and to used most of it as a part of my advance payment for the 5 star roll of fabric cuz it's expensive as fuck.
I forced them to use magic under my thorn vines or I'll grip em harder and let them bleed to death. I then had Ruka and Leilah to watch them as I then used magic to destroy all their ships but one.
I used magic in order to train myself up even though it would take longer. Their last ship already got all their important parts stolen, so I broke it enough till the point that it's just barely floating and that's where we're putting the pirates.
They're injured enough that every time they used magic, they're going use it to heal themselves, we left no food or water, so they're going to need magic to extend their lives if they don't want to die of dehydration or starvation, and they are gonna have to paddle if they wanna go anywhere, or conserve their energy and wait for help where they'll get arrested.
I'm not a good person, I'm no better than those people who experimented on me, I kill people and like now, I'm intentionally torturing people, even though by this world's rule, I'm not that bad of a guy But I still am Loki on the inside, my morality is very questionable...it's still something that I'm struggling a good bit.
You can call it an identity crisis, I guess, it'll take me a while before I can fully throw away my previous identity, it doesn't help since I know my previous powers are something I need if I want to get the things I need.
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We arrived at Yena a couple days later, instead of renting an inn or getting a hotel room, we paid to stay and sleep on the ship which it tied and anchored at the pier. We're renting them for the trip to the southern continent too, the treasures that we got off the pirates paid well that it covered my payment for their services and some advance payment for my future armors.
My current clothes are made from the 4 star fabric that I got a specialist to make, they had to use this special scissors or whatever and other machinery to make it.
Anyway, we got to the island and sure enough the island tourism apparently exploded, they're selling kraken themed shirts and everything since it's one of the safe zones despite being the closest safe zone to the kraken. We can see the kraken if we go up their tallest mountain and look through a viewing scope.
I made sure to borrow the yacht viewing scope since the ones on top of there are expensive to rent or having a lot of people lined up to use em. When it was time, I can see the kraken erupted out of the water and it used magic to summon a freaking sea storm.
It was fricking huge, it's basically a fricking octopus version of the colossal titan. Ships in this world is usually smaller in size due to many people having the storage spell, but due to its finite space depending o the person, ships are still relevant, so this kraken being rumored to being able to swallow one whole is true.
Its eyes alone is several times my height in diameter. But...it's...
"The kraken's a female."
"How'd you know?" Ruka asked as she borrowed my scope "It just looks like any magical gigantic octopus to me."
"The suckers or suction cup or whatever you call em, a male won't have them."
"You really do know useless information."
"Won't say that, apparently this thing has been on the attack for the past 2 decades according to some rumors while some say longer or shorter, but if this world is like a fictional story...it means that this kraken is angry at something."
"Please provide reasons." Ruka requested "Unlike Leilah, I've never been to or know anyone from the other side."
"It happens in stories with different creatures, but they all run along the same line, some guy probably ate or attacked its egg, killed some of its other loved one, hunted it and traumatized it when it was younger...etc. There's always a reason for why it's angry.
"The fact that it's coming up above sea level to terrorize the ocean around the same time everyday backs it up, unless it's destroying something just for fun, but either way...if we have to kill it, it's going to make really tough sushi or Takoyaki since none of us would be able to chew it."
Even if we are forced to not kill it, we'll have to fight it just to get it to listen, I'm a guaranteed 4 star and probably a good way on the journey to the fifth right after, Leilah said 2 more years at best to reach the 5th, but I'll make sure to reach the 7th before I get to age 20, 6th by I'm 18.
I then went ahead to asked one of the salesmen who is renting out the scopes about the kraken.
"Do you know the reason for the kraken being angry all the time? Any hunter stole the egg and made the kraken holding a grudge against the humans ever since?"
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