Faced with this mission, Charlotte's first reaction was: Why not kill them all?
But he immediately knew that was a little unlikely.
Since ancient times, killing prisoners had been considered inauspicious!
Especially since Menilman and his West Wind Knight Regiment had recruited far too many pirates into their ranks. If they killed so many people at once, the hearts of those who had previously surrendered would scatter as well.
Absorbing them all was definitely impossible too!
The lower-ranking pirates might still have a shred or two of humanity, but these pirates were either Golden Goat Herolf's loyal guards or crewmen of the Magic Alchemical Warship. There were too few good people and too many bad ones; nearly every one of them was guilty of heinous crimes. There were also quite a few Transcendents among them. If they joined the fleet, they would certainly rise to relatively high positions and influence Menilman's decisions.
Charlotte hesitated for less than a minute before making a simple decision: convert them all into Labyrinth Guardians.
Cappadocia City had only undergone Labyrinthization once, but Charlotte was no longer short on diary pages, and Cappadocia City did not lack ships either. Completing two more Labyrinthizations would be far too easy. Then, by converting all these vicious pirates into Labyrinth Guardians, he could solve the problem at its root.
There was one enormous difference between a transmigrator and a native.
Charlotte himself had not realized that when he encountered suffering unrelated to himself, he would feel compassion. That was the kindness inherent in human nature. But once interests were involved, it became easy to be "inhuman."
Put simply—friends were people, enemies were not.
Without even discussing it with Menilman, Charlotte first brought the surrendered prisoners back to Cappadocia City.
In truth, there had been no need for him