"Yes!"
Now Bullet understood that he had been sold to the powerful man before him.
"Bring all the boy soldiers over!"
Seeing that Li Yuan said nothing, General Abu Clayton gathered together the boy soldiers who had already been brought over. There were more than a thousand of them in total.
"Lord Decapitation Sword Master, do any of these boy soldiers catch your eye?"
General Abu Clayton asked cautiously.
"Buzz!!!!!"
Li Yuan said nothing. His killing intent burst forth once more, though it was much weaker than before.
Even so, as Li Yuan's killing intent spread, more than nine hundred of the thousand boy soldiers nearly collapsed. Only a little over seventy remained standing.
"Send the brats still standing, along with the twenty-six brats Douglas has, onto my ship. They'll serve as deckhands on my ship from now on."
Li Yuan said as he withdrew his killing intent.
"Yes, Lord Decapitation Sword Master. I'll send these brats to your ship right away."
Seeing that Li Yuan had selected over a hundred boy soldiers, General Abu Clayton was delighted. It meant that Li Yuan bore no hostility toward the kingdom.
Compared to General Abu Clayton's caution, the people inside the palace were even more anxious, like ants on a hot pan. They feared that Li Yuan might suddenly fly into a rage and destroy their kingdom.
After all, Li Yuan was a notorious Great Pirate with a record of annihilating kingdoms. The nobles and royals had every reason to worry.
"Phew!!!!"
Once they learned that Li Yuan bore no ill will toward the kingdom, the king and many ministers in the palace breathed sighs of relief. The feeling that the destruction of their nation rested on someone else's whim was deeply unpleasant.
"Your Majesty, do you think we could ask Lord