Chaos and Slaughter

"The war is about to begin. We need more Cannon Fodder. Only those who survive the coming war will truly count as one of us."

Hades's words opened Newgate's eyes and brought the other pirates to their senses.

Of course they could recruit all these pirates.

But that would lower the bar for joining the Rocks Pirates. Some screening was necessary.

The Rocks Pirates needed elites. Eight thousand pirates sounded like a lot, but they were vastly outnumbered by the two hundred thousand troops the Marines had deployed in the New World.

Of course, that count did not include the Rocks Pirates' many Affiliated Pirate Crews and affiliated forces. If they all gathered, the Marines could never withstand them in a head-on fight.

Shnk!

Someone made the first move, lunging at a pirate beside him as soon as he caught on.

"I'll kill you!"

"Get him!"

Within seconds, the entire square descended into chaos.

Pirates fought like mad. One who had met the quota was killed in a sneak attack before he could carry the heads over to the Rocks Pirates.

"Haha! Your trophies are mine."

The clever ones wasted no strength in a fight. They simply stole the heads others had claimed.

Every ounce of the pirates' viciousness and cunning came out on that chaotic battlefield.

Getting their trophies safely over to the Rocks Pirates was another problem.

The mood on the battlefield turned strange. Everyone guarded against the pirates around them. Every one of them was an enemy.

Some of those closest to the Rocks Pirates had already met the quota and escaped the battlefield.

Other pirates set their sights on the spectators farther out.

Apart from the Rocks Pirates' Affiliated Pirate Crews, many of those pirates were merely watching because they thought themselves too weak to take