A sneeze destroys a magical civilization

"Name?"

"Astade."

"age?"

"Twenty-five."

"Why did you choose to be a pirate?"

"I offended the local thieves guild in my hometown, so I had no choice but to go to sea to try my luck."

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

"There are two hundred and forty-seven of us in total, and the captain is the great Bloody Hand—Hallet."

"You seem to admire your captain?"

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

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

…

Under Zuo Si's careful cross-examination, the pirate captives quickly explained everything they knew.

Moreover, there is almost no big difference in the answers of two people who are isolated and interrogated separately to the same question.

There is no doubt that this simple pirate robbing businessman was very different from what he expected.

Especially the way "Bloody Hand" Hallet behaves, he doesn't look like a simple pirate at all.

It's more like using the name of pirates to build a huge intelligence network and power.

According to the information about the mainland of Faerûn collected by the Archmage of the Necromancer Asta from various captives, Zuo Si probably knew that the Nelanthel Islands were located in the southwest of the mainland and consisted of thousands of nameless islands, large and small.

Crossing the Strait of Isever to the east is the peninsula extending from the boundary between the Empire of Amn and the Kingdom of Tethyr.

At the southern end of the peninsula, there are some scattered islands with no names, and a place nicknamed the "Racing Strait" by passing ships.

As for the origin of this name, it is naturally due to the rampant and widespread piracy activities in the Neransel Islands.

All merchant ships passing through the route from the Racing Strait to the Elsevier Strait are likely to be targeted, followed, and chased by pirates, forming a "race" in which the front is running desperately and the back is chasing desperately.

Although Amn has sent the navy to clean up the area many times, it has had little effect.

Usually the warships come and the pirates disappear.

After the warship left, the pirates appeared again.

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

After learning his approximate location, Zuo Si breathed a sigh of relief.

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

Compared to this crucial piece of information, things like the pirate captain "Bloody Hand" Hallett, who had a strange behavior, and the fleeing heir to the Roldan Chamber of Commerce, were secondary.

However, considering the threat that more than two hundred pirates, including hobgoblins and ogres, might pose to themselves, Zuo Si decided to strike first.

At least reduce some of the number of pirates first.

Especially those heading towards the caves on the top of the mountain.

"Red! Bite them to death!"

Zuo Si issued the killing order without hesitation.

From the beginning, he had no intention of letting any prisoner go.

The previous decent announcements and rules were just to extract more valuable intelligence from human pirates.

After all, those were more than two hundred vicious and murderous gangsters!

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

In a head-on battle, he had no chance of winning.

"woo woo woo woo--"

Seeing the leopard walking towards him with its big mouth full of fangs open, the two human pirates immediately twisted their bodies like crazy, seeming to ask "Why didn't they keep their promise?"

But unfortunately, Zuo Si had no intention of answering any questions.

He had already developed a "heart of stone" during his nearly two years in the Tower of the Floating City.

In the blink of an eye, the lively prisoners turned into dead bodies lying on the ground.

After biting off the enemy's neck, the big cat stretched out its tongue and licked the blood on its lips, as if waiting for the next command.

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

After saying this, Zuo Si took out the [Dead Corpse Manipulation] wand from his bag, pointed it at the three corpses on the ground, and successively released the spells stored inside.

The effect of this four-ring necromantic magic is just like its name. It can transform a relatively complete corpse into a zombie, or discard the flesh and blood wrapped around it, leaving only the skeleton inside.

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

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 pirate corpses stood up from the ground tremblingly.

However, except for the last one awakened, the previous two quickly escaped the control of the caster.

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

Seeing that the two zombies were trying to pounce on him, he immediately controlled the zombies he controlled to knock them down, then released the control, took the big cat and left at an extremely fast speed.

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

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

You don't need to ask to know that Zuo Si created these undead creatures just to cause as much trouble as possible for the pirates running around on the island.

Maybe it's not too difficult to kill a few slow-moving zombies during the day.

But once the sky darkens, these undead with [dark vision] and the ability to sense nearby living creatures will become the deadliest sneak attackers and killers.

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

Instead, he was going to use half of the forty-odd rounds stored in the wand in his hand.

Sneak attacks, killings, transforming undead...

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

no way!

These pirates were so careless that they didn't think there was anything threatening them on the island.

Therefore, we spread out as soon as we landed, and entered the dense woods, grass and shrubs in small groups.

No more than four people per team.

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

Many times, even if one team discovers that another team is under attack and wants to rush over to rescue them, it will only be more than ten seconds later.

Ten seconds are enough for Zuo Si to kill all the enemies in front of him, and then use the corpses to transform a few zombies into the next battle.

Although the creator profession is not strictly suitable for fighting, he should stay in the tower to create various magic items and rare objects.

But who do you want to compare with?

Compared with those high-level mages who can call the wind and rain, and can release lightning, fire, strong acid, poisonous clouds and other spells, the creator profession is certainly 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 light now, but he is in the dark...